Words: 72 (missing C,F,Q,W)
Blocks: 30
Mark's "hair styles" puzzle appeared on Sunday, June 2nd, so he has
"bookends" for the month~! Again, we have a non-intimidating grid, with
the long answers inside the edges - seems to be a new trend in Saturday
puzzles....although we do have triple stacks of 2-9's and a 10-letter
word top and bottom. Some of the notables;
19. Powerful military tactic : BLITZKRIEG - "Lightning War"
53. Clownfish host : SEA ANEMONE - Can you "find" Nemo~?
32. "Halo: Reach" and "Kinect Adventures!" notably : X-BOX GAMES
26. High point in 1980 news : Mt. St. HELENS - Great fill, with 5 consonants to start
O+N+W+A+R+D = 75
ACROSS:
1. "Dad Is Fat" author/comedian Gaffigan : JIM - One of my favorite comedians, he's also acted in Law & Order, too
4. Wipe away __ : A TEAR - ugh, an "A" word
9. More popular song, usually : SIDE A - ugh, ANOTHER "A" word
14. Not getting by the censors : UNAIRABLE
16. How some errors are shown : IN RED
17. Tough taskmasters : MARTINETS
- this filled in mostly via perps, and so I had to look it up;
essentially, that's the definition - one who is a strict disciplinarian,
especially military
18. Panache : STYLE
21. Basic Latin verb : ESSE - "to be"
22. Big cheer : OLÉ
23. Giant Giant : OTT - Crossword Baseball standard
24. Greenstreet co-star in "The Verdict" (1946) : LORRE - not the Paul Newman version
26. Letters above WXYZ : MNO - I semi-cheated, and looked at my house phone to save time
27. Team Frisbee game : ULTIMATE - I prefer Frisbee Golf to this game
30. Place cheek by jowl : JUXTAPOSE - I love this word
34. Pocket protector? : MISER - I was thinking "GUARD", as in the QB pocket in football, but in this case, it's a metaphor for money
35. Altar attire : ALBS - ah, not GOWN
36. Dog seen with Kvack the duck : SNERT - Hagar the Horrible, in comic strips
38. Signs of affection : X O X O - hugs and kisses in letters and cards
39. Bad marks : BLOTS
41. Some auditors : I.R.S. AGENTS
43. Tuba relatives : SAX HORNS
45. '60s pop group __ Bravos : LOS
46. Eponymous California museum founder : GETTY
47. Brighton beer, briefly : BEV - all perps; thought it was "IPA" at first
48. Mo. in which Caesar was born : JUL - this
is odd; he is credited with reform of the calendar, which prior to
JULIUS Caesar, did not contain JULY and AUGUST; so how could he be born
in July?
51. Caspian feeder : URAL - map, at the top
56. Staycation locales : HOMES - "Stay-at-home"
vacations becomes "staycations" - My Aunt and Cousin are here from
England; we went to my brother's house for a BBQ last night, and tonight
we are having a bonfire. Here's the pic I took of them; Ann, Brother Kev, Mom, and Carole
58. Kakadu National Park site : AUSTRALIA - map, at the top
59. Admits customers : OPENS
60. What many tests measure : RETENTION
61. "The Glass Bead Game" author : HESSE
62. Places for runners : SLEDS - ah, not LANES
63. Couple in "Annie" : ENs - did not fool me; a-N-N-i-e
DOWN:
1. Egg size : JUMBO - My queen size Sleep Number bed came Wednesday; in the store, I 'selected' 45 as my number - now I am experimenting at home
2. Collectively : IN ALL
3. Women's magazine __ Claire : MARIE
4. Cardinals' home : ARIZONA - Baseball for C.C. - OOPS~! This is the football team~! (Splynter)
6. "I would rather eat a golf ball than see this movie again" writer : EBERT - we just had his B-day puzzle~!
7. Voices in il coro : ALTI
8. Property flippers, e.g. : RESELLERS
9. Family gal : SIS
10. Blends : INTERMIXES
11. When many grazing animals migrate : DRY SEASON
12. Fish without pelvic fins : EELS
13. Chick follower? : ADEE - chickadee
15. Morticia's cousin : ITT - Love the theme - earworm~!
20. Nabbed : GOT
25. Glass part : RIM - ah, not CUP
27. Mouse movers : USERS
28. Droid message : TEXT
29. "__ Turannos": E.A. Robinson poem about a complex marriage : EROS
30. Ring tactics : JABS
31. "The Producers" bombshell : ULLA
33. No spring chicken : ON IN YEARS
37. Bearing gifts? : TALENTED
40. One on a liquid diet? : SOT
42. Controls : GOVERNS
44. Some NFL linemen : RTs - Right Tackles
47. Vigorously denounce : BASTE
48. Voight's actress daughter : JOLIE - Took me a moment to recall that Angelina is Jon's daughter
49. Strike caller : UNION - Today is my 3-year
anniversary working at the UPS terminal - no strikes in my future; UPS
seemed WAY too happy to give us what we asked for in the new contract; I
expect to be full-time by the end of August, and not as a driver - I
passed the test, but passed on the position; my Home Inspection license
arrived the day that Mark's last puzzle was posted.
50. Lists in a regatta : LEANS - List is the nautical term for not being on an even keel
51. "Oops!" : UH-OH
52. Sheet in a regatta : ROPE - more nautical terminology
54. "The Clan of the Cave Bear" author : AUEL
55. Framing item : MAT - I thought CEL first; this is this
57. Compass dir. : SSE
Splynter - Hey, I'm down to 193lbs from sweating at UPS~! (C.C.: Way to go! Meet Me in St. Louis for 4D!)
Note from C.C.:
Happy Birthday to dear Barry G, whose posts I look forward to every morning. Barry's comments are consistently constructive. I value very much WBS (What Barry Said/Says).
58 comments:
Good Morning, One and All
This took a lot of guesses and pattern recognition to git'er done. Still missed one letter and I shouldn't have. I had Julie instead of Jolie even though sea anemune didn't look right.
I'm somewhat surprised Splynter didn't include a picture of Jolie...or of The Producers bombshell Ulla.
Morning, all (and thanks for the birthday wishes)!
Mostly straightforward solve today, but there definitely a few potholes along the way. Couldn't remember ULLA and don't recall ever hearing of a SAXHORN before. EROS was another unknown, and it took me awhile to figure out that MISE_ was referring to (I'm assuming) the wallet one keeps in ones pocket.
The crossing of BEV and BASTE nearly did me in at the end. BASTE is what I do to a turkey. I'm also familiar with the sense meaning "to temporarily sew with long stitches." And BEV? What is that supposed to be short for? I'm desprately hoping it's not just "beverage", since that would make the clue waaaay too overly specific. In the end, I did correctly guess the "B" since I figured BASTE might be related to lambast and figured that maybe 47A really was obnoxious enough to ask for the abbreviation of beverage after all.
Seriously, I don't drink beer -- please tell me that BEV isn't just an abbreviation for beverage...
[ontheneo]
nice puzzle...lots of X's and even a tricky Z...i too was defeated by bev/baste...not the least bit familiar with that usage of either...nailed the rest though...always love the saturday puzzle and the ensuing comments/discussion here
The Roman Senate named the month of July after Julius Caesar in 45BC to honor him for reforming their calendar. Caesar, born in 100BC, lived to celebrate only one July (45BC) as he was assassinated the following March.
Pocket can means supply of money or funds. Out of pocket means out of funds. A MISER carefully husbands his pocket.
BEV did mean beverage, but that was okay with me.
HBDTY Barry and many more. We all appreciate your consistent commentary.
I really enjoyed this puzzle which seemed easy in places and almost impossible in others. ULLA was very hard to recall and END about BASTE BEV crossing.I thought MT ST HELENS was great fill and ARIZONA is the home of the NFL Cardinals.
Enjoy all
BTW I have always had trouble spelling ANEMONE but now seeing NEMO inside the word I think I have it.
Good morning, weekend warriors!
For a while I thought my grid was going to remain empty. My first entry was 46A GETTY. At the end, I had quite an ink blot. I thought the "sheet" would be a sail. Nope, ROPE. And the A Side became SIDE A. What slowed me down the most was INTEGRATES before INTERMIXES. I was sure it had to be right, and hung on for dear life.
Still, it came together right on time, so that's good. I almost DNF'd at 29D, torn between EROS and OROS. ULTIMATE sounded weak and ULTIMATO sounded stronger. But EROS has to do with love, so I still WAGged the E. Whew!
Oh, and I didn't realize the bombshell from The Producers was a person. I thought it was the play within the play, Springtime For Hitler.
HBD, Barry.
Splynter, what happened with the Home Depot caper?
Good morning Saturday Soldiers!
Loved your write-up and pictures today, Splynter, especially the one of you. Now, if you only were wearing that tank top....
And Happy Birthday to Barry G.!! You always tell it like it is, and I enjoy reading your comments every day. Make it a special one!
Fun, doable puzzle today. Loved seeing BLITZKRIEG, JUXTAPOSE, XBOX GAMES and SAX HORNS.
Fav clue: "Bearing gifts?" for TALENTED. Which would also be my description of Mark.
Have a fun day, everyone.
If that's Barry G., who's that in his avatar?
If that's Barry G., who's that in his avatar?
Sorry, that's an old picture. I've shaved the beard off since then.
Hi Y'all! Interesting puzzle, Mark, with some juicy fills. It was also hard enough to need red-letter alphabet runs to get going in the NW & S central.
Couple in "Annie" did fool me, even after I perped ENS. I was sure it was twins in the play and thought that was a strange name.
Thanks, Splynter, and congrats on the new business sideline. Nice to see your family.
Lovely cool day. I'd like to go out and do some yard work, but the yard sale is on next door again and I'm shy about stretching and bending with an audience.
Happy Birthday, Barry!
Angelina Jolie has been estranged from her father so it's always hard to remember who he is.
Hello Puzzlers -
Seemed to be on Mark's wavelength today, since most of the answers dropped right in. I'm with Splynter, though, in thinking Bev was IPA.
Hand up for thinking that Julius Caesar couldn't have been born in the month that was later named for him.Yellowrocks' explanation seems to reinforce that. Maybe they re-figured the calendar backward to 100 BC to get to his "new" birth month...
Had long forgotten whose daughter Angelina Jolie is. I'm none too sure what to think of her as a person, but I salute her courage in choosing to undergo, and be candid about, a double mastectomy. It can't have been easy.
Cheers All
I forgot...HBTY Barry, and many more.
Happy birthday, Barry.Actually my comments about July reinforce that Julius was born in July. When the Julian calendar came out all the old months were renamed. It would be impossible for future generations to try to figure out which calendar was in effect when certain events happened. It is so much simpler to use a consistent month for the same part of the year, no matter what calendar was in effect when they occurred.. That is why historians say he was born in July.
Good morning, folks. Thank you, Mark, for an excellent puzzle. Thank you, Splynter, for the great write-up.
My high point of the morning was getting MT ST HELENS right off the bat. I still have a bag of the ash around somewhere. I was living in California when that happened.
My low point was entering A SIDE instead of SIDE A. That took me forever to fix.
MNO was tough. I put TUV first. That bombed after a while. I got the M, and then entered NO. Never thought of a telephone key pad. Oh well.
I needed some help to finish this one. But I am limited in time today while in Normal, IL.
Happy Birthday, Barry G. Nice to see your family in the photo.
See you tomorrow.
Abejo
(nomjob)
Happy birthday, Barry.
Analogous to the renaming of the months in the Julian calendar is the renaming of the years using the AD/Anno Domini (now CE/Common Era.) system. The AD system was developed in 525 AD and did not become widespread until 300 years later. The early centuries of the Common Era have been refigured to conform to this system even though it was not in effect at that time. There were many calendars in effect in Europe at that time. It would be tremendously confusing to juggle dates between calendar systems. In 200 AD the year obviously was not called 200 AD back then, but for the sake of clarity we have renamed it.
Good morning? Splynter, CC, et al., Excellent puzzle. Really liked this one. Thank you , Mark.
Nice write-up,Splynter. Well done. Congratulations for the weight loss while working at UPS. There’s a joke in there somewhere. Cute. Nice family pic too. Looks like a fun group…the bottle on the table is…? BBQ sauce of sorts…as in BEV? Great pic of you in that TANK TOP btw. Feel free to share that anytime, Home Inspector.
Santa Baby, good to see you 'on top' this morning. Variety is the spice of life. Thank you for the pic of ULLA. Don’t know her, but love the play/movie.
Barry G: Happy birthday! Love the pic. Can’t believe how grown up your little fellow is. Adorable family! I wish you many more Happy Birthdays.
Favorite clue was Pocket Protector for Miser. Shades of my Dad in some ways. Made me LOL. He could turn a dollar and make the buffalo squeal on a nickel at the same time.
Enjoy your day to the ULTIMATE.
I approached this with my usual Saturday morning pessimism, red letters on. After the 1st pass I realized this is a lot easier than a Saturday Silkie, but without the red letters, I have no idea how long it would have taken me to correct:
39A Bad marks = scars
52D Sheet in a Regatta = sail
Hmm, Naval terminology, = rope? Needs clarification.
*&%^%$(*& I must have looked at 10 of these images, & not one of them identifies a sheet as other than some kind of sail. (wait a sec, the 1st one I looked at does have something called a "mainsheet?"
9A Never heard of Sidea...(map pls)
58A word ending in "alia," gee, I only know one...
31D Splynter, I never never saw The Producers. Some explanation of Ulla is in order!
(Um, Er,,, Ok I get it now. No explanation necessary...)
HBD Barry from your fans!
@ Crossed Eyed Dave 10:14 a.m. - SIDE A, not Sidea. As in Side A / SIDE B of old 45 rpm records.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BARRY! I hope it is a great day for you!
Good Morning:
This was a DNF for me as I couldn't get beyond Helena instead of Helens; don't ask me why! Other than that, everything else went smoothly, especially after changing integrates to intermixes.
Nice work, Mark, and good expo, Splynter. Anything new on the Lily situation?
Happy Birthday, Barry; beard-less is better. (-:
Super Saturday to all.
FYI: Ulla was portrayed by Lee Meredith (1968 film), Cady Huffman (Broadway musical) and Uma Thurman (2005 film). It's all good.
Happy Birthday, Barry; beard-less is better.
And, unlike your avatar, something from this century would be even better.
Hi again~!
HBTY BarryG~!
Someone else's B-day is tomorrow....
Dah~! I screwed up the team from Arizona - trust Lemon to pick up on it
Ya know, Santa, if I had seen C.E.D.'s clip about Ulla before this puzzle, I would have linked a pic~! (pinked a lick~?)
Hey, now, HeartRx, I can't quite fill a tank top like that....
Just orange soda, lois - no love potion or muscle growth juice~!
And - for those on the edge of your seat
- and that incudes me -
I was only able to get to Home Depot once this week, for a surge protector; Lilia was not working.... I think I have to go earlier in the day - I'm getting a haircut Tuesday morning, so I figure right after that....
Splynter
Good morning everyone.
Happy Birthday Barry G. Nice picture.
Got almost nothing on my first pass. Finally got a little at the bottom starting with SNERT. Also WAGGged EBERT. Finally sussed MT ST HELENS and BLITZKRIEG and things got better. Had tube top before TANK TOP. Slowly but steadily it gave itself up. Last to fall were BEV and GOVERN. BH helped me with JOLIE. Had to wite-out 7 squares. Nice shoutout to Kazie with Oz.
Masterful tour de force, Mark.
Never thought I'd miss a dreaded Silkie, but this was a bit of a toughie for me. Still, I got much of the West at least before I had to start cheating. Got ULLA but didn't understand it because, like others, I thought the "Producers" bombshell was the musical and not a woman's name. Cute clue for MISER. So, thanks for a fun Saturday puzzle, Mark, in spite of the tough spots.
Sweet Nemo pic, Splynter.
I got JULY for Caesar's birthday but until Yellowrocks's explanation, didn't connect the name of man and month. Thanks for clearing that up for us.
Happy Birthday, Barry! You don't look a bit older than the cool dude on your Avatar.
Finally, I'm going to ask: who is SANTA BABY and why the name? Have been wondering this for several years now.
Have a great weekend, everybody!
Splynter, I think C.C. beat Lemon to the punch. See her comment next to the posting of your photo on the main page.
Misty, Argyle is SANTA BABY. Haven't you seen his photo?
Ah, now I got it. Thanks for the explanation, Desper-otto. No, I had never seen Argyle's photo. A perfect nickname, for sure! I thought I might be getting to see his argyle socks, or something!
Hello, super solvers! Thanks, Splynter, for your wonderful commentary.
Happy, happy birthday, Barry! I echo C.C.'s remarks. You always call it as you see it.
Yowza! What a puzzler this was but I like to sip my coffee and mull over the possibilities of fill. Slowly, very slowly it gradually came together as Spitzboov described it.
"Slowly but steadily it gave itself up."
I love seeing JUXTAPOSE and that was in fact my first thought but then doubts arose and finally it worked out. ARIZONA should have been my first fill but I was thinking of baseball!!
JOLIE was easy because I find it sad to think of being estranged from one's father. For me, family is my anchor and support; don't know what I would do without them.
Finally, MT ST HELENS GOT me as I had HELENA, too and did not check or review. I would have known HESSE.
Thank you, Mark Bickham! I always enjoy your puzzles.
Have a delightful Saturday, everyone!
Splynter, what a nice picture of your family. Thank you for sharing.
Yours, too, Barry.
Happy Birthday, Barry G.
I shocked myself by getting a Saturday puzzle almost complete without help but the SE got me.
Happy Birthday, Barry
Happy Saturday and happy birthday Barry!
"I would rather eat a golf ball than see this movie again." Great stuff! I miss Roger Ebert.
Sheets are always ropes or lines in sailing, never sails though that seems like it would make more sense. A mainsheet is the rope that controls the mainsail.
I was looking forward to the Dodgers continuing their six-game win streak but alas, it was not to be. They barely lost 16 to one.
I wanted PASTE, which would have been correct, but BASTE is even stronger.
Like Barry, I wasn't up on SAXHORN, nor have I heard of EROS Turranos (I wanted EDIP as a variation of "Oedipus Tyrannos.") Other false starts were ST LOUIS for ARIZONA and LINE for ROPE, but I straightened them out in time and avoided a Saturday DNF.
ULLA eluded me. Couldn't remember that the "Producers"' sex bomb even HAD a name, but I got it through perps.
Happy Saturday - and Happy PRIDE Weekend to all our Gay friends!
Oh, and YES, of course, a Happy B'day to Barry!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NJFi7EJF60
Hello everybody, and happy birthday, Barry G. The puzzle turned out to be a tad easier than I anticipated it would be, which is not to say it was easy. FIW, though, having filled in ARBS and URLA. I should have known ULLA even though I never saw The Producers; one of my high-school classmates was named Ulla.
Loved the fresh fill! JUXTAPOSE indeed!
The only clue/answer I couldn't reconcile in my mind was Sheet/ROPE. I very much wanted SAIL in there.
Best wishes to you all.
Greetings, Saturday Solvers! Lots to like about this one – thanks, Mark. Always look forward to your Saturday write-ups, Splynter. Thanks for sharing the family picnic photos. Good luck with your Home Depot honey. (All slimmed down and with a fresh haircut, how could she resist?)
Finished this one unassisted, which is unusual for a Saturday. Really liked seeing all those “X’s” for some reason. ULLA was easy, since The Producers is one of my favorite shows. Seems appropriate that MARTINETS and BLITZKRIEG appeared together. IRS AGENTS are much in the news lately. Love the days when our Jazzercise class includes cardio-boxing -- getting those JABS out of my system sends me back to work with a whole new attitude ;)
Happy Birthday, Barry! Hope you and your lovely family spend it doing all your favorite things.
Have a great weekend, all!
Hudson got me XBOXGAMES and felt pretty good. He and his sister have been here for about 36 hours. Love seeing them come AND go. What a fun puzzle! Learned new use of ROPE, I think.
Musings
-We anticipated MT ST HELENS for weeks that year
-What’s UNAIRABLE has to be pretty raunchy these days
-Didn’t Greenstreet and LORRE co-star in a Bogie film ;-)?
-Always enjoy HUGS from Marti and Yellowrocks
-The art at the GETTY is pretty much wasted on me but the view and the grounds – WOW!
-Kakadu sound Aussie, doesn’t it?
-One of these retail Shaving Stores will OPEN its doors soon in Omaha. Really?
-My first runners were on STEPS
-There are renovated houses here that ain’t flipped for almost a year now
-HBD Barry
-Side note to Otto and Marti. A close friend of ours just went home from the hospital yesterday with a broken arm, broken ribs and a broken vertebra. She had the green light and while in the intersection, she got hit by a young girl who was, you guessed it, TEXTing while driving and never looked up as she ran the red light.
Happy BD, BG!
Husker Gary, how about Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon?
Splynter, why not spring for a little clean-up shave when you get your haircut...maybe a little frou-frou smelly stuff too? Lilia might take notice!
Oh yeah...the puzzle was good, too.
I used to think SHEETS were SAILS instead of the ROPES which held them in place. This idiom helps me remember.
From Phrase Finder:THREE SHEETS TO THE WIND. “These sheets (ropes) are fixed to the lower corners of sails, to hold them in place. If three sheets are loose and blowing about in the wind then the sails will flap and the boat will lurch about like a drunken sailor.”
“Sailors at that time had a sliding scale of drunkenness; three sheets was the falling over stage; tipsy was just 'one sheet in the wind', or 'a sheet in the wind's eye'.”
Yellowrocks from Kathy
Yellowrocks, you beat me to it! I was going to mention "three sheets to the wind".
Another memory aid for knowing sheets as lines (ropes) instead of sails is to think of the sheet bend. The sheet bend is a basic knot that every Boy Scout had to learn - its nautical use is for lengthening a sheet that may be too short, perhaps due to breakage. Sheets can be under quite a lot of tension, and any knot used to mend them must be able to survive that way; a sheet bend is good at that, even if the two joined pieces are different sizes.
As for Caesar in July, YR's clarification certainly helps. I'm reminded of how J.R.R. Tolkien invented a scheme of year-numbering just for the Hobbits of the Shire. Their dates were appended with S.R. for "Shire Reckoning".
In OUR neck `o` the woods, "out of pocket" means "away from where you usually are."
I came across one of my favorite little movies on cable and I'm watching it again for the fourth or fifth times. It's Robin and Marian. My favorite Robin Hood movie is the first one I can remember with Errol Flynn. This one is about an aging Robin Hood (Sean Connery) and Maid Marian (Audrey Hepburn) as they try to cope with the Sheriff of Nottingham and life in general. It really boils down to a great love story. I hope you'll give it a try.
...and because of the additions of the emperor`s names, (Julius and August) the month that was named for the 8th month became the 10th, (OCTtober) the month named as the ninth month became the 11th (NOVEMber) and the month intended for the tenth month became the 12th!(DECember).
Speaking of calendars: George Washington was born on February 11, 1731 under the Julian calendar. But in 1752 the Gregorian calendar became the official calendar, and Washingtons birthday was recalculated as February 22, 1732 -- more than a year later. Odd, but interesting.
Abejo--Welcome to Bloomington-Normal, my hometown. Enjoy the much cooler weather! Always enjoy your comments.
Arrr!
Shiver me timbers!
YR, Ya beat me 2 it!
I always thought someone who was 3 sheets to the wind was someone who could not stand up straight. (or was listing...)
I only recently learned the true meaning of "shiver me timbers." (I always thought it was a cold pirate...)
I have been learning a lot of knots lately for fishing, & the list seems endless. (There is actually a TV show called "knotwars" where they test two different knots each week until they come up with the strongest knot!)
How to tie a sheet bend (1:09) boring, but a nice tidbit of info right at the end...)
A better knot video is this guy,,, (once he gets where he's going.)
hehe, the captcha was dropedat
Congrats on buying a Sleep Number bed (Select Comfort). It's the best thing we ever bought. Back pain problems solved!
Thought we were not to inject politics into our comments, and yet Keith Fowler had to bring up "Gay Pride" which is a new oxymoron.
We have wished our Jewish friends "L'Shana Tova" on Rosh Hashanah. We have wished our Christian friends Happy Easter. We mention that we are going to church today. This is not promoting religion or politics. Keith's wish "Happy PRIDE Weekend to all our Gay friends!" is in the same spirit. Not daring to even mention the word is much more political and insensitive.
Finally finished this puzzle! It took awhile because it had the i and the e turned around in BLITZKRIEG.
I was going to say, nice looking family, Barry!
Mt St Helen's blew while we were on our honeymoon. Drove home with ash raining down on us.
THanks, Lemonade, for not throwing a V-8 can my way yesterday. We even have BLINDS in our house. Guess my hunting fixation really limited my thinking.
Good evening Splynter, C.C. et al,
HBTY,Barry ♪♩♬♫•*¨*•.❤.•*¨*•♫♪•.¸¸.•´♫♪♩♬*¨*`•.♥ Loved seeing the picture of your cute wife and son.
Bill, it is HOT up our way too.100 here again today. No change for tomorrow or Monday. Whole family spent a few hours at movies watching Monsters University.. not as cute as the original.Boys loved it.
Enjoyed most of the c/w , but had to wag and search more than usual. Sax HORN? a new one.Liked old geezer more so than "on in years"
@ Angelina Jolie: I like the fact that she is constantly promoting humanitarian causes. For awhile she was a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations.. not sure if she still does that, but she always seems to have a good reason for her travels.
Am I the only one who thinks Johnny Depp is a bit of a odd ball? He obviously is a charismatic actor but when he's talking one-on-one, he doesn't always seem to make a lot of sense. Maybe he's just not comfortable in a situation like being interviewed on a talk show.
I enjoyed the knot videos.
My first mostly complete Saturday! (DNF in SE, but I'm still proud of myself especially considering I got 98% of a Friday! Oh, the hours wasted...)
Happy Birthday Barry G. I always feel like an idiot on the puzzle and you say the same stuff I was thinking re: clues... Of course, you get it and I don't.
Cheers,
-T
Oh, and Berry G's avatar looks like a young Mathew Broderick. -T
Qli I have managed to blind myself even after 4 years. It is why puzzle deception works. Nice, huh.
Wishing a happy week end as a forbidden comment? Really lame complaint.
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