Jeffrey's accompanying comments on that Friday said how he values terseness for that which made me look to see where he and Rich pared down to the most succinct cluing today.
You regulars will also be able to pick Jeffrey out of this gaggle of constructors shown in the accompanying picture here. I will post at the bottom (*) of the write-up which one is our prolific Jeffrey.
Across:
1. Safari sight: WILD ANIMAL - All right, who's watching whom?
11. Class clown, at times: APER - I had a student "APE" some of my actions during class and I laughed really hard!
15. MRI safety consideration: ENERGY DOSE - An ENERGY DOSE greater than 3.5 kJ/kg can be uncomfortable for the patient. You're welcome! 😙
16. Fabric used in sci-fi costumes: LAMÈ - Still puzzled about your halloween costume? For around $80 you can get this gold LAMÈ outfit that would make Elvis proud. Do sci-fi next year!17. Ones concerned with public images?: TV STATIONS - In my misspent yute, we had two and then three TV stations. Now...
18. Infuriates: IRES.
19. Where food may be collected: BIB.
20. Many Egon Schiele works: EROTIC ART - Search at your leisure. I couldn't pick a "favorite" to post
22. Lacking a key: ATONAL - A two-min primer on this type of music
26. __ code: PENAL.
27. Has as an address: RESIDES AT - Most here know what fictional character RESIDES AT this Baker Street address
31. "__ Mio": O SOLE - Sherrill Nielsen sings in Italian and then The King answers with the English adaptation of this lovely melody
32. Gradual process of concern to periodontists: BONE LOSS
34. Recognizes: ID'S.
35. See 46-Down: THIS and 46. With 35-Across, self-confident words: I CAN DO - That is the mantra for this anxious woman anticipating her first roller coaster ride
38. Annoying sort: TWERP.
39. Leporello in "Don Giovanni," e.g.: BASS - Don's servant. Description of the role is servant, comic relief, sidekick, misguided, loyal
40. Dorm figs.: RA'S - Resident Assistants are supposed to prevent liquor from entering the dorm
41. Vacation itinerary entry: TOUR SITE - Daughter avoids these on vacation and we seek them out
43. French dispatch boat: AVISO -I was proud my cwd experience filled this in immediately
45. Summer fun item attached to a ladder: POOL SLIDE - I CAN NOT DO THIS!
49. Cetera of Chicago: PETER - Not on my play list
50. __ powder: TALCUM - Whether TALCUM increases cancer risk due to some asbestos content is an open debate right now
51. Intellectual property statute: PATENT LAW - America's first patent issued to Samuel Hopkins and signed by G Washington
56. Greece neighbor: Abbr.: ALBania
57. Oklahoma city: ENID - About 7 hours SSW of me
58. Payment: REMITTANCE.
62. Coleridge work: RIME - Archaic spelling of rhyme. Coleridge's original title was RIME of the Ancyent Marinere.
63. Fair: EVENHANDED
64. Hightailed it: SPED.
65. Musical with the song "Sex Is in the Heel": KINKY BOOTS - Music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper, book by Harvey Fierstein. Trailer
Down:
1. Rec room amenity: WET BAR - Yes, but here is a real (and really) WET BAR
2. Ask: INVITE.
3. Sappho's home: LESBOS - Here 'ya go
4. Gere title role: DR. T - The critics saw a lot more to like than the audiences
5. Ottoman honorific: AGA - The AGA Khan is said to be a direct descendant of the prophet Mohammed
6. News initials since 1851: NYT
7. Romeo's last words: I DIE.
8. Baskerville Hall setting: MOOR.
9. "It came __ surprise": AS NO.
10. Opposite of provided: LEST.
11. Eatery "just a half a mile from the railroad track": ALICE'S - The Smithsonian's take on Arlo's song
12. Conspiracy theory origin, perhaps: PARANOIA - Nobody as insignificant as Lee Harvey Oswald could have killed JKK, so...
13. Green shades: EMERALDS.
14. Antsy: RESTLESS - Supervise a 7th grade study hall and you can also find some 24. Commotion: ADO.
21. Wall St. events: IPOS - Ten biggest IPO's of 2019
23. Ink spots?: NIBS - The NIB on this pen is the spot where ink is placed
25. Tempo of Chopin's "Marche funèbre": LENTO - Same for this piece more familiar to me (assai means very)
28. Clinch: SEW UP.
29. Last Olds model: ALERO.
30. Where the heart is: TORSO - More "that's why I love Jeffrey's puzzles" cluing/fill
33. Like some wasted milk: SPILT - Don't cry over it 37. Anticipatory question: IS IT TIME? - Yes, it's time to let it go!
35. Early Hudson's Bay Company employees: TRAPPERS.
36. Imbibe minimally: HAVE A NIP - Not a SIP it turns out
39. Franklin half-dollar image: BELL - Can you find the mint mark that indicates where this coin was struck?
42. Org. with beeping wands: TSA - Truly a thankless job but...
44. Like some rye: SEEDED.
47. Pleasing to the ear: DULCET - My first thought was of Bing Crosby but this was too hard to pass up
48. Places firmly (in): EMBEDS - A ___ EMBEDS a(n) ____ into a ____
52. "Star __": TREK
53. First name in casual wear: LEVI - These LEVI jeans from 1879 (when Mr. Strauss was 50 yrs-old), with trademark rivets, were not made for casual wear. They are stored in a fire-proof safe where only two people have the combination.
54. "And that goes for me, too!": AMEN.
55. Pretend not to see, with "at": WINK - Trust me
59. Old possessive: THY.
60. Q neighbor: TAB - Not NOP or RST
61. "Is that __?": A NO - Not my response if you are asking to comment today!
*Jeffrey is standing next to C.C. in an argyle sweater
EMERALDS had a special appeal for ALICE,
ReplyDeleteShe had some in a green glass chalice.
They cancel noisome
Types of poison,
Should someone try to harm her with malice.
Santa Fe is a TOUR SITE gem,
The flood of visitors we don't stem.
Santa Feans reason
Tourist season
Is the TIME that we can shoot at them!
At Comic Cons are loads of TWERPS
In gold LAME alien costume shirts.
Space-suit APERS
And they capers
In KINKY BOOTS and even worse!
{A-, A, B-.}
Chrystal mythology says that emeralds detoxify poison and cure snakebite.
ReplyDeleteLooked up Q-tab. Found 2 drugs (maybe the same stuff marketed differently) for anemia and detox, and a tablet computer app for managing tabs.
A WILD ANIMAL is the class clown,
An APER of people, who won't sit down!
His ENERGY DOSE
Amuses most,
But teachers think it LAME, and frown!
A show on a local TV STATION
IRES some viewers consternation!
To make a BIB a part
Of EROTIC ART
Makes a kiddie show need an explanation!
An ATONAL rendition of O SOLE MIO
Is worthy of a sentence, PENAL!
Anyone who tries it
Ought to RESIDE AT
A tank for those who overdo the vino!
{B+, A-, B+.} Every across word above the middle of the puzzle, and almost in order! Sometimes I amaze myself!
Good morning!
ReplyDeleteTough, tough, tough, but done, done, done. I like Saturdays because there's no theme for me not to get. There were still lots of places to go wrong. Thought the MRI concern would deal with hearing loss. Nope. Is that ALL / A NO? TAKE A SIP, nope, HAVE A NIP. I could go on... Thanx, Jeffrey and Husker. (My time was the same as yours.)
TORSO: I suspect Dennis is painfully aware of "where the heart is." Hope you're doing well, Marine.
BONE LOSS: I'm sure I'm not the only one here who's dealing with this condition. My dentist told me, "That tooth isn't going to last another year." That was ten years ago, and it's still hangin' in there.
RIME: Yes, that mess in the fridge is the "slime of the ancient marinara."
NYT: Tried UPI first. I guess a CSO to the competition is OK. (Jeffrey, you submitted this one to Will first, didn't you,)
NW corner slowed me down. Had a hard time with "lest". I wonder how many millennials got Alice's restaurant.
ReplyDelete16-A was this puzzle.
ReplyDelete
ReplyDeleteThat was no picnic. No walk in the park. No easy A course. Stoked that I stuck with it and got it unaided.
The last 5 letters of the two top rows and 3 of the first 4 letters in what eventually became EROTIC ART was where I stalled in the middle of the night.
Had no idea who Egon Schiele is, and it looked like that answer was going to be TROPIC ART, but since I never heard of that and it didn't sound plausible, I didn't enter it. Besides, the only thing I could anchor those letters with was ETON for the Baskerville setting, and that just didn't feel right.
After getting a few more hours sleep and then a cup of coffee, NIMAL practically jumped off the page, quickly followed by the ER and T in EROTIC. NYT, I DIE, MOOR and LEST finished today's test.
Owen, the TAB key is next to the letter Q on a QWERTY keyboard. Not so on an AZERTA or HCESAR keyboard. Or did I take your comment incorrectly ?
Thank you, Jeffrey, and thank you, Husker Gary.
Dash T (FLN), that was absurd. And real, as you said. Some of the comments and links provided additional info to prove it. Thanks for sharing. I've sent that link to a retired lawyer friend.
Well Gary, it was no stroll and it took longer that 18 minutes for this amateur. The NW was the last to fall in place. And how is Wechsler different in the photo? He's the only one NOT wearing sandals. LESBOS & DR T were unknowns, I guessed NYT but my MRI problem was an ENERGY LOSS and only after I realized BONE LOSS was correct that LOSS became DOSE. LSST, I knew was incorrect but LEST as 'Opposite of provided' just doesn't seem correct either. Live & learn. And so did BobB.
ReplyDeleteTempo?- L___O and wait for the perps. Had to be LARGO or LENTO. I knew the FORD Tempo (remember that car?) wasn't it.
Egon Schiele- who? EROTIC ART was perps and WAG.
KINKY BOOTS- had heard the name but it was filled after most of the perps were in place. Same for DULCET.
TALCUM powder, Zantac, states blackmailing drug companies over opioids- I call it as I see it. Lawyers seeking stupid jurors who be swayed over dubious evidence. Talcum powder has been used since the beginning of time, Zantac has been used for about 40 years, and drug companies don't write Rxs; doctors do.
Otto- I like themeless puzzles. IMHO themed puzzles (if you guess the theme) make the puzzles easier to solve. I also had UPI before NYT.
Husker,
ReplyDeleteThe evidence of where that Franklin half dollar coin was struck is evidently a mile high, eh?
When's the last time you actually held a half-dollar coin? I received a Kennedy half-dollar in change last week. Prior to that, I hadn't seen one in years. They're as rare as the Sacagawea dollar coin.
ReplyDeleteGood morning everyone.
ReplyDeleteGary, the mint mark shows Denver.
Hit some shoals in the NE and got two squares wrong. Sigh. Otherwise, did well for a Saturday and am satisfied.
Had 'dry' before WET, d'uh, and listLESS before RESTLESS.
Anon -T - - Re: depositions. Some 30 some years ago I was deposed for 3 straight days in a case involving operations of my employer, which I was the technical point man for. At least once, I had to nudge our counsel to object to questioning I didn't like (he was older and not as alert IMO as he should have been.) I learned the word 'burdensomeness' from him. After the deposition ended on the 3rd day, opposing counsel took everyone to lunch. (The case never went to trial.)
Let me check the calendar again. Yes it IS Saturday. For the first time finished in a half hour with NO crossouts. A puzzle suitable for framing. Ready to download my Mensa application. Neurons firing at double time. What did I put in my morning cappuccino?
ReplyDeleteBeing directly in the "magnetic field" (bad MRI pun) magnets have fixed energies (field strengths) measured in Tesla. Our main safety concern is not so much the field strength but whether the patient has metal in their body that might move due to the magnet causing potential injury.
Just a comment. "O Sole Mio"..."My Sun" is frequently mistranslated as "Oh My Sun." The word "O" is a contraction of the old or dialect masculine article "Lo" meaning "The." Most possessives in Italian are preceded by an article. Except in certain cases "Lo" has been replaced with the modern "il" so if written today in standard italian we would be singing "Il Mio Sole."
Saw "Kinky Boots" a couple of years ago an excellent broadway touring group to our upstate NY town. Fabulous.
Always felt if a crossword answer contains an "accent aigu" like "Lamé" then the perp should be a word that requires it as well.
So it's not, "Oh, my fish?"
ReplyDeleteBTW the narrative erroneously has an "accent grave" È.
ReplyDeleteNo desperotto. Just "My Fish"
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like everyone is having a good time this morning. And B-E was able to share his contrarian points too.
ReplyDeleteFor 10-down, I didn't like LEST for opposite of provided. I'll have to look that up. I wanted BIn for BIB, but that didn't help with Lesbos, which I only remembered when I saw Gary's write up. But, Lesbos is where the word lesbians comes from, so that makes it easier to remember the B. (Learned that in H.S.)
Overall fun puzzle although I prefer themed puzzles.
Tough but fair. Jeffrey is the best. Got the bottom, eventually the NW corner, but DNF on 11-13 down. Should have gotten ALICES, maybe could have perped the rest with that.
ReplyDeleteHow is lest the opposite of provided? 10 D
ReplyDeleteThanks,
Mark S
Good Morning:
ReplyDeleteI just lost my entire, lengthy post because of a Google "Oops, there was an error". I'll try to recreate it from memory.
I had the same errors as DO with "Is that all" vs "A no" and UPI instead of NYT. I also had Billy Eliot instead of Kinky Boots, which was obviously wrong, not to mention silly, based on the clue. I needed perps for Peter, Alb, and Erotic Art, as I'v never heard of Egon Schiele. I find the word Dulcet soothing and pleasingly evocative. My solve was fairly easy because of the user-friendly long fill but it took me longer than it took the two Road Runners, HG and DO.
Thanks, Jeffrey W, for a Saturday challenge, although I miss your weekday wordplay wizardry, and thanks, HG, for another picturesque and picaresque review.
FLN
jfromvt ~ Some recent early week puzzles had some welcome crunch for me but, by and large, they're geared toward newbie solvers. This is all the more reason for the later week offerings to be more challenging. Some are but, lately, it seems many are lacking in difficulty. I miss the teeth-gnashing, hair-pulling, mind-bending grids of Barry Silk.
Anon T ~ The Yankees certainly have their work cut out for them. BTW, if that deposition clip is legit, it gives new meaning to the word stupid.
Michael ~ Yes, I know what a Mechanic's Lien is but I doubt its purpose has anything to do with a small, family-run business extending the curtesy and trust of billing a customer, rather than demanding payment upon services rendered. I mentioned to the service man that very few businesses today operate that way and he said that's been their practice for almost 50 years. That says a lot about this company and its clients, IMO.
Have a great day.
10D was a bit odd. I had LESS, with LEST may have been able to figure EROTICART and finished the NE corner per my earlier post.
ReplyDeleteWell, a Saturday Jeffrey Wechsler puzzle is always going to be tough for me. But this one started with a bit of a surprise. I got very little until I got to the bottom when I put in TREK and AMEN and THY. I have no idea how I've heard about KINKY BOOTS, but the K N Y start suggested it to me, since the song had something to do with heels, so I put it in. And that gave me the rest of that whole south corner. But the rest was tough, as Saturdays always are. No problem--still enjoyable.
ReplyDeleteHave a good weekend, everybody.
Musings
ReplyDelete-An 18 minute finish is not my usual time but I was on Jeffrey’s wavelength today. LEST I forget, please correct me if I post an exact finish time again.
-My attempt at provide/lest - Provided we forget – something happens because we forget (quarterbacks have to forget their interceptions) and -Lest we forget – something happens so we don’t forget (we honor soldiers by remembering them). Anything?
-One mint mark I saw looked like a P and not a D but I read that it is a tradition that coins minted at America’s main mint, Philadelphia, distinguish themselves by having no mint marks
Husker - The 'D' is clearly visible under the "e" in 'states' on my computer screen.
ReplyDeleteMore on LEST: The conjunction LEST is not very common in modern English. This word has a negative meaning. Therefore, it should not be used with not. The only auxiliary verb that can follow lest is should.
Work hard lest you should fail. OR Work hard lest you fail. (NOT Work hard lest you should not fail.)
The same idea can be expressed using the expression or else.
Work hard, or else you will fail.
Leave on time, or else you will miss the train.
FWIW
Though I didn't solve the puzzle ...
ReplyDeleteI always enjoy a Husker Gary Saturday write-up.
Very informative.
GO YANKEE'S !!!
Cheers!
FLN: -T, "photocopier" was hilarious. I saw the punchline coming.
ReplyDeleteFrom the "RIME"...
And now there came both mist and snow,
And it grew wondrous cold:
And ice, mast-high, came floating by,
As green as EMERALD.
Re. Baker St. I just happened to read the beginning of "Baskerville" this morning. Singular coincidence.
The so-called JFK conspiracy has evolved to a virtual certainty.
FIR after much ink spotting. Gotta go. Mass at four
WC
I liked this puzzle and have added it to my list of my top 20 favorites. Jeffrey is indeed a master. I used to dread seeing his name on a puzzle but now I welcome it. I learned that the summer fun item attached to a ladder is not a TREEHOUSE, that the sci-fi costume fabric is neither SILK nor WOOL, and that the location of the heart was not CHEST. I was trying for Leporello's specific job, such as valet or butler or servant, but the only 4-letter word I could think of was AIDE; turns out the answer was his voice range not his role. Count me in as having been duly misdirected in a number of places. I enjoyed every one of the 43 minutes it took me to solve it.
ReplyDeleteFIR, but had shared erasures: upi---> NYT a la DO and BE, is that all---> is that A NO a la DO, and LESs---> LEST like JT (except that I had an interim fill (sans) as well. I also had my very own goofs - that for THIS and grasp for SEW UP.
ReplyDeleteThanksgiving looms - does anyone else listen to the long version of Alice's Restaurant every turkey day?
Paranoia runs deep, for what it's worth.
Back home from our camping trip. Dropped the motor home off at the fixit shop for new starting batteries. When we're out and using my cell phone's data plan I don't go on Facebook and only make emergency visits to YouTube. Come on, 5G!
Thanks to JeffWech for the fun and doable (even by me) Saturday puzzle. And thanks to Gary for another fine TOUR.
Tangential connection: Al Green has received royalties for the use of his Take Me To The River from the likes of Foghat, Hootie and the Blowfish, The Dave Matthews Band, Bruce Springsteen, Courtney Love, and Talking Heads. But he received more money for the use of the song from the makers of Big Mouth Billy BASS, that idiotic singing wall "trophy" fish, than from any of the others.
ReplyDeleteMr. Wechsler is going easy on us these days. Ta~ DA!
ReplyDeleteToday's pzl was about the mildest challenge of his I can recall.
That's OK. It was not exactly a cake walk.
My fave clue was 17A.
Some "repeaters" today were IDS, RAS, AMEN, IPOS, IRES, ADO(!), & ALERO.
Thanks for posting the shot of 221B Baker St., HuskerG! The last time we were in London, my wife and I had the pleasure of visiting the super sleuth's lodgings. Amazed at how many rooms and livable amenities can be stacked in such a tall narrow bldg.
As we were leaving, we saw a tall figure down the block, crossing away in a hurry. He was wearing a deerstalker cap and a half cape, just like the fabled resident of the Baker St. digs.
I suppose he was an actor or role-playing fan, but he made us wonder...
Misty ~
Glad you fared well, helped by that KINKY BOOTS fill. Even though you may have missed the (very pop) stage production and the two(!) movies, you had to have been aware--even unconsciously--of all the publicity it generated. Most of the trivia we absorb filters into us at a level well below our upper brains.
~ OMK
Good afternoon Cornerites.
ReplyDeleteCarol and I FIR in 75:48 min. We have solved each day's CW, but my last post was on 10-16.
Thank you Jeffrey Wechsler for your impossible Saturday CW. Our first answer was 24 D : ADO.
Thank you Husker Gary for your excellent review.
Ðave
OMK, and that "...of all the publicity it generated. Most of the trivia we absorb filters into us at a level well below our upper brains" is probably why you readily knew the answer THEM, even though you abhor those cheapo sci-fi flicks that once were so prevalent.
ReplyDeleteWilbur, it was a true story, although the video recreation Dash T linked may have taken a bit of artistic license, the transcript of the deposition was used by the actors. The result: Court Holds County Must Provide Digital Copies of Title Records at Actual Cost of Copying Data to Compact Discs
Hi All!
ReplyDeleteOy! Ever shoot yourself in the foot so bad there's no recovering? MORSE Code is way wrong (and I kept thinking, it has to be IPO), _Vest was not the MRI protector [oh, that's x-ray lead thingies]. I wasn't on JW's wavelength. In fact, I was not on any wavelength at all.
That's not entirely true - music spoke to me: PETER Cetera of Chicago and ALICE of Restaurant fame were gimmies. [Thanks for the Smithsonian link HG.]
Jinx - I play Arlo's anthem every Thanksgiving* so, yes, BobB, there are some millennials familiar with it 'cuz I'm a good parent. [Teach/ your children well/...]
It only took two cheats from HG's grid to get off on better footing [Oh, African Safari! and not World Wide Web nor Apple DOT Com].
At least I got my casual LEVI's BlueJeans today.
{B,B+,A+,A,B+,A+} //TTP is right; Q is next to the TAB key; No prescription required.
D-O: You are on a roll today - LOL RIME of the marinara & Oh My Fish.
//Ray-O: nice follow-up as the straight man! Good stuff that.
BigE - FLN: I re-read my Beer/Brexit ASK and realize it could be taken snarky. I was being honest in the ask.
I'm pleased everyone enjoyed that deposition dramatization. I know one tech guy who was deposed and he hated it because, well, exactly what do you mean? TCP or UDP. IPX or IP? Things got bizarre in his telling.
OTOH, I've lawyer buddies that poo-poo the theater of it -- even as they perform rhetorical gymnastics for giggles.
Anyone reading Snowden's book, Permanent Record? It started very self-sanctimonious but eventually UPs the PARANOIA [and turns it down too 'cuz you're not nutz -- this sh** is real!]. I'm in the middle of his epilepsy episodes but finding the book harder and harder to put down -- except to Google follow-up NYT/UPI articles to make sure I'd recalled things right.
Jinx - you linked Buffalo Springfield and I was expecting The Kinks considering PARANOIA and KINKY BOOTS. //did you think I was going for 'Give the People what the Want' 'cuz of the JFK assassination ref?
Interesting about Green's Take Me/River - that's copyright, not PATENTLAW, FWIW :-)
Y'all have a great Saturday eve and Go 'Stros!
Cheers, -T
*K-SHE 95 out of St. Louis put that in my 12 year-old head.
---I will have a story of Pop providing some data company in CA w/ IL's
Sangamon County Records as his side-side gig. I've got to get the details right. I know they paid through the nose for the data which is why I watched the whole thing. BTW - today's Pop's last BD being a 60-something.
Thank you, Ol'Man Keith. I love your story about the fellow in the deer-stalker cap on Baker Street! Delightful!
ReplyDeleteDoh! - I missed my Cetera Saturday (Here in the Park) opportunity. THIS is my Mulligan. C, -T
ReplyDelete-T, I was going for the play-on-words linkage between BASS, pronounced like Billy the plastic fish, and BASS, pronounced like a sack on a baseball diamond (and as used in today's grid).
ReplyDeleteI first thought of linking Black Sabbath's Parinoid, but since Dusty and the gang used the exact word, albeit not in the title, I chose that one.
Thanks for exposing your scions to "real" music.
Happy birthdy to Pops. The old fart is nearly 6 months older than this old fart.
Owen , I’m also amazed and also amused. Hehehehe
ReplyDeleteJeffrey, ya won again, but not by much. This delightful puzzle presented me with a strange experience. I got all of the long ( hard) fills before all those devilish 3 and 4 letter one which are supposed to be easier! 39 A, for example. Only four spaces for comical manservant?? What?? Oh . His voice. Who knew??
Loved loved TORSO for that heart location. Of course I put in chest! On knew I was right. But devilish Jeffrey had another direction! Loved it.
And 62 A, Coleridge work? Well of course I knew he was a poet. So with four boxes it had to be Poem, right? Well no. Not with Wechsler misdirection. His famous RIME! I knew but I didn’t know.
Such fun from our favorite wordsmith.
HG, thanks for the informative tour. I learned a lot.
I m always amazed at the coincidences in crossword land. We’ve discussed it before.
ReplyDeleteTonight, after JW insists we consider LEST, I am re-reading To Kill A Mockingbird. On the opening page is This:
“ but in this pursuit he was unhappy lest he be tempted into doing what he knew was not for the glory of God, as the putting on of gold and costly apparel.“
Life is so interesting!
Back from church. How about timid putter's bane for ALICE.
ReplyDeleteOne big inky mess was COPYRIGHT<PATENTLAW. Vanity combined with sheer laziness mixed with stubbornness results in ink minus wite-out. Throw in wishful thinking. I never noticed that this was a JeffWesch.
Q neighbor? Why TEE of course next to ALL led to more mess.
CSO to Picard today. And… Jeff let us fill some boxes but I too had UPI<NYT
I may be back, but….
I just read Swamp and his post illustrates the slants and benders that Jeff pitched. Was POEM going to be one of those gimmes? Like IPOS cross PENAL(Code).
That's style.
WC
TTP, I gathered it was a recreation off the transcript but the testifier was just so damn real. And, the point wasn't that he was stupid but that he just wasn't going to say that word or cooperate in any way.
The irony is that with smartphones we literally do business with actual "photocopies" all the time.
WC
I have not posted much in the past week, but Wilbur Charles you have roused me. Yes, I was pleased to see Star TREK appear in the puzzle and in the review by Husker Gary.
ReplyDeleteRegarding "Every Little Breeze Seems to Whisper Disease" I actually saw this in the Mad Magazine takeoff of MASH back in the early 1970s. I can't seem to find a copy of that right now, although I do have the original magazine in storage somewhere. I just ordered a CD set of the magazine which may be easier to access in the future.
Regarding Chicago, we actually got to experience their performance last year, but without PETER Cetera.
Here are some of my videos and photos of Chicago, including a photo of us with the band!
"MRI safety consideration" had me puzzled. We have an MRI machine in our building at UC Santa Barbara for doing psychology research (functional MRI). There is a huge safety concern and it has to do with having even the tiniest slivers of metal in critical parts of the body like the eyes. This can happen if one has worked in a machine shop. I was totally unaware that there was an ENERGY DOSE that was a safety issue.
From the past week:
CanadianEh thank you for the kind words about my Canadian Niagara Falls photos.
Husker Gary and AnonT thank you for the "Boot the ball" explanations regarding baseball. I could not find it with Google, but I will trust that you are correct that it is a term that comes up in baseball for ERRS.
Yellowrocks thank you for the kind welcome and kind words about my photos.
Anon-T- I'll cite my granddaughter's English husband, father-in-law, & brother-in-law who all told me that people they knew voted for Brexit because they didn't like the EU dictating the sizes of things (especially their pints) that they were familiar with. BTW, All three voted AGAINST Brexit but they were in the minority.
ReplyDeleteJust like on this side of the pond, voters make decisions based on trivial things without considering the big picture.
Hola y buenas noches!
ReplyDeleteI almost missed the party today but I was at another kind of party. It was bunco and game day with some friends and so much fun!
I really liked this JW puzzle most of which I did before I left and found myself on his wave length. Easy for a Saturday. ALICES was my first fill.
Never having heard of Egon Schiele I did not know of his EROTIC ART, LIU, and couldn't recall Romeo's last words.
Before the Broadway show I saw KINKY BOOTS, the movie, in the theater and loved it.
AVISO has a long and storied history.
I, too, like the word DULCET and for the same reason as I M.
Thank you, Gary, for the sparkling commentary.
I hope you all had a very good day!
More LEST: Tonight at vigil services we had The Parable of the Persistent Widow which said in part: "because this widow keeps bothering me I shall deliver a just decision for her LEST she finally come and strike me.’”
ReplyDeleteCould this be a coincidence too?
BigE - anecdotal but still a cite; thanks. I'd not heard of that (I did hear something about measurements - and US moving to Metric in the '70s moved my family to decry it, so I get it). Most of what I heard about why folks voted the way they did centered on the UK accepting African immigrants/refugees as per the EU's mandate.
ReplyDeleteAnd, I do agree, many folks vote one way for the wrong reasons. Ever read What's the matter with Kansas? Frank focuses on the Right but the Left does it too (to a much less effective degree ;-))
Jinx - I got your play on words and tried to do the same circling back to For What It's Worth (FWIW). I guess you won that round :-)
Both girls have both Beatles and RUSH t-shirts they gladly wear in public - much to DW's chagrin :-) //My work here is done.
Nice to see you (and your snaps of Chicago) Picard.
IM & Tin - good game. I was biting my nails in the bottom of the 8th and taught Youngest new words [see: CED's Yosemite Sam clip from the other night] when Y'all tied it up. Oh, and, honestly, I didn't recognize 1/2 the pitchers we pulled out to SEW together the line-up; nothing but relievers? WTH was that about?
Spitz - No such thing as coincidence -- It's a conspiracy! Call Nick Cage.
//Or, better yet, Art Bell :-)
Cheers, -T