Saturday Themeless by Ed Sessa
Today we get another pleasant house call from Dr. Ed Sessa of Sanibel Island, FL. shown here with his good friend Tug, a King Charles Cavalier who died three years ago.
Some of the Ed's cluing elicited laughter like "Words before a request" but "Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat" and "Exmoor" startled me. However, they were quickly brought to heel as the fill became obvious.
Here's Ed's very nice reply to my inquiry about this puzzle:
Hi Gary,
HOMICIDAL...CAT was Rich's clue and much thanks to him for requiring a rewrite in the NW to eliminate a bad entry at 1-D (PHENOLIC). I think CALVINANDHOBBES crossing EMERGENCY EXIT must have been seed entries for this puzzle, but am not sure.
Listening to critics I really try to limit use of proper names, and with saturday puzzles the worst criticism one can receive is a DNF. I think Rich does a great job editing my clues for grammatical correctness and level of difficulty. For example, in this puzzle, SNEEZE I clued as "Nasal spray?" Cute perhaps, but technically incorrect, "sneeze" being an action, not a result. I thank everyone on this blog site for their gracious comments and critiques.
Ed
1. 2015-'20 TV hip-hop musical drama: EMPIRE - Drama indeed; no one looks very happy in this picture.
7. Toyota sedans: AVALONS - Their Corolla is the most popular car in the world but not plural and, uh, wrong
14. Outer organ layer: CORTEX - One site compared the brain's CORTEX to bark on a tree
15. Email staple: EMOTICON - I started with EMOTICONS then went to emojis and then my daughter showed me an IOS app called Bitmoji that gives me hundreds of pictures using my face.
16. Pooh-pooh, with "at": SNEEZE.
17. Michelangelo's "David," for one: MALE NUDE - Everything on that 17' statue is larger than life
18. Do something to hide?: TAN - I love this clue, Dr., where "hide" is a noun
19. Devoted: ARDENT - I am an ARDENT fan of Death Of A Salesman. I saw Lee J. Cobb's masterful performance as Willy Loman on TV in 1966.
21. Name on the 1949 "Death of a Salesman" playbill: ELIA - Cobb, Kazan and Miller. Many say this was the apex of American Theater. It touches me more deeply as I become a: 29. Warhorse: OLD HAND.
22. Bad news word: ALAS.
24. Thrice, in prescriptions: TER - TID is TER In Die which means Three times daily
25. Nosh: SNACK.
26. Proportional gift: TITHE.
28. Extreme distress: AGONY.
26. Proportional gift: TITHE.
28. Extreme distress: AGONY.
31. "Curious George" co-author Margret: REY - Books by Margret and illustrated by husband H.A. REY32. Start of a "Huh?" response: I SAID - Despite my hearing aids, my lovely bride has to repeat frequently
33. Fix up, as an old pool: RELINE
35. Comics characters in "Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat": CALVIN AND HOBBES - New to me but pretty obvious quickly (much more than ABECEDARY from yesterday!)
40. Duck soup: A CINCH
41. Exmoor heroine: DOONE - A literary and geographic lesson for me. R.D. Blackmore's novel Lorna DOONE: A Romance of Exmoor is set in SW England on The Bristol Channel
42. Part of the 56-Across: SIB and 56. See 42-Across: FAM and 64. First arrival: ELDEST - I am shown here as the ELDEST of my SIBS with the entire FAM in 1955
45. Tucker of country: TANYA - Here is 13-yr-old TANYA in 1973 singing Delta Dawn which was a Top 10 hit for her. In 1974 Helen Reddy had a #1 hit with it
46. Warblers' warbles: SONGS - After seeing PEEPS wasn't going to work, I remembered this as singers who embellish a song with their own style. Crossword regular Ella Fitzgerald leapt to my feeble mind
47. Law school beginners: ONE-L'S - Scott Turow's book about first year law students often appears on our crossword docket
49. High-__: upscale: END - Will my fish sticks really taste that much better?
49. High-__: upscale: END - Will my fish sticks really taste that much better?
51. __ Sea: Arctic Ocean arm: KARA - More geographic learning for me
52. Cut with light: LASE - What infamous laser-wielding villain said in this scene, "No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!"
53. It was delayed three months in 2020: TAX DAY
57. Apple Pencil go-with: IPAD MINI - Could this revive cursive writing?
59. "Honest!": NO JIVE
61. Try-before-you-buy item: DEMO UNIT - I'd like to get an iPAD MINI DEMO UNIT like the one you see above
62. Ace of Base, e.g.: SWEDES
61. Try-before-you-buy item: DEMO UNIT - I'd like to get an iPAD MINI DEMO UNIT like the one you see above
62. Ace of Base, e.g.: SWEDES
63. "The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed" speaker: STENGEL - Under Casey, the "lovable loser" Mets lost well over 400 games in his four years
Down:
1. Stoked: ECSTATIC.
2. 16th-century masterpiece: MONA LISA - Why The Mona Lisa is so famous3. Like most OB visits: PRENATAL.
4. Mineral ending: ITE - The suffix 'ite', is derived from the Greek word, 'lithos', which means 'rock' or 'stone'
5. Exiled Shah Mohammad __ Pahlavi: REZA - His being allowed into our country in 1979 was not popular back in Iran
6. Bring into play: EXERT.
7. Start of many bar jokes: A MAN
8. Electric Chevy: VOLT - They quit making them in 2019
9. Put away: ATE - Joey Chestnut ATE 75 hot dogs in 10 minutes
10. Bedding: LINEN.
11. Concerned with pupils?: OCULAR - Eyes not students
12. "Fat chance": NO DICE
15. Way away from danger: EMERGENCY EXIT - I like the extra legroom you get here
20. Start of a request for advice: DEAR ANN - C'mon, this was a great clue, wasn't it?
25. Clerical assemblies: SYNODS - SYNODS for Evangelical Lutheran Churches of America
27. Royal commands: EDICTS.
30. Org. studying epidemics: NIH
34. Digital read: E-BOOK.
36. Vardalos of "My Big Fat Greek Wedding": NIA - More recently Nia played a woman in need of a kidney transplant in Grey's Anatomy
37. Real: BONA FIDE - Health care workers and first responders are BONA FIDE heroes
38. Cuts in lines: ENGRAVES - Oops!
39. Fictional NYC thoroughfare: SESAME ST - My friend has run a day-care center in her house at 125 SESAME ST for 30 years ten blocks from our house
42. Big favors, in slang: SOLIDS.
44. "__ Mucho": 1944 #1 song: BESAME - Kiss Me Much in English. Some 1944 #1 hits
48. Conned: LED ON.
50. "__ avec les stars": DANSE - Even I could translate this phrase
54. Indigo dye: ANIL - A common crossword source of dye
55. Wail: YOWL.
58. Travel __: MUG - I bought this one for $3 off the clearance table at KSC
60. Clampett patriarch: JED - Song and dance man Buddy Ebsen gets to show his skills as JED Clampett with Aerosmith dubbed over Flatt and Scruggs.
Notes from C.C.:
I made today's puzzle (11/21/2020) for the Crosswords With Friends app. It's co-edited by Amy Reynaldo and Trip Payne. The app is free. You can download it here via App Store and here via Google Play store.
The puzzle celebrates a few inductees of the 2020 Carnegie Great Immigrants.
Good morning!
ReplyDeleteWell, once again I worked tirelessly, but in the end produced only a DNF. (Sorry, Dr. Ed.) Had KAR_ and FA_, but still couldn't make any sense of SES__EST -- figured it had to end with WEST. Bzzzzzt! I hate when that happens. Once Husker revealed the answer, it was so obvious. D'oh. Yes, I had hOWL before YOWL and had to Wite-Out TID for TER. REZA immediately came bubbling up from the depths, and OCULAR was my first thought. I enjoyed being sent down to the abasement, Dr. Ed (Tug's looking pretty good, considering.) Nice tour, Husker.
TANYA: With help from Brandi Carlile, she recorded an award-winning album in 2019. Here's one of the songs: Bring My Flowers Now (while I'm livin')
AVALONS: There's a lady we see occasionally on our marches through the 'hood. We don't know her name, but refer to her as Mrs. Avalon, because she drives one.
LASE: Gert Frobe had already been signed to play Goldfinger before the director found out that he couldn't speak English. Oops!
Reversing ONELS(lones) held me up for a long while. I knew SOLIDS but it just wouldn't come to the front. Once bag became MUG(and MINI popped) I had enough. Ed did me a big SOLID with his STENGEL* clue.
ReplyDeleteOLDHAck and TANiA needed adjusting. Grok'ing the escape door provided much needed perps. It would have helped if I knew my Toyotas but I recalled VOLT (and DOONE). Dermis had to go but I also vaguely recalled the Shah's middle name. And even KARA was in those dark recesses from peering at the globe in 6th grade while the rest were solving arithmetic problems.
Considering that this xword was completely hopeless and I was thinking of a late Friday post: " I won't be around tomorrow" getting the FIR was a big SOLID after missing a box yesterday (RAMI).
I recall see that ACE recently but completely forgot it. Ah, I see they're a SWEDish rock group. Anybody remember that book where at one point in time the author lists imaginary rock group names? Pages of them.
Re. (Cursive)writing. I'm amazed at the legibility of -T and (HG?) who've shown xwords in progress.
I had No JokE but the B in HOBBES gave me BONAFIDE. Then I grok'ed JIVE.
Why Stars and not (les) etoiles?
Was that really a Beverly Hillbillies episode?
WC
*Casey's ultimate point: The demise of neighborhood sandlot baseball saw the demise of pure skills to be replaced by Homerun hitting ability. The idea was that ball playing could be taught but power was natural. I still contend the reverse(kids can develop strength later)
Was Sessa's puzzle A CINCH? Hell no.
ReplyDeleteDid I FIR? No chance. Both the SW & SE did me in but didn't leave me in AGONY.
The NW filled easily after WAGgin MONA LISA. EMPIRE was an unknown filled by perps. After CALVIN was in place by perps I looked up the clue for 35A and just filled AND HOBBES. But going South was a disaster. I'd never heard of the song BESAME Mucho or the word SOLIDS used for favors. I figured the APPLE Pencil had to be used for something but since I had filled Travel LOG instead of MUD, MINI and DEMO UNIT never had a chance. And like Gary the phrase IN A PET- I've only seen it in X-words.
The SE- what can I say. A French word-DANSE- crossing a group of unknown SWEDES and a saying I'd never heard- NO JIVE- made me want to YOWL. I was fumbling around with either PAW or JED Clampett, which would have allowed NEWEST, OLDEST, or ELDEST but since I didn't know NO JIVE, DANSE, or SWEDES it wouldn't have helped. Have not ever watched DANCE.... or EMPIRE.
Ed- don't worry about the 'younger solvers', just us old codgers. I really don't enjoy solving puzzles with a lot of proper names either. If you aren't into ALL movies, tv, books, rap, c&w, pop music,...etc a clue from any category you are not familiar with will make you wait for the perps.
Ok Gary with your MAN joke how about yesterday. It was 11-2020 or 11-20-20- take your pick.
C.C. - congrats on your puzzle but I only work one puzzle a day and only use ink and the newspaper.
Musing
ReplyDelete-A musical rival for ABECEDARY from yesterday
Well I rarely "solve" the Saturday (or Sunday) puzzles but
ReplyDeleteI always enjoy a Husker Gary write-up.
Hope everyone is planning a SAFE Thanksgiving Day.
A "Toast-to-ALL" at Sunset.
Cheers!
Good morning everyone.
ReplyDeleteWell, KARA was easy but SOLIDS and IN A PET; not so much. Took 8 red cells; all in the SW. Also had 'no joke' before NO JIVE, but BONA FIDE and ENGRAVES took care of that. I persisted because I enjoy Ed's puzzles and this one was masterful like his others. Liked seeing STENGEL. Getting EMERGENCY EXIT and CALVIN AND HOBBES went a long way toward getting it completed.
ELDEST - CSO to Anon -T's
SNEAKY - Was our calico cat for 20 years.
SNACK - (Is Low German for 'talk'. - - 'a' has the sound as in Bach.)
Fine intro, Gary. Thanks.
Electric Chevy today is a Bolt
ReplyDeleteSeriously, though, how much time is too much time to spend torturing one's brain? On the first pass I only got Tanya and Stengel and was ready to pack it in. An hour later (new record for me) the NE an SW were still partially incomplete. Just could not suss where sussing was needed if that makes any sense. Had snarky at 13D and would not let go of Cobb for 21A. In a pet and demo also escaped me. Ed Sessa, you are way beyond my feeble skills.
ReplyDeleteGood Morning:
ReplyDeleteI had some trouble in a few areas but I finished in surprisingly fast time for a Saturday. I needed perps for Empire, Kara, and Swedes and I went astray at Intent/Ardent, Yell/Yowl, and Rezi/Reza. I always enjoy Ed’s puzzles, especially the themed ones with his signature clever wordplay.
Thanks, Dr. Ed, for a smooth and enjoyable solve and thanks, HG, for your spot-on summary and the slew of visuals, even though only a small portion were visible. I’ll go back later when, hopefully, they will appear. I enjoy seeing the handsome Tug in Ed’s arms.
My furnace passed inspection, zero problems, so Irish Miss, her Corolla, and her heating system are all ready for whatever Old Man Winter has in store.
Have a great day.
The first thing I thought of when I was solving this puzzle was that you had to be an older (age wise) solver to do this one. I'm 62 and had difficulty. Having said that with no malice intended to anyone whatsoever, I gotta say that the clues for 42D, 43D, were not at all helpful and the answers to those clues were words or or phrases that no one ever uses. 59A... NO JIVE ??? Lastly, I rarely use EMOTICONS when e-mailing someone, but I do use them all the time when texting. I can't even remember the last time I got an email with an emoticon in it.
ReplyDeleteTough one, got it done. I had iPad mini then erased it, then had it, then erased it, then kept it. "No joke" held me up for awhile. "No jive" made the SE click. I had "reseal" for too long for "reline". I don't agree with the clue for "exert".
ReplyDeleteI agree birdseed. EXERT was perped in but I couldn't see it with "Bring into play". Perhaps YR will explain, she's very good at that.
ReplyDeleteMy NE has so much inkover that I can't make out what I had before NO DICE. I thought AGEE might have been the author. Did Marilyn wear out Arthur?
I see the National Enquirer had figured out the JFK murder. Hoffa did it. I picked a long line at Winn Dixie but never got to the details*. I complained to the cashier for being so fast.
WC
*But I see Johnny Depp is $ogged down in lawyer cases.
I started with the Across clues and didn't have any answers until 25 Across "Nosh." Thank goodness for the Down clues! FIR! IN A PET was new to me, and I wouldn't have been able to finish without DH confirming STENGEL. Thanks for the fun, Ed, Rich, and Husker Gary!
ReplyDeleteDo something to hide; TAN...great clue.
ReplyDeleteThe model for Michelangelo's DAVID was obviously not Jewish! ðŸ¤ðŸ¤ðŸ¤ giggling EMOTOC0NS)
Tanya or Tonya...perpwaited for NIA (oh, TANIA)
Wail? KEEN?.. nojoke/ NOJIVE. Knew Chevy Leaf was wrong. Perped VOLT. Changed eat to ATE (put away is both present and passed tense) which lead to AVALON.
Up to recently I thought Mona Lisa was called La Gioconda (La Jocunde in Fr.) because she was "happy" (jocund) ergo smiling but it's actually her last name. Mona (renaissance contraction of Madonna) Lisa del Giocondo. Happy coincidence not lost on Leonardo.
Thought disingenuous meant naïve...oops. Only knew Duck Soup from the movie..ahh, ACINCH. Filled with perps KARA sea. guess my geography skills ain't that great afterall.
Stubbornly stuck with TID for thrice (three times a day) when actually only the TER was needed. Bonified(stoopid)/BONAFIDE!..
In the end DNF even takng a break to bring in patio furniture (yes finally), finish planting spring bulbs and refilling the bird feeder....the S W corner did me in....ONELS? Was looking for Torts or Wills. Travel log to bug. Big favors: SOLIDS? (don't get it). Ticked: INAPET, yep seen only in CWs...sure I'll forget it next time it shows up
"Should I chop the potatoes?" ____ NODICE
Probabilty of iniquity....SYNODS
Interred....ENGRAVED.
Dr. Ed, I am envious, we had to forego our annual November Sanibel Island vacation.
Do me a solid was popularized by the Seinfeld show.
ReplyDelete"Do me a solid has been around in U.S. slang for about 40 years (at least). But it’s surged in the last 20 years, almost surely through the influence of the tv show Seinfeld. From “The Jacket”, first broadcast 2/6/91:
(Enter Kramer) KRAMER: Hey. Hey, would you do me a solid?
JERRY: Well, what kind of solid?
KRAMER: I need you to sit in the car for two minutes while it’s double-parked. I gotta pick up some birds.
JERRY: Birds? […]
JERRY: I can’t. I’m on my way out. There’s no way I can do it.
KRAMER: George, do me a solid? Two minutes.
GEORGE: Well, I’m going with him. I’d like to, I’ve never done a solid before.
KRAMER: Alright.. yeah.. alright, have a good one. (Kramer leaves)
I have read "in a pet" often enough. I seldom hear it. Dictionary says, "a fit of peevishness, sulkiness, or anger —usually used in the phrase in a pet
He resigned in a pet."
Here ya go, WC. Pressure was EXERTed on the committee chairs. Pressure was brought to bear. Pressure was brought into play. Also, applied.
The puzzle seeds seeded the solution for me.
ReplyDeleteI never had qualms about showering in high school.
DNF today. Meant to review it after lunch but forgot to, leaving 6 unresolved squares. To be honest, I might not have come up with REZA and EXERT, even with more time. But otherwise was feeling good to get the SW corner and other tricky areas.
ReplyDeleteThanks Ed and Husker Gary for providing a welcome distraction today. Trying to manage as a one-armed Granny after speaking my wrist yesterday in a rare fall is a challenge to independent me. DH is helpful and messages of sympathy from our extended family are coming. Everyone has had similar temporary setbacks some time or another. (Hi to IR and YR, recent examples here)
FIR after another of my long slogs. The old brain is very slow these days. I’m always happy to see a reference to CALVINANDHOBBES. To many write-overs to recount here. Good finish to my puzzle day.
ReplyDeleteI'm guessing "speaking" is really "breaking." It's no fun flying with one wing. Even getting dressed can be an adventure. In my ute I broke my wrist twice in PhysEd class, about six years apart. Usually a wrist fracture means immobilizing both the wrist and the elbow for the 6-8 weeks it takes to heal.
ReplyDeleteVera always says “...in a pet” on her PBS program referring to upset women. I haven’t heard in in reference to a man being angry.
ReplyDeleteHard puzzle but do-able with persistence. Lots of my entries went through many iterations before settling into the final correct answer. I had travel baG, then maG, finally travel MUG. MonaLisa took me far too long since I’ve seen it and it is the masterpiece of the 1500’s.
Have a nice weekend.
Puzzling thoughts:
ReplyDeleteHG and Dr Ed: well done
WMEES: TID/TER; NO JOKE/NO JIVE
I had SNEERS/SNEEZE; MOAN/YOWL; LOG/MUG; IDE/ITE; ENACT/EXERT
KARA/ENGRAVES = Natick
FIW —> had to look up a few including CALVIN AND HOBBES
Hi everybody.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed seeing Calvin and Hobbes in a puzzle 'cause I love Calvin and Hobbes. I stumbled upon it (them?) when grandson Jordan had learned to read. I would read one panel and he would read the next. There are lots of big words in the strip and he continued to improve his sounding-out skills. We would enjoy lots of big laughs together as Calvin tried to outsmart Susie Derkins and his teacher, Mrs. Wormwood, to no avail. I've always enjoyed comic strips like Peanuts, Pogo, All in the Family, etc. but it wasn't until Calvin and Hobbes that I fell in love with a comic strip. Jordan and I have continued our joint enjoyment even now that he's a junior in high school. Try it. You'll love them.
Notgada - my biggest DNF this year.
ReplyDeleteHi All!
Dr. Ed - Next time do me a SOLID; it's 'A Guy' walks into a bar...* :-)
Thanks for a learning day. I really needed HG's help shoveling the snow on this puzzle. TAN stood alone in the NW, SE only had SWEDES & JED before copious cheats (Hi Most Everyone Else!).
The DNF is on me, not on you -- I need to expand my vocab (SYNOD?). AND, even post cheat... there's no X in ECSTATIC.
Thanks HG for shoveling me out. I'd have been sussin' all night - still w/o traction.
LOL $20.20 humor.
Oh! Proportional as in %; not as in equal(ish). //You give me $$ scotch, I've got to reciprocate w/ $$ scotch and/or wine.
Line cuts was never going to be segments...
??A Cinch?? - I was trying to figure out how to fit a Marx Brother [Trailer] in there.
Fav: CALVIN AND HOBBES** - right, Bill G? //we both have the book, I'm sure.
//Bill G just posted - Don't forget SpaceMan Spiff! :-)
WC - I'll credit my penmanship to a Mechanical Drawing class. However, some letters are still bastardized from when I learnt Graffiti for Palm OS.
IM - More good news re: furnace. 3 for 3 this week :-)
Y'all have a wonderful Saturday afternoon!
Cheers, -T
*Punch line: he says "Ouch!" and orders a drink.
**I'll tell DW's story later after I clear it w/ her.
DW's CALVIN AND HOBBES story...
ReplyDeleteI leave the computer lab fairly late and join DW & her friends at The Library. I order a drink (Oh, The Library is a pub near OU campus - kids can tell their parents "But mom, I was at The Library all night!" and it's not a lie).
DW's fellow English PhD candidates are talking about guilty reading pleasures. Romance Novels, Fan Fiction, etc. That kinda thing.
DW leans in and confesses "OK, my guilty pleasure is reading Calvin & Hobbes."
Everyone is taken aback / impressed(?).
DW gave me that look... *Zip it.*
We never let on that it was the comic books and let them believe 'deep philosophy' was her side reading!
Cheers, -T
Gotta love a puzzle that has CALVIN AND HOBBES marqueed across the middle. "Death of a Salesman"? COBB! Nope. DERMIS? Nope. Took me forever to parse ACI--H. I thought Exmoor was in Wuthering Heights but I couldn't think of the name of the heroine. It didn't matter anyway because it was wrong. Ah yes, Lorna DOONE. The one entry I had to look up was the KARA Sea, which unlocked that corner for me, revealing that NO JOKE was also wrong. I misspelled BESEME and STENGAL. The buzzer damn near got worn out from so many wrong answers.
ReplyDeleteKnew AVALONS right away. Years ago LW and I test drove one. It's basically a Camry with more legroom in the back; the front seats and cabin aren't any roomier than the Camry. Just more "lipstick" such as wood in places instead of plastic. So we bought the Camry. Thousands of dollars less expensive and has all the bells and whistles we wanted.
Goldfinger is by far my favorite James Bond movie.
Our son's neighbor drives a VOLT. It was a groundbreaking car, technically. Many automotive engineers praised General Motors for having "gotten everything right." (Unlike the Boeing 737 Max.)
I looked it up and am slightly surprised that "star" in the sense of a celebrity is "star" in French. I am surprised because I thought the French language has no words that begin with "st", hence words like étoile, étude, état, étage, and so on. And wouldn't "Dancing" translate to "Dansant"? I guess it's because translations, by nature, hafta be pretty loose. Okay, I'll get off my linguistics soapbox now.
Good wishes to you all.
Vera calls everybody "pet" or "luv."
ReplyDeleteAbout the first fill I managed on today's toughie was ELIA.
ReplyDeleteSeems everybody, including Xwd constructors, is fascinated by "Gadg" Kazan's first name.
Then came DOONE and STENGEL and REZA (1st name of my endocrinologist) and a couple others, but then I floundered.
The pzl was just too dang rich for my blood.
I appreciate the effort that Mr. Sessa went to, but once I got a whiff of such obscurities as a "reversed" IPAD MINI (I type on a Mini iPad!) I hastened to cheat.
~ OMK
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DR: One diagonal, far side.
Its anagram is an epithet used to put down flashy, meretricious Cowboy Entertainers, the kind that use ropes and bullwhips to make their presence felt.
I mean those *#@!...
"LASSO ANUSES"!
Super Saturday. Thanks for the fun, Ed and HuskerG.
ReplyDeleteThis CW was not as easy as duck soup (a CINCH) but I enjoyed it (even if I had to stop to do housework and the come back). I required a visit to Mr.G for REZA and I have plenty of inkblots., but the grid matches HG’s!
I don’t have an Apple Pencil for my IPAD MINI. Should I?
I changed Start to EXERT after REZA opened up that NW corner.
Changing Eminem to EBOOK gave me KARA (I LIUed to see that it is in the Russian Arctic not the Canadian Arctic.)
Hand up for changing Howl to YOWL when TAXDAY perped. Another hand for Ear to ATE.
I knew Beso from the Anka song but BESAME required perps to complete.
WC, the cursive writing in HG’s Rx is better than most MD’s. Ray’o- I always have to dredge up TER for CW use, as I always want tid. ( That amoxicillin Rx needs some discussion with the pt to ensure no penicillin allergy, does diagnosis require 7, 10 days of Tx, why were tablets ordered and 2 to give 500mg dose- swallowing issues? need chewable tabs instead of caps? counsel re admin times closer to q8h than tid, ensure all 7 days of dosing taken even if feel better etc. I may be Emeritus but that Rx EXERTs a reflex response in me.)
Sorry to hear of your wrist break ATLgranny.
Wishing you all a good evening.
-T, it took a minute: Calvin, hmm. Aha, as in Calvinism that dreary religious offshoot of Puritanism where all pleasure must be foresworn.
ReplyDeleteHobbes on the other hand influenced Jefferson etal. Btw, IMHO I think Adam Smith has made a comeback.
That Edith Piaf ad for All State just came on. Je ne regrette rien
We had French IV Senior year, five of us: quatre jeune filles et Guillaume. Ms J. loved her Edith Piaf.
WC
A horse walks into a bar. The bartender looks at her and says, "Why the long face?".
ReplyDeleteWell, I turfed this one big time. Just couldn't get on a roll, and when I did, the answers were wrong.
ReplyDeleteAt least I didn't delete anyone's posts today !
Took out my frustration on the leaves on this beautiful fall day. Still in line for the fictitious award for best maintained yard of the year award. Don't want to lose my chance now.
Agree w/ Jayce about the Avalon. We've had two Camry's over about 30 years. When it was time, we bought the Highlander. It's basically a Camry built into an SUV, and we have been super satisfied with it. It's mundane, but solid. I saw both a 2020 Corvette and Fiat 124 Abarth last week, and I've been thinking about making a an irrational reckless auto purchase ever since, well, just because. A middle aged crisis at 64, or just a Covid 19 induced fantasy ?
Kudos to the game that Indiana put up against Ohio State. Impressive, but glad Ohio State won. Watching Northwestern play Wisconsin now. Pat Fitzgerald and the Wildcats look to be poised to upset the Badgers. Will be tuned in and focused on the Sooners / Cowboys game later this evening.
My high school team is playing for the State Championship tomorrow evening. Second time in two years. They're going up against a team that's won the division 6 times in the last 15 years. A tough row to hoe.
Life is hard, by the yard, but it's A CINCH, by the inch.
Sorry to hear that you sprained your wrist, Atl Granny.
MM: Oooh! That's a favorite of mine too.
ReplyDeleteCanada...can you see that Russian sea from your house? (Sorry that's from Alaska)?
ReplyDeleteTID..follows meal schedule , pt. does have to be awakened at night as with Q8H....BTW...I just looked up Q..Latin Quaque( QUACK? HEY WAIT JUST A MINUTE ! 😠). "Each" or "Every"
TTP - so my mid-life crises was 5 years ago? And I'm not going to make it to 128yrs like you?!? :-)
ReplyDeleteWant a Spider?, get an Alfa. [Pic above is me and my '86 mid-life Spider - Sometimes, it starts!*]
Surgeon Generals' Warning: At our age... Low seats are easy to fall into, hard to get out of :-)
When the Girls are done with college and I've got free'd up $$$, I'm looking at a new Spider. By then, I'd probably have to have the house painted and water heaters replaced...
Rock skips over the lake and time goes on... *sigh*
Cheers, -T
*DW's '17 Alfa Guilia (it goes vOOM|ZOOM - 130mph w/o breaking a sweat!) has been in the shop for a week waiting on a part - a slow boat from Italy. Fiat bits will be just as expensive.
A priest, a rabbi, and an imam walk into a bar. The bartender takes one look and says, "What is this? Some kind of joke?"
ReplyDeleteI had my midlife crisis with an RX-7. Looking back on it, neither the crisis nor the car was particularly good. Nowadays I would probably lust for a two-seater BMW 430i convertible. Not that I could lithely fit into the doggone thing.
Good to see you, Bill G. Wow, so Jordan is a junior in high school! Time sure flies!
Wilbur ~
ReplyDeleteI love to sing along with that Piaf number.
Not sure my wife is such a fan.
~ OMK
Jayce - that's my favorite Walks into a Bar joke (just before "hit's his head")... So meta.
ReplyDelete//Sorry Ray-O; long-face == old (OPERA?) hat. :-)
ATLGranny - How's the sprain? Are you sure nothing's broken?
Bill G. - you did say HS Jr.? OMG! I recall the sad motorbike incident like it was yesterday. Happy to hear you & Jordan are doing well. How's Barbara?
WC - I smiled at your response to DW's Calvin & Hobbes story. You nailed the 2x meaning. :-)
Cheers, -T
Dash T, I've always been slow.
ReplyDeleteLove the look of that Alfa, but not the nose, except in the featured black. Haven't seen one locally. Have you seen the 2020 Corvette ?
Kudos to Northwestern ! Great defense and a solid game on offense. How about those Cincinnati Bearcats ? Luke Fickell has that team at 8-0.
CALVINism: tenets of many protestant churches (No religion!)
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HOBBESian: involving unrestrained, selfish and uncivilized competition among participants. (No politics!)
How did this get passed the CW police?
ReplyDeleteRay-O, not sure if you are being serious or having fun. Discussion or incidental mention is fine. Partisan politics or demeaning comments of another person's belief are not. 'Nuff said ?
@T NICE RIDE. Looks like a blast to drive. From my experience you have a Cops favorite color 'give me a ticket red'. My midlife crisis started in my mid 20's. Over the years I owned two Triumphs two Corvettes and BMW's. I now drive a BMW 540i./335hp. I'm getting older now so maybe next year my last car might be a Corvette. Maybe a dream.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of meta, I think I had a meta dream last night. I very rarely ever remember dreams, but I woke up this morning with a foggy remembrance of this one. Perhaps I remembered, or partially, vaguely remembered bits of it, is because I was on the cusp of waking up. Anyway, in the dream I was observing myself doing something, I don't know what. But there I was, across the street, and here I also was, on the near side of the street, watching what that guy, me, across the street was doing, and predicting what that guy was going to do next. And then sure enough, that guy did exactly what I predicted he would do. Except I don't remember what it was. Anyway, it was weird. Well, what dream isn't weird? But this seemed to be a meta dream, in the sense that I was dreaming that I was watching myself. As the Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi wrote, "Last night I dreamt I was a butterfly. Today I wonder if I was Zhuangzi dreaming I was a butterfly of if I am now a butterfly dreaming I am Zhuangzi."
ReplyDeleteTony, any chance you can sell your current Alfa Spider and buy a new one?
LOL Ray’o- I’m a long way from that KARA Sea. I can see our old friend Erie (not out my window; I must climb a tree.)
ReplyDeleteRe tid - as an antibiotic, oral amoxicillin timing closer to q8h would better ensure adequate minimum inhibitory concentration over a 24 hr. dosing period. Our compromise at the hospital was 0700, 1400, 2200. But in the community, compliance can be an issue with remembering that afternoon dose. (But an improvement over the previously used ampicillin with its q6h or Qid dosing and also needing empty stomach.)
There is a big compliance advantage to any drug with once or twice daily dosing. Maybe we should push Dr. Ed to give us BIS instead of TER in future CWs.
a) my bad - it was MManatee w/ the old-hat 'Long Face' joke. //apologies to Ray-O.
ReplyDeleteb) TTP - I read Ray-O in good fun.
Also - BOOMER! -- Sooner! Eldest called an hour ago. She's on Dorm Duty tonight and just can't wait for all the mask-less drunks to pour in tonight. #sarcasm
Jayce - Pop told me a few years ago his dreams started appearing in sparkling color. Weirded him out.
Mine are starting to too - I see faces of things I don't know (and some are kinda scary!) as I drift out.
What's even weirder - I have dreams that pick-up the script from dreams I had years ago. And I'm like, "Oh, I remember this scene."
I might need a shrink.
@7:07 - The '86 Alfa is a blast to drive. It rattles like all heck but -- it's you, the machine, and the road. There's no modern coddling - your ass is a foot off the ground and you react/deal. 5 on the floor is control!
So much fun to feel that alive. #2020Sucks otherwise.
Jayce (again) - I got the '86 Alfa for $3k +$1. It's an agreement between my Brother, his Best Man (who sold it to me), and my other Brother (from another Mother). We agreed we won't lose $ (save maintenance) on a car. Each time it changes hands, it's +$1US to the next guy - this car will never leave the 'family'. Oh, and $3.02k isn't even a down payment on my dream $80+k ride :-)
Cheers, -T
TTP: Just having fun with the puzzle.
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Canada...i misspoke Q8H means the pt has to be awakened. As you said some meds have levels thst must be maintained and require QXH others just XID. BTW what was your emeritus field?
WC ~
ReplyDeleteBecause I believe "Stars" is a familiar Anglicism in modern French usage.
Y'know, like "le Weekend" and "le jogging."
~ OMK
Thanks OMK. Les etoiles has a nice ring though. Yes, hearing Edith sing in that commercial is cool. What was her nickname, should I LIU? You don't go to bed until 11 PST. Some kind of bird, methinks.
ReplyDeleteTTP, RayO was just continuing my comment about C&H. Which started with Anon-T (actually the Mrs). I'm not sure if there are Calvinists today. And this the
Hobbs(Roy) that came to mind for me.
WC
Was it "The Bluebird". Now I have to LIU
DeleteOk here it is (re. Edith Piaf).
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La Môme Piaf
(The Little Sparrow)
Piaf – slang for "sparrow" – was a nickname .
La vie en Rose was her signature song and the name of the biopic movie.
WC
Overposter say...
ReplyDeleteWC - I'm too dim to even read the subtitles in the song...
Jayce - here's a few dreams I recall:
I'm in a conference room 40 floors up over looking the city. All the best minds in the world are gathered. Buildings are falling, fire-engines are siren-ing, mayhem! The planet is in real trouble... "How do we fix this?"
I gaze out the window pondering...
"I've got it!," I say to the best minds...
I quickly leave the conference room and (IRL) hit the snooze button.
I'm in an altered world...
Anticipating the alarm's sound, I start racing the electron around the circuit board. My mission - beat it to the transistor that set's off the radio.
I'm racing through the circuit -- rolling under p-doped silicon & jumping over diodes.
I won the race but overslept my 1st class. :-)
I also have a recurring dream where I'm jogging. But, the faster I run, the stride my seven league-ish shoes lift me higher & higher. Soon, I'm so high in the air, I fear coming back down and must wake myself.
Oh, there's more...
Is there a shrink in the house? :-)
TTP - 41-13 Sooners! Not even close.
Cheers, -T
Ray’o- Pharmacy! Loved it.
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