Happy Friday the 13th.
Mr. Quinlan is back for his 4th LAT and second Friday. I had the pleasure of blogging the debut of this middle-school teacher here in April 2015. He quickly had his first NYT that May. His most recent here was last October which featured controversy about his fill FIVE-O and the introduction of a celebrity solver RB. Jim who has been kind enough to stop by and clarify his work, uses a Friday staple - add letters. Today the trigram UPS, which is confirmed in a reveal. With 63 letters in the theme, there was not much room for long sparkly fill but I SAY SO, IT IS SO (?), ODD LOT, TEE HEE, BEER CANS and UNLISTED added to the challenge.
I hope none of you all (Y'awl?) have ever had a package stolen from your porch; as Splynter was wont to say, ON*WARD*
18A. Calendar model's argument?: PINUPS POINT (11). I doubt that it is easy to pinpoint an argument a calendar model was putting forth.
24A. Ones who curry favor in Cannes?: FRENCH KISS-UPS (13). French kissing is nice, but ass kissers are not.
41A. Booms in the poultry industry?: CHICKEN UPSWINGS (15). Thank Buffalo for the modern importance of the lowly chicken wing.
51A. Northern New York gallery, say?: UPSTATE MUSEUM (13). The TATE is a CSO to our British brethern.
And the reveal:
61A. Package on the porch ... or what's been brought to 18-, 24-, 41- and 51-Across: UPS DELIVERY.
1. Adobe extension: PDF. Portable Document Format is a keystone to all modern law work, for saving, transmitting, and studying documents, eliminating the incompatibility of word perfect (the favorite of legal writers) and word.
4. Food: EATS.
8. Formal affirmation: IT IS SO. This must be the appropriate response to Captain Jean Luc Picard.
14. Amazement: AWE.
15. "Logan" superheroes: X-MEN.
16. Bib, essentially: NAPKIN. One I would not have thought of, but it is true.
17. Cooking acronym: PAM. Learning moment! PAM is a cooking spray currently owned and distributed by ConAgra Foods. Its main ingredient is canola oil. The name PAM is an acronym for Product of Arthur Meyerhoff. Wiki.
20. First word of The Beach Boys' "Kokomo": ARUBA. The first stanza.
Aruba, Jamaica, oh I want to take ya
Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama
Key Largo, Montego, baby why don't we go, Jamaica...
22. David Caruso starred in the Miami version: CSI. It crashed and burned after 10 seasons and 232 episodes. Before that, in 2006, BBC News published an article stating that CSI: Miami was the world's most popular television series, featuring in more countries' top ten rankings for 2005 than any other series. BBC online.
23. __ periculo: at my own risk: MEO. This is inferable from the clue, sort of. Just Latin- periculum = danger. Friday challenge.
29. Jackie portrayer on "Nurse Jackie": EDIE.
30. Spike TV, once: TNN. The Nashville Network.
31. He finished hosting "The Tonight Show" 12 years before Fallon was born: PAAR. Jack.
34. Tool points: NIBS. I think of pens not tools.
37. Long past: OLDEN.
44. Wrap label: SARAN. When we were kids we had Alcoa Aluminum foil, Cut-rite wax paper and Saran. In 1949, it became the first cling wrap designed for commercial use. It was sold for household use in 1953. SC Johnson acquired Saran from Dow in 1998. SC Johnson had some concerns about the safety of PVDC and subsequently took steps to eliminate it from Saran's composition. The popularity of the product, as well as sales, suffered as a result. If you’ve noticed recently that Saran isn't much different than Glad or Reynolds products, that’s why.
45. Isaac's eldest: ESAU.
46. Extended tale: SAGA.
47. "Just joking!": NOT. Popular response for while.
49. Narrow cut: SLIT.
57. Latin lover's word: AMO. I love you.
58. Cup holder?: BRA. Cute, and then 66A. Main man: BRO.
59. Seller of spots: ADREP. Advertising Representative. Like Mad Men.
67. Snicker: TEE HEE.
68. Anticipatory times: EVES.
69. Beauty preceder?: AGE. Age before beauty. The phrase is often given as part of a supposed exchange between the U.S. writer, politician and diplomat Clare Booth Brokow, who later became Clare Boothe Luce, and Dorothy Parker. It is said that, in the archetypal circumstances for uttering the phrase, that is, while holding a door open for Parker, Brokow said "Age before beauty". Parker's reply was "Pearls before swine".
70. Small stock purchase: ODD LOT. Mulitples of 100 shares of stock is the normal lot.
71. Pudding starch: SAGO.
72. Amount realized: NET.
Down:
1. Smurf with a red hat: PAPA. I think he was a derivative from the seven...
2. Fictional miner: DWARF.
3. Longest human bone: FEMUR.
4. Open a satellite shop, say: EXPAND.
5. Bizet's buddy: AMI.
6. Base __: TEN.
7. Moved furtively: SNUCK.
8. Demand: INSIST.
9. One in a pub lineup: TAP. 21D. Six-pack makeup: BEER CANS.
10. Google's was in 2004, briefly: IPO. Initial Public Offering.
11. Be very thrifty: SKIMP. Skimp and save or is it SCRIMP?
12. Trig functions: SINES. So many and so far in the past in my life.
13. In the know about: ON TO.
19. Penultimate Greek letter: PSI. Which leads me to...
25. Picture at Cannes: CINÉ. From the Greek κῑ́νημα (kī́nēma) which means movement from which we also got kinetic.
26. "Die Lorelei" poet: HEINE. Heinrich - born Harry. The first stanza-
Ich weiss nicht, was soll es bedeuten,
Dass ich so traurig bin;
Ein Märchen aus alten Zeiten,
Das kommt mir nicht aus dem Sinn.
27. __ day: school contingency: SNOW.
28. Not in the book: UNLISTED.
31. Cubicle fixtures: PCS.
32. "I got it!": AHA.
33. It's all around you: AIR. I always say money is like air, it really only is important when you have none. I am not sure who I stole that from.
35. School __: BUS.
36. Unavoidable jerk: SPASM. I always wondered what that guy's name was.
38. What might reveal the answer to "Who's your daddy?": DNA.
39. Custard base: EGG.
40. Org. that abhors leaks: NSA.
42. Windsor, for one: KNOT. I learned this STYLE before my teens.
43. "Star Trek" lieutenant: SULU.
48. Smartphone alternative: TABLET. We are a two tablet family; Oo seldom leaves home without hers.
50. Parental words of finality: I SAY SO. But why? Because...
51. Decided on a diamond: UMPED. A baseball clue for C.C.
52. Sat: POSED.
53. Start to cycle?: TRI.
54. Wasp nest sites: EAVES. I am allergic to bees but I was more afraid of the damn wasps.
55. __ Dictionary: URBAN.
56. Road sign with a double-tailed arrow: MERGE.
57. One on a driveway: AUTO.
60. One who works with feet: POET. I am an Iambic pentameter fan.
62. FedEx alternative: DHL.
63. Want ad abbr.: EEO. Equal Employment Opportunity.
64. Actress Gabor: EVA. Green Acress is the place to be...
65. Gas pump spec.: REG.
Tough day at work yesterday; I hope you enjoy this effort and have a great weekend. Thank you JQ and all of you. Lemonade out.
72 comments:
Wow, 7:22 AM EST and this is first comment (unless someone is faster typist).
Once I had the theme reveal, finished the theme entries easily. Little easier than an average Friday.
Thanks for an easier than it looked at first pass puzzle Jim.
Had to wait a little for KISSUPS first thought it could be FRENCH KISS ASS.
Saw the UPS and DHL in the bottom left.
Seemed a little easy for Friday once I got going from the bottom up mostly.
Hot day ahead , might need some 21 downs this afternoon.
Good morning!
Much easier than yesterday. No over-writes. I noticed all the UPs, but not the UPS insert theme. D'oh. Thanx, JQ and Lemonade.
I own an ODD LOT (33 shares) in a small Wisconsin bank. Yesterday I received another certificate following a 10-for-1 stock split. I guess they're no longer ODD.
In the olden days of long ago I tied a Windsor KNOT, because I thought a four-in-hand looked crooked. Not an issue today. I gave up wearing a noose around my neck more than 20 years ago.
The past tense of SNEAK is SNEAKED, not SNUCK.
FIR, but erased bits for nibs, ADman for ADREP, giggle for TEEHEE, ale for TAP and or else for I SAY SO.
There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don't.
"Anonymous poster" wouldn't fit for "unavoidable jerk". Not all of them, of course.
Do bras hold cups? I would have clued it "holder of a hooter but not an owl". (You can't fire me - I QUIT.)
Thanks to Jim for the fine Friday puzzle. I would have liked this one even if it had kicked my butt. I especially liked the "who's your daddy" clue. And thanks to Lemonade for yet another fine review.
EDIE recalled from OLDEN days
When politicians had different ways
They were honest guys
Who told no lies --
Her dementia's proof is in what she says!
PAM and her friends SNUCK out one night
After the call to douse the camp lights.
They got some BEER CANS,
And drank like He-Mans --
They were bushy-eyed and bright-tailed come daylight!
{A-, B-.}
Hello Puzzlers -
Zoomed right through in Tuesday time, except for that sago thing. Hand up for not knowing PAM was an acronym - the things you learn doing puzzles! Sussed the theme early, which certainly helped. Smiled right out loud when I saw the Tate turned into the upstate - clever stuff.
Thanks, Lemon, for a reminder of Edie Falco. I never saw any of the Sopranos episodes, but I stumbled upon Nurse Jackie on Netflix and was instantly hooked. Edie was perfect for the role.
Can any of you techie folks help me tweak the new blog over at https://JumbleHints.blogspot.com/? I vaguely recall doing that with my cryptic blog a couple years ago, but can't remember how. My own dementia gnawing away at me, I'm afraid.
Anon at 7:25, WRONG! Even the Oxford dictionary says SNUCK is now regarded as standard in the US except in the most formal contexts (which a crossword is not). There are more citations for SNUCK than sneaked and it is gaining ground in England as well.
Good morning. Thank you Jim Quinlan and Lemonade.
Hand up for quickly realizing that today was easier than yesterday. In fact, didn't see some of the clues and answers until I read the review.
But, it's Friday the 13th, so I managed to nick myself twice while shaving, and didn't get the breakfast chops and potatoes done at the same time. I guess things even out.
Waited for JINX to post. Thought that with PINUPS, FRENCH KISSING, BRA, HEINE, BEER and CHICKEN WINGS, he'd ask, "What's not to like ?"
OwenKL, what are you trying to tweak ?
Hi Y'all! Clever puzzle, thanks, Jim! Fun expo, Lemonade, thank you.
Caught on to the funny theme with the first two which helped with the others. Tricky part was where do you put the UPS? Oops, not there.
Slogged my way through much of this. Once again the first entry was the last to fill. Didn't know PDF or PAPA Smurf. Haven't been into smurfs in 5 decades. The only entries in the NW the first pass through were DWARF & ARUBA of which I was proud (Oh, I wanna go). Was thinking the longest bone was humerus which I did not find humerous when the truth hit: FEMUR. Duh!
No idea who were Logan's superheroes = XMEN. Avoid superheroes as dangerous to my health. Did not know HEINE. ESP
"Decide on a diamond" kept me returning countless times until finally UMPED perped in. Lots of clever (groan) misdirects.
Use PAM daily but didn't know it was an acronym. Usually don't know what an acronym is either. Those "nyms" confuse me. PAM space wasn't enough for EVOO, which shows I was sorta on the right track.
Didn't know what the Latin meant but Mia seemed a possibility. No? MEa? No, MEO. Oh, male?
SKIMP - boy, have I ever!
Buzzed right through, caught the theme right away but 51 across got me. Saw TatEm-O’Neal and thought ‘how clever’, so SE was a whiteout special.
Good morning everyone.
UPSydaisy. Y'all back on your feet, now?
Started out daunting, but then dropped on the jungle bars to the bottom and it slowly was cobbled together. UPS DELIVERY helped get FRENCH KISS-UPS and parts of the other long acrosses. The SE was grokked last. Had NET and ……MUSEUM, so it was bookended. Then got AGE, then AD-REP, and finally BRO / MERGE. FIR.
HEINE - Lemon gave the first stanza in German. To a German ear, it is a very beautiful piece. Here it is translated:
I know not if there is a reason
Why I am so sad at heart.
A legend of bygone ages
Haunts me and will not depart.
Tschüß
Heard lots of sirens just before 2 a.m. last night when I was brushing my teeth ready for bed. I looked out and couldn't see anything for the trees. Sirens stopped. I went to sleep. This morning the news said there was a house fire up the hill about half a long block from me and across the main street/intersection. Someone died in the fire. Yikes! Now I'm spooked. Glad there was no wind to spread the fire. Glad we have a competent fire department. Didn't know the people who lived there.
Musings
-Well done Jim and Jason!
-Costco’s $300,000,000 plant is creating a big CHICKEN UPSWING in our town
-I love how I can get .pdf editions of tool manuals I have lost
-NAPPY (diminutive of napkin) has a whole different meaning in the U.K.
-Tearing off SARAN Wrap is an art I never mastered
-My original miner for D _ _ _ _ was DOPEY. Close but too specific
-You don’t hear SNUCK or swum all that often
-The Top 20 CINE over the years at Cannes. I’ve seen three of them as I want to be entertained not immersed in social miasma (how ‘bout that word, huh?)
-I remember anxiously waiting to see if we were going to have a SNOW DAY. I did as a kid too!
-I had colleagues who only wore ties on parent/teacher conference nights and I had to tie a Windsor KNOT for them which they then slipped over their head
-My sister’s AUTOS sit on the driveway because she refuses to clean out her filthy garage
Definitely easier than yesterday and it still qualified as a Friday level puzzle. Good one from Jim. Lemon did a good job in providing the tour through the grid.
I didn't turn on red letters until I had everything except the NE corner done correctly. I had ALE before TAP became apparent and ITISSO just didn't seem right for a while. I had ADMAN before ADREP.
Overall, not a too tough Friday offering.
HG: In Australia they call it a Serviette vs. a Napkin (which means something else entirely different). I assume it is the same in England.
Being Friday the 13th, I was wondering who out there suffers from Triskaidekaphobia. It doesn't bother me, but I have a relative who literally hides at home on Friday the Thirteenth. I feel sorry for her.
Don't let things bother you today.
Hey folks! Always love checking in here- great community feel, insights, and constructive criticism. Looks like about 90% of my clues made the cut, but in case you were wondering, a couple of the theme clues were changed- They are:
[Ones who always say "Oui! Oui!" to the boss?] for FRENCH KISS-UPS
and
[Buffalo gallery?] for UPSTATE MUSEUM
I suspect the latter was a bit too specific and yet too vague at the same time, but I kind of like the former!
If I remember correctly, FRENCH KISS UPS is the first one I came up with- and yes, this puzzle was inspired by a UPS Delivery... I believe I had ordered ScoopFree cat litter... which I highly recommend!
Thanks all!
Enjoyed the intersections of EAVES and EVES and EVA.
Good Morning:
I caught the theme at French kiss ups which appeared after changing kissers, thanks to that P in Skimp. Hand up for Ad man/Ad rep and Ale/Tap. Didn't know Papa, as clued (I'm lost with Smurfs and Muppets!) or Heine. (Lovely translation, Spitz.) my learning moment was Pam is an acronym. Overall, an easier solve than usual, for a Friday.
Thanks, Jim, for an enjoyable Friday foray and thanks, Lemony, for the fun, fact-filled analysis.
Today is my brother Bill's 80th birthday. (He of meat grinder/index finger-lopping infamy) Due to scheduling, his party won't be until Sunday, July 22nd. I'm looking forward to it because I'll get to see many out of town family members.
Have a great day.
Jim, was ppssibly rejected because Buffalo is not UPSTATE? That's Western NY.
An interesting puzzle that SNUCK the UPS between, before or after a familiar term and managed to included FEDEX and DHL at the same time. Where's the USPS? MY only unknown filled by perps was the MEO periculo. DHL is only a rival of FDX outside the USA. DHL only delivers shipments that originate from other countries.
REGular or Ethyl or 'unleaded Amoco'? I don't think so. It's 87, 89, or 92 octane. I guess only oldtimer's use that term.
Anon@7:25- I never heard anybody really say "I SNEAKED in the back door". It may be 'proper' but that's the way it is.
HG- get the generic SARAN cling wraps with the sliding cutters.
Fun Friday puzzle, many thanks, Jim--and thanks for checking in with us. I did have to cheat a bit, but not until after I already got big chunks here and there. Loved seeing a reference to EDIE Falco. Like Dudley, I never watched "The Sopranos" but loved "Nurse Jackie." And "Green Acres" will always be one of my favorite TV shows of all time. I never knew the Gabor sisters could act, but EVA Gabor was a delight as the wife in the series. Lemonade, thanks for giving us the HEINE poem in German. As soon as I read it, a melody came into my head. Was it set to music at some point? Another favorite clue was "One who works with feet." I thought of POET instantly--hey, I'm a literary scholar. Anyway, a delightful Friday offering--thanks so much, Jim and Lemonade.
What a scary fire story, PK. So glad you're okay.
Enjoyed your poems, Owen.
Have a great day, everybody!
This is for Misty. @ 1140
You're right about the music. Even Col. Klink of HH sings it to one of his paramours.
What a nice CSO to Splynter today! I wonder if he still lurks.
Like Spitz, I slid downward for better results and once I had the theme reveal, UPS, I could complete PINUPSPOINT and FRENCH KISSUPS. My last fill was SNUCK because it gives me SPASMs; it may be in the dictionary but I don't have to like it.
My daughter was often called smurf because of her short stature. She stands tall in other ways.
ADMAN before ADREP. AVA then EVA. BEERCASES before CANS.
MEO means my. It's a pronoun and agrees with periculo which is male. My risk. You're right, PK!
Thank you, Jim Quinlan, for the fine puzzle and for dropping by to help us understand your strategy.
Thanks to Lemonade for your always spot on illuminations.
Have a pleasant day, everyone!
Went through this despite the theme, which I didn’t care for...but I’m not big on themes. Otherwise...No real issues.
“Definition of snuck.....past tense and past participle of sneak”
I don’t understand the kerfluffle over this word. “He snuck up on me”.
And on to Saturday.
Lemonade: Thank you for a most informative review of an enjoyable puzzle! Thanks for the learning moments about PAM, SARAN, ET AL. Hand up liked EAVES/EVES cross which I think we have had before. Got the fun theme quickly and FIR. Nice to think it was a CSO to Splynter. Even though I am not a sports fan, I figured out UMPED fairly quickly. My favorite clue!
Here are my photos of SULU actor George Takei speaking here last year.
Takei is such an extraordinary hero in so many ways. My article on Takei was lost on the news site when hackers destroyed their site. But somewhere I still have the original.
Here SULU is represented in our Solstice Parade on a Velociraptor.
Our Solstice theme was Heroes and I think Takei was the intended Hero being represented.
Here are my father's photos of us waiting for the SCHOOL BUS on our first day of school in rural New England.
It was a long walk to get to a road big enough for the SCHOOL BUS. We had a lot of SNOW, but I don't think we ever had a SNOW DAY. We were expected to get to school no matter the weather. And the county was good at plowing those roads used by the SCHOOL BUS.
Before PAAR was Tonight Show creator Steve Allen
Here I was honored to meet Steve Allen.
I got to meet him a few times. He is one of my heroes, too!
From Yesterday:
Spitzboov: Thanks for the Utica variation of the Bandiera Rossa!
Jinx: Thank you for the careful review of my POLE photos! Glad you took the time to be sure you enjoyed them! Some were beyond R rated and I left those out. Thanks for the further peacock thoughts.
PK: Thank you, too, for the further peacock thoughts. Too bad they are so obnoxious as they really are beautiful. They really would have been perfect at the SEWAGE plant.
Mike Sherline: I am honored that you took the time to look at all my MLK photos and the Italian AVANTI song video. And special thanks for looking at the POLE photos. A sacrifice, indeed! Yes, I tried even a simple move and found it impossible. They are indeed talented in many ways.
We were offering a prize to the best POLE dancer of a flight in a small plane over all of Burning Man. There were so many excellent dancers I think we ended up having to give the prize to several winners.
CrossEyedDave: Again, glad you enjoyed those photos. Did you still have other questions about them or about the Burning Man context?
Burning Man has many theme camps. Ours was called Pleasair. We built a giant airplane and served "jet fuel". And there were the POLE dancers. It was all free. We just had to do our part to dress as flight crew and serve the "jet fuel". It involved tequila if I remember correctly. I am not much of a drinker. But it was a perfect theme camp. Everyone wanted to visit us!
Thank you, Jim, for a fun, solvable Friday puzzle and Lemonade for a great explanation of the clues.
The 3-letter fills really helped to get a start. I didn't have any of the theme fills in the first pass across. The Downs from 31 - 40 were no brainers. I had problem getting REG for the Gas pump.
I don't recall which clue I got UPS for first, but once I got one, I got them all.
PK, I have twice woken up to discover I slept through fires:one across the street and the other next door.
-The first one I had gotten to bed late after a long trip.
-The second one, I had used ear plugs to cancel street noise. I decided to never do that again. I recall vaguely smelling burning, but I think my subconscious thought it was a piece of paper hitting a radiator and charing.
I thought, "smoke detectors are really necessary." I wonder if homo sapiens has become adapted to smoke from the use of fires to heat and cook.
Live Well and Prosper,
VS
Incorrect. Either is accepted
PK & Virginia, when I lived in Houston we woke up one morning and noticed crime-scene tape across our neighbors' lawn. They had a teenager, and we figured it was a teenage TP-like prank. We joked about it to another neighbor who explained to us that the tape was there because the guy next door had shot his wife (turned out to be non-fatal). Our houses were only 10 feet apart, and we didn't hear a thing. Never saw that neighbor again.
Good Afternoon,
Late to this game, but thanks I needed that! Jim, This was a challenge, but I did FIR. Thank you. Nothing new to add. I went from bits to NIBS also. I wanted AD man for AD REP.
Thanks for the round UP Lemonade. I did love Word Perfect. It had a very fine Grammatik (sp?) program build in, making for smoother student writing. I also did not know PAM was an acronym. I wanted a food channel for that one.
Looks like we may have sold my MIL's first day on the market. There was an absolute dearth of available single family homes on the market. Only two others in the area and the schools are good. The realtor priced it right and really knows his stuff. It was also completely empty with only a few pieces of furniture, which apparently allows buyers to see it any way they may like. Now the paperwork. My sister-in-law did SOOOOOO much work.
I wonder if other places have heat or rain days built into school calendars.
No snow day in the Chicago area today. About 93 with rising humidity. I think I'll stay in.
Have a sunny day!
No worries with the puzzle,
except a slight delay having to fix 13d, "in the know about"
from "in on" to "onto."
I thought my biggest complaint was with USPS,
when they are too lazy to take a heavy package all the
way to the door, they lean it up against the garage door
to keep it out of the rain.
Very thoughtful, except...
WE WERE HOME!
Hopped in the car,
pressed the garage door opener button,
backed out right over the fallen unseen package!
(luckily it was a solid iron lawn ornament
DW's sister had sent and was impervious to stupidity...)
The only damage was to my nervous system,
thinking I might have run over the neighbors kid...
But this puzzle led me to a bigger complaint:
These poor souls were trapped in their apartment, and had to call maintenance to get them out!
I liked this puzzle very much. Pretty cool to find words that become new words when UPS is added. I was trying to think up additional ones but the only one I could come up with was TART --> UPSTART. Nice job, Mr. Quinlan, and thanks for posting.
I love how DNA, IPO, AIR, and AGE were clued, especially DNA.
Thanks for the HEINE poem, Lemonade and Spitzboov.
Good wishes to you all.
Well, at least it wasn’t as bad as yesterday’s. I still took nearly 20 minutes to FIR. Didn’t see the UPS until the reveal, though. After I did, I smiled at seeing DHL in there too. I still see quite a few DHL trucks in this area. Lots of really well done misdirection today. UMPED and POET both had me wandering in a small cloud of "Wait—what?" for a while.
Learning moments today were PAM and SARAN.
Thanks to Jim and Lemon for their contributions to my day.
Have a day.
So, inspired by Jinx, "What was the first thing the African antelope heard at Hooters?
"Who, Gnu"
If I had a day job I'd keep it
If my brain was this slow yesterday I'd not've finished. The theme was the key.
NAPKIN should have been easy. I usually need three.
Everything thing you need to know about Wilbur is Edie Who? Falco, oh ok. Never saw Sopranos.
If anyone was listening, we had some LOGAN and crew talk awhile back vis a vis SULU and crew. Oh, and Misty just reminded me, we had some Green Acres too. Is prescience accurate?
WC
PS . Maybe-T can link that Klink episode
JQ thank you for stopping by and giving some insight on your cluing. I loved your FRENCH KISS UPS clue. I am unfamiliar with a Tate museum in Buffalo.
I do not know the episode with Werner singing but I do remember his COLONEL KLINK
Spitboov, my goodness, what a lovely video of the singing of the Lorelei! I knew every word and the melody of the first verse perfectly, but the others were new to me, and I didn't realize that they would tell the whole sad story. Thank you so much for posting this--an amazing treat!
""Die Luft ist kühl und ist dunkel,
Und ruhig fließt der Rhein.
Der Gipfel des Berges funkelt
Mit Abendsonnenschein... "
Ach, ja!
Once on a cruise of the Rhine, the tour ship's various guides couldn't resist playing the song to their groups, each on his/her own boom box. Thus, as we approached the famous "Lorelei" cliff late in the afternoon, the cacophony of sound destroyed whatever mood the old poem might have conjured.
Misty, this is for you. There are several musical settings for it, including one by Franz Liszt. But this is the most popular folk version of Heine's Die Lorelei
~ OMK
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Diagonal Report: One diagonal today, NW to SE.
No anagram I can decode, but all are welcome to try with the relevant letters:
PWMBNIIUALSDBGT
Lemon: Thank you for a very informative write-up.
Fave today, of course, was 21-d, Six pack makeup ... BEER CANS ...
Though when I buy a "Six Pack" it is Red Stripe in bottles.
In the World Cup, this Sunday ... GO CROATIA !!!
Cheers!
I recall other hosts before PAAR. Steve Allen of course was at the start, and I remember watching him from bed during my grad school days. Then came Ernie Kovacs for a short while, one of my favorites, but he didn't last long.
There were a couple of others before PAAR.
Quick question (Answer without looking it up): Who hosted more episodes of the Tonight Show - Johnny Carson, or Jay Leno?
~ OMK
Misty & Virginia, I appreciate your comments on my neighborhood fire. What's strange is that I'm so nervous about fire in this neighborhood a lot of the time and was not at all last night. So much for my having ESP.
D-O: you're probably very lucky you didn't see your neighbor again. I'd like to move to be rid of one neighbor now, but you never know what the next place will have next door.
CED: I can sympathize with your package delivery episode. Can a person report such things? Sometimes I get a computer questionaire from Amazon about whether service was satisfactory.
My brother with Parkinson's who broke his ribs & punctured a lung is now well enough to go home today. They got his meds cut back and he has no lingering dementia. Drs. are sending him home with an oxygen rebreather. Drs. even okayed him for a vacation in the Ozarks with their daughter's family since they had paid a deposit to rent a house. I'm so relieved.
Hi All!
What'd I tell you WC - 10x easier than yesterday :-)
Jim, I enjoyed your package DELIVERY - all tied up with a sparkly bow. Nice, smooth, and fun puzzle. Also, thanks for dropping by w/ inside baseball [Oui, Oui is good!]
I was thinking What's UP? @19a but fully got the theme at 24a... An easy walk to the stoop to meet the REP in Brown [hey Splinter!] after that.
Thanks Lem for the expo; liked the fish-head TAPs.
WOs: FEMeR, ale b/f TAP, in on b/f ON TO (hi CED!), NuBS, Nah b/f NOT
ESPs: HEINE, MEO
Fav: EAVES xing EVES. Don't know why, just made me TEE HEE a bit
Boy, would I have even liked and ODD LOT of Google's IPO...
PAM? Didn't know that was an acronym nor in the puzzle, downs filled it.
{A&LOL, B}
PK - Oh, how awful about the fire; I'll bet you'll be OCD about checking everything before bed for at least a week.
HG - LOL on nappy. Trevor Noah explains NAPKIN in the rest of the world. [4:58; MA]
MdF - WordPerfect was my first (pirated) processor. I liked it because you could dig under the covers into the markup language. It also did a good job representing math symbols. Congrats on getting a contract on MIL's house (if I understood that correctly).
This song has been in my head since reading @38d's clue. [Zombies]
OKL - I've got a 50/50 shot so I'll go w/ the non-intuitive Leno :-)
Cheers, -T
Anonymous @ 11:20 wrote "Jim, was ppssibly rejected because Buffalo is not UPSTATE? That's Western NY."
From experience, people in Manhattan think that the Bronx is iffy, and Yonkers, Poughkeepsie and beyond, are all 'upstate.'
Greetings!
Thanks to Jim and Lemonade!
Nice of you to drop in, Jim! Grokked the theme pretty quickly. Overall, an easy puzzle!
Only a few hang-ups: ME, NIBS and HEINE. But FIR.
Was taken out to dinner last night. Was a real thrill!
Hope to see you tomorrow!
Anonymous-T
Not sure when you posted this,
(I have been down the YouTube Rabbit Hole.)
But, Spirit of the Radio has been a favorite of mine for quite some time.
Just didn't realize it was Rush...
(time to do some heavy research...)
Anywho, being a (self taught) guitarist
I treat songs I like as puzzles to decipher.
I think I am going to be AWOL for some time trying
to learn this one...
And if you thought that was hard, try part two!
Thanks for making my brain explode trying to learn this over the next couple
of weeks!
Except, dang it! I don't have a Whammy Bar on my electric!
(hmm, some extra string stretching is in order...)
Tony, I've gotta be OCD about approaching storms tonight. If they get this far east, they'll cancel out fire fears. LOL!
Madame: great to hear your MIL's house sold so fast. Hope the deal goes through. Location and demand are everything in real estate.
JimQ: forgot to thank you for stopping by with your nice comments about the Corner and the inside scoop on your fine puzzle.
Tonight Show - I loved Steve Allen. Brilliant, funny, and a good jazz piano player and composer. Tom Poston, Louis Nye and Don Knotts were always hilarious in the Man in the Street segments. He only wrote lyrics for a lot of the songs in his credits (Gravy Waltz), but apparently did compose a great one, "This Could be the Start of Something". I think I remember reading, and being disappointed to discover, that he couldn't read music, though that's not mentioned in the Wiki. I wondered how he could have composed so many tunes if that were true - and why someone so smart who obviously had a musical gift wouldn't just learn - not like it's all that hard. But maybe he did, as Wiki says he composed a lot of songs, even scored a couple of shows.
Picard @ 1236 & 1249 - George Takei was a hero of sorts - a great example of decency and intelligence. In the parade photo was the woman behind him portraying Amelia Earhart? Another hero.
Madame, I thought of you tonight at a cocktail party I attended. Several “older “ gals reminisced about speaking French at home as kids. So we began speaking French. Not at all well!!! But a fun trip into the past.
The puzzle was fun. Thanks, Jim and thanks for stopping by.
Owen, I laughed so all A’s.
Lemon..,. Too many gushes to remember. Great tour. Thanks
OMK @ 1516 Die Lorelei beautiful scenery, voices, and especially the trumpet obbligato. The tune was used for "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" in "Cabaret"; the way it was presented was very much a part of the ominous and foreboding tone created for the mid '30s time frame of the story.
ANON @ 7;25 How do you catch a unique rabbit ? --- You 'neak up on it.
PK @ 1638 and CED. That kind of shipping flap has happened to me. I once had printer cartridges left in the rain, when a protected area was available at another entrance.
Since the delivery service usually is in the service of the seller, I would call whomever the item was ordered from, describe the damage ,and insist they send you a new item. If it costs them they will lean on the shipper. JM2¢
Spitz: Finally, got to play the Lorelei song. Enjoyed it. I think we used to sing something to the tune, but I can't remember what. Maybe my subconscious will dredge it up while I sleep. Good idea about contacting the seller, if you can find out who it was. I had one package of shoes ordered from Amazon that came from a separate seller with no contact phone number or address,
PK - just call Amazon if that is who you charged it with. They will get you a replacement via contacting the seller. Further, if it's a credit card, you can dispute the charges. I'm sure the UPS's of the world will make Amazon whole, because they (UPS) need their business.
Jim Q, thanks for stopping by. I preferred your Qui Qui clue, also. Perhaps if you clued Albany instead of Buffalo, Rich would have left it because the State Museum is in Albany.
Madame Defarge, that is great news about your MIL's house. Our local real estate market is a seller's market right now as there is a shortage of houses in inventory. As soon as a For Sale sign was put on my sister's lawn, two neighbors got into a bidding war, both wanting it for other family members. Good luck!
PK, that's wonderful news about your brother. This vacation will be extra special, I'm sure.
Michael @ 5:00 ~ Manhattanites are the only ones who would refer to those cities as Upstate. And I'm pretty sure that if you asked a Buffalo resident where he was from, the reply would be Western New York. Albany is 150 miles north of New York City and Buffalo is another 300 miles west of Albany.
G-day Mates.
I might as well be down under. I am far from the herd. I just finished the CWP of Mr. Jim Quinlan which I believe I FIR, but it has been so long since I started it, I can't be sure I didn't BAIL at some point. Thank you for your UPS delivery.
Thanks Le Mon for your excellent review.
Ðave
VS, nice to see you stop by.
If you all watched WERNER KLEMPERER playing the violin as Klink on the link I posted, you should know he is the son of a very well regarded conductor OTTO KLEMPERER.
Also interesting was the true story of ERNIE KOVACS and the brief time the Tonight Show became a news show hosted by Today Show newsman JACK LESCOULIE and others.
TONIGHT AFTER DARK
Very late to the party again after a day with the grandchildren. Thanks for the Friday fun, Jim and Lemonade.
(Good weather and crowd of motorcyclists at Port Dover today for the traditional Friday the 13th celebrations.)
This CW required P&P to finish but I had a Natick at the cross of DHL and EEO. I'll chalk it up to my Canadian disadvantage because we do not have DHL (I vaguely remember it now from a previous CW?) and we use Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO is another I should have remembered from previous CW). NSA was a similar acronym that I dredged up from my memory today.
Hand up for wanting ADman for ADREP, giggle for TEEHEE, ale for TAP. My six-pack makeup was "_ _ Abs" at first.
Picard, I can't believe you never had a SNOW day. Impressive. We routinely have one or two. Often, the schools are open but the buses do not run.
MadameD- glad your MIL's house sold so quickly.
PK- good news of your brother's improved health.
Did I miss YR saying she was going to be away?
Enjoy the evening.
Re NAPKIN discussion:
in Canada, a NAPKIN is made out of cloth material and used for fine dining (must be washed). The everyday, disposable, paper version is called a serviette. We do not use the Nappies term for diapers but then there are not many parents using cloth diapers. Sanitary preceding distinguishes the other use of the term (and they are disposable LOL).
Interesting how we are not even aware of how other countries use words until we travel. I have learned not to ask for serviettes in American restaurants (or tea when I want hot tea!).
Owen and others,
The Jumble blog is not accepting new input. I tried three times today to post, but nothing doing.
I wanted to let fellow Jumblers know that the final word today is not LEGAL. I was held up for the longest time because I thought it was.
Another hint: the first three-letter word has to do with the condition of the druggist's customers.
~ OMK
We regret the errors says...
Spell check! Should be Splynter. I meant OMK not OKL @ my Leno stab. Likely more.
CED - Now that you are aware of RUSH in the first-person sense, be careful of that Rabbit Hole. My brothers (and sister) and I have to swear off RUSH for months at a time because one song might put us on a RUSH-kick and we'll binge on it for weeks and listen to nothing else.
If you think Spirit of Radio is hard, wait 'till you get to La Villa Strangiato . //BTW, that's not the "real" intro, it was Polka'd-up to play on the Time Machine tour intro video.
C, Eh! - Now I know how serviette is spelt :-)
TTP asked if I got the Alfa Giulia for my B-Day...
No, but I got the email that it was on the way... Wednesday or Thursday they said...
Tuesday: I'm on an important WebEx (computer based conference call) and my cellphone kept going off from and unknown number. After cursing my phone for the 3rd time, I excused myself to take the call. The shippers (not UPS, DHL, nor FedEx) were at my house with the car.
I un-muted my computer-call and said - "Alfa's here!, gotta run."
It's DW's so she get's the first real drive (I'm too nice). I only pulled it into the garage and got her insurance, AAA, and XM/Sirius setup.
DW got home Wednesday and wanted to take it to work Thurs... "Honey, you don't have toll-tags for it."
"Crap, and I've got to go to The Woodlands." [from here: 1hr on the tolls; 2hrs+ not]
So, finally, today, DW got to drive it to get get it registered so I can get her a toll-tag.
D-O and TxMs are likely familiar with the "Texas Two Step" to get your car registered: First, you have to get it inspected, then you can register it.
All that, and three hours later, a single form was lacking my signature so, empty-handed, she came home. The car will be a garage princess for at least another few days. //sigh
What's cool - Giulia is a 2017 and she sits right next to her 1987 BRO (Spider) in the garage; our babies are 30 years apart :-)
Cheers, -T
IM, How about "Qui, qui avez le bat?
Who's up scenario
Re "Tonight After Dark". Talk about BLISTS. ALF Landon was still alive* in 1956?
WC
* And kicking
Anonymous T~ Yes, Leno is correct, but only because he had two cracks at it.
~ OMK
What are we going to do about Jumble, Ol'Man Keith? Owen's site doesn't seem to work for comments and such, and I never did get this morning's Jumble, sadly.
Guess I'll get the answer tomorrow in the paper, but I hate losing our site.
Misty, bless your heart, but this is not a jumble forum.
Misty, I know! See above for my hints on today's J. The final answer phrase turned out to be less imaginative than I expected.
Mike S @ 7:21:
The tunes are similar but not at all the same. I'd say John Kander took inspiration from the Lorelei rather than imitating it.
The song ”Tomorrow” is a brilliant stroke (among many highlights) in Cabaret. To take the lyricism of the opening verses and then modulate the key and add those threatening Oom-Pahs to reveal it as a Nazi rallying cry is to cut to the heart of that lethal romanticism.
~ OMK
Misty:
What problem do you have with the J site? I just posted my results easily. Do you click on the date? That's how I access it.
Irish Miss @ 8:01: I offer in a defense of the definition of "upstate" in New York, that we lived in northeast Yonkers for 3 years, and our best friends' (that lived in Mahopac) husband was a member of the NYFD. Thus, our informants transferred their interpretations of "upness" to us innocent Californians.
More material errors have been made says...
The Spider is an '86; the Alfa's are 31 years apart in age and DW's starts when asked :-(.
//Those responsible for the errors have been sacked (My sister was bit by a Moose once)*
OKL - I sent a message in a bottle to get tips on helping w/ your Jumble site. I'll let you know what I hear. Fret not Misty!
OK, paying-work is now done(-ish). Nite.
Cheers, -T
*Python's Holy Grail opening if you don't get that reference :-)]
billocohoes:
The Oxford English Dictionary is not an authority; it is a mere reporter.
No way is SNUCK proper. It's red-underlined even here. The problem with the clue is that it gave no indication of slang usage, such as "so to say."
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