Theme: "Game for Anything" - Each theme entry is humorously reinterpreted as if it's a sports competition.
22. Track competitions for nudists?: MEETS IN THE FLESH.
40. Cross-country competitions for grounds workers?: COFFEE RUNS.
42. Football competitions for Pepperidge Farm employees?: GOLDFISH BOWLS.
67. No-holds-barred competitions for mixed martial artists?: STRIKE ANYWHERE MATCHES.
93. Field competitions for electricians?: CURRENT EVENTS.
96. Baseball competitions for collectors of compact cars?: MINI-SERIES.
115. Boxing competitions for comedians?: BOUTS OF LAUGHTER.
In case you missed this, our Gary Larson was a comedian for cruise ships for many years.
I'm
not familiar with Strike Anywhere matches. I have not used matches for
years. Such an apt description for the clued competition.
Across:
5. Hefty slice: SLAB. Has any of you tried cod roe (mentaiko)? So tasty!
9. Dutch semisoft cheese: EDAM.
13. Spanish "this": ESTA.
17. Windows alternative: UNIX.
18. Group activity at a Jewish wedding: HORA. Guess how many 4-letter entries in this grid?
19. Corporate symbols: LOGOS.
21. Fireplace outlets: FLUES.
25. Visual puzzle: REBUS.
26. Figures of speech: TROPES.
27. Nada: NIL.
28. Fragile: DELICATE.
30. Asian archipelago: JAPAN. Probably the cleanest country on earth.
32. Cub's home: DEN.
33. Soccer great nicknamed "O Rei": PELE. The King.
34. Relaxed pace: TROT.
35. Oscar winner Mahershala: ALI. 2 Oscars.
36. View sharer: OPINER.
45. __-mo replay: SLO.
46. "Star Trek" role for Takei and Cho: SULU.
47. "The Lion King" lion: NALA.
48. Lift: HOIST.
51. The Gem State: IDAHO.
55. Support: BACK.
57. One who spins yarns?: KNITTER. Not storyteller.
59. Irish-speaking New Age singer: ENYA.
60. Secret drawer full of snacks, e.g.: STASH.
62. Fair-hiring org.: EEOC.
63. Actor Kaplan or MLB manager Kapler: GABE. Giants' manager.
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66. Lifesaving skill, for short: CPR.
72. __ lime pie: KEY.
73. Old geopolitical states: Abbr.: SSRS.
74. And others, briefly: ET AL.
75. Goes up and down: YO-YOS.
76. Purina rival: IAMS.
78. German-made camper: EUROVAN. Learning moment for me. Volkswagen model. We also have 95. Beetle, briefly: VW BUG.
81. Seat in un parc: BANC.
82. Kilt fold: PLEAT.
84. River through Paris: SEINE.
85. Much loved: DEAR. In Chinese, it's Qin an de.
87. Bridal veil trim: LACE.
91. Zip: VIM.
101. Donkey's bray: HEE HAW.
102. Parka sleeve: ARM. Never wore a parka.
103. Ex-Dodger Hershiser: OREL. Still the broadcaster for the Dodgers
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104. Fix: MEND.
105. Nurse: SIP.
106. Emma's "Beauty and the Beast" role: BELLE. Emma Watson.
108. Some facial surgeries: NOSE JOBS. Great fill.
110. Sky light?: SUN.
111. At work: ON DUTY.
114. Foreword, for short: INTRO.
120. Time punctuation: COLON. 9:30am.
121. The blahs: ENNUI.
122. Gutter spot: EAVE.
123. Dublin's land: EIRE.
124. Again: ANEW.
125. Departed: GONE.
126. Spud growth: EYES.
127. Allied flyers during WWII: RCAF. The Royal Canadian Air Force.
Down:
2. Till bill: ONE.
3. Appetite suppressant: DIET PILL. Oral chemo pills definitely suppress your appetite.
4. Uncredited actor: EXTRA.
5. FedEx, say: SHIP.
6. __ Star State: LONE.
7. Crafts partner: ARTS.
8. "Pshaw!": BAH.
9. Spritelike: ELFIN.
10. Bratz toy: DOLL. With big, glossy lips.
11. Get old: AGE.
12. Longtime stage name of Yasiin Bey: MOS DEF.
13. Conductor in a circuit: ELECTRODE.
14. Crosstrek automaker: SUBARU.
15. Ancient German: TEUTON.
16. Portfolio listings: ASSETS.
20. Bookcase part: SHELF.
21. Workwk. end for some: FRI. And 24. Año start: ENERO.
23. "__ a gun!": SON OF.
29. Some jeans: LEES.
30. Binges: JAGS.
31. Six-time MLB All-Star Moisés: ALOU.
32. Pioneering cardiovascular surgeon: DEBAKEY. Michael DeBakey. Learning moment for me. He died at the age of 99.
33. Theorize: POSIT.
37. Lifts: PINCHES.
38. "Out of Africa" novelist Dinesen: ISAK. Her real name is Karen Blixen.
39. Org. with Ducks and Penguins: NHL.
40. Coagulate: CLOT.
41. Former quarterback Manning: ELI.
43. Persian Gulf emirate: DUBAI.
44. "Eh, either is fine": WHICHEVER.
49. Jason of "Forgetting Sarah Marshall": SEGEL.
50. Airport shuttle on rails: TRAM.
52. Dried chili pepper: ANCHO. Dried poblano.
53. Really pushes: HYPES.
54. Rowboat set: OARS.
56. Makes a request: ASKS.
58. Without delay: NOW.
60. Base runner's ploy: STEAL.
61. "You think I'm kidding?": TRY ME.
62. Follow: ENSUE.
64. San Francisco and environs: BAY AREA. Where two of my sisters-in-law live.
65. Historic British prep school: ETON.
67. 116-Down card: SKIP. 116. Game with an edition for colorblind players: UNO.
68. Trojan War god: ARES.
69. Lyft driver's guess: ETA.
70. Were strongly felt, as emotions: RAN DEEP.
71. Ride a bike: CYCLE.
77. Well-suited London street name?: SAVILE ROW. Tailored suits.
79. Finely chopped: RICED.
80. Weighty obligation: ONUS.
81. __ & Body Works: BATH. Amazing shower gels. Here's my favorite.
83. Carol contraction: TIS.
86. Charlotte-to-Raleigh dir.: ENE.
88. __ psychology: ANALYTIC.
89. PC key below Shift: CTRL.
90. Salinger heroine: ESME.
92. Staff note: MEMO.
94. African herbivore: RHINO.
96. Santa __: West Coast city known for its pier: MONICA.
97. Patch type: IRON-ON.
98. Get cozy: NESTLE.
99. Yeshiva leader: REBBE. Not RABBI.
100. Joyous way to break out: IN SONG.
105. "Calvin and Hobbes" girl: SUSIE.
107. Upper regions of space: ETHER.
109. Actor Hamm: JON. "Mad Men".
110. Wow: STUN.
111. Body wash brand: OLAY.
112. Central church section: NAVE. And
113. Members' payments: DUES. And 117. Fixed payment: FEE.
118. Historical period: ERA.
119. Slo-mo reviewer: REF.
We had a very productive meeting with the VA Home Based Primary Care (HBPC) nurse. We still have to go to the VA for oncology or other specialty meetings, bone strengthener injections, MRI scans, etc, but we don't need to see Boomer's primary care doctor anymore. The HBPC covers it, plus it also has a PT & an OT.
We're going to the VA
next Wednesday for a 3-month orthopedic follow up. Boomer's left
shoulder is getting stronger, but he still can't type with his left hand and his legs are getting weaker every day. Daunting task to get him from the basement to our bedroom now.
C.C.
FIWrong. dICED < RICED. EUROVAN I didn't know, but with 6 letters filled, I should have guessed. Took a long time mostly because of its size. The individual clues were IMHO early week difficulty.
ReplyDeleteTheme was good but uneven. "67a no-holds-barred..." both sides of the clue were duplicates, tho the result was good. COFFEE(grounds)RUN was also weak. the rest were generally okay, some more than others. The first one "...FLESH" was best.
UNO has simple LOGO.
Just a colorful U.N.O.
FEDEX, too,
Isn't undue.
Seeing the arrow you'll never undo!
(Someone will probably need to explain that one.)
New Mexico is the Chili Capital,
But to me, an ANCHO was novel.
They're dried poblano,
No problem-o --
For iron mouths, and stomachs, ET.AL.
{B+, B.}
I was unfamiliar with “DeBakey”. Other than that, I didn’t have too much trouble with this puzzle. FIR, so I’m happy.
ReplyDeleteGood morning!
ReplyDeleteVery easy romp. So easy, in fact, that d-o made a couple of errors along the way and didn't notice 'em: BASE/BACK and RABBI/REBBE. D'oh. Sezst Lah Vye. Debakey was a pioneering heart surgeon, well known in Houston and nationally. Thanx, Gary, Amy, and C.C. (Good to hear that you're finally getting that at-home assistance. Maybe it's time to move Boomer's recliner and TV upstairs...or move the bedroom downstairs.)
STRIKE ANYWHERE MATCHES: We've had a large bowl filled with matchbooks for years. We'd collect 'em at restaurants, motels, whereever. Now they're still good to look at, but the SE Texas humidity has rendered them useless as fire starters.
CYCLE: Our preferred mode of weekend exercise. Bought a new bike this year -- a 7-speed -- but it might as well be a single-speed. I just keep it in second gear.
FIR, but erased alpo for IAMS, left for GONE, clef for MEMO, settle for NESTLE, rabbi for REBBE, and chimp for RHINO. I was quick on the trigger to try "chimp", because I just finished reading Chromosome 6 by Robin Cook. The book is about a reckless scientist who does genetic grafting to create a source for human organ transplants from bonobos, close relatives of chimps.
ReplyDeleteDidn't know O Rei, but like "oreo" and "oboe", PELE has become stock fill in the LATCW.
I wonder if Patti knew STRIKE ANYWHERE MATCHES? They had "cool factor." I liked to strike them by dragging them across the thigh of my blue jeans. I had a friend who started them with a front tooth, and another who used his shoe sole. Of course a metal zipper also worked, but in mixed company it looked like a vulgar jester. It was too easy to strike one match with another, and about half the time both matches would light.
I had a desk overlooking the Santa Monica Pier on the 17th floor of the Lawrence Welk building, on the corner of Wilshire Blvd and Ocean Ave. At lunch time it took longer to get to the first floor on the elevators than it took to walk to the pier.
JON Hamm finally snagged his dream role - Flo's former flame in the Progressive Insurance commercials.
KEY lime pie filling should never be green, but in the north it often is.
Thanks to Gary & Amy for the fun challenge. And thanks to CC for the review, and for the Boomer update.
Jinx, from comments you have made in the past, I think we would disagree on the political level. Nevertheless, I always find your comments about the past fascinating, and you are often quite funny. I’m glad to know you!
ReplyDeleteFIW, had diced for riced, and couldn't see ran deep for the life of me. Nice theme tho!
ReplyDeleteNot much resistance except trying Abnormal for ANALYTIC psychology, and rTe for ETA, but crosses took care of them pretty quick.
ReplyDeleteGood Morning:
ReplyDeleteAs far as Sunday puzzles go, this was a pleasant solve with a cute theme and not too many unknown proper names, although I found the cluing unusually straightforward for a Sunday challenge. One unknown was Yasiin Bey AKA Mos Def which I confidently typed in as Mostel, as in Zero. Talk about a generation gap! I’m sorry to see Jon Hamm in those Flo commercials, considering his pivotal role in Mad Men.
Thanks, Gary and Amy, for a smooth solve and thanks, CC, for the expert viewpoint. Glad to hear you’re getting some assistance with Boomer’s care. DO’s suggestion about living arrangements is sensible, if at all possible.
Have a great day.
Musings
ReplyDelete-If Paul Anka’s song was Esso Beso (That Kiss), I thought ESSA might work for “this”. Oops, one bad cell.
-In AIRPLANE MODE you can still you can take photos, listen to music, play games, or compose emails/messages to send later.
-OPINER – I really like Facebook until someone thinks I need to hear their political views
-The 1919 White Sox (Black Sox) were accused of fixing (not mending) the World Series
-When I message Joann and say, “I’ll be home by one-thirty”, Siri sends 1:30
-The Huskers lost again in Dublin, EIRE yesterday. Every year it hurts a little less but…
-A GNC clerk gave me a DIET PILL years ago. I became VERY HYPED up as it was full of caffeine and ephedrine
-Name this Halloween song: “The ghouls all came from their humble abodes, To get a jolt from my ELECTRODES”
-Oops 2 – SEGAL instead of SEGEL and read STRIKE ANYWHERE METCHES way too fast.
-Aptly named
-TRY ME – I’ve seen teachers say this to kids who wanted to fight
-We brought dad’s bedroom downstairs when his legs were giving out
Thanks, Sub. Ditto to you. People used to be able to "cuss and discuss" politics without taking it personally. I've mentioned that I grew up in a mom-and-pop restaurant / motel / gas pump / convenience store enterprise. We had a lot of local restaurant patrons, including strong partisans of both parties. There was a LOT of political debating among them, but they remained close friends throughout their lives. Somehow, we seem to have largely lost that ability, much to the detriment of humanity, imo.
ReplyDeleteI meant to add in my first post that there were two types of stick matches: STRIKE ANYWHERE and safety matches. You could only light the safety matches on the scratcher on the box.
No problems except in one area today. I never saw The Lion King movie (only the live Disneyworld show) and keep forgetting if it's INEK, INAK, ISEK, or ISAK. And the "Lifts" clue had me stumped until I realized it was for shoplifting and PINCH was another word for that. NALA fit with the perps. I also saw the "Beauty and the Beast" show at DW and knew it was BELLE but Emma is an unknown.
ReplyDeleteEUROVAN, BAH, MOS DEF, Jason SEGEL,REBBI (changed from RABBI), SUSIE, JON Hamm- unknowns filled by perps. I've seen many Mercedes Sprinter Camper Vans (RVs) but no VW EUROVANS.
Never heard of either MOS DEF or Yasiiin Bey.
C.C. & Subgenius-I still remember the first heat transplant surgeries when they were in the news by both Christiaan Barnard if S. Africa and Michael Debakey in Houston, TX. Times have really changed.
I didn't care for some of the obscure proper names, but I liked the theme answers.
ReplyDeleteEUROVAN took a while (car? cab?) but I finally got it after WHICHEVER, and then RANDEEP.
LOL Husker Gary--the line is from the song, MONSTER MASH. It was a graveyard smash!
Enjoyed the GAMES theme. That cluster of proper names, not so much: NALA, ISAK, DEBAKEY, NHL. However, DEBAKEY was a valuable learning moment. Does anyone else agree that some proper names are more worth learning than others?
ReplyDeleteAs a physics person, ETHER as clued is just wrong for several reasons. But, it is a valid literary term. Learning moment!
Here is some interesting VW BUG art I was privileged to see.
The place belongs to an eccentric writer in our local foothills and is not generally open to the public.
Learning moment about unknown BRATZ DOLLs. If you Google "Here's why BRATZ dolls were far superior to Barbies" you will learn why.
Good and fun puzzle with enough challenge.
ReplyDeleteNice to see our own Michael Debakey in this puzzle. He was born in Lake Charles, LA, of Lebanese parents. One of the town’s main streets is named after him. He always credited his devoted mother for his success and achievements and the Lake Charles educational system at the time of his teen years.
Busy week for CC and Boomer. Best of luck.
Hola!
ReplyDeleteThis was the usual Sunday slog but it was quicker than usual. Sometimes I don't finish the puzzle before going to church. Surprisingly, I did.
When I put my telephone in airplane MODE I often forget to undo it for days at a time until someone tries to call me and I don't hear it. They then call on my land line and chide me about it.
My mother often lamented the death of a cousin who died after taking DIET PILLS. We always left flowers on her grave.
CSO to my grand-nephew, JON.
I don't understand why 24D is clued A-o start. Why not spell it out?
CSO to MKeith and others who live in the BAY AREA, a place I love to visit.
Time to go. Have a super Sunday, everyone! Finally, summer is winding down.
From Yesterday:
ReplyDeleteHand up I am curious how much of that puzzle was Rich Norris and how much was changed by the new editor. Biggest gripe was SW proper name cluster: BART STARR, TIVOED, ROUEN, VEGA, MAE. Had a hazy memory of BART STARR and ROUEN so I was astonished to FIR after three rounds.
From Last Thursday:
GRIFFITH PARK is widely known to anyone in California. Not like TOPANGA which is more local. Remember that the puzzle is based at the Los Angeles Times. In this case, knowing that particular park turned out not to be relevant to ACRES. It actually confused me as I spent too much time thinking about that specific park. Not sure if anyone looked at my photo or my question.
The GRIFFITH PARK Observatory is featured in many movies, I believe.
Hi Y'all! Thank you very much for a fun, doable challenge, Gary & Amy. The theme was amusing. In all, what a Sunday puzzle should be.
ReplyDeleteAfter saying that, this morning I started listing my unknowns & found 15 names of people & things. Wondered why I liked the puzzle so much. Maybe because it perped in easily. I knew DEBAKEY but couldn't dredge up the name without a few perps.
Thank you, C.C., for a fine expo. Glad the home health interview went well & you will be getting some help. Do you have anyone to help you rearrange your house to accommodate Boomer's needs? I moved to a house with only one 4-inch step when I could no longer do stairs easily. I hated to leave my lovely old home, but I'm sure glad I did now. My legs/knees got somewhat better when I was no longer stressing them to the limit.
CC, Boomer Thanks for the updates. Would it be possible to install a LIFT to get up the stairs? A Google search indicates they cost about $4,000-$5,000. I wonder if any programs can help with the cost.
ReplyDeleteGriffith Park is now dangerous. Twenty-five car breakins in one day at the Observatory!
ReplyDeleteLiked the themes.
ReplyDeleteDidn't like most names.
Think lifts = pinches is lame.
UNIX is not a windows alternative. They are vastly different systems.
For a long time I had golf FEE RUNS, all because of MOStEl and glob. KNITTERS brought my mistakes to the FORE.
ReplyDeleteLucina---
ReplyDeleteMy puzzle had "ano" meaning year in Spanish.
Okay, this puzzle was actually fun to solve. No "Gotcha!" entries, no "Look how clever I am" clues. Clever clues, yes, but not self-aggrandizingly so. For example, the clue "Lift" meant "to raise up, or, thing that lifts something up" in one entry (HOIST) and "Lifts" meant "steals, pilfers" (PINCHES) in another. To me, that is true cleverness. And there is plenty of humor, too. For example, I found the clues "Secret drawer full of snacks" and "Well-suited London street name" to be quite funny and elicited nice chuckles.
ReplyDeleteThere are several other clues I thought were imaginative and misleading without being frustrating. I don't know whose clues they are.
C.C. wrote, "NOSE JOBS. Great fill." I agree.
I discovered that "Departed" was not DEAD, but was GONE, and "Figures of speech" was not IDIOMS, but was TROPES.
I hope we get more puzzles of this high caliber.
I also hope the various medicines and treatments work successfully to cure Boomer's illness(es). Sending good thoughts to you two on a regular basis.
And good wishes to all of you.
Picard, I do think some proper names, and other pieces of information, are more worth learning/remembering than others. I have said so a number of times. Cool VW Bug pics.
ReplyDeleteCSO to me at BAY AREA.
Lucina, I am guessing your newspaper simply printed Año wrong.
FIR. Hand up for getting stuck behind a EUdOVAN on the road but then saw the detour. RICED is even finer than dICED.
ReplyDeleteFAV: coffee runs
CSO: CYCLE
Thanks to George & Amy for the Sunday fun
Thanks to CC for the write up and update. I agree that Japan is the cleanest country (that I have ever visited). The fact that they have very few trash bins in public areas makes their tidiness even more impressive.
Thank you Gary and Amy for a fun puzzle. I came here thinking I had a FIR, but only later discovered it was a FIW (see below). Nevertheless I liked the theme, which was helpful and the fill was pretty easy and fair perped.
ReplyDeleteThank you C.C. for your review and for your update on Boomer. I recall having to do some radical revisions (1 permanent ramp and 3 moveable ramps) to be able to get my elderly Mom into the living room. I'm not suggesting that these are what you need. I agree with Picard's comment that a stair lift might be one way to go. Here's a random one that Google popped up. Does your OT make house visits? She might be able recommend one.
Some favs:
17A UNIX. Whether it's a "Windows" alternative depends on what you're using it for. By virtue of its popularity and 3rd party support WINDOWS is ideal for document preparation, number crunching, routine graphics work, etc. However it doesn't compare to the power of UNIX for systems administration and the maintenance of the powerful server platforms that the Internet runs on.
57A KNITTER. I've "spun a lot of yarns", but have never KNITTED. I have however done (and still do) some "off the loom weaving", including crochet, macrame,and deep ply Maori weaving. Fibers are a perfect mixed media for creating hanging ceramic sculptures.
67A STRIKE ANYWHERE MATCHES. If you can find them.
127A RCAF. A CSO to Canadian Eh!'s brave forefathers who fought in WWII. To get it I had to fill 107D with ETHER. I agree with Picard that it's a stretch, but not a stretch too far.
7D ARTS. See 57A.
79D RICED. Went from MINCED to DICED but not knowing 78A EUROVAN and didn't notice that EUDOVAN didn't quite sound right, hence the FIW.
88D ANALYTIC. My BA is in psychology and I studied a lot of "talk therapies" (years ago!). One of the most fascinating was ANALYTIC PSYCHOLOGY pioneered by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung. But studies consistently showed that the best predictor of therapeutic success was the "personality of the therapist her/himself": 1/3 of therapists improved their patients, 1/3 had no impact on them, and 1/3 made them worse. Here are some tips from the APA on selecting a psychotherapist.
Cheers,
Bill
Sunday Lurk say...
ReplyDeleteDeBakey is a big name in Cardio-vascular here in Houston. Didn't know that about Lake Charles connection, TanteN. Thanks.
{B+, B+}
Jinx - oy! My first Key Lime Pie in the south threw me - it wasn't green(?!?!) [limes are! Says the boy from the Midwest].
Striking a match off of a buddy's five-o'clock shadow was giggle-inducing too.
Cool VWs, Picard.
Waseeley - we both know UNIX is proprietary and GNU's NOT UNIX ain't.
I believe there is a Country Mouse [Billy Collins] and subsequent insurance-claims that put the hammer down on Strike Anywhere matches.
//That mouse and O'Leary's cow, eh?
Cheers, -T
UNIX was made to have the 5-9s capability. Gotta work 99.999% of the time. No rebooting.
DeleteC.C.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like a chair lift on your stairway might be necessary. I've seen one in a friend's house and it is wonderful for going up and down. Perhaps medicare would supply or partially pay for one. It might be worth investigating.
Not to speak of the VA. A VSO(Veterans Service Officer) is the route. All VA claims denied need to be appealed; its how they work
Delete-T @5:11 PM Is anybody actually selling UNIX these days?
ReplyDeleteJayce and AnonT Thanks for the kind words about my VW BUG art photos. That area burned in a major fire about a dozen years ago. The VW BUGs were burned, too. Along with the artist's home on that property. Very sad. I was impressed that the artist slowly rebuilt his home and restored the burned art.
ReplyDeleteJayce Thank you for validating that some names are more worthy of learning than others. Sorry if I missed that before!
Anon at 1:23PM Yes, I saw your post last Thursday about the car break-ins at GRIFFITH PARK. The news story at KTLA claims it is actually a BAY AREA gang that is probably responsible.
Here I found an IMDB list of movies filmed at the GRIFFITH Observatory.
170 movies were filmed at the GRIFFITH Observatory! I am betting you have seen at least one!
Bill Seeley, Lucina Thanks for supporting the idea of a LIFT for Boomer. Does anyone here have direct experience with these? When we were forced out of our ground floor apartment to a two-story condo it was foremost in my mind.
ReplyDeleteBill Seeley Thanks for posting the link to the literary meaning of ETHER. That is exactly what I found when I posted my comment:
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The clear sky; the upper regions of air beyond the clouds.
"nasty gases and smoke disperse into the ether"
My sister-in-law installed a chair lift on her basement stairs when my brother got so bad with Parkinson's. They really liked it. Before that they had moved from a tri-level house which had several short & narrow flights of stairs on which lifts couldn't be installed. Their daughter and I had to really talk hard to get them in the mood to move because they were so weighted down with the day to day problems of his handicaps, they couldn't look ahead to make things better. SIL was so relieved when they finally got in the new house and she didn't have to man-handle a 6'5" guy up those stairs.
ReplyDelete@waseeley — probably Linux
ReplyDeleteFun Sunday puzzle — not too many obscurities but still made me think. For EUROVAN I just couldn’t get VANAGON out of my head til near the end. And the Westphalia camper on VW bus base wouldn’t fit (facepalm).
ReplyDeleteIf you don’t like Windows OS, then UNIX is a good alternative; iirc, it’s the basis of Mac OS too.
And if you think Japan is a clean country, check out Singapore — they jail people for littering down there!
I put (Christiaan) BERNARD < DEBAKEY. Bernard did the first heart transplant, DeBakey the first artificial heart.
ReplyDeleteConspiracy theory: South Africa became the mecca for organ transplants. The problem of rejection still loomed. At last a biologic solution was found -- sort of. A virus that turned off the body's immune system! But it still needed work. It was contagious and had bad side effects. But work with monkeys was still in progress.
At this point, enter the South African version of PETA. They made a raid on a medical laboratory, and set the test animals all free. It circulated among monkeys for a few years, then made the species jump to humans, and became known as HIV! and the side effects became AIDS!
Waseeley - you can only buy real ATT UNIX if you are in the mood to sue the likes of Novel & IBM [cite].
ReplyDeleteIBM & Oracle each sell their own version of RedHat. Personally, I like Kubuntu - Ubuntu w/ the KDE GUI.
@7:31 - IIRC, a special version of BSD (Berkley Standard Distro (aka XNU?)) runs under MacOS.
The lovely thing about all *nix distros is you can upgrade most everything w/o a reboot - very much unlike WinOS.
Cheers, -T
COFFEE RUNS sounds like something else :/
ReplyDeleteDear -T:
ReplyDelete"The lovely thing about all *nix distros is you can upgrade most everything w/o a reboot - very much unlike WinOS."
That brings back memories of "Plug-N-Play," as opposed to the deluge of driver updates for printers and other goodies, needed for the system to work at all.
Speaking of ETHER…. I missed on OPINER not knowing the surgeon. I also had filcjrs/PINCHES and DNK fALA/NALA. Back to FIW (2 squares this time)
ReplyDeleteMonster MASH. Too late
I have a friend but I thought he said "Port" Charles. Are there two LA Charles
Oops, I fell asleep reading Picard's IMDB movie list. Somewhere between the "Returm of the Colossal Man" and the one about the Steel Cage Prostitute elimination match series.
WC
Again, got a late start (8 p.m. PDT) and finished at 3am. But FINISH I DID (as opposed to yesterday's debacle). Remember: I use no computer help, only my reference library (the "old fashioned way"). This was a toughie but I prevailed! Last night I couldn't sleep ... tonight I'll sleep like a baby!
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