tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post3612739989723742172..comments2024-03-29T10:22:19.863-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: Hippie confab / SAT 9-4-21 / Iranian port near the Iraq border / Malt liquor bottle in slang / Ancient siege weapon for launching stones / Marengo for Napoleon / Chaparral or savanna / TV lingo for using established hits to prop up weaker shows / 1914 Freud essay that introduced the concept of "ego ideal"Rex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger123125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-91358920683109892792022-09-20T14:26:25.036-04:002022-09-20T14:26:25.036-04:00Thanks<a href="https://writingmetier.com/extended-essay-writing-service/" rel="nofollow">Thanks</a>Janet Locanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07247871107304135668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-73784193317610229642021-10-10T00:15:05.958-04:002021-10-10T00:15:05.958-04:00Unlike a sit-in or a lie-in it was a demonstratiio...Unlike a sit-in or a lie-in it was a demonstratiion to just BE there. A BE-IN.rondonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-12460272403064419792021-10-09T22:42:47.663-04:002021-10-09T22:42:47.663-04:00Can someone please explain BEIN?Can someone please explain BEIN?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-2422251362346478742021-10-09T19:19:21.706-04:002021-10-09T19:19:21.706-04:00Hard!!!!!Hard!!!!!thefogmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01870509029973778266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-42971084115019041182021-10-09T16:49:59.196-04:002021-10-09T16:49:59.196-04:00Comment disappeared. No write-overs. Lotsa long/lo...Comment disappeared. No write-overs. Lotsa long/longish answers. Fine puz.rondonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-72769433647501683252021-10-09T16:27:58.092-04:002021-10-09T16:27:58.092-04:00Good Saturday puzzle, but with some irksome answer...Good Saturday puzzle, but with some irksome answers and their clues:<br /><br />MEYER -- “Favorite novelist of the Twihards”<br />STUDY -- “Try to get down”<br />FORTY -- “Malt liquor bottle”<br />TRAP -- “Hip-hop genre”<br />STEED -- “Marengo, for Napoleon”<br />MSS -- “Slush pile contents”<br /> <br />And finally, UN MEMBERSHIP is a “country club”? Country yes, club no. leftcoasternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-37097205392301782932021-10-09T14:10:29.193-04:002021-10-09T14:10:29.193-04:00This went from impossible to completed (almost) wi...This went from impossible to completed (almost) with a great amount of satisfaction. Asyla/choi = pissers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-35982432773710261362021-10-09T13:15:16.020-04:002021-10-09T13:15:16.020-04:00I'm shocked - shocked I tell you - at how much...I'm shocked - shocked I tell you - at how much I did get with just a tiny bit of help from a map (or two). That always amazes me...especially when I start out with crickets. Then one ends up feeling pretty good!<br /><br />Diana, Lady-in-Waiting for CrosswordsDiana, LIWnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-59523210236012131102021-10-09T12:58:10.496-04:002021-10-09T12:58:10.496-04:00I wouldn't say this was "easier" tha...I wouldn't say this was "easier" than yesterday's, yet I finished it, not a claim I can make for that one. By way of saying, today's was NOT easy.<br /><br />Let's take that stone-throwing gigantic misdirect. Know what's 8 letters long? Sure you do: CATAPULT! I even checked out trebuchet--nope, 9--before INKING in CATAPULT. I mean, come on. Lucky I didn't get snookered right there.<br /><br />Then there's OLA. That's the greeting. ALO?? Sounds like a European answering the phone. I had an AWFUL time down there.<br /><br />Nor was the NW any picnic. I kept trying to elongate DONTASK into eight spaces. What's with the I? Well, I guess I shouldn't ask. It's a good thing the sports things were there to help out (CENTERS, OVERUNDER).<br /><br />And what, pray tell is "RANGELAND?" It's a range. It's land. Oh, I get it. It just didn't exist until today.<br /><br />Despite these snags, I managed to get this baby done, garnering huge triumph points. I suppose that merits at least a birdie.spacecrafthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09125304293611865503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-3143141228862266032021-10-09T12:52:19.105-04:002021-10-09T12:52:19.105-04:00STUDY ONNARCISSISM
IDON'TASK how YOUNG they a...STUDY ONNARCISSISM<br /><br />IDON'TASK how YOUNG they are, if IMET a DESIRABLE pick.<br />OVER INAMOMENT, so bizarre: UNDER FORTY they COMEQUICK.<br /><br />--- HIALEAH MEYERBurma Shavenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-31273208822695847752021-09-08T12:12:31.124-04:002021-09-08T12:12:31.124-04:00Well, naturally!Well, naturally!Taxed Too Much in NJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11940512966669794575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-40871746908118513312021-09-08T11:50:51.706-04:002021-09-08T11:50:51.706-04:00Me too!Me too!Taxed Too Much in NJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11940512966669794575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-330150985112640082021-09-05T14:46:12.513-04:002021-09-05T14:46:12.513-04:00In a BIVOUAC, the soldiers likely sleep on the gro...In a BIVOUAC, the soldiers likely sleep on the ground. But the Lieutenant would be entitled to a COT. old timernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-27752022302776190032021-09-05T12:14:20.990-04:002021-09-05T12:14:20.990-04:00Like many, it seems, my first time through the clu...Like many, it seems, my first time through the clues left me a woebegone patchwork of isolated results. As it happened, the first place I got some traction was in the SE, and my first realization of how the themers would operate involved the pair at 111A. TALKSTRASH and TALKSSTRAIGHT. I thought that each theme pair would be opposites, or at least nearly so. This would have been a pretty neat feat, but my next solved pair, HOGWASH and HOGWARTSHOUSE disabused me of this notion. Still, I liked the theme and the entire puzzle, tough as it was.<br /><br />If you want to know the most crucial prerequisites for calculus, they are Euclid and Ptolemy, at least as taught at St. John’s College in Annapolis and Santa Fe, where calculus was learned from Liebniz and Newton.<br /><br />@CDilly52. I love your posts and I now cherish being a tiny fraction of something that lets you feel a bit like you’re still in you’re still in your best friend/love of your life relationship.<br />egsforbreakfasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17439054465313994020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-36804483964447160482021-09-05T12:04:13.799-04:002021-09-05T12:04:13.799-04:00This puzzle was remarkable for the wide variety of...This puzzle was remarkable for the wide variety of ways it annoyed me. I thought about coming back to it when I was in a better mood about it, but I just wanted to get the thing over with. <br /><br />What a slog.<br /><br />And abortions are health care, full stop. crayonbeamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491234583293068846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-80292532682810135362021-09-05T00:12:27.664-04:002021-09-05T00:12:27.664-04:00@stephanie
Just noticed your COT comment.
M-W and ...@stephanie<br />Just noticed your COT comment.<br />M-W and some other dictionaries specifically define bivouac as not including tents and sleeping covers from the definition of bivouac. The wiki page allows backpacking tents. Even the sleeping bags seem to be on the luxury side for a bivouac camp. Mainly and maybe totally a hiking backpacking thing. Barracks have bunks or cots. Large tents moved around by trucks could have cots. But that is probably stretching bivouac too far. Yes I put it in. The clue worked. But not because it was right. But because it suggested military which suggests cots. But bivouac suggests no cots. But it probably isn't the best clue for bag either.<br />Turns out, my feeling that it was wrong was correct. Not that I minded your response, but you know its JD1005am who started it all.<br /> albatross shellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04076278220407657633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-8840070586999447012021-09-04T23:12:17.770-04:002021-09-04T23:12:17.770-04:00@Stephanie-replying to me. Thank you for that com...@Stephanie-replying to me. Thank you for that comment. It was exactly what I was thinking as I finished my post. How lucky I was to have 45 years with my best friend, and the absolute love of my life and how deeply I wish that for everyone - in whatever manner each defines “life partner” or “best friend.” CDilly52https://www.blogger.com/profile/07727001753847073030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-61584959550882305862021-09-04T22:51:43.709-04:002021-09-04T22:51:43.709-04:00AMEN, TTrimble! I revere teachers with a true gif...AMEN, TTrimble! I revere teachers with a true gift for their profession and a love of teaching. My own life has been forever enriched by those special few teachers with whom I have been fortunate to interact, as well as those who came along during my and my daughter’s educational journeys. I also wish I could do more to improve recruitment, training and especially improving the compensation and working conditions of our teachers especially in the US public schools. Oklahoma is so, so low in person capita expenditure as well as every other quality educational metric, and a majority of voters have no problem with it. I still hear “but they only work 10 months a year,” and it makes my y blood boil!!!! CDilly52https://www.blogger.com/profile/07727001753847073030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-17311894455710492962021-09-04T22:48:47.336-04:002021-09-04T22:48:47.336-04:00@CDilly52, always love your posts. "manic Typ...@CDilly52, always love your posts. "manic Type A-ness radiating from my chi" is a classic! I agree, sharing thoughts here is therapeutic. Keep it coming!Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08237000067564152763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-57938276646900630972021-09-04T22:35:26.070-04:002021-09-04T22:35:26.070-04:00@Teedmn: same with me only Trig was one semester ...@Teedmn: same with me only Trig was one semester and it morphed into “pre-calc” semester two so that we drowned (or not) in “real” calc as taught in my Columbus HS (about half a mile from Ohio State’s campus entrance off High Street) by one or the other junior profs from the OSU math department. I would have failed no matter how hard O tried or how much tutoring I received. Know your limits, I say. CDilly52https://www.blogger.com/profile/07727001753847073030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-71631779241755418872021-09-04T22:32:11.543-04:002021-09-04T22:32:11.543-04:00@TTrimble. I’m with you, although O struggled thr...@TTrimble. I’m with you, although O struggled through Trig but dropped the first semester of Calc my senior year in HS. I thought fourth year Latin difficult but I am certain I would find Sanskrit learned on stone tablets simple by comparison. I have long posited that law school and the practice of law was invented for very smart people who just can’t do math. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it!CDilly52https://www.blogger.com/profile/07727001753847073030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-48172722446230821962021-09-04T21:49:28.366-04:002021-09-04T21:49:28.366-04:00Medium?? Many of the answers (parsimony, rangelan...Medium?? Many of the answers (parsimony, rangeland, abadan) sucked (if the spell check doesn't catch it I shouldn't know it!) and the clues were even more obscure. To me the difference between a good Saturday and a bad one is difficult vs obscure. This one tended to the latter for me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-59671771563282097872021-09-04T21:19:46.623-04:002021-09-04T21:19:46.623-04:00@Z:
you just triggered. in either Jr HS or HS I ...@Z:<br /><br />you just triggered. in either Jr HS or HS I ran into both SMSG (we called it Some Math, Some Garbage) and Math Tutor Text. this was a bit before New Math, ~1965. I will attest that some parts of schooling have tried to be more effective at teaching math. at that age, and date, my city had four public HS: Trade, Commerce, Technical, and Classical. not too surprising, I went to the last. the notion of education, at least there, was a Serious Subject. and the school (system?) took modes of teaching seriously. what is today labelled a Blue State.<br /><br />and, just by the way: all of these efforts were driven by Admin, not The Horrid Teachers' Union.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-52215393971984055912021-09-04T21:19:20.315-04:002021-09-04T21:19:20.315-04:00@Joe D
Neither is Natick.@Joe D<br /><br />Neither is Natick.JC66https://www.blogger.com/profile/05324615675333287919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-73863928620993044722021-09-04T21:02:36.616-04:002021-09-04T21:02:36.616-04:00@JC66 – (bzzz) Wrong. Massachusetts is not a UN me...@JC66 – (bzzz) Wrong. Massachusetts is not a UN member. Joe Dipintohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07922691457886440325noreply@blogger.com