Theme: Three-peat
17. Admonition to an Egyptian boy king?: TUT TUT TUT.
29. Pothole filler made from fish-and-chips sauce?: TARTAR TAR.
46. Say farewell to a Dickens character?: PIP PIP PIP.
62. Is able to do high kicks in a chorus line?: CAN CANCAN.
Boomer here. Monday trot for Tom & his TomTom.
GRR,
GRR, GRR,- Waiting impatiently for my shoulder surgery, now scheduled
for next Tuesday May 31. I wish all of you a happy Memorial Day a week
from today.
Across:
5. Mardi Gras wear: MASK. COVID is not over. We still wear ours in stores, church, and required at the VA Medical center.
9. Britcom with Eddie and Patsy, for short: AB FAB.
14. Minnesota representative Ilhan: OMAR. Yes and I am not in favor of her. Our District Rep is Dean Phillips. His father was killed in Vietnam and his grandmother was Abigail Van Buren whom you may remember as Dear Abby.
15. Not pro: ANTI.
16. Gibbs of "The Jeffersons": MARLA.
19. Helps out illegally: ABETS. I usually make ABETS or more at the craps table.
20. Ending for "Black," "Mixed," and "Grown," in sitcom names: ISH. Or what you might say after eating rotten tomatoes.
21. Olfactory assault: STENCH. I smell something.
23. "Everything Everywhere All at Once" star Michelle: YEOH.
24. Conical shelter: TEEPEE. Many Native Americans in Minnesota still live in these.
26. "Which of the two will it be?": A OR B. I'll take C.
28. Shepherd's tool: ROD. Twins retired infielder Carew.
34. Was sure about: KNEW. I KNEW it because I saw him play.
36. Chatter away: GAB.
37. Amnesiac's query: WHO AM I?
38. Secret language: CODE.
39. "Becoming" memoirist Michelle: OBAMA. A really kind first lady.
41. Uno, dos, __: TRES. Quadro, Cinco, etc.
42. Reversals: U-TURNS. I hate them but the roads around Mall of America are so screwed up, we had to make one to get into the parking lot.
44. "Succession" actor Brian: COX. I only remember Wally.
45. Hit the horn: HONK. If you park at Mall of America.
48. Thus far: YET.
49. Aspire laptop maker: ACER.
50. Alternative to Alpine, in skiing: NORDIC. All of our ski
slopes are closed. You may want to check up in International Falls. I
think they had temps in the 20s last week.
53. Current options: AC DC. Also a rock band from Australia. We only have AC in our home. If we need DC, we use batteries,
56. Enjoyed, as a lollipop: LICKED. Or an ice cream cone.
59. WNW's opposite: ESE.
60. Plumbing issues: LEAKS.
64. TV spot seller: AD REP. I get tired of these ads.
65. "Black Panther" villain Killmonger: ERIK.
66. Pinochle-like card game: SKAT.
67. Far from posh: SEEDY. C.C. made a nice flower garden in front of our home. But some SEEDY squirrels destroyed some tulips!
68. Gels: SETS.
69. Inquires: ASKS. No one ever ASKS me anything. They just TELL me.
Down:
2. Cause to chuckle: AMUSE. COVID has cancelled the Graybar reunion in Las Vegas for two years so My Cause to Chuckle performance will have to wait.
3. Sudsy: LATHERED UP.
4. Class with easels: ART. Garfunkel or Linkletter.
5. Like low-shine lipstick: MATTE. Ugly paint.
6. Get the poker pot going: ANTE. At the caddy shack in the 60s, a nickel got me in.
7. Leave speechless: STUN.
8. Vehicle that's built after it's bought: KIT CAR. I only buy cars that are already put together.
9. Doc's org.: AMA.
10. Brand-new sibling, perhaps: BABY BROTHER. Never had one, but three of the other kind and they all left for California years ago.
11. On the house: FREE. If you entered ROOF, try again.
12. Palo __, California: ALTO. Nope, my sisters are all in or
near San Francisco. My older sister bought a home in the 1960s near
Haight Ashbury for about 60 grand and now turns down offers over two
million!
13. Big celebration: BASH.
18. Didn't waste: USED. My golf clubs are not being used this summer. Darn spinal cord.
22. Hair removal substance: HOT WAX. Not on me. I used chemo therapy.
25. Like energy bars, in adspeak: POWER-PACKED.
27. "Go team!": RAH. Just one RAH ???
29. Bar bill: TAB. I used to have a small one after leaving work. No more.
30. Mechanical arithmetic aids: ABACI.
31. Card sets sold in New Age shops: TAROT DECKS. Never played it.
32. Prayer ending: AMEN. But deliver us from evil. ----
33. Expose to danger: RISK. A great board game.
34. Single-serve coffee pod: K CUP. Not a bra.
35. Words of denial: NOT I. Me neither
36. Mass communication?: GOSPEL. Always a very long one on Palm Sunday.
40. Floor-washing tool: MOP.
43. Actor Cage, casually: NIC.
47. Comparison shopper's data: PRICES. Inflation is skyrocketing.
48. Green Jedi with his own grammar: YODA.
50. Parts of mandolins: NECKS. A happening at night at Eloise Butlers Flower Gardens in Minneapolis.
51. "Wicked Game" singer Chris: ISAAK.
52. Euro fractions: CENTS.
53. Woeful word: ALAS. Not one of the four letter words that I use.
54. Formally transfer: CEDE.
55. Truth or __: DARE. DARE to be great!
57. "Ask me if I __!": CARE. Of course I do.
58. Make mittens, say: KNIT.
61. Secret agent: SPY. Also stock symbol for Standard & Poors 500 index.
63. Hush-hush org.: NSA.
Boomer
47 comments:
Good morning Boomer and everyone. This played like a Monday without the new twists. It is good to start the week with a Boomer write-up. The wait for your surgery is going fast and we all wish you the best.
Jake and this repeat letters theme have both been here before which makes a perfect introductory puzzle
Have great week alll
I'm an Englishman of breeding, and I'm hip.
When PIP was going, I bade him PIP-PIP!
In Paris, if he CAN,
He'll dance a CAN-CAN;
And a TUT-TUT to TUT's in the script!
There's a new BABY BROTHER in the house!
My TAROT DECK warns he'll be a louse.
Get our Father in a LATHER,
Keep our Mother in a blather;
He'll be POWER PACKED with mischief, I've no doubt!
{B+, B+.}
Good morning!
Yay, d-o got the theme. (Well, it is Monday.) Thought this one had some crunch -- proof that it wasn't stale. Took four minutes longer than usual. Didn't understand PIP PIP PIP. Have never heard PIP-PIP as a parting word. You? Knew SKAT immediately. My father was a SKAT player. His 3-player group met every Monday. Play began at 7, paused for one beer at 9, and then wrapped up before 10. Thanx for the outing Jake, and for the humorous expo, Boomer. (Glad you're able to wise-crack about chemo being a "hair removal substance." Good luck with your surgery next week.)
Boomer, I see Rougned(ODOR) had two walkoffs this weekend
Gal-ah. From Saturday we learned TAROT has two ARCANAs
Aaarrrggghhh!!!! I couldn't think of the little fella's name and inked YOtA leaving me with LICK at and NaCKS
I was miffed about Monday latimer becoming a TV Guide style xword that I got careless. And…
Actually nailed all the pop-cul
YEOH was actually familiar after BASH replaced fete
Sorry to hear about Splynter's mom. Wish he'd say hello. I wonder if he'd like the Chet and Lois story over at the J
WC
FIR, but erased cia for NSA, and ad man for AD REP. Never heard of PIP-PIP or KIT CAR. (I have heard of car body kits that are made to be assembled onto a VW Bug chassis to make them look a little like Rolls Royce or Duesenberg cars, but those aren't KIT CARs. When I was a kid "everyone knew" that you could buy a brand-new Army surplus Jeep for $25, but it would come packed in cosmoline and completely disassembled. My first urban myth.)
GOTIT can be parsed to fit with RAH.
Why are lollipops called "suckers", not "LICKers"? I can't hold my likker, so I quit a little more than six years ago.
Any men here get HOT WAX treatments? I'm thinking that if you aren't genetically designed to endure childbirth, you can't handle a HOT WAXing. Besides, most of us don't wear bikinis.
I was a BABY BROTHER. Even as a septuagenarian, I am still introduced that way by my elderly sisters.
Thanks to Jake for the mostly-fun puzzle. Still way too much show biz stiff for my liking. And thanks to Boomer. Your commentary never has too much show biz. Glad you get your wing fixed next week.
FIR. Nice Monday romp, easy and light.
Took 5:38 today.
Like desper-otto, I'd never heard of "pip pip". I wanted tsk tsk Tut, not having also heard of "tut tut."
Remembered the Killmonger character, but not his first name, and didn't know Yeoh (who?), Marla, or AbFab.
Thak You Jake Halperin for a very easy pozzle, and ALL my first guesses were Korrect ...
Fastest time yet !!! Thank you for a great beginning of the oncoming week !
Thank You Boomer, for your review and commentary ... Best wishes and prayers for a very successful surgery and hopefully an end to most of your miseries. The surgeon better spend his/her time on Memorial Day prepping up for the big operation.. Best wishes to CC,as well.
I knew of PIP as in ..... Phillip Pirrip, alias Pip,..... on the second page of 'Great Expectations'. my school text book, required reading, and my first book by Dickens, that I ( had to ---- ) ... read in the original...
The book is too lomg, and for a school text ... and went on and ON ... and had too many characters ... but we had no choice but to cram all of them, as fast as we could. The ending was anti-climatic ... to say, the least. I hated Estrella and Miss Havisham !!!
I got the theme very early, which helped A LOT.
If I remember right ... Marla Gibbs, was the sassy housemaid of the Jeffersons, and she could get away with murder ... ha, ha, ha.
My wife has never / and will never join the AMA, for political reasons, ... long story.
Have a great Monday , and the rest of the week, you all.
FIR, but needed perps and wags. This puzzle doesn't seem to be encouraging for new solvers. (See the name dense NE corner.) ERIK, ISAAK and COX were new to me. Other proper nouns needed a perp or two to remember them, especially YEOH, which sounds like a scream of pain. The theme was easy to suss.
I do not care for the game of RISK. It seems to go on and on and on.
LATHERED up could be a synonym for last week's roiled or riled, irritated.
We called those car models sets for you to assemble car kits. Kit car makes sense but sounds awkward.
Boomer, fun write up. Glad you can keep your sense of humor.
Unclefred, I feel for you with all your house woes.
The fun theme made a usually fast Monday even faster!
A friend who is a Lockheed engineer has an airplane he built from a KIT. You can't assemble it all by yourself - because it has to have various steps signed off to be legal to fly.
Michelle YEOH is a talented actress - glad she has had some more active roles recently than just the "stern mom" role she was playing for awhile like in "Crazy, Rich Asians" which is a movie I loved.
Thanks to Boomer and Jake!
I’m not gonna say how long this took to FIR: too embarrassing! PRAYER stayed in there FOREVER where GOSPEL belonged, buggering up the center. Never heard PIPPIP, which didn’t help. I did get the theme immediately with TUTTUTTUT, so that helped. Seemed like a lot of proper names, 7, for a Monday. Only knew OBAMA. MARLA came to me once I had two perps. Thanx for the entertainment, JH. And thanx for your usual entertaining write-up, Boomer. I, too, am glad to see you keep your sense of humor and call your chemo a hair remover! Good luck with the shoulder surgery. Keep us posted please and how you are doing. Last comment: Like WC @6:46, GAL AH. Today I hope to have the solar panels installed on the roof, if they show up. This whole project has been a loooong strung out pain in the neck, starting April of 2020 with the discovery of termites, right through the replacement of the entire roof, the re-hanging of the ceiling in the pool room, the replacement of a number of ceiling joists. Finally at the point of installing the solar. IF they show up. They delivered the 27 solar panels Friday and they sat in front of my house over the weekend. I live on a VERY busy street. I threw a tarp over the solar panels fearing someone would see them, back up their truck in the middle of the night, and swipe the lot. Took the tarps off today because the installers are supposed to come today. We’ll see.
May 23, 2022 at 7:28 AM
Nice weekend...fun Monday puzzle... inkover: adman/ADREP. Think this clever repetitive theme is repeating itself. (from prior CWs?).
Hope everyone was able to Write Right, Right?
We're finally spelling TEEPEE with four E's. AORB, nope, when in doubt always answer "C". The Black Panther guy and pinochle game not so Mondayish like Chris ISAAK..but.."Do you CARE?" I'm guessing EURO fractions are CENTS only in English speaking countries which is limited to Ireland (centimes in Fr, centesimi in It....etc.)
My BABY BROTHER turns 68 today 👶🎂
UTURNS not ueys, nice.
I've heard of the series "BlackISH" but not "MixedISH" or "GrownISH"... Learning moments, now I know what "PIP PIP and all that rot" means and that NORDIC is another term for cross county skiing
GIVE THE FOOLS THEIR TARTAR SAUCE
HOT WAX "40 year old Virgin" obscenity alert!!!
Ella sings "she certainly CANCANCAN"
Thank God YODA doesn't compose crossword puzzles. 🙄
Reaction to a Covid shot?...YEOH!
My Mom's two sisters..ANTI & ANTE
Why is ____ wearing lipstick?....MATTE
First item to empty shelves during COVID (abbrev)....TEEPEE
She went down the rabbit hole....ALAS
Modern music album..SEEDY
Hang in there Boomer.
A Monday FIR, thanks to Jake's clever puzzle. Getting the theme gimmick with the first TUT TUT TUT helped fill the others easily. Perps verified fill l wondered about as I eased through the puzzle. No WOs other than starting to put a B in the A's place in OBbMA. I blamed morning brain fog and instantly caught the error of my fill. Nice work, Jake!
Boomer, we are glad to see you reviewing the puzzle today and making your usual humorous comments. Hope the week going up to your surgery goes smoothly. Keep us posted.
I haven't been to a GALA and tend to pronounce it GAHLA more often, I think, like the vowel sounds in Spanish, but l say GAYLA apples. And with that I say PIP PIP, old chaps, and wish you all well today on this welcome rainy day in Atlanta.
Thank you Jake for a crunchier than usual Monday outing, which I managed to FIR. Loved the theme - it was actually helpful! Streak now at 2!
Thank you Boomer for another punful, laconic Monday review. Hang in there buddy.
Some favs:
1A GAYLA.
9A ABFAB. We recently saw Joanna Lumley in "Coming Home", based on the novel by Rosamunde Pilcher. One of her co-stars was Emily Mortimer. The whole cast was ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS.
24A TEEPEE. Similar to the YURT or GER found in Asia.
36A GOSPEL. Good News!
38A CODE. Most CODERS are bi-lingual. Unfortunately ENGLISH is not one of them.
48D YODA. My favorite quote of his was "When I see a fork in the road I take it."
13D BASH. Sort of like a GAYLA.
63D NSA. CIA didn't perp.
Cheers,
Bill
PIP PIP (along with a Cheerio!) used to be used by bad actors trying to imitate an Englishman. May have fallen out of common usage by now.
I pronounce gala as "gayla." It always brings to mind, "We'll have a gay old time." I think that, perhaps, gahla is more British.
I don't know anyone who says pip pip, but I see it often in novels.
It seems that most of the free Kindle Prime novels are by British authors. I have learned many British expressions that way. Also Kindle Prime has many novels that are first of a series, hoping you will buy the others. I enjoy them as "stand alones." Anyway, I find most series formulaic after three or four books.
"When I see a fork in the road I take it." Didn't Yogi Berra say, “When you come to a fork in the road, take it!"
Marvellous Monday. Thanks for the fun, Jake and Boomer. (Thoughts and prayers for the upcoming surgery.)
As I reported on Saturday, I worked this CW on the wrong day, and found it Monday-easy. OK, it is a Monday puzzle!
I FIRed an$ saw the triplet theme early in the solve.
I say Gal-a (no ahs). Same sound as BASH.
I smiled at ANTI crossing ANTE.
STENCH today, not Odor.
PIP PIP is British, but we don’t use it here (even though we still celebrate Queen Victoria’s birthday May 24 or last Monday before May 25). Fireworks tonight!
We usually see PIP in CWs clued as an apple SEED(y).
Wishing you all a great day.
I'm just lurking today. Didn't do the puzzle based on my new idea not to buy the paper on Monday because the cwd doesn't seem much of a challenge on that date. But, based on what I see here, it seems there were an unusual number of proper names for a Monday, IMHO, anyway. Anyway, just about everybody seems to have solved the puzzle, which is good. You go, folks!
Good Morning:
I had no trouble with the solve but I think newbies of a certain age might have some trouble with AbFab, Cox, Yeoh, Erik, and Isaak. Jake outdid himself with the fun duos today: Gospel/Amen, Dare/Care, Anti/Ante, Ese/Ish, Car/Care, Prices/Cents, Cede/Seedy, and the hat tricks of Gala/Bash/Mask and NSA/Spy/Code. CSOs to Ray O and Inanehiker (AMA), Lucina (Acer), and Madame Defarge (Knit) BTW, we miss you, Madame! My favorite C/A was Mass Communication?=Gospel. The theme was simple but Monday-cute.
Thanks, Jake, for a pleasant start to the week and thanks, Boomer, for your cheerful commentary and steadfast dedication through thick and thin. I hope your pre-op regimen goes smoothly.
Have a great day.
Boomer, IM said it well for me, just above. I have a longtime dear friend who had a similar shoulder procedure a couple of years ago and he is extremely happy with the results.
Woohoo! I sailed though this fun Monday puzzle--thank you, Jake, you've made my day. And always love your Monday commentary, Boomer, and will be thinking of your for your procedure next week.
As soon as I got TUTTUTTUT I figured out the theme. So as soon as I got TAR and ABICI, I knew that the across one would be TARTARTAR. And so it went, a total delight.
Nice to have a puzzle start with GALA and ART, bound to AMUSE us.
Nice to see Michelle OBAMA in the middle of the puzzle. Hope she was pleased.
Well, a lollipop can only be LICKED, so that was another easy one.
Lots of fun to start the week--have a good one, everybody.
Enjoyed the clever theme, well executed. Yes, way too many proper names which seems to be a thing every day now.
Here is my video at our French Festival showing girls that definitely CAN CAN CAN!
From Yesterday:
Wilbur Charles Thank you for taking the time to read my NIT WIT Ridge article in enough detail to catch the bit about "Smartphone Culture". And for validating the inexcusable Natick crossing of AIKO/OPI. Yes, M?NN/IL?NA indeed was another one of those.
I was going to skip posting for a few days until I saw your comment. Thank you!
Still waiting for any words of wisdom about the garbled puzzle printing mystery. It seems to be a bug in the LA Times web site. But it is a mystery why it works OK for some people.
I forgot to say that I usually say gay-la but also say gah'-lah at times.
And same as Vidwan's wife - I have never been an AMA member and don't plan to
Puzzling thoughts:
DNF/FIW; I left the "coast of Maine" blank in two spots: _AS_. I guess I'm going to have to remember the name "YEOH" (does she pronounce it "yee-ow" or "yow" or "yo"?). Never watched AB FAB. Somehow "BASH" never came into my cranium
I think someone else pointed out that Monday puzzles have gotten tougher
Maybe Tuesday will be easier to solve?
The theme was cute enough, and as IM pointed out, there were a lot of similar words; which are fun to see in a puzzle. I thought there were way too many proper names, though. I'm curious if Jake had the NE section of the puzzle with those words (ABFAB, MARLA, YEOH, et al) or if the editors changed this section? BABY in front of BROTHER could've been HALF, TWIN, or FRAT, for example, and provide a much easier combo of crossing words
Boomer, best to you this week and always; glad to see your humor shine!
Maybe I'll write my Friday blog today. It's (Friday's puzzle) not as tough a solve as some of the previous ones
Apparently PIP PIP really is slang for GOODBYE, at least according to the Oxford Languages dictionary.
waseeley @9:10 AM A bit more on GOSPEL: It's actually Greek for the Latin word EVANGELIUM, which was a missive sent around to all the Roman subjects announcing "Good News", e.g. victory in a battle. The 4 GOSPELS in the NT are from the Greek, and we get the title for their authors from the Latin.
Picard @1:04 PM They sure start them young in France!
Picard @1:04PM
I enjoyed your CANCAN dancers.
Sorry you are still having trouble printing out the puzzle from the LA Times website. It works fine for us.
Hola!
I've been having problems with my computer since yesterday so could not comment though I solved Sunday's puzzle easier and quicker than usual! We went out to dinner with my brother and his wife and sister-in-law at their late mother's home which they have been painting and refurbishing for two years since she died. For a 60 year old home, it looks great! It's small and looks like a doll house. I'm sure it will sell quickly.
The puzzle today was Monday easy and I finished it early today but could not comment as mentioned above. Finally, the issue seems to have resolved itself! It's a good thing because I was on hold for over three hours with my provider!
The repetitive theme makes solving supremely easy so not much of a challenge there. I will only mention that when my daughter was a senior in high school her dance troupe danced the CAN CAN for their final presentation and though she was the shortest one in the group, she made up for it with her zest! I enjoyed it more that when I saw the CAN CAN performed in Paris!
I hope you are all doing well. Boomer, that goes for you, too.
Have a marvelous Monday, everyone!
I liked this puzzle and had much the same experiences with it that most of you did. SUCKED had to change to LICKED because of GOSPEL and PRICES.
The last time we had Michelle YEOH in the puzzle C.C. pointed out her surname is actually YANG, as in Jerry YANG (one of the cofounders of Yahoo.) Her name in Chinese is 杨紫琼, pronounced in Mandarin as Yáng Zǐ Qióng. She was born in what is now Malaysia and her native dialect is not Mandarin; her name in her family's native tongue is Yeoh Choo Kheng. I, too, admire her performances, especially in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and in Crazy Rich Asians. She is credited as Michelle Khan in her early Hong Kong films. I would call her Miss "Yo" if I were to be introduced to her.
I usually say GAHLA.
So cool to learn about Dean Phillips.
Owen, I like your verses and especially liked them today.
My BABY BROTHER will be 78 in a couple of weeks.
Picard, I have no idea why you are having printing/rendering problems. I'd love to be of help but I have nothing to contribute.
Good wishes to you all.
Picard, I believe Anon-T and others access latimes xword from another site
Musings
-Fun gimmick.
-Super obscure YEOH had/needed solid vertical help.
-Courtney COX and ERIK Estrada seem more Monday friendly
-Former students frequently ask me, “Do you know WHO I AM?”
-I can’t find any K-CUP coffee that is strong enough
-So many teachers hated the National Education Association they passed a rule that you could not join your state or local associations without also joining the national. What a message that sends.
Jayce @ 4:08
Thanks for the explanation of the actress Michelle YEOH
Of course my screwy brain had to think up this 17-syllable "ode":
Actress Michelle was
Introduced to a cellist:
"Yo, YEOH?" Yo Yo Ma
HG @ 4:27
We don't own a Keurig coffee maker, but my Mom does. She, too favors a stronger blend. We recently sent her an assortment from Illy. She said it was the best she's tried so far
I count myself as a progressive...
but when it comes to OMARs, I prefer the "Tent Maker," thank you very much!
And thank you, Mr. Halperin, for a most amusing PZL, a neat way to start the week. Not at all a "WeakWeek-week"!
~ OMK
Ut-OH. I shoulda writ "AMUSing."
~ OMK
Even though I don't even own a printer, I'm going to jump in with a comment. In preparing the JumbleHints blog each day, I have to copy the boxes from an online version, and I keep forgetting the right numbers, so experiment a lot. The picture readjust itself for every combination window height, window width, and zoom magnification level. When I get a combination that's too small, a funny thing happens. Some of the lines disappear! If I copy that, I have to go in and redraw them myself. Only the straight lines, never the circles or cartoon. It's as if the computer has shrunk the grid by skipping every, say, 3rd line, and since the border line in only one pixel wide, when it matches the skipped line, it's skipped! The only way to avoid it is to alter one of the factors above to get the image slightly larger.
If your printer is doing this, maybe you need to adjust your sizes slightly up, including the dimensions of the print command.
Hi All!
Quick Monday puzzle with a fun & helpful theme. Thanks Jake for something to do during staff meeting.
Thanks Boomer for the fine review. We'll be thinking about you next week.
GAY-La mostly.
WO: N/A
ESPs: MARLA, YEOH, AORB (thanks for parsing it, Boomer), COX, ERIK, ISAAK, SKAT
Fav: Mass Communications == Gospel was funny. I thought ANTE xing ANTI was cute.
I KNEW 'PIP PIP' for 'goodbye' but I don't know why (Mary Poppins?)
For a long time it was 'No Such Agency' and gov't didn't admit the NSA existed. Makes you wonder what the new "Nope Nothing There" agency is, no?
Splynter, I am sorry to hear about your mother. Stop by The Corner once in a while.
{A, A+}
Waseeley - LOL CODErs aren't fluent in English. I've always had better luck with artificial languages.
Jayce - thanks for the deep-dive on YEOH. Maybe I'll remember her next time she comes up.
I wondered where you went Lucina. Glad the gremlins got gone.
C.Moe - Eldest, citing the amount of waste generated by KCUPs, guilted DW into getting these reusable pods. Cheaper too (even though DW's coffee is way more expensive than my Maxwell House :-))
Funny Moe-Ku.
Final exams and one guy comes in 30 minutes late. He grabs an essay pamphlet from the professor's table and starts writing frantically.
"Time!" calls the prof after another 25 minutes.
The kid keeps writing for a good 10 minutes and then takes the essay booklet up the prof.
"I called time. I'm not accepting your essay."
"Do you KNOW WHO I AM?" the student demanded.
"No. And frankly I don't give a damn."
"Good" says the student as he jams his essay into the middle of the pile.
Cheers, -T
The problem with the now millions of KCUPS that are tossed after use is that they are not biodegradable.. I use the reusable ones you can add your own coffee.
Add me to the list as a proud never-member of the AMA. It's a lobbying group for health insurance companies that need to maintain health care as a commodity with little interest in patient care.
Picard - OKL may have hit the nail. Have you tried adjusting margins to 0.5" or 0.25" after you select print but still have time to change the print properties?
Ray-O / Vidwan - I had no idea that medical professionals felt that way about AMA. ibid NEA, HG. Now, I kinda GOT IT.
Cheers, -T
Hi Y'all! Fun ones today, thanks, Jake & Boomer.
I read and liked Michelle OBAMA's book when it first came out.
I had 3 BABY BROTHERS, 6, 11, & 13 years younger than I. Good practice for me for motherhood. Yes, Jinx, I too still introduce them as my BABY BROTHERS altho they are almost a foot taller than I. My grandkids thought that was hilarious.
DNK: WEES
Interesting about AMA. I was not aware of that but then, I am not in the medical field but have several relatives who are and wonder if they are members.
Nothing puzzle-propos:
I called Mom tonight and she was on the phone with her sister. And!, I found out my aunt drove from SPI to STL to see The Beatles. And she still has the flyer from 1966. Aunt said the good seats were $5.50.
Cheers, -T
FIR. By starting with the DOWN clues, as I usually do, I saw the three-peats for the theme answers, which made life much easier.
For once, I knew SOME of the names: Michelle Yeah played in “Tomorrow Never Dies” opposite Pierce Brosnan. FWIW, for that movie, she was apparently nominated for MTV Movie Award for Best Fight. I also knew Chris Isaak, Ilhan Omar and, of course, the other Michelle. Don’t forget, I’m the guy who always complains about names.
Yes, that’s what Yogi said when giving Joe Garagiola directions to his house. The fork in the road was actually either end of a circle, so one got to his house taking either fork.
Subgenius, you can print out the puzzle for free at the LAT website. It’s available at midnight Eastern. Gotta endure a 30-second commercial, though.
Yeah, I have an 10” ACER laptop that I take with me to the museum to record the minutes at the volunteer meetings. Haven’t had one of those since before COVID, and it’s been sleeping in its bag since then. I should probably wake it up one of these days.
Gay-la. I’ve never heard it any other way.
Neat video, Picard! Oh, to be that limber again!
Thanks, Jake and Boomer.
-T, love the exam story. So the prof grades them and then calls names and hands them back. Oops. Unless a disguise is used. *
I'm a decaf guy but my AA coffee seems as good as any. I'm OK with instant too
And Jinx certainly know the AmA. Mission statement? Profit for Doctors. They don't like alternative medicine at all
WC
* I neglected to do a Science Project nor the alternative Book Report for Chem, Junior year. I had a report but it wasn't finished. From an A to a D.
Thanks Chairman, I'm going to give that a try!
Thanks. I’ll look into that!
WC:
a) Essay story is a joke
II) it was finals so no passing back tests [ruining joke]
3) I had a psyche class at LA Tech that was 100+ students deep
Re: #3 - The psyche professors would switch themselves out for seminar. One day, a long hair'd scruffy beard'd unkempt Prof came in and explained to us our regular prof picked him up on the side of the road and was paying him $6 to take over the class for the day. Very Python-ISH :-)
Oh, and it was that psyche prof that gave me an F 'cuz I didn't finish the class (with 2 weeks remaining in the quarter!) because my Reserve Unit was called up for Desert Storm.
Cheers, -T
Dash T
I've never owned a Keurig but am familiar with the reusable pods. That's probably the best way to use that device.
I'm kind of a coffee snob in that I tend to prefer the smaller producer's coffees over the large, commercial brands. Starbucks does nothing for me. Folgers and Maxwell House, ditto. We buy only whole bean and grind it daily. As of now, Peace Coffee out of Minneapolis is our favorite
-T ... why didn't that prof give an "E" for 'Incomplete'? Or was it just that good ol' intellectuals' anti-militarism?
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