tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post5905351444607617570..comments2024-03-29T09:29:30.755-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: Comic Fields on old Ed Sullivan shows / TUE 12-15-20 / Annual video game competition for short / Nickname of 1967 NFL Championship Game famously played at about -15Rex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger120125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-90979657669447369142021-09-16T13:20:29.296-04:002021-09-16T13:20:29.296-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.How doctor olu help me to increase my penis sizehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00563003292005595786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-41574639195185164682021-09-16T08:59:54.841-04:002021-09-16T08:59:54.841-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.How doctor olu help me to increase my penis sizehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00563003292005595786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-33243373266507584512021-01-19T18:40:13.497-05:002021-01-19T18:40:13.497-05:00AIRY TOTIE TOTE TOTE
THETIME I HITON ANNE and REN...AIRY TOTIE TOTE TOTE<br /><br />THETIME I HITON ANNE and RENEE<br />BEHINDTHE TEAGARDEN WAS fun,<br />fooling AROUND AS THIRD in THE fray<br />WITH them NAKED UNDERTHESUN.<br /><br />--- GEO. "STUDS" SWANBS2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-7505022003023530962021-01-19T18:14:15.849-05:002021-01-19T18:14:15.849-05:00Sometimes I wish someone would stopthepress, as in...Sometimes I wish someone would stopthepress, as in the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Today the 24a 25a clue was missing; foreign words with diacritics become a mishmash of letters/symbols. Grammatic, typo and format errors are common; no editors. Newspapers are truly dying. <br /><br />RENEE Z, if you ASKME.<br /><br />Even if, in someone's opinion, the puz WAS BEHINDTHETIMES, it WAS just fine.rondonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-81692285523786198682021-01-19T15:26:49.710-05:002021-01-19T15:26:49.710-05:00EYE ME MINE
THETIME I HITON RENEE
BEHINDTHE TEAGA...EYE ME MINE<br /><br />THETIME I HITON RENEE<br />BEHINDTHE TEAGARDEN WAS fun,<br />fooling AROUNDTHE SPORTy way,<br />AS we were NAKED UNDERTHESUN.<br /><br />--- SAM “MAC” ADUE<br />Burma Shavenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-6179352461349322782021-01-19T14:46:32.817-05:002021-01-19T14:46:32.817-05:00So let’s just keep things simple and neat, as with...So let’s just keep things simple and neat, as with this theme. It works fine.<br /><br />OTOH, there’s ZEBO and EVO. And aren’t repeated versions of movies like “A Star is Born" called REMAKEs, not REMADEs? That, even if the crossing ADUE sounds more likely than AkUE? Which is where I ended up.<br /><br />Guess not.leftcoasternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-28914858999789540302021-01-19T14:31:39.610-05:002021-01-19T14:31:39.610-05:00Tuesday was easier than Monday in my puzzledom. B...Tuesday was easier than Monday in my puzzledom. But at least we now know all about Roy. BUTMA might have something to say.<br /><br />Diana, Lady-in-Waiting - still in awe of all constructors!Diana, LIWnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-69578156599846145712021-01-19T11:22:06.243-05:002021-01-19T11:22:06.243-05:00A symmetrical set: STUDS HITON RENEE. Can't bl...A symmetrical set: STUDS HITON RENEE. Can't blame them:<br /><br />Don't walk away<br />RENEE;<br />Stay and be<br />My DOD.<br /><br />I'll leave NAKED to @Burma. This was a choppy grid with lots of "weejects." But the theme works, and the fill ranges from wow (TRUEDAT) to uh-oh (APCALC et al.) For a debut, not bad. Can't give it more than a par, but there's a hint of promise here. Keep at it, Adam.spacecrafthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09125304293611865503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-56552942274289769552021-01-19T11:02:30.339-05:002021-01-19T11:02:30.339-05:00You know it’s a sad situation when the story of Ro...You know it’s a sad situation when the story of Roy Dimaggio’s small penis is more entertaining than the puzzle itself.thefogmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01870509029973778266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-49277231157845853012020-12-23T21:29:30.990-05:002020-12-23T21:29:30.990-05:00Thanks to Dr YEMI for helping me increase the si...Thanks to Dr YEMI for helping me increase the size of my Penis. I have been married for 5 years and due to my small Penis I was unable to satisfy my wife and that made us childless and my wife planned to leave me I was really disappointed with myself and I was also having weak erection I thought all my hope was gone not until I saw a testimony on how the same Dr YEMI helped someone increase his Penis size. I was desperate to do anything to regain my sex life back and I contacted him and he promise to help me so I he gave me a herbal mixture which i was using and after three days I began to experience changes. I am writing this testimony not only because he has helped me increase the size of my Penis, I can now satisfy my wife and my wife is three months pregnant. All thanks to Dr YEMI if you are having a weak erection problem or small Penis size contact him with his email (doctoryemiherbalcenter@gmail.com) or whats app him +2349031989367Roy Dimaggiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12326888742852137907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-86166832725448859202020-12-16T08:55:11.375-05:002020-12-16T08:55:11.375-05:00Did you read any of the prior comments on this?Did you read any of the prior comments on this?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-78063615298102537162020-12-16T03:12:16.212-05:002020-12-16T03:12:16.212-05:00Totally agree with your review, Rex. Yeech!Totally agree with your review, Rex. Yeech!Mr. Alarmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07872240736558100541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-63996452739651600072020-12-16T00:45:19.265-05:002020-12-16T00:45:19.265-05:00Tuesday had incorrect clue Book of Ruth woman w...Tuesday had incorrect clue Book of Ruth woman wasORPAH not Oprah<br />jaymarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02748854807699713294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-44631914756791826702020-12-15T22:23:26.919-05:002020-12-15T22:23:26.919-05:00Thank you for your nice comment, @Chinch. I appre...Thank you for your nice comment, @Chinch. I appreciate it.Nancyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16737377749030219974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-55505951525620057622020-12-15T21:00:28.857-05:002020-12-15T21:00:28.857-05:00@Me 839pm
Said party with sumo wresters was at sai...@Me 839pm<br />Said party with sumo wresters was at said Tea Garden.albatross shellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04076278220407657633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-83005134670175217212020-12-15T20:39:50.252-05:002020-12-15T20:39:50.252-05:00@ sanfranciscoman
Actually after I posted I did so...@ sanfranciscoman<br />Actually after I posted I did some Google searching and saw some photos of the Sanfrancisco Japanese Tea Garden. Beautiful place. I love that stuff. Also found an article on a 1906 Japanese-American friendship birthday party for the Emperor. Some politics involved. But the party did seem to have some problems involving photographers chasing down sumo wrestlers. <br />More research suggested my inference might have been correct: In Japan Tea Gardens are devoted to Tea ceremonies. Maybe not exactly parties. This seems like it doesn't hold up in the American version. Maybe someone with more than Google knowledge may enlighten me.<br /><br />@Nancy<br />I was wondering why no one challenged the Clement book. Quite odd that the Clement book and dictionaries seem to imply a rhyme where you cannot accept one. I can hear a difference and my tongue seems to be in a different position and it seems more natural to hold the sound with BLUE than CUE. And sometimes YOU seems to me to be halfway between them.<br />In this world of near rhymes and partial rhymes I am not sure this rhyme (shoe cue, say) would necessarily sound false or ruin anything. Might depend on the context and singer or the rapidity of words. albatross shellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04076278220407657633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-52136863353362386662020-12-15T20:09:11.704-05:002020-12-15T20:09:11.704-05:00@sanfranman59 - Viva le Bell Curve!@sanfranman59 - Viva le Bell Curve!jaehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03385568014046336373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-14632441347778859172020-12-15T19:35:57.626-05:002020-12-15T19:35:57.626-05:00@Z (6:01pm) ... re "Personally I think going ...@Z (6:01pm) ... re "Personally I think going to rank choice voting would be a good thing." ... I used to think so too until I was a poll inspector in San Francisco when they implemented it there. You wouldn't believe how confused people got about it, no matter how carefully I tried to explain it. I'm pretty sure that it's led to a lot more ballots being rejected because people just don't understand what they're doing. If memory serves (which it doesn't always, I'm afraid), at first they rejected ballots where the voter marked the same candidate for first, second and third choice. I think they relaxed that rule after the first ranked choice election.<br /><br />Sanfranman's first rule of elections: Never overestimate voters' ability to understand how to fill out a ballot. Corollary to the first rule: Never underestimate voters' tendency to get confused over even the simplest of concepts.sanfranman59https://www.blogger.com/profile/15118732156312301425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-2726047042067738322020-12-15T18:57:41.229-05:002020-12-15T18:57:41.229-05:00@pabloinnh 531pm I dunno..."crabtraps" ...@pabloinnh 531pm I dunno..."crabtraps" seems eerily reminiscent of an STD or something picked up from public toilet seats. Frantic Slothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02614296873700797321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-40087655717584616932020-12-15T18:01:24.217-05:002020-12-15T18:01:24.217-05:00@TJS - Yeah, it’s true. Someone mentions that they...@TJS - Yeah, it’s true. Someone mentions that they didn’t quite get something somebody wrote and I will try to explain if it hasn’t been explained yet. <br /><br />@Wharsername - I noticed the mouse was back with their own “facts.”<br /><br />@burtonkd - <i>based on ones idiosyncrasies and not on a fair universal standard</i> - Take out “universal” and I’m right with you. As long as a fair standard is used I’m willing to go along. There are times (today for example) where I think Rex misapplies his own standard, but his standards themselves are pretty widely accepted:<br />Pay attention to fill - it matters and bad fill can ruin the solving experience<br />Themes should be internally consistent<br />Entries should be “in the language” (however debatable what “in the language” means is)<br />There should be a cross section of culture entries including across time and across areas of interest<br />Stunt puzzles, feats of construction, should be avoided unless you’re good enough to make your feat interesting to solve, too. <br />If you have to use something obscure make sure the crossing entries are fair.<br />There are some others but those seem to me to be the biggies. <br /><br />I would say all those are nearly universal (except maybe that stunt puzzle one - stunt puzzles seem to have a fan club). Even so, there is disagreement on how to weigh those standards against each other. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone completely reject any of them, though. For example, even Rex has written “the theme was so well done that the junk fill didn’t bother me.” Of course, some of Rex tastes and preferences elicit more debate, like the Lee standard. <br /><br />@11:23 - Shockingly, in the 14 years of this blog the question has been raised before about what kind of instructor Rex might be. Equally shocking, there’s this thing called “google” that helps one find answers to such questions. If you’re really curious you can also find his various online ratings by his students. Last time I looked my take away is that good students really liked him, but woe (or maybe “whoa”) to the person who thought a class on comics was going to be easy. <br /><br />re: <b>OPRAH</b> - I’m named after the god of war, but my name isn’t Mars. It happens, sometimes thousands of years ago, sometimes by our parents. (btw - with a C not a K - Why? Ask my mom)<br /><br />@Canon Chasuble & @TTrimble - I’m not sure what the current stats are, but it used to be that relatively few high schools offered both AB and BC, so it was just called AP CALC. To be fair, BC is just AB plus two units, so as with many things related to naming math courses, the entire AB/BC thing is essentially arbitrary. <br /><br />@Frantic Sloth 4:10 (plus @okanaganer & @jberg) - That’s because the electoral meaning comes from <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17133848-the-history-of-horse-racing" rel="nofollow">horse racing.</a> For example, <a href="https://www.dreamstime.com/editorial-image-finish-line-churchill-downs-historic-louisville-kentucky-image52741170" rel="nofollow">here is the finish line at Churchill Downs.</a> I am surprised that nobody else seems to have heard it used except in reference to voting. I’m hardly a horse racing fan and it struck me as something I’ve heard before, almost surely in reference to the Triple Crown races. <br />@jberg - <i>Except in Maine, too complicated to go into.</i> I was going to disagree until I watched <a href="https://www.maine.gov/sos/cec/elec/upcoming/rcv.html" rel="nofollow">Maine’s explainer video explain it wrong.</a> I thought maybe I didn’t understand the specifics in Maine, <a href="https://www.maine.gov/sos/cec/elec/upcoming/pdf/250c535-2018-230-complete.pdf" rel="nofollow">but no, the video just treats ballots as exhausted before the rules say to.</a> If the official explainer elides over steps (I assume because it gets people confused) I can hardly argue that the process isn’t too complicated. Personally I think going to rank choice voting would be a good thing. Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16181544219511150272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-14618211155233436372020-12-15T17:31:08.442-05:002020-12-15T17:31:08.442-05:00A crossword blog is for learning, I am constantly ...A crossword blog is for learning, I am constantly reminded.<br /><br />"First past the post" is one I had not heard, and now I have, and know what it means. Thanks to those of you that knew that.<br /><br />Crab pots exist, although they too were previously unknown to me, so thanks for that too. I think the that the term "lobstah pahts" is more memorable than "crab pots", just because of the internal rhyme, and therefore suggest that they always be called "crab traps", for the same reason. In fact, I think the "Baltimore Crab Trappers" would be an excellent team name. Their choice of a sport is of course up to them.pabloinnhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04967477079504866917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-67628121494144352362020-12-15T17:26:39.119-05:002020-12-15T17:26:39.119-05:00My daughter has been killing AP Calc all Fall on z...My daughter has been killing AP Calc all Fall on zoom @Canon Chasuble 2.51 PMchinchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02174625541060546588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-74419005900221770672020-12-15T17:18:00.074-05:002020-12-15T17:18:00.074-05:00I liked the theme, and pretty much flew through th...I liked the theme, and pretty much flew through the puzzle (well, by my standards anyway) but still had a big empty space with the first letter to 4 down (or last to 1A). As Rex says, standard crosswordese, but totally drawing a blank anyway. Had to run the alphabet to fill in (and then facepalm) which, in this case, meant completely running the alphabet. Urrgh.Dave Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12186065163092602289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-45292016345044873022020-12-15T17:14:12.252-05:002020-12-15T17:14:12.252-05:00Does anyone know if this year's Supermega puzz...Does anyone know if this year's Supermega puzzle is available online for subscribers? I contacted the NY Times via chat and they said it was available for subscribers under the Crossword Archives but I didn't see it. I'm not sure that information was correct. I would pay for a paper copy but it is currently out of stock at the NY Times Store. <br />Thank you in advance.Diane Joannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-22861824792057762822020-12-15T17:05:20.445-05:002020-12-15T17:05:20.445-05:00Fun post @Nancy 9.10 AMFun post @Nancy 9.10 AMchinchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02174625541060546588noreply@blogger.com