4. *Round before the Elite Eight : SWEET SIXTEEN. Sweet talking. Elite Eight are the eight final teams in the NCAA regional finals or national quarterfinals.
6. *Ball carrier's maneuver depicted by the Heisman Trophy : STRAIGHT ARM. Straight talking.
26. *Two over par : DOUBLE BOGEY. Double talking.
23. Pundits ... and what the first words in the answers to starred clues literally are : TALKING HEADS
Four wrong answers snagged me until I got those untangled, aside from that, very do-able, just right for a Tuesday.
melissa here.
Across:
1. Tostitos dip : SALSA
6. #, in music : SHARP
11. Swabbing need : MOP
14. Makes furrows in fields : PLOWS
15. Universal donor's group : TYPE O
16. Sports drink suffix : ADE
17. Roof overhangs : EAVES
18. Check the total of : RE-ADD. Tried ADDED first.
19. Musician's booking : GIG
20. Gallic gal pal : AMIE. Tried LASS first.
21. Paving goo : TAR
22. Adorable ones : CUTIES
24. Thor Heyerdahl's raft : KON-TIKI. I had no idea of this interesting story.
26. Lady of Lisbon : DONA. Portuguese title of address equivalent to Mrs. or Madam.
27. Beijing skyline haze : SMOG. Awful.
28. Home of the Raiders : OAKLAND
32. Video game brother : MARIO
35. High, in the French Alps : HAUT
37. Swiss painter Paul : KLEE. Very recognizable and colorful style.
38. Green card in the credit world : AMEX
39. Wild guesses : STABS
40. Brainchild : IDEA
41. Breathe heavily : PANT. Tried GASP first.
42. Hair clipper brand : WAHL
43. Twist into knots : GNARL. Tried BRAID first.
44. More vertical : STEEPER
46. Periodical with a URL : E-MAG
48. Oater actor Jack : ELAM
49. Chess pieces that move only diagonally : BISHOPS
53. Venus, e.g. : PLANET
56. Dress for success, with "up" : TOG. If this is common crosswordese, I didn't remember. So out of practice.
57. Gardner of mystery : ERLE.
58. Old nuclear agcy. : AEC
59. Repair, as faulty software : DEBUG
61. Morocco's capital : RABAT
62. Pixar collectible : CEL
63. Loon kin : GREBE
64. Official command : EDICT
65. Nonstandard product-tracking no. : SKU. Stock Keeping Unit.
66. College paper : ESSAY
67. "Bone" prefix : OSTEO
Down:
1. Command to Fido : SPEAK
2. "Drive Happy" rental company : ALAMO
3. "Good __": 1966 Young Rascals hit : LOVIN
5. Biblical mount : ASS
7. Martha of "Some Came Running" : HYER. 1959 Movie.
8. Therapists' org. : APA. American Psychological Association.
9. Revolutionary soldiers : REDCOATS
10. Middle-of-nowhere town : PODUNK
11. Star-struck trio? : MAGI. Nice clue.
12. Drooly toon dog : ODIE
13. Cribbage pieces : PEGS
21. Bout decision : TKO
25. Texter's "I think ..." : IMO. "In My Opinion."
29. "M*A*S*H" star : ALDA. Hawkeye Pierce. IMO, Radar is the most endearing character.
30. At no time, in poems : NE'ER. Fare thee well, for ne'er shall we meet again ...
31. Negotiation ender : DEAL. Sneaky clue.
32. Plans (out) : MAPS
33. Amo, amas, __ : AMAT
34. Philosopher Descartes : RENE
36. Contented sigh : AAH
39. Cool weather clothes : SWEATERS
43. Fun time : GAS
45. Telethon promise : PLEDGE
47. Russian fighter : MIG
50. Heavenly path : ORBIT
51. "Peyton __" : PLACE
52. Spat : SET-TO. Got hung up here, thinking of Spat as a verb. The first T, crossing RABAT was my last to fill in.
53. Lobbying orgs. : PACS
54. Scallion kin : LEEK
55. First Amendment defender: Abbr. : ACLU
56. Oom-pah maker : TUBA
60. Wanna-__: pretenders : BE'S
61. Popular Roaring Twenties auto : REO
Finished it easily enough, thanks to perps. Hand up for BRAID first. Last to fall was SAS, which when I changed SNARL to GNARL was a GAS!
ReplyDeleteBut I do have a major nit. REDCOATS were Revolutionary War soldiers, but they fought against the Revolutionaries. It would be like calling doughboys "German soldiers", or saying Iwo Jima flagraisers were "Japanese soldiers"!
SKU? Obscure jargon!
Did find some images about a couple of you folks: Tinbeni (May 21, if it's not at the top), and Canadian Eh.
Morning, all!
ReplyDeleteWell, I managed to finish this one in a relatively short time, despite such obscurities such as HYER, WAHL, SKU, etc. No major nits from me, but one minor nit -- Pixar studies is known for their computer animated films, which don't involve collectible CELs as far as I am aware. I could be wrong, of course...
While it was all fine in the end, I agree that SKU GREBE TOG and Martha HYER are a ramp up for a Tuesday. I think there really may be a trend for more challenge in our puzzles especially with all the NYT regular constructors.
ReplyDeleteKON TIKI was big stuff when I was young, Thor was a regular on talk shows
Thanks melissa and Mike
There once was a Geordie whose hair was all snarly
ReplyDeleteShe washed it with oatmeal, with wheat grass and barley!
It just wouldn't braid
She at last took a blade
Cut it off, a Geordian knot that was GNARLY!
The biddies would gather and TALK, TALK, TALK
All the while blocking the walk, walk, walk.
Their tongues they would cluck
Till they sounded like ducks,
And spent all their time going "Wak, wak, wak!"
Crosswords are tricky, for that they've renown,
What you thought was a verb may in fact be a noun.
Still they sort of respect
Solvers' intellect,
But this puzzle was plainly, to us, TALKING down!
Good Morning, Melissa Bee and friends. Good to see you again, Melissa. I thought this was quite a challenge for a Tuesday. The west coast came easily, but I had trouble in the middle.
ReplyDeleteWe can have a TALKING HEADS puzzle without Burning Down the House.
I got hung up on the Snarl vs, GNARL, and even thought SAS didn't make any sense, GAS never occurred to me.
REDCOAT seems so obvious in retrospect, but my first thought was Hessian.
I never heard of either Martha HYER (1924 ~ 2014), or the movie she starred in. Jack Elam (1920 ~ 2003) was another unknown, but he apparently played the villain in a lot of westerns.
SKU is another unknown, but the perps easy gave me the answer.
TOG Up hardly sounds like successful dressing.
My grandfather taught me how to play cribbage (PEGS).
QOD: That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to. ~ Thomas Hardy (June 1, 1840 ~ Jan. 11, 1928)
Good morning, and welcome back, melissa! I was surprised to hear that you never heard of Thor Heyerdahl. I don't remember seeing him on TV, Lemony, but we did read his account of the voyage in grammar school. I remember trying to imitate him when I (attempted to) build a raft in our pond out back. It sank as soon as I jumped on it...
ReplyDeleteI also didn't know Martha HYER or the movie, Hahtoolah. All perps on that one.
Barry G., big hand up for the nit about Pixar!
Nice poems, Owen! Loved the "TALKING Down" one -- perfect title for this puzzle!
TALKING HEADS- That is a relatively new term now that they can be seen on television. I still call them BLOWHARDS.
ReplyDeleteI found today's puzzle a speed run with no writeovers. HYER and APA were my only unknowns.
AMEX- mine is platinum, no fee, and 1.5% cash back.
PODUNK- everybody likes to pick on hick towns but usually that's where there parents grew up with no crime to worry about.
I do have one problem with the Pixar clue. Since their movies are computer generated, there are no CELs that are individually drawn.
TOG up, doll up, dress to the nines. Women want to do their best to show their T&A, have you look at them, but not say a word about it.
Lemonade- SKU-shelf keeping unit- is the 10 digit number that the bar code represents. The first 5 numbers are the manufacturer and the last five are the individual item.
ReplyDeleteDrugs have a NDC- National Drug Code- 10 digit. A 4-4-2 sequence in which the first four digits represent the mfg, the next four represent the drug, and the last 2 refers to the package size.
Good morning, and welcome back again Melissa!
ReplyDeleteNice puzzle! I also fell into the SNARL/GNARL trap, and almost didn't fall out of it. KON-TIKI was a gimme; read it as a kid. Also read his book about Easter Island: Aku-Aku. He loved hyphens.
A couple of other gimmes: WAHL: got one under the bathroom sink. And in my ute mom shopped for us at a clothing store called The TOG Shop.
I was doubtful about Martha Hyer but after reading her bio, I see I should have known her. She passed away just a year ago.
ReplyDelete"[Martha] Hyer enjoyed a quiet retirement through the 1980s and 1990s. She died on May 31, 2014, at the age of 89 from natural causes, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she had lived for many years." ~ Wiki
I think it's reasonable of the editor to allow for the introduction of what otherwise might be obscure fill in Monday and Tuesday level puzzles. HYER was unknown, but easily perped. We'll probably see her again.
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ReplyDeleteGood morning everyone,
Most of my thoughts have been expressed already. I had the same issues with Snarl/Gnarl as did Hahtoolah. Agree, lots of unknowns for a Tuesday. Maybe the difficulty factor is being ramped up. I'll not complain if it is true.
I'll wager the goaltender for the Tampa Bay Lightening, Mr BISHOP, would be delighted if all the Blackhawk shots were diagonal to the goal rather than on goal.
Least favorite clue/fill. 55D.
Over the past two days plus, Connecticut's rainfall shortage foe the year has been dealt with.
Hello Puzzlers -
ReplyDeleteHand up for needing perps for Hyer, but other than that, smooth sailing. The Pixar clue seemed off to me as well; I assume Pixar was formed specifically to make CGI movies, but maybe that's wrong.
Morning, MBee! Nice to have you back.
The Kon-Tiki story was familiar from High School. The book was required reading for a few classes, but I never read it myself. The crew aboard that raft certainly took a big risk proving a point, but of course they had an advantage over the ancestors in simply knowing that islands were out there. It's harder to imagine the ancients leaving shore having no idea whether they would find land or whether they could ever return to share the knowledge.
Musings
ReplyDelete-I much prefer STRAIGHT talking to DOUBLE talking
-No Till farming has made PLOWED fields a rare sight
-Having a woman ask you to take a STAB at her age is fraught with danger
-VENUS and Jupiter are spectacular in the evening sky now. Did all of you see the full Moon (Strawberry Moon) last night?
-Our town had a children’s clothing store called Tiny TOGS
-You can get your college ESSAY online now
-Many good PBS shows come with those annoying PLEDGE breaks
-One political party will take their PAC money to decry the PAC money the other side is spending
-I’m sure the ACLU would defend having this event but…
-In what 1968 song does the singer call her small town “just a little PEYTON PLACE”
-A SWEATER would be very nice today. It is 59˚F and breezy. Oh well, FORE! There’s a lotta DOUBLE BOGEYS out there and someone’s gotta got get ‘em.
This was speedy enough for a Tuesday, but definitely need perps for WEES about HYER and SNARL/GNARL. Like D-O, I have a WAHL clipper set from the days when I would buzz my boys' heads in the summer. Our AF son still uses them when he is home for a quick trim.
ReplyDeleteEnjoyed the extra of having the theme clues be vertical so that the TALKING HEADS were on top of vertical answers, not just at the beginning.
THanks, Melissa and Mike
Good Tuesday experience. Most of the fill was appropriate, though I didn't know HYER, but I thought some of the clues were more original than usual on Tuesdays.
ReplyDeleteI just finished trying to pull apart and reassemble our toaster. It's a double one and one side had stopped catching like it should when engaged. I couldn't get it fully apart, but on reassembling it, found that if I banged the recalcitrant side down SHARPly enough, it will engage. Hooray! OH yes, and the other side does still work too!
That smog picture may have been taken in winter--they say it's worse then, and when we weere there recently it really wasn't visible except on the far horizon. I felt no affects except a slightly scratchy throat now and then, which may not even have been related to the smog.
Greetings, all.
ReplyDeleteI have been grandmothering the last three days and missed my puzzles and you on the Corner.
I have a hand raised high for snarl before GNARL. I combed many snarls out of my daughters' hair. Of course the sas didn't work, so GAS was the fix. I'm also not sure why a SKU is non-standard. Some shops have a hard time taking a return if it is not on the item or the tag. They are all over the place. Thanks for the Tuesday fun, Mike.
Melissa, thank you for the expo.
Have a good day, everyone!
Sorry BE, but the Stock (not shelf) Keeping Unit, according to the [1],[2] references I found, is different from the UPC. It's assigned by the store to items that don't have a UPC, or when the store doesn't want to use the UPC the manufacturer assigned.
ReplyDeleteBTW, while looking it up after I finished last night, I ran into a site that claims the UPC is actually the prophesied 666, because the border indicators (left-center-right) are the same as the bars for the digit 6!
HG, it was the singer's momma who called the town a "Peyton Place." And yes, I remember it well...
ReplyDeleteGood morning everyone.
ReplyDeleteEasy Tuesday level. Learned how to spell BOGEY - had bogie. Favorite clue was for ASS - 5d.
KON-TIKI. Read the book in High School. And have visited its Museum in Oslo.
Thoughts on PLOW. American spelling? PLough is said to be more British, although in my youth, I seem to remember
it being spelled frequently as 'plough'
Cognates: German -Pflug
Low German - Ploog
Dutch - ploeg
Melissa: Nice write-up & links.
ReplyDeleteDidn't know HYER ... but the perps took care of her.
All-In-All a FUN Tuesday level puzzle. Thanks Mike.
We are already over 20 inches of rain for the year.
More today falling ... but the Sunset will be "Toasted" ...
Cheers!
Spitz, maybe you're thinking of the Plough Company. Some Plough brands were familiar household names: Maybelline, Coppertone, St. Joseph's Aspirin. Plough is now a part of Merck.
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ReplyDeleteWhat is most terrifing in this day and age is that people have nothing better to do than to think up wierd crazy connections.
They have too much time on their hands and nothing to occupy their minds. Maybe we should ship them to the middle east to fight a nonsensical war - just to occupy them in alternate pursuits.
They could be called the Non Peace Corps. (So, the rest of us could have some peace and they could have their 'piece'.)
D-O @ 0944 - I'm aware of that company. I want to call it Schering-Plough but I could be wrong. I think Plough appeared in farm magazines and was taught that way in out school. I have no issue with plow.
ReplyDeleteI was working with a contractor to replace items destroyed by a frozen pipe while I was in Tampa and he was in Cleveland. I had to get the SKU for items at home depot that I liked so that they would be an exact match. Yet I didn't get the answer until the perps filled it.
ReplyDeleteTodays puzzle seemed easier than yesterdays because most of the answers fell in first pass across and down.
Loved the ASS clue. When it appeared from perps I went huh? then AAH.
My grandfather used to say that the greatest miracle in the Bible was when "an apostle tied his ass to a tree and walked into town." I am not sure if he made that one up.
Morning all ,
ReplyDeleteGrowing up , my dad use to say to me , you can walk , stand or sit crooked all you want as long as you talk straight .
If the editors want to introduce obscure entries , Monday's , Tuesday's are the perfect times to do it , Friday or Saturday could be a nightmare.
Nice puzzle and neat theme. Pretty smooth run, although definitely needed some perps to complete.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Melissa, for a nice review.
A pretty fast fun run today. Thank you Mike and Melissa. Once each through the across and down clues and the only thing left to do was go back to the north central for some clean up. Martha HYER was on the tip of my tongue but I couldn't dredge up her last name for the life of me. I could picture her, but I wanted her last name to be "Hyatt" or "Myer" or something like that. Oh, well. They say that memory is the second thing to go. I can't remember what the first is.
ReplyDeleteLoved the limericks and the links. OwenKL. Thank you.
HG, regarding your reference to buying essays on-line. Are you familiar with a recent story line on the comic strip "Zits"?
Re 15A: Of all of the people in the world with all of their various blood types, scientific research has proven that most misspellings are caused by TYPE Os.
Hola Everyone, A fairly quick run for me today. Easier than yesterday! Hyer was an unknown, but as others said, "Perps filled it in."
ReplyDeleteMy favorite clue today was for Magi.
Good to see you today, Melissa. I enjoyed your write up.
Sku was a given, as we grew up with that term rather than the more common one used today--UPC.
Have a great day, everyone.
D-O & Spitzbov- Schering bought Plough years ago. They also had the Dr. Scholls line of orthotic inserts. Schering duplicated Plough's line of OTC and sold with a separate sales force. They sold the athlete's foot medicine-tolnaftate under three separate names: Tinactin, Aftate, and Dr. Scholl's Athlete's foot medicine.
ReplyDeleteAfter Merck bought Schering a few years ago, they sold off all of their OTC products to Bayer.
Hi Everyone:
ReplyDeleteA just-right Tuesday with only one unknown-Wahl. Very clever theme and execution and very timely, as well. With the 2016 Presidential race starting to gear up, the Talking Heads are in their glory.
Thanks, Mike and Melissa, for a terrific Tuesday outing.
With temps in the 50's, it doesn't feel like June but I'm sure we'll get back to normal sooner or later.
Bill G, have they figured out the cause of all that sludge on your beaches?
Have a great day.
The Tough Coughs as he Ploughs the Dough
ReplyDeleteAT 1st I was complaining to myself that the clues for double bogey (26D) crossing bishops (49A) were way too easy, even for a Tuesday. In the end I had to stick my foot in my pie-hole for having no idea of the crossing of Dana & Podunk.
ReplyDeleteAs for the theme, I had no idea to look for talking anything. However I am grateful I do not have to look for pics of sixteen arm bogey heads. (I always get these tie the words together themes backwards...)
Also, if 7D were clued, "Martha of 1st men in the moon," I still would have no idea. (but would not mind watching it again...)
Perfect Tuesday puzzle, Mike--many thanks. And fun expo and pics, Melissa.
ReplyDeleteI had the same problems with SNARL, SKU, and a few other items, and also first put RED GUARD but realized "Wild guesses" would need a plural S. Wasn't sure about the spelling of PODUNK--a word not too familiar to me. But I pretty much zipped through the rest.
I loved Alan ALDA and his friends on M*A*S*H. What a great series!
Have a great day, everybody!
ReplyDeleteLightning Institute Ticket, Apparel Restrictions in Stanley Cup Final
Blackhawks need primer on the horrors of Florida
In my entire life I've never heard anyone use the term STRAIGHT ARM as a maneuver to avoid a tackler. It's always been described as a STIFF ARM.
ReplyDelete" He STIFF-ARMED the oncoming tackler".
Maybe it's a Regional colloquialism, but I never heard it before. But, then again it wouldn't have fit the Puzzle's theme had it been STIFF ARM.
JJM@11:57: It was called STRAIGHT ARM when I played back in HS, but then again, all that we had were leather helmets.
ReplyDeleteThanks JJM!
ReplyDeleteI thought that answer was a little off but I shrugged it off and moved onward. But you're right. You might hear straight arm once in a strawberry moon, but 99% of the time it is stiff arm.
Google images supports your observation.
STRAIGHT ARM vs. STIFF ARM
TALKING HEADS has really really turned the clock back for me and sent me to YouTube for over an hour. I won't clog up this post with links but I've listened to: Psycho Killer, Take to the River, Once in a Lifetime, Wild Wild Life, And She Was, Life During Wartime, Road to Nowhere and the cute little homage to his newborn Stay Up Late.
NFL films presents: The Stiff Arm
ReplyDeleteI didn't count but I heard STRAIGHT ARM a few times but heard stiff arm about 100. So 95% is prolly more accurate.
Still, STRAIGHT ARM is perfectly valid, especially given the unifier.
Toy Story Cel. Later, C, -T
ReplyDeleteFun puzzle but DNF due to not knowing AEC, PACS or ACLU in the SW. I thought the theme had to do with drinks and Tinbeni would Not like his STRAIGHT but DOUBLE would be great. LOL!
ReplyDeleteI had goose, geese before GREBE, add up before READD and babies before CUTIES.
We need sweaters here also today HG but the sun is out again.
Spitzboov, I am familiar with the plough spelling. I think it is British.
Thanks for the CanadianEh cartoon, OwenKL!
That was a very pleasant Tuesday puzzle. Thanks Mike and Melissa.
ReplyDeleteIrish Miss, no conclusion yet. Those tar-like oil blobs can be from natural seepage or from some sort of an oil leak. Nobody seems to know for sure.
Greetings!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Mike and Melissa!
No problems. HYER and WAHL filled in by perps.
Send some of that rain here! (Do you realize that Calif. farmers raise rice in a foot of water? The rest of us have to suffer, though…)
Cheers!
To Anonymous: The description for the cel listing on eBay is erroneous. Take a look at the detail shot of the back: it was not from Toy Story", but from a Disney TV prequel called "Buzz Lightyear of Star Command." "Toy Story" was a Pixar CGI (cel-free) production; "Buzz Lightyear" was a Walt Disney Television Animation series which used traditional (cel based) animation.
ReplyDelete(I agree with those who question this clue).
ReplyDeleteWalt Whitman (1819–1892). Leaves of Grass. 1900.
210. As I Watch’d the Ploughman Ploughing
AS I watch’d the ploughman ploughing,
Or the sower sowing in the fields—or the harvester harvesting,
I saw there too, O life and death, your analogies:
(Life, life is the tillage, and Death is the harvest according.)
Plow vs. plough; Dr. Seuss went with the latter in his essay on the 7(?) ways to pronounce ough, The Tough Coughs as he Ploughs the Dough (I see someone beat me to the Amazon link, so here's Goodreads). If you haven't read it, a new English speaker upsets his friends when he tries using the same pronunciation in words with all the different variations.
ReplyDeleteHelmets?!?! We did no't need no stinken helmets!
ReplyDeletehi all, just checking in ... nice to be back. wondering if it's a west coast thing - sku (pronounced "skew") was total gimme for me, as was wahl. have not been puzzling for roughly 2 years so it's the words only seen in crosswords that tend to trip me up now. marti, if i ever knew Thor Heyerdahl, i forgot - was interesting to read.
ReplyDeletebig easy: "talking heads" term goes way back - wikipedia says the band talking heads which formed in 1975 "recalled how the group chose the name Talking Heads: "A friend had found the name in the TV Guide, which explained the term used by TV studios to describe a head-and-shoulder shot of a person talking as 'all content, no action.' It fit." i think your name for them is more accurate ;)
Easy and interesting. What more can we want for a Tuesday!? I had snarl too, so a DNF. Sas sounded as good as anything...never got Gas.
ReplyDeleteOwen , I loved the poetry! Heheheheeee
I don't have the stats for the LA Times, but in a fairly recent study the NY Times had only three wrong clues out of 32,ooo written over a one year period. I find that's pretty incredible. I believe Rich and his staff are likely to be just as accurate as Will and his. It's of supreme importance to editors for clues to be correct. It builds trust with the solver. So, I didn't know a thing about cels other than the smallest of basics. Now, after an hour of research I know more than I really care to. If in fact the clue for cels is wrong, and I think it is, I can see how easy it would be to make that mistake. Pixar's roots go back about 45 years. It would be easy to think they had been involved in the cel making process for animated works. And they have used a process called cel shading, but it's not the same thing. By the way, cel is simply short for celluoid.
ReplyDeleteSerious & Silly:
ReplyDeleteI was tutoring a nice high school girl in second-year algebra. She is studying conic sections such as parabolas, ellipses, hyperbolas, etc. It just doesn't make sense to her in spite of my best efforts. She feels defeated before we even get started. I have been in a similar position several times in my life and it's a terribly depressing feeling. So I did the best I could, she did the best she could and it was a tough hour for both of us.
I realize I must be missing out on a lot of good stuff in life. Almost everybody I saw on my bike ride and in the coffee shop had their head in a cell phone with their thumbs going a mile a minute. I was stuck with looking at people, the ocean, houses, etc. while these cell-phone fans were busy doing more important stuff. I don't understand how they apparently have so many friends to text/talk to or other important Internet stuff to do. It leaves me feeling like I'm missing out on something.
Hi All!
ReplyDeleteA PLANET in ORBIT? What's not to like (wait for it) in Mike's fun offering.
OK, CEL. I stand corrected re: my Toy Story link. I was at work and looked it up quickly. Thinking the definition of CEL was fluid - it could be a lithograph or a Giclee like these. This one is called a CEL too. I guess technically not being on celluloid it ain't but I don't technically dial my cell.
Thanks Melissa for a great writeup and kicking off the conversation!
ESPs - 7d, 20a, 37a, 42a, & 57a. WAG - last E in ERLE (I still don't get 52d). W/os - I had patch b/f DEBUG. I have no IDEA how I knew KON TIKI.
Fav - Like Jerry, SALSA. 5d was cute too.
Thanks for the music Hahtoolah! HG - I priced out a paper $240 for a 10 pager. Then was offered special VIP treatment for US Customers. DW had a program to detect these ESSAYs.
Bill G. You're not missing out on anything.
TALKING DOWN - Funny OwenKL!
Cheers, -T
anonymous t: i have only seen set-to in a crossword, have never heard it in conversation. merriam webster definition: "a usually short fight or argument."
ReplyDeleteThanks Queen milissa-bee for the day :-) I was wondering if that was past tense of spit (gum SET TO on the side walk?). I've never heard/seen it as a tiff. Cheers, -T
ReplyDeleteYes Bill G, you're missing out on enjoying life. You should try it instead of worrying constantly about what other people are doing, or carping about some slight failure on the part of someone you're interacting with. Try a post with no whining. Then another, then another, etc.
ReplyDeleteBill G- I can make a crossword puzzle but I'm a math idiot. Seriously, basic math like simple adding, subtracting, dividing doesn't come easy. Obviously the part of my brain that deals with numbers has a flaw. I can't imagine why you think your student should grasp concepts beyond her capabilities. You didn't fail and neither did she.
ReplyDeleteHere's what your missing out on by not texting or tweeting-
"What's up?"
"Not Much"
How ya doin?"
"Pretty good"
"Seen Larry lately?"
"Nope"
"Gotta run"
"Later"
@ melissa bee:
ReplyDeleteOne of these days I need to start a list of words I've never seen outside of crossword puzzles -- okay, now sounds good.
ana
adit
anil
etui
ern
erne
ewer
ani
olio
ort
Hmm, that's all I can think of in one minute -- guess I need to work on this.
... oh yeah ... set-to ... never heard anyone say that and have never seen it in print ... outside of crossword puzzles ... duh.
ReplyDeleteBill G feel free to kvetch. You've been through allot and still enjoy life w/ your DW & Jordan.
ReplyDeleteDoh - Melissa, sorry I put an i not an e before the i (before e, but for c?)
Jerome - I stink at arithmetic (+,-,x,/) too and always have to RE ADD - but conceptual math comes easy. I chalk this up to a) arithmetic is memorization and counting b) I had great algebra, trig, calc, and diff-e teachers / professors that taught me to "see" the formulae.
Bill G. I taught Eldest conics w/ a "live" demonstration. A cone and a piece of paper. If the paper is horizontal to the cone = circle; at an angle = ellipse, vertical = 1/2 parabola. It would be nice if they made a decomposing cone so one could really demonstrate. This may help your tutee visualize it.
Someone's gotta do it - Python The BISHOP w/ a pre-TKO Epilogue.
Cheers, -T
Mood music....TALKING HEADS
ReplyDeleteI agree on the annoyance of seeing everyone in their handheld. Its obnoxious and selfish and rude. Right? Yes. But is there a flip side? Have people ever been so connected to each other?: Did you pass that test? How is the baby? I'm downstairs. Dinner? Hawks in 6! NO! Leave me alone. B there in 5. Unman is a bad entry. Call me when its a good time. Cut the grass tomorrow or ELSE. Whats up giiiirl? Text messaging is now!
Today I went to the end of my driveway to pick up yesterdays news.
Life during Wartime amazing video.
ReplyDeleteU mad bro?