tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post8439471759551605008..comments2024-03-28T16:50:50.953-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: Residents of dry open country in South America - FRIDAY, Apr. 24, 2009 - B Silk (Carrier of very destructive cargo / Reason to do a 2 a.m. shift)Rex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger75125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-6649370794186254582021-11-11T02:02:01.352-05:002021-11-11T02:02:01.352-05:00Download the Splunk SPLK-1003 Q&A PDF file eas...Download the Splunk SPLK-1003 Q&A PDF file easily to prepare Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin Exam. It is particularly designed for Splunk SPLK-1003 exam and our Splunk specialists have created this <a href="https://prepare4test.com/exam/splk-1003-dumps/" rel="nofollow">SPLK-1003 Question Dumps</a> observing the original SPLK-1003 exam.Prepare4testhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14423729819328011390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-48374267942361700612009-06-01T16:47:30.266-04:002009-06-01T16:47:30.266-04:00As a Canadian, I'm able to visit Cuba, which I did...As a Canadian, I'm able to visit Cuba, which I did late in 2004. Noting the Spanish spelling in the clue ("Plaza de la Revolucion) I assumed the answer would also have Spanish spelling- Habana... though the resulting 47 across- 'nobae' made no sense. Oh well!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03265029989871586015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-65769244639281208772009-05-29T12:50:47.174-04:002009-05-29T12:50:47.174-04:00Lurker from the future here; I was pleased to fini...Lurker from the future here; I was pleased to finish in 15 minutes and no errors - this puzzle was HARD! That "C" in "RIC" was almost a Natick for me, too, but like a lot of other folks the sound and appearance pushed me the right way.WilsonCPUhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13979524409642122336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-29190674157134063102009-04-25T02:55:00.000-04:002009-04-25T02:55:00.000-04:00@Rex
you needed only the first two letters of WITT...@Rex<br />you needed only the first two letters of WITT? I needed the first four!<br /><br />I thought you'd have a whole special section for birthday wishes for PuzzleGirl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br />It's still before midnight here if that counts...<br /><br />@jeff in Chicago<br />Whose afraid of a shoe? Prob the same that are afraid of Anteaters...ants!<br /><br />@jet city gambler<br />Thanks for those UC jokes! I was changing a lightbulb the other day and my German roommate was helping me and I was trying to explain to her what lightbulb jokes were, but the only ones I could remember were too meta to explain the idea (eg<br />How many lesbians...?<br />"That's not funny"<br />and how many Jewish grandmas<br />"Nevermind I'll sit in the dark" <br />so couldn't quite explain it, but we seemed to be living one at the moment<br />(how many cohabitating Jews and Germans does it take...)<br /><br />Puzzle could have used an X and the UINTA thing freaked me out. But very satisfying after the initial blank staring thing.<br />Oddly ADRENALS was one of my first answers as it's ANDREA + L in Scrabble and there are only four words in Scrabble you can make with ANDREA+?:<br />ADRENAL<br />ANEARED<br />VERANDA<br />ARANEID (spider)<br />so remember it as ANDREA + EVIL (or VILE or LIVE)<br />That's your Scrabble lesson for today!<br /><br />OK, will report back from Loyola tomorrow if I go to sleep NOW and don't get lost (FINDAWAY)<br /><br />Oh! And in the 60's my dad was offered a job at UC Irvine to help start the Med School...but he didn't want us to grow up where there was no there there.<br />So that's how we ended up moving to Mpls...but DK, you and I could have overlapped! I don't know about this whole Susan Dey thing tho...I feel, oddly, jealous! ;)<br /><br />And as a namer, I've gotta love Ric-a-che (but not as much as Flo Rida<br />or whatever that guy's name is!)andrea carla michaelshttp://acmenaming.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-56829239556982672132009-04-25T00:44:00.000-04:002009-04-25T00:44:00.000-04:00Cruised through most of the puzzle before getting ...Cruised through most of the puzzle before getting stuck in the dreadful northwest. TAGGED fell eventually, which begat DST, then ETNA and GAITS. QUAINT and SQUATS came next, and ALAS was in already, giving me AQUILINE (sounded right). Couldn't make heads or tails of TSQ_A_ES and couldn't even guess on _I_TA (had the U after Q but what kind of word starts with UI? I think this is why I couldn't figure out TSQUARES) or GUA_A_OS or _I_ (-a-che). Weird vocab corner! Fie!Andrew Mnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-89695757750640444202009-04-24T23:47:00.000-04:002009-04-24T23:47:00.000-04:00The Banjo category on tonight's Jeopardy had the f...The Banjo category on tonight's Jeopardy had the following:<br />THIS BANJO-HEAVY MINSTREL SHOW FAVORITE BECAME THE SOUTH'S UNOFFICIAL ANTHEM DURING THE CIVIL WAR -<br />DIXIE. Dixie-land was acceptable.Alexnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-87831607040963983672009-04-24T23:00:00.000-04:002009-04-24T23:00:00.000-04:00@Philliesolver: when we lived in Hamburg, Germany ...@Philliesolver: when we lived in Hamburg, Germany for three years we would watch the graduated high school class (Abitur candidates) on their parade. Most of them had the current year written on their forehead in red paint, but some, actually quite a few, would have the next year drawn on....machttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06794371617847975218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-18230838211739542672009-04-24T21:44:00.000-04:002009-04-24T21:44:00.000-04:00I took the "Anne" route to solving - completed wit...I took the "Anne" route to solving - completed with heavy Googling. I enjoyed this puzzle experience.<br /><br />Of the things I Googled, I think I will remember UINTA. <br />GUANACOS will most likely be remembered as guacanos, as I have been thinking of guacamole all day.<br />RIC ... I already forgot RIC.<br />Simon van der MEER will remain confused with Vermeer. <br />The flag of ZIMBABWE has a bird on it, but something tells me the next time Zimbabwe is called for it won't be clued like this and I won't get it. <br /><br />Thankfully many unknowns fell through crosses and I didn't have to look them up (EMMETT, WITT, TWP).<br /><br />Dare I try a Saturday?<br /><br />I always thought an aquiline nose was straight, like a quill pen, which I thought was straight like a normal pen. This means I have been picturing all my fictional characters the wrong way. Oops.sillygoosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03483946342170291849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-90629193877799931512009-04-24T21:37:00.000-04:002009-04-24T21:37:00.000-04:00I poked my way through this, but managed to finish...I poked my way through this, but managed to finish without googling. I felt that I should have done this faster, but the clues were tricky enough to puzzle me for a while. I'm mostly irked about how long it took me to retrieve Mike Witt's name.<br /><br />A good Friday puzzle...michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-84814462688551517632009-04-24T18:57:00.000-04:002009-04-24T18:57:00.000-04:00Seth G....loved the line Class of '89, graduated 1...Seth G....loved the line Class of '89, graduated 1990. Reminds me of my daughter,m Class of '88 Graduated '92. Barry is a source of pride here in Philly. I like the phrase, That was so last year. I also liked LASTYEAR. We are in an age of rapid change. My grandaughter will probably be saying, "Egad, that was so last week!"PhillySolverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06896753042626337920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-3570488714728878172009-04-24T18:12:00.000-04:002009-04-24T18:12:00.000-04:00And, after reading all the comments, I want to say...And, after reading all the comments, I want to say thanks for the explanations from everyone, trnasported, yard, etc. I'm so much better for reading these comments.Annenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-86980397875495568872009-04-24T17:58:00.000-04:002009-04-24T17:58:00.000-04:00All I have to say is google, gooogle, and more goo...All I have to say is google, gooogle, and more google. At least I no longer feel so discouraged. I did learn a lot; I hope it sticks.Annenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-58680995980306772009-04-24T17:43:00.000-04:002009-04-24T17:43:00.000-04:00College! C almost had the best mascot of all...
T...College! C <A HREF="http://www.carlwiki.org/Neckfoot#Student_Referenda_on_Neckfoot" REL="nofollow">almost</A> had the best mascot of all...<br /><br />This felt like two different puzzles. I zoomed throught the whole swath from the SW to the NE, but had much trouble in the other corners. In the SE, I also went with ADENOIDS (and ARTIST with the crosses--I was thinking along the lines of TENANT, but TWP stayed hidden for a while). <br /><br />Bigger problems along with everyone else in the NW. Finally broke into that area with TAGGED and DST--awesome clues for both that I just couldn't parse at all for a long time. But I wound up trying AQUIL<B>A</B>NE, and the RAx didn't help me get the C at all. I had a lot of junk in that corner before I finally got it all to work--raise your hand if you tried TJUTA for the mountains like I did....Bueller? Bueller? Must just be a (Seth)G thang. <br /><br />Hey, there are a lot of <A HREF="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Flags_with_birds" REL="nofollow">bird flags</A>.SethGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13753036404140901368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-21317571527635663292009-04-24T17:27:00.000-04:002009-04-24T17:27:00.000-04:00AQUILINE was my first entry, followed by SQUATS an...AQUILINE was my first entry, followed by SQUATS and I filled in the NW pretty much straight-away. I have a granddaughter who keeps me young, er informed regarding rap music so I knew Ric-A-Che. <br /><br />I worked the Upper Midlands thru OCEAN/OLIOS into the NE where I was familiar with the symbol of ZIMBABWE. I moved down the Eastern Diagonal into the SW where EROICA was a neon for me, crossing another neon UCIRVINE which I knew from an article I read about unusual college sports mascots.<br /><br />I've always found Barry Silk to have a preponderance of two and three word phrases that are "in the language" scattered throughout his puzzles and today was no exception. FINDAWAY was the kwy to the South, leaving only the SE to finish which I pieced together from the SYMPATHY/SUSANDEY cross.<br /><br />This one wasn't very difficult for me but I found it to be a refreshing professional effort and I enjoyed it a lot as wordplay carried the day. I liked the clue for TAGGED, NOVAE and JETTY, disliked BIGEARS and WARTY.edith bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12048817959846956992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-10335944631804905362009-04-24T17:11:00.000-04:002009-04-24T17:11:00.000-04:00Had the same experience in NE as Lisa in Kingston....Had the same experience in NE as Lisa in Kingston. I knew from the movie it wasn't X but couldn't remember what it was so went with BIO at first. Then ONEALARM dawned and... Like Doc John I'd seen UINTA in a puzzle before so my only guess in this one was the C in RIC which, as someone said, kinda looked right. Fine puzzle, just about perfect for a Fri.jaehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03385568014046336373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-65749047901179562692009-04-24T17:02:00.000-04:002009-04-24T17:02:00.000-04:00Beautiful puzzle with great words and even better ...Beautiful puzzle with great words and even better clueing. Only now figured out why the clue for Navy is better than I thought this morning.... That's typical Mr. Silk! No googles, but a little bit of time this morning.<br /><br />@Alex: thank you for asking. I had health as well. DST came because of the crosses, but I thought it had something to do with pay, like double overtime, maybe double standard tariff? The stuff I make up, you should have heard me with only a few letters, imagining Kinsey's field...machttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06794371617847975218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-68607327105879835112009-04-24T16:27:00.001-04:002009-04-24T16:27:00.001-04:00Happy to see the shout out to UCIRVINE, my alma ma...Happy to see the shout out to UCIRVINE, my alma mater. ZOT! Fond memories of drinking many a half-YARD of beer during that time. (We stuck to half-yards because you had to put down a hefty deposit on the yard-long glasses, in case you broke one). TGIF!DanaJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12564918441421254037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-3844761469425046202009-04-24T16:27:00.000-04:002009-04-24T16:27:00.000-04:00I have no idea why, But my first thought for the f...I have no idea why, But my first thought for the flag clue was Zimbabwe. I didnt enter it rhght away ,and felt JOYFUL when it turned out to be correct!Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-81007382657582416892009-04-24T15:42:00.000-04:002009-04-24T15:42:00.000-04:00I too really liked the clues in this one. DST made...I too really liked the clues in this one. DST made me laugh out loud.<br /><br />I'm *finally* getting to the point where I take for granted that I'll finish a Friday, probably without googling. It may take me upwards of an hour, but I don't give up in despair anymore. It's highly satisfying. Part of my success is listening to/modeling Orange and Rex (and others) and just putting in my guesses, like METOO, BUTTE, ZIMBABWE, YON, WARTY, etc etc. Lo and behold, it works! Awesome.<br /><br />-VegaVegahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01893157908004486201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-28966665675602629232009-04-24T15:37:00.000-04:002009-04-24T15:37:00.000-04:00There is Yards ale, but the clue is definitely the...There is <A HREF="http://www.yardsbrewing.com/" REL="nofollow">Yards</A> ale, but the clue is definitely the <A HREF="http://www.pacificgeek.com/productimages/xl/YARD-O-ALE-2.jpg" REL="nofollow">glass.</A> I fell for the sex and bobbled the Ric. I knew Dan Emmett as the writer of Dixie. Rex, you've got a picture of Emmett Kelly. Cute, but, there are pictures of <A HREF="http://www.danemmett.org/images/emmettdan.jpg" REL="nofollow">Dan Emmett</A>. Nice clean Friday puzzle. Loved the Zimbabwe challenge. And the 2am was perfectly brilliant.Doughnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-73508896870343210052009-04-24T14:43:00.000-04:002009-04-24T14:43:00.000-04:00@Glitch: I figured Yard (of) ALE was a brand name,...@Glitch: I figured Yard (of) ALE was a brand name, but the college pub stories and your description made me remember actually seeing one as decor, every day of my childhood --the glass, in a wooden stand, just "there." Would never have occurred to me to ask what it was!Friedahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03013108632033350814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-38933921177266773842009-04-24T14:41:00.000-04:002009-04-24T14:41:00.000-04:00As a former Banana Slug myself, UC Irvine was a gi...As a former Banana Slug myself, UC Irvine was a gimme.<br /><br />For those familiar with the UC system:<br /><br />How many UC students does it take to change a light bulb?<br /><br />UCLA: Two. One to change the bulb, and another to call their friends at USC and tell them how they changed it just as well and for much cheaper.<br /><br />CAL: Three. One to change the bulb and two to debate about the metaphysical state of the bulb and how its invention has impacted human development.<br /><br />UCSD: Five. One to hold the bulb and four to start smoking weed until the room spins.<br /><br />UCI: Eleven. One to change the bulb and ten to sit around watching because honestly, what else is there to do at Irvine past 10pm??<br /><br />UCR: Three. One to steal the bulb, another to drive the getaway car, and the last to call all his friends to throw the celebration party on a Tuesday night.<br /><br />UCSB: Seven. One to screw the bulb and six to screw each other.<br /><br />UC Davis: Zero. There is no electricity in Davis.<br /><br />UC Merced: Two. One to hold the bulb while the other calls his friend asking for help in figuring out this "new college thing."<br /><br />UCSC: None since they are hippies living in the forestJet City Gamblernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-26785751738810975982009-04-24T14:37:00.000-04:002009-04-24T14:37:00.000-04:00There's yards of ale in the movie "Beerfest." I t...There's yards of ale in the movie "Beerfest." I think it's been discussed here before...Lisa in Kingstonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15793732995251623365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-60659326865078460752009-04-24T14:20:00.000-04:002009-04-24T14:20:00.000-04:00Re: Yards of Ale
Back in my college pub days, Mur...Re: Yards of Ale<br /><br />Back in my college pub days, Murphy's (what else) Tavern's "yard" was not only 36", it was flaired at the top, and rounded at the bottom.<br /><br />You couldn't set it down, and if you tipped too far and fast, it empied in your face with a big "glug" and laughter all around.<br /><br />.../Glitch (No relation to Andy Gibb)Glitchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14940000404613329056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-75098276983996348732009-04-24T14:02:00.000-04:002009-04-24T14:02:00.000-04:00Yards of ale - college. From the Don't Try This f...Yards of ale - college. From the Don't Try This file, I had two yards of ale one night at the local pub and drove home (I know, I know - but I was 18 at the time - legal in NY then). Got pulled over by a cop and he asked if I'd been drinking. I said "a couple of beers" (truthfully), walked a straight line and he let me go.imsdavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12966770844825169981noreply@blogger.com