Do Opposites Attract?
20-Across. Available workers, statistically: LABOR MARKET.
Labor Day is the first Monday in September.
27-Across. Meteorology, e.g.: EARTH SCIENCE. Earth Day falls on April 22.
45-Across. Game in which grabbing a piece of cloth replaces tackling: FLAG FOOTBALL. Flag Day is on June 14.
And the unifier:
54-Across. Period when everything is backwards ... and where the starts of
20-, 27- and 45-Across might be found?: OPPOSITE DAY. Hand
up if you have heard of Opposite Day. Apparently it is a real day and is
observed on January 25.
This clue indicates that the first word of each theme answer
can be placed Opposite word Day to give us a
new concept. Note that each of these "days" is a recognized holiday:
Labor Day (1st Monday of September), Earth Day (April 22), and Flag Day (June
14). It appears to me Market Day and Science Day can also valid "days",
albeit not recognized holidays. I don't believe I have ever heard of a
specific Football Day.
Across:
1. Way in the woods: PATH.
5. Japanese cattle breed yielding Kobe beef: WAGYU. Not a
Tuesday word, but I think we have seen it in the puzzles before.
Everything you wanted to know about Wagyu Cattle, but didn't know to ask.
10. Fleecy footwear brand: UGGS. Supposedly, the owner named
his line of footwear Uggs because his wife thought they were ugly. She was right.
14. Currency named for a continent: EURO. The money is so
colorful.
15. Used for dinner, as dishes: ATE ON. Did anyone pull out
the good china for Thanksgiving?
16. Fit: SUIT.
17. Burnett on CNN: ERIN. Erin Isabelle Burnett (b. July 2,
1976) is the anchor of OutFront on CNN.
18. Author Dahl: ROALD. Roald Dahl (Sept. 13, 1916 ~ Nov. 23, 1990) makes frequent guest appearances in
the crossword puzzles. He is arguably best known for his children's
novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
19. Crib sheet user: BABY.
23. "Oedipus __": REX.
24. Set of TV programs: SERIES. Law & Order is a long-running series with several spin-offs.
25. First name in civil rights history: ROSA. Rosa Parks(née Rosa Louise McCauley; Feb. 4, 1913 ~ Oct. 24, 2005) is best know
for her role in the Montgomery, Alabama Buss Boycott of December 1955, when she refused to give up her seat, but do you know
of Claudette Colvin (b. Sept. 5, 1939), a 15-years old schoolgirl who had refused to give
up her seat in March of 1955?
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| Rosa Parks (left) and Claudette Colvin (right) |
32. Gets ready for a selfie: POSES.
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35. Tried to be like: EMULATED.
36. Before, in poems: ERE.
37. Explosion: BLAST.
39. Rock in a vein: ORE. This is now a crossword staple.
40. Merchant: RETAILER. /// And 9-Down. Go even
lower than, pricewise: UNDERCUT.
43. Cling wrap brand: SARAN.
48. Spanish kiss: BESO. Today's Spanish lesson. Hi,
Lucina!
49. Meteorologist's pressure line: ISOBAR.
52. Do stuff?: GEL.
58. Out of the office: AWAY.
60. Made a boo-boo: ERRED.
61. NFL analyst Tony: ROMO. Tony Romo (né Antonio Ramiro
Romo; b. Apr. 21, 1980) played for the Dallas Cowboys for 14 seasons, from
2003 until 2016.
62. Google-owned navigation app: WAZE.
63. Volleyball great Gabrielle: REECE. I am not up on
professional volleyball players, so the perps helped me out with her name.
Gabrielle Allyse Reece (b. Jan. 6, 1970) played volleyball for Florida
State University before she turned pro.
64. Deuce defeater: TREY.
65. Had down pat: KNEW.
66. Dalmatian features: SPOTS.
67. __ Domini: ANNO. Today's Latin lesson. The term is
translated to mean: the year of the Lord, and is generally abbreviated as AD.
Down:
1. Banana leftover: PEEL.
2. Subtle vibes: AURAS. Everything you wanted to know
about Auras, but didn't know to ask.
3. Wichita or Omaha: TRIBE.
4. Distinguished guest, perhaps: HONOREE.
5. Not so cold: WARMER.
6. "Raise your glass!": A TOAST!
7. Camping equipment: GEAR. Not a Tent.
8. The "sun" in "sunny side up": YOLK.
10. Thumb drive port: USB. As in Universal Serial Bus. One now needs an adapter for the new Apple computers. The
standard USB doesn't fit.
11. Co-signer, e.g.: GUARANTOR.
12. Taunt: GIBE.
13. River in which Achilles was dipped: STYX. Greek mythology.
21. Narrow inlets: RIAS.
22. Work really hard: TOIL.
26. Caribbean, for one: SEA. Also the name of a 1989 novel
by James Michener.
28. Essence: HEART.
29. Texting format, for short: SMS. As in Short Message Service.
30. Michael of "Arrested Development": CERA. Michael Austin
Cera (b. June 7, 1988) makes frequent guest appearances in the crossword
puzzles.
31. Genesis garden: EDEN. Another crossword staple.
32. Flawless, in slang: PERF. Because it's just to tiring to
say: Perfect.
33. Baseball's Hershiser: OREL. Orel Hershiser (né Orel
Leonard Hershier, IV; b. Sept. 16, 1958) is a former baseball pitcher.
He played in the majors for 18 years.
34. Light on fire: SET ABLAZE.
37. Humorous outtakes: BLOOPERS.
38. Cancer follower: LEO. As in in signs of the zodiac.
41. Golden __: AGE.
42. "In that case ... ": IF SO.
43. Vending machine opening: SLOT.
44. Calgary's province: ALBERTA. Hi, CanadianEh!
46. Split equally: BISECT.
47. Comments only for the audience: ASIDES.
50. Decorate: ADORN. Some people go to extreme measures to
adorn their homes this time of year.
51. Asian noodle dish: RAMEN. Several years ago, one of our
regulars (sadly, I don't remember who), provided us with a recipe for a Bird
Seed Salad that used Ramen noodles. I have made that salad many times
when I need to bring a dish to a potluck dinner. It is delicious.
52. Stare stupidly: GAWK.
53. Obi-Wan portrayer McGregor: EWAN. Ewan Gordon McGregor
(b. Mar. 31, 1971) portrayed Obi-Wan in the prequel Star Wars movies.
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| Ewan McGregor, left, and Alec Guinness, right both played Obi-Wan Kenobi |
55. Help the chef: PREP.
56. Black-and-white cookie: OREO. A crossword staple.
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| But these are the true Black and White cookies. |
57. Toy on a string: YO-YO.
59. Bow wood: YEW. Everything you wanted to know about
the Yew, but didn't know to ask.
Here's the Grid:
חתולה
Happy Chanukkah!
The date you work hardest is your LABOR DAY.
ReplyDeleteThe date when you tire, that's your FLAG DAY.
And the date at the end,
When you're buried, my friend,
That is your own personal EARTH DAY!
There was a priest from CALGARY
Who went off to visit Calvary.
He prayed ASIDE,
Where Jesus died,
Why didn't God send His cavalry?
{C, A.} Unusually inconsistent toDAY.
Good morning!
ReplyDeleteBig surprise, d-o never noticed the theme. But on reflection, I think the intent was that both words of the themers should pair with "day." Football day could be the same as game day. Went astray with iMitATED/EMULATED and SET Alight/ABLAZE, but those were just minor snags. Thanx for the challenge John Michael, and for the expo, Hahtoolah. (And happy Chanukkah!)
Good Morning, Crossword friends. Isobar has appeared twice this week and it's not a word we see often in the puzzles.
ReplyDeleteQOD: The definition of ambivalence is watching your mother-in-law drive over a cliff in your new Cadillac. ~ David Mamet (né David Alan Mamet; b. Nov. 30, 1947), American playwright
Hi Y'all! Enjoyed the puzzle, thanks, JMC.
ReplyDeleteWow, Hahtoolah, very interesting song. Happy Chanukkah! Cute cartoons.
Got the theme okay, but never heard of OPPOSITE DAY. DNK: WAGYU, ERIN, REELE, SMS.
Wichita or Omaha = not "citys" but TRIBES. The TRIBES aren't offended by these big cities?
Do stuff? Passed over this several times before GEL became apparent as the last fill.
Hand down for being familiar with “Opposite Day” (can a Hallmark card be far behind?). To quote Cross Eyed Dave from yesterday, “This is why I love the Blog! Learning things I didn’t know I didn’t know”.... But I do know that on this site on Tuesdays, it’s “Hahtoolah Day”, and thank you for your delightful expo, and happy Chanukka to you!
ReplyDeleteThank you JMC for providing me with my morning challenge as I managed a FIR in typical Tuesday time, had a few corrections where I thought FLAME and not BLAZE, and REESE instead of REECE, but quickly figured that out. Good day to all!
FIR, but this was more of a Thursday puzzle in my opinion!
ReplyDeleteDNK WAGYU or the spelling of REEsE.
ReplyDeleteMay have heard of OPPOSITE DAY in passing (as in "what is this, Opposite Day?") but seems related to Bizarro World of Superman comics and a Seinfeld episode. OPPOSITE DAY was also a low-budget 2009 film with Pauly Shore, Billy Unger, George Wendt and Dick Van Patten among others.
I thought "crib sheet" user (BABY) was cute
ReplyDeleteOne of the kids in the neighborhood had the nickname HAWK. One day I found out it was because his father said at the dinner table "What are you GAWKing at!"
"And what of the bow?
The bow was made of YEW Wood
The true wood , the wood that bowmen love…"*
Not a sprint as I inked China then apron but actually knew about UGGS.
Before FLAG FOOTBALL there was two hand touch which we played in the QUAD. When the Gasson Tower chimed the quarter hour the game ended but a play in progress could complete. As the ball was centered over my head for a game deciding safety the bell chimed. Later we found out the center was a plant.
As usual I like the 1st l'ick better
Ironically the Monday after Super Bowl Sunday might as well be a holiday with all the personal days taken
I had TRail/TRIBE
I loved all the links and pics today, hahtoolah
WC
** "White Company" ACD "The Song of the Bow"
Ps, wasn't George Wendt Nooorrrrmm?
This was not a fast as I can write Tuesday puzzle, but still very easy with just a little thought. Only REECE was new to me. CERA was all perps. I forgot I had heard of him.
ReplyDeleteNow that Hahtoolah pointed out the theme, I agree with DO that both parts of the theme answers could be joined with DAY. I was looking for opposites of the first word. Duh. Nice theme, John. Susan, thanks for a well illustrated, fun tour de force, as always.
I met WAGYU first in crosswords. Last week I saw WAGYU beef in the supermarket.
Zoom conference for Alan awaits.
Musings
ReplyDelete-Did OPPOSITE DAY remind anyone of Boxing Day?
-ROSA - "I just got tired of giving in"
-SARAN Wrap, you're outta here! Press-and-Seal, welcome to our house!
-Sports fans only - Tony Romo got "Wally Pipped" by Dak Prescott!
-The recent Togas/Togae made me ponder AURAS/AURAE
-What I will need for my new MacBook Pro for USB, HDMI, etc.
-Gabriella REECE says some may come to a beach volleyball game to GAWK but will leave impressed with the athleticism
-We were the GUARANTOR for a loan to bring our Chinese niece to America.
-I just learned that Shift + Enter will put a line break in an SMS Message without sending it
-Grey's anatomy used the word PERF frequently for a medical condition
Terrific Tuesday. Thanks for the fun, John and Hahtoolah.
ReplyDeleteI FIRed in good time and saw the theme.
Perps were needed for the lesser-known names like ERIN (who else wanted Carol Burnett?), REECE, CERA.
Perps also we’re needed for the correct spelling of WAGYU.
I had the YX and thought 13D would be onYX. Then I saw the clue and was surprised to see another word with that ending.
Hand up for smiling at GEL for “do stuff”.
I wanted LABOR (nose wrinkle!) Pool, but MARKET fit the spot.
I noted BLAZE crossing WAZE. We had BLAZE and BLAST to light us up.
We had reruns of ANNO and ISOBAR for yesterday’s commenter.
I bought several boxes of the Christmas (white chocolate-covered) OREOs for my daughter who loves them.
I’ll take a Canadian CSO for ALBERTA, but it would be more suited to our occasional visitor from that province. Perhaps they will chime in today (like Montana yesterday).
Wishing you all a great day.
Happy Chanukkah!
Canadians have LABOUR Day and EARTH Day, but no FLAG Day.
ReplyDeleteAnd our bills are pretty colours like those EUROs. It makes it easier to tell them apart in your wallet and for RETAILERS.
WAGYU -- don't think I've ever had it. But I have had Matsusaka Beef, raised for about 3 years and fed a bottle of beer daily, I'm guessing to marinate the meat from the inside. It was served to us as sukiyaki, and it was very good.
ReplyDeleteHusker, did it mean PERForated?
FLN Kafre and the Sphinx
ReplyDeleteYou can backtrack from 7:26 PM to get the context:
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CrossEyedDave @7:26 PM Dave, I think that we tend to be condescending to the past, seriously underestimating the knowledge and skills of "primitive" peoples. I remember years ago attending an exhibit of Mesopotamian art in NY, dating back to 3000 BC. I was most impressed by their lost wax bronze castings of small figurines. The know how to achieve this didn't just appear de Novo 5000 years ago, but had to have been preceded by hundreds, or even thousands of years of research, experimentation, and apprenticeship. To paraphrase Arthur C Clark, "The works of any sufficiently ancient civilization are indistinguishable from magic".
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Thank you John for a FUN puzzle and to Hahtoolah for an even FUNNER review. We needed this theme yesterday when they got the lexical order of all the themers the OPPOSITE what they should have been on Chanukkah Eve. Thumbs down on OPPOSITE DAY (Monthly Fools Day?) and any hope (for me) to suss the theme.
5A WAGYU? I'll try it if they serve it with WASABI.
25A ROSA. Apparently ROSA had a better PR agent than CLAUDETTE. Perhaps we should celebrate the beginning of the Civil Rights movement on March 22.
49A ISOBAR. An ISOceles triangle walked into a BAR and said, "I feel LOW, make me feel HIGH".
32D PERF. DNK PERF, but got it on PERFS.
52D GAWK. Now a synonym for OGLE/LEER? #MEETHINKS we've gone too far.
59D YEW. Also a metaphor for the longbow, made from YEW. It was the British soldier's standard issue weapon during the reign of Henry V.
Cheers,
Bill
Hola!
ReplyDeleteBESO again! We can't have too many of them, IMO! Thank you, Hahtoolah, for the CSO and for the wonderfully illustrated commentary.
We observed OPPOSITE DAY at school and the kids of course loved it. I just don't recall when it was exactly. Also, pajama day.
UGGS are definitely ugly, IMO, but that doesn't deter RETAILERs from overpricing them.
I love eggs sunnyside up with a runny YOLK. Yum
When I first came home from the convent I needed a GUARANTOR to help me buy a car since I had no credit history. Years later I had ample credit and more.
Today I have to return to Target for more assistance with my new telephone.
Have a stupendous DAY, everyone and happy Chunukkah to all who observe it.
I agree w/ KS: not a Tuesday level CW. After a long brain dredge I came up with RAOLD (DOH!) instead of ROALD, which buggered up that section, and wrote in GAURANTOR instead of GUARANTOR, which buggered up that area. Also DNK WAGYU or REECE, and is it ERE or EER for the poets? Also never heard of OPPOSITEDAY. So, a FIR after a 31-minute struggle. A tough challenge, for a Tuesday. Thanx for the mental workout, JMC, and for the outstanding write-up, Hahtoolah. I passed on that song to my Jewish friends.
ReplyDeleteMusings
ReplyDelete-Yeah, D-O, a PERFORATED bowel was a common diagnosis on Grey's
-Waseeley, Paul Revere also had a better press agent (Longfellow) than Claudette. I was very pleased to learn about her
-I couldn't recall who wrote The Midnight Ride Of Paul Revere and Siri said Grant Wood because of his painting. To get Longfellow I had to insert the word "poem".
-We are getting ready to break a 140-yr-old record for high temps for December 1. Fore!
That Channuka Rhapsody was fantastic!! Thanks Hahtoolah!
ReplyDeleteBecky
Thank you John M Currie, for a relatively easy puzzle for Tuesday.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed it very much.
Thank you Hahtoolah, for a very funny, informative, entertaining review.
Happy Chanukkah or Hannukah to all.
I've seen Wagyu beef at speciality stores, $45 per pound, and up .... beyond my taste, leave alone budget... if I wanted to taste marbling, I would rather lick my kitchen countertop. ;-)
I thought Opposite Day, happens everyday ... it used to be called Night....
The 500 Euro note is supposedly the largest denomination, still extant. Although they are no longer printed after 2019. Worth about $ 565.00. Most western nations do not print high denom notes, because they are only used for nefarious uses, like money laundering, drug sales and terrorism.
The last $ 500 US notes were last printed in 1945... now they are 'discontinued' .. whatever that means. I've seen several collector editions ... retails for about $ 1800 to $ 2440. The president pictured is William McKinley ... before, initially it was Ch. Just. John Marshall.
There is an extinct $ 100,000 note, with Woodrow Wilson.
The most fascinating note is the West german 10 Mark note with Carl Friedrich Gauss, the mathematician ... and also shows a 'Normal' statistics curve and its formulae.
For Waseely and Anon-T and others interested, the Google doodle today is of an iranian-American mathematician, Lofti Zadeh, Prof at UC Berkeley, who invented/discovered Fuzzy Logic.
Have a nice day, all.
FIR but was too busy to play with a theme that probably would have escaped me.
ReplyDeletein our HS EARTH SCIENCE 🌍 was the study of natural terrestrial formations, glaciers, oceanography, mineralogy. A Freshman course ('63-64). Don't recall any meteorology except for meteorites. Maybe selective memory?
Inkovers: audio/aural/AURAS (sheesh!), UNDERbid/CUT. In Utica we are known for a large round flat cake like cookie half chocolate half vanilla frosting called a Half Moon a smaller version usually called a black and white cookie by our downstate folks, (pictured by H2LH)
Who says PERF? C'mon! 😡. WAGYU definitely did not WAGme. ASIDE(s) again? Enough with the leftovers. GIBE means "taut"?
Almost filled SETAflame but a Spanish kiss 💋 helped....and LABORforce (too short)
Use playthings.....TOIL
A raw egg may harbor salmonella, & that's no____ YOLK
Gossip..... RETAILER
Tossed as dice....ROALD.
To a recalcitrant "ticking only" clock. "We have ____ of making you tok!"....WAZE
Turquoise pocketbook..BLOOPERS.
Frightening global warming vid H2LH.😲
Chappy Chanukah 🕎
On to humpday.
For Anon-T from last nite,
ReplyDeleteI can't say I've been there, but you might want to
Check this out.
the opposite of Plymouth Rock?
Hi All!
ReplyDeleteAwful puzzle John followed by an even awfuller expo Hahtoolah.
#OPPOSITEDAY :-)
Thank you both for the morning diversion; puzzle was fun and expo delightfully ADORN'd with comics. Liked the QOD too (but doesn't apply to my MIL), Hahtoolah
WO: tent -> GEAR
ESPs: REECE, GEL, WAGYU & CERA took a few perps to bubble-up.
Fav:: c/a for GEL
I recall learning Opposite Day from some kid's show my sisters or daughters watch; can't recall if it was on Nickelodeon, PBS or ???
{B+, A}
Vidwan - Saw the Google Doodle of Zadeh. Fuzzy Logic is one of the foundations of AI.
That's one (two!) impressive stone(s). Thanks CED.
Happy [C]hanuk[k]ah! (how do you spell it? [NPR 7m])
Back to work. Play later.
Cheers, -T
FIR Tuesday, though a slower Tuesday and a couple of WOs. Still, a FIR so thanks John Michael Currie! I saw all the theme combinations with DAY. With the use of the word "starts" in the clue, I wondered if that meant only the first word in the theme applied as Hahtoolah was saying at first, or that "start" was an alternate word for OPPOSITE meaning before DAY and both theme words worked. Too complicated?
ReplyDeleteI figured out my WOs, thanks to the help of perps, before reading Hahtoolah's helpful and entertaining review. I misspelled YOLK and put HONOREd for distinguished guest. More careful reading might have helped. No problem with the other fill so it was a satisfying puzzle overall. In fact a BLAST. Hope you all are having a great day!
I enjoyed this puzzle. Nice to see words like GUARANTOR, EMULATED, HONOREE, BLOOPERS, and UNDERCUT.
ReplyDeleteThank you all for the birthday wishes on Thanksgiving Day! I have this wonderful birthday-Thanksgiving coincidence every five years. We were up in the San Francisco Bay Area with my family for the occasion. Just back today and catching up.
ReplyDeleteHere we were on Twin Peaks with downtown San Francisco and the Bay behind us!
We took the N Judah train to Golden Gate Park and hiked all the way up to Mount Sutro and over to Twin Peaks. Quite a workout. But very beautiful, passing through a forest in the middle of a city.
Puzzling thoughts:
ReplyDeleteFIR - again, with assistance from Margaret. We do both puzzles together; she is slowly learning the "crossword-ese" as words such as LEO appears (clued with a Horoscope reference), and of course OREO. I actually am starting to "like" the newer words appearing in today's puzzle - WAGYU, WAZE, and yes, even PERF.
I never noticed a "theme" until the reveal appeared in 54-Across. Ms. M and I always solve from TOP left to BOTTOM right, so by the time we reached the southern border, the reveal had all but filled from the perps.
Had I known ahead of time that today was the official start of Chanukkah, I might've started the puzzle at the BOTTOM right and worked backward toward the TOP left. Now THAT would be a clever puzzle if a constructor could somehow design a grid that went (as Hebrew) from right to left . . .
Thanks to J.M. Currie and Ms. Hahtoolah for the delightful start to a delightful day here in the Valley of the Sun
Greetings from Southern Alberta! Thanks for the callout CanadianEh. We are indeed still here, puzzling away on most days.
ReplyDeleteThis was a nice and easy Tuesday. Thanks to Hahtoolah for your always fun and informative expos. Happy Chanukkah!
"The definition of meteorology is the climate and weather of a place, or is the scientific study of climate and weather, the scientific study of the atmosphere and of atmospheric conditions, especially as they relate to weather and weather forecasting."
ReplyDeleteSo it is an earth science.
We had a Backwards Day at the school where I taught. Some wore night-wear like PJs instead of day-wear. Others had their clothing on backwards.
Moe: Chanukkah actually began at sundown on Sunday. Tonight we will light 3 candles.
ReplyDeleteThat SPOT remover cartoon hit close to home.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was 4 or 5 years old, not long after my new baby brother came home from the hospital, I got in trouble for dumping most of a can of talcum on his head.
I remember rubbing it in to his short light brown hair.
I had heard my parents talking about how much lighter his hair was than mine, and I decided to help things along by making him into a blond.†
A tougher than usual PZL for a Tuesday, as noted by a few colleagues.
No, Hahtoolah, I don't remember seeing WAGYU before.
"WAGYU once, the tail's on you; WAGYU twice, that's a tale on me!"
~ OMK
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†PS. It worked! His hair always was lighter than mine.
Only one diagonal, a 14-sinister.
ReplyDeleteIt tells of a city menagerie with a wrought-iron songbird at the entrance. It was painted with a red breast, but age is making it all one color, as
ZOO'S RUSTY ROBIN.
Hahtoolah at 3:26 PM
ReplyDeleteIs this the earliest that Chanukkah can begin? I know that it sometimes coincides with Christmas, but I never recall its starting in November . . . I guess I need to do some more research on this holiday!!
BTW, I listened to the final YouTube video that mimicked Bohemian Rhapsody. That was a hoot!
LfrimAlberta- good to hear from you. Drop by often.
ReplyDeleteCrossEyedDave @12:36 PM Thanks for the Rock Experience. You might want to send that to C.C.
ReplyDeletePicard @2:36 PM Beautiful Picardture. Getting it sounds like it was quite a workout.
Hahtoolah @ 3:26 PM Interesting that we've started lighting Advent Candles (1 for each week, so tonight we light only 1). As Christianity has borrowed much from Judaism, this can't be a co-incidence. Also, in the run up to Advent, we had a week of readings from the Book of Maccabees during daily Masses. BTW, the video was very clever and Biblically Correct.
OMK..your baby brother story reminded me when I was 4 Mom brought home my baby brother. She could tell I was fascinated watching him in the bassinet but told me not to touch his head because it had "soft spots". So of course I snuck in and touched the back of his head, which was obviously hard.
ReplyDelete"Mom, the baby's head isn't soft!!"
A got a mild scolding.
👼
Owen ~ Ah, you are a more generous diagonaler than I am.
ReplyDeleteYour zoological discovery is a neat find, good sir.
I did not post a Diagonal Report today because I do not accept subsidiary diags, the ones that flank a full diagonal
--unless--
there is a main 15-letter diagonal to support it.
(Sorta like a bridge that requires trusses.)
But of course we're each free to make our own rules...
Carry on, Maestro!
~ OMK
ReplyDeleteWith all due respect to C E D for his extraordinary, wonderful video links ...
I came across this youtube video, about mahvellous - People who are at another level - Most Amazing skills ever.by MadLibs.
See a man hit two consecutive bowling ten pin ball arrangements - with 2 balls thrown at the same time ... from 6.52 minutes into the video
Boomer would have liked this. I'm sure, the rest of you will enjoy other parts of the video.
Chairman Moe at 2.37 pm
ReplyDelete... who wished there was a CW puzzle that had answers, that worked 'backwards', like the hebrew script and language.
Actually, about 10 yrs, or so, ago, there was exactly such a CW puzzle, whose edge- quarter entries were written backwards because they were hebrew words. I remember there were a lot of complaints by the bloggers.
Lemonade, if he sees this post, would be able to remember this, and further, locate the exact puzzle. It was a Friday or a Saturday puzzle.
Vidwan,
ReplyDeleteWow!
That is definitely an amazing video!
Artistic geniuses at work...
I actually watched a 1:14:33 minute video last night
That I loved every minute of.
(Well, no, I did skip 3 minutes around 7:30-11:30 of wire color coding)
I highly doubt anyone on the blog would enjoy it as much as I did
(anon-T excepted)
But it is a puzzle, that is decoded, step by step,
To reveal the inner workings of an (ancient device?) in
Intimate detail....
I get a kick out of this stuff because I like trying to fix broken things
And learn how they work. ( I,e, our grandfather clock etc...)
I thought it would be simple, a claw device game,
No IC chips, transistors, just a few motors, relays, and diodes.
Boy was I amazed how they made this contraption work out of simple stuff!
watch here if you have the patience...
Vidwan, it was a Friday and I did the write-up but I am too tired to look it up. We had over 100 comments that day as there were very mixed reactions. It is often a surprise to me that part time posters are more willing to post complaints than praise.
ReplyDeleteBill, your comment about Susan's Chanukah cartoon being "biblically correct" is prett funny. Life is perspective.
Be well all
FIR, with only a minimal amount of Wite-Out. I saw the DAYs, but I didn’t even look for the OPPOSITEs.
ReplyDeleteI didn’t know Gabrielle REECE, so the perps took care of her for me, and the C was there already, luckily. I also didn’t know WAGYU or ROALD or CERA.
Tomorrow's puzzle is waiting for me to print it out and start working on it.
Happy Chanukkah!