tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post4447836698388603015..comments2024-03-28T20:02:27.431-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: Sporty Spiders, informally / THU 12-20-2018 / Declaration concerning British geography? / Mr. Potato Head part / E-tail iconsRex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger113125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-71184820091904327592019-05-09T03:19:32.998-04:002019-05-09T03:19:32.998-04:00Let's get off this bucket list nonsense. There...Let's get off this bucket list nonsense. There is no such thing. Nobody has a bucket with wishes in it.<br />..There was a movie by that name, but it was ever-so-contrived. Here's a corporate mogul with numbered days. So whom does he pick to spend them with ?<br />..A fella who lies underneath cars all day long. He might be a great mechanic, but no corporate leader would have such a friendship. And how does this mechanic get smart enough to ask all the correct Jeopardy! questions just listening to the TV show ?<br />..Please drop all references to bucket list. RexWordpuzzle Blogspot deserves more intelligent verbiage.Bealltherehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13807068693438378124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-24094943593506865412019-05-09T03:19:30.821-04:002019-05-09T03:19:30.821-04:00Let's get off this bucket list nonsense. There...Let's get off this bucket list nonsense. There is no such thing. Nobody has a bucket with wishes in it.<br />..There was a movie by that name, but it was ever-so-contrived. Here's a corporate mogul with numbered days. So whom does he pick to spend them with ?<br />..A fella who lies underneath cars all day long. He might be a great mechanic, but no corporate leader would have such a friendship. And how does this mechanic get smart enough to ask all the correct Jeopardy! questions just listening to the TV show ?<br />..Please drop all references to bucket list. RexWordpuzzle Blogspot deserves more intelligent verbiage.Bealltherehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13807068693438378124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-88466315906261209932019-01-25T09:01:14.575-05:002019-01-25T09:01:14.575-05:00Russia, if you're listening please leave our p...Russia, if you're listening please leave our puzzle comments alone.thefogmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01870509029973778266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-80778901687675750362019-01-24T19:17:12.388-05:002019-01-24T19:17:12.388-05:00@Lady Di -- Somebody or something out there doesn&...@Lady Di -- Somebody or something out there doesn't like us.leftcoastTAMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-51701615607135723282019-01-24T17:50:43.690-05:002019-01-24T17:50:43.690-05:00Hey @Lefty - me too! Wonder if we'll ever see...Hey @Lefty - me too! Wonder if we'll ever see those comments...coming back to haunt us, or the blog...<br /><br />Lady Di, Waiting for my comments to come back, along with Lefty'sDiana, LIWnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-20335255422040808972019-01-24T15:49:11.358-05:002019-01-24T15:49:11.358-05:00Wrote an incredible set of comments that would hav...Wrote an incredible set of comments that would have entertained everyone, but lost them in the ether.<br /><br />Enjoyed the good work by Ms. Margolin.leftcoastTAMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-46279647900739611892019-01-24T15:23:15.725-05:002019-01-24T15:23:15.725-05:00I was exoecting to see the No No Song by Ringo Sta...I was exoecting to see the No No Song by Ringo Starr in the blog. <br /><br />No LAUGHINGMATTER but Sots get to PARTAKE today. <br /><br />Learned from Crossword: They jump camels in Yemen, don't they. <br /><br />Knew from old crosswords: Actress Anouk Aimee. Ancient Agoras. <br /><br />Learned from blog: Kentuckians wear Tee shirts that proclaim "No Skin Off My Ass".<br /><br />Country For Old Men could have been contender. <br /><br />Shoes, Shirts, Service!Wooody2004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-59259485894311499422019-01-24T14:15:51.401-05:002019-01-24T14:15:51.401-05:00Pretty damn good puzzle where the split NO-NO was ...Pretty damn good puzzle where the split NO-NO was used to great effect. I loved the themers, especially MAN IS AN ISLAND. That is a real knee-slapper. I have a sore knee.<br /><br />I also thought the cluing was pitched at a high level, and I liked that TACK (wrote over TACT for that one). <br /><br />Whatever the name of the country (Burma? MYANMAR?), I weep for the Rohingya but feel no animosity toward the clue/answer, just as I have no negative feelings about MAO appearing despite China's arresting of Canadians over the HUAWEI thing. Now, if "wall" appeared in the puzzle, I'd probably have a problem accepting that. Never has vanity/narcissism/lack of empathy been so blatant.<br /><br />@Burma - *four* years! How'd I miss a year?<br /><br />rainforestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-4511599474601561872019-01-24T12:45:11.681-05:002019-01-24T12:45:11.681-05:00SANS CARTS
It’s NO SKINOFFMYBACK, but ONAWHIM ISI...SANS CARTS<br /><br />It’s NO SKINOFFMYBACK, but ONAWHIM ISITOK?<br />IHEAR the NHRA’s TACK is NO ALFAS on RACEDAY.<br /><br />--- ARI “ARES” KROC<br />Burma (MYANMAR) Shavenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-65748912785396558802019-01-24T11:28:47.457-05:002019-01-24T11:28:47.457-05:00I was disappointed that OFL didn't get a crack...I was disappointed that OFL didn't get a crack at this one--or not, because if this guy found offense within, so surely would @Rex. But I wonder if it would've received the same difficulty rating? Me, I certainly did ACEIT.<br /><br />ONAWHIM, our brave constructress flew in the face of convention and brought out a pair of deuces--not only that, but the same entry repeated! A double NO-NO: what would you say, a NO-NO-NO-NO? But it works, the whole idea, and it works badass well.<br /><br />I stumbled with FLogS before FLAYS, creating a two-letter (how appropriate!) writeover, but the rest of it was smooth sailing. Proudly, I even dropped MENSA in off "Gatherer of intelligence?". I like the conversational tone of the fill: ISITOK? SOSOON? WOO HOO!<br /><br />Imperfections are minor: ROO/ROOD, the SW abbr.-fest with ALTS and SYST, the awkward suffix -ANCY. They do little to downgrade a splendid grid that includes a golden oldie DOD in FAY Wray. Birdie.spacecraftnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-50694339751108761742019-01-24T10:43:58.784-05:002019-01-24T10:43:58.784-05:00The cluing wasn't always perfectly PC but ther...The cluing wasn't always perfectly PC but there's no need to be ROOD about it. Tough enough, but I did manage to ACEIT. WOOHOO! And thank you Ruth Bloomfield Maroolin.thefogmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01870509029973778266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-84815809243988097312019-01-24T10:38:11.987-05:002019-01-24T10:38:11.987-05:00Why don't we all just go out of our way to fin...Why don't we all just go out of our way to find something offensive about clues/answers ONAWHIM that suits each one of us? Stop it already. <br /><br />Not a SKATE, but a different variety of Ray:<br />My name's not croc that's KROC with a 'k'<br />Like 'crocodile' but not spelled that way, <br />It's dog eat dog rat eat rat<br />KROC-style, boom, like that.<br />- Mark Knopfler<br /><br />Let's go back a couple or more generations in film history for yeah baby Anouk AIMEE and one more generation for FAY Wray.<br /><br />Seemed like a buncha POCs, but I flew through this puz with NO TYPOs, or SANS write-overs. Done SOSOON?rondonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-8882839071257436002018-12-22T15:07:42.197-05:002018-12-22T15:07:42.197-05:00Offensive! I’ll give you Offensive! No I won’t, ...Offensive! I’ll give you Offensive! No I won’t, but I think calling RBM clueless is offensive. Yemen, Myanmar and rood and their clues were all statements of fact. It’s like mentioning Trump in a puzzle; we may not like it, but there he is. These things are made fraught by over-laying our personal emotional reaction to these words, not their intrinsic meaning. That being said, I liked the puzzle. Finished relatively quickly, but enjoyed the solve. Regarding the DNF debate, I was done until I came here only to discover my state/skate problem. Was going to look up “state ray”, until you all pointed out the error of my way. I still feel like I finished, like I feel the Seahawks won the Super Bowl against the Patriots.<br /><br />PS I was raised in LA where it was definitely skin off my back.OlyLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10777016194907113644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-21227282056538644472018-12-21T00:52:46.738-05:002018-12-21T00:52:46.738-05:00Nose is far more common than back. Nevertheless, t...<br />Nose is far more common than back. Nevertheless, that does not make back wrong for the puzzle. I just never heard it. <br /><br />https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=No+skin+off+my+back%2CNo+skin+off+my+nose&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2CNo%20skin%20off%20my%20back%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CNo%20skin%20off%20my%20nose%3B%2Cc0<br />Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00792168099185068535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-21088002517513286692018-12-20T21:28:02.598-05:002018-12-20T21:28:02.598-05:00@Lewis
That's why I didn't use the "...@Lewis<br /><br />That's why I didn't use the "quotes." ;-)JC66https://www.blogger.com/profile/05324615675333287919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-80156315980976932292018-12-20T21:16:41.446-05:002018-12-20T21:16:41.446-05:00Agree with Jonathan. Never heard them any other wa...Agree with Jonathan. Never heard them any other way. Victor Poleshuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01611704791999583301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-10674945605066303532018-12-20T21:04:35.168-05:002018-12-20T21:04:35.168-05:00@jc66 -- You should Google the phrases in quotes, ...@jc66 -- You should Google the phrases in quotes, which then bases results on the verbatim phrase, not each word separately. And, surprisingly to me, nose won out over back!Lewishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09709142959535977331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-1914838429802328242018-12-20T19:11:53.728-05:002018-12-20T19:11:53.728-05:00Sorry, it is a common phrase. https://www.erickson...Sorry, it is a common phrase. https://www.ericksonliving.com/tribune/articles/2014/08/whered-phrase-comeIanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08088688660078341244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-65387782843957182732018-12-20T17:42:50.397-05:002018-12-20T17:42:50.397-05:00Funny, I put in SKIBIB without thinking twice abou...Funny, I put in SKIBIB without thinking twice about it, and without thinking once about those ski coveralls pictured, especially with RACEDAY in the same puzzle. Ski racers wear bibs with their numbers on them, just like runners, and there are lots of ski races and racers in these parts. Never heard anyone say "Hey, the race is starting, got your ski bib?" but it would make sense if I did.<br /><br />Like the NONO idea but way too easy for a Thursday.pabloinnhnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-17198507272828045222018-12-20T17:39:35.038-05:002018-12-20T17:39:35.038-05:00The comments today are more interesting than the p...The comments today are more interesting than the puzzle was. The puzzle was fine, unobjectionable. Some of the comments here haven't met that standard.<br /><br />So, with that..<br /><br /><br />- I think it's a good idea to keep YEMEN and MYANMAR front and center in our minds. (I agree with Joe Dipinto: complicit in genocide? wtf?)<br /><br />- In my world, it's NO SKIN OFF MY BACK. the NOSE version rang a vague bell but I couldn't place it.<br /><br />- It's definitely TACK, although, I can sort of see how you could sort of stretch the clue to mean TACT. But no stretching required to get to TACK. <br /><br />- CUBA before CASA. Got me.<br /><br />- I like KALE. I don't like KALES. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />TomAznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-24251861963731242992018-12-20T17:32:07.097-05:002018-12-20T17:32:07.097-05:00I just saw the Steadfast Tin Soldier, but staunch ...I just saw the Steadfast Tin Soldier, but staunch reminds me of Robert Graves’ Little Boy Blue; the little toy dog is civered with dust, but sturdy and staunch he stands. They are both such sad childhood stories. rosebudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10280624384073630530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-29024057619581319872018-12-20T17:02:18.169-05:002018-12-20T17:02:18.169-05:00Anon @9:30 am, I was saying that i was obviously w...Anon @9:30 am, I was saying that i was obviously wrong you bloviating idiot. Read it again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-3495789742644001702018-12-20T16:36:33.679-05:002018-12-20T16:36:33.679-05:00I remember a furniture store called Castro Convert...I remember a furniture store called Castro Convertibles from my childhood in the ‘60s. Was that your family?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-4176469015009983542018-12-20T16:09:24.587-05:002018-12-20T16:09:24.587-05:00the clue is complicit with genocide. (@Anon 11:02)...<i>the clue is complicit with genocide.</i> (@Anon 11:02)<br /><br />Now I've seen everything.Joe Dipintohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07922691457886440325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-19830507889404428102018-12-20T15:50:56.964-05:002018-12-20T15:50:56.964-05:00The world would be a simpler place if there were o...The world would be a simpler place if there were only one pejorative word or phrase for each group the majority chooses to denigrate. If onlynoreply@blogger.com