Theme: Ithena - First part has an I, last part has an A.
20. Original Ice Follies slapstick skating duo : FRICK AND FRACK
28. Retaliatory equivalent : TIT FOR TAT
39. Happy heartbeat sound : PIT-A-PAT. How apt.
48. Knickknacky stuff : BRIC-A-BRAC
Argyle here with a Marti Monday. Neat how the sound of the target vowels match. Nothing forced with any of the entries and they're fun to say, too.
Across:
1. Injury reminder : SCAR
5. Pet adoption gp. : ASPCA. Some people bypass the The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and get their cats off the streets.
10. Environs : AREA
14. Nobel Peace Prize winner Wiesel : ELIE
15. U.S.-Canada defense letters : NORAD. (North American Aerospace Defense Command) More than just tracking Santa on Christmas.
16. Having a hard time deciding : TORN
17. Hard to find, to Caesar : RARA. Latin.
18. __ Gay: WWII bomber : ENOLA
19. Thom __ shoes : MCAN
23. "Just one darn minute!" : "SEE HERE!"
24. Amazed reactions : GASPS
27. Three in a deck : TREY
32. Found really groovy : DUG
34. Bud : PAL
35. Challenge : DARE
36. Part of WW II : WAR
42. Like veggies on a veggie platter : RAW
43. Expected landing hrs. : ETAs
45. Prohibition : BAN
46. Opposite of post- : PRE
51. Bible bk. with a sea crossing : EXOD.us
54. Trite : BANAL
55. Opie Taylor's caretaker : AUNT BEE
62. List-ending abbr. : ET AL.
64. 11th-century Spanish hero : EL CID
65. Give off : EMIT
66. Lo-cal : LITE
67. It divides the Left and Right Banks : SEINE. Ah, Paris!
68. Pal at the barbie : MATE. Are the shrimp ready?
69. Run into : MEET
70. More quirky : ODDER
71. Being, to Ovid : ESSE. More Latin.
Down:
1. Feudal farmers : SERFS
2. Red wine from Bordeaux : CLARET. More French, sorta.
3. Better ventilated : AIRIER
4. Got through to : REACHED
5. Lend __: listen : AN EAR
6. 14-line verse : SONNET
7. Cattle poker : PROD
8. Ranch newborn : CALF. 56D. 8-Down's milk source : UDDER
9. Purim month : ADAR. The sixth month of the Jewish calendar.
10. Use of one requires a PIN : ATM CARD
11. Groupie's idol : ROCK STAR
12. Significant period : ERA
13. Raggedy doll : ANN
21. Make excited : KEY UP. A rock star's appearence will key up the groupies.
22. Gone by : AGO
25. Prefix with legal : PARA
26. Ladled-out meal : STEW
29. Bucky Beaver's toothpaste brand : IPANA
30. Pub spigot : TAP
31. Envelope part : FLAP
33. Bee Gees family name : GIBB. Close to the theme. "Spicks and Specks" by the Bee Gees.
36. "Dragnet" star Jack : WEBB
37. Gillette razor brand : ATRA
38. Bad weather contingency : RAIN DATE
40. Paving goo : TAR
41. Sales manager's concern : TREND
44. Like the "A" in a Hawthorne classic : SCARLET
47. At the outer edges of the normal curve : EXTREME
49. "Sting like a bee" boxer : ALI
50. Bloodhound or boxer : CANINE
52. White House family : OBAMAs
53. Ledger entries : DEBITS. The red ones.
57. Cosmetician Lauder : ESTÈE
59. Spanish kiss : BESO
60. Iditarod transport : SLED. Dallas Seavey came from behind to win the 2014 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Story
61. Battery fluid : ACID
62. Good name for a tree-lined street : ELM
63. Dead heat : TIE
Argyle
A crossword constructor named Marti
ReplyDeleteSets grids with clues that are hearty;
Not too hard, not to easy,
And themes that aren't cheesy.
Once you solve them you feel like a smarty!
Our friend Marti is hardly a tyro
At climbing those tall hills in the Tyrol.
An adrenalin surge'll
Stimulate cruciverbal
Plots, in waves that manifestly are tidal!
A downhill ski slope, like a down-word, descends.
Rock scrambling, like an across-word, extends.
So here Marti belongs,
Just like in the song:
"I Get By With A Little 'Alp From My Friends!"
Morning, all!
ReplyDeleteFun Monday romp from our friend, Marti.
Stumbled a bit in the NE with GAPES before GASPS, but that was was about it. Everything else was smooth sailing and the theme answers were cute. I didn't pick up on the consistent vowels, however, until I visited the blog.
How nice to come here and find a lovely puzzle by our friend Marti, an insightful explanation from Argyle, and a nifty poem by Owen. Meanwhile, over at the other daily crossword, my friend Tom Pepper has a puzzle too, check it out.
ReplyDeleteAs a technical point about Marti's puzzle, it's quite a challenge to have theme entries of length 13 letters in a standard 15x15 puzzle, because (among other issues) they preclude use of rows 3 and 13. Look how well Marti was able to fit in a total of five theme entries on every other row, between rows 4 and 12. That's quite a feat, and I take off my metaphorical hat to it.
Finally, for those who haven't seen it yet, this riff is causing a bit of a stir in the crossworld. Read and laugh!
Thank you for the puzzle, Marti. Thank you for the review, Argyle.
ReplyDeleteEasy puzzle. Just right for an early Monday morning. I was wondering if the theme had something to do with the first letter and the start of the last word, but it didn’t make much sense. Thanks for clarifying the theme, Argyle!
SCAR or SCAB? I put in 3 letters and waited for a perp. I don’t know the Jewish months, but the perps got ADAR for me.
Another Monday from our prolific puzzler, how nice. I had completely forgotten about Frick and Frack.
ReplyDeleteGeorge thanks for the creative insight, but I am more confused than ever. I am glad there are so many o it there who keep pumping out these entertainments. Have a great week all.
If you really want to be confused, read pannonica's write-up.
ReplyDeleteGood morning from the planet Yokoono...
ReplyDeleteNice, dreck-free offering from Marti. I was COATing the RAIN before I DATEd it, but otherwise it was all zip and zap.
34a "Bud" = PAL. I would have liked to have seen 68a "Bud at the barbie." I would have confidently, and erroneously, entered BEER.
Now off to fire up the ATRA (actually, I prefer Sensor) and then brusha-brusha-brusha.
OK theme. The fill suck.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.crosswordfiend.com/blog/2014/03/23/monday-march-24-2014/#more-52365
Other evidence of ballast fill compromise includes relatively familiar stuff that is nevertheless inelegant for a crossword ostensibly geared to newer solvers: BESO, Thom MCAN (crossing ANN, incidentally), RARA, ESSE, ELIE, EXOD., PARA-, PRE-, ATRA. and perhaps ESTÉE Lauder. Oh, and ADAR, which is definitely not Monday-level.
Ipana and adar are regulars here on the corner and can show up on any day of the week, according to the archives.
ReplyDeleteOh no! I think I've suffered ablaut reduplication of my epenthesis. Now I'm probably going to have to undergo anaptyxis!
ReplyDeleteGood Morning Everybody! Super easy Monday puzzle today with no complaints from me.
ReplyDeleteI liked the clue for 68A: Pal at the barbie: MATE.
One of these puzzles I am going to remember that IPANA was Bucky Beaver's toothpaste brand!
When I was a child my family would see the Ice Follies every year. I remember Frick and Frack well.
Have a great week!
ReplyDeleteGood morning,
Nice start to the week with my thanks to Marti. No issues, no nits, just a comment or two.
Until today, never knew FRICK and FRACK began in the Ice Follies.
Wanted Pitter Patter but it wouldn't fit so PITAPAT it was.
Fun Monday puzzle from Marti and good explanations from Argyle. No whiteouts.
ReplyDeleteArgyle, I would have enjoyed the Dragnet theme on 26 down. Our high school band always played it when we lined up for the kickoff at football games. I haven't heard it in years.
My NCAA brackets are all shot with the upsets.
One week to opening day at Citi Field. Go METS
I guess this is what people call a "speed run".
ReplyDeleteThanks to OwenKL for yesterday's link to Gene Weingarten's column (and George Barany today). Gene and I were high school classmates (though we didn't know each other). He's not only a funny writer, he's a very good writer (as attested to by two Pulitzers). He won his second for his 2009 story about children who are accidentally left in cars. You won't soon forget it.
[4:49]
Good day, MATES! Thanks, Argyle, for your theme title and excellent review.
ReplyDeleteAnd thank you, Marti, for a fun filled puzzle which really caused me to sashay right through it. Nothing BANAL about this puzzle.
FRICK AND FRACK are so familiar and yet I didn't know the origin and the Sunday Morning piece must have been aired while I was gone. Learning moment.
desper-otto:
You are certainly in good form today.
George Barany:
Thanks for the link to that amusing article.
Have a terrific Monday, everyone!
What fun for a Monday, Marti! Did CLARET help you through the renovation? BTW, I do like this snack that somewhat fits the theme
ReplyDeleteMusings
-I thought FRICK AND FRACK were a vaudeville duo
-My friend’s son who is running for the US Senate had to go TIT FOR TAT when rival starting throwing mud. He said the only thing worse would be to do nothing.
-Since we have Aslan, Elsa and “Cowardly”, I’m surprised we haven’t seen this fictional feline for 1 across
-The Smithsonian Channel’s Aerial America showed the ENOLA GAY and other B-29’s practiced dropping bombs in Utah before heading to Tinian Island. Ya gotta watch this series!
-There were many GASPS last week with all the March Madness upsets. Mercer over Duke?
-An unintended result of PROHIBITION
-Spanish hero = CID, Dancer = CYD, Comedian = SID, Aust. Opera House City = SYD
-I’m still amazed that I just put in a card, punch in a PIN and get cash money!
-PARAS at our school have gotten hit hard by students they are trying to help
-C’mon, you thought about ladling out SOUP first too, didn’t cha?
-Very interesting comments, George. That Marti is pretty sharp!
Hi All ~~
ReplyDeleteThanks for a great Monday puzzle, Marti. It went quickly and was enjoyable throughout! I did have one write-over: Soup before STEW but it was correctly immediately with perps.
~ I liked the sound of the theme answers and the symmetry of AND being the connector in one and four and A connecting two and three, with RAW and WAR nicely bordering the center.
~ An almost-anagram with CLARET and SCARLET.
~ Great Marti poem, Owen!
I enjoyed your write-up, Argyle ~ I hadn't noticed the I to A vowel progression. How did you come up with your title?
Enjoy the day, everyone!
Fun puzzle Marti. A good Monday solve.
ReplyDeleteGene Weingarten's Sunday Essay was great. He manages to show the humor in things. He should do a piece on who Earthlings consider are the important people on this planet, like the Kardashians, Britanny Spears, Paris Hilton, etc.
How many remember the Bucky Beaver Ipana toothpaste commercials? Ipana Commercial Link And who can remember where the yellow went in this early commercial?
Nice romp in the park today. Thanks Marti and Argyle. I loved how the theme answers rolled off the tongue! And I noticed that Marti got in her CLARET.
ReplyDeleteOWENKL you outdid yourself today!
I started out filling the Across clues but had more success filling the Downs first! I HAD SOUP before STEW and had to wait for perps for NORAD (hats off to good Canadian-US relationships).
New Visa card can just be waved (No PIN required) for purchases under $50 but ATM card still requires PIN.
Good morning all!
ReplyDeleteI finally decide to crawl out from under the blankets, and face this mid-January feeling day. Ugh! Has spring sprung, or did it just go kerflop?
Instead of DRIBS AND DRABS, I originally wanted CLICK AND CLACK (The "Car Talk" hosts), but decided that might be too obscure for a Monday. Plus, it was too close to FRICK AND FRACk, which I really liked. Ah, decisions, decisions...
Fun puzzle!! I really enjoyed this one. Once I had titfortat and pitapat, I got the theme and went back and WAGed frickandfrack. The rest fell right in place. Really liked the write-up, too, and the comments. Always enjoy Owen's limericks, and envy his ability to compose these every day. Thanks to everyone for making this such a fun blog!!
ReplyDeleteGood Morning:
ReplyDeleteEasy, breezy Monday offering from our Divine Miss M.
Fun theme and a light-hearted start to a cold, non-Spring day! Thanks, Marti, and thanks, Argyle, for 'splainin it all.
Is anyone else as shocked and disappointed as I am with the turn of events on last night's The Good Wife? I still can't believe what happened.
Have a good day.
An old Limerick rewritten. Did you know that baby mice and rats can be called either kittens or puppies? Except one bred for snake food. they're called pinks.
ReplyDeleteFive hardy kittens in a litter had Ms. Rat
Plus runts Pat and Tat: against a Tat, PIT A PAT.
Like musical chairs, they played musical teat
When the music ended, 'twas Pat had a seat.
Mom has only six spigots, so there's no TIT FOR TAT!
Fun, smooth offering today by Marti!
ReplyDeleteNice write-up, Argyle. Enjoyed the Frick and Frack link, because even though I've heard of them, didn't know who they were.
Have a great week all!
Hello Puzzlers -
ReplyDeleteHand up for not knowing who Frick and Frack were. I think I posted a few years ago about a man named Frack meeting and marrying woman named Frick; both were in a water ski club near my Pittsburgh apartment in 1983. Frick is an established name there, dunno about Frack.
Morning, Marti! We too lingered long before deciding to rise and face the Arctic once again. I've been doing demolition on the old roof, right out in the wind. It sucketh.
Morning, Argyle! I haven't seen a post from Kazie in a while, so I'll offer to be a token Aussie today and mention that the little shellfish are called prawns in Oz. Of course,whatever the name, they are tasty.
Until I came here I was getting ready to tell you that I had a clean solve with no write overs but alas, I had DRIps and DRABS & PaTANDPAT. Bad me.
ReplyDeleteOwen, I forgot to tell you how much I enjoyed your poem today - way more clever than the puzzle, IMHO!!!
ReplyDeleteMarti - It was Click and Clack (1-888-227-8255, hello, yer on Caaa Taaak) in my head! Way before FRICK AND F?ACK.
ReplyDeleteMorning all. I enjoyed the puzzle but it was a little much after deciding to take a day to rest the brain.
George - thanks for the link. I've not seen that article, but glad I did (unlike the one about dead kids).
Argyle - Thanks for the write up, but can you (or someone) explain TREY? I know it means three, but how does it tie into a deck (cards/boat/?).
Cheers!
-T
I just love a Marti speed-run on a Monday morning--gets the week off to a wonderful start! Many thanks! And great pic of the SEINE, Argyle--brings back happy memories of Paris trips.
ReplyDeleteI got BESO for kiss because it came up on the last series of "The Bachelor" (I'm embarrassed to admit we watch it, but it is what it is). Juan Pablo, the bachelor, always asked for a BESITO. I'm guessing that's a "little kiss"? I used to call my little kiss for my husband a "Bussi"--what it was called when I was growing up in Austria. Now I've started calling it a BESITO.
Have a great week, everybody!
Johnr,
ReplyDeleteAL CYONE:
Here is the DRAGNET THEME but I think you meant 36D.
If you wonder why the bloggers leave out easy links like this, or the Bucky Beaver link, speaking solely for myself, I have three reasons:
1. After five years I have used a link enough.
2. The other items linked seem more interesting.
3. Curiosity at whether someone else will link.
Lucinda and Irish Miss
ReplyDeleteRegarding my post of yesterday, you're right, I should have checked my facts more carefully. I apologize for the error. Haven't done today's puzzle yet.
Nancy
Oh, FRICK - it just dawned on me.
ReplyDeleteTREY == deuce + 1, cards...
C, -T
Whenever I hear IPANA, I think of the Girl from Ipanema, and vice versa.
ReplyDeleteReduplication, apophony, ablaut, epenthesis, anaptyxis? The first of those terms is the only one I (or my spellchecker) have ever heard before. I'd think they were made up just for that review if I hadn't looked them up. Yet pannonica passes them all off offhandedly.
OwenKL - I thought she was from Nantu... Oh, f*** it...
ReplyDeleteOwen, while you are here (and I hope others (YR?) pipe in later) What do you think of this? My crack at you're craft.
Full disclosure: I wrote a bunch (15+ distilled) of this DRIBble over the weekend, The conflation of you, Billy Collins, and a 3+ hour biography of George Harrison on HBO just kept it pouring out.
"I've got Mail"
My dear wife, mildly amused that
she's my muse
Found I'm suddenly interested in poetry and literature
Her forte
"You've Evolved," she said.
no - "I've volved, nothing Electronic about it."
======
Follow-up:
She couldn't see, the Capital E as I spoke, so it fell flat.
C, -T
Good morning everyone.
ReplyDeleteStraightforward solve today. No nits, no strikethroughs. Hesitated with 43a; thought maybe DDay or some such, but WEBB pointed to ETAS.
Other I THEN A:
Rick-rack
Zig-zag
Click-ity clack
chit-chat
Tritsch Tratsch Polka ♪♫ ♫
A happy Monday morning education. I'd heard of FRICK AND FRACK before but had no idea why they were famous. Thank you, Marti!
ReplyDeleteA nice romp today, with the paired alliteratives as our reward.
Irish Miss,
ReplyDeleteI sure didn't expect last night's gut punch on Good Wife! I'm shocked, yes, but not disappointed. Didn't we have mixed feelings about him anyway? And just as we were beginning to warm up to him again--Bam!
The writing is so good, I look forward to how they'll handle the aftermath.
Argyle: Thanks for the "tip-off" regarding pannonica's write-up over at the Fiend.
ReplyDeleteGeez, it is just an easy, FUN, Monday puzzle. I guess she's not getting enough TAT ...
Marti, hope you enjoyed your CLARET ... now how about some Pinch?
Cheers!!!
Frick and Frack
ReplyDeleteTit for Tat?
Pit a Pat
Bric a Brac
It's like Chinese water torture!
I just got back from a small adventure at the supermarket. I got in a shortish line with my cart of maybe 25 items, avoiding the empty '15 items or fewer' express line. The asst. manager suggested I move into the express line. I did so while explaining to her that I didn't like to get dirty looks from other customers who might get upset with me for having too many items. Well, that didn't happen 'cause the checker started muttering about my having too much in my cart, and she didn't have a bagger and... So I thanked the asst. manager and headed back into the neighboring regular line. Ah, the excitement never stops...
ReplyDeleteLemonade: Thanks for the link to the Dragnet theme. I still remember charging down the field on what was once called "the Suicide Squad" at the kickoff in high school football.
ReplyDeleteBuckeye Bob: I saw that Aroldis Chapman was back at the Reds camp yesterday. Hopefully he recovers well enough to get back to The Great American Ball Park early in the season.
Irish Miss: My wife and I were shocked at "The Good Wife" last night. Will was a good character even if he was a jerk sosmetimes.
Again congrats to Marti and Argyle for a fun start to the week of crosswords.
Please, Johnr, please,
ReplyDeletego blue or change browsers. I can't keep getting you out of the spam locker.
ReplyDeleteA woman once begat
triplets, named Tim, Tab and Tat,
They were fun for breeding,
but hell for feeding,
Because there was no tit for Tat.
-Edward Lear (?)
Hi everyone,
ReplyDeleteThank you Marti and Argyle.
What Mari said regarding the puzzle.
Have a great day!
Buckeye Bob @ 6:09, I forgot to give you my mnemonic for SCAR vs. SCAB. If the clue contains something like "reminder" or "remembrance" is it SCAR. If the clue contains anything to do with "sign of healing" it is SCAB. (Unless it's a picket line crosser, then all bets are off…)
ReplyDeleteSpitzboov @ 1:13, thank you for linking the Tritsch Tratsch (Chit-Chat) polka - it is really popular at Viennese balls, and I tried to dance to it one time. Phew! I needed an oxygen tank after it was over!
CED @ 3:06, Chinese water torture, indeed!!
Hi Y'all! Fun run, Marti! Didn't glom onto the theme but enjoyed it. Thanks, Argyle for all you do.
ReplyDeleteI had never heard the term DRIBS AND DRABS, but it perped out.
Enjoyed the "Dragnet Theme". I had sheet music of that when I was ten or 11 and played it over and over on the piano until asked to quit or suffer dire repercussions. Hey, she was always nagging me to practice and when I found something I liked....
GeoB: too funny!
After reading all night, I rose even later than some of you. I opened the shade and was shocked to find it snowing at 1:30 p.m. I would have gone back to bed, but my long-suffering cat in the garage insisted it was time for breakfast. Now most of the snow is melted.
unclefred - Owen did not write today's "limericks" this morning. He spent some time on them, and had them saved up, waiting for a day Marti had a puzzle published.
ReplyDeleteYou can tell because they are a bit more polished than the normal drivel he writes on a regular basis.
It takes a big ego to usurp a daily CW blog with ones own "poetry," making sure he is the first to post, then checking throughout the day for comments to his "work."
Marti --
ReplyDeleteThanks for the tip. Now if I can just remember it!
Johnr --
We can hope!
OwenKL Admirer who wouldn't say...
ReplyDeletePiss off.
We are here to play with words in our own way. Some days I do groan, at an Owen poem,
but at least he tried.
So what if they are recycled or edited - at least he did. Unlike me with my scribble in pages that will never see the light of day.
Go ahead criticize that.
Cheers, -T
Owen - Keep it coming
JohnR - It's not to late to go Blue.
Afraid they'll (NORAD?) be watching you?
Note to self, MIT kids did the math,
a tin-foil hat works best inside out-etth*
*look it up. They calculated the concentration of space-rays in and out of a parabola. Gotta love those kids.... PK - CC says you're cool. Stay un-blue. C, -T
Bill G. did you confuse this blog with your Facebook page again?
ReplyDeleteI had to look it up! (note electromagnetic hearing...)
ReplyDeletePublic Service Announcement
P.S. it is rumored that a tin foil hat will stop an Anon from getting to your Ego...
My favorite (& easiest to make) tin foil hats were in the movie Signs!
Oh crap! I think I scared myself...
ReplyDeleteDang it Anonymous T, I was blissfully ignorant!
Good afternoon, folks. Thank you, Marti, for a fine puzzle. Thank you, Argyle, for a fine review.
ReplyDeleteOwenKL, keep up the good work, my Brother. Your poems are not drivel, IMHO. Outstanding, to say the least.
Did this puzzle this morning on the train but had no time to check in until now.
Enjoyed it. Theme was nifty.
Liked EXOD for 51A.
ODDER and UDDER crossing. Coincidence? I doubt it.
ACID for battery fluid. Cannot tell you how many batteries I set in telephone offices, full of acid. The largest were 1500 pounds per cell. 2.17 volts each.
Anyhow, I am off to another meeting. Still have to do yesterday's puzzle. I may take it with me. Yesterday I was taking my final Gardening test for 12 hours straight.
See you tomorrow.
Abejo
(237 6493342)
Gene Weingarten's column reminded me of Jerry Seinfeld's take take on what aliens might think about life on earth.
ReplyDelete@HuskerGary I saw a segment on History Channel yesterday that mentioned applesauce popularity was also a result of prohibition. Apparently hard cider was very popular before prohibition, which forced producers to come up with an alternative product.
Oops, my typo should have been Take Tike or rather tike take.
ReplyDeleteHello everybody. Fun puzzle, thank you, Marti. Knick knack, paddy whack, give a dog a bone...
ReplyDeleteaka thelma, regarding the problem you described last night about not being able to insert a disk into your iMac: maybe there is already a disk in there, preventing the insertion of another one. Hunt around for the disk icon and trash it to eject the disk.
Best wishes to you all.
-T: Argh! For that pun you should be drawn and quatrained! Amused at a muse was bad enough. Start letting start letters get a hold, and we'll be seeing "Eye-pod" as clue for a 4-letter word.
ReplyDeletePS -- liked your verse to johnr! And thanks for the defense.
Gary, Spitz: liked your enlargements on today's theme.
Dave: liked those first two fun links especially. The tin hats stuff was interesting.
Admirer: I doubt that limerick was by Lear, since he wrote his for young children, but it's probably been around for just about as long. Thanks for sharing it.
Anti-Admirer: The limericks for Marti were indeed written last night. I have to admit, they were done out of desperation, because I couldn't think of anything related to the theme. If I "cheated" at all (and why would writing something ahead be cheating?) it was that I was able to start working the puzzle at 8:30 last night, thanks to the hack I shared with you all a couple days ago. That left me extra time to read C.C.s interview with Marti, and her Blogger bio.
I'm not sure if your comment on my ego was meant as an insult or a compliment, so I'll take it as the latter. After all, you must have a pretty big ego too, to crab about me right in front of my fan club here. ;-)
Oh, Eye-pod? Stye.
So when is CED going to be a guest commentator?
ReplyDeleteMake it so.
Thank you Marti for a nice start to the week. Never knew the origin of Frick and Frack til today.
ReplyDeleteFrom yest. I was going to ask Nancy Murphy for tomorrow's lottery #'s... but rats! High hopes :(
BTW Welcome, Everyone here loves a dog aficionado.
AKA Thelma...My tech service tells me that's not the Cd drive. Its a
Cup Holder
( He comes cheap )
Greetings!
ReplyDeleteSwell offerring, Marti! Fine expo, Argyle! Thanks for explanation of theme.
Hand up for soup before STEW!
Irish Miss: I too as appalled! Went on the web and read all about Josh Charles' decision. There are comments galore, mostly by people who can't spell and use terrible English. (Query: why do people who comment not read the preceding entries to use correct spelling of names?)
Back to taxes. Took a few days off due to aching intestines. Had a great swim today. Whoopee!
Owen: Thanks for all of your efforts! Swell one today!
Lemon: Thanks for Dragnet theme! A favorite.
Cheers!
Jayce... thanx for your reply to my question.... I'm not sure what you mean about trashing the disc icon... ? :) :) I'm ready to trash the whole thing... :) but.... I don't think there is a disk in there for a couple reasons.... that part has rarely been used.... and also because the disc is accepted and ejects it right away....
ReplyDeleteCalled Apple and actually reached someone.... not much help.... take it to an Apple store... we will see......
I am going to look for the disc icon now.. :)
thelma
Thelma - I have a spare disc icon if you can't find yours.
ReplyDelete:-)
Spitz 1:13 - enjoyed the Strauss link! Zubin Mehta always looks like he's having fun, sorta gives you the idea he's easy going. I'm waiting for Marti to score me some tickets to the New Years Day concert at the Musikverein...should be good.
Today's puzzle was fun....Hafpd SOUP before STEW, thought BEE would be BEA (for Beatrice) but I guess not. Didn't know the origin of FRICK AND FRACK, but I have heard it before. actually, that's what I call two look-alike tabby cats I feed. Needed perps for RARA.
ReplyDeleteDisks and such.....I cannot find a way to get a Netflix DVD of "Quartet" out of a VCR built into the TV. Button on the TV broke and went inside, and there doesn't seem to be a button on the remote that ejects it. Guess I'll have to 'fess up to Netflix and pay the price.
Sorry for the typo on 'had.' Ipad typing can be a misery sometimes.
ReplyDeleteManac... pretty funny.... :) :) at least that one is worth something... :)
ReplyDeleteAnd Dudley..... I haven't had a chance to look for the icon yet... but...... :) if I can't find it I will be sure to let you know... :) :)
Hope you all are having a great evening...
thelma :)
desper-otto @7:36 am - hilarious.
ReplyDeleteOwen - Haven't commented in a while but some of today's posts got my blood boiling so I cannot keep quiet. Keep on keepin' on. I know and I think most on this blog will agree, that you have a special talent that we enjoy (and many are envious) to have such a talent. Funny how detractors choose to remain anon. You have some of the most insightful, humorous, and well I could go on and on with adjectives, but 'please don't stop' what you're doing!!
ReplyDeleteMarti and Argyle - great job as usual (more talents the 2 of you have which is envied).
George B. - Enjoyed the linked article. Thanks.
CED - I just gotta say thanks. The tin-foil-hat PSA made me blow Miller LITE out of my nose...
ReplyDeleteOwen - I'm not a poet, but like pornography, I know it when I see it. And I've enjoyed yours since you started posting here a year or so ago.
I tend to condense things in my head and after reading a book of poetry (Aimless Love), I thought I'd put pen to paper (and empty my head of random stuff). There is much more art to it; DW will help (she has a PhD in Lit) and kindly agreed to read the rest. I'll not post anything else until she approves :-)
Keep your poems coming - just don't cheat by thinking of one before you think about one. Just one more think (Oh, wait that's Columbo, not WEBB's Friday). was the amused muse just too cute by 1/2?
Mary K. Netflix will likely never notice the missing disk. Call them and say it is ruined and ask if they still want it back. The disks cost pennies to make (these are licensed differently than what we get at Best Buy or Wal-Mart, so don't think they're losing $15 on the movie).
Manac - cup holder! I haven't heard that in years, thanks for the smile.
BTW Marti, my fav today was NORAD. My uncle worked there 30ish years ago and War Games made it epic (and started me on a career of hacking). I especially liked NORAD sitting over ENOLA - both had one mission.
Cheers, -T
Owen,
ReplyDeleteWhat a great poem! You captured Marti brilliantly.
Kjinkc,
It saddens me that those anon detractors are perfectly fine in their Blue avatar name.
43A: Except in the military, ETAS are calculated not to the expected landing time, but to the arrival time at the gate.
ReplyDelete10D: What is an ATM CARD? Does anyone actually issue those? I've always used a credit card.
59D: We shouldn't have to be bi-lingual in order to work simple Monday or Tuesday crosswords. Otherwise, why not use the Russian or Greek or Japanese word?