Theme: STRIKE ZONE (59. Home plate ump's concern ... or what the answer to each starred clue can be?)
17. *Sensei's studio: KARATE DOJO.
22. *Loud, wet weather event: THUNDERSTORM.
37. *Source of crude: OIL WELL.
49. *Site of spares and splits: BOWLING ALLEY.
Boomer here.
Yup, it's really me. I begged my way out of the hospital last Monday and now I let C.C. think she is taking care of me. I need to use a walker but beside that life goes on with three meals per day and some of the coldest Minnesota weather.
Also, I imagine that 17A, 22A, and 37A could possibly produce a STRIKE, but I have never heard of 49A. The ALLEY is outdoors, usually behind the Bowling Center.
Oh another bit of
shocking news, When I checked out of the hospital they weighed me at
160 pounds. I used to be 237, and when I got diabetes I went down to
185. I guess the malignant tumor that they whacked out of me, must
have weighed 25 pounds?
Across:
6. Lee with desserts: SARA. "Everybody doesn't like something, but nobody doesn't like Sara Lee."
10. Way cool, in the '90s: PHAT. As above, maybe I was PHAT in the 90's
14. High school experiment site: SCIENCE LAB. Ours was Chemistry, and it always smelled like smoke and fire.
16. Mishmash dish: HASH. Not my favorite. At least the hospital did not try that on me.
18. Poker pot starter: ANTE. Five cents in the caddy shack.
19. Khan of Khan Academy: SAL.
20. Greek T: TAU.
21. Rage: ANGER. After two weeks I had to hold it in. Finally a
great occupational therapy doc was on my side and fixed me up with a
discharge without an AMA (Against Medical Advice).
26. Big jets: JUMBOS. 747, a great 3 game score.
29. Fictional lawyer Perry: MASON. A favorite show in the 1950s. I still watch reruns.
30. Leave red-faced: ABASH.
31. Central points: FOCI.
33. Hat-tipper's word: MA'AM.
36. Beer barrel: KEG. KEG parties were big when I was younger. However I never acquired a taste for beer.
40. Edible hero: SUB. I pass by the SUBWAY fast food. My mouth is not that big,
41. Stonestreet of "Modern Family": ERIC.
43. Climbing plant: VINE.
44. "In __, there is always too much singing": Debussy: OPERA. Noye's Fludde by Benjamin Briton. See also 10. "The __ of the 44-Across": PHANTOM.
46. Game with settlers: CATAN.
48. Noisy quarrel: FRACAS. The MLB channel has many reruns. Managers always lose to the men in blue.
53. Fed. security: T NOTE. Not in my portfolio.
54. What the ewe said: BAA. Poor little lambs who have lost their way.
55. Cashew or almond: NUT. Or Boomer?
58. Emerald Isle: EIRE.
63. "High Voltage" band: AC/DC. I think they were popular in the 90s. But not for me.
64. Places for astronomy buffs: PLANETARIA. Plural of planetarium. I think we visited a place like this in San Francisco, years ago.
65. Screen door stuff: MESH.
66. Wile E. Coyote's supplier: ACME.
67. Funny sketches: SKITS. Been there, done that.
Down:
2. Final Four org.: NCAA. The big tournament is coming soon, unless COVID won't let it.
3. One of a group who "just wanna have fu-un": Cyndi Lauper: GIRL. "Girls Just Want to Have Fun".
4. Meadow: LEA. Minnesota has a city named Albert LEA. I never knew the LEA meant meadow.
5. Sinus doc: ENT.
6. Four-door, usually: SEDAN. You do not hear this much any more. SUVs have taken over.
7. Not whispered: ALOUD. What?
8. Koothrappali on "The Big Bang Theory": RAJ.
9. Blood type letters: ABO. I am O negative. They say that is universal.
11. "Wait, I'll be right there!": HANG ON A SEC. I just call C.C. and she helps me move.
12. Daisylike flower: ASTER.
13. Unit of heat energy: THERM. Not many of these flying around Minnesota the past few days. Brrr!
15. Whale constellation (anagram of CUTES): CETUS.
21. Stubborn animal: ASS. No comment.
22. "American Dad!" channel: TBS. I watch it sometimes. I think it is out of Georgia.
23. Santa's jolly syllables: HO HO. OH OH, we won't see him again soon.
24. Awards show host: EMCEE.
25. Skateboard park feature: RAIL.
26. Actor Gyllenhaal: JAKE.
27. __ Eats: delivery service: UBER. We had to use Uber when I left the hospital. I did not want to leave the Santa Fe in the VA parking lot for two weeks.
28. Abracadabra et al.: MAGIC WORDS. "You are free to go home" were the MAGIC WORDS for me.
31. Casual love affair: FLING.
32. Accept blame for: OWN. I am not accepting blame for the cancer, but I guess I own it.
34. Celestial glow: AURA.
35. CFOs' degrees: MBAS. Master of Business Administration.
38. Lendl of tennis: IVAN. 61 years old now.
39. Campfire stories, say: LORE.
42. Pasadena engineering sch.: CAL TECH.
45. Fork over: PAY. I have Medicare and my VA card. I guess I still have to fork over a bit.
47. Reason for extra innings: TIE.
48. Snow speck: FLAKE. We have seen plenty this year, I would not call them SPECKS.
49. Second-string squad: B TEAM.
50. Chilling: ON ICE. The Wild played one at Target Field last week - below zero!
51. The "A" in James A. Garfield: ABRAM.
52. Singer Frankie: LAINE.
55. Sushi roll wrap: NORI.
56. Inch or yard: UNIT.
57. Tazo products: TEAS. for TWO?
59. Pampering place: SPA. The hospital did not have a SPA.
60. Pampering, initially: TLC. Tender Loving Care.
61. UFO crew: ETS.
62. Drummer Starkey, son of Ringo: ZAK.
Boomer
49 comments:
FIR with no erasure. DNK SAL, ERIC, CATAN, RAJ, or ZAK. I did know IVAN and JAKE, so I got that goin' for me. RIP Bob Saget. I knew that name, too.
I thought "source of crude" would be JINX IN NORFOLK. I guess it's not all about me after all.
Thanks to Daniel for the fun, easy puzzle. And welcome home Boomer. Good to see you back at your punniest. But I knew you would raise Hennepin Hell over BOWLING ALLEY,
Happy good morning to all from frosty Minnesota. I just wanted to check in and wish a heartfelt thanks to all of you for all of the heartwarming wishes you added to yesterday's blog comments. I am truly humbled and your thoughts give me hopes for success of the treatments in the weeks ahead. Thank you !! Boomer
Welcome Home, Boomer! And 160 lbs! My eternally elusive goal. I can’t seem to budge from 220. Thanx for the terrific write-up; glad to see u amusing us again. Nice Monday level (unclefred level) CW, thanx, DB. WJinxS about DNK. I liked the theme and theme clues, very nice. No W/Os today: a nice neat grid at the end. A 15 minute FIR.
This is Darryl C (I still haven't figured out how to create an "avatar.") Boomer, you never heard of a "bowling alley"? That's what we used to call the place of strikes and spares when I was a kid. (Like you, Boomer, I too am a "boomer", being 67 years old.) Fir since as usual for a Monday, it was an easy one.
Good morning!
Tried OUTS before ZONE became obvious: d-o was OUT of the ZONE. He also didn't notice that STRIKE ZONE was the reveal. D'oh. CATAN showed up for an encore, after serving as a Natick last time. You were in fine form this morning, Boomer. Thanx for the outing, Daniel.
FRACAS -- Jane Wyman rhymed it with "jackass" in Bing Crosby's recording of In The Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening.
Unknown@5:31 -- Boomer has a string of 300 bowling games under his belt. (That's why they call him "Boomer.") He's certainly familiar with the term "bowling alley"; he hates it. He thinks it sounds low class. He prefers "bowling center" or somesuch. I see that you're already "blue." Maybe TTP will chime in later today to explain how to create an avatar.
Hi Boomer ~~ hospital stay and all, you haven’t missed a beat on here, and it’s nice to see your wit and insight are still very much intact! Correct me if I’m wrong, but my take on bowling is that years ago the sport had about the same reputation as a smoke filled pool hall, mostly played by men, and they WERE referred to as “bowling alleys’, which for whatever reason was deemed derogatory by the industry. To gain more popular appeal, they started calling them bowling centers or bowling lanes, they even changed the term “gutter” to “channel”, not sure the exact effect that it had, but I know the sport grew among the masses.
Thank you Daniel for easing us into the CW week with your fine creation! Managed a FIR in average Monday time with a few DNK’s, SAL, CETUS (the anagram helped on that), and I’m not familiar with CATAN.
Chilling — ON ICE certainly hits home this morning as the wind chill is currently minus 20. Good day to all!
THUNDERSTORM touched a nerve. We had a monster early Sunday morning. The sky was bright with several hundred lightning STRIKES per minute. A tornado damaged several homes 15 miles south of us. We recorded over 4" of rain, and our woodlot is still underwater. Can't complain too much; December was unusually dry, so we really needed the rain.
YooperPhil, I also do not know the effect of the attempted re-branding of bowling in recent years but I do think that "Bowling Center" has only caught on among avid bowlers. The rest of the population still calls them "Bowling Alleys". BTW, I've bowled in many leagues over the years and even student taught a bowling class in college and I still say Bowling Alley.
A nice FIR Monday with a cheerful Boomer review. A good start to the week! I was not fooled today by yesterday's nemesis ABASH and I recognized the recent CATAN. Perps soon straightened out my missteps: tUrBOS/JUMBOS and lOCI/FOCI. Those of us to your east, DO, experienced your THUNDERSTORM later in the day, to a lesser extent. Thanks for a puzzle theme today that was easy to understand, Daniel. Are you new to us?
FLN: Sorry to hear you're having problems in 2022, PK, and hope you get them resolved soon so we can enjoy your posts more often again.
We are all happy to hear good news from Boomer. May it spread and touch us all!
I struck gold in 4:10 today, despite not knowing A to Z (I had no idea on Abram or Zak, but the perps were generous).
Is it fair to say that "bowling alley" get bowlers upset just like how golfers get upset when someone says "golfing," rather than "playing golf"? I hadn't heard that before.
Nice puzzle. Got the theme after the reveal. Boomer thanks for your steadfastness against all odds. I'm glad you are home.
15D anagram of CUTES was probably necessary for a Monday, but I am not partial to this type of clue.
Yooper Phil, I liked your take on ALLEY. I have been saying and hearing ALLEY all my life. It is in the vernacular. I probably will not change.
Aficionados in many fields do not like the vernacular for terms in their fields. Crosswords are not that exacting.
LEA reminds me of a poetry contest I lost. The winner was not a great student or a lover of new words. She used LEA in her poem. I was suspicious she copied it. A few weeks later I found her poem word for word in a book. I said nothing. I had a chance of winning next time. She probably didn't.
I never heard of this JAKE.
I love canned hash or homemade hash from leftover beef. I do not love making a hash of puzzles.
Musings
-planetEria looked right and who knows about Ringo’s name for his son. One bad cell
-Pitchers may not like an ump’s STRIKE ZONE but as long as it’s consistent, he’ll be okay
-Perry Mason : Hamilton Burger :: Hercule Poirot : Chief Inspector Japp
-I “learned” CATAN on AJ Johnson’s New Year’s Day puzzle
-Smallish NFL refs getting in the middle of a FRACAS between huge lineman is a funny sight
-Whispered (or low) female speech is tough for me to hear
-Name that composer – “It was just one of those things, Just one of those crazy FLINGS”
-Straight men JAKE and ERIC played gay men. The opposite has been true for years.
-Fictional RAJ worked at actual CAL TECH
-ON ICE? Not our heated bird bath. The birds really, uh, flock to it this time of year.
Good Morning:
This was the usual Monday stroll through the park with a few detours that needed perps: Catan, Cetus, and Zak. The reveal was well hidden and a nice Aha surprise. We had some cute pairings with Raj/Cal Tech, Angle/Anger, Keg/On Ice, and Phantom/Opera. Two major CSOs: Bowling and Strike for Boomer and TLC for CC’s treatment of Boomer!
Thanks, Daniel, for getting the week off to a good start and thanks, Boomer, for guiding us through the grid. Your wit, humor, and positivity are still firmly in place, despite the hospital horrors! Welcome back!
YR @ 8:48 ~ The mere mention of hash reminds me of losing the tip of my finger, thanks to my devilish brother and the infamous meat grinder that my mother was using to make corned beef hash!
FLN
PK, sorry to hear you’re not doing well. Best wishes for better and brighter days.
Stay warm everyone!
I think I figured out how to create an avatar. If I'm right, this post should show the name "subgenius." We'll see if it does.
Yahoo!!! I did it! No more "anonymous" posts from me! From now on, it's "Subgenius" all the way!
Marvelous Monday. Thanks for the fun, Daniel and Boomer (great to see you here today!).
I FIRed in good time with three inkblots.
Olio changed to HASH, Loci changed to FOCI (the clue did say "central"), and Ramp changed to RAIL in my skatepark.
I needed the reveal to see the STRIKing theme. We had a couple of outliers with 14A and 64A not being part of the theme (and not being starred).
We were a Q and X short of a pangram today.
JAKE crossing ERIC was a possible name Natick, but perps were fair and I only had to WAG the E. ABRAM was unknown, but perped also.
CATAN appears again, with an easier "settlers" clue, rather than "island".
I thought Boomer would have had ANGER at the BOWLING ALLEY clue.
ATLGranny - glad you got ABASH today. The things we learn from doing CWs.
It took a minute to parse ONICE. (not for Tinbeni!)
You know it is Monday when the clue gives you the anagrammed letters (15D).
Favourite today was "Edible hero=SUB". Hello HG. And I love the sound of FRACAS.
We do not have many THERMs here today either. We are -9C or 16F, with wind chill of -17C or 1F. (I noted "unit" in clue here and as answer for 56D. Easily avoided by using "measure" in 13D clue.)
YooperPhil, at -20 F? wind chill, you are really ON ICE.
Woohoo Subgenius (alias Darryl C). Keep posting. Now you just need an avatar.
FLN - PK, hope 2022 improves for you.
Wishing you all a great day.
Welcome. Glad it worked!
Boomer ~~ a little aside about bowling : the town I live near (Big Bay, Michigan on the shore of Lake Superior) was actually founded by the Brunswick corporation in the early part of last century, they built a mill and company town mainly due to the proximity of hardwoods. They manufactured bowling pins for some years, then sold the mill to Henry Ford who used the same mill to produce the panels for the Ford “Woody”, operating till the late 40’s I believe. The building/smokestack still stand but is used now as a private residence.
Yellowrocks - I also think hash is delicious and we indulge occasionally, Mary Kitchen Corned Beef or Roast Beef, yum. For some reason it has been one of those items with shortages during the pandemic 🤷🏼♂️
Irish Miss - always enjoy your observations which I invariably fail to see 🙈
Canadian Eh! - I knew after I posted, yes minus 20F, and with the wind and snow visibility is about 100 feet (30 metres), not my “favourite” weather!
Note to self - remember CATAN
Hey Boomer. I was hoping it was going to be you on your Day, especially with all the Strikes being clued. You could throw a lot of them. I hope you'll be throwing a lot more. God Bless. GC
FLN
I made a little traction on yesterday's puzzle before Church, filled in a few answers when I got home, but then hurried off to our oldest grandson's Eagle Scout awards ceremony. This was a big deal for me as I only made the rank of Star Scout (too much of a runt to get Lifesaving merit badge). Here are a couple of highlights:
Ben pinning a badge on his mother Rosalie, recognizing the outsized role that mothers play in encouraging and supporting their sons efforts toward this achievement (on average only 4% of scouts attain it). That's my son Demian looking on.
This picture shows Ben and his brother Raymond, folding their great grandfather's (my father's) flag, awarded by the VA when he died in 1993. It's impossible to capture how moving this ceremony was, as it was narrated by a Marine cousin of theirs (not shown) who explained the significance of each triangular fold, metaphorical steps in the veteran's journey through life. Raymond has also completed his Eagle Scout requirements and his award ceremony will be held latter this Spring.
This was a wonderful event and was attended by many friends, relatives, scouts, and scout masters.
I was able to finish the puzzle later that evening, and after checking into the Corner found that I had one wrong square, more the result of failing to do an alphabet run on SHO (filled STO to matched OVERSTATED (duh!).
That said I want to thank John-Clark for an excellent puzzle. I even figured out the theme, albeit after completion (there were so many good perps and the answers all made sense, so who needed a theme).
And thank you C.C. for your fine review and for the good news about BOOMER.
Cheers,
Bill
Word of the day: horde
Pronunciation: hord
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: 1. A huge, disorganized throng. 2. A group of nomadic families living together or in close proximity, a basic social unit, especially in Central Asia. 3. An enormous amount or number.
Notes: This word should not be confused with its homophone, hoard "to selfishly squirrel away in vast amounts". Horde comes with no lexical family and only one spelling caveat: don't forget the silent E on the end.
In Play: This word is most often used in hyperboles like this one: "The wedding dress, once bought, was protected from male view by a horde of female relatives." However, in the sense of simply "many" it may refer to anything: "When Henry, the editor-in-chief at Humpty House Publishers, returned from vacation, he found a horde of manuscripts on his desk."
For more on this Word of the day see alphaDictionary
Don't want lightning to STRIKE twice but wishing a lot of XXX STRIKES XXX for you Boomer once back at a BOWLINGALLEY LAINE.🎳
A more Monday-level clue for SAL (Khan, Khan academy?) would have been "Mineo"...Be honest... without perp help you too put ramp before RAIL and only knew CATAN from a recent puzzle? 😉. Otherwise a fun puzzle. Got ABASH quickly thanks to Canada Eh's recent splainin'😊
Frankie Laine (Francesco "Frank" Paolo LoVecchio; March 30, 1913 – February 6, 2007) Remember him singing the 1960's "Rawhide" theme, he pronounced it "Rawhoid" (more macho than "Rawhyde" I guess.) 🤠
The only TEAS I like are a Tazo Chai tea latte (I consider it an English "cappuccino")
A controversial figure, too bad about Bob Segat passing at only 65. Also lovable Dobie Gillis (Dwayne Hickman) at 87.
No whispering ____ ....ALOUD
"I play Hoss", ____ SEDAN
"Uncle" being MIA, the poker pot starter ended up being" _____ " ANTE.
What the usher did....CETUS
Debussy would not appreciate a _____ PLANETARIA
Santa got PHAT scarfng down one ____ too many...HOHO
Sitting on the Lanai that overlooks a nature preserve last evening listening to the birds, I was startled when one started to TALK..turned out to be parrot 🦜 from a neighboring lanai..😆
Fun theme! Only nit was cross of IVAN and CATAN. Would have to know proper names correct spelling which could have been IVON/CATON. FIR. I actually did know ZAK. I had a hazy memory of RINGO back in their concerts day saying he was afraid a crazed fan would steal ZAK as a souvenir.
Here is my photo of the Fountain of Knowledge at the Beckman Center at CAL TECH
I have quite a few other photos at CAL TECH. But this seemed relevant after yesterday's DIE clue about a 20-sided one. This one has 38 sides!
Boomer Welcome back! I knew you would be offended by BOWLING ALLEY as a STRIKE ZONE.
From Yesterday:
AnonT, WilburCharles Thank you for the comments on my CHICAGO photo and my DW Merlie.
Jayce Thank you for validating the memory that thin spaghetti that CC eats AL DENTE used to be called spaghettini. I am pretty sure it was because too many American shoppers could not notice the difference of those two extra letters at the end that made it a diminutive.
CanadianEh Thank you for clarifying it was your DH who took the MATTERHORN photos. Please pass along the praise!
WilburCharles Thank you for validating the need for adequate rail and public transit with regard to DEPOTs. Yes, the film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" was about one actual conspiracy to destroy what had been a great public transit system in Los Angeles. The film had a happy ending. Real life did not. Most people are unaware that Los Angeles was the only city in the world that was originally built around high speed rail.
Thank you, Daniel 'Bodily', for a 'mentally' challenging puzzle .... not really, .... it was a Monday easy one, for which I, and several others, I'm sure, are grateful. I really, really enjoyed it.
Boomer, how delightful to see you in fine form, with your humor intact ! So good to know you are as well as can be expected. God bless. I too, lost several lbs of weight, mostly as resut of a plethora of drugs I have to take ... I can easily miss/forget about breakfast and lunch without missing a heartbeat. Its one way of losing weight, though voluntary actions would have been much more preferred.
From Last Night: PK, I'm sorry for all your problems, and hope and pray that things get better soon, and you will have a great year ahead of you, this year.
Thank you for the picture of Sal, Salman Khan of the Khan Academy. He is one of my personal top 12 favorite heroes among indian -americans ... although his parents were from Bangladesh. A true philanthrophist who has given of his time and life for the education and betterment of others, specially in the fields of mathematics, self actualization and educational improvement , my favorite subjects. He embodies the true benefits of Youtube. He, in one man, personifies, what STEM is all about.
( Raj Koothra---- maybe more popular, but his real contribution is nothing, IMHO.)
In other matters,I must get this game CATAN and learn how to play it... sounds interesting.
Lighting Strikes can be very harmful but they also produce more nitrogen fixation in the atmosphere than all the fertilizer plants, in the world, put together.
Have a nice Monday, you all, and a great start of the week.
Waseely -- Congratulations on the Eagle Scout awards, one soon to come!! And the picture of Ben pinning a badge on his mom is really moving, so much work is involved with becoming an eagle scout. I really enjoyed the positivity of the event, since there's been a lot of bad news about the scouting organization these days.
I'm really impressed with your grandsons.
Boomer, hang on to your walker and hang on to C.C. You two are the best!
Becky
Woohoo! Boomer is back! Mondays don't get any better than this! And with a delightful and interesting commentary--many thanks, Boomer. And, thank you, Daniel, for a perfect, wonderful Monday puzzle--a great treat!
Loved seeing PERRY MASON in the puzzle--still one of my favorite TV shows. I watch it at least once, and sometimes twice a week.
Great to see the cheery picture of ERIC Stonestreet, another favorite.
I started bowling in high school and it's actually been the only sport I ever really loved in my whole career. And I can't imagine calling it anything but a BOWLING ALLEY.
But even though I'm not a sports person (except for my teenage bowling), I somehow got IVAN Lendl. Must've heard about him somehow.
Thanks again for a great Monday, Daniel and Boomer. And have a great week coming up, everybody.
Thanks Daniel for a fine Monday outing, although I am ABASHED to say that this is my second FIW in a row. I should have known DOJO, as I recall having blogged the word sometime back. As I've never watched BBT I didn't know RAJ, although that's no excuse as he's rapidly becoming crosswordese. While his VTCR is only 33%, that delicious J has so many possibilities in CWDS (and also gives you a 24 in SCRABBLE if you can place it on a TRIPLE LETTER square).
And welcome back BOOMER! It has been really BORING around here without you. You need to get C.C. to use her pull with Rich to straighten out constructors re the difference between a BOWLING LANE and an ALLEY. The latter has so many other cluing possibilities, e.g. "Hangout for RATS", "Hangout for CATS", or "Path for hurricanes".
Some favs:
10A PHAT. This is either misclued or perhaps intended ironically, as PHAT is an acronym for "Pretty Hot And Tempting", a description for a desirable female or male.
44A OPERA. Sounds like Debussyan sour grapes. While Debussy revolutionized orchestral music, the only OPERA he is known for is his tragedy, Pelléas et Mélisande". While it's widely regarded as a masterpiece, he left four operas unfinished. However did he wrote 4 volumes of songs. This one entitled Pantomime is quite beautiful however.
46A CATAN. We visited this island just last week, so no one can say they've never heard of it anymore.
11D HANG ON A SEC. So Boomer, if you're just letting C.C. think she's taking care of you, is she letting you think you're being moved?
57D TEAS. Indian CHAI TEA figures in a couple of episodes of The Good Karma Hospital, a series on ACORN that we can't recommend highly enough.
60D TLC. Admit it Boomer, C.C. has been giving you a lot of TLC since you came home.
Cheers,
Bill
Subgenius @ 9:34 ~ Congratulations and Welcome to the Corner!
YooperPhil @ 10:16 ~ I’m glad you enjoy my observances. I enjoy discovering them but I’m sure I miss some, too. 🤗
Bill @ 10:33 ~ Congratulations to Ben and Raymond on their significant achievements. Your entire family must be very proud of them, rightfully so. Thanks for sharing the photo of their special moments. (How tall are they?)
Husker @8:52 AM Phil Jackson who played "Inspector Japp" plays "Paul" in The Good Karma Hotel, along with his wife Maggie played by Phyllis Logan (Mrs Hughes in Downton Abby). You can catch a glimpse of both of them in the trailer I posted at 11:50 AM.
Vidwan @11:13 AM Something tells me you would like The Good Karma Hospital as well.
Wasn't going to post today
As no theme related silly links tickled my fancy.
exhibit A
However,
Vidwan aroused my curiosity mentioning
Lightn8ng causes nitrogen fixation, and I
just had to find out more about it...
Picard, I had heard of the Fountain of Knowledge ... seems like a great idea ! The 38 sided solid sphere would be a octa-tria-conta-gon... I guess the '8' name comes before the '30'...
The 39 sided figure would be ennea-tria-conta-gon and the 40 would be tetra-conta-gon.
Like the concept of naming, four-teen rather than teen-four.
I hear CalTech is more difficult to get into, even than MIT.
Sub-genius, what a wonderful avatar ! I could qualify as one ... since I have a (very small
.... !) minority interest in a SubWay franchise store .... ;-o) Veggi Delite, anyone ?
I live 2 miles down from James A. Garfield's purported birthplace. Garfield bio, Wiki.
Its ... either a ramshackled century house at the end of a street ... or the (renovated) City Hall of (now) Moreland Hills. James Garfield's story has a lot of Horatio Alger in him, a lad raised in absolute poverty, he self studied, became a lawyer, an alumina college president of Hiram College, a major general, during the Civil War, a congressman and President. His death from a minor bullet wound, is considered one the significant instances of medical malpractice ...
Have a nice day, all.
Musings 2
-CanadianEh! – I loved your SUB reference to me but edible? :-)
-I would probably lose a spelling bee in your province with favorite/favourite and meter/metre
-ON ICE? Nope, 52F and sunny for the next two days. Fore!
-Waseely, I'll give that a try.
I had to finish yesterday's puzzle before I could start on today's puzzle, so I just got it done.
Good Monday puzzle from Daniel and it was great seeing Boomer back at the helm for the Monday Grid Tour.
Finished in 12:34, which is slow for me for a Monday, but I got it done without any cheats or LIU's. Did have a few stumbling blocks along the way, though.
Like CanadianEh I had "Olio changed to HASH, Loci changed to FOCI (the clue did say "central"), and Ramp changed to RAIL..", but otherwise it was pretty smooth sailing.
I never had homemade hash while I was growing up. Just the Mary Kitchen kind from a can. Not too bad especially with eggs.
Had a freezing rain event over the weekend. Haven't been out of the house for two days because of the slippery roads and the fact that the vehicles are coated in ice.
Have a great day everyone.
C E D ... Thank You ! for posting that video. My careless observation, was just based on some hearsay, but I'm glad that NOVA has brought solid scientific reasoning to that assertion.
Congratulations Waseely, on your grandsons' achievements ! I have great faith in the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts abilities to groom the future leaders for our country. I have 2 daughters, and they did a fair amount of Girl scouting, but gave it up in high school. ;-(
I think the US and state governments should actively encourage such activities, also schools ... atleast as much as they encourage sports in general.
I will definitely try out Good Karma Hospital. I don't watch much TV, less than one percent of the available time, and that too, only when my wife insists. My DW is a doctor, so she prefers not to watch medical shows because a) it reminds her too much about her work ..more hospital , and b) she keeps finding mistakes and errors in how the med procedures are shown on the TV episodes ...
Her favorite show, by far, is Forensic Files, which she watches faithfully, every night, she can ... where, in true stories, husbands murder/poison/shoot or othewise dispose off their wives/girlfriends ... and Vice versa.... and here, I go to bed, queasily, every night, hoping she has not found the perfect murder weapon, on the show, to 'do me in' for some minor infraction, I may have committed that evening .... ;-x(
A solid PZL, an intriguing manifestation from Mr. Bodily
I gotta kick outta the quote from M. Debussy!
I don't wanna tell him, but everybody knows there's too many strings and reeds in symphonies. And drums.
And brass too, but bands are the outfits that really go overboard in that department.
~ OMK
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DR: Three diagonals on the far side.
The central diagonal's anagram (10 of 15 letters) calls out one of today's most important missions for all Americans to share:
"ANTI-RACISM"!
Puzzling thoughts:
HANG ON A SEC while I cross out HOLD ON A SEC
Other than that minor misteak, I FIR
Boomer, keep on smiling and laughing brother!
TTP, if you're lurking . . . I didn't want to watch the late NFL game last night, but I did manage to tune into it in the last 2:00 minutes of OT. What a finish to the season!
And as a preface to today's Moe-ku, let me just say that in the non-moniker world, I can literally make fun of anyone's last name, given mine. But this is all in good fun:
Today's crossword puzz
Seemed like a pretty standard
Bodily function
:-)
Hey Boomer, great to "see" ya'!
Welcome home, Boomer! Thanks for another stellar write up! Nice puzzle, Daniel!
I too got an FIR today, with a few of the same “I don’t knows” others have mentioned. Again, the perps were kind.
Apparently, we got four inches of rain here on the west side too, d-o. I went out to sprinkle some ant bait on nice size mound yesterday evening, and I noticed the ground was a tad mushy. That’s when I thought I might want to check the rain gauge, which likewise had four inches of rain in it. Inquired within, and I was advised that it was quite a hellacious storm, with lots of thunder and lightning. Uh, I guess the puddy tatses and I slept right through the whole thing.
Hi All!
Thanks, Daniel, for the quick Monday puzzle with just a few speed bumps (xing names!). Also, welcome to The Corner; hope you stay and play.
Wonderful to read you in fine-fettle this morning, Boomer. Welcome home.
I knew while filling BOWLING ALLEY on a Monday you'd pipe-up :-)
WO: started TBill
ESPs: SAL, JAKE | ERIC, CATAN | IVAN, ABRAM
Fav: FRACAS is such a fun word.
Runner-up: SUB's clue.
FLN - Sorry to hear of your troubles PK. Hope your 2022 improves soon.
Fun MoeKu
LEOIII - DW & I slept right through the THUNDER STORM two. D-O: Glad to hear the tornado missed your property.
Waseeley - Please extend my congratulations to Ben on his achievement. It's a big deal b/c he will always be an Eagle. I see that he's also in Order of the Arrow.
//I was an Eagle Project short of Eagle when I went off to Basic; not finishing is the biggest regret I have.
HG - I knew of ZAK Starkey, Ringo's kid. Zak, like his father is also a drummer. He was with the band Oasis and drummed for The Who after Keith Moon's death.
Cheers, -T
DW says "GOLFING" and she is the only person I've ever heard use the term. Another term i can't stand is "grow the economy". Bill Clinton used to use that term but until he said it I'd never heard it.
Bowling alley is what I've heard my entire life. But what is the new term for "gutter ball"?
Hi everybody. Thanks for all the kind words. It’s nice to feel like one has been missed. And best wishes for Boomer, CC and everybody else with health issues or other problems and who would appreciate some good wishes.
I like ENDEAVOR, not for the plots as much as for the appealing characters; Morse, Inspector Thursday and his daughter Joanie (I think). ~ Mind how you go! The same goes for All Creatures Great and Small. I love the actors and characters.
A while back somebody here commented on how they missed my math puzzles. Well, here’s a little puzzle/oddity I recently came across.
Think of a complicated four-digit number (not 5555 for example). Write it down (or enter it into a calculator) with the digits in order from largest to smallest. Then write it again in the reverse order with the digits from smallest to largest. Subtract the second number from first number: For example, (9531) - (1359) = 7434. Take this answer and repeat the process. (7443) - (3447) = 3996. Continue this process again and again until something interesting happens. What’s going on??
What happens if you start with a three-digit number? How about starting with a five-digit number? (I haven't tried a five-digit or larger number.)
Bill, congrats to Ben for his,Eagle Scout and to Raymond for his potential one. Great achievement. My grandson was awarded his on the last day he was eligible before he aged out.I think my D I L deserves an award, too.
I hear people say golfing.
Bill G., how nice to hear from you again ! We used to look forward to your posts, in the days of yore, .... like an old friend.
Regarding your post on the recreational mathematics ....
... much as I would NEVER want to rain on your parade ... God forbid ....
Sometime, about 4 years ago, I came across an indian school teacher, long passed on, Mr. Datta R. Kaprekar, who, apparently had a lot of time on his hands and proceeded to do massive iterations, and came across some rather odd combinations in natural numbers. One of them would fit the bill ( the Bill.G...) in your problem.
However, I would still strongly encourage, those inclined, .... and I know there be many here, who would ... to follow your directions and go through the calcuations and iterations and come up with the answers, .... the 'aha', themselves.
I still remember your watermelon problem, where the percentage of water in a cut watermelon falls from 99 percent, to 98 percent, and the weight of the actual watermelon. It still confuses a lot of people when I pose them that riddle.
Hope you continue to do well, and lead a happy life.
I have already posted too many times today.
Boomer, nice job.
I'm sure that for many here, "Bowling Alley" will always be their norm, and that's ok.
I couldn't come up with an answer for "Noisy squirrel" so I relied on the perps and got FRACAS. D'oh ! Where is my lens cleaner ?
So Perry Mason's courtroom foe is Ham Burger ?
Bill, congrats to your grandsons ! Nice pics.
Chairman Moe, I am lurking. Deleted four spam comments that came in earlier today. Yes, that was some ending to the season. Three things had to happen, and they did. Two contests that came down to game ending FGs in OT. Almost unbelievable.
There was a season in the early 70's where the Steelers had to win and needed to have three or four other things happen in order for them to make the playoffs, and all those things happened. Do you remember ? I sorta do. I'll try to dig that one up. I think it was Craig Wofley that mentioned it during the game yesterday on SNR. I had to listen to the game here as the regional coverage had the Bears/Vikings game on one channel and the Indy/Jacksonville game on the other. At least until the latter ended and they switched coverage to the Steelers/Ravens game.
SubGenius, glad to see you went from Unknown to your Blogger "Display Name" of SubGenius. You don't yet have an avatar.
In social media contexts, an avatar is "A graphic identity that users select to represent themselves in a chat, instant messaging (IM) or multiplayer gaming session. An avatar is generally a caricature, rather than a realistic photo, and can be anything from a simple cartoon to a bizarre fantasy figure. However, images of real objects are also used." - https://www.yourdictionary.com/avatar
You can add an avatar to your profile by clicking your display name, then selecting Edit Profile. Add whatever image you want in the Profile Photo section, and then click Save. Whatever you want. My avatar is a pic of my boy, ever alert.
Time to go watch the National Championship Game.
I have to side with Boomer on alleys. After all he is the Corner bowling MAGE.
Vidwan @1:41 PM Your DW is likely to find a lot of blood and guts in TGKH, but nothing she's not already seen. LOL re her finding the perfect murder weapon, but I pray she doesn't!
CMOE @3:48 PM Great KU Moe. I'm sure Daniel gets his share of ABASHment. Can't share my childhood moniker for fear that it'd go viral.
-T @ 5:17 PM You're an Eagle Scout in my book. Your comment brought tears to my eyes. It's hereditary for males in our family. I got it from my father, whose flag was folded at the ceremony. Rosalie had to step in for my son Demian, as he was unable to finish his address. I'm glad you noticed the Order of the Arrow sash. While I didn't make Eagle, I did get one of those.
Don"t comment very much as my spelling acumen is not as good as it once was. And my train of thought seems to be waning a bit. Lurked for about 8 years until one day, I decided to try to comment. Found it wasn't too hard to get my pseudo-name, add a profile and create an avatar. I wish I could comment more but not having much typing skill, it would probably take me all morning to create one. Anyhoo, just thought I tell the new people about my experiance. TC
TC again. I do the puzzle every day w/mechanical pencil and eraser in the local rag. They wanted to raise my monthly rate to $74. One phone call got me daily delivery and digital access for $36. HMMMM. Look forward to the blog every day and also the comments. (by now it's a habit) but a good one. One of my only few. Learn something new most every day. Now, I'll see myself out. TC
Except for the note below, a very enjoyable Monday puzzle. I made a couple of errors at first, one because I didn't read the clue. Hold in 11D, Wand in 28D. As always had to wait for the last letter of 30A. I recently became aware that 9D has to go. There's really no concealing its derogatory sense. The 3,4, and 5 letter entries crossing and close by could probably be redone keeping the longer ones.
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