17. That's a wrap: GIFT BOX COVERING.
27. That's a wrap: TERRY CLOTH ROBE.
44. That's a wrap: ROLLED SANDWICH.
60. "That's a wrap!": END OF A FILM SHOOT.
Bruce and Gail tossed us a softball today, wrapped in a tight little package. That's ok by me.
Across:
1. It's sold in bars: SOAP.
5. D-Day invasion city: ST LO. Saint-Lô
9. Live: DWELL.
14. Willing follower?: ABLE. Often preceded by Ready.
15. Forked over: PAID. Remitted.
16. Certain Ivy Leaguer: YALIE.
20. Make more flavorful: SEASON. There's a right way, and a wrong way. Too little and too much are subjective. I tend to be a little heavy handed with seasoning. When things go wrong, the fine folks at Cook Country offer the following suggestions:
- If your food is too salty, add an acid or sweetener such as vinegar; lemon or lime juice; canned, unsalted tomatoes; sugar, honey, or maple syrup.
- If your food is too sweet, add an acid or seasonings such as vinegar or citrus juice; chopped fresh herb; dash of cayenne; or, for sweet dishes, a bit of liqueur or espresso powder.
- If your food is too spicy or acidic, add a fat or sweetener such as butter, cream, sour cream, cheese, or olive oil; sugar, honey, or maple syrup.
Ere I salted, I brined.
What was I thinking ?
My blood pressure was up,
Was I out of my mind ?
(I'd better leave the verse to Owen).
22. Fascinated by: INTO.
23. Opposite of hence: AGO.
25. Gym shorts go-with: TEE. We always played shirts and skins in gym class. That was before co-ed.
Speaking of high school, I read the other day that my high school recognized five valedictorians in the graduating class. I understand that having more than one valedictorian would be a school decision. But is it common now to have more than one ? Doesn't five seem excessive ?
35. Bushy-tailed canines: FOXES. A neighbor posted this picture of this fox family on her deck. She captured them at just the right moment. Mama knows exactly where to look.
36. Eat-on-the-street places: CAFES. Dining Al Fresco. The Filling Station in St Charles, IL.
37. What an amateur may turn: PRO.
38. Like some audiobooks: ON CD.
39. Goes from site to site: SURFS. Web surfer. Hand up.
40. School for a prince: ETON. Prince William and Prince Harry are but two of the many famous Etonians.
41. Beehive State athlete: UTE. Utah Ute. In honor of the American Indian tribe.
42. Start a court contest: SERVE. It took a moment on Saturday to realize that Craig Stowe's answer ACERS for the clue "Great service providers" was in the context of tennis. I agreed with Jerome's observation in the comments, "... willing to bet that no tennis player has ever used the word."
43. Radiates: EMITS. "Who glows ? Just say ____ "
47. Ike's WWII arena: ETO. European Theater of Operations.
48. Italian god: DIO. Ronnie James Dio was a New Hampshire born guitarist and vocalist that became the lead singer of Black Sabbath after they fired Ozzy Osbourne. Prior to that, he and Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple fame formed the heavy metal band Rainbow.
49. Made it up: LIED. Prevaricated.
52. Find fault to a fault: NAG.
55. Evades: SKIRTS.
63. Frequent genre for composer John Williams: SCI-FI. Science Fiction. I paused after filling the answer. I knew Schifrin (Lalo) from doing crosswords. But I had never heard of a composer named Scifi. Then I read the clue again and saw "genre for" instead of "frequent composer for John Williams."
64. Bay, play or gray follower: AREA.
65. Kurylenko of "Quantum of Solace": OLGA. Starred opposite of Daniel Craig in the movie.
66. Identity __: THEFT. Reduce your risk with these tips.
67. Provoke: ROIL.
68. Mulching material: PEAT.
Down:
1. Loses elasticity: SAGS. Physics.
2. "Hamilton" award: OBIE. Off Broadway awards. The 2015 Obie Award for Best New American Theatre Work.
3. Opposite of Zulu?: ALFA. The opposite ends of the phonetic alphabet.
4. They're often adopted: PETS.
5. Like angel food cake: SPONGY. Light and airy.
6. Strain: TAX. Burden.
7. Bothersome bugs: LICE.
8. Reason to use Febreze: ODOR. The science behind why it works, according to the manufacturer.
9. Salon supply: DYE.
10. Not as trusting: WARIER.
11. Author Hilderbrand: ELIN. Romance novelist.
You can read about her at her website.
12. Dust bunny component: LINT. Dust bunny is such a pleasant name. Makes you not want to vacuum.
13. Danish brick: LEGO. Clever clue for a favorite toy across the world wide. In case you too thought Bruce and Gail were looking for the Danish word for a brick, and then wondered what is was, it's mursten.
18. Male razorbacks: BOARS. I can't help but think about the University of Arkansas when I see Razorbacks. It's the mascot of their sports teams.
19. Iconic Chevys: VETTES. The debut model was in 1953 and had 150 horsepower. The only options were an AM radio and a heater. The new eighth-generation Corvette was seen in camouflage in April in Times Square. Formal announcement is next month on July 19th.
24. Goes down, so to speak: OCCURS.
26. Reactions to missing things: EHs. In the US, eh is sometimes vocalized when you would like something repeated, as in # 6 in the chart below.
In Canada, eh is a versatile interjection added to the ends of sentences and "... is a distinctive part of Canadian English":
Canadian Eh, that looks like a pretty good summation, eh?
27. 2013 role for Johnny Depp: TONTO. Controversy ensued.
28. Get all A's: EXCEL.
29. Common hummingbird feeder color: RED. The birds are attracted to the bright color.
30. Cocoon dweller: LARVA.
31. Cause resentment: OFFEND.
32. __ disc: eye part: OPTIC.
33. Stock: BROTH.
34. Quite a stretch: EONS.
35. Common par: FOUR. Because on the typical 18 hole golf course, there are 4 par 3s, 4 par 5's, and the other 10 holes are par 4s.
39. Resort near Flagstaff: SEDONA.
40. Former Radiohead label: EMI. Electric and Musical Industries until 1971. Radiohead is an English rock band
42. Financially secure: SET.
43. "Star Wars" critters: EWOKS.
45. Started: LED OFF. On June 13th, leadoff hitter Kyle Schwarber led off the game against the Los Angeles Dodger's ace Clayton Kershaw with a first pitch home run.
46. Dreary: DISMAL.
49. Out of concern that: LEST.
50. Rainfall measure: INCH.
51. Singer Brickell: EDIE. Notably of Edie Brickell & New Bohemians. She is the spouse of Paul Simon.
53. Miles away: AFAR.
54. Copter's forerunner: GIRO.
56. 2007 Applebee's acquirer: IHOP.
57. Part: ROLE. Fred VanVleet played his part superbly in the Toronto Raptors NBA Championship run, and hit a clutch 3 pointer in the waning minutes of their game 6 championship clinching victory. Fred is from nearby Rockford, IL, and, as PK noted Tuesday, played four years of college ball for the Shockers of Wichita State. He was a basketball force in his college days, leading the Shockers to an undefeated season and deep into the NCAAs, but remained undrafted. Toronto took a chance on him. Wise move.
58. Costume made from a sheet: TOGA. "Was it over when Dean Wormer put the Deltas on probation ?" TOGA, TOGA !
59. Sports page entry: STAT.
61. Require no alteration: FIT.
62. Honolulu Airport wreath: LEI.
That's a wrap: END OF REVIEW.
46 comments:
IT'S A WRAP, the GIFT BOX COVERING,
Pretty paper with joyful coloring,
Adding frisson
To the SEASON
of the winter solstice-ing!
IT'S A WRAP, the TERRYCLOTH ROBE,
Warm and comfy in the cold.
A cup of BROTH
To ward chills off,
A comforter to snuggle in like a mole!
IT'S A WRAP, a ROLLED SANDWICH,
A pita pocket SERVED to enrich.
There veggies find,
And meat chopped fine
And cheese to fill the vacant niche!
IT'S A WRAP, the END OF A FILM SHOOT.
Put it to bed, then the cutting booth.
The ROLES can rest,
So now's the test
Of how the edit is cruel or ruth.
{all A-ish.}
FIR in 42:45 min.
Fantastic Friday Friends!
Thank you Bruce Venzke and Gail Grabowski for this CW that was crunchy in each cell, and yet doable.
Thank you TTP for your excellent review.
20 A -- What an appropriate time to adjust seasons as we change from Spring to Summer.
Do you remember Princess Summerfall Winterspring?
Ðave
Good morning!
Unusual to see a definition puzzle these days. My only major misstep was ACE IT for EXCEL (I don't use Excel, just Libre Office). Of course, there were also DEO/DIO and GYRO/GIRO. No prob. Thanx, BV, GG and L714 (What is it that Rockford, IL is nearby to?)
Fox family photo: Yesterday nursing mama coon brought her seven kits to our back patio. What a rambunctious mob!
Monarch butterflies: This year I bought some milkweed seed on Amazon, intending to provide some butterfly habitat for the monarchs. First they wouldn't start. Then once they started, the grew very slowly. Then once transplanted, the yard guys mowed 'em. End of story (that's a wrap). How can a "weed" be so difficult to grow?
Valedictorians: Lemonade, my guess is that all five students had a 4.0 GPA. How do you determine that one is superior to the others?
Cook's Country: I've learned a lot from those folks, and also their sister-show, America's Test Kitchen. Another font of cooking knowledge is Alton Brown's Good Eats.
Time to go out and get hot, sweaty, and solsticy marching through the 'hood.
My success rate for a Friday puzzle is in the single digits each year. Thought today was one of them, but for 48A had DEO. and 46D DESMAL. DEO was already Infilled in. My fault for not checking the spelling.
Good morning, folks. Thank you, Bruce Venzke & Gail grabowski, for a fine puzzle. Thank you, TTP,for fine review.
TTP: That restaurant/cafe in St. Charles caught my eye. I will have to try that some day. It is just down the road apiece. Also liked the monarch butterfly video. Excellent!
Puzzle was easy and tough. It is Friday.
Caught the theme with TERRY VCLOTH ROBE and END OF A FILM SHOOT. GIFT BOX COVERING was my last to get. That NE corner was a bugaboo.
Got ST LO right away. Crosswordese.
SCI FI was tough for 63A. Perped it.
OLGA was unknown, as was ELIN. Perps again.
No idea LEGOs were from Denmark. Live and learn.
Well, back to the doctor today. Then back agin in six weeks. See you tomorrow.
Abejo
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Fun Friday offering didn't flummox me. Thanks Bruce and Gail. I liked your review, TTP, especially the Monarch clip. Fascinating.
Quantum of Solace was new to me. Although I am not much into romance novels, I think I have read one by Elin H.
For the Canadians, EH seems to have as many uses as the German ACH does. Constructors nearly always clue ACH as a complaint. In our family ACH had many, many other more frequent uses. Unreasonably, I suppose, that clue always annoys me.
ACER makes sense as a person who aces, but it is not used that way. In Japanese class we would use phrases that followed the rules like that and made sense to us, but the teacher would point out that no one ever talks that way.
FLN, I agree that we all have many different tastes. That diversity makes this blog interesting and is no cause for offense.
That couple waiting for an Uber outside the CAFE in St. Charles looks like an interesting story.
HIM:...honey, I told you not to have that 3rd margarita.
HER:...NAG, NAG, NAG...
Remember when Clint Eastwood said "NAG, NAG, NAG..."? I thought he uttered it to Tyne Daly(The Enforcer) but as I searched for the clip I now think he said it to Sandra Locke(The Gauntlet). Talk about art foreshadowing life!
Fun, quick (under 8 minutes) Friday puzzle.
Danish brick seemed cruel at first, but Lego quickly surfaced. I wanted gyro instead of giro, but maybe that was my hunger talking. One clue later, IHOP didn't help matters.
Sedona is gorgeous.
Anybody wonder why learning English is confusing? Just RAP your knuckles and hope the police don't arrest you because everybody in jail is there due to a bum RAP, or so they claim. The puzzle was definitely a softball for a Friday. Only a few A&E fills were perped- ERIN, DEPP, OLGA, EMI.
GIRO- never seen it spelled that way, only GYROcopter.
Good morning.
In reference to valedictorian, D-O wrote that his guess was that all five students had 4.0 GPAs. Is it strictly GPA ? I thought it was both objective (GPA) and subjective (course of study and teacher's input). What would normally be done if one student achieved 4.0 taking all general ed and vocational ed classes, while another student achieved 4.0 taking all AP classes in an academic or scientific curriculum ? Perhaps I am misremembering it as I wasn't in the running, but I thought there were 3 or 4 students that were perfect in my high school class, but only one was valedictorian.
The Sweetwater High School in San Ysidro, CA probably wished they had a different valedictorian after this speech.
Hondo, good to see you back. Did you happen to catch that sports highlight of Max Scherzer taking batting practice ?
Abejo, I hope all goes well for you today. Maybe we can meet one day and try the Filling Station. A group of us ate there years ago but I don't recall much other than that they were very busy that night.
Off to Kohl's. Men's polos on sale for $9.99, and discounted another 20% to $7.99 if you give them the Promo Code HEATWAVE.
"Boomer, it OCCURS to me that you think everything we have is yours"
"Nope, it's OURS, C.C."
We have lots of hummingbirds. Yes, red attracts them. Every day I have a couple of 24 ounce Budweisers out on our back deck. The little guys always fly right up to the can and hover for a few seconds. Budweiser cans have a lot of red.
Hummingbirds live only 3 to 5 years. They just simply wear out. Heartbeat, 1,200 a minute. Wings, 5,200 flaps a minute.
Good morning everyone.
The theme announced itself early on. Eventually got it all without morkovers or any searches. Didn't know the Applebee owner, but IHOP came easily from context. Finished up in the NE. Favorite clue/fill was Danish brick - LEGO.
EHS -Lemon SO'd to our Canadian friend.
LICE - plural of louse. Another example of English's Germanic roots where some plurals are formed by vowel shift. German Laus, Läuse, L. German Luus, Lüüs.
Have a great day.
Good Morning:
Late week offerings are rare from Bruce and Gail, so that may explain the lower difficulty level. Nevertheless, I love a definition puzzle and had lots of fun sussing out the themers, two grid spanners, no less. Olga was unfamiliar to me, as was the movie title. Tonto was slow in coming because all I could picture for Johnny Depp was Jack Sparrow, his Pirates of the Caribbean role. Bushy tailed canines had me wracking my brain for a cute puppy, wagging a bushy tail. It took awhile for (Optic) Disc to fill in as I've never heard that reference. Alfa, no matter how it's clued, conjures thoughts of Tony. I thought the clues and fill were exceptionally clear and noticeably free of crosswordese and/dreck.
Thanks, Bruce and Gail, for a breezy, enjoyable solve and thanks, TTP, for a fact-filled and entertaining synopsis. Loved the fox photo.
Have a great day.
Dang, did it again! If it's Friday, it must be Lemonade. Nope. Sorry for slighting you, TTP. I'm guessing you're the one who's somewhat "nearby" to Rockford.
Good Morning.
Thanks, Gail and Bruce, for WRAPing so much fun into a Friday puzzle. Nicely done all around.
TTP, what a terrific review today. Great links as usual. Nice ride around the block in one of those Corvettes. I really liked the Monarch's building and leaving the chrysalis. I don't even get it. (Moths transition in cocoons.) I copied the Seasoning advice for my recipe notebook. I knew some of them, but that was an excellent piece of information.
Speaking of WRAPs--I need to prepare a box to take to the PO today.
Be well everyone. Enjoy this day.
The monarch butterfly clip was spectacular and well worth seeing. Thanks, TTP. As you all know that was a chrysalis, not a cocoon. Cocoons are not nearly as pretty as chrysalises.
Pupa and chrysalis have the same meaning: the transformation stage between the larva and the adult. While pupa can refer to this naked stage in either a butterfly or moth, chrysalis is strictly used for the butterfly pupa. A cocoon is the silk casing that a moth caterpillar spins around it before it turns into a pupa.
Inside the cocoon or chrysalis the larva soons turns into a pupa.
What a delight to find a Bruce and Gail puzzle on my first morning back from my trip to the Grand Canyon. And I was happy to be able to fill in pretty big chunks, beginning in the southwest, before I started needing a bit of help. Lots of fun clues, like "It's sold in bars" for SOAP when of course I started thinking about beer and other drinks (not that I go to bars but once in a blue moon). "Stock" for BROTH was clever too. Many thanks, Gail and Bruce, for a fun Friday puzzle. And what an entertaining commentary, TTP--thanks to you too.
Have a great weekend coming up, everybody!
Good puzzle. Good commentary. Good day.
D-O, my grandsons' high school had about 35 valedictorians last year. The HS has about 3000 students so it's would be surprising if a single person could be identified as the "top" student.
Easy, fun puzzle today.
Re: Valedictorians
Because of the diverse class choices, some high schools no longer name a valedictorian.
In the three high schools where I taught the grades were weighted. Technical classes had a 4.0 for an A. Academic classes had 5.0 for an A and AP and higher level Math and and English classes were a six point A. For my non AP Advanced Math class I had to submit my syllabus and a detailed outline of the areas covered to have it labeled a six point class. There were other “ fine print “ areas in these guidelines that I will not bore you with.
39 D Resort near Flagstaff? Sedona is a beautiful city near Flagstaff not a resort.
I thought this Friday puzzle was well put together.
I was going right through it.....Until 60A.....thus
Markovers....ENDOFFILMSCENE/ENDOFFILMSHOOT, RILE/ROIL.
So close....at least I got the solve.
And on to Saturday.
Back from Kohl's and a couple of other errands, lunch is over and the new shirts are going into the dryer.
Thank you Madame and Yellowrocks. The only Chrysalis I knew was the Chrysalis Records label. I thought that was a funny looking cocoon.
Alice, did your grandson's school have 35 speeches ? It's all so odd to me, but it's no big deal.
That was some commencement speech that young lady gave in San Ysidro.
Time to mow the lawn yet again. Hope everyone has a great day.
Hi Y'all! I really liked this puzzle, thanks, Bruce & Gail! Very enjoyable & informative expo, TTP!
So proud to get SOAP on the first try when I half expected "beer".
The theme answers were many perps & WAGs but fun to fill.
Been awhile since we'd seen ST.LO. Had the S___O for a long time then it dawned on me: an old friend.
Not flea, flys, nits or gnat but LICE. I've itched ever since.
Too much salt added by three cooks to a huge pot of chili was made palatable by dropping in some whole raw peeled potatoes when it was reheated. Potatoes apparently absorbed enough salt. We all ate it. Couldn't anyone eat it the first day.
My grandson's class in a big school last year had several rows of valedictorians seated on the stage who received their diplomas first. My grandson was one of them. The class president among them gave the speech. Several had further noted honors as National Merit Scholars.
Many years ago, my daughter and another girl both had the same top GPA in a smaller school. My daughter had taken chemistry, 4 yrs of Spanish, and all the math & science she could. The other girl took all easy classes she could and was named valedictorian while my daughter was salutatorian. The difference in that case was the other girl's mother was a teacher at the school. Daughter felt robbed. I told her life is not fair, so live & learn.
I'm allergic to Febreze. Feels like it sucks all the oxygen out of my air.
Big storm here this morning after dawn. Electricity was off awhile.
FIR, but erased shifts for SKIRTS, flys for LICE, and gyro for GIRO. Still don't like GIRO, but Yellow Rocks could convince me otherwise. Even if it's technically correct spelling (who am I to judge), it isn't a stand-alone word but an abbreviation of GIROcopter. I know that some fly-boys call their toy "the heli", but never a non-pilot. When I used to sail land yachts on the dry lake beds of California and Nevada, several people brought along gyrocopters. Looked like fun, but not for me. (Gliders too. Wind = land yachting, calm = thermals = soaring. They launched the gliders behind pickup trucks. The GyROs had small engines (to power a propeller, not the rotor). I preferred skeet shooting during times of no wind.)
If you are ever around Louisville, a short trip south to Bowling Green's Corvette assembly plant is worthwhile. I think they also rebuilt the Vette museum with GM's help after the original was swallowed by a sinkhole.
Finished early today, but didn't have time to come here until I got the RV put away and got home. I agree it was easy for Friday. Thanks to Bruce 'n Gail for the fun. My favorite was "bay, play or gray follower" for AREA. And thanks to TTP for another super review. I'm home and on unmetered internet, so I can check out the links.
A good one today from the Venzke/Grabowski duo!
Very chewy but highly do-able. Just the sort of thing to get us all thinking how smart we are--and on a Friday!
(The perfect way to set us up for a Saturday knock-out!)
Speaking of valedictorians, Prairie W, I quite enjoyed reading of the San Ysidro HS valedictorian this month (linked above by TTP) who used her 15 (or 10, or 5?) minutes of fame to call out all the incompetent staff and faculty at her school.
She even revealed to shocked parents that a drunken teacher had been escorted off campus by cops.
"Oh, dear! That wasn't the speech we approved!," whined an assistant principal.
~ OMK
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DR: Two diagonals today, a perfect "X."
The near-side diagonal (NW to SE) offers an anagram saluting that hardy breed of hunters, the snipers who specialize in tracking and shooting the ever-evasive Yeti, those crack...
"BIGFOOT ACES"!
Just the level of difficulty I could handle today. I asked the guidance counselor in 1960 whether colleges would differentiate between honors B's and non-honor A's.
So, I switched to non-honor. And got A's. At one reunion the valdictorian and runner-up checked in at the same time. No fisticuffs but cold, very cold.
-T, you asked for baseball history. Check the J at This URL
WC
FYI
Saturday's edition (6/22/19) of the Wall Street Journal has a fun crossword puzzle (Terminus) by C.C. Burnikel. It is about a Wednesday level of easiness. It is available, free of charge, to be solved online or printed at WSJ.com. Enjoy !
A bad meal last evening has left me under the weather and over the commode today. We do not eat out often, and will probably do it even less. It was a restaurant we have gone to many times before...ah well.
There is not much to say about the puzzle at this time, but Tom (D-O) thank you for thinking of me. A valedictorian is not necessarily the student with the best grades, but rather the one to provide the closing remarks on behalf of the graduating class. The origin of the word valedictorian is the Latin valedicere, which means bid farewell. This is known as the valedictory. As such the concept of 35 valedictorians makes no sense. It is great to recognize achievement, and it can be done by introducing all those who graduate summa cun laude. IMO.
Dave 2 - thank you for sending me down the rabbit hole of 50s television. So far I remember them all.
Thank you, Tom (TTP) and bvgg.
Owen, I forgot to say I loved your poems this morning--what a great gloss on the words in the puzzle! Many thanks for that.
Misty! ~
You're BACK!
I hope your trip was pleasant.
Happy first day of Summer!
~ OMK
Musings
-Just back from a golf tournament where the greenskeeper didn't want anyone on his soggy golf course and the manager said we have to get some revenue. The compromise was reached where all drove in the rough and the day turned out to be spectacular. I don't know if those two guys are talking or not.
-Puzzle was a delight that I finished with the kitty while another 1/2" of rain fell this morning.
-One of the valedictorians in my grandson's class did not speak until all 450 diplomas had been handed out. The place had really emptied out by then. Not a good strategy
Although valedictory literally comes from the Latin, bid farewell or say goodbye, it is mostly used as an honor for the top student who traditionally gets to give the farewell speech. I was honored as the valedictorian, separated from the salutatorian by a minisule amount. Neither of us gave the farewell speech. There was a contest to determine which senior could give the best speech. The administration did not wish to give too many honors to the same people. Spread the wealth.George did a fine job.
Reading about some of the inane and inappropriate speeches, I can see why the admin. wants a say-so. But at the last minute some speakers depart from the expected to the chagrin of the faculty.
Hi everybody.
I'm not sure if I can explain myself very well but as retired teachers, Barbara and I both disagreed with the the San Ysidro's valedictorian's graduation speech. Maybe we would all agree with the competence level of a couple of her teachers but graduation is not the time to bring it up. It should have been a happy time to celebrate the achievements of the students, the parents and the school. If the daughter had some specific complaints about her teachers, she and her parents could have met with the school's principal to discuss their concerns earlier. Why bring up an intoxicated teacher being escorted off campus? I'm sure all of the attendees knew about it already.
I can imagine her parents' philosophy of always being supportive and avoiding any sort of criticism or discipline. The result is this overly-entitled child. Maybe an English teacher had the audacity to give her a grade of something less than an A plus on an essay. Maybe the girl wants to be an artist and couldn't accept having to learn the 'useless' quadratic formula.
Kudos to the school administration for letting her complete her self-centered speech. Too bad for many of the other students, teachers and parents who may have been embarrassed by her selfish behavior.
Hi All!
Out of the gate, I inked tony instead of OBIE side-by-side with ALFA. I had a huge smile until SOAP became obvious. :-(
Thanks Bruce and Gail for #FridayFun. Thanks TTP for the expo - I really appreciated embedded-links for Rainbow and EDIE. Oh, and I always think of Arkansas at Razorbacks too.
WOs: tony b/f OBIE, YALer [sic], I had Full SHOOT b/f FILM, and (laugh with me, not at me...) with just the L----A, I inked LlamA - I thought Cocoon was maybe a city in Peru(?)
ESPs: OLGA, ELIN
Fav: It took a while for the penny to drop and the aha! feeling at LEGO (hi Spitz!)
I almost changed UTE to make WONKA work.
{A, A, A, A}-ish :-)
Now who'd shoot a BIGFOOT? #BehavioralStudies
Welcome back Misty! How was the trip?
D-O: I second your every recommendation for cooking info. TTP's reference was spot on too. I was going to add the bit about potatoes taking salt out of "watery" dishes (stews, chilis, spaghetti sauce) but PK beat me to it. Pro-tip: don't drink (too much) beer while cooking LEST your thirst encourages over-salting.
I just got a call from DW. She and Youngest are at Ellis Island and found my great-grandpa Benny's records. They were trying to confirm they got the right WOP, so I patched them in with Pop (who also has a copy) and cross-checked the info. We all had fun talking while the attendant at the kiosk (who could hear us 'cuz DW had it on speaker) helped DW buy a copy to mail home.
In the logs, it is shown Benny was sponsored by his brother Tony* in Riverton, IL. Riverton, for those that don't know is just outside of Springfield, east, and just north of I-72. It was coal-mining country -- they needed lots of Italians 'cuz we's short and fit in the mine :-)
Cheers, -T
*that's who Grandpa -T was named after.
Bill G ~
I'm not sure the staff deserve kudos for letting the valedictorian finish. The LA Times story made it clear everyone was too shocked to take any action.
I understand and partly agree with your points, but I think you make too many assumptions about the student's personal story, esp. her upbringing. As for the timing of her public complaints, I am pretty sure this was the forum to get the maximum attention--and to assure that the following generations of students will not face the same problems in their tenure at the school.
I certainly expect lots of complaints about this student. Is it perhaps a fair price to get some action?
~ OMK
I gave my (small) class’s valedictorian speech. I was third but the first and second were not respected. I said nothing shocking!! My topic was Faith of the Scientist. Faith and science are not mutually exclusive. Ho him.
Times have changed!
Liked the puzzle and expo!!! Thanks!
Owen all A +!! Thanks for your wit !!!
RE Wilbur Charles
"-T, you asked for baseball history. Check the J at This [corrected] URL"
Wilbur: To link a specific comment on Blogspot, you need to copy the URL of the date stamp
And since we're on the subject, Dow Jones, it's polite (if you can) to provide a link to Terminus or wherever. You can find instructions Here, where CC explains it.
When we grew up and went to school
There were certain teachers who would
Hurt the children any way they could
By pouring their derision
Upon anything we did
Exposing every weakness
However carefully hidden by the kids
But in the town it was well known
When they got home at night, their fat and
Psychopathic wives would thrash them
Within inches of their lives
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone
@7:27 (aka Roger Waters) - Link Another Brick in The Wall (II) [Pink Floyd - 6m] for Goodness' sake. -T
Thank you, O'Man Keith, and I wish you a happy summer too!
Thanks -T!
Nataly Buhr(San Ysidro) wrote and gave a appropriate speech.
Roger Waters wrote and performed an opera.
Seems as if their high school experiences traumatized them a bit. No shame in expressing their feelings about the experiences.
Fabulous Friday. Thanks for the fun, Bruce and Gail, and TTP.
I EXCELed at this CW, found the Wraps (I was looking for our CW staple Saris but only found SKIRTS!) and celebrated the SEASON (thanks D4).
I smiled at the LEGO clue, and the new clue for AREA.
I made SPONGY angel food cake to have with freshly picked strawberries yesterday.
Yes, I thought of AnonT with ALFA (LOL re Tony instead of OBIE).
Wasn't it MadameD who just saw Hamilton (and AnonT's wife and daughter are going soon)?
Yes, I will take a CSO with EHS (although it took me a minute to match it with that clue!).
TTP's chart covers a lot of possible uses of Eh, and as YR says, Canadians have many uses for it. Sometimes I don't think we even realize when we use it. (But I'm pretty sure we don't use it as much as Doug and Bob Mackenzie.)
Glad that you are back, Misty.
Happy travels to Lucina.
Have a great evening eh!
I doubt any of the students were embarrassed by their fellow graduate. Quite to the contrary, actually. I know I don't remember the valedictorian nor the speech he or she may have given. I bet these graduates will always remember this one and the national attention it garnered.
Sheesh.
Thank you, CanadianEh--it's good to be back on the blog with my puzzle friends!
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