tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post6090849273213187668..comments2024-03-28T09:47:11.647-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: FRIDAY, Nov. 21, 2008 - Patrick Berry (King who had an audience with Pope Leo I / Symbol of dissent against British rule)Rex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger77125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-18241932151746130842008-12-26T20:09:00.000-05:002008-12-26T20:09:00.000-05:00@gnarbles The brewery was actually in Tumwater, no...@gnarbles The brewery was actually in Tumwater, not Olympia. They used artesian water and had little "Artesians" in their advertising. Evel Kneviel was going to use the water in his ill-fated Snake Canyon motorcycle jump.Crockett1947https://www.blogger.com/profile/06404431645533093707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-26524213309172578142008-12-26T13:09:00.000-05:002008-12-26T13:09:00.000-05:00Actually, I believe, it is pantie girdle, as per a...Actually, I believe, it is pantie girdle, as per any dictionary?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-64262075872425770012008-11-22T09:27:00.000-05:002008-11-22T09:27:00.000-05:00perhaps this has already been stated above, but th...perhaps this has already been stated above, but that's The Treniers doing "rag mop." and yes, they kick plenty of ass.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-46766519764859306932008-11-22T01:19:00.000-05:002008-11-22T01:19:00.000-05:00@raphaelthatmf: Just parsed your name. Dude!@raphaelthatmf: Just parsed your name. Dude!Shanti11https://www.blogger.com/profile/03397942491057116387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-66305508696991110702008-11-22T01:15:00.000-05:002008-11-22T01:15:00.000-05:00Today's puzzle was like comfort food. Usually Frid...Today's puzzle was like comfort food. Usually Friday puzzles leave me all growly and frustrated, especially when I come to this site, and Rex has rated it as Easy-Medium. Today, the puzzle was all satisfying and yummy, and I was able to finish every letter... and Rex rated it as Medium-Challenging. Ahh...<BR/><BR/>"Greek flaming cheese at The Liberty Pole" - Rex, you kill me!<BR/><BR/>@raphaelthatmf - Canada greeting = GOODDAYEHShanti11https://www.blogger.com/profile/03397942491057116387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-4740329494431594292008-11-21T22:51:00.000-05:002008-11-21T22:51:00.000-05:00I'm not fast - a Wednesday usually takes me 20-25 ...I'm not fast - a Wednesday usually takes me 20-25 minutes, and a Friday about 50 minutes.<BR/><BR/>I finished this one in 26.<BR/><BR/>What gives? <BR/><BR/>Are "___ buco" and "Hush-hush org." really Friday clues? <BR/><BR/>Were "constitution" and "spectacles" really supposed to elicit the LESS common meanings of the words?<BR/><BR/>Shoot. Now I have time to kill.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-8946111846258699222008-11-21T20:49:00.000-05:002008-11-21T20:49:00.000-05:00@foodieSorry to dredge up those unpleasant memorie...@foodie<BR/>Sorry to dredge up those unpleasant memories. <BR/><BR/>Of all the campuses in all the world, you had to be stuck on that one, that night. Yikes!Chip Hiltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11944056030047563287noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-34270787261001819102008-11-21T17:59:00.000-05:002008-11-21T17:59:00.000-05:00@ chip hilton, Chris Webber's mention does not bri...@ chip hilton, Chris Webber's mention does not bring back good memories. Where sports are concerned, I have a major brain desert punctuated by occasional vivid scenes. One of them relates to Webber and the Fab Five. <BR/><BR/>Picture this: April 5, 1993, Chapel Hill North Carolina. Yours truly, from Ann Arbor, is visiting UNC as part of a committee reviewing their neuroscience program. That evening is the NCAA championship game, and they have put us up in their Student Union building. Trying to concentrate during the game was impossible. So, I decided I might as well watch the last few minutes of the match. Chris Webber called that extra time out and the building just exploded. And that entire night, the students climbed trees, burned a couch under my window, swung from poles, screamed and hollered, you name it. Next morning, I go to my meeting bleary eyed and exhausted, and they all think it's from severe disappointment and embarrassment. But they felt no pity.. And forget trying to give them any input about their graduate program... They couldn't stop talking about the darn game. I was the perfect stimulus for their glee... It was not the high point of my career.foodiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13052189131129098616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-59337618189772828322008-11-21T17:21:00.000-05:002008-11-21T17:21:00.000-05:00One error here. I assumed that the Ames Bros. were...One error here. I assumed that the Ames Bros. were paying tribute to convertibles , so went with RAGTOP. Just assumed some big corporation would be acronymed IBT. Silly me.<BR/><BR/>Apologies to Wolverine fans. The other day, I mentioned that Wednesday's scrambled college nicknames puzzle looked like a Final Four prediction except for the inclusion of Michigan. Well, last night, they beat consensus top five team, UCLA. It appears the Ann Arbor boys are back. Thinking back to Chris Webber and the Fab Five, they might want to avoid NCAA violations.Chip Hiltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11944056030047563287noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-78005182266062044522008-11-21T16:54:00.000-05:002008-11-21T16:54:00.000-05:00I'm also in the "pretty easy for a Friday" camp an...I'm also in the "pretty easy for a Friday" camp and also rate [Print up?] as my fave clue.<BR/>Oh, and don't even get me started about AMENDMENTS!<BR/>Happy weekend everyone!Doc Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12540112168511893896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-42055461008630329092008-11-21T16:53:00.000-05:002008-11-21T16:53:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Doc Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12540112168511893896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-41325468637113372452008-11-21T16:51:00.000-05:002008-11-21T16:51:00.000-05:00Anent 28D: Abba EBAN appears in the grid every onc...Anent 28D: Abba EBAN appears in the grid every once in a while too. WIkipedia says he was born in Cape Town, which I (as Rex might write) did Not know. For that matter, Nor did I know that Golda Meir was Russian-born -- and Wikipedia places her birth in Kiev, which is not quite Russian though it was part of the Russian Empire.<BR/><BR/>NDEAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-627519547871623032008-11-21T15:48:00.000-05:002008-11-21T15:48:00.000-05:00suggestion...33A: Queen Victoria's Secretsecond fa...suggestion...<BR/><BR/>33A: Queen Victoria's Secret<BR/><BR/>second fastest friday ever.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-40580138419827258212008-11-21T15:05:00.000-05:002008-11-21T15:05:00.000-05:00Regarding "epsilon":'"Epsilon" (ἒ ψιλόν, "simple e...Regarding "epsilon":<BR/>'"Epsilon" (ἒ ψιλόν, "simple e") was coined in the Middle Ages to distinguish the letter from the diphthong αι [alpha iota], which started being pronounced the same way during the period of New Testament Greek.'<BR/>--WikipediaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-83283199436646100182008-11-21T14:55:00.000-05:002008-11-21T14:55:00.000-05:00tried capitalizing the C in chefbea and it didnt l...tried capitalizing the C in chefbea and it didnt look right. I left off the 1 after my name so will now see if <BR/>it's gonechefbeahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15195945085405126511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-11105378031420548342008-11-21T14:26:00.000-05:002008-11-21T14:26:00.000-05:00Loved that "Ragmop" video -- that piano player cer...Loved that "Ragmop" video -- that piano player certainly seems to be afflicted with RLS (or restless leg syndrome). Now THAT would make a great clue. But why oh why do the singers spell "Ragmop" as "R-A-G-G-M-O-P-P"? Poetic license?<BR/><BR/>SW corner stumped me, kind of got backed into it. Reverb did the trick for Emboss. <BR/><BR/>Loved the puzzle today -- more, please, more like this one.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-55659571270344401692008-11-21T14:20:00.000-05:002008-11-21T14:20:00.000-05:00I agree with everyone - an easier than usual Frid...I agree with everyone - an easier than usual Friday puzzle<BR/><BR/>@shamick - loved your dissertation on girdles!! My grandmother wore a girdle and my mother wore panty girdles.<BR/><BR/>An older lady that I work for still wears stockings and they are very hard to find. In case anyone wants to know - you can find Hanes stockings at Kohls.<BR/><BR/>Yummy osso buco with a glass of pernodchefbeahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15195945085405126511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-716097445944661302008-11-21T14:17:00.000-05:002008-11-21T14:17:00.000-05:0039:36 for me today. Just finishing a Friday genera...39:36 for me today. Just finishing a Friday generally makes me happy. Then Rex said Medium-Challenging. Sweet! But the pessimist in me was sure all other posts would say it was easy, and so you all did. Thanks for harshing my buzz! HA!<BR/><BR/>My parents recently gave me a pile of old LPs. If I look just to the right of my computer screen, I can see "The Ames Brothers: All Their Greatest Hits." (Eddie Arnold, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Wayne Newton, Andy Williams follow ... Flashback time.) "Rag Mop" is the first song on Side A of Record One. (Of course it's a 2-album collection!)<BR/><BR/>I can remember, probably as the above albums were playing in mono, we kids would be in the basement, where we had a pool table that we would sometimes cover with two boards to play ping-pong. This was when Atari was just a town in Pakistan (I had to look that up, but it's a great alternate clue, eh?) not a video game company. We would often say: "Wanna play some pong?" So that fill seems fine by me.jeff in chicagohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10492964479021891094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-81146754407728510822008-11-21T13:50:00.000-05:002008-11-21T13:50:00.000-05:00NAGASAKI was almost a gimme, except I kept thinkin...NAGASAKI was almost a gimme, except I kept thinking of NANKING. I've never heard or seen <I>Madame Butterfly</I>. But I learned of it through my parent's involvement with little theater and a production of Peter Shaffer's <I>The Private Ear</I>, whose main lead is an opera buff.<BR/><BR/>I also was reading about Lincoln and HERNDON last week, so while it wasn't a gimme, it filled in rather easily.<BR/><BR/>I was trying to expand LIBER---O-E to LIBERAL ?O?E for awhile, which along with DEPILATORY, slowed me down terribly on the long crosses.<BR/><BR/>EPSILON for electromotive force symbol is flat out wrong. It's a script E. I would recommend Shortz disallowing all science-term symbol references as a clue for Greek letters. Half the time they are correct, but half the time they are just plain silly.<BR/><BR/>To remember OSSO vs OSSA, OSSO BUCO go together, as do OSSA and ETNA.<BR/><BR/>ONE-HORSE is listed in M-W and OED as meaning second-rate or small and insignificant, in addition to its literal sense. Both cite several examples in addition to ONE-HORSE town. The OED gives special mention to ONE-HORSE town, along with ONE-HORSE race.<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.bookfinder.com" REL="nofollow">Bookfinder</A> lists about 5 or 6 books with "ATTILA" and "King" in the title. I'd have never guessed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-56268888518059026762008-11-21T13:49:00.000-05:002008-11-21T13:49:00.000-05:00What a randy group today! I don’t think I’ve seen...What a randy group today! I don’t think I’ve seen the word crotch used so frequently outside the nether regions of evil doug's computer. <BR/>I share Aunthattie’s two g two p position – and for selfish purposes because I ruled out RAGMOP for too long. For 14A I read the clue as Greeting from Canada and wanted a French phrase or something McKenzie brotherish. Addressed the dyslexia and figured it out. <BR/>Fresh and getable clues combined with intimidating open grid produced a puzzle requiring input from all recesses of the thinking place. Me likey!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-26898397019712651252008-11-21T13:28:00.000-05:002008-11-21T13:28:00.000-05:00@dk @evil doug @orange ... let the LIBERTY POLE in...@dk @evil doug @orange ... let the LIBERTY POLE in a PANTY GIRDLE jokes roll. I was wondering (well, not really) who would comment first and dk you didn't let me down.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-10364088654094310642008-11-21T13:24:00.000-05:002008-11-21T13:24:00.000-05:00I think they serve Greek flaming cheese at The Lib...I think they serve Greek flaming cheese at The Liberty Pole.<BR/><BR/>rpRex Parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-54323469983011843352008-11-21T13:20:00.000-05:002008-11-21T13:20:00.000-05:00I wonder if there's a gay bar in New England calle...I wonder if there's a gay bar in New England called The Liberty Pole. <BR/><BR/>What's great about Nagasaki is that if you switch a couple letters around, you get saganaki, that Greek flaming cheese. Greek and Japanese usually don't feel so similar.Orangehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12433254398377357737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-30216195065112317092008-11-21T13:11:00.000-05:002008-11-21T13:11:00.000-05:00@evil doug, I am laughing so hard garden GNOMES ar...@evil doug, I am laughing so hard garden GNOMES are coming out of my NOSE.<BR/><BR/>3 and outdkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17317008233459295376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-34334861534172430902008-11-21T13:03:00.000-05:002008-11-21T13:03:00.000-05:00PANTY GIRDLE - just one of many memories from my a...PANTY GIRDLE - just one of many memories from my adolescence that I had hoped never to reflect upon againwendyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06899889818724088564noreply@blogger.com