21. *LeBron's sport: BASKETBALL. Breadbasket (or bread basket), and butterball
32. *Insect used in genetic research: FRUITFLY. Breadfruit and butterfly
56. *Glazed morning snack: DOUGHNUT. Bread dough and butternut.
66. *Form a queue: LINE UP. Breadline and butter up
42. Primary source of income ... and words that can precede the two parts, respectively, of the answers to starred clues: BREAD AND BUTTER.
Across:
1. Muslim veil: HIJAB.
6. Behind us: PAST.
10. Fashion's de la Renta: OSCAR.
15. Self-__: personally mindful: AWARE. I find it joyous to watch babies become self-aware.
16. Trade show: EXPO. Dash-T is going to a couple. Continuing education in the security trade. He's stoked.
17. Eclipse shadow: UMBRA.
18. Synagogue scroll: TORAH.
19. Paella morsel: CLAM.
20. In poor taste: TACKY.
24. Cereal mix: MUESLI.
27. NASDAQ locale: WALL ST. The NASDAQ Composite Index is up over 12% this year.
31. Play a part: ACT. Paraprosdokian: "We never really grow up; we only learn how to act in public." Old Man Keith could teach aspirants a thing or two about how to play a part.
37. Hither partner: YON. Hither and Yon. Here and there (and everywhere). Scattered.
38. Plural medical suffix: OSES.
40. NYC gallery district: SOHO. South of Howstun. Huestun is in Texas.
41. Lewd material: SMUT. None here please.
47. Part of town, in slang: NABE. Neighborhood
48. Street: ROAD.
49. Branch of mechanics concerned with forces in equilibrium: STATICS. Balanced forces.
52. Loving: ADORING.
55. Frying liquid: OIL.
59. Watery expanse: SEA.
60. Fracas: MELEE.
62. Hammer head: PEEN. The round part of a machinist's hammer, which is also commonly known as a "ball peen hammer." Ball peen hammers are harder than carpenter hammers, and are used in metalworking, versus the claw hammers that are used in carpentry and woodworking.
63. Blender selection: SPEED. Was thinking of a setting, e.g. mince.
65. Diva's delivery: ARIA.
68. Teen anti-DWI gp.: SADD. Students Against Destructive Decisions
69. Didn't stay: LEFT.
70. Of a battery terminal: ANODAL. Understanding Anodal and Cathodal Stimulation
71. Small ocean landmass: ISLE.
72. Mid-month date: IDES.
73. Pathetically tiny, as a sum of money: MEASLY. Paltry. A pittance. Meager. Like today's review. Sorry folks, exhaustion and fatigue plagued me this week. Should have called for a sub.
74. Tourney ranking: SEED. Used in some sports tournaments that use playoff brackets, such as tennis and basketball. Teams or players are first ranked (seeded) and then placed in the brackets. The NCAA's "March Madness" basketball tournament would be a prime example.
Down:
1. Boater or bowler: HAT.
2. "Letters From __ Jima": 2006 film: IWO.
3. Pickle container: JAR. In baseball parlance, a pickle is when a base runner is caught between bases in a rundown, and most likely will be tagged out.
4. Many Yemenis: ARABs.
5. On __ of: for: BEHALF.
6. Quarter of a bushel: PECK. Picked plenty of pecks in the strawberry fields back home with other 13 and 14 year olds. Think we either got a nickle or a dime for each peck picked.
7. Wheel connection: AXLE.
8. Squabble: SPAT.
9. Mausoleum: TOMB.
10. Expenditure: OUTLAY.
11. Word before fry or potatoes: SMALL. Small fry and small potatoes. Both phrases have the same idiomatic meaning: insignificant.
12. Network with its HQ in Ottawa: CBC. Hello to Canadian Eh and OAS ! CBC stands for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
13. 18-Across holder: ARK.
14. Bit of sunlight: RAY.
22. Title of respect: SIR. A few other examples: Herr in German, señor in Spanish, Pan in Polish, Vážený pane in Czech, Gospod in Slovenian, and also Sir in Slovak. Thank you Google Translate.
23. Hole-making tool: AWL.
24. Chinese chairman: MAO. Saddened when Chairman Moe said he would be leaving the blog for a while.
25. State school near L.A.: UCSB. University of California, Santa Barbara. I believe Picard knows this area and school very well.
26. Immortality: ETERNAL LIFE.
28. Tick-borne illness named for a Connecticut town: LYME DISEASE. A fellow 'shroomer got this really bad. Ended up in the hospital and then couldn't work for over a year. Since then, I make sure to blouse my pants and douse myself with Deet when traipsing through the woods chasing the elusive morels.
29. Mouth-puckering: SOUR.
30. Explosive for Wile E. Coyote: TNT.
33. Springsteen's "Born in the __": USA.
34. Physicist's particle: ION.
35. Divinity sch. degree: THD. Doctor of Theology.
36. Watch chain: FOB.
39. Senate position: SEAT.
41. Lead actress: STAR.
43. Put up with: ABIDE.
44. Art style seen in Miami's South Beach: DECO.
45. Pakistani language: URDU.
46. Friendly horn sounds: TOOTS.
49. Horn of Africa native: SOMALI.
50. Like big wedding cakes: TIERED.
51. Flat on one's back: SUPINE. A good starting point for lower back exercises.
52. Once-a-year flower: ANNUAL.
53. Pine dropping: NEEDLE.
54. Wandered (about): GADDED. Gadded makes me think old-timey, of rich Victorians, or the Roaring Twenties, Great Gatsby-like.
57. Italian salami city: GENOA.
58. Obeys: HEEDS.
61. Diner grub: EATS.
64. Three-pronged Greek letters: PSIs.
66. Beat a hasty retreat: LAM. As a verb, in the sense of escape.
67. Tissue layer: PLY.
A SPAT was brewing at a NABE in SOHO.
ReplyDeleteThe sides were LINED UP, and ready to go!
Of rules they were free
For this STREET MELEE,
Which was better, Trompe l'Oeil or Art DECO!
OSCAR wasn't suave, he was more of a putz.
His opening line was, "Hello there, TOOTS!"
He'd been slapped and kneed
With incredible SPEED!
And things got even worse when he patted butts!
[Credit to Boomer for the first couple lines!]
Who would think that harmless cloud
Could rub another and be so loud?
Shoot a million volts
Worth of lightning bolts --
STATIC ain't "static" with light-SPEED endowed!
{B-, B, B+.}
Greetings!
ReplyDeleteThanks to David and TTP. Perps helped with SOMALI and SPEED.
Hope you are well and happy!
Hi,
ReplyDeleteagain UCSB/OSES as a school name means no luck for me (is it something that all Americans are familiar with?). Filled LIME instead of LYME, stupid mistake.
Did not get the theme neither (BREADFRUIT is completely new to me). Learned FOB and SUPINE today, not words I would use at work:)
Unfortunately, Google translate is not bulletproof:
Translation for SIR are:
Czech - Pan - Vážený pane means Dear Sir as a start for a letter for example. Pane with -e ending is so called Vocative case.
Slovak - Pán with a long A.
In both languages we use also sir, but only for official title in Great Britain -> Sir Elton John
Good Morning, TTP and friends. This was a fun Tuesday speed run.
ReplyDeleteHere are some ways to get rid of those pesky FRUIT FLIES.
My mother got LYME DISEASE about 14 years ago. Unfortunately, it took doctors months to get a proper diagnosis. That delay cause her some permanent nerve damage in her leg. She had intermittent pain in her leg for the rest of her life. It didn't stop her from doing all the things she wanted to do, however. And boy, did she have energy!
SUPINE is a great crossword word!.
QOD: It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. ~ J.K. Rowling (b. July 31, 1965)
UCSB University of California at San Bernardino. UCLA was my first choice.
ReplyDeleteFob, the chain on a pocket watch (does anyone still use a pocket watch?) or the pocket it goes into. I gave up using a watch 10 plus years ago.
FIR, but erased THe for THD and UCLA for UCSB. Didn't know UMBRA, NABE, STATICS, CBC, ARK, or that LYME was a town.
ReplyDeleteI remember my mother singing to us rugrats "I love you a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck". Also "Pickin' up paw paws put em' in a basket".
FLN's malaprop discussion, I would like to offer the use of "affect" for "effect" and vice versa. In my business life I think I have seen them misused more than used correctly, almost always from people with advanced degrees.
TTP, your review was just fine. Not a whole lot to glom onto today, but you kept it interesting.
Thanks to David Poole for a solid Tuesday-level puzzle. My only nit is that UCSB is 100 miles away from LA. Only when I lived in Texas was 100 miles away considered "near". Philly is closer to NYC; would you clue "University near New York" for Drexel?
Good morning!
ReplyDeleteZipped right through this one, saw BasketBall and Bread and Butter and assumed the theme was a couple of Bs. I probably should have read the entire reveal clue. Someday I'll learn to do that. R-i-g-h-t! Thanx, David and TTP.
It seems my income is MEASLY while my OUTLAYs are huge. The 13-year-old pickup sucked up $1300 just this week in tires, battery and serpentine belt. On my M-o-W route last week I didn't dare shut off the engine; knew I'd never get it restarted.
TTP, is Dash-T your shorthand for Tony? (Anon-T)
I think we need a short discussion of SMUT, courtesy of Tom Lehrer. (3:38, but worth it)
Just about time to don my BOATER and begin the daily march through the NABE.
I really enjoyed this Über clever puzzle from David Poole. I just do not have a mind that can come up with these combinations that create a puzzle.
ReplyDeleteNABE is not a word I have ever heard spoken but we have seen it before. Coincidentally, it last appeared in the LAT in January in a puzzle C.C. blogged when she did not feel well.
Krijo, culturally, I think most in this country my age are familiar with BREADFRUIT from reading MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY
FIW because I was sure the airer up north was CBN, couldn't figure out what TAnKY was.
ReplyDeleteWhen you need to make only a little shade, use an UMBRella.
Krijo, -OSES is the plural -osis, a suffix of many medical conditions (fibromatosis, necrosis, etc.)
Bob Niles, UCSB is Santa Barbara, one of ten campuses of the University of California. San Bernardino's college is one of 23 campuses of the California State University, a separate system.
Fun theme - I'm always wowed by those themes where both the first and last words are connected to other clues first and last words.
ReplyDeleteI had UCSD before UCSB - San Diego being about as close as Santa Barbara to LA!
Best example of OSES - the singular is diagnosis but its plural is diagnOSES.
@Jinx - my grandmother would also sing to us "I love you a bushel and a peck", at the end of the song she would sing "I bet your dirty neck I do" and we would say "My neck isn't dirty Grandma, it's silly" My mom says it now to my kids, and it is her sign off on cards. (speaking of my mom- she is still in rehab from her hip fracture- able to walk with the walker down the hall now- so progressing slowly)
This is the point that HG would ask- "What movie musical is this from?"
Off to work, thanks TTP and David!
Good morning everyone.
ReplyDeleteSolved without any issues. No searches or erasures were needed. Nice to see DOUGHNUT spelled out for a change.
NEEDLE - German Nadel; L. German Nodel.
DOUGH - German Teig; L. German Deeg; Dutch deeg. The G is not hard, having the quality of ch in ach or Bach. The gh in Dough has become silent.
Good Morning:
ReplyDeleteI like this type of theme and understand the difficulty of executing it. I particularly liked the idiomatic reveal. My only w/o was Last/Past and the only unknown was Statics. I automatically assumed that UCSB was Santa Barbara. I don't care for Lam as a verb but it's been in other puzzles clued as such. Gadded (Autocorrect didn't like it) reminded me of a long ago TV show, "Gaddabout Gaddis" who, I think, was a wandering fisherman. Anyone else remember this?
Thanks, David, for a Tuesday treat and thanks, TTP, for the grand tour, especially appreciated considering you aren't not feeling up to par.
inanehiker, I hope your mom continues to improve each day.
FLN
Dave, glad to hear you're okay. Drink plenty of liquids!
Keith, I hope you're feeling better.
Have a great day.
Please ignore the extraneous "not."
ReplyDeleteIs bread and butter the primary source of income; or is income the primary source of bread and butter?
ReplyDeleteIf a man makes a statement in the forest and there is no woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?
ReplyDeleteAnon @9:10
ReplyDeleteIt is both. Being a bus driver is my bread and butter. I earn my bread and butter by beibg a bus driver.
Clever puzzle with lots of new (to me) fill. Thanks David and TTP.
ReplyDeleteI did not know UMBRA but maybe with the umbrella hint I’ll remember it. Thanks!
I didn’t like NABE but it made as much sense as the more familiar Hood. I didn’t know CLAMS were in paella.
And once again we get FOB in another of its meanings.
Michael FLN and others , yes I know we move on but it makes me sad to lose the precision in language. No, I don’t want to go back to thither and whence!
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Picard FYM, my two older brothers and I all attended the University of Connecticut at Storrs. I was there for my bachelor's degree and 1 year of graduate school, prior to going to law school in Gainesville, FL at U. of Florida College of Law. We grew up 19 miles east of the campus, which I know because due to my eye issues and the frequent doctor visits to Boston I lived at home all of the five years I went to classes there. UConn marked so many wonderful experiences, as well as few horrible ones. There were times when all three of us enrolled in a class and that was always fun. It also was the time of protest, drugs and free love. As I have mentioned before, it also was the beginning of the rise in the basketball fortunes for the school. leading to national Men's championship and near domination of Women's College basketball. I have been back to campus a few times and it has grown up. The wind is still damn cold when you have a long walk between classes. If you want more, email me.
ReplyDeleteHi All!
ReplyDeleteEarly today 'cuz I'm taking a MEASLY mental break from life; I've got nothing on my plate for 12 whole hours!
A Monday DNF followed by a Tuesday FIW? UCla -> UClB and still bzzt.
Thanks David for the puzzle but my BREAD fell BUTTER-side down :-(. Otherwise, sparkly and a fun asymmetrical (over the x-axis) grid.
TTP - First, I hope you feel better soon. B) a mighty-fine EXPO, IMHO. You may have your bar set too high for yourself.
WOs: Seat b/f SEED (dup!, oh, no it wasn't(@39), Pualtry [sic] b/f MEASLY, and WENT b/f LEFT because ETERNALLINE, while it looks like a mighty-fine word, ain't.
ESP: HIJAB - I knew it but I've seen it spelt so many different ways.
Fav: The dude ABIDEs.
Sparkle: UMBRA (only took 3 perps), STATICS ("How do they know it's a 2-ton bridge?" "They drove a 2.1-ton truck cross it and it broke -- so, they built it anew with that sign"), and SUPINE (hi Hahtoolah!)
{B+, B, A}
Krijo - No, San Bernardino nor Santa Barbara (heard of it) is not tip-of-tongue for "natives." Note Jinx's: "you call that close?"
//Funny, Jinx re: 100mi == near in TX. D-O & I are >60 miles apart but still hail from Houston [pronounced Huestun]
D-O: Yep, he calls me Dash-T and, yep, I'm stoked for the nerd-fest next week (I'm actually spending my "mental day" building a burner-box; DefCon is not where you take your work computer!). Thousands of of hackers (and tens I'm in awe of) will descend upon the city of sin.
Jinx, your high-jinks @9:24 is too funny.
Y'all have a lovely day. I know I will.
Cheers, -T
This one was more of a Monday except it tightened up as I went along eg I started to use perps.
ReplyDeleteI like the comment on 31A.
I see Messrs Newcomb and Turner could have used some SADD counseling.
TTP, I'll still give you a BPLUS
So... What do they call UC-Irvine? Is it closer to LA than SB?
Inanehiker, glad your mother is doing better
Speaking of college: this is St. Ignatius of Loyola day. Jesuits eg BC and others.
WC
Well, this started out as a breeze as the top half filled in quickly and easily. And then it got tough, and I had to work really hard to get the middle. I just didn't guess the theme reveal would be an expression like that, and even after I got BUTTER I just couldn't imagine what it would be. But I thought I eventually had it all, although in the end I goofed on just one letter--had PHIS for the Greek letters and that gave me HADD instead of SADD (never heard of that teen group). I've also never heard of NABE--a totally foreign expression to me. Anyway, a real Tuesday challenge, but interesting--thanks, David. Could you explain to us whether UCSB refers to Santa Barbara or San Bernardino? Or both? Thanks for the write-up, TTP.
ReplyDeleteHave a good day, everybody!
Misty, Bill is absolutely right. UC Santa Barbara is part of the University of California system (9 campuses, including UCLA). CSU San Bernardino is part of the California State University system (23 campuses, including "mine": CSULB in Long Beach).
ReplyDeleteThanks, Sandyanon--I did see that. But the clue reads "State school near L.A." and when I looked it up, San Bernardino was listed as UC San Bernardino. So the clue could refer to a school in the California STATE University System. That's why the answer still seems indeterminate to me.
ReplyDeleteOops! I'm out of date. The UC system does have 10 campuses now. I forgot Merced, which opened in 2005.
ReplyDeleteBut Sandyanon, you may be right. When I looked it up again, San Bernardino is listed as CSU not UC. I still wish David Poole would check in and resolve this for us.
ReplyDeleteMisty, look at it this way. The answer has 4 letters. Santa Barbara is UCSB, while San Bernardino is CSUSB.
ReplyDeleteHope that clarifies.
Sandy
David Poole: Wow! UCSB! Was this a special treat for me? If so, I am truly honored!
ReplyDeleteTTP: Thanks for remembering my UCSB connection!
Here I took visiting friends from San Francisco for a tour of our UCSB campus.
This shows some of why I never grew up and never went away!
I found this puzzle easier than Monday's. Hand up with inanehiker, Irish Miss and others: Way impressive to make a theme where both halves have to match! Not necessary to solve, but a special bonus!
Here my good friend Mary poses with the TIERED WEDDING CAKE she made for us from scratch!
Mary is one of the Solstice artists in residence. She is a true artist who was able to venture into a totally new domain of art and make it work perfectly!
Learning moment that SADD now stands for Students Against Destructive Decisions. I remember it as an offshoot of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD).
Lemonade: Thank you very much for sharing in detail your UCONN experience! Way cool that we lived in the same place at about the same time in the 1960s! It was a wonderful place to be a child. Children don't seem to mind the cold and wind. I loved playing in the snow! But now I am very happy to live in a place where I don't have to deal with that.
It was funny how people at UCONN say how much it has changed now. But it really has kept most of its original rural ag school feel. What other university still has cows roaming on campus?!
From yesterday:
ReplyDeleteMisty: Thank you very much for the kind words about my UCONN photos at the puppet museum. Quite a unique museum! As a child I just knew the puppeteer as my best friend's father. It was only in more recent times I realized what a famed genius he was!
Good luck with the eye doctor today. Please do keep us posted!
Thank you, David Poole, for a tasty treat!
ReplyDeleteMost of the fill was familiar but I've never heard of NABE. SADD and MADD (Mothers against drunk driving) are often in the paper as sponsors of various causes.
UMBRA calls up my Latin studies.
I had two blank cells, the B in UCSB and E in NABE/DECO. Oh, Santa Barbara. In all the years I've visited the San Bernardino area I didn't know there was a university there. My sister and her family have attended various colleges there but no one ever mentioned CSUSB. Perhaps it's newer. Her children are in their 40s and 50s.
I've known that LYMEDISEASE is so serious it's debilitating from the fiancé of a friend's daughter who lost his job and most of his ability to function. Very sad.
AnonT:
Glad you can have some fun today.
Spitz:
I, too, was surprised and glad to see all of DOUGHNUT.
TTP, you may not be feeling well but your EXPO was stellar!
Have a fabulous day, everyone!
Hi, Lucina. Guess this is my day to post! Probably because I feel somewhat proprietary of -- and proud of -- the California system(s) of higher education.
ReplyDeleteCSU San Bernardino was founded in 1960 and currently enrolls about 20,000 students. It's not right in the center of town, though, so probably not too hard to miss.
Best,
Sandy
Jinx, SwampCat (and others from last night),
ReplyDeleteI agree about affect/effect confusion. I don't see affect/effect misused as much lately though. I think it's because so many folks (especially newscasters) use IMPACT instead of affect. I guess it sounds more dramatic.
One of my pet peeves is usage like "That was a very unique science project. Unique means "One of a kind." So "very one of a kind" doesn't make much sense. They should have commented something like "a very unusual science project." Just my two-cents worth.
No issues with this Tuesday outing save one.....NABE is just horrible. I know of zero people who have ever used this, nor have I.
ReplyDeleteAnd that’s it.
Hi Y'all! Good puzzle, David. Great expo, TTP. No reason to apologize.
ReplyDeleteDidn't know: UMBRA, CBC, THD, NABE.
LYME DISEASE: CSO to Blue Iris, who has the disease and hasn't posted for a long time. How are you, dear lady? I was reading yesterday about a local young woman who has both LYME and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and another tick bourne itis. She went to Germany for a special treatment because she is almost non-functional.
Tried itis before OSES.
FOB: my pocket watch is a cell phone which is all I use.
SwampCat: thinking about you and praying for your son's family in these fire storms.
More often than not,
ReplyDelete(today being no exception)
I find I have no idea what a CW clue is referring to.
Then, I get the 1st letter via perp, and the answer is
glaringly obvious. Does this happen to everyone,
or am I getting Alzheimers?
(Also, I don't give a damn if spellcheck says
there is supposed to be a ' between the r & s in Alzheimers...)
Gadded about? I wonder if this is where "gadfly" originated...
I would have no idea what a "peck" was, except one of my Daughters
High School plays was Guys and Dolls, & I was forced to listed to this
song a heck of a lot more than a bushel and a peck!
TTP, at 41a you mention no smut on the Blog pls,
and yet, later you mention " traipsing through the woods chasing the elusive morels."
I am sorry, but it is well known fact here on the Blog that if you
mention Morels, you are asking for Smut...
Also, Blousing your pants? (more smut?)
Oh my mistake, I never heard the expression before...
Very useful, I may use this tip! also good for keeping your pants out
of you bicycle chain!
Lemon! Why can't I find breadfruit in my local supermarket?
Picard! Love the on locale pics with signage.
If you click on the sign, you can read it just like you were there!
(very informative!)
(I wonder if those Zen paths had anything to do with the Nazca lines?)
And now for my bread and butter...
I almost made a million dollars!
Cats always land on their feet,
toast always lands butter side down!
Ergo...
Is this considered smut?
Bill G, I agree with you that newscasters (who really only read on the TelePrompter what some staff member has written) so often use imprecise language, perhaps to emphasize the sensational. It drives my wife crazy when I point out, all too often, when a news anchor intones a headline that is ambiguous or just plain uninformative. I do admire those reporters out in the field who work so hard to produce informative reports. Unfortunately so much emphasis today seems to be placed on people's reactions to an event rather than reporting what the event was. (Outrage at a shooting; what shooting? Sadness at a death; whose death and how did they die? Annoyance at a delay; what delay, why, and where?) Such sloppiness has a tremendously unique impact on my mood!
ReplyDeleteOne of the local TV news anchors stumbles at least 3 or 4 times per half hour newscast, mispronouncing people's names and place names, and even stumbling over everyday language. Makes me wonder if any of them do their homework or prepare in any way. I think they don't.
Ta- DA!
ReplyDeleteThis was a stop-and-go solve for yrs truly. Or rather, a go-and-stop - because it seemed a breeze at first from the top down. Only in the mid-left sector I found enough questions to stay my pen until I cleaned up elsewhere.
I suppose the main reason for my hesitation was the cross between 25D and 38A. As Misty an others have pointed out, there are a dozen "State schools" near L.A., several with 4-letter initials. To pick Santa Barbara out of the lot required a leap of faith.
But we made it through.
Irish Miss, thanks fr your well-wishing. Yesterday the post-surgery hours were a bit rough, but today I am feeling 90% - and optimistic enough to be looking forward to our planned visit to the Orange County Fair tomorrow. The weather should be good, not too hot ...
~ OMK
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Diagonal Report: None today. Come again tomorrow! (I'll be posting very early or much later.)
I liked this puzzle. I usually do. Seeing BASKETBALL and FRUITFLY I thought the theme was going to be alliteration: the answers being 2 words that start with the same letter. Then BREAD AND BUTTER showed up, bolstering that assumption. DOUGHNUT and LINEUP dashed that theory. Well-done theme, though.
ReplyDeleteNABE also made me wrinkle my nose.
TTP, you wrote "The NASDAQ Composite Index is up over 12% this year." Makes me wonder why my tech-heavy mutual funds aren't. In fact, none of my mutual funds are up anywhere near how much the stock market as a whole has been this year, not even my so-called index funds.
Good wishes to you all.
Jayce / BillG.- "Coming up at 10:00; Will your water kill you?" Um, if you know at 5:30, please share; the suspense is killing me!
ReplyDeleteBubble-headed bleach-blonds them all.
PK - That's why Iris has been off-blog? BlueIris, we're pulling for you.
CED - Grandpop always called it "Al's Hammer;" as in: "he's been getting dementia-y, 'Fraid he's been hit in the head w/ AlsHammer."
Misty - we're all waiting...
Cheers, -T
Jayce & Bill G ~ You're speaking directly to my peeves about news broadcasts. I include the national networks in my complaints.
ReplyDeleteFor me, their gravest sins are leaving out one or more of the classic Ws of journalism. Most often, the omission is Where. In the teasers, they rarely mention the locale of the "breaking news" story, or if they do, it is too general, such as "In the west"!
The Why is often left out. I understand and appreciate that the motivation for a news-worthy deed may be hard to come by, but even when intentions are clear, they are often left to our imagination.
The problem with their handling of the What is their lack of follow-through. In many reports we want to know what the outcome was - what impact the deed or event had upon participants and bystanders. This is handled only sporadically and usually only for the immediate aftermath. And only when they have video. (It can't be news if it doesn't have pictures.)
My poor wife endures my ongoing verbal critiques of her favorite "ABC news with David Muir."
I try to keep still, but, well .. you know.
~ OMK
Had a colonoscopy and an upper endoscopy this morning and was still able to finish the puzzle fairly easily. Love that Propofol...That despite the fact that our newspaper misaligned the puzzle page and cut off some of the clues at the bottom of the page.
ReplyDeleteFun. A very enjoyable puzzle, [rant] even though Cruciverb was down for the second day in a row [/rant]. And TTP, you may not be feeling at your best, but I enjoyed the writeup anyway. Maybe you need to get to bed earlier like I do. [grin]
ReplyDeleteAnonymous @ 9:10– Yes.
My mother-in-law sang the "bushel and a peck" song to my wife and her sisters when they were little, sang it to our kids when they were little, and again to her great grandchildren too. I had never heard it before then. Growing up in farming country though, I did know what a peck was.
D-O, thanks for the Tom Lehrer. When I was in college I had some of his albums and loved his sense of humor and phrasing. ("Our old mess sergeant's taste buds had been shot off in the war…"
Irish Miss @ 9:01– This is me, ignoring the "not."
Isn’t it UCSC whose teams are the fighting Banana Slugs? Makes me want to enroll there just to have one of their T-shirts!
Time to close… I feel a nap coming on. Have a great day, all.
Ray, I sure hope they did the upper endoscopy first!
ReplyDeleteOh gosh, I can't abide David Muir. The constant (and artificial?) tension in his tone of voice and the high speed of his delivery make my blood pressure go up, so infectious is the (fake?) urgency in everything he says. His colleague, Cecilia Vega, is almost as obnoxious and noxious. They are both bad for my health.
ReplyDeleteRay o sunshine (great handle BTW!) ~
ReplyDeleteI didn't know you could have a colonoscopy and endoscopy on the same day!
OMG!
Is there no fear of probes meeting in the middle? Fighting for territory! Locking horns!
Taking one another's picture?
~ OMK
My personal pet peeve is the 6:30 World News with David Muir,
ReplyDeleteI have to watch it...
(Why?)
It must be the hype,
but I get sucked in every day at 6:30
for the 1st 15 minutes of non-stop news!
Then, the second 15 minutes!
30 seconds of news with upcoming hype followed by 3 minutes (or more)
of commercials, followed by 30 seconds of hype followed by 3 minutes (or more)
of commercials followed by 30 seconds of hype followed by 3 minutes (or more)
of commercials followed by 30 seconds of hype followed by 3 minutes (or more)
of commercials followed by 30 seconds of hype followed by 3 minutes (or more)
of commercials followed by 30 seconds of hype followed by 3 minutes (or more)
of commercials followed by 30 seconds of hype followed by 3 minutes (or more)
(you get my drift...)
I have been meaning to tape it to fast forward the Dreck,
but I always forget.
Is it Al's Hammer? or gut intuition?
P.S.,
For a hoot, watch (or tape ) the dang thingie, then watch BBC's version
(or whatever you can find that is not U.S.)
for alternative viewpoints...
PK, thanks for your concern over the fire. It seems to have stopped moving for the moment but who knows?? So much grief for so many people.
ReplyDeleteY'all got to adulthood without trying the "Peter Piper picked a PECK of pickled peppers" tongue twister?
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Shaky State school is CSUN (N=Northridge), pronounced "SEE SUN". Nearby Van Nuys airport controllers tell pilots to check in when they get to CSUN. Van Nuys is the most active US airport that almost no one knows. They handle almost half as many flights as DFW, but no scheduled airline service. Lots of 172s, Mooneys and V-Tailed Doctor Killers (AKA Bonanzas). Lots of doctors and lawyers and business executives keep their jets there. The jets aren't made of ticky-tacky but they all look the same. (Yes, I miss Weeds!)
Jayce, OMK and Bill G, we all seem to share our frustration with newscasters. And they get paid for saying things wrong!
ReplyDeleteAlmost forgot,
ReplyDelete(I guess I don't have Alzheimers
if I continually, "almost" forget..)
must be some other annoying phenomena...
hmm, what was I going to say?
Oh yes,
Dang it! I forgot again...
Oh well,
Propofol is amazing stuff!
Micheal Jackson loved it too!
I had it three times no so long ago...
One second you are there,
a little warm, fuzzy feeling,
and, Blink! You cease to exist!
Aand Blink! you are back again (sometimes)
and almost no side effects/Affects,
(at least, I don't remember them...)
Musings
ReplyDelete-Puzzle was fine golf, not so much today
-Four funerals, four birthdays and two lawn are eating up my time today when not on the course
-inanehiker – I had to look up the musical for Bushel And A Peck sung by Miss Adelaide and the Hot Box Chicks.Cool!
-Off to take care of one of those yards
Didn't we have MUIR as s clue answer recently? Or was it the Naturalist?
ReplyDeleteWC
I wonder if the Amateurprofol is as good. I remember the anesthesiologist saying, "This will sting a little bit..." And that's all I remember.
ReplyDeleteJayce: "Such sloppiness has a tremendously unique impact on my mood!" Loved it, even if it sounds a tad affected.
RE Evening News: I'll bet you can count the non-medical commercials on one hand -- probably on one finger (or less). I love their disclaimers. This product contains Ford motor oil, do not take it if you are allergic to Ford motor oil or any of its ingredients. This product should not be taken by anyone under 6 years of age. Persons 6 to 18 years of age also should not take it, as it may cause vomiting, diarrhea, blurred vision, Lyme disease, and/or bad stuff, including death. (Make certain their are young, attractive, smiling, healthy-looking people on screen as you say that.) "Ask your doctor if [insert product name here] may be right for you."
D-O , you forgot the four hour erection
DeleteWC
There, not their. Thanx, autocorrect.
ReplyDeleteWikWak: Strange your mentioning ("Our old mess sergeant's taste buds had been shot off in the war…"), since WC was just telling us about his over on _J!
ReplyDeleteSwampCat @ 10:18 -- "Michael FLN and others , yes I know we move on but it makes me sad to lose the precision in language. No, I don’t want to go back to thither and whence! "
ReplyDeleteI think the underlying issue is that we have given up precision in thinking, and in speaking English. There is a constant barrage of sloppiness, as noted above in discussing (or is that 'cussing'?) news broadcasts, for example, and so we become habituated to careless usage.
Desper-Otto,
ReplyDeleteDitto on the drug ads. My special aversion is the making of empty statements that sound like promises. As in: With X, remission is possible. After which I always think, Yes, and WITHOUT X remission is possible, because remission is always possible. Maybe more or less probable, but always possible!
Sandy
Michael, yes! Sloppy language create sloppy thinking. ...sigh...
ReplyDeleteAnd to add to the California college confusion, the official name for the California State University campuses is, say, CSUSB for San Bernardino, but colloquial usage shortens this to just 'Cal State.' as in Cal State LA (my alma mater), CSLA, or even CSUSF, San Francisco, becomes S.F. State. Cal Poly has two isomers, one in Pomona, the other in San Luis Obispo.
ReplyDelete...sloppy typing is also a problem! “createS”.
ReplyDeleteWe had a relative who caller Alzheimer's Old Timer's Disease.
ReplyDeleteYesterday's New Yorker cartoon had a crossword connection. Scroll right from today's via arrows below the caption.
ReplyDeleteAnd of course I go back to the era before the Cal State University system took over from California State Colleges. My undergrad alma mater was San Francisco State College.
ReplyDeleteIt feels funny, even a bit fraudulent, to change the name from "College" to "University" on my CV. It is to avoid confusion that I stick with "San Francisco State."
~ OMK
PS. And before 1921, it was San Francisco State Normal School. Is nothing sacred?
Thank you for asking, Anon T. Well, the eye doctor said it may take a long time for the eye irritation to ease up. This time she recommended a different regimen--hot compresses three times a day followed by gentle rubbing, the Gen-teal medication only once at night, rather than four or five times a day, and the Systane whenever I feel I need it. I wanted to see her again in two weeks, but she suggested a month, since it may take that long to see any improvements. Not the most encouraging doctor's visit I ever had--especially after a month of having to deal with this problem already. But of course I'm going to give it my best shot and will keep you posted.
ReplyDeleteD-O, CED, Jayce etal. Can't agree with you more about Muir and others spreading the Nightly News.
ReplyDeleteOur local weather guessers gesticulate the weather like our lives depend on it (which it mostly doesn't.)
They all give the impression that their concerns are altruistic when they really want you to hang on until the next commercial.
This is not political; it is about business. When the newspaper is thin, it is not for lack of news, but lack of advertising sales.
Just my 2¢.
On another note:
SIR - An anagram, Sri, is used on the Indian subcontinent as an honorific. It has been in puzzles, too.
I learned of the California universities on a football message board, where UC-Davis fans would get INCENSED if you said they were Cal-Davis.
ReplyDeletePECK is one of the outdated English measurements that were included in a table on the back cover of those black and white composition books, along with quires of paper, and rods and furlongs for distance (except for furlongs at the horse race track.)
I'm annoyed with a local sportscaster who refers to the ACC conference, but redundancy was yesterday's complaint.
And we should find another word for KIOSK, because half the people I know can neither pronounce nor spell it.
OMK: No. Nothing is sacred. My second masters came from Concordia College River Forest, which until just before that time had been Concordia Teachers College and which afterward became Concordia University River Forest and now is Concordia University Chicago. It's still in the same place it has been for over 100 years. Only the name has been changed (to protect the innocent?).
ReplyDeleteWikWak ~
ReplyDeleteWell, at least in the case of SF State, one of the name switches came with a change of locale. The original campus, so I've been told, was a building in downtown SF, somewhere near Union Square, on one of the rising streets (maybe Powell?).
When the new large campus opened up in south SF - near the Stonestown mall & not far from Daly City - it became SF State College.
I'm not sure why the last change was made, except all the State Colleges became Universities - all at the same time.
To keep things in perspective, I remind myself that when I was accepted to Yale for grad school, my (then-) little sister got on the phone to her friends and bragged,
"Guess what? My brother is going to Yale!"
After a short pause on her very first call, she had to clarify,
"No, Silly! I said 'Yale' - Not to Jail!!
~ OMK
College names change as they grow and their missions develop. Albany was the New York State Normal School, the Normal College, the NY State College for Teachers, and finally (I hope) the State University of New York, University at Albany.
ReplyDeletePicard, perhaps Bluehen can confirm, but I've been to football games at U of Delaware Stadium (the Tub) and there was definitely a whiff of silage in the air. Unless that was the now-gone Chrysler plant across the road.
No, I checked, UD does have a dairy farm on campus.
OwenKL, Tx 4 the New Yorker Cartoon link!
ReplyDeleteI tried the Jumble link, but could not figure out the 1st Jumble...
IGIRD???
Re: news Hype
I agree it's all about sales, but...
(could it be punctuation?)
HG@4:05
"The puzzle was fine golf."
OOooh! I would love to do a puzzle that was fine golf!
Pls tell me where I can find one,
unless it was a typo, or you are selling something...
Our little college began as Morehead Normal School, became Morehead State Normal School, then Morehead State Normal School and Teachers College, then Morehead State Teachers College, then Morehead State College then, finally, to Morehead State University. I attended their "model school", Breckinridge Training School, K-12 in one building (or is that the despised "ELHI"). To get in my parents had to agree that I would go to summer school during my first 8 grades. CLAIM TO FAME: Phil Simms played his college ball there. Also for old Yankee fans, Steve Hamilton played his college ball there as well, and moved back there after his MLB days were over.
ReplyDeleteGood evening, folks. Thank you, David Poole, for a fine puzzle. Thank you, TTP, for a fine review.
ReplyDeletePuzzle went fine. theme appeared. No problem.
In Iran a HIJAB was a CHADOR.
I thought of UCSB as San Bernardino because I lived close to there. However, Santa Barbara makes more sense.
Cannot imagine ANODAL ever being used in a sentence, but it is a good word I am sure.
TTP, hope you are feeling better.
See you tomorrow.
Abejo
( )
Gee, of all places. I'm at the Trump rally in Tampa. DW loved every minute of it.
ReplyDeleteI told Phil that this was hbd, mother's day and anniversary present all in one big happy day.
I sat quietly.
WC
My picture doesn't want to cooperate.
Good evening Cornerites.
ReplyDeleteThank you Mr. David Poole for this enjoyable CW which I FIR in 17:25.
Thank you TTP for you informative review.
Anything that could be said has already been said better than I can say it.
Side effects will include.......
Ðave
CED, yourey too inflexible; you need to bend a little
ReplyDeleteWC
Misty:
ReplyDeleteI'm so sorry to hear of your ongoing eye problems. It seems so unusual to last this long without resolution. I hope your change of treatment works.
I've been on the telephone or e-mail all day with the news that my friend, Marilyn, died this morning at 5. All our mutual friends and former religious congregation had to be notified. The funeral will be Thursday and while I feel a deep void without her I am glad she is at peace and with her beloved husband. Some day I may recount that story since she was 42 when she left the Convent and not expecting any prospects for marriage.
CrossEyedDave: Glad you enjoyed my UCSB photos and examined them so closely!
ReplyDeletebillocohoes: Thanks for checking! Glad to know there are other ag campuses with cows on them! The UCONN dairy is really special. I won't risk offending anyone by claiming it is unique!
Because of the interest in my photos today, I was motivated to find some of my MIAMI BEACH photos!
Here are some of my MIAMI BEACH photos with a special emphasis on the ART DECO architecture!
I could not resist including some other ART I saw along the way! Including living art standing next to me in one photo!
Misty: Thanks for the eye doctor update. I wish the news were better. It seems you will recover fully, but it will take awhile. I do wish you the speediest recovery possible!
Lucina: You have my deepest sympathy on the loss of your friend. Good for her that she found love!
ReplyDeleteLucina, my prayers are with you.
ReplyDeleteI'll put placing UCSB "near" LA squarely on the editor. Should have been something like "home of the Gauchos."
ReplyDeleteWhy would you or your DW want to be at a Trump rally Wilbur Charles? Who is Phil? Did someone hack your account?
ReplyDeleteLucina, sorry to hear of the loss of your friend Marilyn.
ReplyDeleteMisty, is there a possibility that you are allergic to the eyedrops that you are using so many times a day. For me, that would be my first suspect since I react to so many things, especially meds.
They don't do the colonoscopy at the same time as the upper gastric oscopy so there is no danger of meeting. When the nurse told me the Dr. would do the lower one first then go in from the top, I was a little dopy from the pills and said, "Well, make sure she washes her hands before she does the top one." I was cleaned out, but still...
WC: how could anyone ever forget the 4-hr. erection warnings. Personally, I think that's just bragging.
Lucina ~
ReplyDeleteVery sorry to read about the death of your friend - although, from what you say, it may have been the right time for her to find peace.
It isn't always the case, but I think a good many of us know when it's our time to go. Her sorrows are over.
~ OMK
Thank you for the kind comments, Lucina, Picard, and PK. I had used eye drops for years because I had dry eye--but not conjunctivitus--so it seems unlikely that the eye drops are causing the problem. But I'll keep an eye on everything to see if I notice anything that might explain the problem. Thanks for the suggestion.
ReplyDeleteLucina - I am so sorry to hear of your sad news about Marilyn. You're in my thoughts.
ReplyDeleteMisty - I'd ask for a second opinion on that. A month seems like a long to "see" if there are improvements.
CED - That's why I also listen to BBC news on NPR @night.
D-O: I watched news today, something I normally avoid, and, not only are there medical ads (for what I don't know but there were a bunch of happy people sending floating lanterns in the air), there's diaper and dating ads for people over 50(?).
Jinx - is that Morehead in MO, just south of St. Louis? I only know of that school because the Morning Zoo @KSHE 95 used to chant it. More-head!, More-head...
All the talk about school name changes - It could be worse. University of Oklahoma is shortened to OU. !Remoob
Cheers, -T
Condolences to Lucina on the loss of your dear friend.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous T at 10:45 PM
ReplyDelete- - I recognized Morhead, KY in the post of Jinx at 7:50 PM. My brother graduated from Morehead State University.
Ðave
That's it! - thanks D4. -T
ReplyDeleteThank you, my friends. Your comforting words mean the world to me; my heart is heavy and I know I'm going to miss Marilyn so much. She was 91 and ready to leave but I wasn't ready to lose her. She at one time had five little dogs and over time they slowly died from various causes. The last one died of a heart attack almost at the same time she had a stroke.
ReplyDeleteLucina, I am so sorry to hear about your loss. It is the hardest thing to deal with in our later years, isn't it. But I'm glad your friend had a good long life.
ReplyDeleteAnon T, a month is a long time. If I have any issues I will see if I can see a different doctor at the same clinic.
Lucina, I am sorry to hear of your loss. Losing a long time friend leaves such a hole in one's life.I
ReplyDeleteMisty I hope your eyes heal soon.
For what it's worth, 27-Across is wrong.
ReplyDeleteNASDAQ is not located on Wall Street.
The NYSE is, of course, located on Wall Street.
NASDAQ is located in Times Square.
But, really, that's just a marketing site for the NASDAQ.
NASDAQ is a series of automated quotations by market makers, and, thus, really does not have a centralized location that functions similar to the NYSE.
JohnB - I thought the same thing @27 - NASDAQ is a wire-trading service not a (real) physical place like CHI's commodity market nor the NYSE pit at Wall and Broad. But, what do I really know anyway? (other than I need to sell something to pay for Eldest's tuition; suck it retirement!)
ReplyDeleteFrom the other day: thanks Dow J for calling out C.C.'s WSJ puzzle; a fun ROMP that didn't kick me in the seat... I finally got a FIR this week!
Lucina - I barely know that deep feeling of loss -- Grandparents were expected but, when Motorcycle buddy got killed by a texter, it struck me hard. However, those seem like lateral losses compared to who Marilyn is to you. Love to you. -T
OMK @ 6:07 -- "PS. And before 1921, it was San Francisco State Normal School. Is nothing sacred?"
ReplyDeleteYou ask this, in California??!??
College naming in California was shaped by the original master plan for higher education: universities were to be research and teaching schools; the state colleges were to be more occupational, "normal" land-grant type schools. This dates back to after WW2, maybe Governor Pat Brown? But along with grade inflation, the colleges got antsy, and wanted to become like their big brothers, so now we have Univ. of Calif., plus Calif. State Univ. That's why OMK's question about sacredness isn't just rhetorical.