tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post1088091129716524500..comments2024-03-29T05:08:37.783-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: Peninsula shared by Italy Slovenia and Croatia / SUN 12-6-20 / Impromptu musical get-together, informally / Spanish term of affection between young women / Fluff Yeah slipper sandals / Digital image company that used to make film / Mathematician Poincaré with a famous conjecture / Clishmaclaver or bavardage to use some fancy languageRex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger147125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-85936602800870636522020-12-24T15:15:30.270-05:002020-12-24T15:15:30.270-05:00Right. The noun is the manual, not the worker. The...Right. The noun is the manual, not the worker. The "worker" is part of the adjectival phrase describing to whom the manual belongs. Phillip Blackerbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01246294316176476429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-46502601907574505342020-12-23T21:34:27.349-05:002020-12-23T21:34:27.349-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Roy Dimaggiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12326888742852137907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-60613146946022355702020-12-21T00:37:20.597-05:002020-12-21T00:37:20.597-05:00Blam?Blam?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-30857924185256023982020-12-20T20:09:22.480-05:002020-12-20T20:09:22.480-05:00Thanks, @Rondo, I wondered about those BLINI - kin...Thanks, @Rondo, I wondered about those BLINI - kinda like the ABACI, yes? <br /><br />And JAMSESH? Um...what can one say?<br /><br />When I was a kid I wanted a PEZ container soooooooooo badly. Mom said no - they cost too much to get so little. Heart breaking. Oh those little candies jumping out of the PEZ people. Must laugh now - and I sure did learn how to save for the hard times, a really good skill for life. <br /><br />Diana, Lady-in-Waiting for CrosswordsDiana, LIWnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-59247404985621795112020-12-20T17:24:36.970-05:002020-12-20T17:24:36.970-05:00@Z 4:38pm:
Screw you!!!!
Istria is the best penins...@Z 4:38pm:<br />Screw you!!!!<br />Istria is the best peninsula on earth!<br />But, then again, I'm a Slovenian-Croat-Italian mutt.<br />Oops! Sorry!<br />Mixed breed. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-87155717704006384902020-12-20T13:34:13.308-05:002020-12-20T13:34:13.308-05:00Other than this puz being a one-trick pony, I have...Other than this puz being a one-trick pony, I have a BONE of CONTENTION with 31a, and it goes to the editors. Russian pancakes are BLINI. BLINI is already plural. BLINIS is a word that doesn't exist. Editors, especially at the NYT ought to know better. Lack of attention to detail is more than disappointing, it is off-putting when they don't live up to their own STD. Lack of PRIDE?I don't know how many Will has for staff, but sign me up for one of those well-paying jobs; I could do just as good. And work from here. They probably even get paid more than some of us engineers, and I'm considered a state-wide expert.<br /><br />Shout out to the MN state bird, the LOON. It's on our commemorative quarter if you have one.<br /><br />Another Sunday in the Pioneer Press with an incomplete clue, this time for LATOYA. She'd be a yeah baby just for the Hef thing years ago, but I don't go for made up names. Bond girl EVA Green repeats.<br /><br />Not wacky enough for a one-trick pony. Did not AMUSE me.rondonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-1378941462355854732020-12-20T12:19:57.369-05:002020-12-20T12:19:57.369-05:00Istria is a perfectly common word. But the puzzle ...Istria is a perfectly common word. But the puzzle was joyless just the same.Uke Xensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14925310033193507314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-32193453658685964962020-12-20T11:45:04.693-05:002020-12-20T11:45:04.693-05:00Okay, I got the trick early enough despite the inc...Okay, I got the trick early enough despite the incredibly awkward title as it applies to said trick. But PRIDE [of] PLACE?? Wha?? It makes me think of a moment during a childhood visit to New York. It was 1953. During a walking tour through the lower east side (wouldn't dare to do that now!), we saw a newish-looking apartment building, but there was laundry hanging everywhere and fully two-thirds of the windows were broken, or missing altogether. Beer cans and broken liquor bottles were strewn about. Turning the corner, we saw the date on the cornerstone: 1952. "Wow," I said, "They did all this in a year?" Yeah. Not ALOT of pride of place there. If that's what the expression means.<br /><br />I overcame the double natick in the SW. Sure never heard of ISTRIA, but anything else sounded even worse. Who thinks up the names for these places, anyway? Still, other than that, it was a pretty easy solve. Fill not that bad, though the pluralized RMK (AFLATS) wasn't pretty. LATOYA Jackson is, so she wins DOD. Talented too. Par.spacecrafthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09125304293611865503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-16940592324713840752020-12-20T06:19:26.630-05:002020-12-20T06:19:26.630-05:00ISSHE LATIN? (ABLEST STROKE)
MISS EVITA had her M...ISSHE LATIN? (ABLEST STROKE)<br /><br />MISS EVITA had her MINDBLOWN by a GENIUS TEXAN,<br />it's POETIC such ALITTLE BONE WAS even in CONTENTION.<br /><br />--- EVA ISTRIA<br /><br />DEARSANTA: this PASSAGE, a STREAM of unCONSCIOUSNESS, comes FREE of CHARGEBurma Shavenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-62004898317550492112020-12-14T01:31:21.069-05:002020-12-14T01:31:21.069-05:00re: Unknown 7:05PM, that's me, Wendy Cutler. T...re: Unknown 7:05PM, that's me, Wendy Cutler. The link got messed up because it goes to a different google account, not the one I want as my primary one. But my post got posted, just not on the date I think I posted it. This is the December 6 blog, but as I said, I'm in syndi land, don't have December puzzles yet. Now I'm too confused to figure out anything. I'm signed into the right account, but the mail is going to the wrong account, so this will still come up as unknown, I think. Sorry.Wendy Cutlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14147181997547258356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-17950442123651280742020-12-13T19:05:39.064-05:002020-12-13T19:05:39.064-05:00I need to do a test here. I'm in syndi land, t...I need to do a test here. I'm in syndi land, think I have commented twice this week, but I don't see any of my comments here. I have not clicked the "prove you're not a robot", which at least used to not be necessary. I get the note about how my comment was received and the moderator has approved it. But I don't get the email saying I have posted, and now that I check I don't see my posts. So I will click the captcha thing this time. Oh, and now, when I click that, I have to go through all the hoops with the photos, which did not used to be the case.Wendy Cutlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14147181997547258356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-72709535038294065682020-12-10T07:23:04.361-05:002020-12-10T07:23:04.361-05:00in re: 31c An apocryphal (?) story I heard in grad...in re: 31c An apocryphal (?) story I heard in grad school: Jacques Derrida was detained by police who discovered a quantity of "blini" on his person on a visit to his mother, who made and loved blinis. Cops thot it was...well, you know.JTBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01940884463040723716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-83575523982909045412020-12-07T21:59:06.223-05:002020-12-07T21:59:06.223-05:00Istria is not so obscure to those who like geograp...Istria is not so obscure to those who like geography. And has Rex heard of Trieste? I bet he has, it sits just north of Istria, which is a fairly big peninsula as European peninsulas go...Barbaranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-72908584948195938802020-12-07T14:55:12.480-05:002020-12-07T14:55:12.480-05:00Blini is the plural. Blinis is just not right! I l...Blini is the plural. Blinis is just not right! I looked it up and I suppose it’s acceptable for a puzzle but this was the only thing that bothered me. Fun puzzle Mr. Orbach!isobelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12078584913291508850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-27906993946121702442020-12-07T02:57:14.566-05:002020-12-07T02:57:14.566-05:00Please don’t call Geri Allen “a dead pianist.” She...Please don’t call Geri Allen “a dead pianist.” She is one of the most innovative and respected jazz pianists and composers of our time, and she taught me at the University of Michigan jazz school before she passed in 2017. Also, as a millennial jazz alum, I find JAM SESH perfectly fitting and funny.Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16108723367587077520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-15444134508147418242020-12-07T00:08:07.253-05:002020-12-07T00:08:07.253-05:00"Bavardage" comes from "bavarder,&q..."Bavardage" comes from "bavarder," French for "shoot the s**t," or "chat." I've never heard anyone use it to mean "gossip."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-28396810945461563922020-12-06T23:52:11.127-05:002020-12-06T23:52:11.127-05:00I adore Rex and think he is brilliant, but he is r...I adore Rex and think he is brilliant, but he is really bad at geography. I can always count on him not to know a place and then complain that it was in the puzzle. I don’t complain about medieval literature or comic books I don’t know. Istria is a real place many of us do know. No need to rebuild the puzzle to get rid of it. Amynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-89556835736011632922020-12-06T23:18:04.811-05:002020-12-06T23:18:04.811-05:00@RooMonster 10:49 PM
Still -1 and packin' it ...@RooMonster 10:49 PM<br /><br />Still -1 and packin' it in :(<br /><br />Hope you make it 😊<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_DxNpW1kHQ" rel="nofollow">Peace</a> Pace Amani Pax Vrede Paz Mir Frieden Paix Fred Paqen ຄວາມສະຫງົບສຸກ Barış Mír صلح Woof 🕊<br /><br />bocamphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02524629632075020985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-13206842934779921982020-12-06T22:49:40.003-05:002020-12-06T22:49:40.003-05:00Late, but
@egs
LOL at RuMonster!
@CDilly
Thanks....Late, but<br /><br />@egs<br />LOL at RuMonster!<br /><br />@CDilly<br />Thanks. I grew up in NE PA (Scranton area, before it was "The Office" popular), and never heard the phrase. <br /><br />@Gill<br />I agree with your 2020 math/tribute!<br /><br />@bocamp<br />One letter different than 11/29 Bee, so I went to my missed word list, and unashamedly cheated! And I'm still -3.<br /><br />RooRooMonsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14103892151115549684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-90429654846138651932020-12-06T20:17:58.622-05:002020-12-06T20:17:58.622-05:00@kitshef 7:13 PM
I won't be forgetting that o...@kitshef 7:13 PM<br /><br />I won't be forgetting that one soon. LOL<br />___<br /><br />-1<br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_DxNpW1kHQ" rel="nofollow">Peace</a> Pace Amani Pax Vrede Paz Mir Frieden Paix Fred Paqen ຄວາມສະຫງົບສຸກ Barış Mír صلح Woof 🕊bocamphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02524629632075020985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-87537567856974394142020-12-06T19:53:31.399-05:002020-12-06T19:53:31.399-05:00@Jberg
Yeah, donkey works better.@Jberg<br /><br />Yeah, donkey works better.JC66https://www.blogger.com/profile/05324615675333287919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-15475018886220732872020-12-06T19:33:36.400-05:002020-12-06T19:33:36.400-05:00@Nancy – the 2006 El Gallo is an actor named Burke...@Nancy – the 2006 El Gallo is an actor named Burke Moses, unfamiliar to me, but apparently he's had a lengthy theater career on-Broadway and off- as well. Joe Dipintohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07922691457886440325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-60303913657367027252020-12-06T19:28:37.744-05:002020-12-06T19:28:37.744-05:00I’ve played a lot of Renaissance madrigals in reco...I’ve played a lot of Renaissance madrigals in recorder consorts. The lyrics frequently invv Cn Lüdemann the word “ahi,” pronounced aye. I might not have got this otherwise. <br /><br />ISTRIA goes way back—Roman leaders were always wresting it from the barbarians, or vice versa. I only remember it because my first reaction is that it should be Austria. jberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02169065390875378077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-23529750167483759662020-12-06T19:24:48.969-05:002020-12-06T19:24:48.969-05:00@JC66-Don’t you mean donkey? @JC66-Don’t you mean donkey? jberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02169065390875378077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-26801011112198810322020-12-06T19:13:02.339-05:002020-12-06T19:13:02.339-05:00@bocamp 6:06 - I had the exact same error - and on...@bocamp 6:06 - I had the exact same error - and only that error.kitshefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10014225555838850414noreply@blogger.com