tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post8387300153180743133..comments2024-03-28T20:49:13.267-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: Hatrack piece / MON 3-16-15 / Sunday liquor prohibition / Every West Point graduate until 1980 / Big-mouthed pitchers / Venomous Nile dwellers / 1995 crime caper based on Elmore Leonard novelRex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-14377653131173873252015-04-20T14:26:16.998-04:002015-04-20T14:26:16.998-04:00A fun Monday! Agree that BABS doesn't seem r...A fun Monday! Agree that BABS doesn't seem right for Ms. Streisand, but It's not as bad as the Bobs I got stuck with as a child-Dad really wanted a boy! See you tomorrow!<br /><br />7955. An 8 not too badDMGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-53612393517159261732015-04-20T13:59:21.054-04:002015-04-20T13:59:21.054-04:00Or will that STAR lay her TALENT on thicker?Or will that STAR lay her TALENT on thicker?BS2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-23164849781048146052015-04-20T13:34:05.816-04:002015-04-20T13:34:05.816-04:00VET ZEN
The ERUDITE ARMYMAN TOSSPOT
LIESLOW, ATPE...VET ZEN<br /><br />The ERUDITE ARMYMAN TOSSPOT<br />LIESLOW, ATPEACE ‘til TEETIME,<br />and makes SMALLTALK with a HOE about BLUELAW (at the BUSSTOP),<br />and drinks ROOTBEER to ELUDE the crime.<br /><br />--- SGT LES OTIS<br /><br /><br />TALENT TAO<br /><br />Will the GYMNAST GORILLA SNICKER<br />when the APES TREAT BABS to some liquor?<br />And when SHE gets higher,<br />Will SHE sing like ACQUIRE?<br /><br />--- TRISHA NEIL<br />Burma Shavenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-47974574102938876792015-04-20T13:16:22.830-04:002015-04-20T13:16:22.830-04:00@rain forest - not since they started admitting wo...@rain forest - not since they started admitting women.rondonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-39135385974673889602015-04-20T13:15:10.345-04:002015-04-20T13:15:10.345-04:00@Spacey - my paper must have wing-ding fonts, or w...@Spacey - my paper must have wing-ding fonts, or whatever, because 74a shows a picture of a five pointed star.<br />Also with you on that whole speed solve thing. LYE<br /><br />But enough SMALLTALK, it's lunchtime. I figured the theme after FRIEDSHRIMP gave me the second small person.<br /><br />Not much else, lotsa threes, but it's Monday. Back to lunch and let all you ERUDITE folks continue to comment.rondonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-60688197686878346242015-04-20T13:09:51.994-04:002015-04-20T13:09:51.994-04:00Nice Monday puzzle. Also needed the revealer to s...Nice Monday puzzle. Also needed the revealer to see the theme.<br /><br />One question: Aren't all West Point grads still army men?rain forestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-34941005392026836792015-04-20T11:33:38.902-04:002015-04-20T11:33:38.902-04:00I am trying to imagine calling Ms. Streisand "...I am trying to imagine calling Ms. Streisand "BABS." Having a lot of trouble. Hershey, OK. Bain, sure. Even Stanwyck. But Streisand? N..no.<br /><br />Count me with those who didn't get the theme TIL the revealer; that's always nice. Despite SHH and DOA (interesting the latter wasn't clued as "dead on arrival--" either the expression or the great old movie), this one has pretty decent fill, including the mini-theme of Eastern enlightenments.<br /><br />I love ROOTBEER; that's part of why I'm not a TOSSPOT. And now, folks, would somebody please explain the clue for STAR, which in my paper was just a capital "H". I have to suspect that the clue was something else, not covered by this paper's font.<br /><br />I tried a little experiment. After completing the grid, I made a duplicate one and just COPIED the entries from the filled one into the blank one. No thinking at all, just simply COPIED. Took me 3:06, writing as fast as I could. SO GET OUT OF HERE with those RIDICULOUS times, @Rex! I flat-out don't believe you.spacecraftnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-40782838551907467602015-04-20T10:08:10.597-04:002015-04-20T10:08:10.597-04:00Fried shrimp = green paintFried shrimp = green paintAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-50672638239167207452015-03-17T01:03:11.406-04:002015-03-17T01:03:11.406-04:00@Blue Nancy
'ugly, hostile angry remarks......@Blue Nancy<br />'ugly, hostile angry remarks...' <br />Hmm, sounds inneresting. Sorry I missed it.<br /><br />'...that I would never in a million years make.'<br />Just don't split your infinitives. You'll have @Grammar Nazi down on you.<br />Innocent bystandernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-35422538825608264292015-03-17T00:51:25.030-04:002015-03-17T00:51:25.030-04:00@MnA, picture clues? EWERS? Pitcher clues? Har.
Ta...@MnA, picture clues? EWERS? Pitcher clues? Har.<br />Take Jiggs 'n' Maggie, if you remember that far back. Jiggs was an overindulge, would go all gout. Maggie was the TOSSPOT: EWER always seeing the POT she threw at Jiggs frozen in mid-air, inches from his head. Seems TOSSPOT Maggie was never a HITPOT. I can still picture that: their noses were drawn with O's.<br /><br />Second pitcher: ROO M. Onster's cousin, ROO T. BEER. EGGSellent time to have The Iceman COMETh.<br /><br />Third pitcher: RULER<br />Not sure about this one: R ULER in this case ULER's Method, ULER's <br />Formula or ULER's Theorem? Most likely, @mathguy will be Closer than any of Us.<br /><br />But you digress.<br /><br /><br />Leapfingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14243620614139990887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-1995907744515733172015-03-16T21:56:38.021-04:002015-03-16T21:56:38.021-04:00I just found an online calculator. Root 10 is 3.1...I just found an online calculator. Root 10 is 3.1622. But 3.1615 is pretty close.mathguynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-1555940235699737692015-03-16T21:50:27.651-04:002015-03-16T21:50:27.651-04:00The Closer and I are at the Marriott on Kaanapali ...The Closer and I are at the Marriott on Kaanapali Beach in Maui until the 24th. I'm late because I couldn't get the hotel computer to spit out the puzzle.<br /><br />I agree that this was way above average for a Monday.<br /><br />@George Barany: I didn't bring a calculator, but working by hand it seems that 3.1615 is the square root of ten to four digits. How did you come up with that? I remember that the square root of 3 is George Washington's year of birth.mathguynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-9851581551502259272015-03-16T19:29:58.442-04:002015-03-16T19:29:58.442-04:00I agree with @Rex that this was a bit more difficu...I agree with @Rex that this was a bit more difficult than the usual Monday I had a couple of write-overs such as ceSSPOT, and had stUDIed (a synonym of "learned", don't ya know) before ERUDITE but TAO and TALENT fixed that SHORTlY!<br /><br />I was the shortest kid in my class until about 10th grade, so I've heard them all. Now a towering 5' 4 1/2", I still think of myself as short. (And yes, the 1/2" is very important!)<br /><br />Thanks, Ian Livengood for a nice Monday romp.Teedmnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12832353448839187816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-15903396379626241152015-03-16T18:48:54.256-04:002015-03-16T18:48:54.256-04:00Apparently, my brain is still offline; sorry for s...Apparently, my brain is still offline; sorry for spelling errors above!Ludyjynnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-91416537096914023772015-03-16T18:46:53.601-04:002015-03-16T18:46:53.601-04:00Had to use the next-door neighbor tech-savy teen&#...Had to use the next-door neighbor tech-savy teen's services to get my computer finctioning today; felt strangely at sea while it was offline. Sweet relief to be reconnected.<br /><br />All I'll say is that this easy, peasy Monday left me ATPEACE.<br /><br />Thanks, IL and WS.Ludyjynnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-58380140461523394572015-03-16T16:02:07.071-04:002015-03-16T16:02:07.071-04:00Steely Dan is a dildo?
All thINGEs considered, BU...Steely Dan is a dildo?<br /><br />All thINGEs considered, BUS STOP should have been clued to Marilyn Monroe. One of her most appealing vehicles.<br /><br />I also thought immediately of Randy Newman's Short People, which apparently generated quite a lot of reactive SMALL TALK. One response to this came in the form of a satirical piece on Smart People, which Deb Amlen linked in her blog. For anyone interested but not sufficiently to go looking for it, you can read it by clicking here.<br /><br />[Ummm...if this doesn't work, you'll just have to meander over to WordPlay.]Leapfingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14243620614139990887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-47056478394843413672015-03-16T15:02:32.317-04:002015-03-16T15:02:32.317-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Name that tunehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03769658863976281123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-1209849190423488082015-03-16T14:58:56.714-04:002015-03-16T14:58:56.714-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Name that tunehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03769658863976281123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-75811111366610404032015-03-16T14:56:07.684-04:002015-03-16T14:56:07.684-04:00@ Nancy 11:39 AM How do you know its a guy who ...@ Nancy 11:39 AM How do you know its a guy who lives down the block from you?<br /><br />Ah, sarcasm the whetstone of the American dialectic.JTHurstnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-62561094385116662442015-03-16T14:34:34.315-04:002015-03-16T14:34:34.315-04:00p.p.s.s.
Proposal:
* Blorg-registered @Nancy = @N...p.p.s.s.<br /><br />Proposal:<br />* Blorg-registered @Nancy = @Nancy.<br />* Freelance @Nancy = @Alias-Nancy.<br /><br />Ditto for the multiple @Evil Doug's, btw.<br /><br />M&AM and A Help Desk and Nobel Piece Prizernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-50036295037234007032015-03-16T14:04:30.213-04:002015-03-16T14:04:30.213-04:00@Nancy: it won't be hard to tell you spart, I ...@Nancy: it won't be hard to tell you spart, I noticed the different tone right away. machttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06794371617847975218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-37667821227831321282015-03-16T13:26:14.764-04:002015-03-16T13:26:14.764-04:00Hey foxaroni--that's racist. Just because she...Hey foxaroni--that's racist. Just because she's mean you shouldn't assume she's black! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-35605810404296497222015-03-16T13:12:27.949-04:002015-03-16T13:12:27.949-04:00p.s.
Top most challengin answers, to clue with a p...p.s.<br />Top most challengin answers, to clue with a picture:<br />1. UCLA. Maybe draw a bear sneakin into the NCAA tourney?<br />2. DOA. Maybe show a Hello Fresh order gone bad?<br />3. SHE. Lots of viable possibilities, if U are one of the lucky few that have seen this great 1935 flick.<br />4. ZEN. Pic of Buddha with a C-roll?<br />5. MRI. I've got some primo knee pics, for this.<br />6. SYNODS. A Sinex bottle and a cross? tough.<br />7. LES, NEIL & OTIS, huddled together. Pic of a desperate-lookin xword constructioneer?<br />8. ETS. If M&A drew it, reaction of average solver = "Ash trees?!?"<br /><br />M&AM and Artworknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-65850691908894476212015-03-16T13:05:02.447-04:002015-03-16T13:05:02.447-04:00To "blue" @Nancy (as opposed to your &qu...To "blue" @Nancy (as opposed to your "black" imposter/poseur (sp?)-- thanks, too, for the Youtube link. The interesting things we learn here.... :-)foxaronihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00085435659928443459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-42625211826726417452015-03-16T13:01:24.107-04:002015-03-16T13:01:24.107-04:00@Nancy, welcome to the internet. Relax and learn ...@Nancy, welcome to the internet. Relax and learn to ignoreAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com