tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post8232681385099890897..comments2024-03-28T20:26:11.908-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: Harp-shaped constellation / MON 2-8-21 / Record label co-founded by Jay-Z / Liz's best friend on 30 Rock / Banned pollutant in briefRex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger114125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-54458608300920203052021-03-15T18:32:51.145-04:002021-03-15T18:32:51.145-04:00Not sure where my post went. I used long words - ...Not sure where my post went. I used long words - longer than DISCOMBOBULATED. Like "antidisestablishmentarianism" and "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious." Do you believe that's in "spellcheck?" It is!<br /><br />Yes, a challenge for a Monday - and fun, too.<br /><br />Diana, Lady-in-Waiting for Crosswords<br /><br />PS - I also noted the Syndie button lag that @Spacey mentions. Diana, LIWnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-6799197689541624602021-03-15T16:42:10.275-04:002021-03-15T16:42:10.275-04:00An unusually challenging and interesting Monday.
...An unusually challenging and interesting Monday. <br /> <br />Got the last answers in the bottom-middle: EMOPOP, TAPAS, MEDUSA, and RANTS, but no PUNs. And not DISCOMBOBULATED but OHSO entertained!<br /><br /> NICEJOB, Portia Lundie.<br />leftcoasternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-28223536261451967802021-03-15T13:08:33.972-04:002021-03-15T13:08:33.972-04:00OHSO EVIL
MEDUSA was a PRIESTESS who STRAYED,
no ...OHSO EVIL<br /><br />MEDUSA was a PRIESTESS who STRAYED,<br />no COWARD to STOP and ADORE her crown,<br />but Athena DISCOMBOBULATED her BRAID,<br />so don't ASK,"MEDUSA, LETYOURHAIRDOWN."<br /><br />--- BOB MCCOYBurma Shavenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-38702241409701904532021-03-15T11:01:32.828-04:002021-03-15T11:01:32.828-04:00I was absolutely DISCOMBOBULATED when I read OFC&#...I was absolutely DISCOMBOBULATED when I read OFC's report. He actually LIKED this!!! What about the fill? Just look at the north central. Wait: how about the ENTIRE north line east of JADA? Not a vowel to be found! And the...I can't go on; I have things to do today, and<br /><br />HAVING TO SEARCH FOR THIS PUZZLE BY TITLE BECAUSE THE @#$%^&* SYNDICATOR IS AGAIN ASLEEP!!!<br /><br />is not one of them! I'll just mention one more: of the myriad Monday ways to clue ALI, this is what we get? Mah--I can't even spell it!!<br /><br />This puzzle rates like a score for the 17th at TPC Sawgrass after some dude who shall remain nameless put four (!) balls in the water. That was, I believe, an 11.spacecrafthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09125304293611865503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-85704532171009823662021-03-15T10:46:06.221-04:002021-03-15T10:46:06.221-04:00It’s the editor who decides what day the puzzle wi...It’s the editor who decides what day the puzzle will appear in the paper, not the constructor. So that’s on Will Shortz not Portia Lundie. A fine debut puzzle nonetheless. Bravo!thefogmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01870509029973778266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-65127755789794859882021-02-11T14:52:57.482-05:002021-02-11T14:52:57.482-05:00Parallel to the Tom BRAIDer comments above, I must...Parallel to the Tom BRAIDer comments above, I must have been really tired on Monday because I couldn’t for the life of me figure out what a Tom Braid was - was it a special name for the hairstyle that Lara Croft wears? Did Tom Brady inspire a certain kind of haircut? Then I googled it, and SMH. Peterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14011411653388397626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-6668437676793573972021-02-09T23:20:52.393-05:002021-02-09T23:20:52.393-05:00Yes the long answers (which were fab) went in inst...Yes the long answers (which were fab) went in instantly so I came in regular Monday time. Loved it. Amynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-44351891698040564382021-02-09T09:53:17.164-05:002021-02-09T09:53:17.164-05:00@oceanjeremy 11:59 PM
I apologize for not putting...@oceanjeremy 11:59 PM<br /><br />I apologize for not putting up a "Spoiler" warning on my previous post. If you read only the first paragraph (containing the specifics of the puzzle itself) you're good to go.<br /><br />Don't scroll down at all, if you don't want hints. I accidentally viewed the first hint, which is pretty much a no-brainer.<br /><br />I've been working on this puzzle for years, filling up pages in my puzzles scratch pad, and so far, no cigar. <br /><br />Good luck! 🤓<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_DxNpW1kHQ" rel="nofollow">Peace ~</a> Health ~ Hope ~ Equality for all ~ Teamwork 🕊<br />bocamphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02524629632075020985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-82579728526640527702021-02-09T08:32:03.427-05:002021-02-09T08:32:03.427-05:00@oceanjeremy 11:59 PM
Good luck! "The Hardes...@oceanjeremy 11:59 PM<br /><br />Good luck! <a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2012/06/13/185681/the-hardest-logic-puzzle-ever-made-even-harder/#:~:text=In%201996%2C%20the%20mathematical%20logician,True%2C%20False%2C%20and%20Random." rel="nofollow">"The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever" Made Even Harder.</a><br /><br />"In 1996, the mathematical logician George Boolos published a paper describing 'the hardest logic puzzle ever' which he attributed to the logician Raymond Smullyan." (by Emerging Technology from the arXivarchive page on MIT Technology Review)<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_DxNpW1kHQ" rel="nofollow">Peace ~</a> Health ~ Hope ~ Equality for all ~ Teamwork 🕊<br /><br /><br />bocamphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02524629632075020985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-75545055646333851512021-02-08T23:59:24.078-05:002021-02-08T23:59:24.078-05:00Thanks for the YouTube recommendation — though I l...Thanks for the YouTube recommendation — though I loathe YouTube and I’m not that technical of a guitarist. When I was a Theory Major in college my instrument was voice. Gave me a leg up in Jr High because my choral instructor taught all of us how to sight sing. When I got to college my Aural Skills lab teacher gave me an A in class most days and in exchange I’d run over exercises with the trumpet majors. If you’re studying theory and your instrument is voice, I always said your real instrument is your ear. Helpful in the studio as I can passably (somewhat) play any instrument — except for the ones where crafting timbre takes decades (bowed strings, e.g.).<br /><br />Looked up and down for @bocamp’s logic puzzle you’re discussing. Don’t see it. Very curious!oceanjeremyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11021556433258685225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-85017097523462064132021-02-08T23:50:43.649-05:002021-02-08T23:50:43.649-05:00I’m 100% 1st Gen SE until it dies out. I’m also pr...I’m 100% 1st Gen SE until it dies out. I’m also protective of my headphone jack. I got an insurance plan on it so I get SE replacements every time it craps out until there are no more 1st Gen SEs to replace it.<br /><br />I might just leave Apple whenever that happens...oceanjeremyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11021556433258685225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-67364715665905491592021-02-08T23:19:07.597-05:002021-02-08T23:19:07.597-05:00Yes! And the only airport I know with a used books...Yes! And the only airport I know with a used bookstore<br />Heidihohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16896459744990852368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-79771264155417160012021-02-08T22:13:57.984-05:002021-02-08T22:13:57.984-05:00Do you ever get tired of making moronically sexist...Do you ever get tired of making moronically sexist comments that you apparently believe to be amusing and clever? Didn't think so. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-9660943993528082702021-02-08T21:22:57.501-05:002021-02-08T21:22:57.501-05:00Bill Russell is not in my top ten. And I remember...Bill Russell is not in my top ten. And I remember those Celtic championship teams.....but I don't come here to debate sports. And especially not politics! Just an awful slog, this puzzle. It's not that it is difficult for a Monday; I 'd have disliked it just as much on any other day of the week. SOME pop culture, sure! But Jada crossing Jenna - I got lucky. Ant man and the wasp? Mahershala? Alt country? Emopop? Rocafella? Yoda? jLO "from the block"? There were more. Most of these (the Jada cross exempted) are unobjectionable, but annoying to me. But this high a concentration of pop trivia should be avoided. <br />oisk17https://www.blogger.com/profile/08487852763731817532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-80217794557042309132021-02-08T20:44:03.660-05:002021-02-08T20:44:03.660-05:00I had an average Monday time, but a couple really ...I had an average Monday time, but a couple really tricky clues made it feel a lot harder than a normal Monday. AFTS, PCB, TOUTS, ADORE, and DR. RUTH all tripped me up in ways that normal Mondays don't do. Loved the theme and DISCOMBOBULATED, though.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-18827444547957103622021-02-08T20:20:18.684-05:002021-02-08T20:20:18.684-05:00@6:17
you younguns!!!
Bill Russell changed the g...@6:17<br /><br />you younguns!!!<br /><br />Bill Russell changed the game, and won more trophies than anyone before or since or likely ever. Auerbach did have the advantage of the times when ball players were essentially indentured. But still, none of the players of the last few decades, when they could arrange for the combination with just about any other player(s) they wanted, have come close. And, further, there's the (specious) argument that talent has been watered down since the 70s or 80s, so Russell played against more better players than Jordan or James. Remember: Russell wiped the floor with Chamberlain start to finish.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-76186716441942039472021-02-08T19:38:35.918-05:002021-02-08T19:38:35.918-05:00@Anoa Bob (12:30) Per the Urban Dictionary:
bobul...@Anoa Bob (12:30) Per the Urban Dictionary:<br /><br />bobulate<br />verb. 1. The opposite of discombobulate. To compose, or to leave confusion. 2. To leave a state of bewilderment and enter a state of rightness. 3. To full on thrash befuddlement.Joaquinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03744952152768979913noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-21362426184539967422021-02-08T19:26:24.492-05:002021-02-08T19:26:24.492-05:00Definitely tougher than usual for me.
I loved @Ba...Definitely tougher than usual for me.<br /><br />I loved @Barbara S’s take on the camaraderie on this blog. It’s really very inviting and enjoyable; thanks to the @Mods for keeping it that way.<br /><br />@JOHN X seems to be particularly fine form today ;-)oriordanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11557251907978545881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-43593448449430626492021-02-08T18:48:34.029-05:002021-02-08T18:48:34.029-05:00Overdoing the topic of ASTORIA here. But if you mi...Overdoing the topic of ASTORIA here. But if you might think that the neighborhood was called eSTORIA, surely the existence of the world-famous Waldorf-Astoria Hotel would give you a hint.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-55560542001623754522021-02-08T18:17:23.432-05:002021-02-08T18:17:23.432-05:00Never a Tom Brady fan but I admit he’s unarguably ...Never a Tom Brady fan but I admit he’s unarguably the greatest of all time in his sport: <br />My list: <br />Football: Brady<br />Hockey: Gretzky<br />Basketball: Jordan<br />Baseball: Ruth (that one is debatable above three are not)<br />Golf: Woods<br />Tennis: Federer<br />Soccer (metric football): Pele <br />Horse Racing: Secretariat<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-22906592766896290642021-02-08T17:37:56.390-05:002021-02-08T17:37:56.390-05:00@Anoa Bob (12:30) Re DR RUTH. I wasn't going ...@Anoa Bob (12:30) Re DR RUTH. I wasn't going to say this, but your "cheerful and positive" remark has driven me to it. DR. RUTH is a real diva and from my observations, a real pain in the ass.<br /><br />Of course it serves me right to have witnessed it by going to the most expensive Designer Floor at Bergdorf Goodman's to amuse myself when, in mid-winter, I was early for a dentist appointment right across the street from Berdorf's. I couldn't stay outdoors, and sitting in a dentist's office makes me edgy, so I thought I'd go to this ridiculously overpriced floor in this ridiculously overpriced store and study the shoppers. I expected well-coiffed blond model-types and their sugar daddies, but I did not expect DR. RUTH.<br /><br />Because I'm not visually observant, I heard that awful voice (chalk on a blackboard) before I actually spotted her. She was hard to miss, though. There she was, perched in the dead center of the floor in an enormous overstuffed upholstered chair that dwarfed her tiny body. Saleswomen were running back and forth towards and away from her -- not just one but many, many --bearing ultra-expensive gowns and taking them almost as quickly away, as she gestured and voiced her disapproval in that awful, awful voice. You could have heard her in New Jersey. I thought that perhaps this was perhaps the way that Queen Elizabeth might have been treated. Only the queen would have been far more gracious, I'm sure.<br /><br />My dentist appt beckoned, so I didn't get to see if any garment was eventually acceptable and if DR RUTH ever ventured into one of the dressing rooms to try anything on. I got the distinct impression that this was a woman who really, really liked being catered to -- perhaps even more than she liked clothes. (I had looked at the prices earlier; the gowns she was being shown were about $8,000 -- and that was probably 20 years ago.) So maybe I'm being unfair? When you're spending $8,000 for a bloody dress, I suppose you get to be choosy. But there was something so entitled about her and the haughty way that she treated the salespeople that I found myself disliking her intensely. <br /><br />Nancyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16737377749030219974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-26564773531286433162021-02-08T17:19:23.907-05:002021-02-08T17:19:23.907-05:00@jae
Yay! Finally aced one of Tim Croce's &qu...@jae<br /><br />Yay! Finally aced one of Tim Croce's "Freestyles" (584).<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_DxNpW1kHQ" rel="nofollow">Peace ~</a> Health ~ Hope ~ Equality for all ~ Teamwork 🕊bocamphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02524629632075020985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-91052742442030228562021-02-08T16:37:51.433-05:002021-02-08T16:37:51.433-05:00An Anonymouse wondering if Rex is real. I think th...An Anonymouse wondering if Rex is real. I think this might cause a rift in the spacetime continuum and lead to the end of the universe.<br /><br />@Unknown8:23 - On the 23rd of every month Rex is now posting a video of his solve. My impression is that the video tones down people’s reactions even though he doesn’t say anything different than he writes. <br /><br />@jberg - My youngest was a big punk POP fan. “EMO” is short for “”EMO punk.” I’ve never heard of EMO POP but it didn’t strike me as a stretch that EMO POP punk is a thing. I have seen Phoebe Bridgers described as EMO folk and her SNL guitar smashing seems like a pretty “punk” moment. <br /><br />@Frantic Sloth - <i>So, you’re a fan?</i> - Was I too subtle again?<br /><br />I’m seeing some comments about TOM BRAIDER’s politics. As far as I can tell he is a really rich guy who doesn’t actually think much about politics beyond how it might help or hurt his brand. This makes him roughly on par with Michael “Republicans buy sneakers too” Jordan. His biggest “sins” is owning a MAGA hat and answering an ambiguously worded question affirmatively. His politics are just not something I care about. Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16181544219511150272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-25481077620464630272021-02-08T16:03:03.509-05:002021-02-08T16:03:03.509-05:00RE the Jules Verne, I also did some head-scratchin...RE the Jules Verne, I also did some head-scratching over the sea being identified with love and emotion (hi @Nancy and @Teedmn). It’s one of the reasons I chose this quotation, hoping for enlightenment from one quarter or another. That passage is part of Captain Nemo’s first speech, so it reflects Nemo’s view of the sea, which he may feel he’s tamed and turned into a comfortable, non-threatening environment, by constructing his seemingly all-purpose, never-fail submarine, The Nautilus. Nemo has totally rejected life on land, burned all bridges (as it were) and embraced life in the ocean permanently. Having thrown in his lot with the sea, he may now look on it as his mother, his father, his lover, really his All. I don’t know, I’m still a bit flummoxed (DISCOMBOBULATED?), but that’s the best I can do for a tinpot analysis. <br /><br />I’m thinking of posting quotations based on the author’s DOB for a while – until I get tired of it. I don’t comment every day, so these will be intermittent. And they’ll always be at the end of my message, so easy to skip by those not interested.<br />Barbara S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17634754070567731006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-3530746759660598982021-02-08T15:48:55.639-05:002021-02-08T15:48:55.639-05:00@Frantic Sloth - good call the show was fictionall...@Frantic Sloth - good call the show was fictionally set in Astoria but the house front in the opening is an actual house near the corner of Metropolitan and Cooper across from the cemetery in Rego Park - probably 5 miles to the east of Astoria. I used to drive past it all the time and see people taking pictures. ChuckDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07378630990725599354noreply@blogger.com