tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post8183742551998479853..comments2024-03-28T13:00:19.785-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: Banned supplement / THU 5-7-20 / French city that was objective for capture on D-Day / Argus-eyed / Seafood staple of New England / Advertising icon with horns / Diggory student at Hogwarts Rex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger127125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-63533816370708164642021-04-25T15:59:09.703-04:002021-04-25T15:59:09.703-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17780400887153673657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-34177409270478635012021-04-20T10:19:37.197-04:002021-04-20T10:19:37.197-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-84442927609555928892020-06-11T22:30:31.004-04:002020-06-11T22:30:31.004-04:00Also Stealin' by Uriah HEEP: https://www.bing....Also Stealin' by Uriah HEEP: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=uriah+heep&&view=detail&mid=3F2CF89C63E7935972223F2CF89C63E793597222&rvsmid=0D8FE4B901FB4A578AC60D8FE4B901FB4A578AC6&FORM=VDQVAProndonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-50769798076765453222020-06-11T22:27:35.679-04:002020-06-11T22:27:35.679-04:00Worth the time Uriah HEEP Easy Livin': https:/...Worth the time Uriah HEEP Easy Livin': https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=uriah+heep&docid=608045778372003497&mid=0D8FE4B901FB4A578AC60D8FE4B901FB4A578AC6&view=detail&FORM=VIRE<br />rondonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-77121705276463668512020-06-11T16:47:20.539-04:002020-06-11T16:47:20.539-04:00A hater is gonna hate, hate, hate!
And as all you ...A hater is gonna hate, hate, hate!<br />And as all you regulars know:<br />Rex hates, hates Haight! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-30361315646598942532020-06-11T15:55:17.085-04:002020-06-11T15:55:17.085-04:00This seemed medium, maybe even easy-medium for tri...This seemed medium, maybe even easy-medium for tricky Thursday, perhaps because of ignoring the M-W switch. A bit too hidden in the odd, off-beat phrases to care about anyhow.<br /><br />As for the reversed initials of USC and CSU, add the Tennessee Lady VOLS, OSU Buckeyes, IONA College, and Yale ELI's, and you come close making up a college conference of their own--or at least a mini-theme.<br /><br />Dickens' Uriah HEEP is an unforgettable model of smarmy obsequiousness, a despicable character who's left his indelible mark on nineteen century English literature. (How's that for boringly excessive prosiness?) <br /><br />Enough.<br /><br />leftcoasternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-44231627803620557102020-06-11T15:42:40.211-04:002020-06-11T15:42:40.211-04:00When's day mourning? When, I ask you?
sorry,...When's day mourning? When, I ask you?<br /><br />sorry, but it beats Wednesday Morning.<br /><br />Good day sunshine. <br /><br />I did think of Caruso right away - nyah nyah! But had to look up Betty and Sean - once again, done in by PPP. <br /><br />Diana, Lady-in-Waiting for CrosswordsDiana, LIWnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-39249939952654347562020-06-11T13:54:30.979-04:002020-06-11T13:54:30.979-04:00MENSDAYWARNING
WELLOKAY, I MUSTHAVE knew of
your ...MENSDAYWARNING<br /><br />WELLOKAY, I MUSTHAVE knew of<br />your BUTMATE,THERE’S your TRUELOVE.<br /><br />--- CEDRIC HUTTON<br />Burma Shavenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-79498996997681483772020-06-11T13:34:57.618-04:002020-06-11T13:34:57.618-04:00Not sure that I’d turn to Twitter for the straight...Not sure that I’d turn to Twitter for the straight scoop on anything, including puzzles. Is there ever anything positive there? About as often as in OFL’s commentary. ACH so! And let’s get all bent out of shape over MENSDAY at the golf course. Doubly pre-offended.<br /><br />I used a different Frans HALS painting for the background of an Art Appreciation paper. Liberal Arts to the rescue; or at least handy.<br /><br />Betty HUTTON? How about Lauren HUTTON? Yeah baby.<br /><br />The four corners make me SAAB. So does OFL.<br />rondonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-34892619302176957742020-06-11T11:17:42.105-04:002020-06-11T11:17:42.105-04:00I don't mean to GETNASTY, but YIPE! This one&#...I don't mean to GETNASTY, but YIPE! This one's gonna get some BADPR right here. No fewer than three (!) cases of RU (random university), with the Lady VOLS thrown in! A TRUE Natick at sq. 24, albeit guessed correctly--and then I stumble across yet another TTOP. All this is evidence that these constructors simply Do Not Care. Put any old thing in there and it'll be--WELL, OKAY. No.<br /><br />We have seen care taken, so we know it's possible. There's no excuse for this. And then the clues get messed up as well. Of all the ELIs, you pick some general at the Battle of--wait, there was a Battle of Selma???<br /><br />I did notice the M's and W's in the grid, which would have impressed under better circumstances. But I agree with OFC about the central entry. The other two at least spoonerize familiar phrases, so they pass. But just a random part of a random day? I'm channeling "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes."<br /><br />Will you come see me<br />Thursdays and Saturdays;<br />What've you got to lose?<br /><br />You could do this puzzle, that's what. Double bogey.spacecrafthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09125304293611865503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-73409833998234704392020-05-07T22:41:59.242-04:002020-05-07T22:41:59.242-04:00Full moon tonite. Try to catch.
Fifty odd years a...Full moon tonite. Try to catch. <br />Fifty odd years ago. <br />My mother was in the hospital waiting to have my baby brother. <br />Back then didn't want so many people at hospital. <br />She called that night to say hi to me. <br />This was back when phone calls were kind nod of a big deal. <br /><br />She asked where I was in the house. <br />Upstairs in play room. <br />"Look out at the beautiful full moon" she said. <br />She could see it from her hospital room. <br />And I saw fr m the house a few miles away. <br /><br />Next day came home with my baby brother . <br />Every time I see a full moon I think of her and him. <br />I told my nephews he's part werewolf. Born under a full moon. <br />BTW. love a god lunar eclipse. <br />Easy to see. You can look at them. <br />And usually not too crowded.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-37308633570743600342020-05-07T22:31:56.803-04:002020-05-07T22:31:56.803-04:00@webwinger
The NY stats don't factor in who, ...@webwinger<br /><br />The NY stats don't factor in who, if any people the "stay at homes" had contact with.JC66https://www.blogger.com/profile/05324615675333287919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-65335086464285044632020-05-07T22:22:03.091-04:002020-05-07T22:22:03.091-04:00@Z 6:17 pm: Testing all contacts of all new cases ...@Z 6:17 pm: Testing all contacts of all new cases of COVID in the US (now about 25,000 per day) would be an enormous undertaking that is almost impossible to imagine being accomplished at any time in the foreseeable future. This kind of containment effort is most appropriate when dealing with an outbreak originating from a single source. That is more or less what the situation was in South Korea when the virus took hold there in February (<a href="https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/coronavirus-cases-have-dropped-sharply-south-korea-whats-secret-its-success" rel="nofollow">see this article from journal Science</a>): A large portion of early cases, numbering in the hundreds, were linked to a religious group that met in a single location. Korea was primed to get case tracking and testing up and running quickly, having prepared well after being caught off-guard a few years ago by an outbreak of MERS infections. All-told about 300,000 people (from a population of over 50 million) were tested in the course of their successful effort, which resulted in a total of just over 10,000 COVID cases and about 250 deaths. <br /><br />We are hearing that applying such an approach to the US today would require testing as many as 900,000 people per day, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/17/us/coronavirus-testing-states.html?referringSource=articleShare" rel="nofollow">about three times current capacity</a>. There is no evidence that can be achieved within even a matter of months. (It should, of course, be possible to apply contact tracing and testing in localized outbreaks such as have continued to occur in factories and prisons, a significant component of the pandemic’s continuing impact in the US.)<br /><br />Insisting that the only alternative is continued stay-home requirement ignores the fact that stay-home has not been proved to be a highly effective containment strategy. I posted at length on this late evening May 2. Briefly, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html?referringSource=articleShare" rel="nofollow">US states</a> that were aggressive in restricting activity (earlier and more intense effort, including stay-home) do not appear to have done much better than those that were much less so. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/world/coronavirus-maps.html?referringSource=articleShare" rel="nofollow">Internationally</a>, Sweden, with a very lenient policy, has seen more confirmed COVID cases <i>per capita</i> than its Scandinavian neighbors, but by a factor less than 2, and far fewer than the UK or the US. <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2020/05/06/majority-of-new-coronavirus-cases-in-new-york-are-from-people-staying-at-home-not-traveling-or-working/#4d2af69d1655" rel="nofollow">Just yesterday it was reported</a> that about 2/3 of New York’s recent new COVID hospitalizations occurred in people who were staying home, which Governor Cuomo acknowledged came as a surprise.<br /><br />Given the massive economic harm that we are now seeing, due more to stay-home requirements than any other single factor, it seems folly to insist on continuing that policy, particularly because it was instituted before universal masking, and because its stated justification was to <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/13/814602553/coronavirus-faqs-for-the-week-of-3-7-whats-flattening-the-curve-should-i-travel" rel="nofollow">“flatten the curve”</a> in an effort to avoid overwhelming the capacity of healthcare systems to meet demand, and specifically <b>not</b> to reduce cumulative morbidity and mortality. US healthcare facilities are nowhere near capacity now, and we are finally seeing effective widespread counting of hospitalized patients. It’s time to let people out. We will soon learn whether there is need to reintroduce stay-home policies, and can act accordingly.<br />webwingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06094652109001902873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-74140150886252741932020-05-07T21:33:53.472-04:002020-05-07T21:33:53.472-04:00@JC66:
just go look at the Tectonix map. lots of...@JC66:<br /><br />just go look at the Tectonix map. lots of places have it. you'll see NYC lit up like a super nova. not to say that the first Covid came from there, it clearly didn't since the disease was already well on its way by then. but all those asymps mixing in the city surely exacerbated the disease.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-72302885140674445932020-05-07T20:46:24.006-04:002020-05-07T20:46:24.006-04:00CANA and CAEN are awful crosses. 2 places that nob...CANA and CAEN are awful crosses. 2 places that nobody knows about. I just had to guess to get that right. Otherwise a pain in the keester, but I finished it.josh mishellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17697793326271169060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-74086489299044503602020-05-07T20:29:22.622-04:002020-05-07T20:29:22.622-04:00@GILL I and @Other Bakers
You might fine this int...@GILL I and @Other Bakers<br /><br />You might fine <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/climate/how-to-make-yeast.html?campaign_id=57&emc=edit_ne_20200507&instance_id=18305&nl=evening-briefing&regi_id=2428895&segment_id=26860&te=1&user_id=79ef82be72a5c9ea3dda0b96efff5bdf" rel="nofollow">this interesting.</a> JC66https://www.blogger.com/profile/05324615675333287919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-78925611407368418622020-05-07T20:23:16.904-04:002020-05-07T20:23:16.904-04:00I thought this was a terrible puzzle: snobby, anti...I thought this was a terrible puzzle: snobby, antiquated, obscure. (And I’m an English prof in his 60s.) I’ve been doing these for a while, and so will give it a pass. But if I ran into this in my first year of doing crosswords, I’d stop.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08316379159031860155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-8058706646663057942020-05-07T20:22:07.024-04:002020-05-07T20:22:07.024-04:00@Anon 7:39
You may be right, but I've numerou...@Anon 7:39<br /><br />You may be right, but I've numerous studies citing that New York's infection came from Europe...none from "Spring Break."JC66https://www.blogger.com/profile/05324615675333287919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-90771052293077801882020-05-07T19:42:07.366-04:002020-05-07T19:42:07.366-04:00If you're going to defend "Wednesday Morn...If you're going to defend "Wednesday Morning" as a legitimate "thing" on the basis that Wednesdays are often reserved for men at the golf course, we're back in Ned Flanders territory.<br /><br />The base phrase can't also figure, content-wise, into the clue and spoonerized answer. It doesn't on the other two.Joe Dipintohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07922691457886440325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-4898750841518323852020-05-07T19:39:41.223-04:002020-05-07T19:39:41.223-04:00@Z:
try topo.ai Sometimes I forget. What was yo...@Z:<br /><br />try topo.ai Sometimes I forget. What was your question?<br /><br />@JC66:<br /><br />There's never been a question about that. The only issue was where the wee little critters came from since they aren't native to Manhattan, and the first instance increasingly comes to Europe. And the Spring Break idiots, as well. Wouldn't want to shut flights from a Caucasian region, now would we? Yellow Peril is Coming!!!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-54882246512279130102020-05-07T19:36:50.701-04:002020-05-07T19:36:50.701-04:00Hoop fan,
Thank you!!!!Hoop fan,<br />Thank you!!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-21315989586569904482020-05-07T19:27:26.049-04:002020-05-07T19:27:26.049-04:00@Anon 6:46
Looks likeNew York probably was the U...@Anon 6:46<br /><br />Looks like<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/us/new-york-city-coronavirus-outbreak.html?campaign_id=154&emc=edit_cb_20200507&instance_id=18307&nl=coronavirus-briefing&regi_id=2428895&segment_id=26863&te=1&user_id=79ef82be72a5c9ea3dda0b96efff5bdf" rel="nofollow">New York</a> probably was the US's version of Wuhan and Milan.JC66https://www.blogger.com/profile/05324615675333287919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-70135764681212353042020-05-07T19:26:51.028-04:002020-05-07T19:26:51.028-04:00Z,
Now I know where your poor taste comes from. An...Z,<br />Now I know where your poor taste comes from. And I got news for you, yiur wife is an old lady if shes anywhere near your age.<br />Pearls aren't dowdy, they're miraculous. And coveted. That explains the price they command.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-51750765097145349262020-05-07T19:26:13.112-04:002020-05-07T19:26:13.112-04:00Z’s lack of response to Hoop Fan is a first step ...Z’s lack of response to Hoop Fan is a first step in admitting he was wrong. It’s a twelve step program. Good luck guy. Bill W.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-31300583841086171052020-05-07T19:19:48.342-04:002020-05-07T19:19:48.342-04:00@anon 7:07 - “Not even my mom would wear PEARLS.” ...@anon 7:07 - “Not even my mom would wear PEARLS.” (Yes, that is a suggestion that PEARLs are dowdy - and while the women you know may not feel that way, I’m not married to those women)Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16181544219511150272noreply@blogger.com