Theme: SHELTER IN PLACE (51. Way to stay safe ... or what each set of circles represents vis-à-vis its answer) - Three shelters are hidden inside each theme answer.
20. Street in London's Brixton Market: ELECTRIC AVENUE.
25. Usual way in: FRONT ENTRANCE.
46. Where it's hard to make a wrong turn: DEAD END STREET.
Boomer here again. Hopefully Hahtoolah will be back next week.
I never slept in a cave, however years ago we had land at North Star Lake and I slept in the back of a station wagon. Currently we have turned bedroom #2 into a den where our computer keeps us company.
Across:
10. Son of Seth who lived to 905, per the Bible: ENOS. ENOS "Country" Slaughter was a great right Fielder for the St. Louis Cardinals.
14. "Moi? Never!": NOT I. Me Neither.
15. Hang in midair: HOVER. I have seen prototypes of one or two person helicopters, If you think traffic is bad now... just wait.
16. __ San Lucas: Baja resort: CABO.
17. Queen dowager of Jordan: NOOR.
18. Sports stadium: ARENA. Some stadiums do not have roofs but all ARENAs do.
19. Singer Redding with two posthumous Grammys: OTIS. Or makers of elevators.
23. Caveman Alley: OOP.
24. Ways in or out: DOORS. Jim Morrison, Mr. Mojo Risin' - "Light my Fire".
31. Fair-hiring abbr.: EEO.
32. "Old MacDonald" refrain: E I E I O. With a MOO MOO here and a CLUCK CLUCK There.
33. Indian title: SAHIB.
36. Do little: LAZE.
38. Take an oath: SWEAR. Sometimes I "Take an oath" at a ten pin, or a 7-10 split.
40. Travel by Greyhound, say: RIDE. Leave the driving to them.
41. Three-pointers, in hoops lingo: TREYS. The Long Long shots.
43. "Amadeus" director Forman: MILOS.
45. Cuz and sis: KIN.
49. When "light through yonder window breaks" in "Romeo and Juliet": ACT II.
50. Poker pot paper: IOU. Not in any poker game I ever played. Cash only!!
58. Mall smooching, etc., initially: PDAS.
59. Lacking originality: TRITE.
60. Qualities that make deals difficult: EGOS. In the U.S. House and Senate?
61. Legal wrong: TORT.
62. Desert respites: OASES. Please, not as much as the North Eastern seaboard got last week
63. Use a scythe on: REAP.
64. Targets: AIMS. We are AIMING to go to Target this week to purchase a few items.
65. Flower holders: STEMS. Keep them long so they will fill into a vase.
66. Hot: SEXY.
Down:
2. Hammer or sickle: TOOL. Screwdriver or Golf Club?
3. Midwest native: OTOE. These guys lived in the plains along the Missouri River in Nebraska and Iowa.
4. Alphabetically last birthstone: ZIRCON. These stones have a variety of colors. Sort of like a box of Crayola.
5. Wrinkly dogs: SHAR-PEIS.
6. "Cornflake Girl" singer __ Amos: TORI. The Twins had an outfielder named TORI Hunter.
7. With, on le menu: AVEC.
8. Suvari of "American Pie": MENA.
9. Soviet newspaper: PRAVDA. Do they not call it the News, Times, Daily, Tribune, or Star ?
10. Affordable ride: ECONO-CAR. That would be a Corvair or Chevelle.
11. Enjoying-the-great-outdoors walk: NATURE HIKE. C.C. and I do that from time to time. recently with Tom Pepper and Andrea Carla Michaels.
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| Boomer, C.C., Tom Pepper, Andrea Carla Michaels |
12. Stage awards: OBIES.
13. Shipwreck signal: SOS. Save Our Ship!!
21. Trade show giveaway: TOTE. Graybar sponsors many trade shows. I think I still have a few TOTE bags hanging around our home.
22. Very long periods: EONS.
25. Pool table surface: FELT. "Friend, you are closing your eyes to a situation you do not wish to acknowledge..." Professor Harold Hill.
26. Raise, as kids: REAR. I think that's why we had to sit in the REAR seat when we were young.
27. Was a bit too enchanting: OOZED CHARM.
28. Self-transformation result, to the self: NEW ME.
29. Advertising link: TIE IN. There certainly is a bunch of this in ads today. I think Shaq advertises Skunk for a meal??
30. Wonka creator Dahl: ROALD.
34. Romeo's last words: I DIE. "Good Night, Parting is such sweet sorrow." I believe that's what he said. I was not there.
35. Like a paper clip: BENT.
37. Optometrists' exams: EYE TESTS. I quit going. My eyes never
seem to change and I hate those drops that open your pupils and you
have to wear sunglasses. Once a doctor did not warn me and I almost
drove into a tree.
39. Optimistic quality: ROSINESS.
42. Travel with the wind: SAIL. We travel like the wind and go to a SALE .
44. Cease: STOP. Anyone remember what color the octagon signs
were before they were red? They ask this on trivia shows all the time
and young people get it wrong.
47. Same-as-above marks: DITTOS.
48. Classroom tools: RULERS. In football six RULERS are the VI KINGS.
49. "Me too!": AS DO I. I'll stick with "Me Too".
52. The "E" in Q.E.D.: ERAT.
53. Get up: RISE. "Up in the morning, Up with the sun, Work like
the devil for your pay. While that lucky old sun, has nothing to do,
but roam around heaven all day"
54. Part of a shopping list: ITEM. Don't forget the cole slaw!
55. "A Death in the Family" author James: AGEE.
56. Gently persuade: COAX.
57. Athlete's award: ESPY.
58. School fundraising gp.: PTA. "The day my Momma socked it to, the Harper Valley PTA. Jeannie Riley.
Boomer
41 comments:
In fair-hiring want ads, they print E.E.O.,
Equal Employment Opportunities, it says so.
They keep their eyes closed
To racial and SEX roles --
But farmers keep eyes open: E.I.E.I.O.!
ELECTRIC AVENUE in Brixton is where the lights came on.
Day pulled from the night, to let London lead the throng!
Shopping could be done
Without regard of the sun!
Great new wonders wrought, and a new age was begun!
At a London brothel where the SEXY girls were dear
By the FRONT ENTRANCE was a sign to make things clear:
"The gentry may go in
To REAP the fun within."
And in finer print, "Tradesmen enter in the REAR."
The cobblestone street made trolleys hard to RIDE.
People complained, they thought their buns had DIED!
The Council wouldn't ACT
TO flatten out the tract.
True to its name, "DEAD END STREET", they would abide!
{B, B+, B, B+.}
I've mentioned that ENOS Slaughter was the 1946 version of Bucky Dent(78) ENOS scampered from first to score the winning run(WS) while (Johnny)Pesky "held the ball"). They still call the Rightfield foul pole the Pesky Pole because some of his rare home runs hit said pole.
Traffic? On 75, if you're not doing 90+ they'll harass you out of the left lane. 100 is not rare anymore. The Mad Men encourage it
OTIS is with Buddy cursing airplanes
Ah, Foreman not Fromm(Ethan). Advice, if using newspaper get plenty of light and 3 25 reading glasses.
KIN not rel nor fam nor abbr.
In the Colonel's game no filthy lucre touched that FELT table. At the end I had Capt M's IOU and typed out a payment for $280.00, said 'Sign here', went back to safe and pulled out the cash.
10D, The Pinto wants equal time.
27D, "From every pore " per OILY FLN
What an inky mess I made of SW with exams/TESTS and so DO I/AS DO I. Wite-out, wherefore art thou? Oh, and Soar/SAIL.
After the W/O*'s an FIR appeared. Rich managed to make Tuesday interesting for the overly hasty
There were RED and yellow. On the latter up to 3 could proceed on one Stop. That didn't work for the new generation of "hasty" drivers. Amazing that the 4Way Stop is adhered to by the nuts.
Thanks Boomer and good luck with those EVIL SPLITS
WC
** That's "Write Over" for the eraser challenged. Thus the inky mess. I'll take a picture and post later if Anon-T shows me how.
Owen, excellent especially #3. Good thing that's "in" not "from"
FIR, and a rare no-erasure outing. DNK MILOS, MENA (although I remember having inappropriate thoughts about her when I watched the movie), and only sorta knew ROALD.
Also DNK that ELECTRIC AVENUE was a thing. Thought it was just a catchy Eddy Grant song.
I think of TOTEs being given at consumer shows, like RV, boat and car shows. At the trade shows I've attended, "gimme" hats were the prevailing giveaways.
I remember seeing a few yellow STOP signs back in the day, but I didn't know they had different meaning. A golf buddy told me that when his dad was teaching him to drive he rolled through the first stop sign he encountered. When his dad yelled at him and asked why he did that, he truthfully said that his older sister told him that STOP signs with a white border were optional. His dad had a little chat with sis.
I'm told that kids who attend Catholic schools quickly learn about RULERS.
Thanks to Rich for the fun, and to Boomer for the funnies.
Good morning!
Started right off with OMNI -- have I ever mentioned how I hate it when an obvious 1a. turns out to be wrong? Also went sideways with MIRA/MENA and SOAR/SAIL (Hi, Wilbur). Had the circles, and but didn't notice 'em until after finishing. Then I saw the three rude dwellings. Thanx, Rich and Boomer. (Those stop signs were yellow -- I used to be able to see 'em. The red ones "hide" in the trees.)
PTA: Timely. The Harper Valley PTA was recorded by Jeannie C. Riley, but it was written by Tom T. Hall, who died last month.
Very nice CW, RP, thanx. Like DO, my first thought was OMNI, but I waited for perps, snd ATOZ appeared instead. I managed to FIR in 18 with only one W/O, TONI:TORI. I even got the theme! Imagine that! Only nit: lotsa names. Thanx too to Boomer for the terrific write-up and another nice picture. I don’t believe arenas need to have a roof, though. Stay safe, everyone: get vaccinated!! As an old guy, I’m looking forward to my booster.
I brought this home in just under 5.5 minutes today. Still not a fan of circles in the puzzles. I didn't know "Noor" or "Sahib."
The former Twins player spelled his name Torii Hunter (note the double i).
Trying for a better week, I got another FIR today with only one WO: Eoe/EEO. (Thinking equal opportunity employer?) Saw the circles had SHELTERs and seemed to work with NATURE HIKE until I got to the reveal. One unexpected fill that perps helped with: A TO Z. Some recent puzzle fill returned: SEXY, ESPY, TOOL, and OTOE. When will we see you again?
Thanks Boomer for returning today and for the nice pictures as well as humor in your reviews. Thanks Rich for the Tuesday fun. I enjoyed it.
Learning moment was yellow stop signs and what they meant. Never saw any. Also want to mention I watched the Peter Pan play yesterday. Thanks, CED. Will check out your link today, AnonT. Hope you all have some fun today!
Terrific Tuesday. Thanks for the fun, Rich and Boomer.
I FIRed and saw the theme SHELTERs, but oh what an inky mess. I’ll blame it on doing the CW too soon after RISing (before the coffee has kicked in)!
1A remained blank - not a good start. I misread 58A as “mail” nor “mall” and filled in SWAK. Even when I corrected to PDAS, I did not parse AS DO I and debated over As moi. D’uh.
I misspelled SHARPEIS with a C, and STAMP did not come to mind. Almost a Natick with unknown TORI and MENA. Alphabet runs and Aha moment when I got STAMP saved the day.
UTAN changed to OTOE (the clue did say “native”). Sahab changed to SAHIB.
I noted a dupe with RIDE as answer in 40A, and in 10D clue.
Favourite today was OOZED CHARM. (That double O almost threw me, . . and we have OOP too (and I see DOORS, TOOL, NOOR.)
Wishing you all a great day.
Good morning everyone.
Got it all without mishap. Saw the theme as a curiosity. Probably didn't need the circles. Learned how to spell SHARPEI. FIR.
Enjoy the day.
Typical Tuesday tiptoe thru the tulips whose "flower holders" were STEMS not vahzes 🌷...only INKOVER.
Clear cut theme. No longer need perps for my finally brain-implanted playwright AGEE as well as Adam 'n' Eve's extended family members. But remind me how PDAS is "Mall smooching"? 🤔
DW went to Catholic school, the nuns used RULERS for more than just a classroom tool for measuring stuff 😖. Didn't know ELECTRIC AVENUE was a real place other than the 80's song. In Athens is "all inclusive" A to Ω? 🏺🇬🇷
Should you decide to SHELTER IN PLACE in a DEN or a CAVE, check that it's not already occupied! 🐻
Crosses the street after B.....AVEC
Colonoscopy DOOR, _____ ENTRANCE...REAR
"It's the real thing" ad is ____....COAX
Major flaps among TENT dwellers.... DOORS
I hardly NOOR but she _____.... NEWME
Markers with a French flair?...SHARPEIS
It stopped raining on Saturday for my cousin's 🌞 sunny by-the-lake outdoor wedding ceremony/reception 👰 at a fabulous Adirondack Lodge in Old Forge. The groom and ushers arrived on a party barge from across the lake. Classy stuff for our yahoo family.
By my count this is the 16th major venue publication of a Rich P. puzzle. It is his third LAT, and I had the pleasure of blogging his controversial THEMELESS PICTURE puzzle. This is his first LAT since then. This puzzle is however a Tuesday and a fun frolic. As far as I know he has not stopped by to comment but it woiuld be nice to add him to our list of constructors who react to the Corner. His comments on his NYT reveal a very creative but demanding wit.
(Speaking of creative and demanding- today's NYT by our own Zhouqin has be called a perfect puzzle by Jeff Chen).
Good Morning
I had a notion of the theme after filling in Cave and Tent, but the revealer was a complete surprise. It was a nice, clean grid with only 6 three letter words and some fun duos: Noor/Door(s), EEO/EIEIO, Enos/Eons, and PTA/PDA(s).
Thanks, Rich, for a Tuesday treat and thanks, Boomer, for pinch hitting once again.
Have a great day.
Nice learning moment today. I only new Electric Avenue from the Eddy Grant song. Who knew it was about that specific street in London? Not I!
A quick Wikipedia check and another fact--the street was so named as it "was the first market street to be lit by electricity." Cool.
An abundance of RICHES this morning. Thank you Rich for selecting and editing a fine puzzle. And thank you Rich Proulx that puzzle and for a Tuesday FIR. Oh, and thanks for the theme, which made me feel very SECURE. And thank you Boomer for another great relief job, pitching all those GROANERS.
1A I have mixed feelings about AMAZON. OTOH they've been a big help with the pandemic. OTOH they seem to be TAKING OVER THE WORLD (and some of OUTER SPACE to boot).
19A Here's OTIS' ODE to one of our favorite restaurants down by the Chesapeake.
43A In Amadeus Salieri has this epiphany: "It is miraculous".
1D DW played ANNE in the High School play.
9D PRAVDA will set you free? Like Vladimir the 1st used to say: "A lie told often enough becomes the Truth". I don't think so!
Cheers,
Bill
Good Morning.
Nice puzzle today. Thanks, Rich.
My problems began in the beginning--much like Adam and Eve. I also inked in OMNI at 1A. But ANNE Frank set that straight. I goofed up at ENOS, I can never keep those Eden kids straight.
Thank you, Boomer, for subbing and for another terrific tour. Nicely done.
Have a sunny day.
Hi Y'all! Another easy breezy puzzle to begin the week. Thanks, Rich. Thanks, Boomer.
Never saw a yellow STOP sign. Wonder what states had them.
Learning moment: I always thought ZIRCONs were man made glass. Only ever heard of them in cheap "diamond" engagement rings.
DNK: MILOS, MENA, AVEC as clued.
Ray - O - - PDA : public display of affection.
I was down near your bailiwick a short while ago picking up a test kit from the Cardiac practice.
Wedding sounded classy.
ah PDA, get it.
Next time if you have time stop at the department and give a shout out.
Thank you Rich P. for a very nice Tuesday puzzle,
and thank you Boomer, for an enjoyable review. Hope you are keeping well.
I had no real problems with the puzzle, ... even the AVEC came to me naturally. I must be getting better at Cws.
Sahib, in my chilhood was used for bossses and europeans, like Bwana, in east Africa. It is a dated term, not often used nowadays. Considered somewhat fawning. Originally, it was an arabic term meaning companion, then it was an added honofic ( Captain sahib) for added respect. Most people now just say Sir.
Noor, in Urdu means 'light'. Shah Jahan, who built the Taj Mahal ... one of his step-mother's court name was Nur Mahal ... Light of the Palace.
Her niece, Mumtaj Mahal, married Shah Jahan,( one of his several wives - ) and he built the Taj Mahal as a mausoleum in her honor.
Nur Mahal, was (Shah Jahan's father's ....) , Jehangir's favorite wife, and she was the real power behind the throne. But she was not Shah Jahans mother.
Pravda means 'Truth' ( ...) and is the publ of the Soviet Communist Party,
Izvestia means 'news', and is the paper by the Soviet Government.
If you cannot read russian, count yourself lucky. ;-)
Have a nice day, all.
Vid
Thanks for the info on SAHIB. Figured, as expected, you would do a better job than Wiki. But I did look up Noor originally "Lisa" Halaby from a Christian Lebanese/Syrian American family. Many similar families back home. Maronite or Melkite R.C. Christians
Hi All!
Crunchy, crunchy, crunchy this fine Tuesday morning. Gimme SHELTER [Stones]
Thanks RichP for the puzzle. Great job stepping-in again, Boomer. Your "oath" upon a 7-10 split made me giggle.
WOs: started ERas b/f EONS, didos (that's how I spelt DITTO but at 49d)
ESPs: AVEC, MENA, ACT II (D'Oh!), SHAIB, PRAVDA, MILOS
Fav: DOORS lit my fire.
{B+, A, B, A}
I saw a yellow stop-sign once. I was out in the middle of nowhere (Louisiana? Oklahoma?) some 20+ years ago. Maybe they've got around to paining it red by now.
ATLGranny - EoE is a thing I remember too; I always have to pause...
Anyone else want 'swag' b/f TOTE?
Like y'all: "It's a real place? Not just a song?" but you PRAVADA* no link... ELECTRIC AVENUE [Eddy Grant]
WC - Did I mention there's not a lot interesting on I-35 & I-45 between Norman, OK & Dallas and Dallas & Houston? DW's Alfa can hit 100 mph w/o breaking a sweat.
Sunday night, on the last stretch! (Beltway around Houston - just 40 miles from home), I dropped to traffic-speed.
There was a cop in a right-lane that got over and behind me (2 cars back). As he approached directly behind me, I moved right to let him pass.... Gumballs.
I was only doing 80mph [in a 65]. He also decided to write me up for not having a front tag.
//BUT!, the car is "too pretty" [DW's words] to mar with a license plate.
Y'all have a great afternoon.
Cheers, -T
*say it aloud in your best De Niro ;-)
Got the solve for this Tuesday grid.
No write-overs today.
See you tomorrow.
Woohoo! Woohoo! I not only got yesterday's puzzle perfectly, without error, but also today's Rich Prouix puzzle! Woohoo! Many thanks, Rich. And how nice to see you back again, Boomer, with another lovely family photograph. Thanks for that too.
Neat picture of Queen NOOR. Never heard Redding sing, but knew his first name was OTIS.
Couldn't believe there was a street in London called ELECTRIC STREET. Thanks for explaining how it got this name, Bob Lee.
Enjoyed your comments, Wilbur.
Irish Miss, I too liked getting EEO/EIEIO.
Lovely colors on those ZIRCON birthstones.
Have a great day, everybody.
Wesley is pulling your leg about yellow stop signs meaning a 3-way stop.
"Prior to the 1920s, stop signs weren't any specific color or shape. In 1922, it was determined that they would be yellow octagons because red dyes faded over time. Almost 30 years later, the signs were changed to red due to a fade-resistant enamel." source and other places.
PDAS = Public DisplayS of Affection. Shoud be PDsA, shouldn't it?
Sorry, Wilbur, not Wesley. OOPs!
Queen NOOR's Dad was Najeeb Halaby who died in 2003:
Najeeb E. Halaby, a lawyer, Navy test pilot and venture capitalist who headed the Federal Aviation Administration and Pan American World Airways and was the father of a queen, has died. He was 87.
Over the years, long before his daughter Lisa became a celebrity as Queen Noor of Jordan, the sharp-featured and dashing Halaby was a prominent figure in the official and cultural life of Washington.
A pioneering test pilot during World War II, he settled in the Washington area in the late 1940s and held federal jobs involving military security and foreign affairs. He was an executive in the budding aerospace industry and was known to insist on firsthand experience when regulatory concerns emerged over, for example, allowing skydiving from a certain aircraft model.
Thanks for pinch hitting, again, Boomer.
An easy-going, moderately enjoyable PZL today by Rich Proulx, raising only one real question in this reader's mind:
How do you pronounce PROULX? I would love to know.
A Little Later: Opps, never mind!
I asked on line and learned that it could just as well be spelt "Proo."
The "L" and "X" look fancy, but they are phonetically superfluous.
Thank you, Google!
NOOR. I remember when that sweet American girl-next-door, Lisa Halaby, married King Hussein. It was in the late '70s, and at the time they were the most forward-thinking royal couple in the entire Middle East.
Nice to know she survived her husband to continue as one of the most revered "elder" statespersons of the region.
~ OMK
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DR: Four diagonals, three on the near side and one in opposition.
The front end central diag yields a curious anagram (12 of 15 letters), apparently celebrating, in an improvised work of art, the practice of calling the hogs home.
I refer to a...
"'SOOEY' COLLAGE"!
Ole Man K...
As the anagram ugru I thought of you as I struggled through this New York times big Sunday puzzle this weekend from August 22 (our paper is 2 weeks late on the Sunday Puzzle). “Resettling Letterings”
23a. [2004 film about a group of MALIGNERS], MEAN GIRLS.
25a. [It might be put on for stage PAGEANTRIES], GREASE PAINT.
46a. [Sort of SCHEMATIC for Christian education], CATECHISM.
64a. [Many relationships are INSTIGATED on one], DATING SITE
68a. [Healthy eaters may give this A WIDE BERTH], WHITE BREAD.
90a. [They can be NOISELESS while stalking prey], LIONESSES.
93a. [Explorers of the UNTRAVERSED], ADVENTURERS.
115a. [The Trojans lacked the FORESIGHT to turn this down], GIFT HORSE.
If these have been used before I've never seen them.. No proper names or goofy nonsense words, just workin' the noggin...🤔
OMK: Knowing (very little) Cajun-French, PraLo is my best guess at pronunciation.
Arkansas is the school your DR is going for :-)
WC:
Coda: Talked with Army Bro Sunday night re: ticket...
Me: "But why have a sports car if you can't dive it?*"
"That's why I drive a Mazda now.
You only need high-performance on the Autobahn. My BMW was fly.
Um, don't ask me what I did w/ the Porsche [CEO bro's buddy let Army bro have one for the weekend as a retirement 'gift'] in Colorado..."
Ray-O: I've always liked PDA == Personal Digital Assistant. [RIP Palm's Treo 650 [wiki]].
DW is oft swatting me away for too much PDsA at our local cantina.
//but she's so cute!
Re: NOOR...
Eldest's Montessori BFF is named Noor. Didn't know it meant 'light,' thx Vidwan.
Her, Noor's, family was from Cairo [yes, same guy that showed me around City of the Dead]. After Noor (& family) moved back to Cairo from Sugar Land, the girls were able to stay in touch though Webkinz until post-Green Revolution.
Has anyone watched HBO's Perry Mason [trailer]? It's the "before he was a lawyer" back-story. John Lithgow is brilliant.
DW & I binged Season One Sunday night - we finally went to bed at 5a. We eagerly await Season 2 [but it better be one mystery over 1 or 2 programs 'cuz 8 hours to find the killer(s) is too much!]
Cheers, -T
*Stupid-fun song from The Red Rocker: I Can't Drive 55.
Want some RnR history? Sammy Hagar was in Montrose - his voice in Bad Motor Scooter made me follow him (up until his politics...)
Musings
-A very clever puzzle after 27 windy holes today
-My students only used metric RULERS in labs but they now rarely see them “out in the world”
-Last Saturday I quoted Henry Higgins saying of Zoltan, “OOZING charm from every pore, he oiled his way around the floor” when he was trying to unmask Liza
-PDA is part and parcel to travel with teenagers
Nice puzzle and write-up.
Never know if it's going to be EEO, EOE, or what.
Take care, all.
Права (Pravda) means "The Truth." [Thank you Vidwan827.] It was published by various Communist parties: during the Cold War by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, now by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.
The other major newspaper Известия (Izvestia) means "The News." It was published by the Soviet government, then by entities related to the Russian government. In 2008,it was purchased by newly-formed National Media Group.
>> Roy
Re. " up to 3 could proceed on one (yellow) Stop Sign". I was serious as that's exactly the way I understood it. The yellow signs were still around, circa 1960 when I was getting my license. The Red signs required a full stop. Wiki say Red replaced Yelow in 1954 for visibility and standardization plus the Red would no longer fade with improved dyes.
But it was made clear that a RED required FULL Stop whereas Yellow could be rolled through. Plus the next guy could follow the first*. I'll ask my 1962 classmates.
I do remember that strict enforcement of the Red required visible proof that forward momentum be completely stopped by virtue of car settling backwards. Cops wanted to see that backwards movement before car could proceed forward
There was a name for it.
WC
*It had to be in the manual that way as I could recite it chapter and verse
IIRC, the Russian people shout "Pravda! Pravda!" during the coronation scene in Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov. I may mis-remember that.
In undergrad, I met a guy from Russia.
After class and over a smoke one eve, my curiosity got the best of me...
"What did you think about Glasnost?"
"Glastnost? I donno what you mean."
"The opening of Russia under Gorbachev..."
"No, We don't know of Glasnost."
//but, um, you're here in Ruston, LA(?)...
We became buddies nevertheless
I FELT the Cold War was over when I heard Sting's Russians [From Dream of the Blue Turtle - '85]. I don't know why, but I sensed Art proceeded Politics.
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OK, nobody did it but someone's gotta... RULERS to cure Catholic potty mouths [Blues Brothers].
//Kevin got a good whack from Sr. Mary T during religion class.
Nun kept saying, "What ails you boy?!?" as she chased his butt from class with a 3' stick.
Ah, the good ol' days :-)
Cheers, -T
, , , and there was this, from Family Guy, on the subject of nuns with rulers:
And, Happy New Year!
Russian saying, from 1920 or so onwards:
"There's no truth in Pravda; no news in Izvesitya."
Puzzling thoughts:
FIW. Had MILES and RESINESS instead of MILOS and ROSINESS
4 years ago today I had installed my storm shutters and hunkered down as Hurricane Irma swept through FL. Time passed; I moved; hurricanes still cause huge damage. My heart goes out to those who were affected by Ida.
Thanks for the kind invitation Lemonade714! I am very grateful to Rich for publishing this puz. Other outlets were wary of a pandemic-related theme. Ol' Man Keith you are right about the pronunciation. The story goes that when my ancestors immigrated to Canada in the late 17th century they were illiterate farmers. "Prou" basically meant "peon". Unable to sign their name in ledger, the official drew a line and they made their mark by drawing a big "X". Voila! A couple of extra letters that the French don't pronounce. In French Canada, "Proulx" is as common as "Smith" in the US.
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