tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post237534188653702102..comments2024-03-28T06:44:48.044-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: Organizing guru who asks Does it spark joy / MON 8-16-21 / Visually challenged Mr. of cartoons / Button at the start of a Zoom call / One who says that you're not on the ballRex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger110125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-42583682508730526242021-09-20T18:05:01.989-04:002021-09-20T18:05:01.989-04:00@Lewis (again, way above, like today), often sound...@Lewis (again, way above, like today), often sounds like "Mister Carson", the Butler, on Downton Abbey. Quite an actor.leftcoasternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-91339415140798878292021-09-20T17:50:23.100-04:002021-09-20T17:50:23.100-04:00@ Gio’s comment, way above, exposed the weakest sp...@ Gio’s comment, way above, exposed the weakest spot in Downton Abbey’s cast.:<br /><br />"Elizabeth McGovern as Cora Crawley was the worst actor on the show. Maybe it is her American accent, but I found most of her performance cringeworthy.” <br /><br />See Gio’s link to the clever satire, if you were into the series, as I was.<br /><br /><br /><br />leftcoasternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-38229537591308819592021-09-20T14:46:15.368-04:002021-09-20T14:46:15.368-04:00I didn't even notice the "theme." U...I didn't even notice the "theme." Usual Monday - points for finishing.<br /><br />Lady DiDiana, LIWnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-667259250546106332021-09-20T14:19:02.342-04:002021-09-20T14:19:02.342-04:00 HOW NICE of Rex to write “On the plus side...”.
... HOW NICE of Rex to write “On the plus side...”.<br /><br />MARIEKONDO has to be a pretty SHARPCOOKIE.<br /><br />Just tough enough (on a Monday) to enjoy.<br /><br />leftcoasternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-70756695595563294472021-09-20T13:50:38.762-04:002021-09-20T13:50:38.762-04:00If I tossed everything that did not bring me joy m...If I tossed everything that did not bring me joy my garage and house would be half empty and the lawn wouldn't get mowed nor the snow thrown nor the clothes washed and dried. There are far more examples. But MARIEKONDO made a fortune with that schtick.<br /><br />Got the idea after NATURAL and SHARP, which made FLATEARTHER a gimme. ONTHATNOTE, this post has ENDED.rondonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-32637693606848227282021-09-20T13:29:01.376-04:002021-09-20T13:29:01.376-04:00Not thrilled with the revealer or the gimmick but ...Not thrilled with the revealer or the gimmick but it’s alright I guess for a Monday. Never heard of FLATEARTHER before. I’ve only known those people to be members of the Flat Earth Society. But the language evolves, with or without my knowledge and/or consent…All I know is that MARIEKONDO’s condo must be neat and tidy.thefogmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01870509029973778266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-57870632980105276092021-09-20T11:18:18.219-04:002021-09-20T11:18:18.219-04:00Any time a clue makes you think, I like it. So the...Any time a clue makes you think, I like it. So the one for FLATEARTHER gets a pass here. Trying to scope out the theme after two entries is always fun; I like it when I fail at that--which I did. Thought, hmm, cheese maybe.<br /><br />Some of the fill was hacked in there; GOGH really paints you into a corner, cluewise, doesn't it? Other examples mentioned by OFC, though he didn't rail about the pangram per se.<br /><br />Theme & revealer were OK by me. You know, it's Monday. The bar is low. DOD: the sweet-voiced KAREN Carpenter, gone way too soon. Honorable mention to Janet Leigh of that chocolaty shower scene.<br /><br />Some difficulty points were added because I needed every single cross for MARIEKONDO...who? I looked her up after the solve and now I STILL have no idea why she's famous (to a great many folks, apparently, but not to me). Oh well. Par.spacecrafthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09125304293611865503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-83194527328630245192021-09-20T10:42:37.277-04:002021-09-20T10:42:37.277-04:00REUSED INTEL
IFIMAY say, KAREN knows
her NATURALL...REUSED INTEL<br /><br />IFIMAY say, KAREN knows<br />her NATURALLAW by WROTE:<br />she'd HAVE ATIT to LOSE her ROSE<br />then ENDED ONTHATNOTE.<br /><br />--- MARIE MAGOOBurma Shavenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-83619853168468748302021-08-17T00:40:44.732-04:002021-08-17T00:40:44.732-04:00Your fun is our fun. I'm still counting the sh...Your fun is our fun. I'm still counting the shower scenes in Hitchcock movies. Quite a few of them.albatross shellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04076278220407657633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-7918712522032741692021-08-16T22:12:34.738-04:002021-08-16T22:12:34.738-04:00"So Seth, do you think the Rexites will ever ...<i>"So Seth, do you think the Rexites will ever figure out this puzzle?"<br /><br />"Doesn't look like it Karen, they're still arguing about it as if it makes some sense. You and I know it doesn't."<br /><br />"Right? There are so many things screwed up about it—the revealer answer that doesn't even mean what its clue says it means; the "that note" that doesn't exist anywhere in the puzzle...is it starting to rain?"<br /><br />"I just felt a drop, yeah."<br /><br />"Oh great, first this puzzle, now it's gonna rain and I don't have my umbrella."<br /><br />"You can share my umbrella, Karen."<br /><br />"Why thank you Seth." <br /><br />"No problem. I know how rainy days and Mondays always get you down. I have an idea: Tomorrow we can go to the immersive Van Gogh exhibit. What do you think?" <br /><br />"Yes, let's! Speaking of which, the Classic Tarantino Movie with the Classic Ear Scene is playing at the Nitehawk Cinema—we can go see that afterward!"</i> (Fadeout)<br /><br />•<br /><br />Well I don't know about the rest you, but I'm having fun.Joe Dipintohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07922691457886440325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-3649161365276253882021-08-16T20:11:51.239-04:002021-08-16T20:11:51.239-04:00@TTrimble
Buy Ovaltine.
Also your confusion was en...@TTrimble<br />Buy Ovaltine.<br />Also your confusion was entirely my fault I believe. My poor proof reading on my first message ate at me so I re-posted at 1040 with some editing and minor additions and deleted the original post still in evidence at 9:38. I got the message and even looked up what the natural symbol is. My ignorance on such things is immense. There still seems to be some ambiguity about the accuracy of the revealer.albatross shellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04076278220407657633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-10007911537447461232021-08-16T19:07:31.222-04:002021-08-16T19:07:31.222-04:00@J.D. Ripper:
microchips that will drain us of our...@J.D. Ripper:<br />microchips that will drain us of our essence<br /><br />almost correct. it's 'precious bodily fluids' translate that how you wish<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-17672659075122496022021-08-16T18:15:20.513-04:002021-08-16T18:15:20.513-04:00@rj kennedy
The deception goes even deeper than y...@rj kennedy<br /><br />The deception goes even deeper than you've imagined or described.<br /><br />You reminded us that "the literal job of CIA and FBI is to infiltrate groups, instigate them, and disrupt them."<br /><br />But even this is a cynical deception perpetrated by these agencies. And on this, sadly, you, yourself, have been deceived and have unknowingly drunk the kool-aid.<br /><br />The truth is that the literal job of CIA and FBI is to plant microchips in our bodies - microchips that are treated with fluoride; microchips that will drain us of our essence.J.D. Rippernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-11547663092030186502021-08-16T17:25:16.075-04:002021-08-16T17:25:16.075-04:00@albatross shell
Yep, I used a secret decoder rin...@albatross shell <br />Yep, I used a secret decoder ring that I got from a specially marked box of Cap'n Crunch. <br /><br />@bocamp <br />Oh, *now* I see what you did (thanks to @pabloinnh)! <br /><br />Commiserating (tea and sympathy) over the lost tab. I <i>hate</i> when that happens! <br />TTrimblenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-42442753194126575372021-08-16T17:11:14.849-04:002021-08-16T17:11:14.849-04:00I don't know anything about music theory so th...I don't know anything about music theory so the theme and reveal worked fine for me. All of the themers and the reveal strike my ear as NATURAL, in the language words and phrases that are typically used in non-music related contexts. Seems pretty tight.<br /><br />When I came upon ANO crossing INRE, I thought I was being trolled. <br /><br />I've been doing an informal observation of how the number of black squares in a grid correlates with my overall, subjective appraisal of that puzzle and I think that 34-36 is the sweet spot for a weekday, themed puzzle. Today's offering has 38 and, as often is the case with 38 and higher black square grids, we get pinched-off, mini puzzle-ISH corners. The EMU<i><b>S</b></i>, UZI<i><b>S</b></i> and ISH made that upper right corner even more unpleasant. Not too much joy to be had there.<br /><br />ON THAT NOTE, not only have I never heard of MARIE KONDO, I didn't even know there was or could be such a thing as an organizing guru. Maybe George Carlin was right when he said that "your house is somewhere you keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff".Anoa Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16185183023273883700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-40651884385536861072021-08-16T16:57:18.769-04:002021-08-16T16:57:18.769-04:00Whoa, I did the exact same thing. Then Maria Kondo...Whoa, I did the exact same thing. Then Maria Kondo instead of Marie and it was 15 minutes of miserableness. R. Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18221493271136890126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-63618768588135861082021-08-16T16:36:04.848-04:002021-08-16T16:36:04.848-04:00@Mod
Thanks a lot; that's all I need to know....@Mod <br />Thanks a lot; that's all I need to know. <br /><br />My earlier disappeared message referenced the fact that something seems to have gone wrong with earlier messages. For example, I had responded to a message from @albatross shell, now time-stamped 10:40, but mine appears at 10:26. I don't think I hallucinated the sequence! Anyway, wanted to make sure @albatross got the memo. It was about musical notation. <br /><br />Also responded to @anon 11:57 AM. The gist can be boiled down to two words: "I know." <br /><br />Saving in case the Blogger-Monster strikes again... <br />TTrimblenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-14296523310175074202021-08-16T16:21:19.361-04:002021-08-16T16:21:19.361-04:00@bocamp 1:29-- I got around to the Acrostic this m...@bocamp 1:29-- I got around to the Acrostic this morning. It showed up in the proper place on the puzzles page and I had no problem printing it out.<br /><br />A fun solve, and indeed "gnarly" (I see what you did there, you rascal). Nice one.pabloinnhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04967477079504866917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-41383531284038820872021-08-16T16:19:50.003-04:002021-08-16T16:19:50.003-04:00@TTrimble - I haven’t killed any comment other tha...@TTrimble - I haven’t killed any comment other than spam in at least a week. A Different Moderatornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-55212498039774998492021-08-16T16:17:48.024-04:002021-08-16T16:17:48.024-04:00@Whatsername - Flat-Earthers seem to have a very ...@Whatsername - <i> Flat-Earthers seem to have a very low standard of evidence for what they want to believe but an impossibly high standard of evidence for what they don’t want to believe.</i> - Hmmmmmm… I have several plausible replacements for “flat-earther” in that sentence. “People” works, doesn’t it?<br /><br />@SteveHikes - <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/on" rel="nofollow">Merriam-Webster has nearly 50 definitions of “ON.”</a> I think 1D is the one the musicians here are using, <i>used as a function word to indicate presence in the possession of</i>, the note is in possession of the accidental. Maybe. I’m wondering why ON and not “with,” but clearly “ON” is used this way for notes with accidentals. And why “accidentals?”<br /><br />@wcutler - 👍🏽<br /><br />Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16181544219511150272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-58696078320432394612021-08-16T16:17:27.181-04:002021-08-16T16:17:27.181-04:00@TTrimble (3:25 PM) 👍 for your 0's
I botched...@TTrimble (3:25 PM) 👍 for your 0's<br /><br />I botched dbyd in two ways: I did a computer re-boot, forgetting that it would refresh the dbyd tab (resulting in today's SB), then I went to nytbee.com to check the answers and found that the 6er I had been looking for was a near gimme. :(<br />___<br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_DxNpW1kHQ" rel="nofollow">Peace ~</a> Compassion ~ Tolerance ~ Kindness to all 🕊bocamphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02524629632075020985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-89095679993071763042021-08-16T16:15:46.893-04:002021-08-16T16:15:46.893-04:00@TTrimle
Sometimes Blogger swallows comments whol...@TTrimle<br /><br />Sometimes Blogger swallows comments whole.<br /><br />It's not always the Mods.A Moderatornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-26215742797929459592021-08-16T16:09:57.673-04:002021-08-16T16:09:57.673-04:00@TTrimble
Secret code. Good way to sneak one past ...@TTrimble<br />Secret code. Good way to sneak one past them.albatross shellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04076278220407657633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-50040003585919763292021-08-16T15:25:38.067-04:002021-08-16T15:25:38.067-04:00Well, while I'm waiting to hear back from the ...Well, while I'm waiting to hear back from the @Mods, I'll reproduce part of my earlier message: <br /><br />yd 0<br />td 0TTrimblenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-86461905502354113962021-08-16T14:58:39.603-04:002021-08-16T14:58:39.603-04:00@bocamp. 👍@bocamp. 👍JC66https://www.blogger.com/profile/05324615675333287919noreply@blogger.com