Roger and Kathy have given us assembled masses a lovely entry in the Wednesday sweepstakes. Their puzzle celebrates SCATTERBRAINS among us and who better to represent this stereotype than this lovable character who was a truly savvy business person but played her wacky alter ego to perfection.
How the Wienberg's physically did this is shown below as B R A I N is scattered among the long entries in the grid. I include the grid in the event your medium did not carry the circles.
The reveal shows the gimmick clearly:
53. Forgetful person literally indicated by this puzzle's circles : SCATTER BRAIN
Theme Entries:
19. Bulb that's more sweet than pungent : BERMUDA ONION - What a great home for one!
31. Basic two-element computation : BINARY OPERATION This $1.50 calculator has the four basic BINARY OPERATION keys neatly nested on the right. Those of us that had to use a slide rule rue the fact we never had one of these.
39. Concern for a marketing department : PUBLIC RELATIONS - Their job:
Now for the balance of Roger and Kathy's very focused humpday offering:
Across
1. Helps illegally : ABETS
6. "London Fields" writer Martin : AMIS - Friends in Paris too easy for Wednesday?
10. Serengeti grazer : GNU
13. French name meaning "born again" : RENEE
17. Mexican pyramid builder : AZTEC - I have difficulty even pronouncing Tenochtitlan
18. Late with one's payments : IN ARREARS
21. Scheming : SLY
22. Quarterback Dawson : LEN
23. Renewable fuel made from organic matter : BIOGAS - Collecting BIOGAS from a well drilled into a landfill27. Crow's cry : CAW
28. Building guideline : SPEC
30. Tokyo, long ago : EDO
36. "Want the light __ not?" : ON OR
37. "Golly!" : GEE
38. Good-sized backyard : ACRE - One ACRE lots in Clinton, Utah
44. One of the Galápagos, e.g.: Abbr. : ISL. - Where Darwin changed the world
45. Fed a line to : CUED - ...or not to be! ...or not to be!
46. Cartoon frame : CEL
47. Balance precariously : TEETER
49. Justice Dept. division : DEA
50. Car stat with city and hwy. components : MPG - 8 MPG for a 1959 Caddy was no big deal with $.25/gal gas
57. Fundraising portmanteau : WALK-A-THON - I got swamped with requests at school
60. "You Don't Join Us, We Join You" insurance company : AETNA
61. "Monday Night Football" airer before ESPN : ABC SPORTS - When football morphed into show biz
62. Lingering looks : GAZES
63. Deleted, with "out" : XED - MLK advisor Wyatt King advised him to X OUT the "Dream" part of speech since it was so trite and cliche
64. Scheme : RUSE
65. Wade noisily : SLOSH
Down
1. Many Mideast natives : ARABS
2. Chisel's cutting edge : BEZEL
3. Contest submission : ENTRY
5. Not connected to the church : SECULAR
6. From Thailand, say : ASIAN
7. Like old records : MONO
8. "__ See for Miles": The Who : I CAN
9. Metal-marking tool : SCRIBER
10. "Today" rival, familiarly : GMA
11. Fish-fowl link : NOR
15. Beethoven's Third : EROICA - Italian for hero
16. Nevada city near Tahoe : RENO - Lots of wedding rings got thrown in the Truckee River there
20. Like morning grass : DEWY
24. Company with "save you 15%" ads : GEICO
25. Beautify : ADORN
26. Loudness units : SONES
27. Astronomer Sagan : CARL
28. Ignore the limit : SPEED
29. Spa treatment : PEEL - Sounds painful
31. Hasbro game requiring quick reflexes : BOP IT
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32. Unavailable : IN USE - Talk about yer IN USE!
33. Duke or duchess : NOBLE - Royal blood doesn't cut much for me
34. Fairy tale brute : OGRE
35. Elongated comet part : TAIL - An astronomy prof once told me that the tail of a comet is as close to being nothing and still being something as there is
40. Arctic covering : ICE CAP
41. Museum manager : CURATOR
42. Big name in PCs : ACER
48. Disdainful clicks : TSKS
49. Like thick fog : DENSE
50. Passover cracker : MATZO
51. Needle bearers : PINES - Pine Wilt has killed millions of trees around here
52. Grind, as teeth : GNASH -The phrase "(there shall be) weeping and gnashing of teeth" (in the original Greek ὁ κλαυθμὸς καὶ ὁ βρυγμὸς τῶν ὀδόντων) appears seven times in the New Testament as a description of the torments of the damned in Hell.
54. Drive-__ window : THRU
55. Youngsters : TOTS
56. Legitimate : REAL
57. Car wash extra : WAX
59. Type of TV display : LCD
SCATTERBRAINS and regular ones are now welcome to opine:
43 comments:
Hi everyone!
Thanks to Roger, Kathy and Gary!
No circles but was clued in and found where they should be (after the fact).
I did not know: RENEE (but it is obvious now), ABC SPORTS or BOP IT. However, everything worked out nicely!
Terribly tired tonight. New heart medication, Diltiazem, seems to wear me out. But, it keeps my pulse from going crazy. (It was 168 bpm when I went to the emergency hospital a few weeks ago.)
Discovered a wonderful older authoress, Helen Osterman. Just found out that she died last year in her nineties. Recommend her mysteries very highly.
Have a great day!
Good morning all, welcome back to the Wienbergs.
Another circle puzzle, but with a cute unifier. Nothing too difficult, but I did not recall the tool SCRIBER, which my spell program does not like, nor the toy BOP IT, but they filled easily.
I am more familiar with Kingsley Amis and his works than those of his son. Martin appears to be quite controversial - THE GURDIAN .
I loved Len Dawson when he played and all of his years as an analyst, but isn't time to give some love to Len "the ten" Goodman?
Thank you HG for all you do.
Good morning!
This was a BERMUDA puzzle...more sweet than pungent. It felt very early-week. Didn't care for SCRIBER -- that gif looks like they're manufacturing a throwing dart. Don't recall ever hearing of BOPIT, but I do remember Lorena Bobbitt. Do you? Thanx, Roger, Kathy and Husker.
My lot is one ACRE, and so is my nextdoor neighbor's. I protested my property appraisal this year when it turned out my assessment was higher than his. His house is 1,000 sq ft larger than mine with a fenced yard, a detached two-story garage/storage building and an in-ground swimming pool. I don't have any of those things. I prevailed.
Fermatprime, good luck with the new medication.
I too am looking for new books to read and trying many. I have not heard of Helen Macie Osterman, who apparently did not start writing mysteries until she was retired. Interestingly, she has no Wikipedia page.
Erased career for SOCCER MOM, Blade for BEZEL, plot for RUSE, and rAg for WAX. Hand up for not knowing RENEE, AMIS OR BOP IT.
Thanks to the Wienbergs and Gary for a fun Wednesday. Off to the Honda stealership for my "free" oil change.
Hi Y'all! Hey, a whole puzzle devoted to my current state of being! Thankee, Roger & Kathy. Thanks, Gary!
No circles but once the reveal appeared, it was easy to find the brains. Wish it was that easy to gather mine some days. This was a fun puzzle.
Didn't know AMIS, LEN, BOP IT, or RENEE.
EROICA was part of a recent question/answer on The Chase so I knew it. The question was (I believe) what hero Beethoven dedicated the piece to on its debut. The answer was Napoleon.
Blade before BEZEL. Type in BIO and wait for perps. I was thinking more of gasahol from corn squeezins.
Good sized backyard = ACRE. On the farm we had four acres to mow around the house. When we had little boy birthday parties, the kids would burst out of the car and run amok on top of that hill like it was the last day of school. Such elation is hard to contain. One year I upped the game by giving eight-year-olds water guns to fill in the big clean metal swim tank. Wheee! Best party ever on a warm sunny September day.
Yesterday I wrote a second post which I found had disappeared when I logged in after midnight:
Hahtoolah, your quote of the day needs to be copied by everyone and sent to a certain politician who need to learn this.
Fermatprime, glad you are back. I was worried.
Melissa, what an adorably huggable cutie is your granddaughter.
'A lovely entry' but I think that the B-R-A-I-Ns were spread out, not SCATTTERED. After the BERMUDA ONION, which I'd never heard of,and the circled letters, it was obvious as to what the puzzle would be, and that made an easy puzzle easier. I only had to change LIED to CUED and wait for SOCCER MOM to decided it if would be URS or UMS.
BOP IT- never heard of it.
ESPN is a division of ABC, owned by Disney. Monday Night Football just went to ESPN to give you the privilege of paying to watch a football game on television.
BIOGAS- everybody produces it every day.
Slide rule? I never used one, only logarithms. I was too clumsy to use the slides and would always seem to bump one. My addition ( without the BINARY calculator) was better than my clumsiness.
D-O, even mentioning Lorena should be illegal. It's amazing that your property was assessed at a higher rate. Assessors are now using satellite photos to check for additions and pools. But you really don't own your property; you get to rent it from the local taxing authorities.
A Comet TAIL probably has more substance than 'dark matter' per cubic mile; they know it's there but can't find any of it.
-Easiest one this week, but I missed one cell due to being scatter-brained. I found BRAIN quickly and all I needed was to realize that the letters stayed in order.
-Gary, I love your style. I knew it was your post without seeing your name.
-With the R, I wagged RENEE. It seems strange to name someone that, probably without thought for the meaning, just a popular name. I discovered that RENEE has many variations in many languages, all meaning reborn.
-With kids I say TSK with a smile, expressing slight disapproval, not disdain. The kids laugh and straighten up and fly right.
-BOP IT was popular with the young adults in our extended family 20 years ago.
-TEEM is also used for raining hard. It's teeming with rain. We went out in the teeming rain.
-Scriber is a real tool used in metal working and is available at various places online.
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Meriam Webster says that one meaning of scatter is "to cause to separate widely." The letters are scattered across the line.
Off to my commuter run.
Good morning all!
I always enjoy the Wienberg's work- thanks for an easy Wednesday romp for this SCATTER BRAIN.
Thanks, HG for your review. You always ADORN the blog with great pictures and observations TEEMing with wit :)
Only a few unknowns: AMIS, EROICA, BEZEL and RENEE
W/O's : tried Essay/ENTRY, Pedi/PEEL and Lied/CUED
I knew BOP IT. My kids played with theirs so much and it was such an annoying game to me. I would often "forget" to buy new batteries for it. This Ad for itwill be in my head all day now!
My kids didn't play SOCCER; I was a Gymnastics MOM driving to practices 5-6 days a week in my mini-van, meets on weekends and volunteering to work at different fundraisers for the booster club. It was a full time job. At the height of her gymnastics "career", my daughter spent as many (and sometimes more) hours in the gym each week as I did at my part time job. It is not s sport for the faint hearted!
Fermatprime- good luck with the new medication. Take care :)
Hope everyone has a wonderful day!
My daughter had a BOPIT so it's been around over 20 years.
Tried BEvEL instead of BEZEL
I, too, felt this was early-week easy. I had only the M in MONO to complete it, when my iPad froze. I know I knew the M so consider it an 'I finished it' puzzle. (Is there an abbreviation for that?)
I used a slide rule and then a whole lot of calculators after that. I just bought two, I think very expensive ones (>$120) for my 8th grader grandkids for this school year.
I remember the entertaining sportscasters on Monday Night Football. (Turn out the lights--the party's over!). Lots of guys in my home-4 sons & a husband-lots of football!
Have a good day,
Montana
Good morning everyone.
Another easy one; we'll pay for it later in the week. No searches or white-outs were needed.
Got the 'BRAIN' thing early. I was surprised the letters remained in the same order throughout. Caused me to insert the B for BINARY, before it was fully revealed.
Like Anon -T said the other day: GEICO ads are very funny , but I don't use their insurance products. Also had AETNA today.
RENEE - Years ago our neighbors' granddaughter, RENEE, would visit them. We called her "Born Again"
ACER - Is the Latin name for the maple genus.
"Not all math puns are bad. Just sum."
I just read that Merriam Webster, after having added 1000 new words or additional definitions of older words to their dictionary in February, has added 200 more this month.It is amazing how much English changes. If even a fraction of this number of additions has been added every year since we graduated college, just imagine how many new entries there have been.
Much of the science I learned in school is obsolete. Likewise much of the vocabulary and grammar I learned in school is becoming obsolete. English is a living growing thing.
Informal and regional languages are not incorrect. Did you ever notice the informal language in novels? It has its place. Formal language is used in formal presentations. Style books are used for serious writing. Formal language can sound stilted in everyday spoken usage.
Informal language and grammar are at the cutting edge in the evolution of language. Very often they become accepted as correct for informal usage. Eventually over a longer time this influences formal language. I have seen many changes in formal language and grammar in my lifetime. I love it.
Good Morning:
This was a fun romp with a theme that I think relates to everyone, at one time or another. Unknowns were Bop It and Renee, as clued. Seeing Geico and Aetna in the same puzzle was fun but I could do without the plethora of Geico TV ads, some of which are truly dumb. Come to think of it, with few exceptions, most TV ads are not only dumb, but downright annoying; Verizon, Sprint, Spectrum, and MyPillow.com come to mind.
Thanks, Roger and Kathy, for a mid-week treat and thanks, HG, for your always enjoyable and informative write-up.
DO, your tax story reminded me of last night's local news report about a nearby school district's tax increase of 29%.
Have a great day.
Spitz, "Not all math puns are bad. Just sum." LOL.
Fred Allen said, "Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns. He should be drawn and quoted.
:-)
Thanks, Roger & Kathy for a cute, workable Wednesday offering. Very nicely done!
HG, great write-up, and loved the pics for the SCRIBER and BOPIT, both of which I am not familiar.
Gary, we thoroughly enjoyed your write-up and illustrations.
Kathy and I are thrilled that solvers enjoyed working on
this one. The theme idea originated from the age-group community
we reside in - with apologies to BA RBR ASTRE ISA ND.
Roger
Thank you, Roger, Kathy and Gary! Gary, I'm grateful you included photos of the SCRIBER and BOPIT because I had no idea what they looked like. In fact, I enjoyed all your commentary.
I thought of Mayas before AZTEC then recalled that I had climbed Tenochtitlan when visiting Mexico City. What a tragedy for that beautiful city with two severe earthquakes coming one after the other. Here is an easy way to pronounce it, ten-ohk-tit-lan. Say it fast.
The meaning of RENEE had never occurred to me but it makes sense.
In about ten days I shall participate in a WALKATHON in Redlands, CA, in honor of my late niece. It's to support breast cancer victims. They hold an annual bra decorating contest in conjunction with the event and you should see the results! People are really creative.
Sptiz & YR: LOL at your puns!
Have a terrific day, everyone!
Had BEVEL instead of BEZEL, because...well, a BEZEL is the edge of a watch, where a BEVEL is an angled edge to an object, including the blade of a chisel. Oh, well, we can't expect editors to be perfect, can we? Pardon my grumpiness, please.
Greetings to all!
Thanks to Roger and Kathy for today's enjoyable puzzle. Cute theme. My "spa treatment" was a PEdi before a PEEL, but GEE quickly fixed that. Thanks for the thorough expo and links, Husker Gary. That's interesting info about ABE's stovetop hat.
Jayce--Thanks for the chuckle from yesterday. I love your opening line, a winner in my book.
Fermatprime--So sorry to hear that your new medication is causing such undesirable side effects. Take care, and best wishes.
Enjoy the day!
Loved this Roger and Kathy puzzle--thanks for checking in with us, Roger. The top part was so easy that I got the first BRAIN right away. When the second one started I was sure it would be a different word starting with BR. But no, it was BRAIN again. After that I figured it would be BRAIN again, and sure enough, and so on. So the SCATTER BRAIN reveal was a total delight and cracked me up. I figured out RE NEE right away, but didn't know BOP IT or AMIS, but they fell into place. Anyway, lots of fun, thank you both again.
Husker Gary, your pictures today were fantastic, and that final one of ABE's stovepipe hat was a hoot. Now I understand why they call it "stovepipe."
Have a great day, everybody.
Musings
-Roger and Kathy, thank you for the kind words. We “stream of consciousness” people can have a hard time finding a suitable outlet and your fun puzzle provided that!
-Here is a tedious old “calculator” that we used before calculators, especially for the BINARY OPERATION of divison
-Ferm, I am just now getting over a horrible set of side effects from a med. My doctor and pharmacist said they had never seen this before. Wow, I’m a ground breaker!
-I discovered my house is very undervalued on the tax rolls because the city has classified my beautiful 4-season sunroom as a “porch”. Shhhh…
-Here I go! (:16)
Hi Everybody!
I enjoyed this Wednesday offering from Roger and Kathy (the couple that puzzles together, stays together) and although I didn't have circles, I found the scattered brains anyway! Thank you both for your effort :)
Wonderful write up, as always! Thanks for your time.
I read a study once that found that walking through a doorway resets an area of your brain and readies it for something new to happen. Which is why we forget what we are doing once we cross a threshold. And why you will often remember whatever it was you've forgotten if you retrace your steps and return to where you were when you thought of it to begin with. Science!
Live version of I Can See for Miles
For the punk fans, Soccer Mom by The Vandals.
@F-prime - if you haven't already, you should give your doctor a call about your side effect from diltiazem. From what I've read, tiredness is a less common effect and all the info says to let your doctor know. Glad your heart rate is lower!!
@YR - 200 words this month? Isn't that just amazing?!? Who'd a thunk? ;)
@anon re: bezel vs bevel LINK
bez·el (bĕz′əl) n.
1. A slanting surface or bevel on the edge of a cutting tool, such as a chisel.
2. The upper, faceted portion of a cut gem, above the girdle and below the table.
3.a. A groove or flange designed to hold a beveled edge, as of a gem. b. A ring that secures the crystal of a watch or chronometer, often rotatable and marked so as to allow timekeeping functions.
4. The frame around a display screen.
Happy Wednesday :)
t.
Of course, I forgot something and I didn't even cross a threshold!
@Bunny - BOP IT was popular while I was growing up and I couldn't stand it. Way too obnoxious! You are not alone!
Every math teacher I had was wrong when they told us we wouldn't always have a calculator so we had to learn real math skills. There is a binary calculator on even the simplest of phones. And my iPhone calculator turns from binary (in the portrait position) to scientific (in the landscape position). I'm sure no one believed we would carry computers in our pockets. I'm very grateful that I can do simple math in my head, like counting change or calculating a tip. Technology has made it too easy to not learn simple skills like math and spelling!
t.
Scatterbrained?
Just lurking of late, my brain has been all over the place.
Thinking things like "how to spell Ollantaytambo..."
I usually avoided the above type of video as coming from scatterbrained people,
but, for some reason, (I think he is Australian,) I got bored & started watching
Charles Kos videos. Definitely weird. But the more you listen, the more you start to wonder?
For you Sci-Tech types:
Is there a way to alter the structure of a crystal lattice?
Heat, obviously, (states of matter, water:liquid,ice, vapor etc...)
However it is noted that in the above that all of these "world-wide" examples
of Megalithic structures, are composed of stone that is high in Quartz...
(Granite,Andesite, etc.)
Could there be a way to soften the Quartz crystal lattice without using heat?
Hmmm,
Very straitforward clueing and construction of this appropriate Wednesday puzzle. Didn't see or need the gimmick to solve, always appreciated.
No circles, and the first answer that I glanced at after reading the reveal was: BINARy operation" - truly a scattered brain.
Easy theme, very helpful. Quick solve, no problems.
Cool. A neat, semi-chewy pzl with a SCATTERBRAIN theme from the Altogether-Brained Wienbergs!
It started easily with just a small hiccup on my opening NW to SE diagonal run. (Pausing only at SPEED because I miscounted the letters in my rush.)
Then I had a few bumps as I did my own SCATTERBRAIN fills here & there, at random. The BRAIN theme helped toward a couple of answers. And then, Ta- DA!
Fun to see HuskerG including a Greek quotation. My main take-away from my collegiate Greek is that I can sound it out and ID a word or two. Here I recognized only "Odonton," the root for our own "Teeth" or, more obviously, "Dentine" gum.
My fave word of the day is EROICA. Back in olden times, when I was in high school and doing my homework, I would put an LP on the turntable. As a kid I couldn't afford many records, but among my few was Beethoven's Third. Over the years I absorbed every phrase, every note, and it continues to thrill me. I love its back story too, how Ludwig began it in tribute to Napoleon, whom he presumed to be Europe's great liberator - but ended it in disgust at the emperor's lust for conquest - and his hubris.
Another fancy Greek word: ὕβρις !
Here's a fine rendition of one of Herr B's masterworks, by the Maestro Herr Herbert: the glorious ”Eroica” by von Karajan!
Excuse please!
To play my link to the EROICA (which is worth it, believe me!) you may have to skip past the YouTube ad.
Grr.
Anon @11:34 Please remember words have many meanings, some we never dreamed of. As Tawnya pointed out bezel has quite a few. We Cornerites think of things like that as learning moments.
I've often wondered why Lincoln, at 6'4", chose to wear the stovepipe. I mean, it's not as if he needed it to stand out.
Just wanting to wish you all to have a happy healthy 5788.
Tawnya- I rarely use a calculator. I'm worse. I use an Excel Spreadsheet for calculations. (Or the back of an envelope.) For additions you just plug in the quantities in each square, highlight them all, and hit the 'Sum' button.
But as far as calculators go in math, physics, or chemistry class--- GIGO, garbage in, garbage out.
L'sharna tova !
Fun, easy romp with no bumps in the road. Thanks, Roger, Kathy and Gary.
I struggled a bit with BEZEL but AZTEC wouldn't let me go astray. BIOGAS needed to wait for perps. It all fell into place. Cute, and appropriate, theme. Aren't we all at times?
Our classical music station, KBAQ, has a top 100 list every year and the EROICA is always among those chosen. We, the listeners, contribute to its compilation. Thank you for the link, OMK.
Further to what YR said:
"bezel:
The sloping edge or face on a cutting tool
The oblique side or face of a cut gem; especially the upper faceted portion of a brilliant (diamond), which projects from its setting
The rim and flange which encompasses and fastens a jewel or other object, such as the crystal of a watch, in the cavity in which it is set; the collet.
The panel that covers the front of a computer case, or the panel covering each drive bay that can be removed to install a removable drive that requires external access, such as a CD/DVD-ROM drive, which usually has its own preinstalled bezel."
Hi All!
Thanks Roger and Kathy. WEES re: early-week feel but a lot more fun for BRAIN GNASHing.
Thanks HG for being the CURATOR of .gifs and hosting the after-party. The SCRIBER in action was neat (I was thinking of the kind to etch SNs into metal).
Almost but no ink: liED, PEdi, and tig[g]ER MOM but that's T-I-double-Guh-ER.
WO: SPla..oops.@65a
ESPs: LEN, AMIS, RENEE, BOP IT, BERMUDA ONION - never hear of it.
Fav: I kinda liked GNU Xing fish NOR fowl.
Spitz & YR - punny!
OMK - Ads are the new normal on YouTube.
Tawnya beat me to The Who; never heard Soccer Mom - thanks for the tunes t.
BINARY OPERATION - I was thinking of the Truth Tables not Base10 operations. HG's definition fits the c/a too :-)
HG - My favorite calculator was the HP28s. It uses RPN (Reverse Polish Notation) so you'd stack operations. The only flaw was the battery door broke the 1st time you change the batteries (many buddies had the same issue too). A little electrical tape and it -- got me through EE.
BigE - Yeah, anymore, for more than 2 numbers, I just use Excel - it's probably already open and IN USE anyway :-)
Well, I'm IN ARREARS on my documentation for my MFA (multi-factor authentication) project, so back at it.
Cheers, -T
Well I blew it. EROICA has appeared here before. I was torn between SCRIV/BER and just missed BIOGAS. I thought BP might have a product.
I finally gave up and searched for D&F: Edward Gibbon. I think I read a little once. Dry as I faintly recall.
I was so late doing Sunday that I still haven't seen the blog.
HG nice write-up of a well done xword.
WC
Lurker from yesterday (post-Harvey, I've got to get to lights-out-@-midnight schedule now). WEES re SMALL SLAM. I've never watched bridge tournaments - I share D-O's yawn comment. Same goes for golf (only because they almost always run over into "60 Minutes," which screws up my Sunday chores schedule). OUCH, I can feel the sting of golf balls slamming me already from all directions.
DR. (who?) DEMENTO? Perps for Lytton (who?) - now I remember. Jayce - good one!
Anon-T, "Blues Bros. ...Tail Feather" - hilarious, equally the dance moves, although rated a tame PG NOW compared to present day twerks, etc. Which I think appeared in a cw a few months ago?
Melissa B, your granddaughter is an absolute cutie - what an angelic face! I immediately thought she could be a Gerber Foods "model." Then, today, while checking out weekly coupon inserts, I ran across Gerber coupons, with a full page, mentioning @GerberPhotoSearch2017. What's the likelihood of that?
(FFW today) Fr. "born again" = Renee? Never knew that, hope this scatter-brain remembers. All others were pretty easy with perps. But THANKS to all the engineers/techies' previous technical posts which my brain mercifully did not download (??), I did remember a key word, BINARY!! with perps to the rescue for OPERATIONS. Whatever .....
In closing - I cannot even imagine the terror our Puerto Rican citizens and other Caribbean islanders endured in the last two weeks, and must now face the horror of the devastation. Prayers for strength.
It's late, I just read Sunday's blog and loved Irish Miss post. I sometimes open the blog and find an FIW because I didn't let it perculate.
Since I hear y'all like oddball long stories I'll give you my bridge story.
Location Chu Lai. A major perceived a certain lieutenant as in his cups and suggested a rubber or two of bridge.
Dime a point!!!!*
He didn't know that the Louie had Masters points. When he called no mas, he was down $200+. He then pulled rank and said he was kidding about the stakes.
The lieutenant was me. I haven't played since but I enjoy the bridge column.
Btw. Picard had a late post on NACHT eg Kristalknacht.
WC
* A rubber can be 1500 pts. * .10 = $150.00
Btw I enjoyed Owen's l'ick. I was going to say the enchantress was MORGAN but I see that MORGEN is an alternative. And, and this is the beauty of xword corner, I'm now exploring Arthurian legend, internet style.
Has anyone ever explored the JFK assassination that way. Every theory imaginable. Btw, they clued LEN as Dawson, not Deighton, an author who seems to have embedded a lot of JFK conspiracy into into his nine part Bernard Sampson saga.
I'm at wilburc44 (Gmail) if interested. Hint: Check out a character named Dodo
Not to speak of a character in another saga. Name:Hari Selden.
WC in the gloaming*
*Where the bytes don't count.
A calculator for $1.50. Wow. I remember in the early days of hand held calculators around 1975 an article in Popular Science. They expected prices to drop over time. But they made a point of saying you would NEVER see one blister packed at the grocery store. I think it was about ten years later I saw exactly that.
Fairly easy and fun SCATTER BRAIN ride.
But some unknowns: AMIS, LEN, BOP IT, BEZEL in that usage. Learning moment. Hand up for BEVEL first, but AZTEC was a solid cross.
Agree with Big Easy there are other definable somethings more rarefied than a comet TAIL. Still, interesting to think that something visible from millions of miles away is so wispy.
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