tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post90227394170971909..comments2024-03-29T03:22:09.826-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: Tasseled topper / FRI 3-13-15 / Japanese zithers / 2008 crossover hit for country duo Sugarland / Holiday cakes with swirls / Face reddener / Ninth-century invaders of Easy Anglia / Home to marine megapark Oceanopolis / Reuner in New Haven / River draining Lake SuperiorRex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger130125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-25111398329914764442015-04-20T00:31:51.087-04:002015-04-20T00:31:51.087-04:00To rent is to TEAR UP, it was rent means it was TO...To rent is to TEAR UP, it was rent means it was TORN UP. If Joe TORE UP the curtain he rentED the curtain. I don't get rent = tore upMitzienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-15701531154470909272015-04-17T17:23:46.369-04:002015-04-17T17:23:46.369-04:00@Burma Shave scores again!@Burma Shave scores again!leftcoastTAMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-12148292198903875102015-04-17T15:20:19.353-04:002015-04-17T15:20:19.353-04:00@DMG - I think when used as here REVERB is in the ...@DMG - I think when used as here REVERB is in the studio mix when producing a record (or CD, or MP# or whatever), or even live. Short for reverberation, sometimes caused when an electric guitar gets too close to the amp and/or speaker.rondonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-62466285638615366612015-04-17T15:13:55.323-04:002015-04-17T15:13:55.323-04:00@Ron Diego - touche and well put.
Don't be dyi...@Ron Diego - touche and well put.<br />Don't be dyin' anytime soon.rondonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-18834031416539342582015-04-17T15:13:02.828-04:002015-04-17T15:13:02.828-04:00Had trouble breaking into this one. finally guesse...Had trouble breaking into this one. finally guessed GOODAT which gave me OUTOFTHEBLUE off the first T. Always amazed when that sort of connection happens-our brains are mysterious things. At any rate, filled all the squares and came here to,see where I was wrong. Only I wasn't! TARBOOSH, YLEM, and even REVERB were right. Still have to look that last one up as nobody explained it here. <br /><br />On a side note, that purée-ing tool referred to by many above is a Mouli grater. It purses whatever while holding back the skins and seeds. Use it when making persimmon jelly.<br /><br />Odd number 0099, but it's a winner, I think,DMGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-24119660820554619632015-04-17T15:01:42.827-04:002015-04-17T15:01:42.827-04:00Liked the puzzle a lot. Like someone else mention...Liked the puzzle a lot. Like someone else mentioned when you can fill it all in without any researching, it's a good day.<br />Awhile ago, I decided not to look to closely to Parker's comments. They became tediously tedium. But I do enjoy this blog and many of the other commentators, especially the Syndies. Spacecraft always has something colorful to say, as well as DMG, Seattle and Rondo etal so that makes up for the negativity at the beginning of the blog.<br /><br />I suspect OFL is making a justly so fairly good profit from the donations and that is why he continues punishing himself.<br /><br />Anyway, what do I know. I'm just a very handsome, intelligent, witty older gentleman blessed with genuine humility.....waiting to die, so that monuments and airports will be named for me.<br /><br />Ron Diego, La Mesa CA.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-87282392200854872412015-04-17T14:23:32.951-04:002015-04-17T14:23:32.951-04:00You gotta admit, @Rex certainly inspires controver...You gotta admit, @Rex certainly inspires controversy and lots of comments, pro and con. I think that is what he is aiming for. Clearly, he doesn't care who, or how many, disagree(s) with him, and so it's futile to whine and complain and call him names. It's his schtick.<br /><br />Today, I saw the rating, tedium, and then the *sigh*, and just went straight to the comments, which I usually enjoy reading. Really, only 57A caused a pain in the REAR AREA, and I had fun with this one.<br /><br />210 = 3 Dang.rain forestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-3047078889501019382015-04-17T11:42:05.137-04:002015-04-17T11:42:05.137-04:00Fearless one, you been at this too long; you need ...Fearless one, you been at this too long; you need to take a sabbatical. I suspect it's not the individual puzzles that are "dull"--second day in a row you used that word--but the endless, day-after-day filling in of squares, mind and hand racing to keep those times down. I think when you time-pressure yourself like that, you lose something. I'll see an entry and it'll conjure up a memory. I go ahead and let that memory play out for a bit. It's enriching. If not a nice long vacation, then at least put away your stopwatch for a while. Soak it up. You'll feel better.<br /><br />I am, for example, a "year of the DRAGON" baby. Every Chinese new year of that creature, employees at the Gold Coast Casino dress up in drag(on) and weave through the aisles to the beat of traditional percussion. It's a lot of fun. A nice memory. See what I mean?<br /><br />Today's offering was pithy enough to rate medium-challenging. TARBOOSH, KOTOS and YLEM (even though I'm a fan of astrophysics and never miss "Cosmos") were total OUTOFTHEBLUE entries for me; every one 100% forced in on crosses. I really doubted YLEM but there it is. No mistakes and only one writeover: to me, "rent" would be TORnUP, not TOREUP. The cross, REARAREA, was one of the few low points.<br /><br />One other nit: sure, firefighters carry RADIOS, but so do people in many other occupations. To clue this so specifically borders on the unfair. I don't like it. The flag came LOOSE, but I couldn't quite throw it. A-.<br /><br />spacecraftnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-39042172082139730662015-04-17T11:34:40.989-04:002015-04-17T11:34:40.989-04:00ERROL HASASHOT
I’ll SPILLIT and TALK, INASENSE ‘c...ERROL HASASHOT<br /><br />I’ll SPILLIT and TALK, INASENSE ‘cause it’s true,<br />I’m not TOREUP, since there’s nothing to RUE.<br />I kissed SIMONE’s LOOSELIPS OUTOFTHEBLUE,<br />then under her TUNIC, the BREST AREOLA, too.<br />It seems that I’m GOODAT it, it’s ALLIWANTTODO!<br /><br />--- SHERIFF DEEDEE SPECKLES<br />Burma Shavenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-40695330682792690852015-04-17T10:47:36.157-04:002015-04-17T10:47:36.157-04:00Hidden Haiku?Hidden Haiku?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-68276714378560154622015-04-17T10:22:36.819-04:002015-04-17T10:22:36.819-04:00Awful whiny Rex. Number one on the country charts ...Awful whiny Rex. Number one on the country charts and number 18 on Billboard is fairly substantial; so probably familiar to more than 25%. Maybe OFL is too eastern seaboardedly sophisticated for country music (not exactly my cuppa eithr), but Sugarland was on all the music shows a few years back. Hard to miss. And Jennifer Nettles? Yeah baby.<br /><br />Tedium? No. DNF? Yes. TARBOOSH is beyond my ken. Or was. OUTOFnowherE was not helpful. STMARie (as in Sault Ste Marie?), then STMARkS also not very helpful. Pure guesses on ITALO- (5 letters ending in O !?) and then ESTADO (Spanish not my forte) were helpful. An ERROL that’s not Flynn?<br /><br />But I prefer more puzzles like this than like those that OFL and his ilk insist must be filled in several minutes. ‘Nuff said.<br /><br />102 = 3rondonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-86084281028930764522015-03-14T12:23:24.614-04:002015-03-14T12:23:24.614-04:00Probably no one will read this, but I do have a fe...Probably no one will read this, but I do have a few points, plus an observation: There was an Italo-Abyssinian War in 1895-96. No one called it Ethiopia then. There was another war decades later, under Mussolini and Haile Selassie.<br /><br />"Apse" is defined in my dictionary (MW Collegiate, *Tenth* edition) as usu. being a semicircular vault at the end of a church. The ends of most transepts are not semicircular, but rectangular, and usually there are doors and a porch.<br /><br />No doubt YLEM is in any unabridged dictionary, including the OED. But I believe there should be no *words* not found in a modern Collegiate dictionary. YLEM could have been in my Collegiate (it was coined in the 1940's). But it wasn't included because too obscure old timernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-20532915773066773372015-03-14T12:18:44.192-04:002015-03-14T12:18:44.192-04:00Agree. Agree. Mary Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10456783050579655370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-75635458100273501732015-03-14T10:29:48.906-04:002015-03-14T10:29:48.906-04:00too easy for a friday . . . ylem? nevah hoird of i...too easy for a friday . . . ylem? nevah hoird of itAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-17517428272405915112015-03-14T09:03:43.871-04:002015-03-14T09:03:43.871-04:00Do you like your tedium
Rare or medium?
I said i...Do you like your tedium <br />Rare or medium?<br /><br />I said it first.<br />Not quite a haiku, though...Ogden Nashnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-25591556431340606502015-03-13T23:44:39.960-04:002015-03-13T23:44:39.960-04:00Rex Parker's "tedium" assessment exp...Rex Parker's "tedium" assessment explains (to me) why I was able to fill it all out without resort to the internet. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-23493763775543838122015-03-13T23:00:52.133-04:002015-03-13T23:00:52.133-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Teedmnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12832353448839187816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-41989432349577684082015-03-13T22:37:01.887-04:002015-03-13T22:37:01.887-04:00Thanks for all the nice comments! And to Teedmn, r...Thanks for all the nice comments! And to Teedmn, ret_chem, suzy, and others who know who you are, you're welcome. I'm truly sorry no one got, or chose to comment on, the hidden haiku in the solved grid, though. Have a great weekend! Go Wildcats (77-76 winners over Explorers today in A-10 quarterfinals)!<br /><br />Judge Vic Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05447399856953037322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-83055993619682916312015-03-13T21:00:35.000-04:002015-03-13T21:00:35.000-04:00Not a ricer. It is called a food mill. Still hav...Not a ricer. It is called a food mill. Still have the one my mom bought in the 50s to puree baby food.Gaurawallahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02722599282648205783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-10459497238101060552015-03-13T19:01:00.347-04:002015-03-13T19:01:00.347-04:00Errol Morris on Crimean War Photos
Errol Morris a...<a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/25/which-came-first-the-chicken-or-the-egg-part-one/" rel="nofollow">Errol Morris on Crimean War Photos</a><br /><br /><a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/the-anosognosics-dilemma-1/#more-53073" rel="nofollow">Errol Morris and Anosognosia</a><br /><br /><br />These are both multi-part articles. Part I on anosognosia was the only one I enjoyed. I read all of the one on the Crimean War photo controversy but it was slow in places. This is somewhat of a "link" experiment so here it goes.<br />Teedmnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12832353448839187816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-5436306007516953722015-03-13T18:41:22.451-04:002015-03-13T18:41:22.451-04:00Wow, a pretty pedestrian puzzle to make so many an...Wow, a pretty pedestrian puzzle to make so many announce they are jumping ship (blog). Most of this year, @Rex has seemed more positive than last year, with a few lapses like today. I can't get too upset about - leaving in a snit would mean I would miss comments like @Steve J or @Leapfinger today, plus meringue mushrooms, @Tita? Sounds fun.<br /><br />I loved the clue for SHERIFF. Thought about putting in "drowse" for 23D but waited, luckily. Got OUTOFTHEBLUE from the first O so that helped.<br /><br />ERROL Morris had some interesting columns in the NY Times a few years ag, the Op Ed page. I will try to link to one or two (I learned the word "anosognosia" from him, which is almost as fun as YLEM and TARBOOSH are). And his "The Unknown" on Donald Rumsfeld made a relatively big splash when it came out. Talk about an anosognosic!<br /><br />Thanks, VF for the puzzle.Teedmnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12832353448839187816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-75200590994258757872015-03-13T18:20:54.876-04:002015-03-13T18:20:54.876-04:00Bill Butler has a very civilized and educational N...Bill Butler has a very civilized and educational NYT xword blog, for those interested. nytcrossword.com.<br /><br />What's a "Reuner"? I guess someone attending a reunion? But I can't seem to find it in any online dictionary.smalltowndochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13728653252376437651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-12864248902817152642015-03-13T18:06:27.724-04:002015-03-13T18:06:27.724-04:00I agree. Mean-spirited all too often. And I don t ...I agree. Mean-spirited all too often. And I don t recall any of "Rex's" puzzles being very good at all. Good bye. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-16873713863847462872015-03-13T17:26:05.940-04:002015-03-13T17:26:05.940-04:00Rex qualifies as a "nattering nabob of negati...Rex qualifies as a "nattering nabob of negativism," to quote Spiro Agnew, a veep of not so recent vintage. I wonder what he would say about Cooper's Leather Stocking Tales or Michener's novels, works which are, in my humble opinion, unflinchingly boring but which are read to this day, apparently. "One man's Mede is another man's Persian," as Franklin P. Adams used to say. Give me H. L. Mencken or Mark Twain any day. Now let me see, where's my Maugham?<br /><br />Best,<br /><br />johnAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-4580177646714302992015-03-13T17:11:03.689-04:002015-03-13T17:11:03.689-04:00@Benko - Who said this was a democracy?
I don...@Benko - Who said this was a democracy? <br /><br />I don't take issue with people who disagree with Rex. However, if your only contribution ever is to complain about Rex, call him names, and insult others who comment here, may I encourage you find another use for your time. If you want to come and disagree with Rex every day you will find agreement and conversation if you write, "I disagreed with Rex because...." If, on the other hand, you come by to write things like "rexhole" and "what a jerk" most of the adults here will presume that your moral and social development was arrested somewhere around age 13. If you write "I'm sick of his whining" please add something to let us know you are aware of the irony of whining about whining. Remember, irony and sarcasm don't translate well in plain text.<br /><br />If you are just wondering (as some commenters today seem to be) what other NYTX blogs are out there, you might want to take a look at the sidebar of the blog where Rex has helpfully listed several other blogs and puzzle sites. Several of them have links to still other blogs. Of course, the NYT hosts it's own blog as well, linked to right from the puzzle page I believe.Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16181544219511150272noreply@blogger.com