17A. *Hitchhiked: BUMMED A RIDE.
11D. *Something kept to avoid attention: LOW PROFILE.
29D. *Dressing with Buffalo wings: BLUE CHEESE.
Across:
5. __ Pujols, fourth MLBer to reach 6,000 total bases: ALBERT. Future Hall of Famer, we have sold a few of his cards on eBay.
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11. Area for experiments: LAB. A black dog.
14. __ Raton, Fla.: BOCA. Seems as though every city in FLA is running rampant with Covid. SAD!.
15. Ballerina, at times: LEAPER. Quite a few were running hurdles in Tokyo.
16. Bullfight "Bravo!": OLE.
19. Take the gold: WIN. And a few took the Gold.
20. Took the wheel: STEERED. My first couple of cars did not have power steering. I don't know how I managed to drive!
21. Drained of energy: SAPPED. I do feel this way sometimes after my Monday Golf game. Not sure what it might be next week when bowling starts.
23. Firebug's crime: ARSON. Fires are burning everywhere. Dry weather is the firebug.
26. Changes direction: TURNS. Yup, that's when I wished I had power steering.
27. Create a raised logo on, say: EMBOSS.
31. "My pleasure": LOVE TO. Bowl and Golf.
33. Señor's squiggle: TILDE.
34. Said further: ADDED.
35. Put money in, as a parking meter: FED. I visited St. Paul's downtown area a couple of years ago and I had to feed the parking meter with a credit card!
38. Board game with nine rooms: CLUE. I think it was done by Professor Plum, with a Knife, in the Kitchen.
39. Picture within a picture: INSET.
40. Heap, as of wood: PILE. Not Gomer's last name. For that you need a "Y".
41. Weeding tool: HOE.
42. Judicial orders: WRITS. "Order in the court, Here comes the Judge." Number 99 Aaron of the Yankees.
43. Zesty dip for tortilla chips: SALSA.
44. Line in pressed pants: CREASE. I don't have any pants like that anymore. Funny how some things just fade away.
46. Movie theater feature: SCREEN.
47. Throbbed: ACHED. I have had one of these in my back recently. Can I still BOWL ??
49. CNN journalist Hill: ERICA.
51. Doctoral candidate's project: THESIS. Interesting, I have a bowling buddy Named Don Theis, We call him DOC because he was a gas passer at the UofM Hospital.
53. Beers served with lime: CORONAS.
58. Tell a tall tale: LIE. I never said that. I only tell short tales.
62. Classifieds, e.g.: ADS. We just don't see a lot of classified ADS in our paper anymore. Most people are using the internet to buy, sell, or trade.
63. Apple device featuring Siri: IPHONE. Hey Siri!
64. Italian wine region: ASTI.
65. Go out with: SEE.
66. Skimpy swimsuits: THONGS.
67. Wanton look: LEER.
Down:
2. Sports blowout: ROUT. Happened to the Vikings a week ago. They should have asked Siri how to get to the end zone.
3. Wile E. Coyote's supplier: ACME. Beep Beep, and fast bird or Plymouth.
4. "The __": "What she's having": SAME. Not me. C.C. and I seldom have the same food. That's why we go to buffets.
5. Trees with catkins: ALDERS.
6. Takes charge: LEADS.
7. Granola __: BAR. Do they serve beer there?
8. Prefix with dermis: EPI.
9. Wine list heading: REDS. Cincinnati baseball team, formerly known as Redlegs. They should have worn long pants at the beach.
10. Picked up the check: TREATED. I'll get it, you leave the tip.
12. Sci-fi visitor: ALIEN.
13. Gives a little: BENDS. What my Putts usually do. I wish the greens were level.
18. Clear of data, e.g.: ERASE. Maybe I should just ERASE my scorecard.
22. Erect, with "up": PUT. Add a "T". Do not count more than two on any hole.
24. Golden-ager: OLDSTER. Never been called that, I'll settle for Senior Citizen.
25. Network junctions: NODES.
27. Mark with acid: ETCH. Remember the ETCH - A - Sketch ?? You only need to turn it over and shake it to erase,
28. Venus de __: MILO.
30. Tribute in verse: ODE. I remember the one to Billy Joe. On the 3rd of June.
32. Dog doc: VET.
34. Biscotti flavoring: ANISE. Tastes like licorice to me.
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36. "If all __ fails ... ": ELSE. If all ELSE fails, kick your ball out of the rough with your foot.
37. Faculty head: DEAN. Our District Congressman from Minnesota, DEAN Phillips. Made his money selling Vodka. Dear Abby's Grandson.
40. Four, for most golf holes: PAR. SIX! My score on most golf holes.
42. "Way to go, team!": WE DID IT. Twins did not care much for Yankee Stadium last weekend.
43. Winter neck warmer: SCARF.
45. Hi-__ audio: RES. What?? I cannot hear you over the noise.
46. Biscuits at teas: SCONES. I've had ice cream cones. Never had an S CONE.
47. Book with maps: ATLAS. No one needs these any longer. Just a cellphone.
48. Reprimand: CHIDE.
50. Cake topping: ICING. Now that you have completed Fred's puzzle, this blog is for ICING on the cake.
52. Many a jayvee player: SOPH.
54. Taken by mouth: ORAL. My breakfast, lunch and dinner are all ORAL.
55. Carrot, on a snowman: NOSE. Sometimes the winning margin in the Kentucky Derby.
56. Start the kitty: ANTE. It was always a nickel when I played.
57. Mix, as a liquid: STIR.
60. Abbott and Costello's first baseman: WHO. What ?? Where?? I don't know who the shortstop was.
Boomer
Notes from C.C.:
Are you feeling BLUE and all alone?
ReplyDeleteFeeling as LOW as the charge on your I-PHONE?
I'd LOVE TO tell you, son,
That it's okay to be BUMMED,
But there are times when your angst you must postpone.
{B.}
HBDTY Tin and many more. I will toast you tonight and NO ICE!
ReplyDeleteFred began his constrcting career back in 1993 in the NYT and has published in every major venue. Today he lent his talents to a straight forward, fun Monday. These puzzles lend themselves perfectly to Boomer and his wit and wisdom. Thank you both for a nice start to the week.
A perfect Monday FIR with no WOs. That's a rarity for me! Thanks Fred for the joy today. And thanks, Boomer, for the smiles your review brought me. I am not expecting any one to complain about this puzzle or to be grumpy about it, for a change.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday toast to Tinbeni today. Do drop by the Corner. And DO, where are you? You usually are an early poster. Hope everyone has a happy day!
Good morning!
ReplyDeleteZipped right through this one. Would've been here earlier, ATLGranny, but I was attending to an email chore. Only stumble was Pujols' (Pujol's?) first name. Perps were kind. STEERED: Boomer, we called it "Armstrong" steering. Naturally, d-o missed the reveal; ergo the theme, too. Still, it was a nice slide down the slope. Thanx, Fred and Boomer. (Enjoyed your "creative" scorekeeping.)
HBD Tinman. Hope it's a neat day.
FIR without erasure! Only unknowns were ERICA Hill and Hi-RES audio. Don't care about CNN, and Crutchfield carries Hi-RES gear, so it must be a thing. As an OLDSTER I'll bet I couldn't hear the difference between that and my system.
ReplyDeleteDW and I honeymooned in BOCA Raton at the BOCA Beach Club. Piggybacked on DW's "top salespeople" award conference. Each couple was transported between the hotel and the celebration dinner in beautifully restored antique cars. Dionne Warwick performed at the dinner.
Checked the pantry and found out I have been buying Ken's BLUE CHEESE dressing all along. I would have sworn I was buying the "bleu" stuff.
Boomer, my parents always joked that our cars had "Armstrong" power steering. My mom always said she would rater save the money and not have power steering, automatic transmission, or power door locks. Until my dad bought a used Cadillac. Then SHE had to have one.
Thanks to Fred for the nice, polite little puzzle. Just what I needed. And thanks to Boomer for the funny punny tour.
Fln, Lucina, yes. They were 8th graders. Yes, I was taken aback.
ReplyDeleteThis was a speed run but I didn't time it. Mostly filled sans perps.
I think I related my detour into Niagara for Tim Horton SCONES. Only to get stuck in massive, holiday traffic heading East to US. DD tried SCONES but sugar frosted them, ugh. BTW, those are 'biscuits' not SCONES
Nope. 3rd base.
Hbd Tin. Will the (No) Iceman commeth today?
Remember the joke with the punchline "Oh, no, there are two of them!"? #2 showed up at 315 am, fln
WC
Fun run both through the puzzle and the Boomer blog.
ReplyDeleteGimme was ALBERT Pujols who played much of his career as a St. Louis Cardinal and went to high school in Fort Osage near KC- both in my neck of the woods. It was good for him to go to an AL team as he got older as they have DHs which the NL does not.
I love SCONES - I like the different flavors Panera has and I also make them at home. They are only good IMO the first day - by the second day they dry out quickly.
Thanks Boomer - hope the start of bowling season goes well! and thanks to Fred!
HBD to Tinbeni - a toast to you - neat - at sunset!
I would recommend the new movie RESPECT which is a biopic of Aretha Franklin with Jennifer Hudson in the title role- just in theaters now but will likely be streaming or on demand soon I'm sure. I wouldn't be surprised if she gets an Oscar nom for it!
Thanks Fred for a relaxing start to the week. And thank you Boomer for UNBUMMERING us about this puzzle. Didn't get the theme until you revealed it, but since there are no boxes to write it down, I'm not going to subtract it from my FIR.
ReplyDeleteAnd HBD SnBeni! DYK that there is a whole family of ceramic glazes named for you and not a one contains ice?
Liked the juxtaposition of 65, 66, and 67A (SEE THONGS, LEER).
5D ASPENS have catkins, but didn't perp. So do BIRCHES but they're too long. I remember the last time CATKINS were used in a C/A must have been two June's ago, as one of our Birches had dropped them all over the windshield of our car
Cheers,
Bill
Ahhhh!! Thanx so much FP for a wonderful, fun, clever, doable Monday level (MY level!) CW. FIR in 13. I'm sure ANON will post that he FIR in 3 minutes flat, but 13 is a good time for me, even for a Monday. I discovered the theme upon filling the reveal and searching the starred clues. Half the time I forget to look for the theme. No W/Os today. As ATL Granny said, there is not a single nit to pick with this CW. Bommer mentioned Boca Raton. I like to call it by its English translation: Rat's Mouth. I wonder how many people would move to a city named Rat's Mouth; but call it Boca Raton....
ReplyDeleteThank You Fred Piscop, for a nice and easy puzzle. My fastest solve yet. Wonderful way to begin the week !
ReplyDeleteThank you Boomer, for an always charming, very gently humorous and 'short tailed' ( no tall tales - ) review.
Loved it and I always look forward to reading your Monday blog review.
Happy Birthday, Tinman, ... I too, will celebrate with a glass without ICE, and without liquor. Doctor's orders, and plus it makes me tizzy, er, dizzy. I used to love Diet Pepsi, but my body can't handle the phosphates, rather the element phosphorus either, so it'll have to be Lemonade. Hi Lemonade !
Thank you Boomer, for the link to your alma mater high school newsletter ... I was in the same graduating class, as you, but I graduated 6 months earlier. Long story. But the contents of the newsletter were so heart warming ... it has made my day, and even my week. You are an inspiration to us all. We have a lot of heroes amongst us, and they're not just in the military.
'Every man who has undergone the tribulations of life, comes out an ennobled being'. Who said that ?
The high school newsletter showed just how profoundly moved the editors were to your dedication and as a lesson for life, especially on impressionable minds. They were so excited, in the end, that they even managed to mangle and mispell your last name, to Burnkinel ... sounds Irish. And they haven't corrected it yet, so the copywriters are apparently still on vacation. ;-) Lol.
Finally, if the soccer fans, down south, in the continent, shout 'Ole' for bravado at soccer games ... what do the bowler's fans shout ?
I would suggest, 'Bole' ... or 'Bole On' ( Bowl On - ).
Have a nice week, everyone.
Well if you're gonna be a "Number" ... I guess being 69 is as good as it gets. LOL
ReplyDeleteLemon: I "Toast Y'all" and myself every night with "No Ice" ...
Cheers!
Thanks for a nice easy Monday.
ReplyDeleteI had no idea on the long answers clue...so thank you for the explanation!
I guess I'm just an OLD FART.
Cheers, Tinbeni. Happy Birthday.
ReplyDeleteUncle Fred: I hope you bet the over.
ReplyDeleteTook me 4:04 to get this one.
I always smile when I see your times.
DeleteTwo good puzzles in a row. Nice. Didn't notice the theme as usual, but seemed straight forward.
ReplyDeleteWoohoo! I zipped through this puzzle and got the whole thing perfectly in record time! Woohoo! This makes you one of my favorite constructors, Fred--many, many thanks! And great commentary, Boomer--thanks for that too.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know ALBERT, but that funny ballerina LEAPER helped with the downs. And I thought it was funny that BUMMED A RIDE came right above STEERED. The senor squiggle TILDE made me laugh (sorry I don't know how to produce it on my computer). The word NOSE has been showing up in puzzles lately, but "Carrot, on a snowman" is the funniest clue it's gotten. Lots of fun, all around, thanks again, Fred.
Have a great week coming up, everybody.
Sorry I forgot to wish you a Happy Birthday, Tinbeni--have a great day!
ReplyDeleteGood morning everyone.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday to Tinbani. He was a regular when I began reading this blog ~12 years ago.
Very easy, today. no errors, no wite-out, no searches. All tied up in a neat little PILE. Neat to see ETCH and EMBOSS cross.
After the reveal, went back and noted the "DOWN" lead-ins. Cool.
Enjoy the day.
The vanity of this OLDSTER figuring I would rapidly breeze through a Monday challenge vanished confronting quite a few blanks during my first run through.🙄 FIR but my "Ballerina" LEAPEd "at times". Not familiar with DOWNINFRONT (we say, "sit down"..?) and didn't know ALBERT Pujols. Totally BUMMED: did not see the theme,
ReplyDeleteBoomer: in the early days of ultrasound we used to call the images "ETCH-a-sketch"..Bowling season? 🎳 that mean anyone wearing a bowling shirt is fair game?
So your CORONAS come with a lime wedge stuck in the top. You try to push it into the bottle but it gets stuck in the neck like a plug. You just know if you try to push further with your little finger, your pinkie will get stuck..."Ay Caramba"
Matador skin care product, Oil of ____ OLÉ
How the Cleavers might introduce the Beav....ARSON
How the Osmond brothers might introduce Marie...THESIS
First line of Streisand's resumé....ICING
The elegant judge liked "Puttin' on the ____ " WRITS
I binged the "The Chair" on NETFLIX last night...meh... but Oh was she great as usual.😉
More rain predicted...Our Native American neighbors need to do a reverse Rain Dance.⛈
HBD Tin!!🎂
Masters = Thesis
ReplyDeleteDoctorate = Dissertation
Nit= My Comment
Yes
DeleteHi All:
ReplyDeleteLate to the dance due to appointments. Drove home in a Hénri souvenir downpour. Nice, straightforward Monday solve with an Aha reveal, at least to me. Liked the duos of Etch/Emboss, Atlas/Inset, Asti/Ante, Rout/Win, and Red(s)/Blue.
Thanks, Fred, for a fun start to the week and thanks, Boomer, for brightening a very gloomy day.
Happy Birthday, Tin, hope it’s n(ice) and neat! 🥃
I hope YR is okay as we haven’t heard from her in awhile.
Have a great day.
Anon@11:41, I learned from AWAD today that there's a word to describe a nit-picker -- captious. Who'd-a-thunk it?
ReplyDeleteHola!
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday, Tinbeni! I'll toast my coffee for you.
What a nice puzzle from Fred Piscop! It's all clean and clear. It was fun to solve and quickly finished.
I can't imagine why a place would be called BOCA Raton. Someone had a vivid imagination.
Finally we are able to see movies on the big SCREEN. I LOVE it! Now, if only some good movies came along. No horror or violence for me. The one with Billy Crystal and Tiffany Haddish was perfect.
Thank you, Boomer, for brightening this Monday with your witty comments!
Have a fantastic day, everyone!
Wilbur Charles:
ReplyDeleteThank you for answering my question.
Didn't see Fred's theme until Boomer pointed it out. Got it done in reasonable time for a Monday. Thanks Fred and Boomer for a great start to the week.
ReplyDeleteI assume there will be no ICING for Tin's libations today. I, however, do prefer ice. Happy Birthday Tin.
I wasn't sure if it was ALBERT or ALfred, so I waited for perps to fill him in. Perps helped elsewhere also.
Last week I linked a hilarious YouTube video of a Jeanne Robertson >clip about her husband grocery shopping. Later in the day I found out that she had passed away that day. She and her humor will be missed.
I hope all who were hit by Henri and the Tennessee floods are safe.
Have a great day everyone.
ReplyDeleteThis was a nice easy-peasy Monday grid.
Also had no write-overs, along with all the others.
The Pfizer Vax was officially approved today…let’s see what the new excuses are.
See you tomorrow.
Marvellous Monday. Thanks for the fun, Fred and Boomer (great bowling article).
ReplyDeleteI FIRed, and saw the DOWN theme (I thought it was a little Meh, but it is Monday!)
Hand up for no inkblots today. ALBERT perped.
LOL waseeley, I saw that SEE THONGS LEER triplet. 😮😮
This Canadian sighed when I saw “Network junctions”. OK, nothing to do with American TV, just a NODE.
But “jayvee” is not a term I was familiar with. SOPH filled with perps, but I still needed to Google to discover it referred to Jr. Varsity. We don’t seem to use those terms here.
I was SAPPED after watering all my gardens this morning. It is hot and humid here and our area has had no rain for two weeks.
Happy Birthday Tinbeni!
Wishing you all a great day.
Hi All!
ReplyDeleteand an upFRONT Toast to Tin! Happy 69th.
Easy-peesy Monday breezy. Thanks for the puzzle, Fred.
Enjoyed the expo and BSM (Way to go Team!) article, Boomer.
//Really, never had a scone? Eldest makes savory ones with lemon & rosemary. Very good.
WO: DEeN (D'Oh!)
ESP: ERICA
Fav: ACME or ACME?
{B+}
Waseeley - LOL punctuated 'bottom' row.
I giggled at "Puttin' on the WRITS," Ray-O.
I think you're doing it wrong with the lime. Pull it out, twist it in, thumb over the hole and turn the whole Corona upside down to float the lime. Then, next time, order a real beer :-)
IM - I've been wondering where YR (and CED (UK?)) have been too. Hope all is well.
Cheers, -T
ReplyDeleteCan-Eh! I wanted to mention that last Sat, on CC's puzzle, I came across, and filled, the answer of Ocanada ... through perps, and I couldn't parse it ! ;-)
When I read HG's blog, I understood, and decided to read the Wiki about the Canadian National Anthem.
I found that there are atleast 2 versions - the original french version, then, much later, a couple of english versions, which are not the same as the french one. And, certain lines have been modified over the period of years to remove references to Christ and religion, and then further modified to make it gender neutral, ( no 'sons' etc. ).
And there are 2 bi-lingual versions, which are preferred, with alternate english and french verses. I think Celine sang one of these versions in the video.
To sum up, I can understand how confusing it must be to an outsider .... and now I can also understand what a tremendous effort it must be for you to complete american puzzles.
We look forward to your important input to the blog, and output everyday. Thank you.
An easy Monday ride from Mr. Piscop, well examined by our Boomer!
ReplyDeleteNice to see several colleagues enjoying FIRs today, from Misty (WooHoo!) to Jinx & Ray - O - Sunshine.
Congrats all around!
My fave was 33A! TILDE.
~ OMK
____________
DR: Two diagonals, one to a side.
The front end diagonal offers an anagram (13 of 15 letters) that seems to celebrate safe havens for smart Alecs.
I mean of course, those...
"SMARTASS OASES"!
Anony(mous)T: (Wait, Is that a kind of anagram for Antony that everyone knows but me? 😳)..you still have to get the lime past the neck...but next time I'll have a real fruitless beer🍺.
ReplyDeleteCanada Eh besides all the French and English versions is there an indigenous native version(s) of the National Anthem?
Ray-O: are you telling me your fingers are too big to put the lime through the bottle's neck?
ReplyDeleteGood thing you're not a GP - that swirly-finger exam... "He's got a catcher's mitt for a hand!" is what Pop would say.
//re: Antony: there's an H in my name(s)... First and middle (that's how you tell the Jo(h)ns apart - Jews & Catholics that is ;-))
Oh, wait... there we are. OMK just gave us OLDSTERS a home in his DR. :-)
//Here's a guy with a good Italian name doing impressions [6:18] #RandomFun
Cheers, -T
Lucina @12:11 PM I can understand BOCA for the MOUTH of a river. But RATON ("of the RAT"?). I took one of IBM's first classes on their new PC. A pretty tony town, with lots of marinas and yachts. Didn't look RATTY to me.
ReplyDeleteoc4beach 12:31 PM That clip was an absolute hoot and I immediately sent it to DW and my BFF (his response - "Sounds like me"). I'm sure when all of Jeanne's friends heard the news, they nodded to the floor for a moment of silence. I hope they all sent her family some 7UP Cakes!
ReplyDelete-T @2:08 PM I'll go with ACME #1, especially as it's a freebie. I've added it to my folder of URLs for "Internet Bling" for annotating puzzles. Look for an entry soon in a Blog near you. BTW, I did spring for a used copy of Ambrose Bierce's IT Dictionary. My BFF was in IT and he'll love it.
ReplyDeleteI liked this puzzle. My TECATES turned out to be CORONAS.
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday, Tinbeni.
-T @3:43 PM LMAO on Pop and the catcher's mitt! Pun intended.
ReplyDeleteAnonT .I kinda figured it was Anthony or as we say in my part of town "Antknee".. actually Anonymous T is almost an anagram of "Antonius"
ReplyDeleteI completely forgot about Frank Caliendo, he was (is) a genius at impressions.
ReplyDeleteA better place to put that
lime
I was surprised to see so many THONGS at St Pete Beach last time. Not that I was LEERing
I found out what happened to Jordan Speith. Bad golf Saturday and worse golf today
Blood sugar? I see the 5Hour energy guy, Furyk*, faded on 17 and 18. Is there 6 hour energy out there?
WC
On the Seniors Tour now
WC 🥥 ...I'd be lime if I didn't admit I prefer a Gin & Tonic
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ReplyDelete-Despite Ralph Waldo Emerson’s admonition of “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds” I feel compelled to comment today even at this late hour
-I finished this puzzle at 8:30 am and called for and got a tee time that required me to immediately leave and then one thing led to another and wound up with me in the dentist’s chair for two hours.
-“I’ll have what she’s having” is a great line from When Harry Met Sally
-Have you ever noticed how young clerks never even look up at you if you are an OLDSTER?
-I had about eight PARS today and, uh, some other numbers too
-I’m off to barbecue some good looking pork chops. My new crown should handle them just fine.
-Perhaps a young girl in a THONG would tolerate an OGLE but not a LEER
Videan - how wonderful of you to research O Canada❤️
ReplyDeleteYes, it has had many different versions (except the French one), but the official one has been the same since 1980 (but just the first verse of Weir’s whole piece), except for the recent change to gender-neutrality with “in all of us command”.
It will be the bilingual version that will be heard at most hockey games (but the French version when Les Canadiennes play in Montreal).
Celine (wow young version in 1992 on that link) is singing a different bilingual version, with English for the first half and French for the rest. Now, the bilingual version has the French in the middle.
Here is the official site
https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/anthems-canada.html
Ray-o- no indigenous version!
Anon @ 11:41 --
ReplyDeleteA thesis, or dissertation (abbreviated diss.), is a document submitted in support of candidature for an academic degree or professional qualification presenting the author's research and findings. In some contexts, the word "thesis" or a cognate is used for part of a bachelor's or master's course, while "dissertation" is normally applied to a doctorate. This is the typical arrangement in American English. In other contexts, such as within most institutions of the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, the reverse is true. The term graduate thesis is sometimes used to refer to both master's theses and doctoral dissertations.
I thought a dissertation was a collection of after dinner cakes and pastries
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ReplyDeleteFirstly, and more imperatively :-) .... Dr. Ray-O-Sun, now I know why you are / were an interventional doc... your interventions are hopelessly humorous ! ;-) LOL
And, I thought dissertations was the crowd practice of blowing raspberries at the non-home team baseball players.... ( especially those from NY State ...)
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On a more serious note ... Thank you Canadian-Eh! for your reply. I always look hungrily and greedily, in Wikipedia, for ANY information I can get on any subject that seems to catch my fancy .
On the subject that Dr Ray.O.Sun had asked whether there were any other versions of
O Canada , link from Wikipedia , other than the French and the multiple English, and Bi-lingual versions....
If you scan the Wiki article linked above, under the "Performances" subsection ...
and I quote .....
..... Other linguistic variations have also been performed: During the opening ceremonies of the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, "O Canada" was sung in the southern Tutchone language by Yukon native Daniel Tlen.[35][36] At a National Hockey League (NHL) game in Calgary, in February 2007, Cree singer Akina Shirt became the first person ever to perform "O Canada" in the Cree language at such an event.[37]
So, may one resonably conclude, that there may be certain authorized, or even unofficial versions of O Canada, in the First Nation collection of languages. ?
Just an academic discussion here.
Good night, all.
Thanks, Uncle Fred.
ReplyDeleteMuch appreciated.
For reasons I haven't understood, posting times seemed to upset some people.