Theme: CODE SWITCH (60. Say "See you mañana," e.g. ... and a hint to each set of circles)
18. Coen Brothers' "Best Original" Oscar-winning output for "Fargo": SCREENPLAY. Penal code.
24. Weather warning on your cellphone, e.g.: TEXT ALERT. Tax code.
39. Informal name for the classic painting "Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1": WHISTLER'S MOTHER. Morse code.
50. Sleight-of-hand swindle: SHELL GAME. Legal code.
Boomer here.
In Minnesota, CODE rhymes with COLD and that's what we get in the North Star State. I have a couple of visits to the VA this week for sessions in physical therapy and occupational therapy. I am pretty sure I can limp through the first one, and since the only occupation I have now is the Monday blog, we will see how the therapy works. Next week ---- Radiation !
Across:
5. Honking birds: GEESE. I do remember these guys honking up at North Star Lake.
10. U.S. state that hosted the 2002 Winter Olympics: UTAH. Famous for the Mormon religion.
14. Declare openly: AVOW.
15. Comparable to a beet: AS RED. Or as a radish.
16. Prefix with physics: META.
17. Like collectible coins: RARE. Like a sirloin steak too.
20. Roll with the punches: ADAPT. Cassius Clay was the Greatest.
22. Egypt's Mubarak: HOSNI.
23. Before, to a bard: ERE. "And I heard him exclaim ERE he rode out of sight, Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night,"
26. Lukewarm: TEPID. That would be me, using my walker.
28. Detroit labor gp.: UAW. United Auto Workers. They get a lot of attention. Prices of cars are going through the roof right now.
29. Amtrak express: ACELA. I have never been on Amtrak.
31. Add, as to a list: APPEND.
35. To's counterpart: FRO.
36. "__ girl!": encouraging words: ATTA.
42. Ships' records: LOGS. Need a few for our fireplace.
43. Yalie: ELI.
44. Like favorite car radio stations: PRESET. I have one station
PRESET, but mostly I listen to Simon and Garfunkel, courtesy of Desper
Otto. Our new Santa Fe does not have a CD player.
45. Ibsen's "__ Gabler": HEDDA. Or Ms. Hopper.
47. Actor Stephen: REA.
48. Siri counterpart: ALEXA. Ask and she will tell you where to go.
56. Green expanse: LEA.
57. Greek i's: IOTAS. Too small to count.
59. Shipwreck site: SHOAL.
63. Rice-like pasta: ORZO.
64. Small bills: ONES. The first ONES were issued in 1862 with a Salmon Chase photo
65. Freeze over: ICE UP. I am sure that every lake in Minnesota had this feature today
66. Resign, with "down": STEP. I can think of a name or two, but nooo politics.
67. Senator's helper: AIDE.
68. Mississippi quartet: ESSES. YESSSS indeed.
69. Stun with a zapper: TASE.
Down:
2. Sidestep: EVADE.
3. "I speak for the trees" Seuss character: LORAX.
4. Won every game: SWEPT.
5. Fuel from a pump: GAS.
6. Abstain from: ESCHEW. If you had trouble with 68 across, maybe you might CHEW on a few ESSESS
7. There's one in "beleive": ERROR. I before E, except after C or when sounded like A like in Neighbor and Weigh. 4th grade spelling.
8. Reel from a bang on the head: SEE STARS. Too cold here to sleep under the STARS.
9. Biblical garden: EDEN. Home of previous Vikings Coach Bud Grant, EDEN Prairie Minnesota.
10. Strike caller: UMP. Casey at the Bat was dealing with a blind one.
11. Mind readers: TELEPATHS.
12. Gaming brand since 1972: ATARI. I wasted many hours playing on mine.
13. Cut and collected in bales: HAYED.
19. After-dark period, in ads: NITE. Crossword spelling. Can't you write NIGHT??
21. Tease: TAUNT.
25. Served, as soup: LADLED. I just tip the pan into the bowl.
27. Delight to the max: ELATE.
30. Force, as to do something: COMPEL.
31. Boring tool: AWL. We sold these at Graybar but I was never sure why an electrician needed one.
32. Vietnamese soup: PHO.
33. Stubborn in a porcine way: PIG-HEADED. Again NOOOO politics.
34. Southeast England county: ESSEX.
35. Thu. follower: FRI. The end of the work week for many.
37. Golf driving aid: TEE. I have hundreds in the bag. I use wood, not plastic.
38. Part of MoMA: ART.
40. Stretchy things: ELASTICS. In the hospital the VA gave me
STRETCHY socks that had little pieces of rubber sewn into them for a
grip on the floor. They did not work! I had to be very careful getting
out of bed.
41. Grad school grillings: ORALS.
46. Speaker's stand: DAIS.
47. Save: RESCUE.
48. Big name in foil: ALCOA. I am sure everyone uses aluminum foil. But there is also a market for huge diameter Aluminum Wire.
49. "Madam Secretary" star Téa: LEONI.
51. Despises: HATES. Not a word in my vocabulary. Unless you are talking about Cancer.
52. Halloween sheet wearer: GHOST. Bad for trick-or-treaters, They need to SEE where they are going.
53. Big blood vessel: AORTA. Thankfully mine still works. I cannot say that for my other body parts.
54. Lab rats' challenges: MAZES.
55. Say "I do" without the ado: ELOPE.
58. Bruise, to a tot: OWIE. I seem to have an OWIE in my left instep.
61. Opposite of WNW: ESE. "East is East and West is West"
62. Some PCs: HPS. Short for HICCUPS?
Boomer
53 comments:
Good Morning all. I will never forget a day in April, 1968. I was a young ambulance driver medic at Fort Campbell, KY when every medical person was called to the U.S. Army hospital. Although Fort Campbell was a consider distance from Memphis, There had been many riots in the area, and our emergency room had many soldiers, both black and white with ugly bloody bruises and cuts. To this day, I will always remember Martin Luther King and his sacrifice for all people created equal and should be respected in our America !!
FIR, but erased lase for TASE. I think I shoud switch from decaf to half-caf. DNK CODE SWITCH or that the WHISTLERS MOTHER painting had a "real" name. CSO to my Zoe at save and RESCUE. Nothing could RESCUE the NFC Least teams this weekend.
I worked with a guy in Santa Monica who had a bumper sticker proclaiming "ESCHEW obfuscation". In his defense, he was a software engineer.
One of my favorite days was spending half of it in the California Railway Museum in Sacramento, then taking Amtrak to Reno. (The Amtrak ride from San Diego to LA ain't bad either.)
FLN - Vid, you started it. When the blonde's husband asked her if the turn signal was working, she said "yes it is...no it isn't...yes it is...no it isn't". (My brilliant, PhD in chemistry, retired college prof, natural blonde sister HATES those jokes. Of course I'll relate yours the next time I see her.)
D-O, hope you are better today.
Thanks to Catherine for the easy, fun Monday puzzle. My favorite was "I do without the ado". Least favorite was HAYED. This country boy never herd of it. But I once bumped my HAYED and Saw STARS. And thanks to Boomer for another chucklefest. Hope the radiation does its job, and isn't too bad.
Good morning!
In my morning "fog" I solved tomorrow's puzzle, and then wondered what Boomer was going on about. Went back to solved the correct one. Still feverish off-and-on (like that turn signal), but down from yesterday's 102°. That's a good thing. Jinx, are you sure your name isn't Sheldon? Thanx, for the outing, Catherine, and for the upbeat expo, Boomer. (That AWL could be used as a circuit tester!)
GEESE: Looks like the goose in that photo has been doing more than honking.
HAYED: Went "haying" every H.S. summer. Our crew would circulate among four farms. By the time farm #4 was finished, farm #1 would have a second crop ready to cut/bale. None of those farms are in business today. There are still folks living there, but I have no idea what they're doing to survive.
It is always encouraging to see your by-line Boomer.
I confess this puzzle was a meh for me as this theme is too contrived IMO but it is a good introductory solve.
Keep healing Boomer and thank you Catherine
FIR, figured out the individual codes, but do not yet understand the "code switch" clue.
PENAL,TAX,MORSE,LEGAL
FIRight. Even got the theme for a change after just two -- TAX & MORSE. Tho I did guess PLANE first, wondered if that was airport codes?
There will be a girl in the META-verse
Who to Real Life will be much averse.
She'll be online
All of the time,
And her meat-space body will just disperse.
Did WHISTLER'S MOTHER sit so still,
While contemplating his place in her will?
In a modern SCREENPLAY
He did her away,
And that rocker was how he displayed his kill!
{B, B-.}
I have a niece named ALEXA. When someone calls out to her in her office, half a dozen phones ask what they want.
Am down in SW Florida, so missing the cold this week. Instead there were a dozen tornados in the area Sunday morning.
Thank you Jinx for the CSO. I felt baad all night, for posting that garbage ... where's the censor when you need him ? I go crazy sometimes...
Not half as crazy as my DW, she drove 47 miles this morning, at 6 a.m., to a distant hospital, ... in a snow storm, with TV PSA storm alerts and all, in 22 inches of the white stuff, ... to a hospital (!) ... and the ER/OR/Main Entrance was Locked ! The driveway and the parking lot has not been swept, and the patients will never be able to come in anyway. They're expecting another eleven inches today ! I would think at age 70, she's entitled to take a day off, but no. Pig Headedness comes to mind.
I am going to regret this posting, as well.
A comfortable FIR Monday puzzle from Catherine. Thank you! I got the theme with the reveal although I first came up with "plane" before PENAL, which makes more sense with code. Favorite word today was ESCHEW. Boomer, you explained things well today as usual. Hope your therapies help you.
Glad to hear you are improving, DO. I was feeling that we weren't affected much by yesterday's snow, but we just lost power, joining other unfortunates in the area. It's a common problem with our tree canopy and above ground power lines. It should be fixed before lunchtime. Hope everyone else is having a good start to the week!
Good Morning:
The themer words were easy enough to parse, but Plane (Penal) threw me off, as did Mores, S’more (Morse), so the reveal truly was an Aha moment. The phrase Code Switch has been used fairly recently and is usually in the context of describing pandering politicians. No w/os and no problems and only one nit with Hayed. Liked Art crossing Whistler’s Mother. Also liked the A parade of Meta, Acela, Atta, Rea, Lea, Alexa, Hedda, Aorta, and Alcoa. Cute duos were Rea/Lea, Alert/Elate, Fro/Pho, Essex/Essex, and Fri/Fro.
Thanks, Catherine, for an easy start to the week and thanks, Boomer, for the generous dose of Boomer humor. Good luck with your upcoming therapy and treatments.
DO, glad to hear you’re feeling a tad better. Get well soon!
We were spared the worst of the snow storm and only got a few inches. Probably just enough to make the morning commute dicey.
Have a great day.
I wish Autocorrect would mind its own business: Esses/Essex.
Thank you Catherine Cetta for a nice and easy Monday puzzle. I really enjoyed it.
Boomer, how nice to see you doing ok, and with a cheerful frame of mind, and doing your weekly chores with such heart. God bless, and sincere prayers.
I too, could not understand the clue to 50 Across, CODE SWITCH, ... although the rest of the CW was easy.
BTW, Salmon Chase, one time Secretary of the Treasury, under Lincoln, was also on the $ 10,000 dollar bill. The highest denomination ever printed.
I have a plastic reproduction, that I use for a bookmark. After that issue, Congress made a law limiting the portraits on dollar bills to presidents, who were no longer alive.
have a nice day, all.
This took 4:13. I didn't see the theme, nor am I familiar with "code switch" in this context. I get it: "manana" is Spanish and the rest of the sentence is English, but as Lemonade714 posted, it's too contrived.
Oh joy, circles, again.
Take some time today to reflect on Dr. King's messages and dream.
Nice easy breezy solve - good for a Monday - I even got the theme with CODE before the reveal.
CODE SWITCHing is when two or more languages or language varieties are used in a conversation
https://www.google.com/search?q=code+switching+definition&oq=code+switch&aqs=chrome.2.0i433i512j69i57j0i433i512j0i512l7.5448j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=U
often immigrants use a mixture of words or phrases from their original language and the language of the country they immigrated to in the same sentences or conversation. If the
words are used often enough, they can become a word in the second language like "mensch" from Yiddish is now a word in the English Language.
Otherwise it can also be a mixture of dialects like going between lingo popular in say Maine or the South and then switching to words in mainstream American English.
Thanks Boomer - hope all goes well with your appts this week! and Thanks to Catherine for the puzzle
I forgot to go back and unscramble the CODES. I took 13+ minutes to fill this in online. I wonder if anyone saw the theme from circles.
Boomer, you forgot your other occupation: Bowling Teacher. Btw, 500 by Presidents Day?
Given the A I thought "Are beets acrid?". Mondays remind me of slow pitch softball: the speeds and angles and spin can vary. Ball must be higher than batters head at apogee. I both pitched and umped
One of my fav words and I couldn't think of ESCHEW
I tried staggered and prickly
I was in OCS on a "Hike" that day and they canceled because every corpsman available was needed in DC. We bushwacked back to base. Fun.
D-O, farms around me all planted cotton this fall.
Billicoes, 35 up in Ocala this morning
Vidwan, if nothing else she has good tires. Is she an ex-Marine?
WC who has a blond joke for later
Boomer, you are a wonder. You just keep on keeping on. I admire your grit.
Very easy today. The reveal made the circles easy to decipher.
I never even saw plane. To me plane code makes no sense. I immediately saw penal code, the body of laws relating to crime and punishment.
I have long known of OWIE, of course, but I believe I have never heard it spoken.
Growing up in rural PA, I often heard HAYING, a gerund used as a noun. HAYED, the verb, is not that common IMO.
I used to to like to see Canada geese. These days I find them annoying, foul fowl.
The winter storm in my town was not that bad. The roads are good. The rising temps overnight and this morning are melting the few inches of snow we had on the grass and cars.
Thanks for the explanation. I didn't know what CODE SWITCH was (so that's what it's called when my wife talks like that) and therefore didn't get how "See you mañana (tomorrow)," was related. Another day another convoluted theme to decipher.
FIR in 14. Nice CW, thanx, Catherine. I LOVE Monday CWs: my level. W/O COERCE:COMPEL. Thanx for the outstanding write-up, too, Boomer. Continue to get healthier! Remember the mind-body connection: visualize what u want your body to do, specifically. Visualize the cancer cells being eaten up but immune cells, kinda like a pac-man game.
Hey Boomer ~~ with all you’ve been through lately, and still going through, it’s nice to see that you are still up to performing your “job”! Always appreciate your Monday expos!
Thank you Catherine for easing us into the CW week. Managed a FIR in 8 minutes with only a few DNK’s, HEDDA Gabler being one, only know of Hopper.
Have never been on the high-speed ACELA, but I have taken a couple cross country trips on Amtrak’s northernmost route, the “Empire Builder” from Chicago-Seattle (or you can go to Portland cuz the train splits in Spokane and half goes to Portland). Also took the train from Chicago to D.C. to Orlando, over to New Orleans and back up to Chicago on the famed “City of New Orleans”. A great way to travel if you’ve got time, an adventure and social event unlike air travel
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What a better place this world would be if everyone heeded the words of MLK, to not judge people by the color of their skin, but the “content of their character”. The man was certainly unwavering in his quest for justice for ALL people. Good day to all!
Fast Monday (one inkover, swamp/SWEPT). CODE...but is it PLANE? NAPLE? ALPEN? ohhh.. PENAL! CODE? (only applies to guys 🤭😉😄)
OWIE!!! Ouch! thought you'd been banished to the CW netherworld, but back like a bad penny 😬. The grade school joke was: "What state has 4 eyes?" M👁ss👁ss👁pp👁.😃
Armed invertebrates...SEESTARS
Intense dislike....HAYED
People who hate phones...TELEPATHS
Gaming cubes....DAIS
"James! When can I get out of this @#$% chair!!?!" speaker....WHISTLERSMOTHER.
Boomer, seems everything's working from the neck up..Keep working on the waist now. DO 102?..hope you're doing better.
a blizzardy MLK day in Upstate NY 🌨
waist DOWN now 🙂
Maverick Monday. Thanks for the fun, Catherine and Boomer.
No newspaper today because we are snowed in! I worked this CW on my new iPhone, but screen does not show entire grid at once and I could not see the theme. Plane and S’more didn’t help.Thanks for reminding us of Code Switch, inanehiker. I think we have seen that here before, but I am not familiar with the term and had forgotten it.
With no newspaper, I did not write down my inkblots and observations. But IM has listed them (and more!) already.
Favourite word today was ESCHEW.
Off to help DH shovel snow. We had a mini-blizzard with at least 50cm. (20 inches) of snow. Highways were shut down, businesses closed, schools (that were set to reopen today after two weeks of virtual learning) declared a snow day. It looks beautiful from inside.
Wishing you all a good day (MLK Day for my American friends).
Musings
-MORSE gave me the “huh?” gimmick and was reenforced by TAX but PLANE, NEPAL, PANEL? Oh It’s PENAL!
-How ‘bout “Change entry pad info”, “Convert from Python to Java Script”, “Change areas”, “Alter Enigma”, “Adopt new building regulations”?
-My doctor had to APPEND “For a guy 75 years old” to assessment of my health last week
-Dak Prescott did not show one IOTA was intelligence on the last play of the Cowboy game yesterday
-THese HAY bales weigh around 1,000 pounds
-A TAUNT in an NFL game will cost your team a 15-yard penalty
-People my age can sometimes be judged by the color or our hair not our skin. MLK’s speech is the best I’ve ever heard.
-I love your outlook as you progress through treatment, Boomer!
-Hang in there, D-O!
FLN Yesterday's Christmas party went according to plan, thanks to Teri and her sister Rose, who lives next door. Two of Rose's adult children came bearing gifts for the 6 of my grandchildren who were present, the food was great, and a good time was had by all. By the time we finished catching UP and cleaning UP, the weather had started to turn foul. Instead of a White Christmas we had a slushy Christmas and I found myself outside at 11:00 PM shoveling snow and freezing rain from the sidewalk and driveway, and clearing/defosting the windshields of both vehicles. I've learned from bitter experience that if you leave this stuff until the AM the slush will ICE UP and will be impossible to clear.
Yesterday's puzzle:
Long story short: I FIWed at intersection 46A TERA (a trillion grams?) and 44D CEELA Green (unknown to me, but I think I've seen her/him(?) in these grids before).
Thank you Darryl for an inspiring puzzle, much needed in these times.
And thank you as always C.C. for making everything clear.
And thanks to Rich for your excellent sense of timing.
Cheers,
Bill
Word of the day: dream
Pronunciation: dreem
Part of Speech: Noun, verb
Meaning: 1. An involuntary vision occurring in sleep. 2. Conscious, meandering thought, daydreaming, reverie. 3. A great hope for the future, a desire for a future achievement. 4. Something that is wonderful, out of this world, as a 'dream car' or 'car that runs like a dream'.
Notes: Today's Good Word may be used as a noun or verb. As a verb, it has two forms of the past tense, dreamed and dreamt. The latter form tends to be used outside the US, like other verbs, e.g. spelt, that form their past tense with a T rather than ED. Someone who dreams is a dreamer guilty of dreaming.
In Play: Today's Good Word is historically associated with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King's most famous speech "I have a Dream" was delivered August 28, 1963, most appropriately at the Lincoln Memorial. In this speech he revealed his dream, ". . . That my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." Using ideas of nonviolent resistance originating in the teachings of Jesus Christ, as interpreted by the Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy and developed in India by Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. King led the peaceful movement for equality among races in the US. His efforts led to the 1964-1965 civil rights legislation and to the possibility of Barack Obama's becoming president of the United States. The US today celebrates the remarkable accomplishments of Dr. King.
For more on this Word of the day see alphaDictionary
Good day All,
I seldom get here before most of you have gone for the day,
since I usually do my puzzles around nine or ten pm, but I
sometimes check in to look for answers or explanations of answers,
and I enjoy the blog. But today, my papers -- the Winston-Salem
Journal and the NYTimes, are in our driveway covered in snow (if
they are there at all) so I guess I won't get my puzzles done today.
(I don't enjoy working the puzzles on computer -- I want my paper
and my blue ball point pen.)
Yesterday's NYTimes puzzles was easier than the usual Sunday Times,
so I have no puzzles today, but lots of books.
From the comments, I see that others are also snowed in.
Thanks for letting me hang out with you here, even when I pop in
at 10:00 pm.
Fun blog today, Boomer.
Helen
Hola!
Happy MLK Day! It's a bittersweet one considering how we got here.
Thank you, Catherine Cetta, for a nice and easy Monday to work through. HEDDA Gabler was on my reading list in World Lit Class.
Even though it's 54 degrees, I'm sure it will not ICE UP anytime soon.
Not too far from where I live is a PHO Restaurant. And though UTAH is so close I've never been there. Page, AZ is as far as I've driven. Many years ago we planned a road trip as far as Oregon but it fizzled.
GHOST is one of my favorite movies.
d-otto:
Please get well soon and the same goes for Boomer. Thank you, Boomer, for going the extra mile with your analysis.
Enjoy a special day, everyone!
Delightful Monday puzzle, many thanks, Catherine. And so great to see you back with us, Boomer, and enjoyed your write-up with all the neat pictures. Thank you also for reminding us to remember Martin Luther King today.
Loved the top-middle clues and answers--the honking GEESE and the ability to SEE STARS from a bang on the head.
But the one that made me laugh was the ERROR in "beleive."
Nice to see Ibsen's HEDDA Gabler.
Loved your ALEXA story, Boomer.
Have a great week coming up, everybody.
Thank you Catherine for a delightful Monday FIR with a sussable theme, a tour of various coding schemes. We Cornerites are all CODE SWITCHERS, pursuing FULFILLMENT by guessing simple clues; TELEPATHing constructors' intentions for metaphorical clues; and divining the FILL hidden before, in, or after META-clues (see 68A & 7D for today's CODING LESSON). All the computer CODERS on the Corner, past and present, will tell you that SWITCHING from programming SPECS to actual BITS and BYTES is tricky stuff and often BITES you you know where.
And thank Boomer for your review. We are so glad you're home and in the capable hands of your dear DW. Your courage and humor in the face of adversity inspire us all.
Just a few favs:
39A WHISTLERS MOTHER. We saw this piece in the Musée d’Orsay on our first visit to Paris. Closer to home the Sackler museum of Asian Art, better known as The Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., has several Whistler paintings, houses his famous Peacock Room, and has a superb collection of Sung Dynasty porcelains.
44A PRESET. My FM is PRESET to WBJC FM. It's the only PRESET I have actually.
6D ESCHEW. What will they automate next? 😄
32D PHO. See my sister Mary's recipe on C.C.'s Ginger Roots blog. She once said I DO to a Vietnamese physician and is a gourmet cook.
52D GHOST. Last evening my grandson Joseph taught me an alternative to "Trick or Treat" (a veiled threat actually - see last week's posts on automated TPing). It goes like this:
HOMEOWNER opens door ...
GHOST: "Knock knock"
HOMEOWNER: "Who's there?"
GHOST: "Wouldja"
HOMEOWNER "Wouldja who?".
GHOST: "Wouldja fill my bag with candy?" 👻
Cheers,
Bill
In the novel I am reading now one of the characters OARED the boat to shore. Lesson: Never say, "never used."
@Waseeley, I bought a primer when I was first learning to program in C. It began with a caveat -- C is a robust language. It may not do what you had planned, but it will do something.
I found this puzzle much harder for me
Than the usual Monday.
While the codes were plane to see,
Code switch = hasta tomorrow is new to me...
And a constructor using "Hayed"
Is like finding a needle in a puzzle...
Boomer,
I would use an awl for just about anything!
(Sort of how I use a hammer....)
But in addition to a center punch use,
An awl makes a great drift pin for lining up holes
In various items. (Like switch plate covers & electrical boxes)
Ever try to get that tiny screw started in a cover plate
While lining it up with the box? Just jam an awl in the upper holes
And the plate hangs perfectly while you fiddle with the screw in the lower hole.
Actually, I think jamming an awl in the wrong hole of an electrical
Outlet "is" the definition of an "owie."
Come to think of it,
I have been using code switching at work for years..
Hmm,
Also at home...
What do you call a wife who is always on you
To clean stuff?
"Dear"
(It's really an acronym that I cannot translate here...)
Hand up I have never heard anyone use the term CODE SWITCH before. But I did remember we have seen it here before after I finally got it with crosses. Hand up could see PLANE, PANEL but took a long time to see PENAL. FIR.
CrossEyedDave Thanks for the illustration of CODE SWITCH on the job!
WHISTLER worked at the same place I did (National Geodetic Survey), but a bit before my time. We had a portrait of him, not his MOTHER, on the wall. I have been to the Orsay museum where the noted portrait is displayed, but I can't seem to find a photo.
This is what I was thinking when I saw FUEL FROM A PUMP.
I photographed this unique art at the Coalinga Chevron Oil facility.
Hi All!
Thanks for the puzzle, Catherine. I like what you did with CODE SWITCH.
Thanks for kicking-off Monday's after-party, Boomer. Good luck this week; we'll all be thinking about you.
//You've told the Ft. Campbell tale b/f, but it's good to be reminded.
WOs: N/A
ESPs: HEDDA, LEONI, WHISTLERS MOTHER, ERROR (oh, now I see it - cute)
Fav: Clue for ELOPE is wonderful.
{A, B}
Sorry to hear of the fever, D-O. Liquids, lots of liquids.
//Kernighan & Ritchie's ANSI C ?
Inanehiker - to add: CODE SWITCHING occurs when one changes their dialect, action, or dress depending on environment / who they are communicating with. E.g, DW has 3 major modes or dialects: what she presents as a Professor, hanging at home with (upperclass) friends, but, take her back to Louisiana, and you'll hear a whole different dialect. NPR Article.
Helen, when I don't get the paper, I just print the puzzle.
C, Eh! Thanks for the introduction to Wordle. DW & I compete now and we tied at 3 today.
Sorry to read of all the winter storms ICEing yous in; maybe some of Waseeley's sister's pho will warm you up(?)
CED - Can also use an AWL to clean under your fingernails. LOL Memo Speak!
Back to work; we don't get MLK-day off :-(
Cheers, -T
Speaking of the Amtrak between Union Station and San Diego (and vice versa I expect!), every second Saturday in July there is an event called The Mooning Train. Near a bar just outside of San Juan Capistrano people show up from far and wide to moon every Amtrak that passes by. It started in 1979 when a patron yelled "I'll buy a drink for anyone who moons the next train!" It became quite a tradition.
I took the train one second Saturday in July, and indeed, was mooned by many bare bottoms. On the way back from Balboa Park most of them (there were quite a bit more) were quite red. It was a lot of fun and I recommend the experience, particularly for those who enjoy train travel. And a nice lunch at Balboa Park.
Becky
From Yesterday:
Speaking of art, I agree with BigEasy that I don't think of HIP HOP as an "art movement".
MalMan, Anon, CanadianEh, Yellowrocks Thanks for the thoughts on the WAS/FELT thing.
CanadianEh, RayOSunshine Thanks for the comments on the Apology Act. So true, Ray about Apology vs Stand Your Ground. Hard to believe we belong to the same species.
Whippersnapper Thanks for the PANTERA information. I tried listening to each track on their "Far Beyond Driven". Unbelievable that was the top album in the US at any time. I did not recognize anything. It sounded like some angry fifteen year olds having a tantrum while banking instruments around. I did not discern anything musical. Even worse than HIP HOP. Lemonade Sorry that your son was a fan.
Where did my PANTERA comment go and why?
Just for you Becks... THE MOONING OF AMTRACK .
The things I learn here...
Thanks, Lemony, I just wish those people would think of sunscreen.
Becky
Good luck with the radiation Boomer.
If that one-dollar bill posted by Boomer was indeed the first, it reminds us that there was no unified currency in the nation before that.
I guess earlier bills were issued directly by states or by banks. Vidwan827, do you know if that was in fact the first standard federal money issued? Was its date tied to the start of the Civil War?
EZ-Peasy Monday PZL today. Nice work, Ms. Cetta.
I had no problem with CODE SWITCH, although I noticed that "CODE" was the final fill I made, entirely through perps.
I had SWITCH and merely wondered what four letters would be chosen to represent the SWITCHing of languages in the clue phrase.
I directed a play once in which PIGHEADED was said to be a leading trait of Irish Protestants. (Northern Irish.)
In its context, it was considered to be a virtue.
~ OMK
Not familiar with code switch meaning Spanglish, Franglais, etc. I have only heard it with the meaning mentioned above of moderating one's language/demeanor to fit in to a particular social or professional context.
I started off this morning with feeding the dog, having a cup of coffee, browsing the 'net, then going out to shovel the 2"-3" of snow we got. The paper was out there somewhere at the end of the driveway so the puzzle waited until this afternoon. Not only do we shovel the driveway/sidewalk/porch, but we also do the deck and a pathway around the house from the garage so Maggie can get around. At 25 lbs she needs help through the snow.
The puzzle was typical Monday easy but the theme was nowhere to be found. Thanks to everyone who explained it for us. Thank you, Catherine, for the exercise and thanks, Boomer for the entertaining write-up.
Like Jinx, I will take a CSO for Maggie at save/RESCUE. Her 10 year "gotcha" day will be mid-March. Unfortunately she has recently been diagnosed with a cancerous adrenal tumor that has been removed, and lymphoma in her intestines. We will keep her comfortable, feed her what she is willing to eat, and when she tells us that it's time we will have her euthanized. This is the crappy part of being owned by a pet.
I hope all who are ailing are feeling better every day. Good luck with your appointments this week, Boomer. D-O, glad you're on the mend.
Have a nice evening.
Lemon,
Thanks for the mooning of Amtrak,
But it makes me wonder why Picard didn't post it...
(I mean, he's been everywhere else...)
Anon-T,
LoL on the awl finger cleaning!
But I have tried it,& the awl tends to scratch your nails...
However, I have been looking to upgrade the bic pen top
Ear wax remover, hmm, I wonder....
But seriously,
That Wordle site is freaking me out!
No matter when, or where in the world I click on it,
It knows I have already done the days puzzle,
Has all my statistics,
And probably has my phone number!
There's a weekly feature in my local paper that would be of interest on CODE SWITCHING.
CED, that Wordle site is one smart cookie.
I too thought HAYED was a bit off, but I mowed on...hand up for not seeing penal till I did a word jumble in the margin. First time poster but long time reader, keep on rolling them straight Boomer, thinking of you and C.C.
So, the FLA DMV was told to hire blonds, affirmative action or something.
So, they hired Amanda and showed her the ropes. "When you pull a car over, if the driver has a badge tell them 'You're good ' and let them proceed
So, Amanda pulls over a car speeding and the driver is another blond. "Drivers license, please "
The blond gets flustered and pulls out her makeup kit instead. Amanda looks in the mirror, sees a badge, and says "You're good to go".
Played wordle sgain: 3 this time
WC
Comfortable!
C.C. and Boomer, my thoughts are with you and my best wishes go out to you.
FIR in pretty good time today. I saw the CODESWITCH, but I stuck with PLANE, instead of PENAL. I didn’t think PLANE was correct, but I didn’t take the time to suss PENAL.
As usual, I had trouble with some of the proper names, although I did know HOSNI; of course, he wasn’t an actor or actress. (I hate it when women call themselves actors. What happened to Women’s Lib? Had they done that in the ‘70s….)
Thanks, Catherine and Boomer.
Get well, Boomer and d-o!
The problem with 60A is that "see you mañana" is not -- to my mind -- any switch at all, coded, just plaintext ... as a Californian. 'mañana' is just another word for 'tomorrow.'
As for TGIF in New Mexico, I offer this from Pennsylvania: "Ya idu k drugstoru" -- Russian or Rusyn dialect for 'I am going to the drugstore.'
Thank you, Lemonade, for the Mooning link!
Such goin's-on by my neighbors in Laguna Niguel!
I would ask if you have to be invited to join the gang, but it looks pretty wide open. Each mooning seems to include two or three last-minute walkups--with nobody checking their credentials.
Is there an age limit connected to the practice?
I mean, it looks obvious that you cannot be YOUNGER THAN-- [fill in the blank]!!
~ OMK
Thank you, Catherine
Great job, Boomer. BTW, you can satisfy your cartoon cravings every morning at 6 AM on METV if you have that channel on cable or a streaming service. Toon In With ME. "... the greatest classic theatrical cartoon shorts ever made, from Warner Bros., MGM and beyond, starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, the Road Runner, Elmer Fudd, Sylvester, Tweety, Tom & Jerry, Droopy Dog, Popeye, and many more."
Lemonade, you made a comment yesterday about Pantera, not today. And if you did make one today, it never got here. Not sure that I should thank you for sharing that video of the mooning that Becky alluded to :>)
YooperPhil, perhaps 15 or 20 years ago, as a retirement gift to himself and his wife, a high school teacher in one of my golf leagues went on an extended vacation to the Pacific Northwest and an Alaskan cruise. I think they were gone for two months that summer. They took the Amtrak Empire Builder from Chicago to Seattle. I recall that he wasn't all that excited by going by rail, and wasn't necessarily looking forward to it, but his wife didn't like to fly.
IIRC, the cruise was actually out of Vancouver,and they took a boat from Seattle to Vancouver and had a few days to explore there. They loved it all, but he told me afterwards that he was really happy that they traveled by train. No hustle and bustle, no cramped seating and they could get up and move around at will. Otherwise, just sit back, relax, enjoy the sights and get to know new people and become friends.
He enjoyed talking about that trip. I didn't know him all that well and probably would never have met him but for the golf league. I would guess that at least 8 of the 28 golfers in our league had been students of his through the years. A gregarious, affable man.
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