Theme: PPS (71. Second addendum to a letter ... and a hint to 18-, 34-, 44- and 62-across) - Each theme entry is in the P* P* pattern.
18. Petite Mattel doll with her own Netflix TV series: POLLY POCKET.
34. Guy featured in "Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation": PETER PIPER.
44. Porky's girlfriend: PETUNIA PIG.
62. Animated feline in Inspector Clouseau films: PINK PANTHER.Boomer here. Another LA Times debut. Congratulations, Kathy Lowden!
PPS: Most of us have probably followed the news about Mark Vande Hei. He is the astronaut who became famous for floating around in space longer than any other person. The only reason I mention this is that he graduated from Benilde St. Margaret's high school in the mid 1980s. A baby boomer you may know is also a Benilde alumni from 1965, and a BSM Bowling coach.
Across:
4. Donkeys: ASSES. "I'm a gold lock, I'm a gold key. I'm a don lock ..."
9. Silly: INANE.
14. Heckler's word: BOO. Major League baseball is now open.
15. Kind of milk one shouldn't cry over: SPILT. Leslie Gore. "It's my party and I'll Cry if I want to."
16. Luxury watch: ROLEX. Most of us exchange the ROL wit TIM.
17. CPR expert: EMT. This is also known as thinwall conduit. Electrical Metallic Tubing.
20. Put on a peg, as a golf ball: TEED. Hoping I can knock it off soon. We still are getting a bit of snow here.
22. Carp in a pond: KOI.
23. WWII subs: U BOATS.
24. Rich as Croesus, e.g.: SIMILE.
26. Lire replacers: EUROS. I bought some of these once on eBay. It was a mistake.
28. Person, place or thing, in grammar: NOUN.
30. Irish or English dogs: SETTERS.
38. MSN competitor: AOL. The battle that never was.
39. Ooze with: EXUDE.
40. Silent assent: NOD. I get it.
41. Main blood vessel: AORTA. Very important to us all.
43. World Wide __: WEB. A home for spiders.
46. Wand symbolizing royal authority: SCEPTER. Hail to the king!!
49. Snow pea holders: PODS.
50. __ & Young: accounting firm: ERNST. A little high class for most of us.
52. Places for belts: WAISTS. Or at a bar?
56. Séance contact: SPIRIT. Jet Blue tried to buy Spirit
Airlines recently but I heard that the deal fell through. They were
trying to eliminate a low cost competitor.
59. Firepit residue: ASH. Ash Wednesday is in the past. Easter is coming soon.
61. Avoid completely: SHUN.
65. "... butterfly ... bee" boxer: ALI. Louisville KY was Mr. Ali's home. Much memorabilia there.
66. Broadway backer: ANGEL. Los Angeles baseball team.
67. Road one-eighty: U TURN. Better not do it on a highway.
68. Dangerous tide: RIP. Mr. Van Winkle.
69. Aptly named novelist: READE. Charles.
70. Digital units: BYTES. Do not get bitten by a BYTE.
Down:
2. Actress Marisa: TOMEI. George Costanza made friends with her on "Seinfeld".
3. Tribal symbol: TOTEM.
4. Cleopatra's snake: ASP. When I think of Elizabeth Taylor, what kind of life is that. Chad Mitchell Trio.
5. Did not remain silent: SPOKE UP.
6. Cylindrical barn neighbor: SILO. The hogs do not need a fridge. They have a SILO.
7. Kimmy Schmidt player __ Kemper: ELLIE.
8. Hog's home: STY. Yeah, but they have a SILO !
9. Will Smith film suggested by an Asimov classic: I ROBOT.
10. Free, after "at": NO COST. Beware of stuff with "NO COST"
11. __-Seltzer: ALKA. Spee Dee.
12. Nair rival, once: NEET.
13. Phone no. go-withs: EXTS. I think extensions are a thing of the past.
19. More pristine: PURER.
21. Had an evening meal: DINED. Have you seen the new stacked burgers from Dairy Queen. They would not fit in my mouth. And I have a BIG Mouth.
25. Stuff of legends: LORE.
27. Depleted: USED UP. I think my chemo will be USED UP in about seven weeks.
29. NorCal NFL team: NINERS. Forty of them.
31. Wyatt of Dodge City: EARP. I remember the show starring Hugh O'Brien.
32. Naan relative: ROTI.
33. Refinery by-product: SLAG. Ugly stuff.
34. Church benches: PEWS. Of course our church has them. No kneeling kneelers though.
35. Corp. bigwig: EXEC.
36. Boob __: TV: TUBE. I watch a lot of TV. What does this make me ??
37. "... like the __ calling the kettle black": POT. Smoking the "M" word.
41. Verdi opera set in Egypt: AIDA.
42. Watering place: OASIS. This used to be a cigarette brand.
44. Prefix for "five": PENTA. The PENTAgon has five sides.
45. Remote area known for its middle?: NOWHERE. Middle of nowhere. I've been there now and then.
47. Livened (up): PERKED. Made coffee.
48. Almost a homer: TRIPLE. We have a guy named Buxton who may hit a few of these this year.
51. Badly worn: TATTY.
53. Musical symbol: SHARP.
54. Dutch flower: TULIP. Tiptoe through them with Tiny Tim.
55. Little scissors cuts: SNIPS. Save your scissors. I really do not have enough hair left.
56. Box for practice: SPAR.
57. Tree with needles: PINE. At least you do not have to rake the needles in the fall.
58. "Young Frankenstein" Fräulein: INGA.
60. Close, as a door: SHUT. or UP, as a mouth.
63. Well-worn pencil: NUB.
64. OR attendants: RNS. Many great ones at our VA facilities.
Boomer
Good morning!
ReplyDeleteThis was an easy romp with no stumbles. The PP theme was obvious, even without the reveal. Nice debut, Kathy. Keep 'em comin', Boomer.
ROLEX -- Never owned one. No Timex, either. My current watch is a Casio "atomic" model, always shows the correct time.
ROTI -- In that photo ROTI looks like a tortilla.
Good morning Boomer, great to see you to start the week which I hope brings dome clarity and improvement to your health.
ReplyDeleteWelcome Kathy to the sisterhood of published LAT puzzle people; our blog was created and remains the domain of our queen, Zhouqin Burnikel. I went back and solved your NYT debut which you created with your daughter, Tess Davidson. Mondays are not easy to make. We would love to have you come by and tell us more about about you.
I did not know POLLY POCKET had a Netflix Series but I have seen the doll. This is a well done puzzle to introduce new solvers to themes and fill.
More prayers and more Joy. A CSO to me for saying the Cameron Smith and Scottie Sheffler would be the Masters highlight.
A pitch perfect Monday. Finished in 4:13.
ReplyDeleteHave never heard of Polly Pocket, and thought all the Mattel dolls were petite. Wanted "tattered" (which wouldn't fit) instead of "tatty."
ReplyDeleteThank you Kathy Lowden for a nice and easy Monday puzzle. U got the PP gimmick in the second
(Long -) across clue. Never heard of Polly Pocket, but my grandkids are too old and sophisticated to play with dolls.
Thank you Boomer, glad you are doing Ok, I got up early because I too, have my triweekly blood draws... before I have my meds and my breakfast. Hopefully I can drive to the nearest lab, and get it done, in good time.
BTW, on a technical point, Refineries dont have SLAG, ... Smelters and Blast Furnaces do. Slag is an important byproduct useful in cement making. Refineries handle mostly liquids like crude oil etc., and other industrial liquid chemicals.
.... Unless I am wrong, and misunderstood.
Have a nice day, you all. and Onto Tuesday. Its a tricky Wordle toy ....
In Aug,1970 the Doc said "Take these and No SPIRITS!"
ReplyDeleteAnd…
Stark sober I won $280.00 in a poker game at the Colonel's hooch.
I never bet the favorites but Scottie Sheffler turned out to be a sure thing. Even after 4-putting 18 he had 3 to spare
"I ROBOT" was a perfect example of Owen's fav word: Prescience
Yep, He was Brave, Courageous and Bold,
Long may he live ….
And long may his story be told
No kneeler, No kneelee.
Or "Dry goods*" in the lexicon
I did this online and had to correct a typo for the congrats. Let's call it a FI?
Boomer, I saw the Pilot of "Rolling" on Pluto last night. Maybe it'll get better once the guy actually gets rolling. Apparently it's based on a true story.
WC
* Re. POT
FIR. Not sure I like the clue for 24A, not a good example of a simile. Other than that, easy solve.
ReplyDeleteA FIR on Kathy's debut puzzle. Thanks! My only question was the READE and INGA cross and that was because I know an INGA who spells it INGe (pronounced the same). I went for the A since READE fit the clue better.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Boomer, for the review today. We hope you have a good week and the side effects from your last chemo wear off sooner. Oh, and you are definitely our favorite famous Benilde alumni.
I thought NOWHERE had the best clue bringing to mind "being in the middle of nowhere."
Hope you all have a good start to the week!
Marvellous Monday. Thanks for the fun, Kathy (congrats on your debut) and Boomer (best wishes for a better week).
ReplyDeleteI FIRed in good time and saw the PPS theme early in the game. No vowel progression.
One inkblot to change Staff to SHARP.
Let me beat IM to the animal/creature parade today - ASSES, ASP, KOI, SETTERS, PIG, PANTHER, plus a SILO and STY for the farm, and PODS to eat. We won’t cry over the SPILT milk.
PIG and WEB in the same line reminded me of Charlotte.
Grammar lesson today with SIMILE and NOUN; NINERS, PENTA, and TRIPLE for our math lesson.
I had to move to the past tense to get TEED instead of Tee up.
And we had ANGEL, SPIRIT and BOO for an early Halloween. (And maybe I ROBOT.)
We had the proper UTURN not UIE today. ERNST wasn’t clued as Max.
But you all know that Queen Elizabeth is holding a Sceptre in that photo. LOL.
CSO to INANEhiker.
Did Rich give himself a CSO at the clue for 24A?
Wishing you all a great day. Our TULIPs are just coming into Bud. We need some warmer weather.
Good Morning:
ReplyDeleteI second Lemony’s comment that this is an ideal puzzle for beginners. The fill is common knowledge or inferable, the cluing is very straightforward, the theme is easily discerned, and the reveal is perfectly clear. Polly Pocket and Reade were unknowns but, being a Monday, the perps did their job. It was nice to see the complete U Turn for a change and some fresh cluing, such as the one for Ali, who appears often. We had a few fun duos with Nod/Pod(s), Shut/Shun, and Ali/Spar. CSOs to Lemony/Hahtoolah (Att), Our Golfers (Teed). Inanehiker (Inane), IT Gang (Bytes), and California Crew (Niners).
Thanks, Kathy, for a fun solve and congrats on your debut and thanks, Boomer, for being such a dedicated trouper. Good luck with your medical appointments.
UncleFred, are you back to normal yet after your roof fiasco?
Have a great day.
FIR but took 16!! Unless I timed myself wrong(?) I thought I zipped through this fun Mon CW, got the PP theme immediately, and had no W/Os. Thanx KL for this fun CW. Thanx too to Boomer for the nice write-up. Good luck with your medical procedures this week Boomer.
ReplyDeleteCanadianEh @ 8:27 ~ Congrats on seeing those creatures; they never even registered with me. All I can say is I’m sharper of mind and sight in the evening rather than early in the morning, which is when I solved this. Nice job! 🤗
ReplyDeleteThanks Kathy for a fine Monday outing. Boomer, you are like the Timex watch. You take a licking and keep on ticking, time after time. I admire your grit. Prayers for your health.
ReplyDeleteWith the first theme answer I suspected we needed PP, so wagged PIPER from a few perps, including the P, and PETER just from the P
Wikipedia "The original Polly Pocket toys were plastic cases that opened to form a dollhouse or other playset with Polly Pocket figurines less than an inch tall. The dolls folded in the middle, like the case, and had circular bases which slotted into holes in the case interior, allowing them to stand securely at particular points in the house." Extremely petite.
When we were kids we said the rhyme, I am a gold lock. Memories.
Ernst and Young is one of the big four accounting houses. No prob.
I encounter Reade more often in crosswords than on book spines. A gimme.
ELLIE and and ROTI were new to me, perps and wags to the rescue. ROTI reminds me of Swiss Rösti, a yummy fried potato dish I experienced first in Switzerland.
Musings
ReplyDelete-A “no prob, Bob” puzzle.
-PINK PANTHER – C’mon, you immediately thought of that earworm theme song!
-SPLIT – What my sprinklers heads will do if I don’t drain my system again after recent warm weather
-Shakespeare on ATT’s
-TEED – Tiger’s Master’s appearance was amazing to watch and great for TV ratings!
-“At no cost” and “At no extra cost” are very different
-Depleted – The Ogalala Aquifer under Nebraska is headed that way
-How far you live from a Wal-Mart is an index of whether your town is NOWHERE
-TULIP – Our planting is governed by what is not good for our kitty
-Some here will remember a remark made to INGA while viewing devices on two doors
Metallurgical slags play an important role in the extraction and refining of metals. They are formed when a flux material, added to or included in the charge, reacts with unwanted minerals during extraction or smelting, or with the products of the oxidation of unwanted solute elements during REFINING.
ReplyDeleteThat are metal refineries that are not smelters. "The term "smelting" is used for the extraction of metal from ores using melting and heating (pyrometallurgy). The term 'refining' refers to any process that increases the grade or purity of a metal."
P.P.S.?
ReplyDeleteWe have, hanging on a nail in the basement, just like it was in the store, a 20 to 30 year old Polly Pocket in the original packaging that was never used, or given to the kids...
(I always wonder if it has increased in value...?)
P.p.s.
how to use an addition to make your links more humorous...
Nothing like a Monday stroll around the Corner. This one filled itself.
ReplyDeleteA few favs:
9A INANE. A CSO to our favorite hiker and hands down the best solver on the Corner.
34A PETER PIPER. Cleverest clue/fill.
16A ROLEX. I'm a TIMEX guy too. As a "value proposition" they are head and shoulders above ROLEX. The former costs me about $30 every 5 or 10 years and they certainly keep time accurately for my needs.
93D I ROBOT. At least Rich hasn't cancelled Mr. Smith.
31D EARP. Who was he? All I remember is Miss Kitty.
41D AIDA. The "A" in the ABC's of opera, the other two being BOHEME and CARMEN. If you're interested in this genre I'd suggest attending a live performance of LA BOHEME (with surtitles so you know what's going on). Gorgeous music, Parisian spectacle, tenderness, and pathos.
Cheers,
Bill
ps Thank you Kathy and congrats on your debut!
pps And thank you Boomer and congrats on your review!
Word of the Day antonomasia
ReplyDeletePart of Speech: Noun, mass
Meaning: 1. The substitution of an epithet or title for a proper name, e.g. 'the King' for King George or 'the Bard' for Shakespeare. 2. The use of a proper name to express a quality or characteristic, e.g. calling a miser 'a Scrooge'.
Notes: Sometimes antonomastic uses become the norm. Calling a traitor 'a Quisling', led to quisling becoming a synonym of traitor. Don't forget the T in the adjective for this word: antonomastic.
In Play: I traditionally give examples of rhetorical tropes like today's rather than examples of the word's use. A womanizer is often called a 'a Casanova', a traitor, 'a Judas', a smart person is frequently seen as 'an Einstein'. In today's word's second sense, examples include Frank Sinatra, called 'the Chairman', Bruce Springsteen is 'the Boss', Elvis was 'the King', and Madonna, 'the Queen of Pop'.
Word History: Today's Good Word is from Greek antonomasia, the noun from antonomazein "to call by a different name", made up of anti "instead" + onomazein "to name", based on onoma "name". Anti meant in Greek "against, opposite, instead".
For more info see Word of the Day
I wasn't familiar with the doll, and I thought "roti" was a little obscure for a Monday puzzle, but, other than that, smooth sailing, as is usual for a Monday puzzle. FIR, so I'm satisfied.
ReplyDeleteHola!
ReplyDeleteMany thanks to Kathy Lowden for today's puzzle. Very quick and easy. I even saw the PPs. I'm sure my granddaughters had POLLY POCKET dolls. Now they are too old for that. My daughter, however, has her doll collection in a cabinet. No POLLY POCKET that I recall, though.
ROLEX knock-offs are available in China Town in NY.
In my better, younger days I used to plant TULIPS in October for an April blooming.
Yesterday our PEWS were almost completely full. That hasn't happened in about two years and next Sunday they will be even more so.
Marisa TOMEI always brings up recollections OF My Cousin Vinny.
Boomer, thank you for your Monday musings. I hope all goes well with you this week. Please know that you are always included in my prayers.
Have a marvelous Monday, everyone!
I agree with YR, Charles Reade is in puzzles enough to be a Monday feature having appeared 27 times in LAT this century. I think JzB used the name in a puzzle he did with C.C.
ReplyDeleteI'll say it "Lowden" 😃 clear ...a fast, no inkover, Monday..
ReplyDelete"Bar passer abbr." WCTU, (Women's Christian Temperance Union) wouldn't work..🍻
"belts"/WAISTS, I'm running out of notches!! (too many nachos?). 😛 Agree, IM & Canada eh, glad to see UTURN, not uey or uie.. WEES: POLLY POCKET? who? but I C, part of the urological theme 🤭😆😅...PETER PIPER was arrested when it was discovered he was the same PETER who locked his wife in a pumpkin shell for years. (The basis for the "Indestructible Kimmy Schmidlt" series) 😳
You CAN cry over spilled milk. ..."If you know your EXT. you can enter it at any time" ☎️
EUROS created a problem in Italian. The plural should be Euri but instead EURO used. A masculine word that starts with a vowel takes the "article" Lo but drops the o hence L'euro which is hard to pronounce so it keeps its o thus Lo euro. the plural is even harder to pronounce gli euro (lyee AIR-u-oh) ....got it?...Quiz tomorrow. 😉
Waz: have had the same Timex for 15 years. Date changes accurately and a sweep second hand for pulse taking. Miss Kitty, (Amanda Blake) was the saloon owner friend of "Gunsmoke's" Matt Dillon. (Did they or didn't they?) 🤠 Autonomasia. Elizabeth, in 1952, the Brits were happy to SCEPTER as "the Queen" 👑
Shy goldfish....KOI
Sometimes:____ again...NOUN
During Lent ____ single main meal ....AIDA (do I cheat? of couse, the 👿 makes me do it)
Inked up....TATTY
"Let a ____ be like your umbrella"....SIMILE
Have a good week, especially Boomer 👍
Fun Monday puzzle, many thanks, Kathy--and welcome. Great commentary Boomer, and you will also be in my prayers in this tough week coming up.
ReplyDeleteTULIPs seem to turn up a lot in puzzles these days.
Didn't know READE but the "aptly named" clue helped with the spelling.
Sweet to get a silent assent NOD in the middle of the puzzle.
The SPILT milk clue made me laugh.
Have a great week coming up, everybody.
Just gotta say it..
ReplyDeleteWill Smith's (9d, I ROBOT) academy award "punishment"
A 10 year ban on attending the awards ceremony...🤨
SNL's weekend update last Saturday was hilariously spot on. How is this a punishment? 🤔
He can still be nominated and win an award but won't have to attend a 3+ hour boring event to get it.😅
They went to say if the academy really wanted to punish him they should have forced him to host the show for the next 10 years.😁
PPS: In the entertainment industry there is no such thing as bad publicity. 😒
Quick Monday solve.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on your debut, Kathy.
Thanks for the review, Boomer. The personal asides are always great to hear.
Spot on, Ray.
Enjoyed the PPs theme. It bugs me when some people write PSS instead of PPS. Did not know crossed POLLY POCKET or ELLIE but easy to WAG. Hand up NOWHERE clue a favorite!
ReplyDeleteWe don't have many PINE trees in our warm part of the country. But we do have some. One of my favorite places to take visitors hiking we call Rocky PINE Ridge.
And this was my favorite PINE on Rocky PINE Ridge
I was in awe of how it managed to grow up under that massive rock and survive long enough to curve around the rock and finally reach the light!
I was very sad when we had a huge fire in 2009 that weakened it. It did not die right away, but further drought and heat finished it off.
From Yesterday:
CrossEyedDave Thank you for explaining the 90 Degrees show. I am still curious how they made some of it happen! Thanks for your continuing delightful link finds!
desper-otto Thank you for explaining about Rich Norris and plans going forward.
Jayce Thank you for your reply to my inquiry about IN LINE SKATING. I was never very good at roller skating or ice skating. I don't like to fall! But I was pleased to find that IN LINE SKATING actually is safer than roller skating. The hardest part for me is slowing down if I am on a downgrade. My friend taught me to ride in San Francisco Golden Gate Park which had some scary hills!
Bill Seeley Thanks for the amusing ARARAT/Noah cartoon. Except the "joke" is real in the Bible. After rescuing the animals, he actually cooks up some of them as a "burnt offering" to God. This is in Genesis 8:20. The story goes on to note that God enjoyed the smell of the cooking animals. Go figure.
Musings2
ReplyDelete-Will Smith’s actions will provide a “shot-in-the-arm” for ratings for the moribund Oscars
-Critic Ann Hornaday said, “Hollywood abhors violence except when they use it incessantly in their movies!” I would add that the “woke” monitors should be outraged by what the women “wore” to the awards.
-Picard, I would never stoop so low to say Noah’s sacrifice of those animals was “holy smoke”.
-I just finished reading The Lady Or The Tiger to a bunch of juniors. Talk about casting pearls before swine.
Got my 2nd Booster today. How long will this go on?
ReplyDeleteA nice, easy Monday PZL from Ms. Lowden, 'splained for us by Boomer.
WHO is this POLLY POCKET? Glad I no longer have anyone that young in my family--for whom to worry about buying gifts.
Fave answer: SPILT. English is such a complex, INANE language, with words that don't sound like they are spelled (spelt?) and vice versa.
It is so refreshing to see a word that breaks with the spelling laws for (past) tense, simply in order to spell the word the way it sounds! We actually have our choice, between SPILLED and SPILT. Yay!
ROTI? I wondered how it was different from Naan. Google says it is unleavened, while naan is leavened. I guess that's why we see bubbles in naan.
~ OMK
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DR: Four diagonals today, one at hand, and three opposite.
The two central diagonals contain an excessive number of vowels, a total of 20 of 30 letters.
The near side diag gives us the anagram (12 of 15 letters) for debts you might run up with your bookie on your iPhone.
I refer you to...
"AUTODIAL 'I.O.U.'S"!
Picard @ 1:14
ReplyDelete"We" have a pine tree too!
and his name is Fred!
Here in northern Arizona there is also a pine tree that gets decorated every year. No one knows who does it but come December, the tree is festooned anew.
ReplyDeleteFun-day, Monday - lots of familiar PPs.
ReplyDeleteAmusing to have the CSO with INANE - picked it as my name here way before I knew how often it was used in crosswordese - and thanks for the kind words - Bill.
My daughter was of the appropriate age to have POLLY POCKETs when they were popular- they often were given at birthday parties as they were affordable but a lot of fun - but POLLY was easy to lose given how small she was, but you still had the fun house when you opened the POCKET - which looked like a large heart shaped locket.
Thanks Boomer and hope you don't get too tuckered out from your appointment week. And thanks to Kathy for the puzzle!
INANEHIKER just curious why you have that name?
ReplyDeleteA nice pleasant Monday puzzle. I concur with What Everyone Else Said about it. Enjoyed reading all your comments.
ReplyDeleteHi All!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the PPPuzzle, Kathy; congrats on the LAT debut.
Thanks for the expo, Boomer. God Speed on the tests and travel.
WOs: TOrMee->TOMEI, REeDE, TEEs
ESPs: ROTI, AIDA, ELLIE
Fav: clue/a for NOWHERE. Cue: Beatles.
Runner-UP: Asimov's "I, ROBOT"
My sisters (and daughters) had POLLY POCKETS.
Is that the "contact" in the iPhone, OMK? :-)
Picard, re: PSS... It is script Post Script ;-)
Cool PINE pic.
Ray-O: Agree. That SNL Weekend UPdate bit was LOL.
CyberSecurity companies "sell" management on "tracking global hacking" using, what we techs call, PEW-PEW maps. Management eats it up.
//They are meaningless and it looks like shooting so we make the laser noise "pew-pew" :-)
Cheers, -T
Hi everybody.
ReplyDeleteI finished this OK but didn't see the theme until the PPS hint. Rats!
A big 'thank you' to Rich. I really appreciate his expertise and quality output. I feel sure Patti will continue in the same vein.
A big 'Good luck and my best wishes' for Boomer.
I got my second booster shot yesterday at a local CVS pharmacy. While there, I asked if they had the shingles vaccine. They did, so I also got that shot in the other arm.
My son got me a new Timex watch. It keeps very good time and I like it especially because it has a large, easy-to-read dial.
I think Will Smith got a reasonable consequence for his over-reaction to a joke. I think Chris Rock deserves a little bit of grief for making such a tasteless joke. Jokes about someone else's wife and/or children are almost always inappropriate.
My daughter and grandson got a new kitty. Guess what they named him? Hobbes, that's what.
I was watching a panel of political commentators earlier today. One of them ended five assertions with 'Right?' in the space of about two minutes. And nobody says 'effect' any more. It's always 'impact' these days. But my pet peeve is still hearing 'unique' used to mean unusual or special rather than 'one of a kind'
Best wishes for us all.
~Mind how you go...
Bill G.
Hi Y'all! Fun puzzle, Kathy! Always fun & upbeat, no matter the less-than-fun report, hugs for ya', Boomer.
ReplyDeleteI kept trying to make more out of "middle of nowhere" than was noticeable. Like, the middle of nowhere is "whe" and might be pronounced "wheeee!". Nope. That was at midnight. Decided I was INANE from sleep deprivation.
Heard of POLLY POCKET but never saw one or an ad for one.
Husker G @ 9:03 -- "-Depleted – The Ogalala Aquifer under Nebraska is headed that way"
ReplyDeleteThat's pretty scary ... an entire ice age's melt off gone in a hundred years ... so what will the midwest do for the next century?
@Name Curious - I got the name from my son - which is a partial anagram of my name. I didn't like the full anagram - which is a very weird way to get the moniker - but we are a quirky family!
ReplyDeletePK - Well, then, let's fix that: POLLY POCKETs ad.
ReplyDeleteMy little sisters (oldest Sis is 9 yrs younger than I #SecondWife) drove me nuts with that jingle.
Cheers, -T
AnonT
ReplyDeleteOh! That's POLLY POCKET. Now I remember my youngest granddaughter playing with those. I just wasn't sure of what I looked like.
Bill G
It's always great to see you here!
Just for the record, I took Chris Rock's "joke" to be a compliment to Jada Pinkett Smith.
ReplyDeleteHaving one's shaved head (that one already knows looks handsome, floating above that glamour gown!)
compared to Demi Moore's fine scalp
can only be a remark on similar beauties!
The general audience response was the 'laughter of recognition,"
not mockery.
Most of the audience didn't miss it, although the later commentators have.
If Jada didn't like it, she was missing the point.
~ OMK
Tony, re: POLLY POCKET. Gee, I didn't know how lucky I was without hearing that.
ReplyDeleteBill G: missed you!
OMK, I agree about Jada. She looked lovely with her shaved head. It did not seem like a knock to me.
ReplyDeleteI will write more later.