Saturday Themeless by Jamey Smith
I had a good time on this puzzle from our Lone Star State constructor, Jamey Smith: Here is what he had to say about this puzzle:
Hi again everyone,
CLEAN ENERGY, of course, and TONY BENNETT — who doesn’t love Tony? — as well as MOVIE PALACE and ORIGIN STORY. (The latter two bring to mind a fun visit to Santa Barbara, a highlight of which was seeing the exploits of young Han in "Solo: A Star Wars Story” at the gorgeous Arlington Theatre.)
Also glad to include a smattering of other faves from the entertainment world. Hope the proper names didn’t give anyone too much trouble. My thanks to Gary for his enlightening recaps, and to Rich for smoothing up my rough edges.
Until next time,
Jamey
I told Jamey I was still baffled by ECGTESTS even after I had filled in all the cells and then suddenly ECG and beating made sense and I had it. Jamey replied, "Ha! Forgive and forget, okay? I was just riffing on “heartbeats” with that one and thought it was a fun little misdirect. Luckily it looks like Rich agreed…"
1. Yellow __: LAB.
4. Keen: AVID - Describes our crossword interest here
8. Best Actress Oscar winner before Hepburn's last such award: SPACEK - We saw both of these movies, enjoyed them and wonder where such films are now
14. Wong of "American Housewife": ALI.
15. Elaborate theater: MOVIE PALACE - The Orpheum in Omaha is one but like most of these PALACES, it does not show MOVIES any more. We Just paid $315 to watch Omaha's Mannheim Steamroller perform there on December 22.
17. Yank: TUG.
18. Green juice source: CLEAN ENERGY.
19. Aptly nicknamed section of D.C.'s Massachusetts Avenue: EMBASSY ROW.
21. Campus cadet org.: ROTC.
22. Sniffish sort: SNOB - David Ogden Stiers played one perfectly in this cast
23. Research outpost co-developed by NASA: ISS - Click on this site, give it ten seconds to load and you'll see where the International Space Station is right now.
24. Rural expanse: LEA.
25. Hoaxes perpetrated by IRS impostors: TAX SCAMS - Jamey told me his cluing was, "25-A: Evasive maneuvers"
29. Not right: AMISS.
31. Sedimentary rock, from the Greek for "egg": OOLITE.
33. French toast part: SANTE - "To your health!" Great cluing!
34. Exposes: TELLS ON - A grade schooler's delight
37. Olds until 1999: CUTLASS.
39. Deep animosity: ODIUM.
37. Olds until 1999: CUTLASS.
39. Deep animosity: ODIUM.
40. Show deference, in a way: GROVEL.
42. "Law & Order" actor Jeremy: SISTO.
43. Lawless: ANARCHIC.
47. Wile E. Coyote's supply: TNT - That Acme Company had everything
48. "The Dutch House" author Patchett: ANN - The audio version read by some Hanks guy
50. Actress Chaplin: OONA - Mother: Geraldine Chaplin, Grandfather: Charlie Chaplin, Great Grandfather: Eugene O'Neill
51. "Ri-i-i-ght": I BET
53. Test subjects: GUINEA PIGS.
57. Frank Sinatra School of the Arts co-founder: TONY BENNETT.
59. Tennis unit: SET.
60. Many a superhero adaptation: ORIGIN STORY - The most famous one
61. Sully: TAR.
62. Voiced: SONANT.
63. First-class seat, often: ONE A.
64. "It's a hit" letters: SRO - Standing Room Only. Not allowed on airplane above.
Down:
1. Cutting-edge: LATEST.
2. Barnard grad, e.g.: ALUMNA - The word for a female graduate. Since Barnard College in NYC is all women...
3. Walmart adjective: BIG BOX store
4. Hornets of the '70s: AMCS - The Pawn Stars bought the original AMC Pacer from the movie Wayne's World and then paid big money to have it restored
5. Knoxville-based SEC athletes: VOLS - Fans arriving for a Tennessee VOLunteer FB game do not "tailgate", the "sailgate" on the Tennessee River just below the stadium
6. "Hurlyburly" Tony winner Judith: IVEY - Here's a scene from that play
7. Anne Frank, say: DIARIST - Nin gets the day off
8. Gushes: SPEWS.
9. Rave's opposite: PAN - Hilarious PANS of famous movies
10. Tiger or Twin, briefly: ALER - Jazzbumpa's Tigers, my Royals and Boomer's Twins all fared poorly in this year's AL Central
11. State name in a James Taylor classic: CAROLINA - Sweet Baby James singing this lovely ballad 52 years ago.
12. Beat reporters?: ECG TESTS - JAMEY, I'm throwing a flag on this play! 😁 I put his response at the top of this write-up.
13. Accessories that preserve your access: KEY CASES.
16. 1961 space chimp: ENOS - Ham was put into a suborbital flight and then ENOS was put into orbit and then Allen Shepard's suborbital flight made him the first human American in space
20. Popular vodka brand: ABSOLUT and 26. Vodka drink, briefly: COSMO. Here is a COSMOPOLITAN made with ABSOLUT Vodka
27. Teléfono greeting: ALO - Hello in many Spanish speaking countries
28. Artistic dynasty: MING.
29. Late bloomer: ASTER.
30. Shoplifter's concern: MALL COP.
32. B-school course: ECON - Students in Business Schools would certainly take ECONOMICS
34. Snack that comes in Rounds and Triangles: TOSTITOS and...
35. Pennsylvania's __ University, home of the Fighting Scots: EDINBORO - EDINBORO and its university is a 1 hr and 49 min drive SW from Buffalo, NY along Lake Erie
38. Where RFK got his LLB: UVA - Bobby Kennedy got his Bachelor of Law degree at the University of Virginia
41. Met unexpectedly: RAN INTO.
44. Lifting things: HOIST - Here a crane is shown HOISTING the first stage of a Saturn V rocket in the Vehicle Assembly Building at KSC
45. Engaged: IN GEAR - My mother's motivating phrase was "Get it IN GEAR!"
46. Julián __, HUD secretary under Obama: CASTRO.
48. Broker: AGENT.
49. Meryl Streep and Amy Adams played them in "Doubt" (2008): NUNS - 73% on Rotten Tomatoes
54. Noble gas: NEON.
55. To be, in Toulouse: ETRE - When doing Hamlet on a stage in Toulouse, France you might say "ÊTRE ne pas ÊTRE"
56. "Back __!": ATYA - Saying "Back AT YA!" when someone says "I love you" seems tacky
58. Storage unit: BIN - I love shopping here!
DNF. Disappointing, but not disgraceful for a Saturday.
ReplyDelete___I_ PALACE, and solAr ENERGY just below it, and couldn't get any of the 4-letter words crossing them. I probably wouldn't have gotten any of those 4 anyway.
Also misspelt GUINiA PIGS, and didn't know the foreign word crossing it.
And misremembered the rapper as TYGr < TYGA, and the crossing word SONaNT was unknown to me.
Other unknowns filled entirely by perps and WAGs: OOLITE, EDINBORO, ALO, UVA, SISTO...
Our planet needs, for its weal,
CLEAN ENERGY, so here's the deal:
We get wood chips,
And tiny whips,
And run those GUINEA PIGS in their wheels!
A sedimentary pearl is an OOLITE,
Coated by limestone, nice and tight!
Small in size,
Polished by tides,
That's their ORIGIN STORY, now good night!
{A-, B.}
ReplyDeleteWell, that was definitely a challenge. Maybe it's the hour ? No, it was more about locking in on a couple of incorrect answers.
Aside to Dash T: What follows is another TLDR for you, in all the gory details.
Set the crossword aside and watched the last three innings of the Astros / Red Sox game on MLB Network, commercial free.* Then the last part of an old movie (Pretty Poison) with Anthony Perkins and Tuesday Weld. Then back to the puzzle.
Took out Stoli for Vodka drink, but still couldn't gain ground in that SW quadrant. No doubt about TOSTITOS, TNT, I BET and TONY BENNETT.
Something STORY. BIN was probable. Somewhat confident it was TYGA or TYGe for the rapper's stage name. So something O-dGIN STORY. OddGIN STORY ? No. Could be ORIGIN STORY... yes, that must be the answer... But...
BARTENDS was my answer to "Works with taps, maybe" It fit, and I thought it clever. TNT, IBET and TONY seemed to prove it. And then it hit me. The clue had "work", not "works". Not plural. D'OH !
After working out LISTEN IN, the rest of that section fell. Went with the A for TYGA and SONANT. SISTO was a complete unknown, as was OOLITE. COSMO fit where Stoli had been. It was done. FTW !!! The timer says 1:01:59, but a good part of that was watching baseball and that movie. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Also had a couple of other flat tires that needed to be changed along the ride. Askew to AMISS and BIG Buy to BIG BOX.
Enjoyed the solve Jamey, and the write up as well, Husker Gary. Thank you both.
Good morning!
ReplyDeleteMy "Yellow ___" CAB lasted way too long. (Have I ever mentioned that I hate it when I screw up at 1a?) But the real hangup was in the SW where barTENds kept LISTEN IN from appearing for even longer. SONANT finally broke the logjam. Struggled, but managed to stay within the Saturday time constraints, so life is good. Thanx, Jamey and Husker.
ReplyDeleteOops, the asterisk.
* Can't believe I fell asleep between the bottom of the sixth and the top of the seventh. Yordan had hit that scorching triple down to the right field corner, and then scored the second run on the DP at first. He has to be ALCS MVP.
I meant to go back and check my completed xword so I missed cAB which led to cuTEST and uLi. FIW when I coulda woohooed.
ReplyDeleteLove ECGTESTS now that it's explained.
The vodka clues threw me but once I replaced SNOt* with a B I had ABSO… and got CODMOS. JACK* McEvoy's ex-girlfriend drank COSMOs so I got that after stoli didn't work.
ALO not ole. ECON is A&S rehab for Calculus trauma victims
I'd never heard of EDINBORO U. Nor those feisty Scots
NUNS were mentioned late by Anon-T, fln. Lucina, I think the Sisters of St Joseph went to Fenway en habillement.
TTP saved me relating my adventures in SW. Same, same.
WC
*We just had this for homer thus caps. He's the reporter in Michael Connelly thriller
Took 17:15 today.
ReplyDeleteSpent 1/2 the time in the lower-left quadrant. Didn't know oolite, odium, Sisto.
Hooray for no theme, and no circles.
I wondered about bartends, but really wanted some form of surveils.
Interesting to see in the same puzzle "ecgTESTS" as an answer and "TEST subjects" as a clue.
I see Ms. Ivey has made a return, quite quickly.
DNF, looking up SISTO, TONY BENNETT, EDENBORO, and TYGA.
ReplyDeleteI liked this puzzle, except that before I saw the warning I looked at the lyrics of "Rack City". In general I'm not in favor of cancel culture, and I'm not offended by most vulgarity, but I think that works of nart (negation of "art", similar to nand gates and nor gates) that use the "n-word" and glorify relegating women to prostitution and reduces them to "bitches" and "hos" have no place in decent society. Shame on Rich for allowing it. Why the hell hasn't THIS guy been cancelled? Where the hell is NOW and Me Too?
It too lots of perps and WAGs to luckily FIR today. The SW was the hardest. ORIGIN STORY, EDINBORO, SISTO, TYGA and SONANT were unknowns but I managed to get them right. TONY BENNETT (ANTONIO BENNETTO his name for his paintings) was just a guess. Fighting Scots- TOSTITOS & TONY wouldn't let it be EDINBURG. And EDINBORO looked like it might fit. I guess TYGA couldn't spell 'tiger'.
ReplyDeleteWhat's wrong with ECG TESTS? That was an easy fill. I take an EKG test with my Kardia Mobile every few days and email it to my cardiologist.
KEY CASES- not familiar with those.
ALI, SPACEK, SANTE, NUNS, Jeremy SISTO, ANN Patchett, Judith IVEY- unknowns
ALO? I thought 'hola' was hello in Spanish.
Shoplifters' concerns- they don't worry about any MALL COP is San Francisco.
Despite initially going AMISS at some of the same places as others who have posted above FIR with the biggest struggle in the SW until SONANT, not Doritos, whoever SISTO is worked themselves out.
ReplyDeleteThanks, HG, for the wonderful expo and thanks, Jamey (and Rich) for the A ONE Saturday puzzle with just the right level (for a Saturday) of purposefully misdirection-al clues.
Thank you Jamie! This puzzle was fantastic, if for no other reason than that it broke my string of late week FIWs. Oh, and it did have a string of clever clues and fill.
ReplyDeleteAnd thank you Husker for your LATEST RAVE REVIEW.
25A TAX SCAMS. Even RICH gave us a bit of a Saturday break on Jamie's more ambiguous cluing.
31A OOLITE. Adj. OOLITIC, as in OOLITIC HEMATITE.
33A SANTÉ. Had me fooled, until it didn't.
4D AMCS. Thought this was a sports team. Teri's first car was a RAMBLER CLASSIC. She got her license first and she used to give me lessons in it.
7D DIARIST. NIN got the day off, but tragically ANNE didn't. Teri was the star of that show in her HS play. She still has the cast picture to prove it.
10D ALER. Not as bad as my Birds, but I don't want to talk about it.
28D MING. IMHO the SUNG Dynasty (a.k.a. SONG) was far more artistic. The MING was all about pretty pictures and technique. The SUNG was about ART.
44D HOIST. And PETARDS too!
Cheers,
Bill
Jinx in Norfolk @8:39 AM I'm with you Jinx. Felt the same way about MWA the other day.
ReplyDeleteBE @8:42 AM KEY CASES. You put 'em under faux cow pies near your front door to SPARE being locked out.
ReplyDeleteLuckily for me my first inkling for 1A was lab (glad cab never crossed my mind or it would have stuck me like it did desper-otto). When I matched it with 1D I was off to the races clockwise, galloping through turns one and two and across the bottom stretch where I stumbled and went lame after turn three, limping aimlessly around the SW, taking me another 15 minutes to complete the homestretch and complete the lap for an FIR in 29:55. Learned about oolite, sante, anarchic (and not anarchal which I originally placed), sonant and Edinboro. Some nice clueing in this puzzle, Beats reporter was clever, and Works with taps only had me thinking of beer and dancing, and not wiretaps, but I eventually sussed it all out. Thanks for the fun and challenging puzzle Jamey and Rich! And Rich, just to let you know, each puzzle since Monday has taken me longer than the day before which I know is your intent. Thanks for the informative and amusing write up Gary, I especially liked the link to the ISS tracker which I bookmarked, looks like it passes almost directly over where I live!
ReplyDeleteJamey wipe that grin off your face!! 😠. I give up!. Besides DW's out of towns friends arriving soon so have run out of time. 4,5 6, and 10, down were unknown (ALER? huh?). Insects don't live that long so the answer for "Hornets of the 70s" should be dead. Couldn't perp MOVIE PALACE or CLEAN ENERGY even though I figured it was eco not veggie related...so the the north central and north east were my downfall
ReplyDeleteLotsa inkovers typical for a Saturday...Amy/ ALI, cab/LAB,(DO) mar/TAR, oolith/LITE, listens to/ IN. Held on to the state of Colorado too long too, wasn't sure what EMBASSY has to do with Massachusetts. I read "Dutch House" but couldn't remember the author. Have seen SONANT no where else but CWs. Guessed at the I in Sisto. Know a family with that last name which completed the unknown PA EDINSORO (really stoopid 🙄) I had ISEE instead of IBET.
Forced to take frequent bathroom trips <.....DIARIST
Young female....AMISS
Old male...AGENT
William Randolph in the Bronx....HOIST.
Sunny but cold...Enjoy the weekend .😀
I didn't get ecgtests after I had gotten it. I kept trying to "fix" it. Key cases didn't help me either since I wanted key cards. Never heard of Edinboro. Thank heavens I have this Blog to answer my misses.
ReplyDeleteA big struggle in the SW resulting in a FIW. ORIGIN STORY and SONANT were my downfalls. I suspected EDINBORO but had LISTEN to and misspelled TOSTITtO(S), not catching it since it was vertical, all of which kept me from success today. But other tricky areas I did get through fine, so I can't complain. A worthy Saturday challenge and time well spent. Thanks, Jamey. Thanks also to Husker Gary for clearing up the cobwebs and bringing joy. Hope you all are doing well this weekend!
ReplyDeleteDid anyone else try Salud/SANTE?
ReplyDeleteIs # of comments by 130 EDT* indicative of difficulty? I had ¾ done in 20 minutes but SW took awhile. I went to jumble and when I came back TOSTITOS and EDINBORO fell from the tree.**
LooperPhil, Twas I, Wilbur, who took the taxi to the FIW Station. Oops, I see D-O reported the snafu first. I see Lyft and Uber are coming clean on sexual assaults on their RideShares
"William Randolph in the Bronx....HOIST." good one, RayO
* Make that 2pm EDT
** HHF? HAMISH Hanging Fruit
Tony Bennett (Benedetto)
ReplyDeleteWe all have family stories, lore, which is usually mythology but often with a kernel of truth.
My Mom's parents immigrated from Italy in the early part of the last century as a young couple and started a bakery in a tiny hamlet in Northern NY state called Pyrites, town of Canton, St. Lawrence County. The bakery burned down twice. My grandfather packed up the family and moved to Utica to work in the local Wonder Bread factory
The family story was that it was Tony Bennett's family who had a rival bakery responsible for the fires. I figured this was not true as he was from New York City.
I was in Barnes & Noble a few years ago and spied an autobiography he wrote. There was a short chapter entitled "Pyrites". Apparently his father died when he was young and was sent to live summers there with his father's brother's family
So who knows...
Puzzling thoughts:
ReplyDeleteLike most others, the SW gave me fits. Got everything else with minimal issues or time spent. SONANT/TYGA was eventual undoing
HG - for the record, I was a Cleveland Indians fan (adding to those who might’ve been disappointed with this year’s AL Central Division results). But I think my allegiance to them ended when they came up with the Guardians as the new nickname. Call me an old curmudgeon for feeling this way. I’d almost have been happier if they’d chosen The Cleveland Baseball Team instead.
Last comment on the puzzle: that is one cool grid design that Jamey came up with!
Hola!
ReplyDeleteYes, Spanish is HOLA but I believe that ALO is an imitation of the English HELLO to answer the telephone. I've heard it in Mexico.
Jamie, you gave us a tough one. I actually needed assistance in the SW. I hate to look up anything for a CWD.
A co-worker I once knew had a CUTLASS and she constantly complained about what a gas guzzler it was but she loved the car!
I know that James Taylor is a famous, well-liked singer, but his singing style jars me and I cannot LISTEN IN. And forget TYGA, of whom I had never heard, and I don't like rap.
However, I love a MOVIE PALACE and went to one in NY, not for movies, but for a play, the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. It is sumptuous! We have one here, in Phoenix, the Orpheum, which has been restored to its former glory. It is now for plays only but it was for movies in my youth.
I am so disappointed in myself that it took me so long to finish this and then could not do it without help! Am I old or what? I need to get IN GEAR.
I love the CASTRO brothers. They are so cute! Bright, too.
Thank you, Gary, for the motherlode of information, especially about OONA and her family. I was vaguely aware of it but did not know all the details.
Time for me to plant some autumn flowers, ASTERs and mums, I think.
Have a fantastic day, everyone!
WC - funny how four World Series wins takes some of the bite out of the Red Sox offensive el foldo. Before 2004, I’d be in depression for the winter. Rooting for the NL winner, but they are going to have trouble beating the Astros..
ReplyDeleteStarted slowly on the puzzle, then got some of the long answers, and finished 99%; couldn’t quite figure out a few squares in the SW, but should have gotten them with a little more patience.
Something's AMISS. My post was lost.
ReplyDeleteHad help with AVID, but got everything else w/o aid. Had SAlut before SANTE. Lot of perp steers and lucky with WAGS. Some good cluing. Good Saturday challenge.
EMBASSY - We've had the pleasure of attending a reception at the Canadian Ambassador's residence in the 19a clue.
Have a great day.
Nope. DNF. Over my ability: too many DNKs. After a struggle, which started with CAB for 1a and went downhill from there, and after 20 minutes or so, I gave up with it about 1/2 filled. Ya got me, JS. Looking forward to Monday. Thanx for your usual outstanding write-up, HG.
ReplyDeletej-vt, I don't consider the Stros an AL team, I think f them as an NL sleeper cell.
ReplyDeleteClever clues and misdirections. I struggled with this puzzle and the SW was a Saturday slaughter. Well done Jamey. Nice expo for this puzzle.
ReplyDeleteA tough but do-able (with two cheats) PZL from Mr. Smith.
ReplyDeleteNice to see Judith IVEY getting her due in XWDS these days. I saw that production of Hurlyburly, and the entire cast was fine. It was one of the top three dark comedies of playwright David Rabe's relatively short but brilliant career. (He is still living, but we haven't seen a major work of his lately.)
The other two of his plays that are really outstanding (just my opinion) are Sticks and Bones and In the Boom Boom Room.
His daughter, Lily Rabe, is a popular actress, often seen in TV series.
My hardest sector was the southwest corner. SONANT was the toughest for me to crack. Dunno why.
And where exactly is this "Frank Sinatra School of the Arts"?
I had to look that up. Turns out to be a high school in Astoria, Queens, NY.
What?-- he couldn't get a school in New Jersey?!
Fave clue? 33A "French toast part" = very funny.
~ OMK
ReplyDeleteIt was soytenly a challenging puzzle, but I enjoyed it. I'll enjoy anything especially if its the only game in town.... Thank you Jamey Smith.
Thank you HuskerG for a well explained review.
We had an important friend visit this morning ... she bought us a coupla boxes of sparklers from Costco ... left over from her 4th of July party. So, I was paying due attention to her, and did not concentrate on the puzzle. I loved the punny answers, and it took me most of the half hour plus.
Chair Moe, I agree the Cleveland Indians were under a jinx with that sort of a name .... indians dont know how to play baseball .... I, personally, never realized that you have to keep running to the next base. They could have been the Cleveland Cowboys, or the Cleveland Eeries.... ;-) The Cleveland Guardians is a misnomer ... the downtown is pretty much completely empty ... there is nothing to guard anymore ... even the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland has to borrow the banknotes from other cities ...
Have a nice weekend, all.
I liked this puzzle even though I had to look up "Rack City" and those Fighting Scots. I greatly admire the grid design, construction, cluing, and fill; a beautiful job. I also learned some new and actually useful things, such as what OOLITE is, the word SONANT, and that heretofore totally unknown EDINBORO University.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Waseeley about Ming vs Song, although that great painter and art theorist, Dong Qichang (董其昌), lived during the later period of the Ming dynasty. The two greatest poets, Li Bai (李白) and Du Fu (杜甫) lived during the great Tang dynasty. (I took Tu Fu's surname for my own surname when I lived in Taiwan. It is pronounced "Doo". I stuck with Yuēhàn (约翰) for my given name because it is the standard translation of "John" (or "Johann"). So my full name was Dù Yuēhàn.)
I very much enjoyed reading all your comments today, everyone. Take care.
Jayce @5:03 PM Always good to hear from someone who actually knows what he's talking about. ☺️
DeleteHi All!
ReplyDeleteDNF in the SW. I was still in the pub at TAP users, didn't know my PA school nor Law & Order's Jeremy. ODIUM & SONANT are not in my daily vocab.
Thanks Jamey for the puzzle and thank you, HG, for the reveal & write-up (enjoyed the PANs link too).
WO: KEY CArdS
ESPs: OOLITE, ALI, SANTE (oh, Now I get it - thanks HG), ANN, ATYA, ALO
Fav: I'll go w/ ALER. 25 from Houston are going to the World Series.
Runner-up: TONY BENNETT; he and Frank fill Pop's kitchen with music on Spaghetti Night.
No one wanted Yellow FIN to make yesterday's Tuna MELT?
{A, B+}
Lucina - thanks for helping out with ALO; I was in BigE's wha?-wah? camp wanting hola.
TTP - I read it all :-) Yordan Alvarez did get the MVP; Youngest & I stayed for the ceremony (couldn't hear a dang thing over the reverberations of the announcer).
jfromvt - ever see the movie Fever Pitch? They were going to wrap up filming in summer of '04 but the BoSox kept winning. The cameras (and the story) kept rolling all the way to their win in STL. [cite].
Jinx - a) Astros were NL. I'm still getting used to the DH abomination. Dusty Baker seems to have adjusted so...
b) I'll agree with you on nart (love it!; //I've used nand gates) to a point. If you're a kid from the burb's glamorizing the gangsta life, go away.
If it is your reality [see: Richard Pryor - grew up in a brothel], then I want what you create is art. //BTW, he, Pryor, co-wrote Blazing Saddles
//and waseeley - that was NWA not M. Much closer to "art" IMHO (not that I like it but I can appreciate it)
Y'all have wonderful eve.
Cheers, -T
T @6:49 PM Thanks for correcting my TYPO. I didn't really think it was Miggaz Wit Attitudes. 🙃
DeleteDid it occur to anyone else that SONANT is probably akin to reSONATE in some way that's even older than me?
ReplyDelete-T: Abejo and I worked on a second-generation electronic telephone switching system (called the #2 EAX). Not together, but the #2 EAX in different locations. The CPU was made of discrete ICs, almost entirely NAND gates (actually, all the arithmetic functions were done with them). A few years later new systems came equipped with the mighty 8086 instead of all those NAND chips. Another technological advancement was that toll call records were on reel-to-reel mag tapes with the #2 EAX, instead of the punched paper tapes the electromechanical switching systems it replaced used. Kind of reads like a nerd Halloween story, doesn't it?
Jinx, that is fascinating.
ReplyDeleteLucina, I mentioned yesterday that I peeked at Fri's SW. I know how you feel. I was tempted to Google "Fighting Scots".
ReplyDeleteC-Moe , I was very friendly with Jump'n Joe Dugan of 20s Yankee fame. He would relate quasi mythological* stories of Sockalexis, fellow HC Crusader and the namesake of the Cleveland Indians. One idea: Cleveland IPAs as in Indiginous Peoples Assoc. They could rename the ballpark, Sam Adams Stadium
Stick to my day job? I'm retired, this is what we do.
WC
* One myth is that Socks was a pal of Lefty Sprockett** from their Maine Independent League days.
** For info on Sprockett see Jumble blog for 6/15-6/17/20
Then you have Milwaukee who stole the Braves from Boston (NL) only to have Atlanta steal them. Then the ill-fated Seattle Pilots of Bouton, Ball Four ignominy moved to Milwaukee and now we had AL Brewers. Then MLB had Brewers south to NL and Stros to AL just to mess with Anon-T's head.
The first half was supposed to be posted at 4pm but we had to leave for a dump run. Said run resulted in dinner at Golden Corral and here I am
WC
6/15/20 Jumble
ReplyDelete6/16/20 Jumble
6/17/20 Jumble
Note, I explain in one of these that "Lefty Sprockett" was the invention of Norm Nathan, a popular Boston Radio personality. Along with Lefty stories he had other characters like Marilyn Gorelnick his faithful secretary
WC
I think the Sprockett poems were c. 9Am each day.
DeleteSaturday Stumper. Thanks for the fun, Jamey and HuskerG.
ReplyDeleteI’m late to the party after a day with the grandkids. Of course I didn’t finish this correctly on my own.
I required a couple of Google searches, car and sports team info from DH (but he didn’t know VOLS) and several waits for the correct perps.
Mar never got changed to TAR, and no HOIST was seen.
Hand up for thinking of Bartend before LISTEN IN, Colorado before CAROLINA, Solar before CLEAN (that poor chimp should have been called Eros!)
Of course, this Canadian was trying to put U in EDINBORO (the Scottish would be EDINBURGH).
My French toast part was Syrup before I put some ABSOLUT in the glass and said SANTE.
I smiled broadly when I “got” ECG TEST. Great clue.
I noted OOLITE and OONA.
We had ALI, ALER and ALO.
Lucina- Allô is used by French speakers for answering the phone.
Spitzboov- When were you at the Canadian Embassy? It was located on EMBASSY ROW but the present building on Pennsylvania Ave. was opened in 1989. Canada has the embassy closest to the Capitol Building and is the only country to have its embassy along the presidential inaugural route between the Capitol Building and the White House.
Wishing you all a good evening.
Canadian Eh! - - I'm aware of the Canadian Embassy building near the Capitol. In my post I stated the Ambassador's residence which is in the Embassy Row district. I think it's a block or two off Mass. Ave.
ReplyDeleteIt occurred some 40 odd years ago.
Spitzboov- I assumed that the Ambassador lived at the Embassy. Is that not true? But 40 years ago, the Embassy would still have been on Embassy Row. I’ll bet that you have some stories about your visit.
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