tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post3294733123557063734..comments2024-03-29T06:32:07.322-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: Unfermented grape juice / SUN 1-10-10 / Turkish honchos / Epicurus Democritus philosophically / Bobbin of Oz booksRex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger98125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-17976729644514871662010-01-21T02:33:55.356-05:002010-01-21T02:33:55.356-05:00@ fergus et al. Thunderbird is (was ?) a really c...@ fergus et al. Thunderbird is (was ?) a really cheap wine available in places such as convenience stores.Chick in Eastonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-64426835775121465602010-01-18T00:22:48.082-05:002010-01-18T00:22:48.082-05:00Anonymous 4:45: SOL (Smiling Out Loud).Anonymous 4:45: SOL (Smiling Out Loud).slypetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05537129206516720012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-26213920119281803822010-01-17T16:45:39.377-05:002010-01-17T16:45:39.377-05:00Yeah, like what Rex does all the time.Yeah, like what Rex does all the time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-80117648836040282622010-01-17T15:21:22.325-05:002010-01-17T15:21:22.325-05:00Anonymous 3:05: 'Crabbed' and 'surly&#...Anonymous 3:05: 'Crabbed' and 'surly' are synonyms, per Webster's masterpiece. 'Crabbed' means "characterized by a peevish, morose or sour temper".slypetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05537129206516720012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-56789118295147153552010-01-17T15:05:37.780-05:002010-01-17T15:05:37.780-05:00Can someone please explain how crabbed can be surl...Can someone please explain how crabbed can be surly?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-79940774023122360462010-01-17T12:07:43.407-05:002010-01-17T12:07:43.407-05:00No fun in Chicago being a week behind - note to se...No fun in Chicago being a week behind - note to self re: Sunday NYT subscription - but I'll never stop crabbing about surly. So stubborn: somehow insisted that Dulciana was a silver/white haired woman (ARGENTTOP), which combined with FLEWOVER made FETTY a plausibly Baumistic way of saying Fatty, and when combined vertically with GETBY instead of SETBY (never heard of setting by, much better to sacrifice and get by to save money) gave an entirely plausible Russian city name of AMGK! Puzzle done! Made perfect sense to me!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03482369471956572934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-50172556834793524622010-01-17T03:41:12.109-05:002010-01-17T03:41:12.109-05:00Rex--55A is no gimmie when clued "about 291/2...Rex--55A is no gimmie when clued "about 291/2 days", as in the Vancouver Sun today (Jan 17). A gimmie is 67A PRAIRIE PROVINCES (thats where they have all those Motor Hotels.)<br />Intresting examples today of our two nations divided by a common language. In BC every other totem pole has a thunderbird on it--no connection to wine in our minds!<br />I liked the pairs/echos already noted--also 25A ELANTRA and 117A ELEKTRA.TimeTravellernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-88554917554172914352010-01-12T10:51:50.996-05:002010-01-12T10:51:50.996-05:00I'm with miriam d:
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Just a dog of a ...I'm with miriam d:<br /><br /><><br /><br />Just a dog of a puzzle IMO with no spark or inspiration.<br />Cluing was uninspired and hardly crisp.<br /><br />"Certain plate" for PARTIAL DENTURES was the biggest stinker.<br /><br />4 razzberries for this one.deerfencernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-21567660774257850582010-01-11T19:19:11.321-05:002010-01-11T19:19:11.321-05:00I had HAIL for the musical gang for a while; thoug...I had HAIL for the musical gang for a while; thought the music was Hail, Hail, the gang's all here - and the leader of that lyric is Hail.<br /><br />Having to know RHEO -stat and having to know that a measure of conductance is MHO (because it is the reverse of an OHM unit) is tough in the same part of the puzzle. And those electricity metric terms cross.Michael A. Sheahttp://www.beingonstewart.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-19208902609586877672010-01-11T17:45:07.031-05:002010-01-11T17:45:07.031-05:00/re "thongs", a mistake I started out wi.../re "thongs", a mistake I started out with but for me it meant the shoes--flip-flops to be exact--not perfectly uncomfortable body wearTetuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15711400315262918915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-82647086662884604882010-01-11T02:54:57.589-05:002010-01-11T02:54:57.589-05:00@Doug, now I understand South Park's exhortati...@Doug, now I understand South Park's exhortation to "Blame Canada". ;-)lit.dochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06729199575329286046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-14651119515723196522010-01-11T00:44:18.106-05:002010-01-11T00:44:18.106-05:00Interesting Canadian link today was Anka/Tonight S...Interesting Canadian link today was Anka/Tonight Show. Canadian Anka wrote Johnny's theme that played during McMahon's HERE'S Johnny intro. Like ABBA in Sweden, I think his royalties probably had a nice "ka ching!" in the Canadian GDP (jk, as I'm sure Anka doesn't recognize the income here...) <br /><br />Also, Conan's theme was written by a Canadian, how about that? <br /><br />As always, we remain,<br />Lurking Quietly Within Your BordersDoughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10389790318218161090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-63773402570635197582010-01-11T00:06:45.637-05:002010-01-11T00:06:45.637-05:00Anonymous 4:30: Neither my "Dictionary of Sla...Anonymous 4:30: Neither my "Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English" (Erich Partridge), nor my Web. II has 'nerts'. What does this mean? I means there is a niche in American English where words exist as 'cutisms', i.e. 'nerts' for 'nuts'. <br /><br />We hope this clears up your problem. However, if you are still having trouble with your linguistic processing unit, please feel free to call our Customer Care line: 1-800-555-1212. Our motto is "Service, No Matter What It Costs".slypetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05537129206516720012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-82815032335217164752010-01-10T23:58:31.638-05:002010-01-10T23:58:31.638-05:00@Steve J-
I sorry I didn't make myself cleare...@Steve J-<br /><br />I sorry I didn't make myself clearer as I was referring to the PAIR OF CLUES Water Meter and Motor Hotel being unrelated not the PAIR Motor and Hotel. I re-read my original post and can see how one could misconstrue what I meant.<br /><br />@mac-<br /><br />NERTS is Brooklynese for NUTS. Not being a native speaker can be confusing at times.edith bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12048817959846956992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-37739064026120961952010-01-10T23:16:15.318-05:002010-01-10T23:16:15.318-05:00I agree, the theme was pretty weak.
@Rex Thanks f...I agree, the theme was pretty weak.<br /><br />@Rex Thanks for the info...I've got to look into the Eric Shanower adapation of "The Marvelous Land of Oz". As a kid I read all those Baum books over and over... they were my favorite books. I still have the original 1904 edition as well as the other Baum books.JOHNSNEVERHOMEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13447455788629988277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-47210432678810295342010-01-10T22:56:34.720-05:002010-01-10T22:56:34.720-05:00@edith b: MOTOR and HOTEL, while not terribly exci...@edith b: MOTOR and HOTEL, while not terribly exciting, are related. In fact, that's where the word "motel" comes from. <br /><br />And I'm laughing at Anon 3:32's faux amazement about how amazing it is to have words that cross each other in a crossword puzzle. That pointing out of the obvious makes me realize even more how weak this theme was.Steve Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185067739452052656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-44428854189077822032010-01-10T22:33:57.546-05:002010-01-10T22:33:57.546-05:00@Retired_Chemist - I was a math major (not at Harv...@Retired_Chemist - I was a math major (not at Harvard) and remember Tom Lehrer's songs well and fondly. Although I preferred "Be Prepared" and "Rickety-Tickety-Tin", since the words were easier to remember and the tunes were easier to sing.<br /><br />@Fergus - I believe the jolly swagman camped by a billabong. My first wife came from Alice Springs, and I always enjoyed excuses to sing Waltzing Matilda, preferably after a stubby or two.<br /><br />@DK - I'm with you! To me, an old car has brass trim and gas lamps, though I can appreciate anything before WWII and some cars built later. Aleros and such are just used cars. I refuse to recognize as an antique, any vehicle my children could lawfully have driven out of the showroom brand new!OldCarFuddnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-55939020643633440312010-01-10T21:59:52.282-05:002010-01-10T21:59:52.282-05:00"Dulciana"? Oy. Never in a million yea..."Dulciana"? Oy. Never in a million years would I have got ORGANSTOP. Never. ELEKTRA was a really nice blast from the past, though (kept thinking "Arista, until I got the "A" of MAYS). The criss-crosses were cute, but too forced. Not nearly as fun as last Sunday.Sarahnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-17319532099710809472010-01-10T21:43:20.034-05:002010-01-10T21:43:20.034-05:00@ David and any Harvard mathematicians still on th...@ David and any Harvard mathematicians still on the blog - recall the Tom Leherer song, <a href="http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Lobachevsky-lyrics-Tom-Lehrer/D97B21BF6516390448256A7D0024B8B9" rel="nofollow">Nikolai Ivanovitch Lobachevsky</a>, which goea in part:<br /><br />"I have a friend in Minsk,<br />Who has a friend in Pinsk,<br />Whose friend in Omsk<br />Has friend in Tomsk<br />With friend in Akmolinsk.<br />His friend in Alexandrovsk<br />Has friend in Petropavlovsk,<br />Whose friend somehow<br />Is solving now<br />The problem in Dnepropetrovsk."Retired_Chemisthttp://www.glengowan.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-83435359991661605912010-01-10T21:41:59.220-05:002010-01-10T21:41:59.220-05:00I guess an e-rodent is still only an anonymouse......I guess an e-rodent is still only an anonymouse....machttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06794371617847975218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-75068330115709248162010-01-10T21:18:50.065-05:002010-01-10T21:18:50.065-05:00@e-Rodent 23 said:
"OOOh, Glitch....you know...@e-Rodent 23 said:<br /><br />"OOOh, Glitch....you know SO much about decorating!....."<br /><br />Not really, (and my wife will agree), but harbor Wiki and Google as less than authoritive.<br /><br />My citations always delve deeper.<br /><br />.../GlitchGlitchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14940000404613329056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-74896169350380402322010-01-10T20:44:43.286-05:002010-01-10T20:44:43.286-05:00OOOh, Glitch....you know SO much about decorating!...OOOh, Glitch....you know SO much about decorating!.....<br /><br />@fergus, \I think you have your answer, yes?<br /><br />@Joe in Canada<br />Oh, dear. We'll never be able to get this straight, and I see Elaine has used up her credits! Peter RABBIT and BUNNY-wunny were interchangeable terms, you see? Not that Peter (of Beatrix Potter fame) Rabbit had anything to do with....oh, never mind.<br /><br />Happily, Monday is just a few hours away!e-Rodent 23noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-28108105534346513982010-01-10T20:28:48.154-05:002010-01-10T20:28:48.154-05:00@joeyshapiro
Swags: A pair of triangular side pa...@joeyshapiro<br /><br /><b> Swags: </b>A pair of triangular side panels that is similar to a valance... it is draped from one corner to the opposite...<br /><br /><b>Festoon:</b> ... This window treatment style is similar to a valance... it is draped from one corner to the opposite ...<br /><br />.../GlitchGlitchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14940000404613329056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-84261897051043954882010-01-10T20:28:05.642-05:002010-01-10T20:28:05.642-05:00I second Joey's question.
Warning = sport ent...I second Joey's question.<br /><br />Warning = sport enthusiasm. If one would care to take an interest in American Football, watch the second half of the Arizona-Green Bay game played this afternoon.<br /><br />Once a jolly swagman sat beside a billabong?fergushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17056002311944010536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-77492473547435277172010-01-10T20:15:28.355-05:002010-01-10T20:15:28.355-05:00@mac etal nerts = nuts@mac etal nerts = nutschefbeahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15195945085405126511noreply@blogger.com