tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post1226712084395382835..comments2024-03-28T09:35:39.262-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: Super Monkey Ball company / THU 5-27-21 / Minnie's promise / Madama Butterfly has four / Movement associated with crystal healing / Peppery salad ingredient / 17-time host of the Academy of Country Music AwardsRex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger103125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-36316664656145232372022-08-24T09:38:54.021-04:002022-08-24T09:38:54.021-04:00
There are many types of other spells available a... <br />There are many types of other spells available and Priest Mandaiker is a gifted spell caster who has been taught powerful ancient techniques which can deliver fast and effective results.<br />He, Priest Mandaiker , with the help of his ancestral master spirit he can help you with:<br />HIV healing<br />Cancer healing<br />Tuberculosis healing<br />Bring back loved ones <br />Marriage<br />Family Problems<br />Cheating Partners<br />Good Luck<br />Loved Ones<br />Stop Divorces<br />Jealousy<br />Marriage Issues<br />Exams<br />Court Cases<br />Breaking Black Magic<br />Immigration Cases<br />Success in Business<br />Impotency<br />Infertility<br />Antisocial Behaviour<br />Stress<br />Depression<br />Difficulties in finding a relationship<br /><br />You do not have to give up who you love because of someone else’s jealousy or not wishing you the happiness you desire. YOU CAN FIGHT BACK! Do not allow your life to be consumed by such things; you deserve to live a happy and stress-free life. Visit https://witch-doctor.page4.me or contact him direct witchhealing@outlook.com and your life will never remain the same…<br />If you need quick results Priest Mandaiker can ensure the work is done quickly and effectively within 7 days 100% guaranteed results, so do not hesitate to contact himShannon Cassiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00681334544900226200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-29653700933095268762021-07-01T15:23:35.634-04:002021-07-01T15:23:35.634-04:00Almost easy as PIE. “TH” sounds from SYLVESTER in...Almost easy as PIE. “TH” sounds from SYLVESTER instead of “S” sounds. Made for a neat and clever solve. Liked it a lot.<br /><br />Fittingly, X was the last letter in for HEX/GASX cross. Another paws (the cat’s, get it? pause?) was CITES for “Tickets”.<br /><br />Forgive the pun, please.leftcoasternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-9073827622402138382021-07-01T15:17:08.416-04:002021-07-01T15:17:08.416-04:00Don't make AMESS when you ought to make AFUSS ...Don't make AMESS when you ought to make AFUSS - that's what I always say. Then, get a "furrier' out of your head when you Know farrier has nothing to do with fur. An earworm of a sort for me. <br /><br />So, after looking up 4 answers, I did get the rest. <br /><br />As I always say, after the MESS/FUSS stuff, thank goodness it wasn't a rebus. <br /><br />Ubda ubada ubada - that's all folks.<br /><br />Diana, Lady-in-Waiting for CrosswordsDiana, LIWnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-50231263008396228782021-07-01T11:43:00.986-04:002021-07-01T11:43:00.986-04:00LETME PALME
Ms. MCENTIRE's RED dress,
years...LETME PALME <br /><br />Ms. MCENTIRE's RED dress, <br />years AGO when I WAS a youth,<br />ENDSUP ahead OF the REST,<br />it WAS a MOMENTOFTRUTH.<br /><br />--- CAL SYLVESTERBurma Shavenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-44328153637973230492021-07-01T11:40:57.995-04:002021-07-01T11:40:57.995-04:00I half expected OFC to go on a rant about dissing ...I half expected OFC to go on a rant about dissing lispers; thankfully I was wrong. It ith what it ith.<br /><br />I liked it. Tweaking a familiar phrase (well, except for INGOOD...face???) with a -TH sound replacing the S- sound was fun. Theme works, and the fill is fine. I had two writeovers because I didn't know how to spell DOD Reba MCiNTyRE, but crosses soon straightened that out. Birdie.spacecrafthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09125304293611865503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-85566849384337289812021-05-29T18:40:10.521-04:002021-05-29T18:40:10.521-04:00Consider the time period when those strips were cr...Consider the time period when those strips were created. We don’t but in that era things were different.Cc’dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12767574348591563816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-71816800634482407302021-05-27T22:47:08.089-04:002021-05-27T22:47:08.089-04:00Exactly what @Coniuratos said about the Harry Pott...Exactly what @Coniuratos said about the Harry Potter clue: not HEXes, but CURSES!derekmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08209376724559858742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-81190699764944472962021-05-27T22:46:28.705-04:002021-05-27T22:46:28.705-04:00@Z
You really enjoy this?@Z<br /><br />You really enjoy this?JC66https://www.blogger.com/profile/05324615675333287919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-83717900555043629782021-05-27T22:31:56.778-04:002021-05-27T22:31:56.778-04:00@Frantic Sloth 1:19.1 - Hmmm - So early this morni...@Frantic Sloth 1:19.1 - Hmmm - So early this morning I mentioned that I can see why people might not realize that a lisp based theme might not be the best idea and that I wouldn't have gone there. Then some people made comments like "lisping is funny" and "if we can't make fun of people there will be no more laughter." It was those comments that my "I'll be that guy" comments were directed at. As I suggested in my first comments, I have laughed heartily at <i>Merrie Melodies.</i> But this puzzle feels like it uses SYLVESTER as an excuse for making fun of a lisp. I don't think it was intentional, I think it was probably thoughtless.<br /><br />@Frantic Sloth 1:19.2 - After diligent research I have discovered that there has been a change in the law and new medicine names have to evoke matching bathtubs on a wooden roller coaster. All side effects are to be listed in Morse Code by the click clack of the roller coaster.<br /><br />@Witnessing Greatness - I must confess I'm at a loss today. How can I possibly refute that I have heard of not one, but two people I have never heard of. I guess I could point out that the anonymouse has conveniently misquoted me, but their dismal critical reading ability is so well documented that I barely bother to point it out anymore. Or I could point out that the two NPR affiliates I listened to were WGVU and WDET, both associated with Universities. Or, I suppose, that being an NPR station doesn't mean that the station plays only NPR shows any more than my local ABC station only plays ABC shows (I guess Jeopardy! is an ABC show - who knew?) and it is not all uncommon for people to be interested in programming about their local communities. But no. Why would I point any of that out when I am totally flummoxed to learn that I know all about the lisps of two people I have never heard of before? Clearly, I am check-mated.<br /><br />I am curious, though. How does @Anon know these two individuals I know, even though I have no idea who they are and don't listen or watch any of their shows, have lisps? I looked both people up and all I could find was some ugliness about Stein, but no actual information. I am also surprised this superfamous person I know even though I don't know who they are doesn't even rate a wikipedia page.Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16181544219511150272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-81747048016061622422021-05-27T20:37:17.975-04:002021-05-27T20:37:17.975-04:00@GILL (11:13)-- As one of the most incurious peopl...@GILL (11:13)-- As one of the most incurious people in the world about those things I'm not curious about, I didn't try to guess what sort of product Beano and GAS X are. But had I been forced to guess on pain of death, my first guess would have been Video Games. My second guess would have been a product used to light/heat an outdoor barbecue grill. At no point would I have guessed a medication preventing people who eat beans from getting intestinal gas. So thanks for enlightening me on this important, important product matter.<br /><br />But one question. If beans give you enough gas to require meds, wouldn't it be a lot easier just not to eat beans?Nancyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16737377749030219974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-58428709629724737922021-05-27T19:46:44.527-04:002021-05-27T19:46:44.527-04:001. Being a little too young for SYLVESTER, the th...1. Being a little too young for SYLVESTER, the theme took quite a while for me.<br />2. Wow, a lot of folks here are highly upset over a lisping cartoon character . . . . . Either I'm not sensitive enough (quite possible!), or folks need to toughen up just a bit. <br />3. Am I the only one who finds the back-and-forth between ANONYMOUS and Z to be getting a little stale?<br />4. Since I didn't know Sylvester, wasn't sure he had a lisp, kept on looking for a rebus or two . . . . and finally, what you all call an ADDIN was, once upon a time, called a MIXIN. So that was an issue for me. (MIXINS were invented at Steve's in Somerville Mass. The good old days.)Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02410198809183164965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-55234599239314178062021-05-27T18:56:35.315-04:002021-05-27T18:56:35.315-04:00Witness,
Let’s not lose track of the argument. Z a...Witness,<br />Let’s not lose track of the argument. Z asserted he’s never known an adult with an uncorrected lisp.<br />Set aside my example of Rob Stein as such a person. I’ll ask you. Have you ever hear an adult with a lisp?<br />I’m guessing you have. Morgan Spector, the actor who does the tv ads for Audi has a fiery slight one. You’ve see those ads, right?<br />But even if you or z has never heard an adult with a lisp, a concession that beggars belief, how the heck would anyone know whether the speaker had a lisp at one time but corrected it? Think about that as a logical progression. And if the easel out is I don’t think... please. Why bother with the observation if the proviso is simply ones limited experience. Willfully ignorant or not.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-34711486929025233542021-05-27T18:29:58.428-04:002021-05-27T18:29:58.428-04:00If you feel frustrated about your own speech imped...If you feel frustrated about your own speech impediment, or that of a child--I wonder if figures such as Sylvester make things better or worse (I have no idea)--I know that the problem has been around a long time. There was a popular early Medieval poem about baldness, which began: Carmen convitii cerritus, capere calvos. That is line one. There were about 150 more lines, with each word beginning with a hard C. Supposedly if you stuttered, and recited this poem in its entirety, your stuttering would be completely cured.<br /><br />The poem was so well known that Erasmus cited it as such. There’s a very fine short article on this by Daniel Sheerin, “A Carolingian Cure Recovered: Erasmus’ Citation of Hucbald of St. Amands’ Ecloga de calvis,” Bibliotheque d’Humanisme et Renaissance, vol. 42 (1980), pp. 167-171. If Hucbald is not a name that rolls off your tongue, join the chorus.<br /><br />Anon. i.e. Poggius<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-26120037304597921422021-05-27T16:22:59.176-04:002021-05-27T16:22:59.176-04:00@Anonyouse 3:55: "Why are the innocent child...@Anonyouse 3:55: "Why are the innocent children laughing at lispers, if not making fun of them?" For the very reason that children will laugh at grandpa when he farts by mistake or when someone bends over and rips their pants. The noise an elephant would make made me laugh - don't get me started with chimpanzees. Noises that seem a little different to young children will inevitably elicit a giggle - child nature - no conundrum.<br />This puzzle was about Looney Toons and a silly cat named SYLVESTER. He never made fun of anybody; just silly sounds.<br />Sorry, but I don't find anything about this puzzle laughing at lisping. Call me the good looking blonde with a pig face.GILL I.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05605766053820226324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-57608219042073152102021-05-27T16:17:53.921-04:002021-05-27T16:17:53.921-04:00@FraSlo re Woody Woodpecker--Thanks for that. Cer...@FraSlo re Woody Woodpecker--Thanks for that. Certainly looked like an outlier when I was copying a list I found, but since it was on the internet it had to be true. Man, the stuff I find out on this blog.<br /><br />Also, Roadrunner cartoons make me laugh out loud and always will, and I'm no fan of gratuitous violence, but I know a cartoon when I see one. Maybe it's time to rekindle the "beep beep" "meep meep" argument (I vote for the former).pabloinnhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04967477079504866917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-5101935271424659872021-05-27T15:56:17.191-04:002021-05-27T15:56:17.191-04:00@Greater Fall (10:41)
Our comments mesh seamlessly...@Greater Fall (10:41)<br />Our comments mesh seamlessly. I said "major collecting institutions" you said "small museums." Big, big difference.Barbara S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17634754070567731006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-79205143809466441962021-05-27T15:55:22.916-04:002021-05-27T15:55:22.916-04:00@GILL I.:
they were silly cartoons made to make in...@GILL I.:<br />they were silly cartoons made to make innocent children laugh.<br />No one is making fun of lispers. <br /><br />Patti LuPone, playing a defence attorney in a L&O episode, is fed an opening by McCoy as she is about to question a witness. What McCoy fed her was the hint that the witness had lied about a critical matter. So, she says to the witness (from memory, mine that is): 'here we have a conundrum.'<br /><br />And so do you. Why are the innocent children laughing at the lispers, if not making fun of them? Why else would they laugh at lisping? Sure it sounds funny, I suppose, but the point being that lisping isn't like stepping in a bucket, or stuffing chocolate bonbons down your blouse. It's funny because because...? Because 'normal' people don't lisp. If you lisp, you're, be definition, deficient. At least a bit. If lisping were the norm, it wouldn't be odd and wouldn't be funny. Which reminds of the 'Twilight Zone' episode, where the punch line is that the typically good looking blonde is considered sub-standard by the doctors, who we see on the way out of the episode. Of course, they all have pig faces.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-24549808771459497912021-05-27T15:36:11.266-04:002021-05-27T15:36:11.266-04:00Leaving lisp to one side, this is a remarkable puz...Leaving lisp to one side, this is a remarkable puzzle. Rex nails this one. Even his wonderful observation about "fair of face" is quite good. An excellent phrase and he does not get all upset that it fails the theme test. He enjoys the wackiness. To those who criticize the clues about not being common phrases before their transformation I disagree that they should be. No reason for it at all. They only have to be accurate answers. And to have the final answers URBAN MYTH, MOMENT OF TRUTH, WORD OF MOUTH, OF GOOD FAITH have a double theme of stroies told and a sliding scale of reliability unifies the theme beyond lisping. In fact, the lisping disappears from the grid. Oops, I was leaving that aside.<br /><br />And the fill is much above average too. We have CRESS PIE MIA (a nod to the Holiday Weekend) SKITTISH, Reba's surname, REDTAPE RODEO in OMAHA in college world series season, AGENT GASX, a TENUOUS RILL, HEX and CHARMS, ARIAS and ODEs, and a GUSH of JOSHING. Good clues for TAT and a deceptively honest clue foe HONKS.<br /><br />The NW was easy and the NE fairly easy. The South definitely harder for me. I (did) GET IT with NO HELP.<br /><br />And I keep how forgetting to mention how wonderful it was to be at a ball game with a crowd large enough to matter and to enjoy the cheering, and small enough not to be crowded or have lines or blocked views. The best of all worlds. Get it while you can.albatross shellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04076278220407657633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-80259694389566473382021-05-27T15:15:20.038-04:002021-05-27T15:15:20.038-04:00Wading into the fray - no one has pointed out that...Wading into the fray - no one has pointed out that the lisping characters in cartoons of the time never had other characters make fun of them for their lisps. They may have had challenges of other sorts (Sylvester is never going to catch Tweety Bird) but their lisps were not held against them. <br />In other news this puzzle was probably the easiest Thursday I’ve ever done - I kept waiting for the news that I was doing it all wrong. But I wasn’t and I flew through the puzzle. And even though I was an eager consumer of Looney Tunes in my misspent youth, I had to wait for quite a few crosses to get Sylvester.Nigel Pottle https://www.blogger.com/profile/06349666331960966968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-5429590023444841362021-05-27T15:02:56.018-04:002021-05-27T15:02:56.018-04:00@GILL 217pm 🤣 Poor Boomer! Those ads! What about...@GILL 217pm 🤣 Poor Boomer! Those ads! What about the "blah blah blah or <i>death</i> can happen" bit? Next thing you know they'll be saying don't take if dead. And thanks for the cartoon backup! Being a goofball definitely helps the ability to find humor under every rock. I know whereof I speak. 😘 Frantic Slothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02614296873700797321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-10926585887330847322021-05-27T14:17:58.101-04:002021-05-27T14:17:58.101-04:00@Whatsername...I'm a Nonie but I can't hel...@Whatsername...I'm a Nonie but I can't help but wonder if Boomer got his name because he had a GAS X problem?<br />@kitshef 2:19....I didn't lisp as a child, but I had plenty for my friends to pick on (and I think I grew up as a normal human being). At about the age of 12, I was already 5'6 and still growing and my best buddies called me Attila the Amazon. I had red hair and a gazillion freckles and my family name is Echols and my buddies called me "Keckles Freckles." I think most of us grew up having been made fun of in some way or another. <br />@Frantic The ads that get me are the ones that tell you not to take their medication if you're allergic to it. WELL.... FRIGGIN DUH. Also, your post at 1:19...I'm with you all the way. I, too, enjoyed EVERY SINGLE LOONEY TUNES. The first time I saw them was when I was visiting my grandmother in California. She didn't have a TV but the neighbors down the street did and every Saturday I'd go watch. My only go-to yuck yuck was watching I Love Lucy, In Havana, so when I got to hear Porky Pig or Daffy Duck or any of them, I was in childhood heaven. Of course you'd never associate these cartoons with actual people, they were silly cartoons made to make innocent children laugh. <br />No one is making fun of lispers. GILL I.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05605766053820226324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-13105771355135415632021-05-27T14:11:23.241-04:002021-05-27T14:11:23.241-04:0045D: I first had DON'T MAKE A MESS, but I thou...45D: I first had DON'T MAKE A MESS, but I thould've been more futhy.johnkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08281232978308159052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-29941193650558718172021-05-27T13:21:59.542-04:002021-05-27T13:21:59.542-04:00@Witnessing Greatness is actually @Z@Witnessing Greatness is actually @ZSnopesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-86135146074401876452021-05-27T13:19:49.209-04:002021-05-27T13:19:49.209-04:00Is there anything more subjective than what is &qu...Is there anything more subjective than what is "funny"? <br /><br />@Z 1234pm Laughing at lisping in and of itself might have been funny to a child in the 50s or 60s - or might not - but that was also not the <i>only</i> thing Sylvester, et.al. were known for. <br />I enjoyed every single one of those cartoons. Might not have been laugh-out-loud funny, but the humor was inescapable - for <i>me</i>. I'd like to add that I have never, nor will I ever associate these cartoons with actual people and <i>never</i> have "pointed and laughed" at anyone for anything. Kids can be cruel and I am certain I was as boneheaded as the next kid, but all one would need to see is how someone can be affected by such insensitivity to learn one's lesson. <br />But, maybe that's just me.<br />@Z 1237pm Well, that was no help at all, but I find it interesting how you keep coming back to <i>that</i> particular ad. 🤣🤣🤣<br />For now, we can table any discussion for a time when you don't have your hands full dealing with that whole NPR thing.<br /><br />@JD 1253pm 🤣🤣🤣 The smart money is on your theory. Frantic Slothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02614296873700797321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-46878498539134748992021-05-27T13:16:31.157-04:002021-05-27T13:16:31.157-04:00It's enjoyable reading most of the witty and i...It's enjoyable reading most of the witty and informative commentary posted here. However, lately it has been such good theatre just observing the ease with which @Z skewers all of the haters and Anon-a-trolls. Usually the standard blog post advice is don't feed the trolls - this is one instance where the trolls look so foolish that's it's actually worth it.<br /><br />C'mon Anon-a-Holes, step up your game a bit - at least make @Z break a sweat instead of simply stepping up to just basically be hit in the face with a (figurative) shovel!Witnessing Greatnessnoreply@blogger.com