tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post9040034795949465406..comments2024-03-29T01:22:33.864-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: SUNDAY, Jul. 8, 2007 - Elayne Cantor and Nancy SalomonRex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-66388132792023398382007-07-19T17:47:00.000-04:002007-07-19T17:47:00.000-04:00Newbie to your blog, but not to NYT Sunday Xword.T...Newbie to your blog, but not to NYT Sunday Xword.<BR/>Thanks for this site. Since I'm one of those who prefer toughing it out w/no "aids" until finished (even if it takes me several soakings in the tub), I have to be careful not to view your posts prematurely: the puzzle you list as July 8, for example, is not published in our local paper until July 15.<BR/>Sinnin' in the Rain caused me a little hiccup too, but the down crosses morphed it into line.<BR/>KUTGW<BR/>AJCAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-49466672479485748592007-07-19T07:39:00.000-04:002007-07-19T07:39:00.000-04:00It'll be a strange day if A Midsummer Night's Crea...It'll be a strange day if A Midsummer Night's Cream ever makes it into a NYT puzzle.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-20833827740776282122007-07-15T17:12:00.000-04:002007-07-15T17:12:00.000-04:00I got half way through when I realized I was reall...I got half way through when I realized I was really bored and not enjoying myself. <BR/>Better way to spend my time today.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-35749393616540610312007-07-09T20:43:00.000-04:002007-07-09T20:43:00.000-04:00I'm a newbie -- don't you do the acrostic?I'm a newbie -- don't you do the acrostic?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-80379393117801865572007-07-09T02:06:00.000-04:002007-07-09T02:06:00.000-04:00I settled for "much commerce nowadays" being EMAIL...I settled for "much commerce nowadays" being EMAIL, although I didn't really like it, leaving MSR for " D&D originator, which suited me just fine. Couldn't be bothered to look up anything.Chip Ahoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12597726289890879627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-60715575739224508052007-07-08T23:54:00.000-04:002007-07-08T23:54:00.000-04:00tough fill - 1939 actor brian of 'juarez' crosses ...tough fill - <BR/><BR/>1939 actor brian of 'juarez' crosses with daddy warbucks henchman.<BR/><BR/>that was the only spot where I had zero chance of actually getting the fill. I also had mgm for 7d which made me try for "grease" as the henchman, at which point I foolishly changed my spa to sea<BR/>for "hot spot," hoping there was some hot sea i didn't know of.klochnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15341584499632342798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-1222971950499640892007-07-08T17:50:00.000-04:002007-07-08T17:50:00.000-04:00There are many pornified titles indexed at Pimp Da...There are many pornified titles indexed at <A HREF="http://www.starma.com/penis/daddyswank/daddyswank.html" REL="nofollow">Pimp Daddy Swank's World of Comedy Porn Titles</A>. The <I>Night of the Living Head</I>? No, they went with Giving there. Both <I>Ryan's Privates</I> titles are listed, the Saving and the Shaving. Say what you will about the lowness of puns as a form of humor—some of those titles are hilarious.Orangehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12433254398377357737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-62406967996358568012007-07-08T15:09:00.000-04:002007-07-08T15:09:00.000-04:00It's actually Shaving Ryan's Privates.It's actually Shaving Ryan's Privates.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-66391929997984826492007-07-08T15:00:00.000-04:002007-07-08T15:00:00.000-04:00serial comma -- just saw sicko -- which i loved --...serial comma -- just saw <I>sicko</I> -- which i loved -- and whose credits're bound to make ya very happy, orange. there it was on the silver screen: written, produced, and directed by...<BR/><BR/>btw, my college harbrace's sez: the final comma is often omitted, especially by newspapers, when the series takes the form <I>a</I>, <I>b</I>, and <I>c</I>. but students are usually advised to follow the practice of the more conservative books and periodicals in using the comma throughout the series...<BR/><BR/>best --<BR/><BR/>janie<BR/><BR/>p.s. guess who's just learned some html tricks? ;-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-4560005298796661802007-07-08T14:09:00.000-04:002007-07-08T14:09:00.000-04:00Night of the Living HeadThis puzzle was more of a ...Night of the Living Head<BR/><BR/>This puzzle was more of a Wednesday's difficulty than a Thursday's (which I have read a Sunday is supposed to be). I like having moe to chew on on Sundays.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-20334224059491597142007-07-08T13:58:00.000-04:002007-07-08T13:58:00.000-04:00Risque Business instead of Risky Business? Wow, r...Risque Business instead of Risky Business? Wow, real clever. As long as they're doing this porn title thing, why not include Saving Ryan's Privates or Glad-I-Ate-Her?<BR/><BR/>I did like "Liberty" = SHORE LEAVE. <BR/><BR/>Also, I managed to fill in the answer to the French clue, and later looked it up. Now I know what <I>honi soit qui mal y pense</I> means. Too bad Styx didn't have a hit song with that lyric or it'd be easier.<BR/><BR/>Shame be he who thinks evil of it.Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17655319942904634388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-23890231384299855362007-07-08T12:12:00.000-04:002007-07-08T12:12:00.000-04:00This puzzle had to be easy! I completed the whole...This puzzle had to be easy! I completed the whole thing without resort to your blog for an answer or two!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-73058350322626819432007-07-08T10:38:00.000-04:002007-07-08T10:38:00.000-04:00Nicholas Gage:When Nikos Gatzoyiannis (his real na...Nicholas Gage:<BR/><BR/>When Nikos Gatzoyiannis (his real name) was born in Epiros, Greece, his father was working as a short-order cook in Worcester, Massachusetts, sending money back to his family in the old country. Cut off by World War II and the ensuing Greek Civil war, the boy would not meet his father until he and his sisters were found in a refugee camp in Greece and shipped to Massachusetts. By this time, the children's mother, Eleni Gatzoyiannis, had been imprisoned, tortured and executed by the Communist guerrillas who occupied their village. Her "crime" was arranging for the escape of her son and daughters after she learned that the guerrillas were planning to gather all the village children and send them behind the Iron Curtain to be re-educated as Communist soldiers. <BR/><BR/><BR/>Fairly easy puzzle. But for the longest time I had OSU for 2D, so iron on was isonon and drove me nuts.<BR/><BR/>Now back to tennis.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-40193921304727430552007-07-08T10:00:00.000-04:002007-07-08T10:00:00.000-04:00Speaking of Natty Bumppo, this site lists porn tit...Speaking of Natty Bumppo, <A HREF="http://www.starma.com/penis/daddyswank/daddyswank.html" REL="nofollow">this site</A> lists porn titles that pun on existing titles. Yes, there is a "Lust of the Mohicans."<BR/><BR/>(Confidential to Rex: "Ally McFeel"!)Orangehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12433254398377357737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-4309475398282140062007-07-08T09:13:00.000-04:002007-07-08T09:13:00.000-04:00This is a day late, but read this sentence about N...This is a day late, but read this sentence about Natty Bumppo and thought of you:<BR/><BR/>"He represents a missed opportunity in American history, the possibility that European immigrants might have joined with Native Americans rather than dispossessing and killing them, and that from the merging of the two cultures might have come something new in the earth, a people free, proud, and self-reliant without the pettifoggery, greed, and corruption that have infected the history of American culture."<BR/><BR/>--James D. Wallace<BR/><BR/>I'm not so sure that's what Natty Bumppo represents, but hey--"pettifoggery."GEO Presidenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01775275059011425483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-88149107702755522622007-07-08T08:54:00.000-04:002007-07-08T08:54:00.000-04:00domo arigato, howard -- you used the phrase here o...domo arigato, howard -- you used the phrase here on friday and i (mostly...) remembered!<BR/><BR/>and "eleni" -- it's that combo of vowels and consonants that keeps 'er so alive. <BR/><BR/>happy heatwavy sunday --<BR/><BR/>;-)<BR/><BR/>janieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-4114972698227364442007-07-08T04:12:00.000-04:002007-07-08T04:12:00.000-04:00Nicholas Gage was a NYT reporter who went to Greec...Nicholas Gage was a NYT reporter who went to Greece to discover how his grandmother (mother? or aunt?) died in the Greek civil war just after WWII. He wrote a best-selling book called "Eleni" about her, which was made into a pretty good movie maybe 20 yrs ago. For some reason, this clue keeps turning up in NYT xword puzzles, long after everyone has forgotten the book and the movie.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-10865713541505650992007-07-08T00:25:00.000-04:002007-07-08T00:25:00.000-04:00Either Ben Tausig's Chicago Reader puzzle or the O...Either Ben Tausig's Chicago Reader puzzle or the Onion A.V. Club puzzle he edits or Matt Jones's Jonesin' puzzle had a porn title theme a few months back. My Technorati search function isn't backing me up on this, but I swear it happened. Anyone remember this?<BR/><BR/>Rex, you want WYE to be clued as a river? You have totally sold out to crosswordese, man.<BR/><BR/>TSR can't stand for that! It makes no sense. Never heard of it. Maybe my husband has, though.<BR/><BR/>Good catch on the serial comma. If I were president, I would pass an executive order mandating the use of the serial comma. And you know that would make me a hero to thousands of copyeditors who kill commas that they secretly love.Orangehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12433254398377357737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-75117256471305092012007-07-07T23:46:00.000-04:002007-07-07T23:46:00.000-04:00If you like WYE, you'll love AITCH when it pops up...If you like WYE, you'll love AITCH when it pops up in a puzzle ;).<BR/><BR/>I had no idea that IMDB kept track of porn titles. What's more surprising than that is the IMDB page you linked to contains user ratings... I mean, enough people managed to watch and rate it so that it averaged a 4.7?!? And what constitutes a 4.7, say, as opposed to a 6 or 8? Do I even want to know?<BR/><BR/>Anyhow, a puzzle with theme answers made from actual titles like that might be even more amusing.<BR/><BR/>Oh, and I guess I should be a pain and mention that Frasier's coworker is actually 'Roz', and sometimes gets clued just like that. I would have had as good a chance with the Icelandic band than the clue they gave, though.<BR/><BR/>Well, I have to go divert a river to clean up some little horse farm. Have a great rest of the weekend.Howard Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00766792795622192271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-69915284409722148172007-07-07T22:41:00.000-04:002007-07-07T22:41:00.000-04:00I guess I still have my Hercules phase to go throu...I guess I still have my Hercules phase to go through. Life is worth living.<BR/><BR/>I just knew you'd love the puns ; )Linda Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15816794362786044423noreply@blogger.com