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May 28, 2018

Monday May 28, 2018 Roger & Kathy Wienberg

Theme: PH SCALE (39. Acidity measurement range ... and where you'll find 17-, 23-, 50- and 60-Across?) - Each theme entry starts with P and H.

17. Simon & Schuster, for example: PUBLISHING HOUSE.

23. Jimi Hendrix classic: PURPLE HAZE.

50. Sort in compartments: PIGEON HOLE.

60. One's cleanliness habits: PERSONAL HYGIENE.
 
Boomer here.  

Hello all of you Mamas and Papas. Monday, Monday Can't trust that day. Monday, Monday, sometimes it just turns out that way. There I go reliving my youth of the 60s. Speaking of the 60s, this puzzle reminded me of my Dad's employer in the 60s. Physicians and Hospital Supplies. Also known as P & H.  However in those days, the drug industry was acceptable with prescriptions mostly around $3.00, Not like it is today with "Ask your Doctor" ads and Big Pharma was a term that had not yet been coined.

Across:

1. Emulated Pinocchio: LIED. I enjoy it when the Washington Post awards Pinocchios.

5. Gas and oil: FUELS.  Where is it at where you live?  In Minnesota, we are at around 2.85 per gallon of regular.  I heard in Manhattan it's around $5.00

10. Puppy sound: YIP.

13. Charitable gift: ALMS.

14. "How awful!": OH DEAR. Something Edith Bunker used to say.

16. Artist Yoko: ONO. Then I think Archie would say OH NO

20. Sch. in Charlottesville: UVA.

21. Leave speechless: STUN.  Milwaukee police are facing questions regarding their use of a stun gun on Sterling Brown of the NBA.

22. Path around the sun: ORBIT.  Also the path of an Aaron Judge home run.

27. Longtime senator Kennedy: TED.  Maybe could have been President except for that night in July, 1969.

28. Poetic "above": O'ER. - O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave, and the NFL.

29. Like stretchy waistbands: ELASTIC.

32. Spot on the tube: TV AD.  The number of ads I see for car insurance and prescription drugs, makes me think those two products might be over-priced?

35. Hitching post?: ALTAR. I get it, but it's a stretch.

37. Dove's call: COO.

38. Rolled-up bunch of money: WAD.

41. Sing with a closed mouth: HUM. That's not singing, that's humming.

42. Memorable boxer: ALI.  He put boxing on the map!  Everyone knew who the heavyweight champ was in the day.

43. Highways and byways: ROADS. Country Roads, take me home, to the place I belong.  West Virginia????

44. Stinging insect: WASP.

45. Solarium: SUN ROOM.

47. CIA relative: NSA.

49. Series-ending abbr.: ETC. Abbreviation for Latin et cetera."and so on".  Also a gift shop in Hudson, Wisconsin.

56. Mascara mishap: SMEAR.

58. Westernmost of the Aleutian Islands: ATTU.



59. Chicken __: POX. I thought of LEG and KFC.  I had chicken pox once and that was enough.  Odd name for an illness.  What did chickens ever do to deserve this ?

64. Young Skywalker's nickname: ANI.

65. Lighter filler: BUTANE. Yeah - these things are dangerous.  Glad I don't smoke.

66. Uncle Remus rabbit's title: BR'ER. Born and raised in the briar patch

67. "Delish!": YUM.

68. Ply with alcohol: BESOT.

69. Shopping place: MART. Always seems to indicate lower price.  K-Mart, Walmart etc.  Any more? 

Down:

1. Drink from a bowl: LAP UP. No, I just lift the bowl to my mouth and tip it.

2. Candy heart words: I LUV U.

3. Imprison: EMBAR.

4. ISP alternative: DSL.  The computer age has smothered us with three letter acronyms.

5. Kind of child or parent: FOSTER. Half a pair of sunglasses.

6. "Yup": UH HUH.

7. Twin Cities suburb: EDINA.  Edina is known to host the first indoor shopping center I believe in the US, circa 1957.  C.C. and I were there last week.  Southdale Mall has expanded and added and changed tenants, and it seems to want to compete with Mall of America.

8. Novelist Deighton: LEN.

9. Hollywood's __ Awards: SAG.

10. "Darn tootin'!": YOU BETCHA. - This phrase is tied to us Scandinavians Don'tcha know.

11. Treacherously sneaky: INSIDIOUS.

12. Frost or Browning: POET. He's a poet but don't know it, but his feet show it, They're Longfellows.

15. Pi follower: RHO. It's Greek to me.

18. Cruise stop: ISLE.

19. Disposal scraps: ORTS.

24. Sci-fi escape vehicle: POD. I would pick UFO.  Not even peas can escape from a pod.

25. Greek Zs: ZETAS.  Z is our last letter.  I think Zeta comes early in the Greek lineup.  Somewhere near Gamma Beta Epsilon.

26. Israeli airline: EL AL.

30. Exist: ARE.

31. Give a free pass: COMP.

32. First word in Moore's Christmas poem: 'TWAS.  Contraction for "It was". 

33. Eatery list including 99-cent items: VALUE MENU. Nothing anymore for less than a dollar.  McDonald's has a $1, $2, $3 and others have two for $6.

34. For now, in Latin: AD INTERIM. Technically translates "In the meantime" but I will okay it for now.

35. "Me too": AS AM I.

36. PC monitor type: LCD. I know this is an acronym for liquid crystal display, but I never understood it.  I know you get a clearer picture, but I'm not sure why.

39. Expert: PRO.  Short for professional, also means pretty darn good.  All of you are PRO crossword solvers.

40. Hula __: HOOP. The hoop went public in 1958 and I think everyone in the US had at least one.  I believe they were originally sold for .99 each.

44. Sob syllable: WAH.

46. Early color TVs: RCAS.  Before color TVs, RCA was a leading maker of "Victrola" sound equipment.  Remember The mascot dog "Nipper" ?


47. "Wait a bit longer": NOT YET.

48. Like a bug in a rug: SNUG.

51. Fancy parties: GALAS. Do you pronounce this GAY LA or GALLA ?

52. Prefix with centric: ETHNO. My puzzle's better than your puzzle

53. Rossini work: OPERA. Or a noontime soap.

54. No social butterfly: LONER.

55. Apply, as pressure: EXERT.

56. Fix at the vet: SPAY.

57. Knock over, as a bank: ROB.  I'm now thinking of Mary Tyler Moore's (Laura Petrie's) husband on the Dick Van Dyke show.

61. Pencil remnant: NUB.

62. Had lunch: ATE.

63. PC pioneer: IBM. I don't remember an IBM personal computer.  Most of IBM's computers were the size of a cruise ship.

Boomer


Note from C.C.:

Here is Boomer's 700 Club champion's plaque. The lights were knocked out due to the severe storm last Thursday night when they had the banquet, so all the bowlers enjoyed a candlelight dinner in hot hot weather.


58 comments:

fermatprime@gmail.com said...

Greetings!

Thanks to Roger, Kathy and Boomer!

Fun puzzle! Easy theme to suss.

Amazon replaced my printer after 2.5 months. Am so thrilled!

Hope to see you tomorrow!

desper-otto said...

Good morning!

Is it just me, or did this feel like a Wednesday? AD INTERIM? EMBAR? I think Roger and Kathy are trying to raise the bar. Thanx for the romp, and Boomer, thanx for the tour.

DSL: At one time that was hi-tech hi-speed. Our local phone infrastructure isn't hi-tech enough for DSL. That's sad.

P&H: Boomer, for me those letters represent Pawling and Harnischfeger. They manufactured P&H cranes in Milwaukee and later in Cedar Rapids and Escanaba -- victims of the rust belt.

POX: It's well established that shingles attacks people who had chicken pox in their ute. That'd be me. I've had the shingles vaccine, but now my doctor wants me to get the new vaccine, Shingrix. I plan to take that $150 plunge this week.

Doc said...

I assure you, you don’t want shingles. Get the shot.

Jinx in Norfolk said...

FIR, but erased MAll for MART and Robt (Frost / Browning) for POET.

I saw Hendrix play PURPLE HAZE in Cincinnati circa 1968. I wore a black velvet suit. Very groovy.

Boomer, my second PC was a true-blue IBM. It was powered by Intel's mighty 8086 CPU and 8087 math co-processor. It had two giant floppy disc drives, but no hard drive. There were IBM clones on the market that were much cheaper, but most weren't true clones. The acid test (low pH?) was Microsoft Flight Simulator. If it ran, the clone was truly IBM-compatible. IBM jumped the shark when they introduced the PC Junior with a huge marketing campaign (featuring a Charlie Chaplin-like character) for an unsellable product.

Thanks for the fun Monday puzzle, Roger and Kathy. I especially liked "hitching post" for ALTAR. Don't mind Boomer. My least favorite was UHHUH.

Thanks to Boomer for the very punny review. You really outdid yourself today. I remember the RCA logo with the caption "His Master's Voice". Congrats on your fine bowling series and for winning the event.

BobB said...

58A Attu. Interesting article in the morning local paper. The battle of Attu; the Japanese captured Attu in 1942 and sent all of the Aluet natives to a prison in Japan where over half died of starvation. The US Army retook Attu 11 months later on Memorial Day 1943. The only battle of WWII fought on US soil. With few exceptions the remaining Japanese solders not killed in battle committed suicide by holding a hand grenade to their body and pulling the pin. Death before the dishonor of being captured.

Lemonade714 said...

I agree that Roger & Kathy Wienberg made us work a bit harder on a Monday, but it was balanced by Boomer's fun tour.

I have never seen AD INTERIM used in a book or newspaper though it is simple Latin; why wouldn't one just say "interim?"

We continue our long stretch of rain but my sunshine was dancing last night at annual recital.
My avatar is Charlotte after her performance, but still in costume. The surprise of the night was my son on stage dancing with some of the other Daddys. He had not done that since high school.

Never forget; my heart goes out to all who given their lives; for me, it was Vietnam where they went and did not come home.

billocohoes said...

A 28-foot tall, four-ton Nipper has watched over Albany's North End since 1958

That map makes ATTU look closer to Asia than any I remember. Japanese invasion of ATTU and Kiska began June 3, 1942, the same week as the Battle of Midway.

Oas said...

Thanks Roger Kathy and Boomer.
Fairly quick and easy start to the week.
A few unknowns and hesitations but all worked out in the end .
Not a Hendrix fan so had to wait for PURPLE HAZE to clear.
YIP or YAP?? INSIDIOUS decided it.
Cluing for. COMP seemed incomplete but the crosses decided it .
Fun workout , thanks again.
Beautiful sunny day .
Garden work waiting .
Does it get better than this?

billocohoes said...

And I recently found a hand-cranked, 1926 Victrola in my mother's attic. Still works, even though it's been unused for at least sixty (probably 75+) years. Doesn't have the big bell for a speaker, though.

Anonymous said...

EMBAR? COMP?

Madame Defarge said...

Good Morning,

Thanks, Roger and Kathy. Pretty smooth for me. PUBLISHING HOUSE was right on when I checked against the perps. I particularly like INSIDIOUS. It worked well. For a minute during the Peace and Love era, Northwestern students found Wildcats too violent and wanted the team renamed PURPLE HAZE. Ah, social history. . . .

Thanks, Boomer, for your witty tour. Congrats on your award. Hmmm. . . . Pitching and bowling--no wonder your shoulder is yelling at you. I think you received pretty good advice from Cornerites yesterday. I would also suggest physical therapy. I'm just coming off two sessions a week for six weeks, and my knees have improved remarkably. I have so much more strength and flexibility. However, I must no fail to maintain my little routine.
Related rotator cuff/arthritis can also benefit from therapy. I will do just about anything to avoid surgery on my knees. The hips were easy; knees and shoulders less so.

Have a good day, everyone.

PK said...

Hi Y'all! Roger & Kathy, I liked this puzzle, YOU BETCHA, UH HUH, UH HUH, I liked it! But I'd think you'd be EMBARrassed to use the word EMBAR. Really? is that a legit word?

Boomer, your expos are priceless. Congrats on being the 700 Club Champ.

This was so much easier than the last two days, it was a welcome relief. AD INTERIM was ESP but at least today there were perps I could build on. There weren't at first yesterday and Sat.

Boomer, I had questions about the STUN gun incident with NBA Player Sterling Brown. Why did so many cops show up just because his SUV was parked across two handicapped parking slots at Walgreen's? Why did they think two handicapped persons would need those parking places at 2 a.m.?

Chicken POX: I had shingles after our sewer line backed up and I got some big whiffs of sewer gas at my house. Later I found out the young lady next door (and up-line from me) had had shingles at the time and had given her two-yr-old chicken POX. Don't think I got the POX just because I'd had it as a child when this took place next door.

Magilla Go-Rilla said...

63D: The IBM PC was introduced in 1981. All the PCs running Microsoft Windows today are licensed clones of the IBM design.

inanehiker said...

WEES about slightly more crunch than a usual Monday - but fun run! We are too small of a city to have a newspaper on major holidays so I solved online today.

A PSA on the new shingles vaccine- Shingrix. I would recommend it, as the first one we had- Zostavax- came in at 60% effectiveness in preventing -the new one is 90 % in the studies done on it. Two caveats though - this one is a series of 2 shots - 2 to 6 months apart. Also, though it isn't covered by Medicare just like the prior one (that takes an act of Congress -literally)- it IS covered or partially covered by most Medicare supplements - but check with customer service of your plan - some cover it better through Part D/ Pharmacy portion than through your doctor's office - some the other way around. If you have no coverage or don't have a supplemental- some states' county health departments have a program at a reduced cost - but ONLY if you don't have coverage through your supplemental. So don't go there if you do- you'll be wasting your time. The new one is for age 50 and over- most commercial insurances cover it at your doctor's office or the pharmacy but again check with YOUR plan. Even if it didn't cover it a few years ago, most Medicare supplements and reg insurance cover it now. The older you are the higher the likelihood if you get shingles you will get post shingles nerve pain which can last for months to years after the outbreak- so decrease your chances. END of PSA!

Thanks Boomer and congrats on your bowling award! And thanks to Roger and Kathy for the puzzle!

Irish Miss said...

Good Morning:

Other than an entry or two, this was an easy, breezy Monday with an obvious but Pretty Happy theme! I thought all four themers were strong and especially liked the two grid spanners. Edina appears again; maybe it'll become the new Erie, someday. Not being a "Star Wars" fan, I can never remember Skywalker's nickname, so had to wait for perps. Other than that, a smooth and satisfying solve. (I liked the Hitching post=Altar combo!)

Thanks, Roger and Kathy, for a fun start to the week and thanks, Boomer, for your wit and pith! Congrats on the 902 and the championship,

Billocohoes, thanks so much for the Nipper clip. That brings back many memories as I worked in that building for 16 years and was greeted by Nipper every morning and had lunch in Nipper's Snack Bar on the first floor every day.

I'm going to a niece's birthday party later this afternoon and tomorrow I have a luncheon date with four friends from my grade school through high school years. We grew up within blocks of each other and shared many a mischievous moment!

Have a great day.

Husker Gary said...

Musings
-Fun write-up Boomer and congrats on your dim, hot plaque! I’ll bet you never miss a 5 pin
-My obvious age and gray hair make me easy to PIGEON HOLE
-$2.65 here Boomer!
-This movie made TED look like a shallow, political animal
-People I knew wanted braggadocious ALI to take his lumps in the 60’s
-SUN ROOM – the place from which all my written blogging tripe emanates
-Repub. Vs Dem.? I say a POX on both their houses
-$4 can feed me and Joann at McDucks as we only drink water. Turn your head Steve!
-A must watch! WAH as a lyric in this great theme song! (alt. pronunciation)
-We’re off to a lovely Memorial Day service in our small town

SwampCat said...

A little crunchy for me for a Monday , but satisfying. EMBAR seemed strange, but acceptable. I think of BESOT as gaga with emotion not alcohol, but it makes sense.

Boomer, you amaze me! Such wit...and an award for bowling, too. Congratulations and thanks!

Never forget.....

MJ said...

Good day to all, and special congratulations to Boomer for the 700 Club championship award. Very impressive!

Misty said...

Wonderful way to start the week--many thanks, Roger and Kathy. I sailed through this puzzle until I got to the southeast--where I too had MALL before MART and needed a bit of work to figure out how to fix that. Fun write-up, Boomer, and thanks for reminding us about Edith Bunker and ROB and Mary Tyler Moore. We clearly watched the same TV shows in our younger days. Also enjoyed your playing with POET.

My dad got a job with RCA in Lancaster, PA in 1956. I believe they were just getting into color TV production and were hiring that year.

I wonder who came up with the idea of starting puzzles easy on a Monday, and having them get a little more difficult each day as the week progressed? Great idea, which I always appreciate on a Monday--less so on Friday and Saturday.

Have a fun day with friends, Irish Miss. And have a great week, everybody!

WikWak said...

A fun run in the sun today. No nits, naticks, or other cruciverbal gremlins.

Gas is $3.03 around here now.

Not thrilled with EMBAR, but that was the only one today.

We just recently sold our Nipper. He was made of papier-mâché and was just over one meter tall. He had been a record store window display and when that store closed my Grandpa ended up with both Nipper and the Victrola horn speaker. When our sons were little, we always took their birthday pictures standing beside Nipper. He was taller than they were until about age 5, I think.

Thanks to Roger & Kathy, and congratulations to Boomer. I had a 902 once, but that was for the whole season…

Memorial Day good wishes to all!

Anonymous said...

Saturday's puzzle was a DNS--did not start. Yesterday was a DNF; I got about 2/3 of it before I lost interest and patience. Today was a welcome, easier puzzle. Thank you, Roger and Kathy. This one had some crunch, but was doable. Thanks for the humorous expo, Boomer. You do a great job!

7d Twin Cities suburb/EDINA. When my daughter was in elementary school here in Cincinnati, there were four other students who, like Liz, had been born at Fairview-Southdale Hospital in Edina, MN! Small world!

I hope everyone has a good day today as we remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom.

oldokie said...

Gasoline here is anywhere from $2,30 to $2,50 or so, depends on whether it is ethanol
or not. Saturdays puzzle was a humdinger, but I finally got it. Had to cheat of a few answers.
Shingles? I had the shingles one time, think it was in the late 80's, worst stuff I have ever had.
I worked for RCA computer systems division in the late 60's til the sold us to Univac
in about 75, Loved RCA, Hated Univac, quit and bought a doughnut shop. Never looked back.

OwenKL said...

Coming in very late today, so doesn't seem worth while to write any poems. Today's a holiday, so I slept in last night in order to do my patriotic duty today, putting out US flags early this morning. It's a fund-raising project for my Lions club, 8 times a year. Since I'm near bed-ridden any more, I just drive the SUV while a partner hops out to put up the flags. Used to be I did the whole job by myself, and the routes were much longer then besides. I think I recall a time when I was the partner who jumped out to put up the flags. Still, it does help me feel like I'm not entirely useless. We'll be going back out to pick them up this afternoon. When I started 20+ years ago, we had enough Lions Club members we only had to go out on alternate holidays. Now, we have to combine some routes to be able to cover them all!

ISP (Internet Service Provider) is the company that provides the internet connections. DSL (Digital Subscriber Line/Loop) is the technology involved in doing so. Nothing "alternative" about them!

I usually pronounce it GALLA, though a specific event I might refer to as a GAYLA.

ROB at 57d was expected at 12d.

SwampCat said...

My granddaughter is in Destin working at a beach-side restaurant. Alberto is due to hit Destin in about an hour. I’ll be glad when this afternoon is over.

Hey, I’m a grammaw! I get to worry. It’s part of our contract!

Star Wars Dummy said...

AD INTERuM/ANu did me in on a MONDAY!

PK said...

Swampcat: my prayers for the safety of your granddaughter in Destin. You were so good to keep me posted on the LA weather last fall, I wish I could do the same for you, but alas I'm half a continent away but glad I am. I have a niece & a nephew up around Pensacola and a niece at Ocala. Better go check the TV weather report. They may need aunty prayers.

Owen, are you putting the flags in graveyards for vets or elsewhere? Here they flag the graves of vets.

Inanehiker, Thank you for the information on shingles. Luckily I didn't get the nerve pain after shingles. I went to the doctor a few days after she thought the medicine would help, but she gave it to me anyway and it may have worked. I treated my shingles with Ambesol cold sore salve which soothed them a lot. No one else seems to have heard of that, but it sure helped mine. The shingles POXes looked a lot like cold sores & were both types of herpes viruses so I thought it was worth a try.



Jinx in Norfolk said...

OKL, Verizon is an ISP and will sell you DSL or fiber (if you are in a FiOS area) access. They will no longer sell you DSL without voice service.

Magilla, do you have a source for "The IBM PC was introduced in 1981. All the PCs running Microsoft Windows today are licensed clones of the IBM design."? I tried to LIU and as far as I can tell IBM gave up on hardware licensing, and settled with Microsoft over their software patents. I find these behind-the-scenes tidbits to be fascinating.

Gas prices here are about $2.80 at the warehouse clubs.

D4E4H said...

I hate computers when they don't work!

SwampCat said...

Thanks, PK. My granddaughter just texted me that work was cancelled today because of the storm, So she is not right on the beach.

The storm itself is not really bad. Just lots of rain and storm surge near the beach. Prayers for your family from me.

oc4beach said...


WEES about the few non-Monday words, but with perps today's offering was a very doable puzzle. I was able to finish in normal Monday time. Good one from Roger and Kathy. Boomer's write up was an enlightening treatise.

Why is it that when a relatively new word shows up in a puzzle that you can expect to see it used soon again and sometimes ad nauseum? Recently we have seen EDINA and EMIGRE a couple of times. Will they get overused for a while? Is it a function of collaboration by constructors, or is it a function of the Editor? I realize that a lot of words lend themselves to CWs because of their structure or their number of useful vowels like ELAL, ALOE, COO, ETC. This is not meant to be a complaint as much as an observation.

Gas in Central PA is in the $3.05 - 3.10 range today. Tomorrow, who knows. PA has the highest state levied gas tax in the country. Supposedly to update our highway infrastructure. Waiting to see if it will be done and how long it will take.

Around here it's pronounced GAY-LA.

Today we celebrate those who made the ultimate sacrifice.



Anonymous T said...

Hi All!

Thanks Roger & Kathy for a fun Memorial Day puzzle. The extra-crunch was welcome as the Holiday comes with more noodle-time.

Thanks Boomer for the expo - cute re: Longfellows :-) Congrats on the non-Pat Robertson's 700-Club win.

WO: Hand-up Mall b/f MART
ESP: LEN
Fav: INSIDIOUS - such a good word.

Ok, I LIED... Fav: PURPLE HAZE [2:24] is Awesome! And, it's a good beer from our Louisiana friends at Abita Brewing.

Price of gas? No clue. In Houston you just need it. I'm more concerned with the price of WTI and the Cushing discount. (and my retirement stock!)

I've heard that about shingles and Chicken POX being related. Did any of y'all host POX parties for your kids like Mom did in '76 so I got sick in the summer? My Girls won't get Chicken POX because there's a shot now.
Also, inre: Chicken Pox - there's a very certain smell to it that, to this day, I still recognize.

UH HUH is repeated in this Trio song that you may recognize from old VW TV Ads [believe it or don't, I own their CD].

IIRC, IBM never had a patent on the PC. It was COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) bits tossed together. Michael Dell and his buddies decided that was the business to go into. See: Accidental Empires [I think that's where I read the account(?)] Jinx, you're right, Jr. was a joke.

OKL - A day without your POEms is OK considering your morning service. I think I can speak for my fellow Vets when I say "Thank You."

Cheers, -T

CanadianEh! said...

Marvellous Monday with just a little crunch. Thanks for the fun, Roger and Kathy, and Boomer (congrats on the award).
I smiled at your comment on 28A "and the NFL".

I moved up the left to right diagonal today (not a true continuous one though) and then jumped all over. It worked today and I got the PH theme which helped with the fill.

I had a few ink lots. Biggest one was at 47D where I merrily entered the recently used ONE SEC before NOT YET forced its way into the grid. (Oc4beach- I had noticed years ago and AnonT was mentioning the same thing a few weeks ago, about some words being used several times in a short period and then disappearing for a while. C.C. did not seem to think it was done intentionally by Rich.)

I noticed all the expressions - OH DEAR, YUM, UH HUH, YOU BETCHA, AS AM I, WAH, NOT YET.
Hand up for Mall (another one we have seen recently) before MART.
Prescience of the blog- WC was mentioning LEN Deighton last evening.
I agree with OwenKL that ISP and DSL are not alternatives. Perhaps Jinx' suggestion that DSL may be an alternative offered by an ISP makes sense , but clue needs improvement.
Like SwampCat, I do not associate BESOTTED with alcohol (although Sot makes an association) but references state that it can mean to infatuated, or to make foolish (possibly with alcohol).

TV, radio, magazine ads for prescription drugs are banned in Canada (although we get plenty of them on American stations). The intent is that the physician should make the choice unprompted by patient pressure which may be influenced by Big Pharma. (Rules have also been tightened to lessen pressure/bias on physician prescribing by Big Pharma.) When I hear the list of side effects on TV ads, I wonder why anyone would want to take that drug. I presume American rules require full disclosure, but there is no time/space for discussion of common vs. rare side-effects.

Current gas prices here are $1.35 Cdn.$/litre. Online calculator says this equals $4.10 US$/US gallon. (Not only do we now use metric, but even our previously used Canadian gallon was not the same as an American gallon!)

Beautiful warm day. Enjoy!


jfromvt said...

Nice write up Boomer, more fun than the puzzle itself...lol....actually not bad for a Monday...

Roy said...

Nipper has become iconic in the Capital Disrrict. There was an uproar when it was rumored that a developer would remove Nipper. He was the subject of a public art project.

FIR. Not that difficult. EMBAR made sense, but I looked it up--labeled as "archaic".

UH-HUH is one of those onomatopoeic words that I dislike. Too many spellings for the same sound and many that I never use.

AnonymousPVX said...

A nice Monday puzzle with a bit of crunch.

Have a wonderful Memorial Day.

Jayce said...

Congratulations to you, Boomer, for your 700-Club championship, and thank you for the sparkling write-up. I love your FOSTER = half a pair of sunglasses.

A nice PH puzzle today. Agree that the DSL-ISP conflation has happened repeatedly and it rubs me the wrong way every time I see it. That's like saying CABLE is an ISP.

Sometimes I say GALLA and sometimes GAYLA; I don't know why.

Not sure an LCD picture is clearer or better than a CRT picture. A good CRT could produce an excellent quality picture; the Sony Trinitron™ tubes were awesome. LCD screens could be flat, whereas a CRT tube would always be that "funnel" shape and therefore take up much more space. LCDs use far less power than CRTs, too, even counting the required backlight. Perhaps the perception of an LCD screen giving a clearer picture is due to the larger number of pixels, and therefore higher resolution, that an LCD screen can have.

Good wishes to you all on this day of remembrance.

Ol' Man Keith said...

Thanks, C.C., for posting the pic of Boomer's plaque. It's nice to know when our team is honored!

Today's pzl from the Wienbergs deserves our thanks for being appropriately easy but not too simple in cluing or word choice.

Speaking of "appropriate," I found today's Jumble right on the money. Misty, are Jumbles also easy on Monday and harder as the week progresses?

~ OMK

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Diagonal Report:
It's privation time again. No diagonals to report.


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Big Easy said...

Well Boomer, I remember in 1972 when the AWP (average wholesale price) of both Valium 5mg ( Rolling Stone's 'Mother's Little Helper' and Darvon Compound-65 in bottles of 500 were under $35.00. Did the wholesaler I ran sell a lot of them? YOU BETCHA.


ATTU-an interesting article in today's paper about two surviving members of the Army who repelled the Japanese on that island in WW-II. Mr. Niles, 'your' paper must have run the same story as mine.

EDINA- Southdale Mall- enclosed because they got tired of customers FREEZING in the winter going between stores.

pH- my chemistry professors always said it was the negative log of the "Hydronium" (instead of hydrogen)concentration in moles per liter of water because the hydrogen proton doesn't stand alone.

Oh, the puzzle? The pH was an easy spot and IMHO was made easier with PH SCALE in the middle of the puzzle.

PK- my son doesn't arrest people when they are illegally parked in handicap zones. He just asked for their personal handicap card, not the one hanging off the mirror or the license plate, their card. The young ones never have it. Fine=$500 where I live. He doesn't issue a ticket unless they are a smartass. The mouth always causes trouble, always.

WikWak- I just paid $2.499 today.

PK said...

Big Easy, I take it your son doesn't taser even the young smartasses who park in handicap zones at 2 a.m. That's what was so crazy about the reported incident. Plus the fact that so many cops showed up to subdue the 7' guy that wasn't even fighting them.

Lucina said...

I hope you are all enjoying a good Memorial Day!

Early this morning my sister, a niece and I attended the services at the local Catholic cemetery then distributed flowers to the graves of our assorted relatives buried there. All that activity along with the hot weather did me in so I lay down for a nap until now.

Thanks to the Wienbergs for an easy romp today and to Boomer for your usual wit and humor. Congratulations on your 700 achievement!

PURPLE is my favorite color (red is second) so I like it in a puzzle even if it's a HAZE. Hand up for MALL before MART. Otherwise it was smooth and quick.

WAH! I love that. EDINA has been in many puzzles and the only reason I know of it. The same with ATTU. I liked hitching post, ALTAR, too.

GALLAS is my pronunciation and gas here is $3.05.

Stay safe all in the way of Albert.

Ta Ta!

Ol' Man Keith said...

Gonna take my new grill for a test run today. It was a Christmas gift, but it has been dormant all this time.
Memorial Day seems an appropriate time to break 'er in.

No gas, no electric ignition, just plain old-fashioned charcoal grilling. OMK don't hold with them new-fangled outdoor "kitchenettes." But this is a first-class hooded grill, with slide-out fuel bin, etc. Should be fun.

Wishing all here a safe & solemn Memorial Day.
Peace.

~ OMK

Ol' Man Keith said...

Er...

Hands up for MART before anything else.

Ta- DA!

~ OMK

Anonymous T said...

OMK - All I can think is Crankshaft :-) Good luck lighting the "gift". I'm doing dill'd salmon after a nap.

Cheers, -T

Michael said...

Local gas (87 octane) is $3.49 at ARCO and the brand X stations, but the Chevron across the street from ARCO is $3.79. That's for northeast San Francisco Bay, but San Francisco itself is $3.70 and moving way up from there.

The only way to make crosswords gel is to use flakey fill in places -- EMBAR and UHHUH are horrid, but necessary, examples.

In particle physics, there is a "gluon", a subatomic particle of a class that is thought to bind quarks together. Our gluons bind the puzzle together ... but not always neatly.

Yellowrocks said...

Fun puzzle. A walk in the park, but a little Wednesday-like. Perps were needed.
Chicken pox: Several sources say, "Perhaps so called for its mildness compared to smallpox." One of my toddler sibs called it chicken pops. The blisters pop up.
At large dances we have an area called the hitching post where singles may find a partner, very hit or miss. I learned both the lead and the follow positions and so can almost always find a partner, male or female. Knowing the steps by definition, instead of by rote makes complicated choreography easier to follow. With my arthritis I find the lead position easier on these old bones.
Embar seemed easy, though obsolete. Many period novels include words like this.
Besotted refers to both alcohol and infatuation. I see it used equally. This is why a drunk is called a sot.
You betcha brings to mind Sarah Palin. At times her cutesy accent disappeared, making her seem much more serious.
Madame D. I am glad therapy is helping you. I returned to PT after using it two years ago. I was gently scolded for not continuing with my home routine. I guess I am too old to skip the home routine. Lesson learned. I am planning to go back to water therapy in the warm water pool at the Y soon. That really helped me in the past. I highly recommend it.
Boomer, congrats on making the 700 Club.
I recently read "Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic." Big Pharma was very involved in getting doctors to prescribe Oxycontin and downplaying its addictiveness. That reminds me of the tobacco companies years ago. Many doctors were innocently unaware of Oxycontin's addictive qualities, but there were plenty of unscrupulous doctors who prescribed it just to make money with no thought for the patient's needs. The book describes how often this pain medication led to a heroin habit. Eye opening.

Wilbur Charles said...

Boomer, don't forget ads for high performance vehicles which feed the auto insurance industry (not to speak of the auto body business).
FOSTER, Not to speak of a large can of ��
Wow I mentioned LEN Deighton last night. In WINTER they mentioned that Hitler's election motto* was "Make Germany Great Again"
Congrats to Boomer on the 700 club. Did you catch my post about BOCCE style Candlepin bowlers?

IBM and MS and then Intel came along and DEC was doomed. Possibly because their design had too much security and the PC as a tool concept had to give way to the Window** idea.

HS " mischievous moment". We all wore pants dyed Kelly green on St Patrick's day 1960.
I agree with Anon@758? on EMBAR but COMP is used familiarily. A little bit like "huss" which for 'Nam was I'll comp you if you'll comp me later.
I tried to do all acrosses today. I was so ENGAGED*** with Boomer's write-up that I missed a lot of the down clues.


* A la Tippecanoe and Tyler too
** eg a Window into your privacy
*** From yesterday. I got behind on xwords

Anonymous said...

OMK, enjoy your new toy! The original owners of this house had a natural gas hook-up put on the deck so DH grills year-round.

Anon-T Tonight is plain salmon and a veggie. I prefer to add my seasoning at the table.

Yellowrocks said...

We spent 5+ hours in the ER today. Alan was stumbling, dizzy, sleepy and weak when he awakened. It turns out he was severely dehydrated, again. IV solution perked him up. I have made a chart where he records having a drink every hour, including diluted Gatorade.
Test results were in by noon, but it took until 3:00 PM for the ER doc to come back with his 5 minutes explanation of his findings, advice and discharge.
We were to attend an extended family picnic in PA. I missed seeing my sibs.I have 5 pounds of homemade potato salad which we may finish off over several days and two dozen eggs which I deviled starting at 6:00 AM this morning. I will take half of them to my very caring neighbor.
Hope you all had a happy day.

Misty said...

Ol'Man Keith, I too thought today's Jumble was especially nice, given our holiday today. And I don't know if they get more difficult as the week progresses. Will try to track that this week.

D4E4H said...

Good evening Cornerites.

I'm fashionably late to the party. I thank the team of Ms. Kathy Wienberg and Mr. Roger Wienberg for this properly easy Monday CW which I FIR in 25:42.

Thanks to Boomer for seeing us through it.

I may be ready to report my computer fiasco tomorrow. Stay tuned.

Ðave

Wilbur Charles said...

D4-DAVE, Good hear from you . Glad it's only the conbconnec that kept you from connecting

WC

Speaking of TED, his NEPHEW, Robert wants a congressional investigation of his father's assassination. That was in the TBTimes today .

WC

Wilbur Charles said...

That sb "the connection"

OwenKL said...

PK: The flags we put out are at businesses that pay us, which is how it's a fund-raiser, so it's both patriotic and helping our charities at the same time. My wife was in an OES chapter that put flags or flowers on graves in the veteran's cemetery here in Santa Fe. More altruistic, but no driving around with a truck-bed of 5-foot flagpoles involved!

:smug: I put in MA and waited for a perp to add AT/LL! But I had ARF > YIP.

One of the bad guys in Star Wars was Darth SIDIOUS.

D4E4H said...

My review of the review:

28A - Poetic "above": O'ER. - - I just saw a video of my brother singing the US National anthem while dressed as a chicken, and clucking the words. I had to put my hand over my heart. I feared it might have an attack.

32A - Spot on the tube: TV AD. I had State Farm insurance from April 17, 1967 until April 28, 2018, successfully ignoring Flo, and the Gecko. Now if I can stop the calls wanting to extend the warranty of the car I no longer own.
- - Boomer, You think prescription drugs might be over-priced. Congrats on your 700 Club champion's plaque. I believe that means that you bowled at least 234 for each of three games, or at least a total of 700 points.

Ðave

Picard said...

Fun quick run today even with a few odd unknowns. The theme helped a bit.

Jinx: I am impressed that you got to experience Jimi Hendrix perform PURPLE HAZE in person. I was just eleven years old when he died.

IBM had an "open source" business model. This allowed our company and many others to design circuit boards to plug into their bus. Apple had the exact opposite business model: They kept their hardware and software proprietary so you had to do everything their way or not at all.

That is why there were ten times as many PCs sold as Apples. It didn't help IBM in the long run, but it allowed for a lot more innovation than the Apple control-freak model would have allowed.

I have never bought an Apple product and never plan to. Android has continued the "open source" business model. If I ever were to buy a phone it would be an Android, not an Apple.

Mark S said...

Misty: the Jumbo does get more difficult as the week progresses.

Mark S

Misty said...

Thanks, Mark S. Now I'll definitely track the Jumble's progress this week.

Michael said...

M. Picard, don't forget to note that Apple was notably more pricey than IBM/clones, and still is, which is why it has remained a niche market ... but OTOH, there weren't those 'backdoors' in MacOS.