Piano Lessons: One of the first music lessons teaches the notes of the scale. How to remember the notes? Do today's puzzle!
17-Across. * __ day: on alternating days: EVERY OTHER.
25-Across. * Aussie's "Well done!": GOOD ON YOU.
31-Across. * One with the motto "Be Prepared": BOY SCOUT.
42-Across. * Serves a prison sentence: DOES TIME.
47-Across. * Part of the contract where gotchas might be found: FINE PRINT.
59-Across. The first words of the answers to starred clues are a mnemonic for this musical symbol's staff lines: TREBLE CLEF. The notes on the lines are E G B D F. The mnemonic for the open spaces is FACE.
Back when I was taking piano lessons, the phrase was Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge. I guess the diet police have determined that eating too much fudge is not good. I thought of our resident musician when I caught the theme to today's puzzle. Hi, JazzB!
There is a lot of opportunity for some music today, which is appropriate for today's theme.
A big Thank You to Boomer who stood in for me for the past two weeks while I was dealing with my Dad's estate.
Across:
1. Chesapeake shellfish: CRAB.
10. Perfect tennis serves: ACES.
14. Can't stand: HATE.
15. Band whose debut album "Dreamboat Annie" was released in the U.S. on Valentine's Day in 1976: HEART.
19. Thought: IDEA.
24. Pallid: WAN.
28. Historic period: ERA.
38. Brazenly obvious: BLATANT.
41. Determined to have: SET ON. I've got my heart Set On a new sofa.
43. Daily record, as on a ship: LOG BOOK.
53. Talk incessantly: YAK.
54. "You're the One That I Want" musical: GREASE.
62. Back up, on a PC: UN DO. Not back up as in store, but back up as in OOPS!
63. Philadelphia NFLer: EAGLE.
64. Winter wear: COAT.
66. Struck down, biblically: SMOTE.
67. Pantry pests: ANTS.
Down:
1. "Believe" singer: CHER.
3. Eroded: ATE AWAY AT.
5. Not barefoot: SHOD.
6. Drenched, e.g.: WET.
7. "That feels good": AAH!
8. Seismic event: TREMOR.
9. Long step: STRIDE.
11. Escalade, casually: CADDY. The Escalade is made by Cadillac.
12. Kids' song refrain: E-I-E-I-O.
13. Big blunder: SNAFU.
18. Hankering: YEN. Also the name of Japanese currency.
22. Barrel-shaped drums: CONGAs.
26. Uneaten morsel: ORT. This used to be a crossword staple.
27. A-bomb tryout: N-TEST.
28. Recedes to the sea: EBBS.
29. Part in a play: ROLE.
30. "An ounce of action is worth a __ of theory": Emerson (probably): TON.
32. Pilfered: STOLE.
33. Suspended cover above a bed: CANOPY.
36. "Tickle Me" Muppet: ELMO.
37. Hearty entrée: STEW.
39. Chimney sweep's target: SOOT.
40. "A mouse!": EEK.
44. Fireplace inserts: GRATES.
45. Yoga-as-exercise namesake: BIKRAM. Also known as Hot Yoga.
47. Roman place of assembly: FORUM.
48. Foolish: INANE.
49. Brainiacs, maybe: NERDS. Where did this word come from?
50. Valuable deposit: ORE.
51. Muslim holy city: MECCA.
54. Joy: GLEE.
55. Usher's offering: SEAT.
56. Young newts: EFTS. They are cute little critters.
58. Dawn goddess: EOS.
60. Alter __: EGO.
61. Three-letter sandwich: BLT. As in a Bacon, Lettuce, and Tomato sandwich.
חתולה
Hi Y'all! Really fun and easy puzzle, thanks, Jesse!
ReplyDeleteNice to see you back, Hahtoolah, altho you had a capable replacement. Hope your dad's estate goes well without too many problems. I was executor of two estates in three years many years ago. Not fun times.
Got off to a poor start with Clam, CRAw, oh CRAB! Made me a little CRABby to be wrong so soon.
EFTS: I had a tiny little lizard running around on my porch yesterday to my delight. I had never seen a lizard in this part of the country.
Reclined = LAIN? With the ed ending I wanted LAId.
United = not wed but ONE.
My mom was a music teacher who drilled into my head at the age of 5, EVERY GOOD BOY DOES FINE. She was disappointed that I never became an accomplished pianist like she was.
FIRight. It's early in the week.
ReplyDeleteGot the theme at BOY, and filled in DOES FINE before even looking at the clues.
I learned this when I was in grade school, but tin ear that I had even then, I didn't understand what it meant. In fact, even now in my dotage, I only vaguely understand it. I mean, if you're going to letter the lines, wouldn't BOY DOES EVERY FINE GOOD be more logical? After all the complimentary All Cows Eat Grass is in alpha order, not shuffled.
EVERY day I try to compose
GOOD l'icks of poetry, not prose.
BOY, what I write
DOES seem so trite --
FINE literature I leave for the pros!
Said the ANT to the EAGLE, "I'm sorry
You live all alone in your aerie.
My home is a hill
Myriad friends fill!"
Said the eagle, "To not soar, I'd find scary!"
{A, B.}
Good to have you back Susan. In Florida where attorneys are required to file estates, the burden on the Personal Representative (executor/executrix) is lifted.
ReplyDeleteI am with OKL as being non-musical. My high school music teacher told me just to lip-sync as my singing "was not only awful, but made everyone around me worse."
Yogi and Yoga appearing often lately.
No doubt today's ALI would be WONG for this blog.
Thank you Jesse and Hahtoolah
Good Morning, Crossword friends. This puzzle brought me back to grade school days when I was taking piano lessons. I took lessons for several years, I was never very good at it, but it did give me a pretty good foundation for when I took up the flute a few years later.
ReplyDeleteWe have tickets to see the Immersive Van Gogh exhibit tomorrow. I have heard it is quite an experience and am looking forward to seeing it. Has anyone else seen this traveling exhibit?
QOD: It’s better to be a has-been than a never-was. ~ Tiny Tim (né Herbert Buckingham Khaury; Apr. 12, 1932 ~ Nov. 30, 1996), American singer
I had some musical training in my youth (I played the French horn in the school band) so this puzzle was pretty much a gimme for me. Also, good to have you back, Hahtoolah. Like most of the other moderators here, your contributions are ingenious and hilarious!
ReplyDeleteGood morning!
ReplyDeleteThe Wite-Out remained in the drawer during this rush to the bottom. Reveal? d-o did not notice it. Theme? d-o did not find it. Typical Tuesday. Thanx, Jesse and Hahtoolah. (It was "Does Fine" in my ute. "Deserves Fudge" must've been a later revision.)
FIR, but erased bongos for the unknown (by me) CONGAS. Waited for yap/YAK and ents/EFTS.
ReplyDeleteTo me, a SNAFU isn't a blunder (or any other event), it is a situation. It can be caused or triggered by a blunder, but isn't the blunder itself.
I'll never forget Obama's MIC drop blunder regarding Trump: "at least I will go down in history as having actually BEEN president".
Back from an extended weekend of golf in Myrtle Beach with two other codgers. (it was supposed to be three others, but one cancelled at the last minute due to a business SNAFU). I printed and finished the puzzles, but didn't have time to check in at the Corner. There are few things as effective at reminding one of his advancing years as playing four rounds of golf in four days.
Thanks to Jesse and Hahtoolah for the fun.
Good Morning:
ReplyDeleteI did not see the theme until the reveal clue but I like to be surprised, so that’s okay. Does Fine is what I learned during my futile, unsuccessful piano lesson’s misadventure. I’m not familiar with the comedian, Ali, or the Bikram yoga term, but everything fell into place quite easily. Unlike yesterday, I didn’t miss today’s cast of creature features: Yak, Ants, Eagle, Crab, Efts, Eek, EIEIO, Shod, Swats, and Coat (Fur). We also had several fun pairings with Sea/Ebbs, Wet/Torrent, Ort/Ore, Don/Ton, and Soot/Grates. CSOs to Golfing Group (Caddy), Crab (Maryland resident, Bill), IT Guys (Nerds), Keith (Role), Lucina (Nail Salon), and, again, Inanehiker (Inane).
Thanks, Jesse, for an easy and pleasant solve and thanks, Hahtoolah, for a fun and fact-filled expo. My favorites today were the Anteaters and Noah’s “Ark” cartoons. I’ll read the Gene article later as, coincidentally, I recently supplied a DNA sample for analysis and am looking forward to finding out a lot more about my ancestry. Boomer did a super job filling in for you, but you were missed just the same. Welcome back!
Owen, A and A.
PK, seems like you and the Sandman are at odds again.
Does anyone watch The Good Doctor? The story arc in the last couple of episodes have been kooky, IMO, but last night’s took the cake for silliness and lack of credibility. I think it’s time to call it a day for this show, or time for me to give up on it.
FLN
Nice to hear from you, Bill G, don’t be a stranger.
Anonymous T, did you get my recent email?
Have a great day.
Took 4:22 to get the congratulatory "note."
ReplyDeleteI saw the immersive Van Gogh exhibit late 2021, and really enjoyed it. It lasts about 35-40 minutes. Seemed a little overpriced, but everything else is these days too.
FIR in 14. Nice easy-breezy Tuesday, thanx, JG. A few minutes were added in the NE as I kept reading “Escalade” as “Escalate”. AND “LAIN” seemed to lame to be a possible fill for 16A. The rest of the CW filled pretty quickly, then I went back to the NE, and still read “Escalate”, so couldn’t see how “CADDY” had to do with escalating anything, thinking of golf. Finally just declared the CW done, and wrote down my time. I STILL didn’t see “Escalade” until I came to Susan’s write-up, then the V-8 can hit. I didn’t get the theme until I filled the reveal and went back and had a look. Nice write-up, Hahtoolah, good to see you back.
ReplyDeleteFIW. Never heard of the Ausie phrase, and had "h test" penciled in.
ReplyDeleteWelcome back Hahtoolah! I know that all on the corner missed your sparkling reviews, but you had a very capable sub in your absence. Thanks Boomer for filling in, and I hope you respond better to your upcoming treatments, keeping you in my prayers that you will regain your health.
ReplyDeleteI haven’t posted any comments as of late due to a sorta hectic schedule but I do the puzzle everyday, read the expos and all the comments as I always find the Corner entertaining, thanks to all who post on here! Today’s grid had a typical Tuesday feel, never heard of BIKRAM but the perps helped with that. Also got hung up for a bit on the Aussie expression as KS did, but I managed a FIR in 15 minutes, slow for a Tuesday and way way behind SS. Thanks Jesse for providing my morning entertainment! I remembered the staff mnemonics from grade school, but they never really made sense till I learned about music theory on my own later in life. Also remember not being allowed in the choir cuz I couldn’t match my voice with the nun’s stupid pitch pipe, temporarily scarring my psyche 😂.
Susan ~~ such a lovely write-up today, replete with your illustrations, cartoons and links! Especially liked the Noah, Sven, and shoe cartoons, thanks for your time and effort putting this together! I haven’t been to the Immersive Van Gogh exhibit yet, but plan to as it is highly recommended by a friend that recently went, and it is at the UTC in Sarasota only a few miles from me in Lakewood Ranch.
And finally ~~ a very belated happy b/day to Irish Miss ☘️, always appreciate your insights to the puzzles, which I invariably fail to see!
Re. IDEA… We call it the V8 can as in last Saturday when Serviceman = PARSON dawned
ReplyDeleteWe had an ORT and an EFT but no ERG today.
When I was driving the shuttle we had a New "Yawker" relate how she chased down a gecko and smashed it with her shoe- to the horror of the van occupants
Two W's today. Owen. Yes, those who delight in doggerel are dwindling
Jinx, or three rounds in one day(with b-i-l- he was up for making it 72 holes)
Hahtoolah, welcome back. Subgenius put it perfectly
I not only missed the Theme but a third of the clues like CADDY
WC
Fun puzzle, fun write up,
ReplyDeleteThere is only one minor nit this old Aussie has to say...
(But Aussies say, "No Worries.")
And that has to be, the long drawn out, "Good on You..."
(Good lord!)
That's not Aussie!
Sound more British to me, as if spoken with a stiff upper lip!
it's pronounced "good on ya"!
The salt mine link is a very interesting story.
here is a you tube link if you want more.
(Like how the water rushing into the mine trapped air pockets until they were compressed so much they exploded all around town, no one knowing where or when the ground would explode underneath ya!)
Well, anyway, I'm outta here...
( I think I've caused enough treble...)
Happy to welcome Ms. Hahtoolah back. I just wanted to mention an oddity that I saw. I was watching TV this morning (It's what old people do) and a company called Window Concepts advertised that if you purchase one window, you may receive a second one at 50 % off. It made me wonder what would anyone do with half a window ??
ReplyDeleteLike others I too had a FIR today. Like OwenKL I saw what was happening with BOY and prefilled DOES FINE. Unlike DO several WOs were needed, including Clam/CRAB right at the start (Hi, PK!). Thanks Jesse for a fine Tuesday puzzle and Hahtoolah for the review. Welcome back!
ReplyDeleteI learned to read music at age 9 while taking accordion lessons. Later took piano lessons and ended up playing the French horn in high school like Subgenius. I enjoyed playing in a group.
I also enjoyed hearing from you today, YooperPhil and last night from Bill G. Where are some of our other regulars?
On with the day, now. See you all later.
בוקר טוב Cat, it's nice to have you (and the cartoons that you bring with you) back. Thanks for pinch-hitting, Boomer.
ReplyDeleteMusings
ReplyDelete-I hope Jesse got paid at least “scale” for this puzzle of “note”.
-I just said the first word of the first three *fills and, boom, I had the gimmick! Fun.
-Using LAIN/laid or who/whom correctly can make you sound a little _____.
-“Why so pale and WAN, fond lover” has stuck with me since high school
-My poor brother got the GENE for asthma and alcoholism
-Ear worm alert: I’ve Got My Mind SET ON You
-Jack Nicholson turned down the ROLE of Michael Corleone in The Godfather because he said, “Indians should play Indians and Italians should play Italians.”
-Corollary to the Einstein quote, “He was the smartest guy in the unemployment line”
-BIKRAM – Our wonderful editors seem to have a cover charge of at least one obscure word every day
-Susan, It’s so good seeing you and the robins return!
Boomer, I think it could be a good thing or a bad thing. Depends on whether you see the window glass as half open or half closed.
ReplyDeleteWC - O. M. G.
I can't even imagine playing three rounds in a day, but I know a few people who plan their outings for morning and afternoon rounds. My problem is that I neglect my so-called game after my annual Myrtle Beach boondoggle until my winter trip in Florida, then hit the ranges and play a few rounds to prepare for that year's Myrtle Beach trip. I have a friend in Ocala who lives on a golf course. He's even older than me, but he plays 18 almost every day without ill effects (except his skin looks like shoe leather).
I know I said "I'm outta here,"
ReplyDeleteas "I have caused enough trouble (or treble.)"
But I just had to test post, (yes, you are my guinea pigs.)
How to post you own YouTube videos...
I have done it from a PC before, but found it impossible from an IPAD or IPHONE...
hmm, I just know discovered by accident, if you double click the shift button really fast, it will continue typing in all caps!
(Prepare for a lot of yelling from ME IN FUTURE!)
Anywho,
I only suffer this annoyance on you because it fits so nicely with the puzzle theme.
(And Irish Miss was right. I AM an Imp!)
To make a long story longer,
Daughter #3 is now a music teacher of 1st to 3rd grade children, and asked me if I would be kind enough to create a video for her class on how to tune a guitar (for young children). I did just such a video, but, being me, I also created a follow up video on how to cheat!
The original video explains the open string guitar tuning of E, A, D, G, B, E, As:
Eddie
Ate
Dynamite
Good
Bye
Eddie
here is the addendum, how to cheat video...
Oh,
Also, it is possible to upload vids from iPhone or iPad when he App is missing the camera icon.
Just look at the bottom of the screen.
That big stupid "+" sign is actually a way to get to other screen options!,!!.!
This MUSICAL person enjoyed the TREBLE CLEF theme today. Got it right away.
ReplyDeleteLast Tuesday I shared our MUSICAL performance from April 3. We did a total of five performances, including for over 300 school children. They are the toughest audience and I was delighted with how attentive and engaged they were. Our music was from the Plague of the 1300s. Some of the kids found that creepy and others thought it was cool!
Our grand finale was at the Carpinteria Community Church. Afterwards, we went for a walk through the Carpinteria Salt Marsh.
We were treated to this CRAB glaring at us as it "fiddled" and frothed to keeps its gills moist.
We had some more extraordinary treats there, which I might share another time.
HG,
ReplyDeleteOMG!
I never saw that version of "I've got my mind set on you"!
Looks like he filmed it in Disney's Haunted Mansion!
EXCELLENT!
Picard,
all I can say is (with my new found caps lock,)
AAAHH! MAD CRAB! MAD CRAB!
Hahtoolah Welcome back and thanks for all of the illustrations, humor and videos. I have had the pleasure of watching Jackson Browne perform that LOW song quite a few times. He lives here and does fund raiser performances often. I also immediately thought of it when I saw LOW!
ReplyDeleteFrom Yesterday:
Husker Gary Thanks for the Painful Pun about Noah to go with the PPs theme!
AnonT A Google search of PPS vs PSS turned up many hits showing people really do use PSS by mistake and I am not the only grammarian who finds it annoying! Glad you enjoyed my heroic PINE photo. And thanks for the POLLY POCKET video. I now understand the concept.
CrossEyedDave Thanks for sharing the story of Fred the Christmas PINE.
ATE AWAY at the puzzle phairly phast. But the theme? EVERY GOOD BOY DOES TIME? (oh sorry, never mind)
ReplyDeleteYOGI BERRA, Smarter than the av-er-age ball player..Loved the Arch and Anteater cartoons. BIKRAM will indubitably appear again and I expect to undoubtedly forget it...again.🙄
Inkovers: arcs/ACES,
aHH or AAH? that is the question. AHA!! "Deluge":flood, TORRENT: rapid rushing water. (not eggzackly the same.) and a computer term as well it seems. Is SEASALT really a condiment or just full blown flattery? 😁
We stopped using "Sea" salt a couple of years ago, heaviest microplastic contamination.🧂
Who ___ JR Ewing and then his horse?....SHOD
Links aide....CADDY
"Aunt Bea, _____ come out and play?"... CANOPY
Calligraphy....FINEPRINT
The thought of my upcoming piano recital used to make me ____ with apprehension....TREBLE.
Lot of April showers now that the SNOW has stopped. 😒
Hola!
ReplyDeleteWelcome back, Susan!
Shades of elementary school music classes! EGBDF is firmly etched in my mind though I am not musically talented in any way nor do I play an instrument. But our K-8 music teacher drilled it into us. We called her Miss K because she had a supposedly unpronounceable name.
CSO to my daughter who loves the movie GREASE even to the point of knowing most of the lines.
Amazingly CHER also acted in movies. "Tea for Mussolini" is one of her best, IMO, as is "Moonstruck." I've watched both several times and never tire of them.
One of my neighbors has a nice red CADDY.
Yes, thank you for the CSO at NAIL SALON where I plan to go later this week.
Thank you, Jesse Goldberg and Susan for giving us today's treat!
Enjoy your day, everyone!
Fun Tuesday puzzle, many thanks, Jesse. And, Susan, nice to have you back and thanks for your neat commentary.
ReplyDeleteHad no trouble getting EIEIO and SNAFU. But CADDY stumped me and I still don't really get it.
Got GENES instantly even though I'm not a biologist.
The clue for bloody as steak made RARE easy.
And, of course, I loved tickle me ELMO.
Have a great day, everybody.
Thank you Jesse for a a fine Tuesday puzzle. Didn't really need the theme for a FIR, but it was NOTEWORTHY nonetheless. And thank you Hahtoolah for the usual Tuesday hilarity. Glad to have you back.
ReplyDeleteA few favs:
9A CRAB. My favorite shellfish. Picking the meat out of them is a skill acquired at an early age in Maryland on a parent's knee. Or you can pay someone else to pick them and eat them as broiled CRAB CAKES: Jumbo lump crab meat, some egg to bind them, and lots of Old Bay Seasoning. Yummers!
39A SALT. Incredible story Susan. A perfect illustration of chaos theory - "Significant dependence on initial conditions" (for the want of a drill bit!). What a 65A!!! What a 13D!!!
63A EAGLE. Also the desired rank of every 31A.
8D TREMOR. A CSO to Jayce.
49D INANE. A second CSO this week to our favorite hiker.
Cheers,
Bill
Word of the Day ditto
ReplyDeletePart of Speech: Noun
Meaning: 1. The aforesaid, the same as was just spoken or printed above. 2. The same or similar thing.
Notes: While today's word has a meager lexical family, it itself may be used as an adjective (a ditto day) or verb (to ditto what somebody else says). Rush Limbaugh fans called themselves dittoheads, and dittoship and dittology have all had brief careers in the past. Ditto is usually symbolized with the double quote sign (").
In Play: DittoDitto is a silly option to avoid repetition in a language that is rife with repetition: "Jack Daniels came to work Monday morning rather the worse for liquor and it was said, ditto last night." Repetitions like 'red, red rose' and 'Sing! Sing! Sing!' are commonplace in English: "Agnes came to the party in dittos of Maude Lynn Dresser's attire."
Word History: Today's Good Word was borrowed from the Tuscan dialect of Italian, ditto "(in) the said (month or year)", a variant of literary Italian detto "(already) said", the past participle of dire "to say"
For more info see Word of the Day
Waz I had an Uncle Mario Mario. (if still alive he coulda sued Super Mario Bros.)
ReplyDeleteAnyway
Dad called him Uncle Mario Ditto 😆
Just an aside and a heads-up - Looks like today's subway shooter in New York wasn't captured by security cameras because they weren't working. A week or so ago our local TV station found out that a crime wave in our city-owned parking garages weren't caught on video because ALL of the cameras were inoperative. Bureaucrats love to build new stuff. But they hate to fund maintenance, which doesn't garner speech-making and photo ops.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to contact my local council member, and ask her whether she is being kept current on the promised repair progress. She's pretty good about following up when reminded. You might want to find out if your community places importance on the repair of these important devices.
have reclined/ have lain
ReplyDeleteI liked this puzzle and all your comments.
ReplyDeleteT(h)rilling Tuesday. Thanks for the fun, Jesse and Hahtoolah (welcome back).
ReplyDeleteI FIRed in good time early this morning, but then the day got busy and I didn’t get here.
My years of piano lessons gave me the theme very early.(hello PK)
One hesitation to decide between Yap and YAK; the K sounded better in BIKRAM.
WEES by now.
Good evening to all.
Perfect Tues PZL.
ReplyDeleteExcept no diags. Hence, no "DR."
~ OMK
FIR. As with others, being a once upon a time music student, the theme and reveal were filled in very early. Mine was a trumpet from fourth grade through high school. Unlike my smarter than I uncle, I gave it up upon graduation. He’s still making money playing trombone in the Hilton Head area.
ReplyDeleteAfter spending three years playing “Pomp and Circumstance” for the graduating seniors, it’s always nice when the underclassmen have to play it for you.
Thanks, Jesse! Glad you’re back, Hahtoolah!
I too questioned LAIN. I’m no grammarian, and I don’t play one on TV, but it didn’t seem correct to me.
Not only am I familiar with SNAFU, I am well acquainted with his cousin, FUBAR (…Beyond All Repair).
Hi All!
ReplyDeleteThanks Jesse for the musical scale puzzle. Very nice.
Welcome back, Hahtoolah. You (and your comic-laden expos) were missed.
//I went to the Immersive Van Gogh. I suppose I was expecting more for the price (maybe see an oil!) but it was, overall, pretty cool. Enjoy and make sure you get a souvenir ;-)
WOs: I put ELMO in SOOT's squares, bONGoS, tINy PRINT [thank you theme!]
ESPs: DON, BIKRAM (Hi IM!)
Fav: You had me at "Dreamboat Annie." I didn't even finish reading the clue.
//Mom's friend had this album - I heard it when I was 7yro. What a great record.
{A+, B}
FLN - Lovely to see you BillG!
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Irish Miss - I found the message. I'll get back to you.
PSA - Do NOT interact with SPAM. Clicking opt-out lets spammers know they have a "live" account and then can sell it as "verified live."
//this does not apply if you can verify the "spam" is from a reputable company (e.g. Best Buy, Macys, etc.). You really can opt-out from them.
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I got piano lessons thrust upon me while my younger brother got to choose the drums. He still plays in his "dad band."
I learned the CLEF as 'Does Fine.'
@7:22am - I was expecting you to say you "scaled" the puzzle in <insert solve time> :-)
For a while, it seemed every Houston upstream Oil & Gas company had an office in Perth. I heard, "GOOD ON 'YA, mate" so often that it entered my vernacular.
Jinx: ++maintenance. Re: shooting. I saw the news coming across my computer with my tweetdeck* on it. "Aw s***, another shooting?" and I continued working while glancing at the tweetdeck for updates.
My cell phone rings.
"Dad, if you've not seen the news, I'm OK."
OMG! I didn't put two-and-two together - Youngest is in NYC!
*whew* I never had to worry
Ray-O: LOL 'can opie'
Cheers, -T
*a tweetdeck is set of panels of filtered Tweets. I have panels filtering for #breaking, Malware Hunters, #Malware OR #Ransomware, etc. email me if you want to know more
Hey, Leo, I learned that as F..... up beyond all recognition.
ReplyDeleteAnd TARFU, Things are really f..... Up.
And don't forget the edible, but Japanese, version:
ReplyDeleteTOFU ... Totally, Overwhelmingly Fouled Up.
All of those are very valid. However, things that I mess up usually cannot be repaired. We can usually recognize them, but that's about all.
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ReplyDeleteThank you Jesse Goldberg for a relatively easy, Tuesday. I enjoyed the solve.
Thank you Hahtoolah, and welcome back ! Boomer did a pretty good job, but your jokes ad cartoons are invaluable. I had to file an estate tax returns for a couple of estates, and I struggled with the rules. Fortunately, there was not Federal or State taxes involved ... the estates were willed to a surviving spouse ... which, since Ronald Reagan's times is conducted tax free.
I am not familiar with the term Bikram yoga, and was not surprised to find out that it was named for the guy who started the franchise. I mean, some people will come up with all sorts of gimmicks.