Theme: WATER BREAK
(58. Time for a drink at the gym... or what can literally be seen in
17-, 24-, 35- and 49-Across) - WATER bookends each theme entry.
17. Movie buff's collectible: WALL POSTER.
24. Warm winter wear: WOOL SWEATER.
35. Tool for whacking unwanted grasses: WEED EATER.
49. Looked after: WATCHED OVER.
Boomer here.
"Cool
Clear Water - Oh Dad can't you see that big green tree, where the
WATER's runnin' free and it's waitin' there for you and me."
In
my travels around Minnesota, of course I can not go too far without
noticing water in one of our 10,000 lakes. However, another thing
catching my eye are mammoth apartment buildings being erected
everywhere. I lived in an apartment for about ten years of my life, but
it was a small building with eight units. I was just in Ramsey MN last
week and I swear I saw two individual buildings that will hold about 400
apartments each. Ramsey is a community of many square miles of prairie
land and I cannot see why anyone would want to live piled one on top of
another. What's it like where you live?
One footnote regarding last week. I do not have any brothers, but three great sisters. One older and two younger. I am sure they all wanted to kill me at one time or another, but I am still here.
One footnote regarding last week. I do not have any brothers, but three great sisters. One older and two younger. I am sure they all wanted to kill me at one time or another, but I am still here.
Across:
1. Jet trail: VAPOR.
6. Torino ta-ta: CIAO.
My sister speaks Italian and ends her emails with this strange word.
We used to say it in the Army when it was time to eat, but I don't think
we spelled it that way.
10. Lima or soya: BEAN.
14. Conductor Seiji: OZAWA.
15. Poker hand buy-in: ANTE.
We used to play for nickels when I was a caddy. Sometimes we would
carry a bag and earn $4.00 then get in the card game and go home with
$8.00. (or nothing).
16. Rifle range supply: AMMO - Drop an "M" and you have the first Latin word I ever learned.
19. Like spider webs: SPUN. "Oh what a tangled web we weave."
20. Trees devastated by a "Dutch" disease: ELMS. I don't think the disease is Dutch, I think the tree is.
21. Go kaput: DIE.
22. Manually clutch: GRASP.
This clue reminds me of the manual transmission Chevy we had when I was
learning to drive. Yeah, I think my dad GRASPED something. (Especially
on the left turns)
23. Late July zodiac sign: LEO. Could be a lion or a Pope
27. Popeye, for one: SAILOR. " I would gladly pay you Tuesday for some spinach today."
29. Ramen : Japan :: __ : Vietnam: PHO.
30. Med. care group: HMO. Is this really a Health Maintenance Organization or just a fancy acronym for health insurance ??
31. Croat or Serb: SLAV.
32. Capri or Wight: ISLE. "Every summer we can build a cottage in the Isle of Wight" - when I'm Sixty-four.
34. All in favor: AYES. Opposed? Nay
38. Puppies' bites: NIPS. Hey, I like cheese nips and I don't have a dog.
41. Friend in battle: ALLY. Add an "E" and you have a car path behind a bowling CENTER !
42. Damon of "True Grit" (2010): MATT. Matt Fitzpatrick did well at Arnie Palmer's Tournament this weekend.
45. "__, please": box office request from a single patron: ONE.
46. Orlando-to-Miami dir.: SSE. These direction clue and ans. are usually the only ones I get immediately.
47. Some October babies: LIBRAS. Not me, I am a Scorpio. (And now I am a Cancer too),
53. High dudgeon: IRE.
54. "Aw, shucks!": OH GEE. Wasn't Oh Gee Wan Kenobee in Star Wars ?
55. No-winner situation: TIE. I have many in my closet. Some are winners, I think.
56. Start of a play: ACT I.
57. Betting group: POOL.
We used to pool money when the Power Ball got in the millions. I think
once we won $50, so everyone got about $1.50 back for the $5.00 we each
bet.
61. Airline with an all-kosher menu: EL AL.
I have trouble wondering why anyone would eat airline food. I never
liked it when it was included in the ride. I just figured it was there
to keep the flight attendants busy.
62. "Close one!": WHEW.
63. Copy, briefly: REPRO.
64. Driving range barriers: NETS. I never hit it far enough to hit the net. (But I have hit a few parallels on the side of the range).
65. Ironically, some are "civil": WARS. What are they good for? Absolutely nothing.
66. Caravan stops: OASES.
Down:
1. The word "America" has four of them: VOWELS.
2. Rhododendron shrubs: AZALEAS.
3. Saturated vegetable fat: PALM OIL. If you have it, you might want to wear gloves when you bowl or play golf.
4. Big-eyed birds: OWLS. WHO ??
5. Drake genre: RAP.
6. Electronic calculator pioneer: CASIO. I remember my first one. Wiped out 4 years of grade school math.
7. Pentium processor maker: INTEL.
8. Gobbled up: ATE. Oh You Turkey!!
9. "__ the ramparts ... ": OER.
Speaking of which - I wish guests at sporting events would sing the
National Anthem with reverence and stop trying to make it a Broadway
production.
10. Port in southeastern Iraq: BASRA.
11. Capacity to relate: EMPATHY.
12. "Say something funny!": AMUSE ME.
13. Amateurs: NON-PROS.
18. Smell: ODOR. Rougned of the Rangers, you're wanted in a crossword.
22. Nat __ Wild: cable channel: GEO.
24. Worked on a loom: WOVE. When I was a kid, we made potholders on them. I never saw a real fancy loom though.
25. Spread out, as fingers: SPLAY.
26. Stimulate: WHET. There's a hole in the bucket, dear Liza. So whet the knife, Henry and fix it!
28. Felons violate them: LAWS.
32. Ran in neutral: IDLED. In the old days we always warmed the car up in the winter. Now I guess it's not necessary.
33. Poivre partner: SEL.
34. Graceful horse: ARAB.
36. Lack of difficulty: EASE.
37. Kuwait potentate: EMIR. Our Gophers have Amir Coffey. He does not have the money of an Emir, but he could get there in the NBA.
38. Sign on a new store: NOW OPEN. I am waiting for that sign on the Minnesota golf courses.
39. Losing big at the casino, say: IN A HOLE. (See above - I'll bring my putter.)
40. Bleating companion: PET GOAT. Remember Pontiac? Those who owned a GTO were said to have a pet goat.
43. "Three-headed" arm muscle: TRICEPS.
44. Raw steak style: TARTARE. Raw fish - needs a lot of tartar sauce.
46. Ship's pronoun: SHE.
47. Creepy look: LEER.
48. Japanese watches: SEIKOS. Got my mother one for Christmas in 1990. Still keeps time.
50. Rooms behind bars?: CELLS. I don't think you can call it a room unless it has a rug or a coffee pot.
51. Playful marine animal: OTTER. Remember Eric Stratton in "Animal House"? Otter, played by Tim somebody.
52. Vantage points: VIEWS.
56. Office space calculation: AREA.
58. Letters in a URL: WWW. World Wide Wrestling??
59. ''Now I get it!'': AHA.
60. Dude: BRO.
Boomer
Note from C.C.:
JD sent me this wonderful pictures of her grandsons. She said:
"Last evening the league had their opening ceremonies. The boys have just completed their flag football and basketball, and now....even though it is still chilly and rainy...the baseball season is upon us. Watched 1st game this morning with a few showers. As you can see, Grady and his brother Truman are on the same team. Dylan has no desire for any team sport yet. He needs a bicycle team. Time just flies by."
JD sent me this wonderful pictures of her grandsons. She said:
"Last evening the league had their opening ceremonies. The boys have just completed their flag football and basketball, and now....even though it is still chilly and rainy...the baseball season is upon us. Watched 1st game this morning with a few showers. As you can see, Grady and his brother Truman are on the same team. Dylan has no desire for any team sport yet. He needs a bicycle team. Time just flies by."
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51 comments:
When Moses split the Red Sea, did the WATER turn to VAPORS?
The boats just crossing there surely had befuddled SAILORS!
Did water pile up on the side,
Or flow out like an ebbing tide,
Or did he do it all with paper towels and blotting papers?
I wonder if in Italy, dogs often get confused.
When Master leaves, it's CIAO time, but nothing's left for chews.
There's no more chow or kibble,
Not even just a nibble,
And so that's why Italians have to spend so much on shoes!
{A, A.}
Boomer: Loved that song, so I'm pretty sure it's "Dan, can you see...", not Dad.
Good morning Cornerwriters.
Thank you C.C. for this pleasant Monday CW which I almost FIR in 18:25 min.
at 7 D I cheated, and read a label on my laptop.
At 22 A I wanted to shift gears.
Thanks Boomer for your informative review.
On 1 A, one could mention "Chem-trails."
1 D also has 4 syllables.
Ðave
Thank you to the Burnikel’s for a quick and amusing start to the week!
No need for red letters or look ups this morning.
In that song, Paint and Dan were the horses. In my youth my mother had a stack of records on the stereo that played every morning while she did housework. There was many a Saturday morning that I did the dusting to that song.
FIR, but erased nnw for SSE. I'm near Orlando, so I was thinking how to get there.
"Kaput" has to be German. Spitz?
The Eurythmics might say (if they re-wrote Sweet Dreams):
Some of them want to amuse you
Some of them want to be amused.
I thought of TI for "calculator pioneer". I remember you had to pay a lot more for one that could do square roots, and those red LEDs ATE batteries.
Another great Monday from Mr and Mrs CC. Thanks to both for the fun start to the work week.
FLN: I hate to admit this, but Anon had the best comment on DST. Let's compromise - DST half the year! BTW, a lot of the land area in AZ DOES use DST - all of the Indian Reservations.
Tim Matheson
Hi Y'all! Great puzzle, C.C.! Thanks for the levity on an otherwise gloomy morning, Boomer!
Off to a good start when I got both VAPOR and VOWEL right away, a speed run in just a sec. under 12 minutes. I noticed the "W" beginnings with "R" ends and filled WARS before reading the WATERBREAK clue, so thought WARS might be the theme. Had to shift gears a bit for the real theme clue which was much nicer even if it purported to be civil.
The winner of Arnie's tournament would have said "CAIO". I didn't watch the whole thing -- just tuned in as they were interviewing Bellinelli.
OOPS! The winner of Arnie's Invitational Tournament was Francesco Molinari. Bellinelli is the basketball player. Duh!
Good morning!
Zipped right through this one, except for VIRGOS where LIBRAS needed to be. Quickly fixed. Thanx, C.C. and Boomer (It was the disease that was "Dutch"). There were lots of answers I could relate to...
CASIO: Those early CASIO calculators could only do +-x÷, but they cost over $70. CASIO is also the maker of my "atomic" wristwatch. It's accurate to the second...when it doesn't forget to spring forward. Did y'all replace the batteries in your smoke alarms yesterday?
SEIKO: I received a SEIKO watch as a 5-year award from my employer back in '87. It's still in the original box, never worn.
TIE: DW assures me there's still a tie in my closed, but I don't know where she's hidden it. Haven't had one on in over 20 years.
WOOL SWEATER: Just ordered a nice one on sale from L.L. Bean. I figured it was finally time to retire the old, moth-eaten boat-neck cable-knit. Older sister bought it in the early '50s. Second sister got it as a hand-me-down a couple of years later. Second brother was next in the early '60s. I've had it since the mid '60s. DW no longer allows me to wear it in public. It's earned its retirement.
NOW OPEN: Our one brick-and-mortar enterprise, a Family Dollar, closed late last month. It's being reworked to reopen this month as a Dollar Tree. Since Family Dollar failed, what makes them think that Dollar Tree will do better in the same location?
No high-rise apartment buildings in our town. It's mostly modest homes on large lots -- most are one acre, some considerably larger.
Closet. Thank you, auto-correct.
Aside: I don't get starstruck very often, and I'm not the jealous type. Today I'm both. Golfer Michelle Wie is engaged. Rich, beautiful and hits from the blue tees. What more could a guy ask? Ok, ok, her dad doesn't own a liquor store, but with her riches the happy couple could buy several as investments.
Loved it, C.C. If LATs had titles, this one should be "Water, Water, All Around" But not a drop to drink in the theme answers, until we get to that water break.
I bought a scientific calculator while in college. HP35, $395 in 1972. I now have a free app on my phone that does the same thing and the phone only cost $150 (2018).
Still tired, trying to adjust to the time change. The puzzle was a nice wake-up double dose of Burnikel magic. Thanks.
Thank you, C.C. and Boomer! It's another Burnikel Monday!
With VAPOR and OZAWA at the start I thought this might be crunchier than it turned out. But C.C. SPUN a good grid as she always does.
EMIR and ARAB are together!
Here POOL is for WATER and already I've seen some visitors there.
Do we have apartments? Yes, in many stages of development. It's as if someone strewed building seeds in every available AREA and buildings popped up.
Jinx:
I believe only the Navajo Reservation in the northern part of AZ observes DST. We have many other Reservations scattered throughout the state which keep standard time. I'll LIU to make sure.
I saw on CBS Sunday morning that olive trees in Italy are dying by the thousands. For them it's not the Dutch disease that's wiping out their livelihood.
Have a happy Monday, everyone!
Good morning everyone.
Once again C.C. has graced our paper with a fine puzzle. Thought it had a bit of a bite for a Monday; PHO, RAP, but perps were friendly. No searches were needed. Did not get the theme until coming here, but fill was straightforward. Two Zodiac entries: LEO and LIBRAS.
KAPUT - German kaputt. Probably entered the English largely through Yiddish (kaput). I grew up with KAPUT. 😎
Marvelous Monday. Thanks for the fun, C.C. and Boomer.
Just a little bite today but things filled in well and I got the WATER theme.
Yes, D4, I wanted the 4 syllables before the VOWELS, and I thought of gears with "that manually clutch" clue (and IDLED).
I questioned rather that TRICEPS muscle should have had the S. I LIUed and apparently, in Latin, Triceps is singular and plural. (The muscle arises from three heads.)
I prefer today's WHEW to yesterday"s Phew.
I'm with you Boomer about those anthem singers who go all over the scale instead of just singing the anthem as written. Canadian anthem does not lend itself to quite as many flights of fancy as the American anthem.
Enjoy the day. CIAO.
Juicy romp from C.C. today. Boomer, as usual, added spice to the tour.
OZAWA was the only word I wasn't sure of today. Plus I spelled CIAO as CAIO at first. Perps fixed these two problems.
Among other things, today is National Eat Your Noodles Day. C.C. got that in with her PHO answer and clue.
After the theme was evident and there were two Zodiac signs, I was wondering if a water sign could be in the puzzle.
Back in the day I used a National Semiconductor RPN (Reverse Polish Notation) calculator for engineering calculations. That calculator doesn't work anymore, but I have a TI (Texas Instruments) RPN calculator that works and will even do graphs on its tiny screen. These days there are smart phone apps for RPN calculators, but most of them are not free.
It looks like it's going to be a warmer week, maybe some rain, but no snow predicted for Central PA. Yay.
Enjoy the day.
Good Morning:
What a delight to have CC as our Saturday constructor, our Sunday commentator, and our Monday constructor, with an added bonus of Boomer as our Monday Sherpa! Can't get much better than that! I saw the Water theme early on but the reveal was still a surprise. I'm going to claim accidental SOs with Libra, (my husband), Leo (my mother), Tartare (I love steak tartare), and Nips (my favorite hard candy, coffee-flavored). No w/os or stumbles, just a clean, smooth, fun solve.
Thanks, CC and Boomer, for a pleasant start to the week. Boomer, the chuckles were non-stop this morning!
Have a great day.
Good Morning.
Thanks for a sunny Burkinel Monday. I enjoyed the puzzle, especially the WINTER SWEATER. I thought it was fun to see CASIO next to INTEL. Not sure why, but I gather it's just easy to AMUSE ME.
D-O, you definitely deserve a new sweater. I don't blame your DW at all for retiring (hiding?) it. My hub still has the sweater I knit him the Christmas before we married. Yes, it's avocado green, and I think back in style.
IM: from Friday (?): Thanks. I'm beginning to feel GRAND once again.
Have a fine day. I am happy to see the sun later in the day. I don't mind arising in the dark. Sunrises are wonderful.
OC4Beach: Ooops, I guess I also spelled CIAO wrong in my post. I should have forgotten all about that clever statement since I didn't get much right the first time. No spell check to blame.
Madame: You knit him an avocado green sweater before marriage and he still married you? That had to be TRUE LOVE!
If you have AZALEAS in your yard, be sure to keep the PET GOATS away as the bushes' leaves and nectar are very toxic to them. Apiarists can rejoice, however, as the honey derived from AZALEAS can produce mind altering properties and is known as "mad honey".
P.S. According to the ancient Roman historian Pliny the Elder in his Natural History, an army invading Pontus in Turkey was poisoned with such honey, resulting in their defeat.
Boomer, loved your tie and your Monday morning humor.
Anyone here tried the weekly WSJ crossword contest? With no red letters available the March 8th “Court Fight” was a struggle to complete.
You submit the completed puzzle with the hopes of winning a WSJ mug.
No red letters? No in-depth review? Think I will stick with the L.A. Times.
Musings
-What a fun puzzle that was also prescient. The Platte is already full of snow and ice and 5” of rain is predicted for eastern Nebraska
-Got called to sub an hour after school started. It seems the Spanish teacher forgot to tell anyone she was going to be gone. Ive been here an hour and a half and the sub line just emailed me I have this job.
-On a late week puzzle, ” The word” would not be in front of “America has four of them”
-EMPATHIC and EMPATHETIC are the same. I prefer the latter
-SIEKO – Isn’t it amazing that you have to rethink how to reset all your clocks just 6 months later
-FLN – DST doesn’t help me get in more golf as I play early in the morning. However, in early fall it forces my golf club to open an hour later. Not a fan!
-Tree problems here are caused by Green Ash Beetle. The bug is green not necessarily the tree
-Lincoln and Omaha are building apartment houses as fast as they can get lumber. No one wants to mow any more.
-Between DST and having to use a PC this morning, I’m IRED/IRATE! :-)
-Adios
Good morning. Thank you C.C. and thank you Boomer. A great (late) start to the day.
Wondered where we were going with WALL, WOOL, WEED and WATCH until I got to the reveal.
Boomer, I hope your morning set today was better than my set last Thursday night. So pathetic. It was so bad it became comical. Buried shots and left count. Missed them right, missed them left. Chopped pins. 13 opens. Didn't break 150. 439 series. Ouch !
Woohoo! Wonderful to have our C.C. weekend continue with both Burnikels delighting us today! Great way to start the week! And it was a delightful Monday puzzle, with a fun theme answer, which helped me get the remaining theme words. I couldn't imagine what Movie buff collectible was going to start with a W--oh, WALL POSTER! But that WARM SWEATER was no problem at all. Liked seeing EMPATHY and AMUSE ME next to each other, two sweet relationship terms. Fun write-up, as always, Boomer. I loved the picture of your cute tie and the one of the lovely AZALEAS. Many thanks to you both, C.C. and Boomer.
Have a great week, everybody!
Either SEIKO or CASIO could fit the theme as WATch manufacturER although it would require a wider grid.
Interesting history of SEIKO: A massive conglomerate Seiko subsidized a company to aid in manufacturing watch parts called Diawa Kogyo. Then in 1964 SEIKO was awarded the contract to be the official timekeeper for the Tokyo Olympics withers a request to provide a printing timer. They did and later developed a printing device called the EP-101(electronic printer 101) which also was incorporated into some calculators, maybe even CASIOS. Later they supplied printing capabilities for the Commodore PET system. They took the EP designation and added -SON to form Epson. Therefore, SEIKO became one of the largest printer manufacturers in the world.
*Ladies and gentleman the previous story you have read is true. Some facts and names have been altered to make this convoluted history easier to explain and to protect the innocent. Please refer all objections to:
Well, I am overwhelmed...
Not sure where to start, perhaps FLN best Anon comment ever @
(hmm, cant remember the time, but it was a compromise...)
Oh, I know, I was going to complain..
Wonderful to have CC on a Monday, (or any day...)
but I had a nit...
13d amateurs, i had not Pros, which made
19a, like spider webs = Sput?
Well, this is a new word for me, like when Bilbo started yelling
"Attacob" at the evil spiders in Mirkwood, and I then discovered
that "Cob" was old English for spider web.
"But," Sput is not a Monday word! I protest!
It is not fair...
Hmm, the Blog says it was NonPro = Spun...
Rats, I have to evoke Emily Litella...
On a side note:
Deep in the depths of Winter, I am reliving my Summer
camping experiences via YouTube, & perchanced upon tarp shelters
for rain of snow conditions. Being a particularly nasty weekend,
with snow on the ground and raining, I decided to practice (in the backyard)
my FerroRod fire starting techniques, with fatwood and birchbark,
and set up a tarp shelter in the rain with a firepit.
But it was the mention of 24d, worked on a loom = wove
that made me realize, OMG! I have become Sheldon...
Thanks CC, I don't usually get a break...
Hi everybody. Thanks Mr. and Mrs. CC. :>)
I live about a mile from the Pacific. Hardly any large apartment buildings in the area. There are quite a few houses for rent though.
My body and brain still don't like the time change.
Years ago, LIFE Magazine had a recipe and photo for Steak Tartare on the back couple of pages. Wouldn't you know, somebody wrote a letter to the editor complimenting them on how good it looked and how tasty the recipe sounded. But they mentioned that they had omitted the cooking instructions. The editor responded, "If you cook it, you've got hamburger."
A much cozier pzl experience from C.C. than last week's opus! This was fun from start to Ta ~DA!
Boomer ~ Thanks for printing part of the Cool Water song. I recall when it was popular when I was a kid, but I was too young to remember the lyrics.
I very much enjoyed the recent Oscar-nominated film, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, and was delighted to hear the song brought back to life by Tim Blake Nelson in the title role--a terrific send-up of the "Singing Cowboy" tradition.
Because it was on Netflix, I appreciated the opportunity to play the song over and over.
Took a fall Friday. Nothing broken, but I pulled a muscle in the back of my right knee, making it painful to put weight on that leg. I wanted to take a hot bath over the weekend to soak it, but was afraid I wouldn't be able to stand properly to get out of the tub.
Last night I decided to take a morphine pill left over from a previous injury. I think it is doing the trick, and I can use the leg with more confidence.
Fingers crossed: I plan to soak in the tub today.
~ OMK
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DR: Four diagonals today, one on the near side and a 3-way on the flip.
The anagram pickings are not great, but on the main (NW to SE) I see a note for those who are tired of denims, or maybe it is a salute to their distressed jeans. I refer, of course, to ...
"WEARY LEVIS"!
Good afternoon, folks. Thank you, C.C., for a fine puzzle. Thank you, Boomer, for a fine review.
This puzzle went quickly. After all, it is a Monday.
Good theme. WATER.
OZAWA was prepped. So were PHO and GEO. With a wag at the O.
Of course I wrote in PHEW for 62A. Fixed that later to WHEW. Only inkblot.
I never had a PET GOAT, but I bought a live one grazing on a garbage dump in Iran. Then we butchered it and had kababs.
Off to my day. Book Club tonight. We are reviewing "Beneath a Scarlet Sky" and "Origin." Both were excellent books to read.
See you tomorrow.
Abejo
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TIL that goat diapers are a thing because PET GOAT cannot be trained to control its bowels.
An old joke:
Jose comes back from a baseball game and one of his friends asks if he enjoyed the game.
Jose replied that yes he did. He said he was sitting in the bleachers in centerfield. I was impressed with the friendliness of the people in the stands because they all stood up before the start of the the game and asked me:
Jose, can you see?
I liked this puzzle a lot. As TTP said, I wondered where we were going with WALL, WOOL, WEED and WATCH until I got to the reveal. And now I have that earworm "Keep a-movin', Dan" in my mind. But I don't mind; I like the song. I do wonder, though, why the writer ended it with "me and you" instead of "you and me."
LW and I have been cleaning out our garage for the past several weeks, and holy cow we are finding stuff that is 30 years old! Stuff she bought back then that were never used, never even taken out of the box. No Casio, H-P, or TI calculators, though. I do have a Casio CM-100 that I still use frequently; I bought it because it does decimal, octal, binary, hexadecimal conversions, functions that were useful to me as an assembly language programmer.
Thank you, Mr. and Mrs. Burnikel, for a very pleasant Monday morning.
Much easier than CC's Saturday offering. FIR.
This nice Monday puzzle had a bit of a bite, but no issues.
Except one...I’m speaking to BOOMER....all due respect, but Mr. McCartney would RENT that cottage on the Isle of Wight....if it’s not too dear. It would be if they had to build it every year, haha.
No markovers today...I would have had one, but resisted the P and waited for the cross for WHEW. Who says resistance is futile?
john28man:
I love that joke no matter how often I hear it! Thank you.
OMK:
How awful to have a fall like that! I hope it isn't more serious than you let on. Please be careful.
I went for my routine eye exam today and all is well. Our family has a history of glaucoma so the doctor wants to keep checking it. She is a lovely lady and I don't mind driving the 28 miles to see her.
CIAO!
I agree Owen, straight W's
Fab write-up Boomer.
FLN, re. Compromise: I have a better idea . Standard time in the morning, DST in the evening. Yes, much like the Romans we'd have to "intercalate"* an hour at some point in time.
So speaking of AP Golf: Francesco got an added bonus: the Arnold Palmer Cardigan **
Von wiki: talk about"Glorious Defeat"
Actually (from "The Hobbit") Bilbo called the spiders Attercop, Lazy Lob, Crazy Cob, and Old Tomnoddy
Re the Xword:
My problem was not putting on the reading glasses. But it was a lot of fun.
* Livy
** Much like the Augusta Green Jacket and... Bellinelli had some key baskets for the Spurs the other night
Assembly language programming... I started on the 4004. Now those were the days.
Nice start to the week. Tons of W's. Please tell me what "red letters" means in crossword terms. Thanks in advance.
For the second year in a row, my son Devin has made it to the finals of the Denver GARNISH GAMES . If you are in Denver, admission is free and there are plenty of free samples. Congrats my mixologist son!
Hello TTP. Boomer here. Sorry to hear of your tough night. I have not talked too much about bowling because mine is not worth talking about. I did have an interesting morning on the lanes today. I started game one with three opens in the first six frames, but then took six strikes off the sheet for 202. Started game two with a strike.(First time I have had seven in a row since last year. Stayed clean with no doubles until the tenth - open for 178. Third game was terrible, could not find anything and missed a couple of easy spares for 156 and a 536 set. The Monday travelling league is a challenge because each house is a little different, but I have been in the league for 10-12 years so I think I should know what the lanes have to offer. Hang in there.
Ol'Man Keith, so sorry to hear about your fall and the painful knee. Hope you're able to get that healing soak tonight.
JD:
Time surely does fly! The boys are almost grown! They look handsome in their uniforms. What fun for you and the family. Thank you for sharing.
Hi All!
WEES, what a great way to start a new work-week. Thanks C.C. and Boomer! Boomer, do you just riff while C.C. frantically types your expo? :-)
WO: OASiS //Untie!
ESP: OZAWA
Fav: I was tickled at AMUSE ME.
LEER next-door to VIEW also evoked AMUSEment
{A, A}
Nice to see you john28. An that joke ain't "old" it's a "classic."
Jinx - I too thought of TI. Oc4 - I loved my HP-28s RPN Calculator. (It also does more than Base 10, Jayce - BTW, if you have an iPhone, hit the calculator and turn the phone sideways - boom Engr.Calc. [won't do multiple bases though])
Lucina - did they say why the Olive trees are dying? I better stock up on OIL.
Spitz - I love the word Kaput too; it just sounds so final. [rising Ka before the last gasp 'put']
Anon@11:56 - Did not know that re: EPSON. Thanks.
OMK - Throw those WARY Jeans out w/ D-O's SWEATER :-)
Sorry to hear about your leg. Get well soon.
Julia makes TARTARE on Letterman [6:22]
Terry - A 4004? You were lucky, we used to have only one bit but we were happy [Python 3:30] :-)
Cheers, -T
Tony, yeah I do like that iPhone “sideways” calculator. Lotsa roots and logs ‘n’ stuff. Thanks
Boomer,
I'm better at talking about bowling than actually doing it. You've had what, 8 perfect games ? I've had 0. Nice run in the 1st game. After last week, I just want to get back to basics, and hope the pins are a little nicer to me next time out. I lost $2 on King of the Hill, $8 on a 3 game side bet, got hung for $1 when every other teammate struck in one frame, and had low count in the $2 beer frame one game, so it wasn't a good night. I'm going to ask around and see if any of the guys know about a traveling league in our area. That sounds like fun and something I'd like to try.
JD, so very nice to share the boys.
Rce, in answer to your question about red letters. If you tackle the CW puzzle on the computer, some formats allow you to get a little help by showing your mistakes as red letters. When you make a mistake, the red letter helps you correct it before you've gone too far astray. The Mensa site does that for example in the 'regular' mode.
Tony:
It's some sort of bacterium and it's killing them by the thousands.
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