Theme: Pail Face - The last word of the theme entries can precede the unifier.
18A. Longtime UCLA coach known as the "Wizard of Westwood" : JOHN WOODEN. Wooden bucket.
23A. Cracks a little joke to ease tension, say : BREAKS THE ICE. Ice bucket.
38A. One no longer in his comfort zone : A FISH OUT OF WATER. Water bucket.
48A. Command sequence before shooting : READY, AIM, FIRE. Fire bucket. (These may be full of sand.)
57A. Once-in-a-lifetime agenda, or an apt description of the ends of 18-, 23-, 38- and 48-Across : BUCKET LIST
Argyle here. Today's constructor is Patti Varol so I should choose my words carefully. What a wonderful Monday puzzle. Nice long entries, including a grid spanner. The coach gave me pause (because I had a variant spelling on a perp) and some others but your results may vary. Very acceptable.
Across:
1. Phi __ Kappa : BETA. An academic honor society.
5. Legislative addendum : RIDER. Where a lot of pork slides through.
10. Future atty.'s exam : LSAT. (Law School Admission Test)
14. Security problem : LEAK
15. Greek marketplace : AGORA
16. Opposite of dry, as skin : OILY. You can find infomercials to 'cure' either condition.
17. Radius neighbor : ULNA. For you pre-meds out there.
20. Caught __-handed : RED
21. Used a stool : SAT
22. Family reunion attendee : NIECE. I attended my fiftieth class reunion this weekend; disappointing turnout.
28. 6, on a cellphone button : MNO
29. Theater walkway : AISLE
30. Blot gently : DAB
33. Picasso's movement : CUBISM. They support the Chicago Cubs?
36. Chicago-to-Atlanta dir. : SSE. I did like one of these that didn't have obscure cities.
37. Volcanic overflow : LAVA
41. Pig in a __ : POKE. A poke: 1250–1300; Middle English & Middle Dutch, whence also Old North French poque, French poche bag, pocket. In a nut shell, don't buy a bag that purports to have a pig in it without looking in the bag first.
42. Baja bear : OSO. Don't buy one in a bolsa.
43. Hitting sound : [THWACK!]
44. Mao __-tung : TSE
45. Attorney general's intern : CLERK. ?
47. __ Kippur : YOM. This year, Day of Atonement begins in the evening of Friday, September 13 and ends in the evening of Saturday, September 14.
52. Bald tire's lack : TREAD
55. Suffix with salt : INE. (saltine cracker)
56. Henpeck : NAG
61. Half of table tennis? : PING. and pong.
62. Burn balm : ALOE
63. "Yes __!" : SIREE
64. Avid about : INTO
65. Tear to shreds : REND
66. Oyster bead : PEARL
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67. Self-perceptions : EGOS
Down:
1. DVD case promo : BLURB. "Miss Belinda Blurb in the act of blurbing." LINK
2. Fisherman who supplies a sushi bar : EELER
3. Two-wheeler for two : TANDEM BIKE. I'm still LOL.
4. Wanted-poster abbr. : AKA
5. Indian princes : RAJAs
6. "__ run!": "Time for me to leave!" : I GOTTA. "Not yet"
7. Play-__: kids' clay : DOH
8. Marine eagle : ERN
9. Not cooked : RAW. How the erne likes his fish.
10. Sarge's superior : LOOIE. (louie is a variant)
11. Pro or con, in a debate : SIDE
12. Guinness of "Star Wars" : ALEC
13. Actress Daly : TYNE
19. "__ upon a midnight dreary ..." : ONCE. Name that poem.
21. Wee bit : SKOSH. This was well discussed on this day. LINK
24. Ouzo flavoring : ANISE. An anise-flavored aperitif that is widely consumed in Greece and Cyprus (and it sneaks up on you, so I've heard).
25. American or World follower, in school : HISTORY
26. Bygone gas station : ESSO. Or gone bye-bye to other countries.
27. "__ my heart in ..." : I LEFT. Cue Tony! LINK
30. Pattern-seeking information analysis : DATA MINING
31. With, to François : AVEC
32. "Speak" response : [BARK!]
33. Ahab or America: Abbr. : CAPT. (Captain)
34. Space saucers, briefly : UFOs
35. Money, in slang : MOOLA
37. __ diminishing returns : LAW OF. For one law, it sure has complex definitions(that's like a true law).
39. Not new : USED
40. "Pick someone else, pleeease?" : "WHY ME?"
45. Hand over : CEDE
46. Old German leader : KAISER
48. Collected, as downed leaves : RAKED
49. Chip-making giant : INTEL
50. Greeted with enthusiasm : RAN TO
51. Toaster waffles : EGGOs
52. Skier's transport : T-BAR
53. Guideline : RULE
54. Business maj.'s focus : ECON. (economics)
58. Sugar meas. : TSP. It helps the medicine go down.
59. Fib : LIE
60. Keogh plan relative: Abbr. : IRA
61. Apple dessert : PIE
Argyle
Notes from C.C.:
Here are 2 pictures from JD's recent Ireland & Scotland trip. JD said "I must have taken 100 pictures of sheep on the hillsides. Hard to get them clear when we were driving along. We loved the quaint little college town of St. Andrews of the famous golf course." Argyle is dreaming of St. Andrews!
Truman, JD's oldest grandson, just graduated from Kindergarten. Look at how proud the grandma is!
Here are 2 pictures from JD's recent Ireland & Scotland trip. JD said "I must have taken 100 pictures of sheep on the hillsides. Hard to get them clear when we were driving along. We loved the quaint little college town of St. Andrews of the famous golf course." Argyle is dreaming of St. Andrews!
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| Hillside, Ireland |
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| Loch Ness |
57 comments:
Morning, all!
Mostly smooth sailing today but, like Argyle, got a bit hung up in the NE. Had absolutely no idea who the coach was and didn't know how to spell LOOIE, so I went with JOHN WOUDEN/LOUIE. It wasn't until I got to the theme reveal (and didn't get the *tada*) that I thought to look back and realized there's probably no such thing as a WOUDEN BUCKET...
My son starts his last week of school year today. Originally, he was supposed to be off last week, but all the snow days we had pushed things back a bit. Since I had already scheduled some time off to be with him this week before he starts summer camp next week, I guess I'll just have to spend the next 3 or 4 days fishing...
[ndovib]
[ryndyne]
[dowbled]
Happy Monday everybody!
Pleasant way to spend a Monday during the lunch break. Just a stroll through the proverbial park….
EGOS crossing with EGGOS – nice! But not as nice as “Pail Face” – too, too funny Argyle!
Phi BETA Kappa reminds me of my dad’s old groaner about the best frat house on campus – I Phelta Thi….
I’m sure everyone remembers running LMNOP together when reciting the ABCs….
Why, when I see the phrase DATA MINING, do I get a mental image of the Seven Dwarfs sitting in front of computer terminals…?
An AGORA here is called a SOUK (how’s about this word Corner crossword constructors? It’s vowel friendly….). The best (biggest, oldest, whatever) Souk in DOHa is the Souk Waqif, as seen in this video (2:31)….
Speaking of DOHa, there’s a pretty famous statue at the water’s edge called The PEARL, a monument to the city’s past HISTORY….
The other Pearl, Janis Joplin, lived in the town I grew up in. As kids, we were ordered “not to go trick-or-treating down in the canyon,” because that’s where all the hippies like Janis lived….
Well, it’s back to work I go….
Good day all,
An enjoyable puzzle with a lot of fresh cluing, yet it's difficulty standard falls quite nicely into a Monday.
I'm not, nor have I ever been a fan of UCLA . But John Wooden is a sports figure I have long admired. He was so much more then a successful basketball coach; an academic, a humanitarian, and just a truly nice person
I looked at THWACK a looong time, but finally decided it must be OK.. Other then that, I breezed along without any hold ups.
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Good Morning, Argyle and friends. I thought this was a bit of a challenge for a Monday morning. The theme made me think of the Morgan Freeman/Jack Nicholson movie entitled Bucket List. I never actually saw that movie, however.
Like Doha Doc, I, too, liked the crossing of EGOs and EGGOs.
The Attorney General's intern would most likely be referred to as a Law CLERK.
Argyle: The Raven, by Edgar Allen Poe.
There were two back-to-back plant explosions last week in southern Louisiana where people were killed. The hazards of so much industry along the Mississippi.
QOD: He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder. ~ M.C. Escher (June 17, 1989 ~ March 27, 1972)
[ammsels]
Hello Puzzlers -
WBS, again. I went with Louie and Wouden because it looked right, but no Ta Da. I suspect that's what Argyle was talking about as well.
I'm pretty envious of Marti at the moment. Austria is among my favorite places on Earth.
Rob the Reticent Excavator went about his business right through Saturday, and now we have a trenchful of conduit, water line, and drain pipe. We expect to have power soon, in time for the framing crew, whenever they get here.
Cheers all
Good morning, group!
Patti's puzzle was rich in sorta-words, the kind I use all the time: LOOIE, I GOTTA, SIREE, SKOSH, MOOLA, THWACK.
RADIUS and ULNA are very familiar to me. I've broken both, twice, both times in Phys ED class.
Speaking of SOUK, Doha Doc, I was dispatched to Sharjah back in the 80's. I arrived sans luggage, and headed off to the Souk to buy some toiletries and underwear. Apparently the arabs don't wear underwear; the only ones I could find were brightly colored French thongs. Yeah, I bought 'em.
Argyle, thanks for 'splainin' "pig in a poke." I was familiar with the phrase, but not the meaning. Maybe your reunion attendance was low because people didn't know about it. I should have a 50th this year, but I have no idea when it will be (or perhaps was).
Good morning, folks. Thank you, Patti Varol, for a swell puzzle. Thank you, Argyle, for the fine review.
Got started fine. Goofed on LOOIE by entering LOUIE. Fixed that while working on WOODEN.
Good comment on CUBISM, Argyle.
SKOSH reminds me of my youth, when we first used that word. I won't comment on the context.
Caught all the theme answers easily. Just did not tie to the theme until done. But, it is a Monday.
Just left the PA state baseball champ town yesterday, Johnsonburg. They had a good year. #2 in basketball and #1 in baseball. Class A.
See you tomorrow.
Abejo
(ndstps)
Hand up for LOuIE/LOOIE. No idea who JOHN WOODEN is, and once I got the theme, I never checked back to see if it was right. In fact, I thought the theme was going to be ICE, WATER, then STEAM. Ack, 3 DNFs in a row.
Thank you Patti Varol and thank you Argyle.
No pig in a poke in the puzzle or the review. Thanks for the info on blurb, and the link to the previous skosh comments.
We've had a mini military / army theme going. Today we had CAPT, LOOIE, and READY AIM FIRE. Yesterday we had FT BENNING, LT COL, TRUCE and ALERT.
Lucina, thank you for answering Abejo on Quinceañera Saturday night. I had already turned out the lights. It was as you described. It was a big deal. It resumed again on Sunday, but with a much smaller group.
Abejo, congrats on the Johnsonburg baseball champs.
Happy New Week Everybody!
Nice puzzle with a few "Huhs?" thrown in. I got skunked on CUBISM and SKOSH, but was able to PERP them together.
LOOIE threw me off. I've heard the term LOOT, but didn't know LOOIE. Give me a THWACK on the head for that one.
Nice pictures, JD. Any sighting of NESSIE?
I wish you all a super great week.
Hi Y'all! A little harder for me than Patti's enjoyable puzzles usually are. Nothing unknown, just not my first thoughts. Still a speed run in 10 minutes.
I knew John Wooden because there is a college basketball award named for him. The Wooden Award sounded almost DF to me the first time I heard it. I won't shock you with my first comment at the time.
"Pail Face", indeed! Good one, Argyle. I enjoyed the bike song. Haven't heard that oldie in a coon's age.
Doha Doc enjoyed the Qatar pix. Did you take them? My son was with the USAF there for a short while a few years ago, but I never saw any of his pictures.
Chip making giant: Fritolay didn't fit. I live close enough to smell their plant--yummy.
THWACK was my first guess and was surprised when it was right.
Raining hard this morning. Goody, won't have to water my new grass.
Good theme, after the first few, I thought it was going to be "pick" instead of "bucket", but had never heard of a firepick, so knew it had to be something else.
I thought it was just judges who had clerks. (recent law school grads).
Good morning.
Thanks, Argyle, for the interesting writeup, and Patti for the puzzle.
There were a few answers I hesitated on until perps said they had to be correct. Filled them in and got the ta-da! I only penciled in lightly at first, CUBISM, THWACK, INE, SIREE, SKOSH, and RULE. But they all were the right answers.
Have a good week,
Montana
Anon: law offices often hire student interns, or law clerks. I have two student law clerks in my office.
Hi Everyone ~~
I really enjoyed Patti's puzzle today. I was reminded of the difficulty in constructing Monday puzzles when I read her interview with C.C. This one has just enough "oomph!'"
As other have mentioned, Argyle, you came up with a great title ~ again! A wonderful write-up - lots of info and entertaining comments/links. I loved the Barbershop Quartet.
My only hesitation was in filling in TANDEM BIKE. The clue said 'two-wheeler' and I was thinking that a tandem is a 'two-seater.'
Beautiful weather here this week ~ enjoy the day!
I guess I need to expand my bucket list, because previously, it was:
1) ice
2) beer
Then I thought it would be fun to follow a family around Disney World to be in the background of all their photo's, (but I've already done that...)
I guess it's time to look for some new bucket list ideas.
Thanks to Patti, for a fun Monday puzzle and to Argyle for the info on BLURB and POKE.
The video about the souk was beautiful, Doc. And now I'm stuck with that image of Doc the dwarf in front of the computer! LOL!
Great pictures, JD. I have a visit to Scotland on my BUCKET LIST. Wonder where the tradition of
"graduating" from kindergarten came from?
Also had the LO-IE WO-DEN Natick because of no-sports head, until I saw the theme - at last I made use of the theme!
Actually watched part of a hockey game last Tues. as I waited for first, news, and then, Leno. Found out that they sneak a few punches along the edge of the rink, and that they get few goals because the goalie can Bogart the goal. They should make the goal area bigger.
Good Morning:
A nice, smooth start to the week. Thanks, Patti V., for a clever theme and some really fresh fill. And thanks, Argyle, for your witty and concise expo.
The third DVD of The Late Quartet is due from Netflix tomorrow. If this one is defective, ACK!!!
Happy Monday.
Hello, Argyle and friends.
Well, I deserve a THWACK to day for not checking my fill on WOUDEN and certainly didn't know LOUIE. Drat! On a Monday, too.
Otherwise this went fast with only one write over, RANIS before RAJAHS. Very nice, Patti Varol, thank you.
I hope you all have a meaningful Monday!
A fun sashay today. Many answers were filled in by the crosses. I decided LOOIE was more common than LOUIE and WOUDEN looked weird. The reveal proved me correct.
Mom often talked about buying a PIG IN A POKE. Always curious, I asked and she said a poke was a bag. As a kid in the days of loose penny candy, she would ask for “two of these and five of those and put them in a poke” a little paper bag.
I frequently read historical novels about our colonial days and life on the frontier. Often a POKE is mentioned as a small cloth or leather bag. Most references are about a SMALL bag, so a PIG IN A POKE seems kind of tight, but some POKES must be big. (No DF here.) Today I read that this phrase could also refer to a scam, buying a cat or dog in a bag and being told it was a pig (or piglet.)
Another bag frontier ladies carried was a small pocket, totally detached from the clothing and carried by hand. The fashionable ladies had two pockets on a band they wore around the waist under a skirt or petticoat, which had slits for access to the pocket. (In a “bodice ripper” novel these slits were used for clandestine DF activities.) The pockets looked much like the large pockets attached to men’s slacks these days
Good morning Argyle,C.C., and all,
Love it when I can steal DH's sports page and do the C/W before he wakes up.Couldn't ask him about John Wooden, so I just wagged that last O, with no idea of looie. Thought of a variety of fills for thwack, so waited on that. Had to change ready- set- fire to AIM, as it missspelled Intel.
I really enjoy looking at paintings of Picasso's during his Cubism period...so strange.Sixth graders loved trying out this method, by using magazine pictures.
No Nessie sightings, Mari. It was much larger than I had imagined. So was Loch Lomond.
Argyle, I will send you some photos from St. Andrews.
Bucket List seems recent and is becoming more and more common. I wondered if it originated from the movie, Bucket List, which I thoroughly enjoyed. Its first use is listed as 2006, so I believe that is where it came from. Of course, the idea of bucket list, things I would love to do before I die, came from the old idiom, Kick the Bucket meaning die.
I like Patti Varol puzzles though I was a little daunted when I saw that grid spanner. Still, it was pretty speedy except for the NE. I got it, thanks to the WOODEN reveal. But I still don't understand how "Sarge's superior" is LOOIE?
Glad the poem is "The Raven"--that's what I figured.
Nice JD pics, especially of that sweet grandson.
Have a great Monday, everybody?
JD:
I forgot to tell you how much I enjoyed your pictures. It brought back some good memories of Scotland. I have not been to Ireland, though and have heard how beautiful it is.
TTP:
You're welcome. I wonder of Abejo even saw that explanation. He is always so busy.
Ack ! My computer has been hijacked by BING !!@#@ I was just trying to download the latest Java and Adobe, and suddenly Bing took over everything, and restarted my computer, and became my 'default' browser, and I had no choice in it. Drat you, Bing @#!@# How dare you !!!! I want my Google back. Now, everything has changed, the style, the font, and I have spent 5 hours trying to get my beloved Google back !@#$ There ought to be a law against this sort of hijacking ! I hope the Box, and the Pox, and the Fox get you and maim you forever, BING !@#@# I should sue you for this !!
Hmm, the puzzle was easy and enjoyable. I was concerned about Looie, but I have read John Wooden's book, many, many times.
Technically, 'Rajas' are Indian kings, .... Indian Princes don't have 4 letter words .... unless you're mad at them, or detest them ..... then, there are plenty of 4 letter DF ones.
My nephew was a law clerk to a Fed. Judge, here. Its always a great honor, and a lot of competition, and a terrific lot of FBI background checks, and financial disclosures. Most Prosecutors, Judges and 'higher-ups' were ALL law clerks, once. That is the ONLY way to enter the US 'system' at the upper echelons of the Govt.
Have a good day, you all.
And, BING, I'ma still gonna get you .....
Misty, the sarge's superior is a lieutenant -- LOOIE.
JD, that's quite the mortarboard poster child you've got there. Cute.
Thanks for the explanation, Desper-otto. Never heard that one before, but it makes sense. Nice to learn something new.
PK, I didn't take the pix, I just found them on the web. The Pearl and the Souk Waqif are just minutes apart....
Hello everybody. Fun solve today. I liked this puzzle, as I did yesterday's as well. I, too, got caught by LOUIE and WOUDEN and had exactly the same experience as Barry G did. I misread the clue for 5D as Indian princess, so I entered RANEE, which I corrected after I realized NOHN was an awfully weird looking name and BREAKE was an awfully weird looking spelling. Argyle, thank you for your humor. Vidwan, I'm sorry you got nailed by Bing; I agree with you that it's a dirty rotten lowdown thing that they did to you (and probably thousands of others).
Being Monday and therefore easy, the only renewable challenge is time. This one took a little over nine minutes, whereas most Mondays are closer to ten for me.
I had the same question as Barry G. about the proper rendering of WOODEN/WOUDEN & LOOIE/LOUIE, but covered it by acknowledging BOTH. I wasn't smart enough to go back and resolve the spelling by the theme.
A belated greeting to all the poppas in our circle! I had a nice time with both my sons checking in (from OK and TX). There is a sweet contentment in wishing a happy father's day to a son....
Merry post-Dad's Day, all!
Musings
-JOHN WOODEN won with a lot of players but getting Lew Alcindor/Kareem Abdul Jabbar to matriculate across the country from Brooklyn Power Memorial Academy was a real coup.
-Some school programs – READY, FIRE, AIM
-THIS was #1 on my BUCKET LIST
-Some of those purveyors of Pork are getting nabbed RED-handed
-My NIECE got her Masters while teaching full-time and a full-time mom. She’s my hero!
-This LAVA was always in our house
-One day of atonement probably wouldn't get it done for me
-Some of my best moments involved Play DOH and short people
-On Law and Order, they call Lt. Anita Van Buren “Loo”
-HISTORY is written by the winners
-Doha, some kids pledged Alpha Tappa Kegga
-I went to a 9 am Quinceañera once and the family didn’t show up until around 9:30 am
-Sfingi, I agree! Many hockey goals seem to be a stroke of luck through a mass of bodies and equipment
Hola Everyone, A fairly easy Monday puzzle, though I did have a couple of unknowns. Looie was new to me. I didn't have a problem with the spelling as John Wooden was a given. My husband's cousin played for John Wooden while he was at UCLA. Wooden was a masterful coach.
Data Mining, and Looie were unknowns, but the perps took care of those.
Thanks, Argyle for the writeup. I always enjoy the quips, links, and comments.
Hands up for the crossing of Egos and Eggos.
My grandma, being from the south, always used the word poke instead of bag.
Have a great day everyone. I'm off to run errands.
Monday, Monday... I'd seen LOOIE in print often enough that I had no doubt about the spelling. I'd heard of THWACK often enough but never tried to spell it before. I had heard Pig in a POKE often enough but never thought about what it meant. Now I know.
In the book "Lonesome Dove", POKE has a whole different meaning.
Barbara went to UCLA while working on an advanced degree in Psychology. She was accidentally standing in line in the cafeteria right behind Lew Alcindor. She came up to his belt buckle. I don't think his sky hook has ever been equaled since his days on the "Showtime" Lakers with Magic Johnson.
I just got back from doing the grocery shopping. Time for a sit down and some lunch.
Bill G - I'm glad you mentioned Lonsome Dove as I recommended that book to you a long time ago. I've often wondered if you read it and, more importantly, if you liked it.
JD - Lovely pictures; Truman is a cutie!
I just finished yesterday's New York Times puzzle. Jace, get prepared! I think even Thumper would break his own rule on this one. Nuff said!
Irish Miss, is that the NYT puzzle with so many cross-referenced clues, and with the circles. Yeah, I worked that one yesterday. I have to admit it was creative.
Hi all,
This puzzle wasn't easy but it was fun and I managed to finish.
My DH knew Wooden but I had a problem with Looie. I still don't know who it is.
I actually got the theme answers, even ice buckets,etc. Some answers came with the perps.I liked Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless in Cagney and Lacey.
I read princess instead of Princes also but changed it when DH gave me John. My father was John Sr, my oldest brother is Jack and my younger brother is John Jr. When I was in high school kids asked me why my brothers were named that way. All I could say was "I don't know, I wasn't born yet.
I just heard some thunder which is strange because the son is shinning. There are a few white clouds to the west and south.
Have a good evening all.
Marge
I'm sorry, I goofed-I meant sun of course.
Marge, well maybe you have a shiny son too. :>)
Marge, Looie isn't a particular person. It's a silly nickname for anybody who is a lieutenant.
Irish Miss, I have been reading Lonesome Dove about 15/20 minutes each night on my Nook after getting in bed. I have about 20 pages to go so I will finish it tonight. I liked it but maybe not as much as you did. The story is well-written but seems to just ramble on. You have to enjoy the figurative and literal trip rather than expecting an important destination. Also, there are a few fairly unpleasant parts that were hard for me to get through. So it was a mixed though mostly positive bag for me. I'm glad you recommended it and I'm glad I took the time to read it. Thanks.
Pearls Before Swine
Lurker here with a question. Why do some poster type the captcha at the end of their posts? I think its ridiculous to have to type it once.
Hi Bill,
Puzzle solvers can be nit pickers. Some might say we "Split Hairs."
Lew Alcindor never played for the Los Angeles Lakers. :>)
nkesmsh
Anon (4:54), good question.
TTP, I see your point. So if a person changes his/her name, they are not the same person?
Here's a math question all of you can handle. 259 x Your Age x 39 = ?
[pooperpep]
111,111
The BING monster is still controlling my computer - I think I will need the Geek squad, or a cheaper, local guy to fix this.
John Wooden's quotations:
- Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.
AND
- The person who says something is impossible should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
Vidwan827 with a still -- those are great quotes. Have you tried going to add/remove programs and removing Bing? I'm assuming you've got a Windows PC and not one of the fruity ones.
Anon@4:54, the captcha is an attempt to keep spam down to a dull roar on this board. I'll let those who keep listing the captcha in their posts explain why they keep listing it.
Anon@5:23 -- does your mother know that you're playing with the computer again?
Jace @ 3:44 - You are usually a week behind on the puzzle. The one I'm talking about is Question Box by Mel Rosen.
Bill G. @ 4:26 - I know what you mean about some difficult passages in LD. I just loved the characters and the scope of their adventures and lives. I'm glad you read it and basically enjoyed it.
Hi, all!
Fun puzzle, Patti! Always enjoy your efforts! Swell expo, Argyle! Is "pail face" a play on old Bob Hope movie?
House phone still not working. Time Warner hangs up on me when I call on my cell.
Can't imagine having to live with Bing. Good ole Bill Gates.
Cheers!
Swell pictures, JD!
Yes, it was. Did you mean living with Bing Crosby?
Reading test:
This is weird, but interesting!
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If you can read this,
you have a strange mind, too.
Only 55 people out of 100 can.
Cont'd
More:
I cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd what I was rdanieg.
The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid,
aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy,
it dseno't mtaetr in what oerdr the ltteres in a word are,
the olny iproamtnt tihng is that the frsit and last ltteer
be in the rghit pclae.
The rset can be a taotl mses and you can still raed it whotuit a pboerlm.
This is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed
ervey lteter by istlef, but the word as a wlohe.
Azanmig huh?
Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!
This is why we teachers can always read our students' work, bad handwriting and spelling, not withstanding. It is also why proofreading your own work is so difficult.
We visited our daughter in Michigan for two weeks and returned the middle of last week. I had no access to the internet while gone and it took me most of last week to catch up on crossword, blog comments and my sleep. I know I missed birthdays, anniversaries, etc. My best wishes to all. A special congratulations to CC on your LA Times/NYT doubleheader!
BREAK THE ICE reminds me of ice- breakers at women's group meeting. I am ambivalent about participating. Sometimes feel like a FISH OUT OF WATER and sometimes ask WHY ME?
Argyle, this is my 40th HS reunion and I haven't heard anything. I've ended up going to church with many HS friends for over 35 years.
Reunions are probably harder now since many people move frequently.
BLUR?- kept thinking it should be a shortened way to say BLURAY.
Doha Doc, Beautiful red mustang. We visited Henry Ford Museum, in Dearborn, MI. You would really enjoy it. I really liked seeing Rosa Parks Bus and all the Presidential Limousines.
KAISER- We have the best WWI Museum in Kansas City. My son was really impressed with it.
JD, my twins graduated from preschool complete with mortar board caps that had their HS graduation year in glitter. I kept them and put them out at their HS graduation party. It went by quickly.
apple PIE... I had the best blueberry PIE in Michigan. Yum
IMHO Picasso CUBISM is eerie. It's not art that I would enjoy looking at daily.
Dog: Did you know dogs are really not scared of vacuum cleaners?
Master: Oh? Then why do you act like you are afraid all the time?
Dog: Have you ever seen a dog doing housework?
Irish Miss, you seem to be good at reading what I write and then understanding what I meant.
Blue Iris, I agree. I can appreciate Picasso without enjoying his art. Monet, on the other hand, makes me happy.
Bill G, I love your new avatar picture. I'm sure you're glad you took the time to pose for it. Do you know how old you were then? A very sweet couple's picture. Belated anniversary wishes.
Do any of you watch "Inspector Lewis"? I just came across it, have watched maybe 15 minutes of one episode and I'm thinking I'm going to like it.
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