tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post833487841131551049..comments2024-03-29T11:24:03.304-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: WEDNESDAY, Mar. 5, 2008 - Steven Ginzburg (GERMAN AUTO DEBUT OF 1974)Rex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-44371653429042000032018-02-18T18:05:12.559-05:002018-02-18T18:05:12.559-05:00In the name of lexicographic parallelism, shouldn&...In the name of lexicographic parallelism, shouldn't SMILE AT be clued with "Show friendliness <b><i>to</i></b>"?Prunenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-54362358565504537412008-04-16T21:42:00.000-04:002008-04-16T21:42:00.000-04:00Other humble homes: park bench, refrigerator box,...Other humble homes: park bench, refrigerator box, 1980 Honda Civic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-12481031704436303392008-03-06T00:46:00.000-05:002008-03-06T00:46:00.000-05:00@ Catherine -- We always stop for Tim Horton dough...@ Catherine -- We always stop for Tim Horton doughnuts, especially "French crullers", when crossing through Canada from NY state to Michigan and back. They did expand by franchise into the Buffalo area in the mid-eighties, but I don't think they got much farther, what with a Dunkin' Donuts on about every other corner...<BR/><BR/>∑;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-33516827017181611062008-03-05T22:16:00.000-05:002008-03-05T22:16:00.000-05:00Ulrich, I hope you'll drop more morsels of Italian...Ulrich, I hope you'll drop more morsels of Italian pronunciation as the crosswords dictate. Much appreciated!<BR/><BR/>The intensity of basement water management commenting cracks me up.<BR/><BR/>Catherine, I have had your bastard M&Ms before, in Canada and maybe in Europe too. Nothing I wanted to bring home, though. The mint Aero bar, though, was yummy, if a tad frightening in its greenness. And my husband enjoyed a not-found-in-American Coffee Crisp bar.Orangehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12433254398377357737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-36335354857094773072008-03-05T22:11:00.000-05:002008-03-05T22:11:00.000-05:00Today's LA Times puzzle has a very clever theme - ...Today's LA Times puzzle has a very clever theme - it's worth a look if you haven't tried it yet. If you have already done it and didn't find the theme that impressive, then you probably missed it - go back and look more closely.<BR/><BR/>@Rex - I'm a mathematician who drives an Avalon... what gives with the digs against my car and my man Euclid, anyway?!?! ;) Seriously, congratulations on your performance at the tournament. I would have liked to meet you - maybe next year. I really enjoyed your wife's writeup on the tournament and I look forward to reading more of your own comments about it. What a weekend!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-60615952004382783002008-03-05T21:59:00.000-05:002008-03-05T21:59:00.000-05:00@dan: thanks. My wife's already worried that cross...@dan: thanks. My wife's already worried that crosswords will become too big a part of my life :-). I told her not to worry as long as I'm doing all this DIY stuff to our house.Ulrichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02086202853174403008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-13785631178916944282008-03-05T19:09:00.000-05:002008-03-05T19:09:00.000-05:00Rex posted his home address? Wow - puzzlers are a ...Rex posted his home address? Wow - puzzlers are a nice bunch, sure, but c'mon man, it's the Internet. :)<BR/><BR/>Foreign Smarties are way better than American Smarties. Indeed, better than M&Ms, because the different colored candy coatings have different flavors!<BR/><BR/>Ulrich, glad you've joined us on the weekday puzzles! Sandy will have competition for the E Division next year...Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11209543514266918480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-63757277248413395402008-03-05T18:58:00.000-05:002008-03-05T18:58:00.000-05:00@ Doug -- your "vermi" follower with "celli" reall...@ Doug -- your "vermi" follower with "celli" really tickled me. I used to play the singular of the latter long ago, until I figured out that voice was easier to carry around -- but that entailed learning smatterings of lots of languages for arias et al... <BR/><BR/>@ Ulrich -- It's okay, you can wax on about Italian etc. any time... Thought Pino/"peenyo" Grigio was Spanish? Salut anyway. Back to the water now...<BR/><BR/>∑;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-15341166385130918582008-03-05T18:48:00.000-05:002008-03-05T18:48:00.000-05:00@catherine k:Eat the red ones LAST.You are right. ...@catherine k:<BR/><BR/>Eat the red ones LAST.You are right. I bow to your superior expertise in old Canadian jingles.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-58662435861130451112008-03-05T17:56:00.000-05:002008-03-05T17:56:00.000-05:00Markuslo and behold.Markus<BR/><BR/>lo and behold.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-16700195009657004282008-03-05T17:34:00.000-05:002008-03-05T17:34:00.000-05:00So I didn't like the fact that there was both UV a...So I didn't like the fact that there was both UV and VW in the puzzle. Also, it might've been nice if the clues were in alphabetical order, which could've been done; AB and VW are the same length, as are CD and UV, with JK in the middle. And then after AB and CD, it would've been nice to have EFHUTTON. Which then reminds me of the '80's commercial where the teacher asks a child to say the alphabet, and the child says "A, B, C, D, E, F...E, F...E. F. Hutton."<BR/><BR/>Still, a fun, mostly easy puzzle.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15142770114522437154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-26802160891829925122008-03-05T17:32:00.000-05:002008-03-05T17:32:00.000-05:00Call me someone. I'm the one that Markus referred...Call me someone. I'm the one that Markus referred to above as asking for a picture of TIM Curry wearing a FEATHERBOA for yesterday's puzzle. Weird synchronicity! Does that mean that TRANSVESTITE will show up in tomorrow's puzzle?<BR/><BR/>Fun little puzzle today with a clever theme. My intial errors were pretty much the same as everyone else's (SSN for SEX, LEFT for WENT, TAR for TIN).<BR/><BR/>Spam, spam, spam, spam...<BR/><BR/>AVALON is also the name of the last full studio album by Roxy Music. Bill Murray does a karaoke version of "More Than This" in the movie LOST IN TRANSLATION, and it's a hidden track in the movie's soundtrack CD.<BR/><BR/>I live in Hackettstown, NJ, home to the world HQ of M&M, in case anyone cares. When the wind is right, you can smell the chocolate when you step outside our house, even though the factory is on the opposite side of the town. It's kind of like being in Hershey, PA, on a smaller scale.<BR/><BR/>I feel the need for candy now, for some reason...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-45634964488960524362008-03-05T17:14:00.000-05:002008-03-05T17:14:00.000-05:00Hey, how about "Vermi follower?" for celli as a cl...Hey, how about "Vermi follower?" for celli as a clue? Just free associating here.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11277536184701771210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-49388176978429187472008-03-05T17:00:00.000-05:002008-03-05T17:00:00.000-05:00I found it funny that someone commented about Rex ...I found it funny that someone commented about Rex needing a Tim Curry as Dr Frank N Furter picture to accompany yesterday's puzzle [CURRY/CUMIN] and then low and behold... 9D today! There he is! So I ask thee, Rex,<BR/>where's the pic(ture)? <-- (my slang vocab)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-41281351218825828032008-03-05T16:38:00.000-05:002008-03-05T16:38:00.000-05:00@Crosscan: Actually, it's, "When you eat your Smar...@Crosscan: Actually, it's, "When you eat your Smarties, do you eat the red ones <I>last</I>?"<BR/>It goes on: <BR/><BR/>"Do you suck them very slowly, or crunch them very fast?<BR/>Eat that candy-coated chocolate, but tell me when I ask,<BR/>When you eat your Smarties, do you eat the red ones last?"Shanti11https://www.blogger.com/profile/03397942491057116387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-53842052865474134772008-03-05T16:25:00.000-05:002008-03-05T16:25:00.000-05:00meteor showers -- check 'em out:up in the sky!;-)j...meteor showers -- check 'em out:<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://stardate.org/nightsky/meteors/" REL="nofollow">up in the sky!</A><BR/><BR/>;-)<BR/><BR/>janiejaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15129173620859824730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-2645657716580456602008-03-05T15:51:00.000-05:002008-03-05T15:51:00.000-05:00Because I misspelled JKRAWLING, I spent an inordin...Because I misspelled JKRAWLING, I spent an inordinate amount of time trying to figure out what the hell VACAB was.<BR/><BR/>Since I knew everything was spelled right, I was bewildered.<BR/><BR/>Nothing like confidence. Jeez.Bill from NJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10103923612595508277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-42847034057948985422008-03-05T15:50:00.000-05:002008-03-05T15:50:00.000-05:00No Smarties? How do you guys manage without Smarti...No Smarties? How do you guys manage without Smarties or Tim Hortons? (Dunkin' Donuts is the bastard Tim Hortons)<BR/><BR/>old TV ad here: When you eat your Smarties do you eat the red ones first?<BR/><BR/>They come in - I just bought some to do proper research - red, pink, yellow, purple, blue, orange , green and way too many browns in this box.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-43211387081446464182008-03-05T14:49:00.000-05:002008-03-05T14:49:00.000-05:00Well, whatever state the roof was in, that was one...Well, whatever state the roof was in, that was one funky little shack! :-DAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-79929752647293622492008-03-05T14:48:00.001-05:002008-03-05T14:48:00.001-05:00Once we figured out the downspout on one side of o...Once we figured out the downspout on one side of our house was disconnected from the line going to the street and we redirected it there our basement water leakage/seepage problem ended. Make sure the water is flowing all the way out and the line is not clogged or going into the ground near the foundation. We still have the main drain cleaned once a year because the roots from all the big trees around the house grow through the tiles. When we forget to do this Roto-Rooter is with us for Thanksgiving at premium rates. Good luck Rex and congrats on your ACPT ranking!<BR/><BR/>Enjoyed today's puzzle but had to google Maserati and "bed in" to finish. Should've know that one!NYTAnonimohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02280444758529687355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-68976685581278411182008-03-05T14:48:00.000-05:002008-03-05T14:48:00.000-05:00Antoine Saint-Exupery was a poet-warrior of sorts,...Antoine Saint-Exupery was a poet-warrior of sorts, and is somewhat of a hero in France. He wrote about flight and was famous for long-range "raids" before WW II - that term then referred to a visit, usually after a long distance flight, to a foreign country. He was lost during the war while on a reconnaissance mission for the Free French AF. I believe he disappeared without a trace like the great French WW I hero Georges Guynemer, thus adding to his mystique. The French love their aviators. Anyone follow tennis? Stade Roland Garros (where they play the French Open) was named after another French WW I hero. Garros was the first aviator to arm his aircraft with a fixed, forward-firing machine gun, establishing fighter plane practice used to this day.<BR/><BR/>Another aviation connection runs surreptitiously through today's commentary - while a dusty wind may be an unusual name for a car, aircraft have always been named for strong breezes - Hurricane, Taifun (Ger), Mistral, Hayate (Jpn = gale), etc. In the late '30s the Italian Caproni firm produced a group of aircraft named after winds known as the Borea (North Wind) series; there was a Scirocco among them.Bill Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13741876820211768387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-11586677601925570172008-03-05T14:15:00.000-05:002008-03-05T14:15:00.000-05:00@doc John:Thanks very much for DIY! Can't believe ...@doc John:<BR/>Thanks very much for DIY! Can't believe I couldn't figure that out!<BR/>To return the favor, let me tell you that the lyric is actually "Tin roof, rusted!" not "rusty!" :-)<BR/><BR/>Happy Puzzling!<BR/>GregThe Big Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00383322329027962325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-83272186750520585242008-03-05T14:11:00.000-05:002008-03-05T14:11:00.000-05:00Rex, I'm sorry about your basement problems and am...Rex, I'm sorry about your basement problems and am glad that they're somewhat under control now. Being first from Miami and now San Diego, I've never had a basement (and now know I will never have a house that has one!). But, if I ever do, I'll certainly consult this day's blog comments for advice!<BR/><BR/>Re the "Desperate Housewives" controversy: I would have been happier if at least more than two of the actresses were named. Strange to have two from the same show and not carry it forward. I actually started thinking that this could be the puzzle's theme until a search of the clues revealed no more DH references.<BR/><BR/>I did figure out the real theme in time for it to help me with UV EXPOSURE- yay! (Ran the alphabet for letter pairs that would work with the clue. Wouldn't you know it'd be one of the last pairs I got to.)<BR/><BR/>@Greg: DIY = Do It Yourself<BR/><BR/>Fave clue: [40D. Overdose] = TOO MUCH. For some reason it just struck me as interesting.<BR/><BR/>I'll leave you with a quote from the B-52s: "TIN roof- rusty." (Actually "Tiiiiiiiiiiin roof, rusty!")Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-9334817767147009302008-03-05T14:03:00.000-05:002008-03-05T14:03:00.000-05:00OK, I got this puzzle in a decent time, but had a ...OK, I got this puzzle in a decent time, but had a number of brain-farts and moments of confusion along the way, including two clues I simply didn't know - the VW car (got all the down clues, though) and DIY. <BR/>Ok, I don't know if this has to do with my only owning my own apartment for 3 years, or that I don't live in a "house," but I have never heard of DIY and am clueless as to what it means!<BR/><BR/>@Catherine: I have had Smarties in the UK, and I agree that they are delicious! :-)<BR/><BR/>Happy Puzzling!<BR/>GregThe Big Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00383322329027962325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-2957796244228498282008-03-05T13:43:00.000-05:002008-03-05T13:43:00.000-05:00Ugh. I refuse to eat anything that comes in the co...Ugh. I refuse to eat anything that comes in the color "mauve".<BR/><BR/>:)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com