tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post5068701213953957627..comments2024-03-29T11:56:42.957-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: Slacker's opposite in modern lingo / SAT 12-24-16 / Attractive young woman in rap slang / Arboreal sci-fi creature / Astronomer who coined term novaRex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger92125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-28497310895081123042022-07-13T23:01:47.151-04:002022-07-13T23:01:47.151-04:00บริการเกมสล็อตออนไลน์ปี 2022 เกมให้เลือกเล่นมากกว่...บริการเกมสล็อตออนไลน์ปี 2022 เกมให้เลือกเล่นมากกว่า 1,000 เกม<a href="https://superslot.li/" rel="nofollow"> Superslot </a> j<br />MEGAGAMEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07242807840459253226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-49061765193446641192022-07-13T23:00:54.689-04:002022-07-13T23:00:54.689-04:00บริการเกมสล็อตออนไลน์ปี 2022 เกมให้เลือกเล่นมากกว่...บริการเกมสล็อตออนไลน์ปี 2022 เกมให้เลือกเล่นมากกว่า 1,000 เกม<a href="www.megagame.li/" rel="nofollow"> Megagame </a> dMEGAGAMEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07242807840459253226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-2245056884802616272022-07-13T22:59:19.629-04:002022-07-13T22:59:19.629-04:00บริการเกมสล็อตออนไลน์ปี 2022 เกมให้เลือกเล่นมากกว่...<br />บริการเกมสล็อตออนไลน์ปี 2022 เกมให้เลือกเล่นมากกว่า 1,000 เกม<a href="www.superslot78.info/" rel="nofollow">Superslot</a> f<br />MEGAGAMEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07242807840459253226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-63331148632475830892022-05-04T04:52:04.570-04:002022-05-04T04:52:04.570-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Fatimahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18263572927493062549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-8909830482985123482017-01-29T18:11:46.273-05:002017-01-29T18:11:46.273-05:00I am another one who not heard of DEMONRUM. Well,...I am another one who not heard of DEMONRUM. Well, that is a bit of an exaggeration - somewhere deep in the bowels of my brain I had a faint notion of the use of that term by tee-totalling women during the prohibition era, probably from something like Boardwalk Empire or other movies/TV shows.<br /><br />As far as Shawty goes, I was able to eliminate ho, bimbo and bit** immediately because of the number of letters, but beotch, digger, bizzle, bag hoe, banger, beezie, bopper, boofer, chassi, nut-bag, scully, spacer, stunna, etc. were harder to eliminate. Yeah, a lot of respect for women in the rap community.<br />Bananafishnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-38269432828626967832017-01-29T00:45:35.968-05:002017-01-29T00:45:35.968-05:00@Teedmn - That is what I call a sad story. I have...@Teedmn - That is what I call a sad story. I have to say, though, that even though my family was not in a position to put on airs, we would somehow see ourselves as "better" than others. This bothered me quite a bit.<br /><br />I would have eaten a piece of that cake, but thanks for sharing this all-too-common story.rain forestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-36047510019701097942017-01-28T20:19:53.950-05:002017-01-28T20:19:53.950-05:00@lefty - Just continuing @Norm's thread of cal...@lefty - Just continuing @Norm's thread of calling out a previous poster (who was spot on BTW, and got multiple congrats) who had called out another previous poster. I guess that makes me fifth in the sequence now. BTW, I almost always agree with @evil doug, and I've said that before. Ignorance is one thing, attacks are fair game, IMHO.rondonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-44588424904805471012017-01-28T18:13:24.737-05:002017-01-28T18:13:24.737-05:00@rainforest, the only time I participated in a cak...@rainforest, the only time I participated in a cakewalk was at my parochial grade school's annual Valentine's Day carnival fundraiser. The way they ran it was sort of like a meat raffle - you bought a number and went and stood on the number taped to the floor. When all the numbers were bought, they spun the wheel and the winner whose number was picked went over to the table of cakes donated by the church ladies and picked one out. Not a whole lot of skill to it. Of course, I picked out the prettiest cake and as I was walking out of the school gymn with my prize, the kid in my class who always looked unkempt and unwashed came running up to me and excitedly told me his sister had made it. No one in my family ate any of it. We were such snobs.Teedmnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12832353448839187816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-73951203197114523392017-01-28T17:20:42.769-05:002017-01-28T17:20:42.769-05:00@rondo, or anyone else (who probably will never se...@rondo, or anyone else (who probably will never see this), a bit of unsolicited advice about crossword etiquette: TRYHARD to refrain from calling fellow solvers, including realtimers, ignorant. We all may seem ignorant to one another from time to time.leftcoastTAMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-7044754331296950612017-01-28T16:20:40.682-05:002017-01-28T16:20:40.682-05:00Challenging. Got SHALE, HAM ON RYE, and KIR immed...Challenging. Got SHALE, HAM ON RYE, and KIR immediately, thinking this was going to be a cakewalk (really what actually IS a cakewalk?). Wrong. AWAKE and EWOK came and from there it was hunt and peck, little by little, wasting precious nanoseconds all over the place.<br /><br />Sticking with it was worth the effort, though, and I think this is a very nice puzzle, almost as good as yesterday's. Of course, SHAWTY and SEXY BACK had to come from crosses. Incidentally, how does one know how to spell SHAWTY? Does it sound like "shotty"? What does it mean? <br /><br />@Z's list of Timberlake's song is exactly the same as mine. Coincidence?<br /><br />For a while I thought DEMOCRAT was the prohibitionists' target, but again, the crosses. I like the phrase DEMON RUM, and yes, I'd heard it before.<br /><br />Nifty clues, excellent fill, little dreck. Good one, DS!<br /><br />PS Lately, I've been getting pictures from the CAPTCHA asking me to check off street signs. Weirdrain forestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-84729732278725219802017-01-28T16:03:04.436-05:002017-01-28T16:03:04.436-05:00This one is more like what David Steinberg used to...This one is more like what David Steinberg used to do, mixing old and new, familiar and obscure, simple and too-clever, and the gettable and virtually ungettable. Y'KNOW, just a lot tougher today than he has been more recently.<br /><br />Walked away a few times, and it helped some, and stared a lot, which didn't help much. Ran the alphabet several times.<br /><br />Bogged down in the four corners, but worked through three of them. The NE finally got me. And the ones that got me were all gettable!: LAX, SEXYBACK, LIMON and WRYLY. Some consolation in getting INCUBI, ECCO, OLEELO, and BRAHE among other Saturday worthies. <br /><br />Oh, lied about getting three of four corners. Got only two, seeing that I Naticked the SHAWTY/LTD cross in the NW.<br /><br />SHAWTY??? I don't expect to see that one again, but if I do, I AVOW that I'll remember it.<br /><br /><br /><br />leftcoastTAMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-15552843017253303622017-01-28T15:54:44.845-05:002017-01-28T15:54:44.845-05:00Hmm, the dog ate my homework! Not that I had much...Hmm, the dog ate my homework! Not that I had much to say, just the usual SHAWTY, OLEELO, YKNOW.<br /><br />Diana,LIWDiana,LIWnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-78541795350335715362017-01-28T14:37:23.841-05:002017-01-28T14:37:23.841-05:00Sty in my eye really messed up the NE for me.
Not ...Sty in my eye really messed up the NE for me.<br />Not a shopper so kept looking at HSN as election material. Not a TV watcher so DCCAB never got hailed, despite having CARA to confuse me. Despite DNF, really liked the puzzle.<br />Learned SHAWTY, KIR, and QVC. centralscrewtinizerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03404913280254786506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-38438604593385154182017-01-28T14:27:51.218-05:002017-01-28T14:27:51.218-05:00YKNOW? SHAWTY? OLEELO? N n n n noooo!
Agree tha...YKNOW? SHAWTY? OLEELO? N n n n noooo!<br /><br />Agree that Fri and Sat were switched this week.<br /><br />Anyway, dnf due to a few unknowns. Another 90% Saturday.<br /><br />Diana, LIWDiana,LIWnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-85390324969935954912017-01-28T12:39:56.664-05:002017-01-28T12:39:56.664-05:00This one was every bit as hard as yesterday's,...This one was every bit as hard as yesterday's, but I didn't like it as much. Too many abbrs. BBQ, RSVP, VE(DAY), DC(CAB)--even LAX, which hardly needed an abbr. clue. I guess I just like real words, YKNOW?<br /><br />I really had to hunt for a way in; found it thanks to a Jay and the Americans hit: "CARA Mia." Since that was my shoehorn, I'll make Irene CARA my DOD. Had she been born later, she might have been called (are you kidding me?) SHAWTY. Talk about forcing in on crosses! I'm looking at L_D and E_ES. Well, EYES seems obvious, but satellites? No, no, satellites orbit AROUND something else. EYES are inside the head. NOT satellites. I cry foul. LTD (duh!) came a little later. But then I'm staring at SHAWTY?!? Gawd! I left it in because...well, because that language can come up with anything. Rap and hiphop will be the solving death of me.<br /><br />The man has never heard of the DEMONRUM. Look at the first column. does it remind you of a SPEAK-EASy? I might never have gotten the NW if not for the very helpful clue word "Palindromic." I never heard of OLEELO, but, well, there you are. A man, a plan, a canal: Panama.<br /><br />Triumph factor again AHEADOF most days. I realize that my own aversion to all that lettering shouldn't affect the score--besides, we have to keep encouraging these wunderkinds: birdie.spacecraftnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-41063924479339851112017-01-28T10:26:57.027-05:002017-01-28T10:26:57.027-05:00To @Norm, who will never see this, a JURYBOX surro...To @Norm, who will never see this, a JURYBOX surrounds, or "is about" 12 people. Think about things before showing your ignorance. Rant over.rondonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-27286454009834591982017-01-28T10:14:17.794-05:002017-01-28T10:14:17.794-05:00Y’KNOW, sometimes it amazes me what OFL has never ...Y’KNOW, sometimes it amazes me what OFL has never heard of. DEMONRUM? Practically a gimme compared to many other answers. I had an inkfest MESSES with a coupla dumb tries before YKNOW showed up and with ateAm before the DCCAB arrived. Vehicle indeed. Actually knowing CARY, NC probably saved the whole puz from going down the drain. Pretty much filled it in all directions from there.<br /><br />SHAWTY?? Let’s never see that again. Not my lingo.<br /><br />Only one other commenter noticed that EHARMONY and HAMONRYE are anagrams? C’mon folks. And there must be a joke in there somewhere.<br /><br />Surprised OFL didn’t link “Workin’ for the Weekend” by LOVERBOY. Seems appropriate.<br /><br />Kinda stretching, but DHARMA, was played on TV by yeah baby Jenna Elfman. You SHOWGIRL!<br /><br />Quite a challenge, I must say, but to finish, just stick with a DS puz and TRYHARD.<br />rondonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-24682420332912301102017-01-28T09:34:48.187-05:002017-01-28T09:34:48.187-05:00CINEMA HERO
“Y’KNOW, that SHOWGIRL has a SEXYBACK...CINEMA HERO<br /><br />“Y’KNOW, that SHOWGIRL has a SEXYBACK”,<br />her LOVERBOY with wide EYES EXCLAIMed.<br />He’d TRYHARD, and PLAYOUT in the sack,<br />AHEADOF MARBLE nearly DROVER insane.<br /><br />--- CARY “DHARMA” EDISON<br />Burma Shavenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-55552066199688920422016-12-26T15:42:40.316-05:002016-12-26T15:42:40.316-05:00Maldare - earthworm genus.
Maldare - earthworm genus.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-84918169929680978692016-12-25T08:15:35.831-05:002016-12-25T08:15:35.831-05:00Q.E.D. (but not STAT) = Quod Erat DemonrumQ.E.D. (but not <i>STAT</i>) = Quod Erat DemonrumCrypTicnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-45838765774221418532016-12-25T03:42:14.250-05:002016-12-25T03:42:14.250-05:00fwiw, DDE's ancestors migrated from Germany to...fwiw, DDE's ancestors migrated from Germany to Penna in the 18th cent., at which time the surname was spelled <i>Eisenhauer</i>. There seem to be different accounts of when and how the spelling changed, but -hauer had become -hower in Ike's father's generation.. Just sayin'.<br />Jeannie Alogistnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-52423082307423576382016-12-25T00:09:44.992-05:002016-12-25T00:09:44.992-05:00Tough Saturday fare for me, but fair enough with f...Tough Saturday fare for me, but fair enough with footholds here and there. That NW corner was tricky with the fragrant dressing clue for POMADE. Remember butch wax? DEMON RUM is very much in my knowledge base, but SHAWTY, not so much. That gets immunity from sexism because...? Ok, I'll Google it. Who ever has referred to an ELEVATOR as a car since, well, cars? <br /><br />Name calling in reference to a crossword puzzle? Tempest in a TEA SET. When I was a child and was having a moment, my dad would sternly advise me to, "Go wash your face!" Good advice.Larry Gilstraphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15493069947477383208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-73915633503531336652016-12-25T00:09:04.090-05:002016-12-25T00:09:04.090-05:00I enjoyed this one, though it was pretty tough (bu...I enjoyed this one, though it was pretty tough (but not as hard as Friday's). The SE quadrant was definitely the highlight with the Scrabbliness and solid non-pop culture answers. EHARMONY and HAM ON RYE being anagrams was pretty cool, but was anyone else convinced that there was an anagram mini-theme? Kept looking for an anagram of the two in the SW and SE to no avail. Also, seriously, SHAWTY? Trenton Charlsonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-58448268726614707522016-12-24T23:30:23.025-05:002016-12-24T23:30:23.025-05:00Maybe the INCUBI put that SHAWTY AGNES on her SEXY...Maybe the INCUBI put that SHAWTY AGNES on her SEXY BACK using DEMON RUM. The nice people in the JURY BOX EASED her into the ABBEY to TRY HARD to forget her first EHARMONY match up. Being a DIVA SHOWGIRL can lead to horrible MESSES. Never knew that LOVERBOY and his CREW could be so rough riding in an EDSEL DCCAB. Never saw such ANIMUS PLAYOUT she EXCLAIMed WRYLY.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-44422046784583270112016-12-24T23:07:33.270-05:002016-12-24T23:07:33.270-05:00@phil phil, I wouldn't used the phrase 'sa...@phil phil, I wouldn't used the phrase 'sawed off' in mixed company.<br /><br />DHARMA Bums, should you CARe_to_ack on it.Leapfingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14243620614139990887noreply@blogger.com