tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post1764560533596807839..comments2024-03-28T10:29:52.378-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: Situ's love in Hindu lore / THU 6-17-21 / Vedic religious text / Accouchement / Frontal or lateral speaking features / Mary whose short story The Wisdom of Eve was the basis for 1950's All About Eve / Whence the Portuguese creole language Patuá / Historical lead-in to evna or evich / Finishing touch on the first transcontinental railroadRex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger99125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-36610542251361959982021-07-22T16:21:54.094-04:002021-07-22T16:21:54.094-04:00Clever, delightful puzzle with depths and levels o...Clever, delightful puzzle with depths and levels of meaning. (You all know this by now, but let me indulge myself anyway.)<br /><br />Four FISH are caught at the bottom of their HOOKs, dangling symmetrically from top to bottom, and all the hooks spell out words of their own. First in was GOLDEN S_PIKE and last was UPANI_SHAD (not to ignore the GAMECON_SOLE and the MILK S_HAKE). <br /><br />With all this good fun, have to note a couple of errors: Wanted OilS, which really do “stick in the water”, instead of the OARS, which I’ve never called “sticks”. The other error was the “i” in MiLLORCA instead of MALLORCA, a bad guess.<br /><br />A very fine piece of work by Blake Slonecker.leftcoasterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05033341194718217353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-8944676424630085342021-07-22T15:41:06.230-04:002021-07-22T15:41:06.230-04:00At moments I thought the PPP quotient was pretty h...At moments I thought the PPP quotient was pretty high, but I managed to get through it all with just a few changes along the way and w/o any help. And it was not a rebus. Always a plus on a Thursday.<br /><br />Diana, Lady-in-Waiting for CrosswordsDiana, LIWnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-65935602397971730362021-07-22T12:35:02.495-04:002021-07-22T12:35:02.495-04:00SISI ISEE
Don’t CONSOLE AROD
ORR his on-CAMERA di...SISI ISEE<br /><br />Don’t CONSOLE AROD<br />ORR his on-CAMERA dialog,<br />that STUD’S a STARK fraud,<br />AND PAIRED with a HIDEOUS FROG.<br /><br />--- ERIC HUDSON, ESQUIRE<br />Burma Shavenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-91132090842279910392021-07-22T10:58:20.214-04:002021-07-22T10:58:20.214-04:00DAM good. A few nits to pick here and there but no...DAM good. A few nits to pick here and there but nothing HIDEOUS.thefogmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01870509029973778266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-52322186753660044042021-06-18T09:20:41.259-04:002021-06-18T09:20:41.259-04:00Certainly agree re SNL clue.Certainly agree re SNL clue.Crimson Devilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03665174292516725433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-83662142182636435562021-06-18T05:37:34.389-04:002021-06-18T05:37:34.389-04:00@Joe D -- You are such a treasure! Wonderful!@Joe D -- You are such a treasure! Wonderful!Nancyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16737377749030219974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-86261672856471083552021-06-18T04:55:33.496-04:002021-06-18T04:55:33.496-04:00I'll chime in and say that I was charmed by th...I'll chime in and say that I was charmed by the grid construction and cluing from the "get go". Fairly breezy solve for a Thursday, but completely satisfactory. I'm likely to be inclined to see what else Mr. Slonecker has contributed previously.Harryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15375953201255032682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-50914069955736524562021-06-18T01:07:39.600-04:002021-06-18T01:07:39.600-04:00@Nancy – Yes. It is a tragic tale.
In ancient ti...@Nancy – Yes. It is a tragic tale.<br /><br />In ancient times, before what is known as The Millennium, Ben and Jen were <b><i>Bennifer</i></b>, beloved and admired by all the people of the land. It was so hoped that they would marry and live happily after ever, looking gorgeous and making movies about themselves looking gorgeous, and procreating gorgeous mini-Bennifers that would become beloved in their own right.<br /><br />And then, one day...<br /><br />Bennifer was no more. The people of the land wept tears of chagrin. If Bennifer couldn't get their shit together, what hope was there for anyone else? Who would the people venerate and idolize as the perfect couple now?<br /><br />Ben, being a not very imaginative sort, got married to a *different* Jen, whose last name was Garner. <i>They</i> procreated mini-Bennifers, while the Jen who is the heroine of our tale, in the ultimate what-was-she-thinking? development, took up with a common baseball player –one who was accused of steroid abuse! The people of the land felt betrayed.<br /><br />But what goes around comes around, and now it is many moons later. Ben and substitute-Jen are no more, the baseball player has been kicked to the curb, and our hero Ben and heroine Jen, older but wiser, appear to be rekindling the old Bennifer chemistry. Just as the country reopens after the pandemic and we are becoming accustomed to a new, sane president. It's as if gigantic windows have been thrown open, and sunlight and rose-scented breezes and puppies and kittens are everywhere you look. <br /><br />And the people rejoiced, but also they admonished Bennifer: don't you ever do that to us again. <br /><br /> Joe Dipintohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07922691457886440325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-18531696781405202772021-06-17T23:24:36.794-04:002021-06-17T23:24:36.794-04:00Z@2:11 Okay That was just a great comment. I he...Z@2:11 Okay That was just a great comment. I hereby apologise for about ten of my negative comments. Take your pick. But, ala OFL, I've had a few strong ones.TJShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11090324093687912886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-10068956915866066512021-06-17T21:13:31.260-04:002021-06-17T21:13:31.260-04:00Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck used to be together...Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck used to be together?Nancyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16737377749030219974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-39143699608828886572021-06-17T21:00:42.245-04:002021-06-17T21:00:42.245-04:00Enjoyed the FISH HOOKS theme and cracked it uickly...Enjoyed the FISH HOOKS theme and cracked it uickly. Thought I would blaze through the puzzle but burned half my time and nearly DNF due to PPP-fest in the center top: SISAL, ORR, RIC, MACAU were *not* in my wheelhouse, which made DIASPORA and MALLORCA difficult. Last letter to go in was of course the U of MACAU and UPANISHAD (??) which took a run of the alphabet. Great puzzle, but would have found a better final themer.TAB2TABhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16939627181009835283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-51104254431451476522021-06-17T20:27:22.215-04:002021-06-17T20:27:22.215-04:00Did Z, 60 year old white dude , actually condescen...Did Z, 60 year old white dude , actually condescendingly say “props” to Jennifer Lopez? 😂😂 🤣🤣🤣🤣<br />And he couldn’t care less about her 🤔. That’ s a lotta text for someone who doesn’t care. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-12278489716539351122021-06-17T19:25:06.584-04:002021-06-17T19:25:06.584-04:00@Z (5:58 PM)
Interesting. That's an ancient i...@Z (5:58 PM)<br />Interesting. That's an ancient idea -- the notion that unhappiness and creativity go together. It dates back to Aristotle, if I'm not mistaken. And clearly it was stock-in-trade for the Romantics. I think various well-intentioned researchers have done studies to see if the correlation can be proven and documented! But I suspect it's all very individual. How or whether JLO fits the mold I don't know. Some artists' lives have been tough and impoverished and full of negative emotions, I would imagine. Some artists have spent their whole lives with various forms of illness. But artists with choices, who find creative power in melancholia, do they seek it out? It sounds like a punishingly high price to pay, but I guess only the individual can make that determination.Barbara S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17634754070567731006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-42915924843467610482021-06-17T17:58:06.392-04:002021-06-17T17:58:06.392-04:00@Barbara S 2:33 - With all the usual disclaimers a...@Barbara S 2:33 - With all the usual disclaimers about not really knowing anything because who can really know how somebody’s else’s life is going, I tend to fall into the “If you keep doing the same thing and keep getting the same result, what you are doing must be working for you on some level” form of cynicism. Also, I’m just predisposed to having very little sympathy for someone worth $400 million dollars. Money can’t by happiness, but it does allow for a sizable down payment. I also tend to think that personal life and professional talent are mostly independent. My sense is that J.Lo is generally well regarded in all her professional efforts with the exception of <i>Gigli</i> (hence, the sizable net worth). And she made that money because of her talent, so props to her in that regard. As to whether or not she’s going to or has gotten back together with Ben Affleck and they live happily ever after, I could not possibly care less. It is interesting that her greatest professional failure is paired with her supposed greatest time of personal happiness. It would be almost too stereotypical if it turned out that all her good art comes from a place of unhappiness and that everyone else loses when she finds happiness. Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16181544219511150272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-12107030511607712412021-06-17T17:11:04.762-04:002021-06-17T17:11:04.762-04:00@M&A, Your cheerful voice is missed.@M&A, Your cheerful voice is missed.JDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17281717752118151421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-57646116289576124212021-06-17T16:41:31.619-04:002021-06-17T16:41:31.619-04:00@M&A Help (3:16) Thanks for checking in. Glad ...@M&A Help (3:16) Thanks for checking in. Glad to hear all is well and look forward to your return.<br /><br />@albatross (3:19) Your mention of priming the old pump sure brought back some memories for me. My grandmother’s house was a wondrous place of well water, out houses, barn cats and wood stoves, including the one she cooked on, Whatsernamehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15450876821189472213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-12959764888266034732021-06-17T15:19:49.317-04:002021-06-17T15:19:49.317-04:00@Unkown, whatshername
Yes careful clue reading rea...@Unkown, whatshername<br />Yes careful clue reading really does help. The clue: Drink that might be served with a tin cup. The answers I thought of were mint julep, well water, milkshake. The first fits well the words might be served not, but not with. The second fails on both counts. The third works foe all of them. Well almost. I would never call that metal container a cup. Maybe a beaker or a canister. No handle and too big for a cup. Since I don't know the proper name, I can kinda give it a pass. So the moral is a close reading helps, but a too close reading does not. And yes I thought of those 3 answers. My grandmother's well had a ton cup attached with a chain to the pump and another container of water was around to prime the pump when people were not using it regularly. Yes I remember that ole prime the pump country ballad. But no, that is not how I got MILKSHAKE. I got that from getting the ILK from crosses.<br /><br />I did get PELOSI with no crosses. Not that I knew the fact. It just made sense. Also got FISH with no crosses. Yes I had HOOK. It still seemed weird. I enjoyed the several places in this puzzle where answers filled in not because I factually knew the clue, but because the "flavor" of the answer matched the clue. Also there were places that made me doubt answers. Wanted birch before ASPEN. SPAS stopped me from impeaching PELOSI.<br /><br />Now this mirror symmetry did not make the puzzle sparkle but it did make the theme sparkle. The mirror symmetric hooks accenting the mirror symmetric puzzle adds a bit of polish.<br /><br />I tried using Kale for my STYLI but I couldn't get any sound.<br /><br />Does everybody realize that any house with a chimney has a hole at the top? Also the tipi is a chimney.albatross shellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04076278220407657633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-63310533085976149932021-06-17T15:16:51.961-04:002021-06-17T15:16:51.961-04:00For those concerned about M&A:
I am away from...For those concerned about M&A:<br /><br />I am away from home, helpin folks do stepup and cleanup for a move. Don't have much of my trusty computer<br />equipment with m&e, tho. So havin to do this msg anonymous-style. <br />Probably be back in a month or so.<br /><br />Thanx,<br />M&A Help DeskMasked and Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-48632260398786140732021-06-17T14:33:21.926-04:002021-06-17T14:33:21.926-04:00@Z, @mathgent
I'd like to make clear (I'm ...@Z, @mathgent<br />I'd like to make clear (I'm not sure why) that if I'm right in thinking that JLO has had a particularly trying love life, I have nothing but compassion/ sympathy for her. I have no reason to believe that she brought any of it on herself. And I thought she was terrific in the TV series "Shades of Blue." That show also starred Ray Liotta and lasted only 3 short seasons, but she was a stand-out as a conflicted cop. Barbara S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17634754070567731006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-28424394983003876122021-06-17T14:21:14.348-04:002021-06-17T14:21:14.348-04:00Didn't get to tackle this one until lunchtime,...Didn't get to tackle this one until lunchtime, but what a great break it offered. Hooked fish, maples and aspen, milkshakes, curry, the hudson, islands, alaska - so much to love. Don't really think of those grand metal containers that great milkshakes come in as cups - I really only have hot chocolate in a tin cup, but the clue worked for me, even if I'm slightly embarrassed I did NOT think of MIntjulep. Shad run so abundantly in some rivers you can catch them as easily with a "stick in the water" as you can a fishing rod, so that also brought back fond memories. Plus I learned GISH and UPANISH. Fun Thursday, thanks. thfennhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12184305198435406844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-46057144706410430042021-06-17T14:19:14.190-04:002021-06-17T14:19:14.190-04:00@Barbara (12:26) I completely agree.@Barbara (12:26) I completely agree.Whatsernamehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15450876821189472213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-78363458601701524702021-06-17T14:15:51.110-04:002021-06-17T14:15:51.110-04:00@bocamp:
Remember getting MILKSHAKES in large meta...@bocamp:<br />Remember getting MILKSHAKES in large metal containers accompanied with glasses filled with part of the SHAKE.<br /><br />Decades ago, at least, at Friendly's in NE.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-34259363878770765292021-06-17T14:11:53.475-04:002021-06-17T14:11:53.475-04:00@Barbara S - “Bennifer” made it through, and I’m w...@Barbara S - “Bennifer” made it through, and I’m way too informed about sports so I knew about her and AROD, but as a general rule I’m fairly ignorant of the famous’ love lives. I just read the section of her Wikipedia page about her personal life and it really seems to me that she needs to stop getting married and just sleep with whoever her flavor of the day is. Either way, I doubt she is actually miserable and if she is she needs a different therapist. Seeing that her various paramours have included a high school sweetheart, a back-up dancer, a famous actor, and a famous baseball player reminded me of a line from the <i>Sex Pistols</i>: <i>I don’t know what I want but I know how to get it.</i>Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16181544219511150272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-56684355684745879122021-06-17T13:49:38.803-04:002021-06-17T13:49:38.803-04:00Learned 'accouchement' and UPANISHAD today...Learned 'accouchement' and UPANISHAD today.<br /><br />Remember getting MILKSHAKES in large metal containers accompanied with glasses filled with part of the SHAKE.<br /><br />Pretty sure I still have an old Rubik's Cube made in MACAU buried away somewhere. Here's a <a href="https://cubeworks.ca/portfolio_page/macau_skyline_mural/" rel="nofollow">MACAU Skyline Mural</a> (Guinness World Record Rubik’s Cube Mosaic).<br /><br />@Z (9:08 AM) wrote:<br /><br />"The reason KALE is a life STYLI choice is because of what you need to do to make it edible."<br /><br />Agreed! <br /><br />I dip pieces of KALE in hummus with my evening veggie platter. In the morning, I prepare a bowl of diced carrots, celery and cukes with shredded KALE for daytime munching.<br />___<br /><br /><br /><br />td 0<br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_DxNpW1kHQ" rel="nofollow">Peace ~</a> Empathy ~ Health ~ Kindness to all 🕊bocamphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02524629632075020985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-19556533360141088032021-06-17T13:48:54.072-04:002021-06-17T13:48:54.072-04:00Fairly quick for a Thursday. For the most part I l...Fairly quick for a Thursday. For the most part I liked it, though -- I don't think I groaned once, and some of the answers were fun getting: GISH, DIASPORA, ARAPAHO, STYLI, UPANISHAD, SISAL, PLIE. <br /><br />Well, maybe there was a tiny groan at INSTA. (And do I detect a tiny groan over the spelling TEPEE from one of our resident CAT PEOPLE, one @Frantic Sloth?) <br /><br />HeinOUS before HIDEOUS. <br /><br />pg -9. But a lovely day outdoors awaits, so first things first! Have a good one, y'all! <br />TTrimblenoreply@blogger.com