Time to Trim That Tree !
17. "O Tannenbaum" and others?: PINE NUMBERS. Pin Numbers. I mostly use four of them, all between 0 and 9. Seems like too few possibilities.
24. One trying to photograph a partridge during the holidays?: PEAR SHOOTER. Pea shooter. So quaint. Wish it were now.
38. Muchacho working with wood?: ELM NINO. El Nino. Perfect clue / answer agreement with Muchacho / El Nino.
50. Boob tube yule log residue?: ASH SEEN ON TV. That's just funny ! One channel airs continuous loops of "It's a Wonderful Life", another of "A Christmas Story", and another of "The Yule Log" from Christmas Eve to Christmas Day. A television tradition.
60. Do some holiday decorating ... and what you need to do to four puzzle answers to produce familiar phrases?: TRIM THE TREE.
The Pine, Pear, Elm and Ash trees all need to drop a letter in Victor's imaginative creation, rather than the now more commonly accepted meaning of "trimming a tree", as in adorning.
More commonly accepted of course, unless you are old-school and still relish in the final pruning of the tree you and your family have just hewn from the local Christmas tree farm.
Across:
1. Innocents: LAMBs.
6. Uncool crime?: ARSON. Literally and figuratively.
11. "That cracks me up!": LOL. Laugh Out Loud
14. Video game giant: ATARI. Early successes were Pong, Asteroids and Missile Command.
15. Old-school: RETRO.
16. Leave breathless: AWE.
19. Resting place: INN.
20. Meal in a pot: STEW.
21. Meal in a pot: SOUP. Loved the consecutive clue duplication.
22. Styx home: HADES. They're not from Hades. They are from Chicago. You may not recognize their name, but you would most likely remember so many of their hit songs from the '70s and '80s.
27. Submerge: ENGULF.
30. Multilevel marketing giant: AMWAY. "Multilevel marketing" just seems to reek of a pyramid scheme to me. Caution flags go up.
31. Most Belgraders: SERBs. Belgrade, Serbia.
32. Playing with a full deck: SANE.
34. Free game version, perhaps: DEMO.
37. This answer's consonant count, aptly: TWO. Creative clue.
41. Title for Jagger: SIR. Mick Jagger.
42. NRA member?: ASSN. National Rifle Association
44. Actress Skye: IONE. Her father was Donovan, perhaps best known for mid '60s pop hits Sunshine Superman and Mellow Yellow.
45. Barely leading: UP ONE.
47. Lacrosse need: STICK. La crosse is of French Canadian origin. It literally means crooked stick.
49. Finds exciting: IS IN TO.
53. Fail to match: CLASH. Like plaid pants and a striped shirt. Or, The Clash. "The only band that matters." An English band that you may recall from the song "Rock The Casbah"
54. Air Force prog. that first admitted women in 1969: ROTC. Reserve Officer Training Corps.
55. Sworn statement: OATH.
59. Like rappers Jon and Wayne: LIL. Spotify now lists over 8,000 artists with “Lil’” or “Lil” at the beginning of their name.
63. Monopoly abbr.: AVE. Mediterranean Avenue, Baltic Avenue, Oriental Avenue, etc.
64. "Biography" channel: A AND E.
65. Toroidal bread: BAGEL.
66. Victorious shout: YES.
67. "Understood": ROGER.
68. Fair-haired: BLOND.
Down:
1. Track count: LAPs.
2. Fighting: AT IT.
3. Clydesdale feature: MANE. Perhaps Clydesdale was chosen on the off chance that someone might not know of the famous horses. But I would say that the most significant feature of the Clydesdale is their massive size. In the area where I grew up, there are various breeds of heavy horses still being used for farm labor, especially by the Amish and Mennonites. We called them Pennsylvania draft horses or just draft horses, regardless if they were Belgian, Percheron, or Clydesdale.
4. Craft beer server: BREW PUB. Budweiser was hardly a craft beer when August Busch Jr. presented his father with the famous hitch and first case of beer after the repeal of Prohibition. Busch Sr. saw the marketing potential and had the team sent by rail to NY and New England, delivering cases of beer to both Alfred E Smith and Franklin D Roosevelt. The rest, as they say, is history.
5. Serious code-breaking?: SIN.
6. Strong suit: ARMOR. The deck of cards clue had me thinking of card games.
7. Picture puzzle: REBUS.
8. Zimbalist of "Remington Steele": STEPHANIE. The show launched the career of Pierce Brosnan.
9. Hockey legend: ORR. Bobby. His primary role on the ice was as a defenseman, but he twice led the NHL in scoring. He scored the game winning goals in each of the two Boston Bruins' Stanley Cup victories in the early '70s. He remains the only defenseman to have ever won the scoring title.
10. Reason for an empty seat: NO SHOW.
11. Saw: LAID EYES ON. Have you seen the Peloton "The Gift That Gives Back" commercial ? Struck me as cringe worthy. I found it on YouTube and the comments were not favorable, and then comments were disabled as the story went viral.
Then Ryan Reynolds hired her for a commercial for his Aviation Gin product. In this take, she's having a different perspective after receiving a Peloton from her husband. I love how her girlfriends are trying to figure out what to say and how to help her.
12. "For sale by" sign poster: OWNER. Obvious, but cute. Gives me an idea for a practical joke to pull on a buddy.
13. Spyglass part: LENS.
18. Its Space Command has HQ in Colorado: USAF.
23. Not much at all: A TAD.
25. Otherwise: ELSE.
26. Sign to interpret: OMEN.
27. Cuban pronoun: ESTA.
28. Latest: NEWS.
29. Financial report line: GROSS SALES.
32. Caterpillar's exhalation in Disney's "Alice in Wonderland": SMOKE RING. I didn't specifically remember. Looked it up later. The caterpillar was lazing on a mushroom and smoking from a hookah pipe.
33. Andy's doll pal: ANN. The Raggedy siblings.
35. 36-Down flavor: MINT.
36. Classic cookie: OREO. Anyone ever try a mint flavored Oreo ?
39. Tiny parasites: LICE.
40. Drive from power: OUST.
43. Unnamed degrees: NTHs.
46. Indispensable: PIVOTAL.
48. Fictional title country in a 1987 film: ISHTAR. Roger Ebert said, "It's not funny, it's not smart and it's interesting only in the way a traffic accident is interesting." He gave it one star.
49. Foot fraction: INCH. Foot fracture ? You'll probably need the special boot. Been there, done that.
50. Still in the game: ALIVE.
51. __ plume: NOM DE. A pen name or pseudonym.
- David John Moore Cornwell ?
- Charles Dodgson ?
- Eric Arthur Blair ?
- Stanley Lieber ?
- Samuel Clemens ?
53. Art class medium: CLAY.
56. Ship to Colchis: ARGO. Perps.
57. Many a gamer: TEEN. Our language evolves. Before video games and RPGs, # 2 was # 1.
- a person who plays video games or participates in role-playing games.
- North American (especially in sports) a person known for consistently making a strong effort.
58. Kept: HELD.
61. '90s Indian prime minister: RAO. Perps.
62. Recede: EBB. Reseed: Sow (again).
PSA - Speaking of the clue at 2D. Fighting:
A flu shot is your best protection.
Check you answers here:
46 comments:
Mary had some LAMBS, they flocked,
As they grew, with wool were flocked.
She sold some fleece,
But then got fleeced.
Her wool near gone, she said, "I'm flocked!"
'Twixt SOUP and STEW, where's the needle?
Soup's the thinner one, almost feeble!
Has more broth
To top it off,
While Stu was once almost a Beatle!
Persephone was a lady from HADES.
Made whoopee with Pluto in their heydays!
Went there in Winter
Tortured the SINNER,
Each Spring drove back in a new Mercedes!
{B-, B+, B+.}
FIR in 34:02 min.
Good morning Cornerites.
Thank you Victor Barocas for your pleasant Friday CW. Carol has a cold, and has quarantined herself away from me so I worked it alone.
Thank you TTP for your excellent review.
Ðave
Good morning!
Needed Wite-Out to change BED to INN, but otherwise my grid is clean...and complete. Cute theme, Victor. Despite my reputation, I managed to get it. Turned into a quick solve. Thanx for the tour, TTP.
PINE NUMBERS: Back in the day when I still worked, we occupied 7 floors and had mechanical 4-digit keypads to provide access from the stairways. (We also had elevators.) There were far fewer than 1,000 possibilities, because management insisted that the codes be easy to remember. Better than no security, I guess. Barely.
CLASH: I'm one of those color-challenged folk who has no sense of clash.
What do our fellow wordies think of the singular "they." I understand it, but it grates on my ears. It's less awkward than "he/she."
It is so nice to wake up to a puzzle from a FRIEND of this blog and our dear C.C. Victor has been published every year since 2010 in the puzzle world, along with his scholarly works in academia.
Today, we were not BLINDED BY SCIENCE but a fun romp'
I loved the juxtaposition of 14. Video game giant: ATARI. 15. Old-school: RETRO.
Also, 3. Clydesdale feature: MANE and 4. Craft beer server: BREW PUB.
A CSO to me (ARGO) and Tom's interesting quiz on NOM DE PLUME . I won't directly spoil his fun, but here are 8 EXAMPLES
Thank you professor and TTP.
Oops, that shoulda been 10,000.
FIR, but erased irish for SERBS, yay for YES, and asset for ARMOR.
Long after the fill, the V8 cans caused me to correctly parse LAID EYES ON.
WC FLN: What a precocious coach you must have had. "...my 13 year old coach was an ex MLB'er...". And I thought that Joe Nuxhall was the youngest ever to play MLB at age 15.
Thanks to Victor for the fun Victory. And thanks to TTP for the interesting tour. The only pseudonym I knew was Samuel Clemens - Hal Holbrook, of course
Easy and fun theme. Very enjoyable solve overall with no problems or writeovers.
New and different approach. Not a Friday difficulty puzzle.
Interesting about Peloton commercial. I had heard something but had not heard any details. So it was fun to watch the commercial here. I thought, "is that it!?!?" What is the controversy about? Luckily, a story from Inside Edition was the next video to play from TTP's link to explain the offended parties issue. I still don't get it. A husband gifts a piece of exercise equipment to his wife, the wife loves it and improves her heart's health and is thankful for this. O.k. by me.
No more offensive than reminding me to get a flu shot. I choose not to get one, but I appreciate TTP's concern and I'm not even a little bit offended by it.
Not fond of the answer for latest being news.
Some clever clues, which made this fun. I thought it was a bit tough, but others seem to think it was easy for a Friday. Didn’t fully get the “trim” theme until I read TTP’s write-up.
No major difficulties, except for parsing laid eyes on. Took 10:30.
I don't care for "this answers consonant count...."
Good morning all.
Thanks to Victor Barocas for a doable Friday the thirteenth puzzle.
FIR after checking a list of Indian Prime Ministers.
Thanks for the tour TTP but I’m still puzzled by 37A . TWO filled in by perps but left me out in the cold.
I’m with C. E. Koop on not going for flu shots after a bad experience. At age 65 I was persuaded to take a pneumonia shot along with a flew shot. I nearly bought it with two weeks of fevers and labored breathing. Tough stuff . No thanks I’ll take my chances with natural occurring flus, colds, etc as long as I’m able to make that choice .
Cheers
Good Morning:
I guessed early on that we were dealing with some sort of a Tree theme, but the reveal was still very much an Aha moment. I also appreciated the tightness of there being two 3 letter and two 4 letter trees, not to mention the timeliness of the theme. I liked Stew ~ Brew and Oath ~ Oast, and the grid neighbors Mint and Oreo plus Stew and Soup. Nths was a tad jarring. My learning moment was that Ishtar was a country, albeit fictional, I well remember that movie and was a major flop it was, but I always though Ishtar was a person. Several clever clues stood out for me: Serious code breaking?= Sin, Strong suit=Armor, Uncool crime?=arson, and Resting place=Inn. Thought of Lemony at Argo.
Thanks, Victor, for a fun Friday and an early Christmas Tree trimming party and thanks, TTP, for doing duty whilst under the weather. I hope you feel better soon.
FLN
jfromvt ~ I'm happy to hear you survived your trip to Canada intact, minus your shirt!
I guess UPS and FedEx are playing catch up with the holiday rush. I received a delivery last night at 9:30 which was a day later than promised and last week, my FedEx delivery was three days late, supposedly delayed by inclement weather conditions that were non-existent. Fortunately, both shipments were not time-sensitive so the delay wasn't burdensome, just annoying.
Have a great day.
My proof reading needs work. Should read "what a major flop" and "I always thought". Sorry, folks.
Good morning. I noticed the 'trim' after PEAR SHOOTER was in place. Had to WAG ELM because I had no idea what a "Muchacho" was. SMOKE RING was an unknown filled by perps. Ditto for ARGO, RAO, ISHTAR. Fast fill for a Friday. The 'consanant count' clue- you had to know the answer to be able to know the 'count'- weird.
A&E channel's "Biography". I remember them starting a "Biography Channel" a few years ago.
BREW PUB- they are multiplying like flies in NOLA.
Peloton- the gift that keeps on taking, as in your money. You overpay for an exercise bike AND pay a monthly subscription just to exercise on something YOU bought.
AMWAY- definitely the most successful pyramid scheme sales company. But their big draw was the potential for people claiming business expenses on income taxes. They claimed that AMWAY was their primary job so they could deduct car allowances, telephone,...etc and commuting costs to their 'second' job which was really their main source of income.
Hola!
Trimming these TREEs was fun! Only a letter was lopped off and not complete branches. Thank you, Victor Barocas! Is that your real name?
Like IrishMiss, I thought RETRO and ATARI made a nice pair. And I haven't heard of AMWAY in many years. We likely all have friends who tried to coax us into their wily web.
I also liked SOUP and STEW as meals in a pot. STEW sounds like a good idea for dinner tonight.
Today is Friday the 13th and considered by some an OMEN.
My only erasure was NITS for LICE which also made me realize STICK was needed for Lacrosse. And though I haven't seen the Disney version of Alice, SMOKERING made sense. Thank you for the explanation.
Thank you, TTP, for the fine Friday commentary and also for the advice you gave yesterday. I hope it is heeded.
Have a warm and cozy day, everyone!
Big Easy. I knew a few Amway sales people personally many years ago . One or two that I knew of became obscenely wealthy but more of the ones I knew moved on to several other get rich quick schemes . When one petered out they moved on to the next and the constant hassle to buy in or you don’t love your wife or kids got so that my DW and I decided that we didn’t want to join that religion and moved on to nurture our relationships with real friends
FIR, a bit tough, but more fun than than yesterday's puzzle. ELM was the last tree to suss. Great theme, Victor. Fine blog, TTP.
WC, FLN, I, too, wondered about your 13 year old coach.
When the gender of a person is unknown we resort to he/she. Awkward! I don't like THEY, either. We need a new non gender specific singular pronoun. I accept THEY for non-binary gender persons.
I make a beef barley SOUP that is almost a STEW. The broth is cooked way down, but the thick soup is not quite thick enough to be served over noodles or mashed potatoes. It is quickly scarfed up at potlucks and by my family.
SMOKE RING took ESP. Then, I could picture the caterpillar lying on a leaf blowing smoke rings. V-8 can moment.
I thought of ISHTAR after a few perps, but discounted it because I knew ISHTAR from historical novels " Ishtar,... in Mesopotamian religion, goddess of war and sexual love. Ishtar is the Akkadian counterpart of the West Semitic goddess Astarte. "
As a K-12 student I hated history, probably because of the way it was taught, rote reciting of meaningless facts. I found my college textbook interesting and enlightening. Now my interest in well written historical fiction, which I later research, greatly increases my knowledge and appreciation of history.
As a teacher, I tried to present hiSTORY as a story as much as possible.
I was missing ---ER in ROGER. In desperation I wrote in the R for ISHTAR and discovered ROGER. TA DA. Done.
I knew it would be a creative cluing/puzzle with Victor as the constructor!
I actually thought of the Christmas sense of trimming the tree with ornaments since something needed to be added to the base word to get the tree!
I like Mint OREOs - but I like most things with MINT and Chocolate - one of my easy go to summer recipes is an ice cream pie with MINT chocolate ice cream and an oreo cookie crust!
Thanks TTP and Victor!
Musings
-Those free “DEMOS” vendors can require you to sign up and hope they can bill you without your noticing later
-If you’re UP ONE but Tom Brady has the ball with a minute left, he’s still very much ALIVE
-Real Monopoly AVES
-As a track timer, I had to be aware of who had been passed on an 8-LAP race
-A boy named Remington welded some pieces together in welding class and I called his work Remington Steele. He gave me a blank stare
-Around me FSBO sellers wound up with a real estate company eventually
-I continue to wonder why movie professionals can’t tell a horrible movie is being made
-My DW helps me pick out clothes to wear subbing if I know a day in advance. She cringes when I get called at 5 am to think what I picked out by myself
-Our hometown university offers gamer TEENS scholarships to play E-Sports
Regarding "they" as a singular pronoun: I hate it. My preference is he or she and will use it instead of they and when appropriate, him or her rather than them. I know language evolves but it seems to be dumbing down which reflects poorly on our culture, IMHO.
My teak kettle always catches on fire.
Good morning everyone.
Had to do a total WAG with ISHTAR, but it generated good perps and I was able to FIR. No help was needed. Loved the theme. Very clever. Only TWO cheater cells. BZ to Victor.
MANE - Clydesdale reminded me of their handsome fetlocks, but it would not fit. MANE fit well.
Thanks for a fine intro, TTP.
The movie college was Faber not Farber.
Grammar Girl
Read Grammar Girl's discussion of THEY as singular. I do believe this usage will come to be acceptable very soon. THEY, singular, is the Word of the Year, 2019. It will take some getting used to. I think of this as evolving rather than dumbing down. Almost every change which later became acceptable, and even preferred, was initially called dumbing down.
I can think of situations where THEY would be best. I have a trans relative who shunned me for months for calling her HE several times in a row. THEY might have been better. When I think of this relative as a child, she herself identified as a boy, dressed as a boy, referred to himself (themself) as a boy, although internally she probably had doubts. I picture the things "they" did in childhood as being done by a boy, but I am supposed to say SHE did it when she was five years old. When I think of this, I hope they, them, their, singular becomes common.
VB, lovely puzzle; the theme was fun.
Jerome, Your 'teak kettle' comment .... to what does it refer?
YR, I, too, had no interest in history as a student, but now I find it fascinating. I'm reading "A Short History of the World" by J. M. Roberts and I'm catching up on everything I missed.
Have a nice weekend!
I got the flu once while still young and healthy and I never want to feel that way again....I have gotten the flu shot....and every other vaccine...ever since.
I admire those who think they will somehow avoid getting really sick if they get the flu. Darwin in action...Good luck with that.
No worries with this Friday puzzle despite the crunch.
Alice- Trim the tree Theme. Teak kettle... Tea kettle. It catches on fire because It's made of teak.
AnonymousPVX, amen. I have gotten the flu, even with the flu shot, but my suffering was less than coworkers who had bypassed the shot. This year I went to get my shot, and after the injection I asked, "This was the double-strength senior shot, right?" Nope, it was the standard strength vaccine -- the pharmacy was out of double-strength. I blame them for not alerting me, but I also blame myself for not asking ahead of time.
Unlike others, I liked 37A. ONE or TWO worked, TWO fit. Reminded me of yesterdays impossible NFL scores. I also like an occasional MINT OREO now and then.
Hi All!
Victor, your puzzle was a delightful pleasure to solve! I loved it.
Excellent expo TTP. I didn't know about IONE's dad; I got to look smart when I told MIL (in our post-solve wrap-up) who she was :-)
Love me some CLASH too!
WO: I had ONE b/f TWO. THREE would also work as clued but there weren't 5 squares.
ESP: IONA [not that most c/as didn't take some serious perpage - LAID EYES ON took forever to parse!]
Fav: I love the clue for TWO. [Hi GJ! Welcome to The Corner]
Such a fun puzzle. Only ONE obscure name [well, two but STEPHANIE was easy to see with just ST-P--N--], fun imagery (nail'd Alice's Caterpillar w/ just SM-), ARSON, ATARI, RETRO, SOUP & STEW --- all LOL.
You know what I'm saying? - or in other words: ROGER, ROGER?
{B, A, A}
Jerome, really? :-) //actually, that's really good!
//Alice @11:52 - it's another possible "themer" tea[k]-kettle.
TTP - I assume you left it to me to pick a STYX Song [Come Sail Away - listen closely y'all and you'll discover it's SciFi].
Flu shot? No, I just stay away from sick people. It helps that I'm in Houston and we're not all confined indoor during flu seasons. //Funny, As I was typing this, a PSA came over HPM (Houston Public Media - our NPR) telling us about the hazards of not getting the shot.
Have a wonderful Friday afternoon!
Cheers, -T
Fun Friday puzzle--many thanks, Victor. I got about three-fourths of it before I ran into a bit of trouble, but still enjoyed it all. Started at the bottom with OATH and TEEN and then ARGO, and then the rest of that section, including the TRIM THE TREE solution all filled in (although I didn't get it till later). So Mick Jagger is a SIR? I didn't know that. I liked "strong suit" as the clue for ARMOR. BAGEL, MINT, OREO, STEW and SOUP all started to make me hungry even though it was not yet lunchtime.
Enjoyed your write-up, TTP, and enjoyed your poems, Owen.
Have a good weekend coming up, everybody.
HuskerG @10:16: "I continue to wonder why movie professionals can’t tell a horrible movie is being made"
I think the answer is 'paycheck.'
HG re: Remington Steel. That's one thing that was a thing but it doesn't stand the test of time. Plus, the kids these days...
This morning I was talking to "The Kid" on our team (really smart but we gotta learn him his history to make him a better hacker)
Me: "We're about to re-enter the '20's. You know that from TV & movies, right?"
We went on about technology and early adopters and I mentioned The Biltmore and how it had electricity and butler's-pantry buzzers (down to the LARDER!), etc. He said something about Flappers and "whooho - ankles on women."
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That's when BossMan walked in.
The Kid said to him, "-T's just telling me about the 20's when he was young, I think(?)."
//smart ass!
OK, that doesn't quite explain the divide. Lemme try again...
I talked with Eldest (the RA @ OU) this morning and they had a fire in the dorm last night. [A phone charger over-heated and the 10th floor filled with flames and smoke - the 9th floor got flooded by the sprinklers (everyone is safe! //except for the kid that saved his stash during the dash out and said "The building's lit, I'm going to be too."
Eldest wrote him up* :-))]
Anyway, as the fire was breaking out, Eldest got a text from one of the kids in the dorm:
"Hey, there's a fire in the room next to me. What should I do?"
Seriously.(?)
//Totally made me think of this. [IT Crowd]
Cheers, -T
Yes, a very cleverly worked out theme. Mr. Barocas is a genius wordsmith, a gentleman with (apparently) much time on his hands.
Misty ~ I didn't know it was SIR Mick either. They snuck that one over on me.
I hope your computer problem is fixed. I saw you at the Jumble yesterday, but missed you in this Corner.
~ OMK
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DR: Two diags, one on each side. The leading anagram speaks of a well practiced alibi, a drilled excuse, a...
"ROTE DEFENSE"!
Anonymous T said so well what I thought about this puzzle: "Victor, your puzzle was a delightful pleasure to solve! I loved it."
Sure enough, I answered ONE instead of TWO because I thought ESOS was correct. It isn't. In addition, NENS didn't make sense. So TWO it had to be, which revealed GROSS. Which revealed ... and so on.
SERBS sounds like an alien race in the game StarCraft.
I learned who IONE Skye's father is. I also learned, or rather remembered, the Prime Minister's name was RAO, not RAJ.
I have never had a MINT flavored OREO. I must confess I'm not an Oreo fan; to my taste the chocolate is not very good.
LW and I have gotten flu shots every year for more than 10 years. This year they ran out of the high-dose version so we got the "normal" dose, which is actually what we'd been getting for years before the high-dose version became main-stream a couple of years ago. We're both on the waiting list to get Shingrix shots, too, but it looks like it's going to be a long wait.
LW is making beef STEW for dinner tonight. As her sous chef I washed and chopped the vegetables. Good ole "holy trinity" of carrots, celery, and onions. Quartered potatoes will go in last.
Jerome, good one! Owen, nifty verses today.
Good wishes to you all.
Jayce, DW and I got our Shingrix shots at Walgreen's recently on a walk-in basis. $20 copay per shot for each of the two injections, which were separated by a month or two IIRC. There was a wait at our doctor's practice, but not at the drug store.
Jinx, thanks for the information about Shingrix shots at Walgreen's. And thanks for the book recommendation.
Dash T, I never saw that IT Crowd video before, but it makes sense. Reminds me of:
Programmer's mom: "Son, go to the store and get a bottle of milk. If they have eggs, get 6."
Programmer returns with 6 bottles of milk.
Mom: "Why on earth did you get 6 bottles of milk ?"
Programmer: "Because they had eggs."
Mondegreen of the The Clash song for IT people:
Once you get it like you like it
Lock the taskbar
Lock the taskbar
Funny way to spell "Just funny": LAME.
Thanks, TTP, for your great recap - never knew the connection of Donovan (loved his songs back in the day) and Ione Skye - and for 'splaining the theme. Took over for D-O today, and missed it; but in my case-totally. I thought when I immediately filled PINE NUMBERS (O Tannenbaum and others -OK pine tree numbers) and PEARSHOOTERS (OK, partridge in a pear tree), the theme was inserting "tree." Then the last two - whaa?
Had a coupon for a free package of Oreos so I tried the mint Oreos. They're more addictive than the original! Though I have to agree with Jayce that Oreos don't taste anything like chocolate, I don't associate the flavor with chocolate and I'm good.
Anon-T - where in the world did you find that hilarious clip - IT Crowd? Was it a cable BBC show? Your Eldest certainly sounds like she has her hands full with that group. I agree with you on The Kid in your office - smart-ass for sure. Fast-forward 20+ years, he'll have some kid telling him the same stuff.
Thank you for asking, Ol'Man Keith. My Tech supporter came to the house and hopefully got the computer fixed. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
OMK - My ROTE DEFENSE: "I smell like smoke? But it was only 3 drags!"
How does she know?
//PSA - Kids, don't ever smoke. That Monkey doesn't leave your back.
TX Ms - Eldest introduced me to The IT Crowd [Jen get's the Internet] a few years ago. BBC4, I believe, that we got on Netflix or something. Eldest & I binged it nightly for a week. Funny stuff.
//Speaking of Eldest - I'm so excited. I'm flying up to Norman Thursday, we'll hang Friday, and I get to play with her D&D group Saturday! Then we'll Road-Trip it back to Houston Sunday! #QualityTime
Misty - I hope all your tech problems were solved by the nerds about.
TTP - re: 6 bottle of milk; Did you talk to my Mom? :-)
//boo-hiss 'Lock the Taskbar, Lock the Taskbar...'
Cheers, -T
I don't think this got posted.
Re. MLM, depends on where on the pyramid you're at.
ISHTAR was a problem because NOM DE PLUME didn't register. Then I spelled the former just as a Bostonian would: ISHTAH. I was at lunch sitting next to a Canadian and was going to ask him when the V8 can hit.
I think I had PLUME in that French lesson the other night.
Inking RAj left me with RJGER. That was my last fill for the difficult FIR
Jinx, that cracked me up. Actually the next year when we converted to Babe Ruth League the coach, who knew no baseball, made me his asst coach.
John Le Carre and of course Lewis Carroll. Twain of course but I don't know the other two.
I fell asleep before posting
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