tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post4206430594775229438..comments2024-03-29T01:22:33.864-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: Kipling mongoose / MON 8-28-17 / Notable grammatically incorrect declaration by Mr Bumble in Oliver TwistRex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger102125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-5705834897430668732022-08-31T04:52:42.850-04:002022-08-31T04:52:42.850-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.okbetbettinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03388375858597145229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-62558564845845514712017-11-23T03:06:07.010-05:002017-11-23T03:06:07.010-05:00We Offer Loan At A Very Low Rate Of 3%. If Interes...We Offer Loan At A Very Low Rate Of 3%. If Interested, Kindly Contact Us Today.via email:(urgentloan22@gmail.com)Dr Purva Piushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05883980841903455890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-38324064370570878572017-10-03T11:51:03.250-04:002017-10-03T11:51:03.250-04:00I'm not intimately familiar with Dickens in ge...I'm not intimately familiar with Dickens in general or Oliver Twist in particular. However, THE LAW IS A ASS nevertheless had enough of a familiar ring to make sense to me. And all the crosses were fair. So I don't get Rex's objection. <br /><br />I guess if he had nothing to object to, it wouldn't be any fun, so he just picks something at random and goes on a rant about it. That's as good an explanation as any. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13231860082303167587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-22472640035289293662017-10-02T23:52:32.016-04:002017-10-02T23:52:32.016-04:00Groaning ensued...
Lady DiGroaning ensued...<br /><br />Lady DiDiana,LIWnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-4896746266417438252017-10-02T23:05:37.187-04:002017-10-02T23:05:37.187-04:00The roadside required frequent grass and weed cutt...The roadside required frequent grass and weed cutting.<br />Thus, the municipality was tasked to give the BERM a shave.thefogmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01870509029973778266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-76726833510216833472017-10-02T15:20:53.221-04:002017-10-02T15:20:53.221-04:00I agree with all that the Synders have said. List...I agree with all that the Synders have said. Listing to the news this morning was painful. <br /><br />@Rondo - I have heard BERM refer to the shoulder, but asked Mr. W (engineer) and he stated otherwise. Could be a regional thing - one online dictionary refers to several PA, OH, WVA states - grew up in/near PA. <br /><br />Found the theme Monday cute and the puzzle overall Monday easy. <br /><br />Diana, Lady-in-Waiting on the BERMDiana,LIWnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-65681636004717768962017-10-02T15:11:25.106-04:002017-10-02T15:11:25.106-04:00@spacecraft--Shocking massacre; hard to focus on a...@spacecraft--Shocking massacre; hard to focus on a simple puzzle, which this one is and, as you suggest, the other one isn't in any way at all. leftcoastTAMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-11711126807563695302017-10-02T13:43:27.365-04:002017-10-02T13:43:27.365-04:00@Spacey - I'm with you on this incident, and I...@Spacey - I'm with you on this incident, and I'm sure that since you are right there, it really hits home. Absolutely senseless.<br /><br />I gather that @Rex got on his HIGH HORSE about, what?, the Dickens' quote?, BERM?, the NYT? Don't tell me.<br /><br />Almost devoid of dreck, a theme that is tight, and a number of excellent clues/entries, make this an admirable Monday puzzle. Certainly nothing here to drive me to cry on ONE'S BERM.<br /><br />Easy and fun.rainforestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-64813546635661251222017-10-02T13:33:16.635-04:002017-10-02T13:33:16.635-04:00P.S. In a grisly ironic twist vis-à-vis today'...P.S. In a grisly ironic twist vis-à-vis today's theme: this idiot's last name was...Paddock.spacecraftnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-34482473696728980302017-10-02T13:23:46.276-04:002017-10-02T13:23:46.276-04:00Francis the Talking Mule > Mr. EdFrancis the Talking Mule > Mr. Edthefogmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01870509029973778266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-8975863620133320462017-10-02T12:11:04.067-04:002017-10-02T12:11:04.067-04:00It is sometimes difficult to keep breaking news ou...It is sometimes difficult to keep breaking news out of a blog supposedly devoted to puzzles. The challenging puzzle for us right now, in syndicated time, is to figure out why a 64-year-old retiree would hole up in a hotel room with ten guns and mow down upwards of 600 people, nearly 10% fatally. It seems incongruous to comment about a crossword at a time like this. Nevertheless...<br /><br />For OFL, as an English teacher (!) to rail at one of the most famous Dickensian quotes is hard to understand. His comment on the viability of some laws is timeless; truly a classic quote. It was, in fact, my first entry. Multi-line clues draw my attention, and this one took up six lines of print. This puzzle was easy for me; the real-life one: not so much.spacecraftnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-63883606305700677042017-10-02T12:02:48.699-04:002017-10-02T12:02:48.699-04:00In my world you would get laughed out of town if y...In my world you would get laughed out of town if you called the shoulder of a road a BERM. In civil engineering a BERM is an embankment, often combined with a swale, usually constructed to facilitate and/or contain or direct drainage; never ever a shoulder ALONG a road. Just sayin’. Now I’ll get off my HIGHHORSE.<br /><br />No horsing around to finish this easy puz. Got the equine vibe after the ONETRICKPONY, only knew the Bumble quote from the film The Paper Chase where it is used grammatically correctly THELAWISA(n)ASS.<br /><br />EGAD! No SLIM, CUTE yeah baby unless we go to TOOTSIE, NAMELY for Jessica, or Teri, or Geena. Or elsewhere for Robin WRIGHT.<br /><br />SOLID enough for a Mon-puz. OFL might want to REIN in the EGO.<br />rondonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-30845991892571939132017-10-02T09:42:36.287-04:002017-10-02T09:42:36.287-04:00ALPHA’S WRIGHT
Don’t DOBATTLE with a ONETRICKPONY...ALPHA’S WRIGHT<br /><br />Don’t DOBATTLE with a ONETRICKPONY, <br />with his EGO he WILL be STUBBORNASAMULE<br />to be SOLID and NAIL his ONETRICK only,<br />THANKS to his HIGHHORSE you WILL play the fool.<br /><br />--- TOOTSIE HAMLET<br />Burma Shavenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-8136012052665855532017-10-02T09:42:27.274-04:002017-10-02T09:42:27.274-04:00I found this one very easy even for a Monday. I do...I found this one very easy even for a Monday. I don't feel the rage OFL has against it. I did finish at exactly the same spot as he did but don't feel the cluing for 51A and 52D was bad or unfair as he does. CGI comes up a lot in crosswords, and a GIG is definitely a job for a musician and thus a "date to play" so why is Rex so outraged? I will say the puzzle was lacking sparkle. Kinda meh. But nothing to be upset about.thefogmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01870509029973778266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-41014058398326141752017-09-20T07:38:50.755-04:002017-09-20T07:38:50.755-04:00Hello every one out here
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Ah, Molokai leper colony!!!! ...@Two ponies@12:59 pm<br />Ah, Molokai leper colony!!!! That mule ride was indeed one of the most interesting things I've ever done.<br />Back in the Day as a Dating Game Chaperone, they sent the couple to Molokai where there was NOTHING to do (spa/golf course being built, but not yet complete...the guy that rented the car(s) and bicycles was on vacation (really WAS a ONEHORSETOWN)<br />so we did the mule ride down the cliff, and met the sole surviving leper who told his life story and Father Damian's.<br />(When leprosy was contained, and the colony closed, he had no family and nowhere to go so was devoting his life to telling the story).<br /><br />Easily one of the Most memorable days of my life (back when I had one!)<br />Whoa!Arabian Colt Mulesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-11447241520092001742017-08-29T00:03:37.168-04:002017-08-29T00:03:37.168-04:00THERE ARE TWO GUYS NAMED ISIAH/ISAIAH THOMAS. THEY...THERE ARE TWO GUYS NAMED ISIAH/ISAIAH THOMAS. THEY ARE DIFFERENT PEOPLE. WATCH SOME SPORTS, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-66573486939572789622017-08-29T00:00:31.928-04:002017-08-29T00:00:31.928-04:00i'll be certain to check out that podcast, bec...i'll be certain to check out that podcast, because rex seems like an easy-going, amusing bloke. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-24032232313803303422017-08-28T23:59:38.206-04:002017-08-28T23:59:38.206-04:00isaiah thomas is a current player. isiah thomas is...isaiah thomas is a current player. isiah thomas is a hall of farmer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-87681107881363625802017-08-28T23:58:32.871-04:002017-08-28T23:58:32.871-04:00that's how he spells his name, brah.that's how he spells his name, brah. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-27171176242005978832017-08-28T23:20:01.141-04:002017-08-28T23:20:01.141-04:00Did everyone miss the fact that they spelled '...Did everyone miss the fact that they spelled 'Isaiah' for Isaiah Thomas wrong? I am still reeling.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-30422098566689737762017-08-28T21:43:17.240-04:002017-08-28T21:43:17.240-04:00Late as it is, can't help but add my two cents...Late as it is, can't help but add my two cents to say that "it's just a Monday puzzle" Rex. <br /><br />There's plenty I don't know but I woudln't make it a cause celebre to show my lack by criticizing an otherwise reasonable puzle.. Maybe tougher than the usual Monday, but fine in any event.ArtOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02146522383916865617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-51677776925052592092017-08-28T19:52:15.000-04:002017-08-28T19:52:15.000-04:00Our new buddy ISIAH is making the rounds, he poppe...Our new buddy ISIAH is making the rounds, he popped up in the WSJ puzzle today, quite the social butterfly.chefwenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03999206352243329280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-45405768596691866732017-08-28T19:26:29.473-04:002017-08-28T19:26:29.473-04:00I have never commented before, but I can't res...I have never commented before, but I can't resist responding to Rex's disparagement of the Mr. Bumble clue. I confess that I was an undergraduate English major, so maybe I am not the best person to ask about Dickens. But I know the Mr. Bumble quotation well, and I think anyone who knows Dickens has a chance of knowing it --- lack of grammar and all. Maybe it was too hard for a Monday, but I thought it was a lovely clue and a lovely answer. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com