Theme: "Beta Blockers" - B is removed from the start of each theme entry.
23A. Defeat decisively in an annual Nathan's contest?: EAT THE PANTS OFF. Beat the pants off.
46A. Cutlery causing boo-boos?: OWIE KNIFE. Bowie knife.
69A. Explore à la an aging Captain Kirk?: OLDLY GO. Boldly go.
97A. Roleo official?: UMP ON A LOG. Bump on a log. This ump prefers to stay dry.
122A. Farm workers' coffee setup near a fence post?: URNS AT THE STAKE. Burns at the stake.
17D. One who sniffs out good investments?: ASSET HOUND. Basset hound.
36D. Painfully off-pitch Jewish diva?: OY SOPRANO. Boy soprano.
58D. Sampling from Quaid's vineyard?: RANDY WINE. Brandy wine. Randy Quaid.
75D. Carpet made from corn husks?: EAR SKIN RUG. Bearskin rug.
Super consistent theme set & fun clues from John, who's known for his humor and superb wordplay.
He's just so observant and pays so much attention to every one of his grid entries. His clue echoes often leave me in awe. They would have escaped my notice completely.
John is also legendary for his grid design. Just look at today's grid. Theme entries are spread everyone and you get a bite wherever you go.
Across:
1. It's usually spotted in a game: DOMINO. Each tile has spots.
7. Prolong painfully: DRAG OUT.
14. Pablo's putting-off word: MANANA.
20. Heat-sensitive patch: IRON-ON.
21. 1982 Toto hit: ROSANNA. Wiki says it won 1983 Grammy Record of the Year.
22. Twist counterclockwise, as a nut: LOOSEN. Or as a stubborn tension rod.
25. Hardly modest: BRASSY. And 26. Hardly quick: SLOW.
27. Steamed dumplings, e.g.: DIM SUM. I love shrimp dumplings the most. Yes, egg rolls are real Chinese food, Picard!
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28. Oft-mispunctuated word: ITS.
30. Plane angle symbol: THETA.
31. Alley Oop's love: OOOLA. Nailed it.
33. Diplomacy: TACT.
35. Tribute with bent elbows: TOAST.
37. Best-liked, in texts: FAV. Do you know what OOT stands for?
40. Flabbergast: AWE.
41. One in line for what's left: HEIR. 68. 41-Across, often: SON.
42. For instance: SAY.
43. Whale-tale captain: AHAB.
49. Cell dead spot indicator: NO BARS. 126. Consequence of only getting close?: NO CIGAR. Close by no cigar.
51. European capital: ROME.
52. Many misses: GIRLS.
53. Ripped: TORN.
55. Super: PRIMO.
56. __ fu: KUNG. Its Chinese characters are like this:
57. Amer. fliers: USAF.
58. Ripped off: ROBBED.
60. Handle change: ADAPT.
62. Actress Peeples: NIA.
63. Bird on LSU's seal: PELICAN. John sent me below picture with this caption: "A Laughing Gull waits patiently for the Brown Pelican to catch a fish so
that he can steal it for himself. Such kleptoparasitism is widespread
throughout the animal kingdom."
65. Is for all: ARE.
66. Apply, as butter: SPREAD ON.
72. Director Lee: ANG.
73. "Enough already!": I'VE HAD IT. 127. "Enough already!": QUIT IT.
77. Vague opening?: VEE. Vague.
78. 98, but not 98.6: INTEGER.
82. Bird hunted to extinction by the Maori: MOA.
83. Easygoing sort: TYPE B.
85. The boy well-known in meteorology?: EL NINO. Fun clue.
87. California roll ingredient: NORI. You can get roasted nori at Trader Joe's or any Asian grocery store.
88. Bat head?: ACRO. Acrobat.
90. Cardiff's country: WALES.
92. Galileo's birthplace: PISA. Gary & Joann were there.
93. Give __: A DARN.
94. Last-__: desperate: GASP.
95. Greening up: IN LEAF.
99. Actress Sommer: ELKE.
100. Revival prefix: NEO.
101. Some reddish deer: ROES.
103. Place to stay when you're out, ironically: INN.
104. Many retirees: Abbr.: SRS.
105. Against a thing, at law: IN REM.
107. Utah national park: ZION. Probably closed due to this government shutdown.
108. Bury: INTER.
110. Eager kids' plea: CAN WE.
112. Heady quaff: ALE.
114. War zone excavation: TRENCH.
116. GI no-show: AWOL.
120. Achieve success: ARRIVE.
125. "We can't hear you!": LOUDER.
128. "The Communist Manifesto" co-author: ENGELS. This picture was everywhere when I grew up.
129. Sign off on: AGREE TO.
130. Govt. securities: T NOTES.
Down:
1. Conks out: DIES. 6. Dies in this puzzle?: ONE DOWN. Literally.
2. Verbal: ORAL.
3. Con __: musical tempo: MOTO.
5. Japanese 7-Down: NOH. 7. See 5-Down: DRAMA.
4. Halved: IN TWO.
8. Pitchers Darling and Guidry: RONS. Also14. Org. with minors: MLB. Minor leaguers.
9. Quick-witted: ASTUTE.
10. Pilot feeder: GAS MAIN.
11. Palindromic celeb: ONO.
12. Not suitable: UNFIT.
13. First presidential swinger, golf-wise: TAFT. Unknown to me. Interesting trivia.
15. Critical ticker valve: AORTA.
16. Where even termites were welcome, presumably: NOAH'S ARK. Great fill/clue.
18. Tree house: NEST.
19. "Dragonwyck" novelist Seton: ANYA.
24. Criticize to death: PILE IT ON. Another great fill.
29. Astronomer's aid: STAR MAP.
32. Kentucky __, event before the Derby: OAKS.
34. Trim, as a pic: CROP.
37. Get all misty: FOG UP.
38. "__ woman wishes to be no one's enemy (and) ... refuses to be anyone's victim": Angelou: A WISE.
39. Like some memes: VIRAL.
41. Kind of tea: HERBAL.
42. "Because I __!": SAID SO.
44. OB/GYN test: AMNIO.
45. Set off: BEGAN.
47. Into shenanigans: ELFISH. Not a word I use.
48. "The Gift of the Magi" gift: FOB.
50. Support wear: BRA.
54. Comic-Con attendee: NERD.
59. Dig deeply: DELVE.
61. Sleeping bag site: TENT.
64. Lab __: COAT.
67. Ax to grind: AGENDA.
69. Verdi opera based on a Shakespeare tragedy: OTELLO.
70. TripAdvisor rival: YELP.
71. Einstein: GENIUS.
73. Photoshop fodder: IMAGE.
74. Outspoken: VOCAL.
76. Beach in a classic bossa nova hit: IPANEMA. The Girl from Ipanema.
78. If all else fails: IN A PINCH.
79. Ends: GOALS.
80. Misjudgment: ERROR.
81. Smartphone options: RINGS.
84. Pollen-packing petal pusher: BEE. Another fantastic picture from John: "Sweat bees don’t have pollen baskets on their legs like honey bees. They
transport the pollen to their nests on electrostatically charged hairs
on their abdomen."
86. Surreal ending?: ISM. Surrealism.
89. Dentist's directive: OPEN WIDE.
91. Mumbai wrap: SARI.
93. Designer Klein: ANNE.
96. It's played secretly under the table: FOOTSIE. And 98. Secretly: ON THE QT.
102. More than irk: ENRAGE.
106. Celebrate wildly: REVEL.
107. Cause of temporary weight loss?: ZERO G.
108. 101 course: INTRO.
109. 1:1, for one: RATIO. So very Lampkin!
110. NASCAR's Yarborough: CALE.
111. Elvis' middle name: ARON.
113. Moon goddess: LUNA.
115. Coup target: ETAT.
117. Power eponym: WATT.
118. "The Grapes of Wrath" character: OKIE.
119. Rents: LETS.
121. Defib settings: ERS.
123. Big name in ATMs: NCR.
124. Radiation source: SUN.
1) Boomer Updates:
1) Boomer Updates:
Boomer had another blood draw last Wednesday. His alkaline phosphatase continues to be high, though better than before. His creatinine is still low. The good news is that his PSA has dropped to 1.3. These days he often gets 3 solid hours' sleep at a time.
2) Dave 2 Updates:
I talked to him last week. He's doing great and secretly enjoys the Snickers bars his friend Lynn snuck into his room. He does not have a computer in the rehab place, but he does solve our crossword every day. He said he would be back to his apartment in early February. You can send him a card to below address. Thanks, Agnes, for getting me the address.
David Hoskin
Wesley Manor
5012 East Manslick Rd.
Louisville, KY 40219
C.C.
Greetings!
ReplyDeleteThanks to John and C.C.!
Fun puzzle! Only things peeped were: BRASSY, EL NINO (tried like mad to type tilde, but can't do in in newer OS), IN REM, RONS, TAFT and OAKS.
Have a great day!
I did it: Ñ. Hooray.
ReplyDeleteThanks, CC for your kind words, and greetings to all happy solvers!
ReplyDeleteContinued well-wishes to Boomer for a full recovery!
Y'all might be interested in some of my suggested clues which now lie on the editorial cutting floor:
EAT THE PANTS OFF Get carried away with edible underwear?
URNS AT THE STAKE All-in-one medieval immolation feature?
EARSKIN RUG Creation of Dumbo's taxidermist?
Hah!
Good morning!
ReplyDeleteThose were great clues, John. Too bad they weren't accepted. Got the theme early on, and that really helped with the later theme answers. Thought The Girl From IPANEMA was jazz rather than bossa nova, but according to Wiki it's jazz bossa nova. OK. Favorite theme answer: OLDLY GO. Really nice puz, John, and thanx for the tour, C.C.
NO BARS -- Our house is in a dead zone. We've got to go at least a block to get a signal. GPS doesn't work here, either.
TYPE B -- That'd be me. My former boss was a TYPE A, and he drove me crazy.
DIM SUM -- Is there a bright sum?
I'VE HAD IT -- 1959 Number One by the one-hit-wonder Bell Notes.
It's good to see Boomer's numbers improving. I was happy to learn yesterday that the VA is fully funded for 2019, so the Trump Shutdown won't affect Boomer's treatments.
As to your question re: OOT.
ReplyDeleteIs is what lemony yells when he hears the kettle whistle?
OOT in text speak usually means Out Of Town. Or, out of time, depending on the context of the convo.
ReplyDeleteI guess it could also mean out of tamales if Lucina was sending a text after the holidays were over.
Nailed it! Off to 🏌️♂️⛳️🌵🐍
ReplyDeleteGood morning. Thank you John and C.C.
ReplyDeleteThat was fun. Worth the effort. The title gave away the theme, but I'm glad it did. Didn't understand FOB but went with it. EL NINO clue was cutest among the many.
ASSET HOUND was my favorite theme answer.
I know what a California rolling stop is, but have never had a California roll.
Desper-otto, my former boss was a TYPE B, and she drove me crazy when she periodically needed to become TYPE A.
Short on time this morning.
See all y'all later n'at !
NE corner held me up. Had Anna and delta before I had Anya and theta. Never heard of Kentucky Oaks.
ReplyDeleteAlas, My newspaper published "Pass" by Paul Coulter, so I have no comment on this puzzle. Glad to hear that Boomer is getting some quality rest now.
ReplyDeleteDNF. DRAW OUT > DRAG OUT, UNAPT > UNFIT, center-top mostly white.
ReplyDeleteStill mostly clear when I gave up and went to sleep last night, and took a couple hours more when I woke up this morning, so just starting my l'icks now, hours after I usually post them!
Saw Moana last night, the animated Maori epic. The songs seemed culturally out of place, and strange casting, men all twice as large as women. But the animation has gotten so realistic it was easy to forget this wasn't really live action!
At fighting, the MOA was quite adept,
Then came the Maori, it couldn't ADAPT.
New tactics were needed
But birds were defeated,
Like Re******ans, new ideas they wouldn't adopt.
He tried to be BRASSY, he tried to be LOUDER,
He tried to be VOCAL, he tried to act prouder.
But no waiter came by
Till his throat had run dry,
To take his order for a wet seafood chowder.
{B-, C.}
ReplyDeleteTTP, the irony in "The Gift of the Magi" is that Jim hocks his watch to buy some special combs for Della's long hair. Meanwhile, Della cuts and sells her hair to buy a new FOB for Jim's watch. Each gives up a prized possession in order to buy a gift which the other can no longer use.
It was a fun puzzle! Liked OLDLYGO the best. Nice way to start a beautiful Sunday morning!
ReplyDeleteGood Morning:
ReplyDeleteThis was a pleasant and smooth solve with just a few stumbles: Split/In two, Draw/Drag out, Prime/Primo, and Roc/Moa. Trench was a long time coming because I read Excavation as Evacuation. My unknowns were (Con) Moto, Ooola, and A Wise (woman). My favorite clues were for Noah's Ark, El Niño, and Acro. My favorite themers were Owie Knife, Ump on a log, and Asset hound. Wasn't keen on In leaf. My husband was a Type A+ and I would rate me as a D-!
Thanks, John, for a Sunday stroll and for stopping by (Your discarded Dumbo clue was my favorite), and for those striking photos that CC included and thanks, CC, for the delightful summary. Your food photos are yummy, if only for the eyes! What is the caption on the Mao, et al, picture? Thanks for the Boomer updates and best wishes for continued good reports. Glad to hear about Dave's progress and his future return to the blog.
Does anyone stream Amazon Prime Video? I'd appreciate any information about cost, content, satisfaction, etc.
Thanks to the Anons for the OOT comments. I had no idea what it meant as I don't text. I know some of the basic ones like, TTYL, BRB, OMG, etc. but there are probably scads that I don't know.
Have a great day.
Thanks to BLUE HEN and HUSKER GARY for 'splainin' the "pick a card" visual trick in yesterday's blog. I get a big "duh" for missing that one! Happy Sunday, everyone ;)
ReplyDeleteThe AORTA is an artery, not a valve. There is an aortic valve, but that's not the aorta itself.
ReplyDeleteMusings
ReplyDelete-I loved the themers and made my own misery elsewhere but got ‘er done!
-I would never have guessed that she helped write this song
-My plane had a DELTA shape first
-I guess OOT is Out Of Time from Back To The Future
-Uh, you get NO BARS in the redwoods!
-Every teacher has “QUIT IT” at the ready
-PISA was on my bucket list but we only got 20 minutes there!
-A blown GAS MAIN in our town caused this explosion on January 10, forty three years ago
-Gotta run to go sing.
D-O
ReplyDeleteI'm curious as to why GPS doesn't work for you. I as I understand it it should work everywhere you have a decent view of the sky. It should work in deserts and mountains. Under trees or in a canyon is troublesome as in dense cities with tall buildings.
As long as your local map is preloaded in your device it should work as long as you are outside.
IMWTK
Got the theme with ASSET HOUND which helped a lot! Hand up DRAw OUT before DRAG OUT.
ReplyDeleteThe DIES/ONE DOWN combination is one I have never seen before in a puzzle. Clever! Are there any rules against this?
billocohoes I agree that the clue for AORTA was incorrect. I was stuck for a long time thinking it had to be wrong.
Plenty of learning moments, including IN REM, OAKS, bOY SOPRANO, ON THE QT, bRANDY WINE, NOH. Plus some unknowns I probably won't store in my limited brain space!
Here my friend Virginia took me out for delicious DIM SUM in San Francisco!
CC thanks for the answer about EGG ROLLS being genuine Chinese food!
Here is my article on our recent Cirque du Soleil experience! Plenty of ACROBATS!
I don't think I am TYPE A or TYPE B. A bit of both, depending on how important the goal is in the bigger scheme.
CC and Agnes thank you for the Boomer and Dave updates and thanks for Dave's address. We correspond sometimes by email; I will send him a card.
I have photos of PELICANs (they are common here), PISA, WALES, IPANEMA, ZION, ROME and SURREALISM. Perhaps another time for each.
From yesterday:
ReplyDeleteAnonT if you Google "NERD origin" the first hit is that the origin is unknown.
This Webster article also indicates there are many theories, but no definitive answer.
Note that the puzzle clue yesterday had the cautionary word "reportedly" to indicate no one really knows.
One of my great mentors in college urged us to go out and be a "monomaniac". Be a NERD! He argued that focusing narrowly on one thing at a time can bring great progress, discovery and rewards.
Hi Y'all! Great puzzle, John! Great expo, C.C.!
ReplyDeleteRead the puzzle title before starting (yay, me) which helped. Got the theme on OWIE KNIFE right away. That also helped. Gotta tell you, John, on the amusement scale, these were Groaners rather than Chucklers. But a good Groan is spirit cleansing too. 23A: have no idea what is Nathan's Contest and don't know why he'd EAT PANTS.
Not a Treky and thought OLD LYGO was the name of a character. Duh! OLDLY GO is our fate after age 70 or so.
Don't know Toto except Vague recollections of a group mentioned here. I have a Toto brand toilet. Don't know what "hit" it had in 1982. All perps.
41: "One in line for what's left" wasn't the dOg begging table scraps but the SON & HEIR.
63: Saw John's picture and thought that gull was trying to drown the PELICAN.
88: Filled it but didn't "get it" that "bat head" = ACRObat. Duh!
Kentucky OAtS before OAKS. Well, I thought the horses got fed before the race.
C.C.: thank you for the updates on Boomer & Dave2.
A very fun puzzle with such clever theme clues! Favorites were ump on a log and oldly go. Your comraderie is nice to read about too.
ReplyDeleteHere in So. Cal. we’re very familiar with El Nino.
The Kentucky Oaks is Friday before Derby. It’s the Filly’s Derby & the winner gets a blanket of stargazer lilies. Lilies for the Fillies. They also have a Breast Cancer survivor parade on the track before the race. It’s breathtaking. It’s a pink day at Churchill Downs. Almost everyone wears pink. The Oaks used too be for the locals but it has gotten so popular, now Thursday is for locals for the time being. Probably will be Wednesday soon. We have over 2 weeks of festivities for a 2 minute race!
ReplyDeletePK Nathan's Hot Dogs is a restaurant in New York that makes very popular hot dogs. The hot dogs are sold in other places now. Each year there is a Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest. Most interesting is that some of the winners of the contest in recent years are petite Asian women.
ReplyDeleteHere is the original Star Trek theme that includes "to bOLDLY GO"
The full text is as follows:
Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no man has gone before!
In The Next Generation with Picard, "no man" was changed to "no one".
A Sunday toughie for me, but thanks for checking in, John Lampkin. Loved your Dumbo clue, and thanks for the little shout out to me, although I try not to fog up too often.
ReplyDeleteI did better in the south than in the north, and was glad to get some of the folks in the puzzle, like AHAB, ENGELS, ELKE, and place names like PISA and ZION. The one I struggled with was the 'Grapes of Wrath' character--kept wanting a name and didn't think of OKIE. But the clue that really cracked me up was the ironic one for INN. I never got the theme until C.C.'s great write-up, but then found your B-minus theme answers delightful and brilliant, John. And C.C., thank you again for your neat pictures and good news on Boomer and Dave.
Have a great Sunday, everybody!
Anon@10:50, there are plenty of tall trees where I live -- I've got three 100-footers in my yard, and there are plenty of large, old-growth trees in our town. After I fire up the GPS, it searches for a signal until I'm about 1/2 mile from home. It's not a big problem, since I sorta know where I am. :) The phone is a bigger problem. Our service at home is VOIP. When Internet service goes down, we can't use the phone to report it, and we can't use our cell phones due to the dead spot.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Mimi & Picard for the additional information. Makes more sense now.
ReplyDeleteOh my! Someone speak to me of football. Someone on the blog last night told me to watch Phillip Rivers. (Of course, I always do what I’m told to on the blog!)
ReplyDeleteSo I’m watching. I realize I’ve never watched a Patriots game.. and now I remember why. But my main surprise is the sloppy throwing.
I do realize my lowly Saints don’t always win. But all of Brees’ passes are perfect. Oh they may be batted down, or dropped, or intercepted. But when he throws, he’s spot on.
Even the exhausted St. Thomas of Brady is throwing to bare spots on the field. I want to shout But there’s nobody there!
Pity they win so many games.
Hehehehe. My auto correct saved me from slander! That was supposed to be ... an uncomplimentary word which autocorrect will not accept!!
ReplyDeleteI had to skip D-O's comment because I have a book of O'Henry's stories and I've made a note to read them. I solved this at the wagon wheel flea market and I picked up a pair of Michael Connelly's Lawyer stories. I can't watch TV anymore although I do watch 70s Show reruns. They mentioned The Tetons in the context mentioned here.
ReplyDeleteI blew the crossword I blame it on the lousy pen I was using. I had DRAW/DRAG so I had WASMAIR . Also, I forgot my reading glasses and that Flea Market is enormous.
Tin knows it I'm sure.
Also, I missed the M in IPANEMA. I'm surprised I got as many boxes as I did, my brain is on vacation.
I loved the clues , lol material. FAV? 17D. Bernie Madoff et co. were PATSY HOUNDS.
Before the reveal I have Marx,ENGELS, Lenin, Stalin and Mao. Or is that Chou en Lai*
Ho Chi Minh belongs somewhere. Then again he's got a city named for him. Did he really bus table at the Parker House in Boston?
I'm going to read posts now
WC
That's the spelling I grew up with like Peking (as in duck).
FIW, leaving DRAw OUT and DIM SUh. Only place where I've seen DIM SUM is here at the Corner. Sounds like programming: DIM (SUM, local, integer, long). I really wanted my pilot to be fed "WASH AIR", but couldn't erase NO BARS and ran out of P&P.
ReplyDeleteTwo CSOs to my favorite zillionaire Jimmy Buffett. His songs "Domino College" and "Please Don't Say Manana (if you don't mean it)" are both fun tunes.
Thanks for the fun John and CC.
WEES! I agree with just about all your comments regarding the puzzle. What a fun Sunday puzzle! Thank you, John Lampkin! You are a genius. I loved the cluing and caught almost all the fill with very few erasures. It's brilliant to be able to construct that many partial phrases and then add a B to create a new phrase!
ReplyDeleteI missed the boat at OWIE KNIFE and that whole section. Couldn't come up with FOG either. I think at that point my brain was just drained.
I laughed at 15D thinking about termites on the wooden ARK!
EARSKINRUG also sent me into peels of laughter.
OOT here! Yes, we are officially OUT OF TAMALES! Thank you, Anonymous@7:17
The TWO in the freezer are for a friend who forgot to take them with her.
My family is coming for dinner so I have to hustle because I'm a type C or D.
Thank you, C.C., for your excellent explanations and for Dave 2's address.
I hope you are having a joyful, day, everyone!
Good afternoon, folks. Thank you, John Lampkin, for a fine puzzle. Thank you, C.C., for a fine review.
ReplyDeleteThis puzzle was excellent, but very tough. Liked the theme. URNS AT THE STAKE was my first get.
I could not get started up North, so I went South and worked my way up.
D-O, thanks for the FOB explanation. I had no idea what that referred to.
41D turned out to be HERBAL. I had to think a bit on that because Earl Grey would not fit.
AORTA was tough. I did not know that was a valve. Thought it was an artery. There were some other comments, as well.
Thought DIES and ONE DOWN for 1D and 6D were clever.
Liked NO CIGAR. Phrase I have used for years.
Glad Boomer is doing well.
Well, have to go. See you tomorrow.
Abejo
( )
Sunday Lurk Say...
ReplyDeleteThanks C.C. for the updates on Boomer & D4.
John - Since I didn't play today [I'm noodling on C.C.'s NYT published today in H.Chron] I can't praise your puzzle beyond the beautiful symmetry. I can, however, praise your photos. Amazing!
I'll add to the Nathan's EAT THE PANTS OFF clue c/a w/ Ken Hoffman's article about Joey Chestnut. That's about all I know re: the gross gastronomic exercise.
C, Eh! - I was catching up on XKCD and thought you'd find that one funny (or offensive(?)) :-)
Y'all have a great Sunday evening.
Cheers, -T
Loved this excellent puzzle. Agree that John is a GENIUS. Like Lucina I erupted in peels of laughter at many of the outstanding clues and answers. "1:1, for one" is doubly genius!
ReplyDelete15 down: The aorta is the major blood vessel carrying oxygenated blood to the body from the heart. The valve at the base of the aorta preventing backflow into the left ventricle is the aortic valve. Never in 35 years of cardiovascular medicine heard it called the Aorta Valve. Technical errors drive me nuts!
ReplyDeleteKen
IMWTK = Inquiring Minds Want to Know. (But not about Karen McDougal or Dino Sajudin.)
ReplyDeleteA shame EL NIÑO didn't cross MAÑANA.
Once, while I was out for a lark,
I attended a play in a park.
A DRAMA from Japan
About a ship and a man --
On the playbill it was called NOH'S ARK!
In a billion years, the light from our SUN
Will diminish, ITS time nearly done.
In the land of KUNG fu
A tradition to do
Is to TOAST the dim sun with DIM SUM!
{A, B+.}
OMG! I wasn’t going to post again. But Owen your poetry has blown me away!! Bravo!
ReplyDeleteAnd once more. If you weren’t offended by by QB rant against sloppy passers, may I offer that Nick Foles proves my point. An elegant passer. He puts the ball where it should be.
ReplyDeleteIs there something in the water in Texas?? These l’il Texas boys know how to throw a football
OwenKL:
ReplyDeleteI agree with SwampCat, your poetry is brilliant! Your muse works overtime!
Jayce:
I have to apologize; I meant peals of laughter.
PK I am happy my explanation helped a bit!
ReplyDeleteJoey Chestnut thank you for the explanation about Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest! I see that you have been the winner in the past!
Jinx in Norfolk I just Googled "Dim Sum Norfolk VA" and got several hits! You don't have to go to San Francisco or even to DC for it. Give it a try!
They bring out a tray and you point to what you want. The only problem is you can't always tell what is inside of things. That is where it helps to have a Chinese friend along. But nothing will hurt you and you may find something new that you like!
A friend of Joseph Heller(Catch-22) wrote a book about"cool" New York people who's FAV Sunday thing was going out for DIM SUM. Adult beverages may have been consumed
ReplyDeleteIt looks like the Patriots have been playing possum. I love you PK but Sports commentary is not your thing. Brady was terrific. Unless you turned the sound down Romo thought so too.
There's only one major sport where one cannot"Cheat". Period. And that's Golf- Boomer, have you...oops sorry, I'm in Florida. I just remembered you'll have to wait until April to see how you are doing, Golf wise.
Did John/Rich mean "vessel" and had the same kind of Brain blood shortage I experienced for the 45 minutes I spent solving.
. I had fun with John's XW though.
WC
PS. No other guesses on the five Communist idols. I read a life of Lenin. The account of the 1917 sealed train that traversed Germany is curious to say the least.
I also read a Ho Chi Minh bio.
Slow-filling Sunday CW. Thanks for the fun, John and C.C. (Thanks for the update on Boomer and Dave).
ReplyDeleteThankfully I had red letters today or I might have given up. But with some P&P I finished and saw the theme.
Beta blockers are a class of drugs used to lower heart rate and blood pressure, often after heart attacks; I smiled when I saw AORTA (which I agree should not be clued as a valve) and those defibrillators in ERS.
TYPE Bs are probably less likely to need them. (But actually, the printer for this CW did not have to TYPE B!)
Did OOOLA like oolong tea?
I thought Oot and Aboot was our Canadian pronunciation of Out and About!
Thanks Picard for explaining the Nathan's contest. Like PK,I did not know that. I guessed it had something to do with eating.
AnonT, that XKCD link is hilarious. Canadians are used to Americans knowing next to nothing about our country and we tend to just laugh and not be offended. Of course all you Cornerites are becoming experts on Canada!
(Thanks for the info and link about Minute Maid Park from the other night. This business of learning more about our neighbours works both ways.)
Best wishes to you all.
It was Stalin. Here's information
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PS Was the xword that hard? Not lot of comments