tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post7774805844340318756..comments2024-03-29T01:22:33.864-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: THURSDAY, Oct. 9, 2008 - Doug Peterson (Constellation with a music-related name / Nieuwpoort's river / Rock band triple-platinum album "High Voltage")Rex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-15517774705827965372008-10-10T10:02:00.000-04:002008-10-10T10:02:00.000-04:00@andrea carl michaels nee eisenbergYou couldn't IM...@andrea carl michaels nee eisenberg<BR/>You couldn't IMProve it!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-60380301588843737682008-10-10T05:54:00.000-04:002008-10-10T05:54:00.000-04:00LBO = Leveraged buyout.ESSO = EXXON in Canada. U...LBO = Leveraged buyout.<BR/>ESSO = EXXON in Canada. Used to be caled ESSO in parts of the US but they unified under the name EXXON in the 70s.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-2366530523605474202008-10-10T05:43:00.000-04:002008-10-10T05:43:00.000-04:00@physssssss,,,,No.@physssssss,,,,<BR/><BR/>No.green mantishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01823785147354157816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-31399896829077261232008-10-10T03:16:00.000-04:002008-10-10T03:16:00.000-04:00Add me to the pile of folks who loved this puzzle....Add me to the pile of folks who loved this puzzle. Working on the puzzle on the train after visiting the family for Yom Kippur, I decided, for some unknown reason, to start off on the bottom today. Got 52A (LITTLE DEVILS) pretty early on, so I already had IMPs on the brain when I ran across GLIMPSE/IMPALE, and TIGER SHRIMP/IMPROV. The MISSION IMPOSSIBLE/WRITING IMPLEMENT cross then came very easily to me, and the rest was cake.<BR/><BR/>With one exception; the only blank space in my puzzle was the last letter of 41A. Since I know virtually nothing about the financial markets, can someone explain to me what an LBO is? Not knowing what ESSO is either, the "O" was my only unfilled box.<BR/><BR/>Cheers,<BR/>Ronathan :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-67234856594545734992008-10-10T02:38:00.000-04:002008-10-10T02:38:00.000-04:00@sethYeths to all Seths...@johoIMPressive! ha!@twa...@seth<BR/>Yeths to all Seths...<BR/><BR/>@joho<BR/>IMPressive! ha!<BR/><BR/>@twangster<BR/>Thank you! I will count that as now having gone to services!<BR/>But along with your skepticism about K,Y and Z, what happened to H, T and U???!!!<BR/>(Funny, "twangster" doesn't sound Jewish! U nu?)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-52279513176658447732008-10-10T00:10:00.000-04:002008-10-10T00:10:00.000-04:00@Steve,3:24pm -- Perhaps too late for me to nitpic...@Steve,3:24pm -- Perhaps too late for me to nitpick, but I agree that the clue for 2D was (though IMPishly playful) weak if not inaccurate. Curious George was indeed a monkey, and not a chimp if I read my sources correctly. Monkeys are specifically long-tailed primates, whereas chimps are tailless primates like their brethren in the ape group such as gorillas, gibbons, etc.<BR/>Nevertheless, this puzzle was wonderful fun.Mimihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01260490837860523999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-56721922892646271592008-10-09T23:39:00.000-04:002008-10-09T23:39:00.000-04:00@physsciteacher, do you think anyone has any real ...@physsciteacher, do you think anyone has any real clue about the LONG TERM IMPACT of this fiasco?foodiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13052189131129098616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-16461678829129836032008-10-09T23:22:00.000-04:002008-10-09T23:22:00.000-04:00I LUVed this rebus puzzle though I will admit it t...I LUVed this rebus puzzle though I will admit it took me too long to get the rebus theme even though I had initially guessed MISSION IMPOSSIBLE and TIGER SHRIMP but gave up when they did not fit. When I finially realized it I almost IMPALED myself with my pencil as I was hitting myself in the forehead. I almost repeated the act when I listened to the Captain and Tennile clip. <BR/><BR/>Speaking of politics I would like to see more IMPROV and less canned speeches in the debates. Will anyone actually answer the questions? None of the canditates (I'm only speaking of the ones who can actually string a coherent sentence together without reading from notes) want to speak about the LONG TERM IMPACT of our cuurent financial crisis.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-13237525705618502422008-10-09T20:40:00.000-04:002008-10-09T20:40:00.000-04:00Hi Rex, I met your best friend in the LA Times cro...Hi Rex, I met your best friend in the LA Times crossword puzzle.machttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06794371617847975218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-15037966934960504122008-10-09T20:20:00.000-04:002008-10-09T20:20:00.000-04:00Loved the puzzle. Would have had trouble if I did...Loved the puzzle. Would have had trouble if I didn't know there were going to be 7 of them. Had to seriously hunt down the last 3 IMPs.sillygoosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03483946342170291849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-72882802001699573302008-10-09T19:29:00.000-04:002008-10-09T19:29:00.000-04:00Stupid rebus! Why can't I finish this puzzle? I kn...Stupid rebus! Why can't I finish this puzzle? I know the answers they just won't fit! OH! Right...<BR/>It's Thursday and rebusses (rebi? McEntire?) always fall on a Thursday... nerts!<BR/>Actually, this was not a bad rebus puzzle at all. Having started with MISSON...and WRITING... it was (semi)smooth sailing the rest of the way.<BR/><BR/>HA! MUNGBEAN!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-10333166862732437082008-10-09T17:17:00.000-04:002008-10-09T17:17:00.000-04:00Thanks, mantis. Our Tshirts are already on order. ...Thanks, mantis. Our Tshirts are already on order. <BR/>(And, until Tuesday, I always thought that T.O. was a badass football player!)fikinkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06324570637549775751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-31663105211978113572008-10-09T17:06:00.000-04:002008-10-09T17:06:00.000-04:00@dk that was great.@dk that was great.chefbeahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15195945085405126511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-37024390632784941802008-10-09T17:00:00.000-04:002008-10-09T17:00:00.000-04:00Snappy puzzle. Now that that's out of the way, ma...Snappy puzzle. <BR/><BR/>Now that that's out of the way, may I direct your attention to a website dedicated to <A HREF="http://www.thatone08.com/" REL="nofollow">someone</A> who is apparently running for national office.green mantishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01823785147354157816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-19558737384409807652008-10-09T16:55:00.000-04:002008-10-09T16:55:00.000-04:00@mac: My tomatillos got an early start in the gar...@mac: My tomatillos got an early start in the garden, but are just developing now! I have a long-range plan for the pork chops in my freezer, subject to change in the event an early frost annihilates the tomatillos.miriam bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03506593846362044050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-60795050310329843752008-10-09T16:53:00.000-04:002008-10-09T16:53:00.000-04:00Everyone, you must check out dk's link. It is too ...Everyone, you must check out dk's link. It is too funny.<BR/>@ dk, thank you, I have put it to good use (hope it works for me).Two Ponieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06896743444873087885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-59634425871906380612008-10-09T15:42:00.000-04:002008-10-09T15:42:00.000-04:00@imsdave etal,Bu·nin (b?nin, -nyin), Ivan Alekseev...@imsdave etal,<BR/><BR/>Bu·nin (b?nin, -nyin), Ivan Alekseevich<BR/>1870-1953<BR/><BR/>Russian writer best known for his short stories, such as “The Gentleman from San Francisco” (1916). He lived in exile in Paris after 1919 and won the 1933 Nobel Prize for literature.<BR/><BR/>RTAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-29298194110008465212008-10-09T15:30:00.000-04:002008-10-09T15:30:00.000-04:00fun puzzle today. When I got luv I knew 66 across ...fun puzzle today. When I got luv I knew 66 across had to be improv and then it all came together. It did take a while to figure out where all the imps went.<BR/><BR/>@Rex Amway used to be a company that sold cleaning products. I think they now sell other items as well.<BR/><BR/>Having pot roast tonight and will make chinese chicken salad with left over chicken - thanks Ina Gartenchefbeahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15195945085405126511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-49871562466116482172008-10-09T15:24:00.000-04:002008-10-09T15:24:00.000-04:00Was Curious George a chimp? I thought he was a "c...Was Curious George a chimp? I thought he was a "curious little monkey." But maybe that was just the PBS theme song:<BR/><BR/>"Curious George, the curious little monkey!<BR/>Let's see what he's up to today!"<BR/><BR/>Anyone?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-28520766142776027942008-10-09T14:49:00.000-04:002008-10-09T14:49:00.000-04:00Speaking of LONGTERMIMPACT, I need to quote here a...Speaking of LONGTERMIMPACT, I need to quote here a potential future VP of the USA and subject of a brilliant recent puzzle by Rex & PG:<BR/><BR/> “With the impacts of climate change, what we can do about that, as governor, I was the first governor to form a climate change subcabinet to start dealing with the impacts.”<BR/><BR/> AND, in response to Katie Couric: “You know, there are man’s activities that can be contributed to the issues that we’re dealing with now, with these impacts.” You can find these and more in a recent article by Maureen Dawd <BR/><A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/opinion/05dowd.html?ex=1239076800&en=956eb6c64b447de9&ei=5087&excamp=NYT-E-I-NYT-E-AT-1008-L2&WT.mc_ev=click&WT.mc_id=NYT-E-I-NYT-E-AT-1008-L2" REL="nofollow">what the devil? </A><BR/><BR/>Loved the puzzle. I had the Nobel Prize on my mind, as I know one of the winners of the Chemistry Prize just announced. So, for a while, for "Peak Performance" I had NOBEL for YODEL... <BR/><BR/>@ Ulrich and artlvr, the colorful proteins that led to the Nobel Prize have given rise to some beautiful real images of the brain that look like modern art. Just google "Brainbow" and look under images...foodiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13052189131129098616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-56035351357636783352008-10-09T14:46:00.000-04:002008-10-09T14:46:00.000-04:00@ miriamb -- Thinking of Vlad III, Prince of Walla...@ miriamb -- Thinking of Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia called "Vlad the IMPALEr" and otherwise known as Dracula, along with the IMPS -- maybe because Halloween ads are upon us already. Eeew.ArtLvrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03869528391374878601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-22816425342973775762008-10-09T14:44:00.000-04:002008-10-09T14:44:00.000-04:00Rebuses (Rebui?) are little like heroin: They nev...Rebuses (Rebui?) are little like heroin: They never provide that same ecstatic aaahh I received when I solved that very first one and yet I crave them every Thursday. <BR/>I dirtied up my grid by prematurely inking in JumboSHRIMP for TIGER: the anal retention just seethes with the overwriting. I had trouble with 64A – wanted an answer in the singular since Doug clued it that way. Not much time wasted there. <BR/><BR/>When I threw my first make out on my first girlfriend I remember clearly AC/DC Highway to Hell playing in the back ground. What a romanticAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-52178634156109505062008-10-09T14:41:00.000-04:002008-10-09T14:41:00.000-04:00What a good puzzle. Did anyone take the time to f...What a good puzzle. Did anyone take the time to figure out who this BUNIN guy is? I rated it an easy, but that's only because of the following sob story. <BR/><BR/>I've been working on an IMP puzzle on and off for the past couple of months. I have many of the same words, with the structural differences only being that I had LITTLE in the NW corner and DEVILS in the SE, and that my answers were all two words, with 22A, with 18 D etc. SHRIMP SCAMPI, SKIMPY SKIRT, SCARLET PIMPERNEL, et al.<BR/>Trying to slavishly make the theme answers symmetrical was my downfall, and as with most of the crap I try and do, I ended up with the almost inevitable (to me) unresolvable section of the puzzle.<BR/><BR/>Answer to 'And what made the comedian great?'<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>'Timing'.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for letting me sigh out loud.imsdavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12966770844825169981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-28441022404435487552008-10-09T14:28:00.000-04:002008-10-09T14:28:00.000-04:00Expanding my knowledge with direction from the NYT...Expanding my knowledge with direction from the NYT, I looked at the Wiki entry for Captain and Tennille. About Toni:<BR/><BR/>"...performing backup on no fewer than three Elton John albums including "Caribou", "Blue Moves", and "21 at 33" (some vocally arranged by Dragon) and most notably (and prominently) on the powerful rock song "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me". She also appeared as a backup vocalist on tracks by Art Garfunkel and The Beach Boys, as well as Pink Floyd for whom she performed backing tracks on "The Wall" album.<BR/><BR/>In the liner notes of the Captain & Tennille anthology Ultimate Collection: The Complete Greatest Hits, Tennille explains how her work on Pink Floyd's album gained her at least one new fan:<BR/><BR/>I went to see the [Pink Floyd] concert at the Sports Arena in Los Angeles. There was a 15-year-old boy sitting in front of me who recognized me. He turned around and snottily said, "What are YOU doing here?" So I told him I sang on the album. He ran off to find a friend who had brought the LP to the show, and looked at the back to see if my name was really on there. A few minutes later, he came back and apologetically said, "Can I have your autograph?"Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10389790318218161090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-22635594237967143262008-10-09T14:25:00.000-04:002008-10-09T14:25:00.000-04:00@dk, oh yes, indeed, very impressive.@dk, oh yes, indeed, very impressive.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com