Theme: OOHS (67. Cries of delight, and what each of the answers to the starred clues literally are?)
17. *"Drinks are on the house!": FREE BOOZE.
25. *"Just what I wanted to hear!": GREAT NEWS.
36. *"Eyes like Paul Newman!": BABY BLUES.
51. *"Check out those Outback hoppers!": KANGAROOS.
60. *"There's the star of 'Top Gun'!": TOM CRUISE.
Boomer here.
Make a CHOOSE -You'll never LOSE. I usually stop for a SNOOZE after I watch the NEWS.
Happy November one and all. Of course Thanksgiving is on the calendar and coming soon.
Across:
5. Taj Mahal city: AGRA. Farming business is AGRI.
9. Burdened (with): LADEN. Potatoes LADEN with turkey gravy.
14. Horn-shaped flower: LILY.
15. "Get a __ of this!": LOAD.
16. Large stadium: ARENA. They keep getting bigger and bigger. And the NFL football seems to be sold out every game.
19. A- or B+: GRADE. Sometimes mine was a 75.
20. "Beauty and the Beast" heroine: BELLE.
21. Out of style: OLD. That's me at 75.
23. Big fuss: ADO.
24. Outdoor dining area: PATIO. We had a deck, but we never eat out there.
28. Autotrader offering: USED CAR. Our Santa Fe turned two years old last month.
30. Refrigerator art holder: MAGNET.
31. Place for pillow talk: BED.
32. __ and carrots: PEAS. Not my favorite.
35. Toy bear: TEDDY. Mr. Roosevelt.
39. Fall-blooming plant: ASTER.
42. Glasgow resident: SCOT.
43. To the __ degree: NTH.
46. Cheap cigar: STOGIE. I cannot remember smoking a cigar. I think I received one when someone had a baby,
48. Fist pump or fist bump: GESTURE. Fist bumps are frequent in bowling.
54. Actor Capaldi: PETER. Pumpkin eater. Many of Halloween pumpkins were fed to animals.
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55. Genetic letters: RNA. Some kind of acid that I can't spell.
56. NATO HQ locale: EUR.
57. Mom's sisters: AUNTS. I had 6 nice ladies.
58. Unblinking look: STARE.
63. Racing sleds: LUGES. Popular when the snow falls here.
64. Pesky insect: GNAT.
65. Really stink: REEK. Take the garbage out every week.
66. Opinion pieces: OP-EDS. I seldom read them. Just someone else's opinion.
68. Gaelic language: ERSE.
Down:
2. Post for military pilots: AIRBASE. We had a huge one at Fort Campbell, KY.
3. Rained ice: SLEETED. Nope, we get the real snow - coming soon to a state near you.
4. Body part with lashes: EYELID.
5. __ vera: ALOE. Never used it.
6. Sticky substance: GOO. Never used this either.
7. Stubble remover: RAZOR. I've used this now and then.
8. "Someone Like You" singer: ADELE. Not ah-dell, but uh-dale.
9. Internet connectivity annoyance: LAG.
10. Sets up, as flowers in a vase: ARRANGES. I could not believe when I was told how much funeral flowers cost!!
11. Like many paths in a maze: DEAD END.
12. Funded on an ongoing basis: ENDOWED. Like Social Security - going up next year.
13. "Sorry, laddie": NAE.
18. Voting alliance: BLOC.
22. Flood-control structure: DAM. We have a huge one on the Mississippi. That's where we get our electricity
24. Tavern: PUB. There is one in your town.
25. "__ Anatomy": Ellen Pompeo series: GREY'S.
26. London art gallery: TATE.
27. Spot that's rarely spotless: STY. A home for your pigs.
29. PD alert: APB. All Points Bulletin
33. Kindergarten letters: ABC. A TV station as well.
34. Plods (through): SLOGS.
36. Defied, as belief: BEGGARED. ??
37. Opera solo: ARIA.
38. Beehive State native: UTE.
39. "__ me no questions ... ": ASK. I'll tell you no lies.
40. Fledgling company: STARTUP.
41. Shipping weight allowance: TONNAGE. I think the US raised the limit on highways.
43. Like Almond Joy, compared to Mounds: NUTTIER. Than a fruitcake.
44. Long locks of hair: TRESSES.
45. That girl: HER.
47. "... __ he drove out of sight": ERE. And all a good night.
49. San Antonio NBAer: SPUR. Also a place to buy gas.
50. Academic security: TENURE.
52. Expenditure: OUTGO. Everything is UP. Thanks to inflation.
53. Maine college town: ORONO. Also a Minnesota city
57. Plays a part: ACTS.
58. __-mo video: SLO.
59. Sinuous letter: ESS.
61. __-jongg: MAH. Never played it.
62. Scratch (out), as a living: EKE. Yikes!
Boomer
44 comments:
Missed the theme. Solved online. I was at VA Gainesville last night for my eye. Why temp indoors at 72? Head Cold was diagnosed as cold
Thanks Boomer for entertainment
WC
Good morning!
Forced myself to stay abed this morning until I could hear the coffee brewing. Incomplete fall-back, I guess.
Nice themeless Monday, MaryEllen. Zoomed right through it, and the Wite-Out remained in the drawer. Thanx for the expo, Boomer.
DAM: I read an article this past week about the [former] hydroelectric plant located in a cave below Niagara Falls. Don't know why its no longer used. Now the plant is operated as a tourist attraction.
ORONO: Gimme. Older brother spent most of his working life at U-of-Maine.
Good morning. Thank you, MaryEllen, and thank you, Boomer
Fun rhyme-time puzzle.
I didn't see any of the theme answers or reveal until the very end of the solve. I had decided to solve only using the down clues. I just put in the possible answers without checking any of the across clues. Didn't fill every blank, and a couple of the words were wrong (inn before PUB) and sun before STY (misread that clue). Didn't see many of the across words until reading Boomer's review.
Boomer, your two ?? mark symbols at BEGGARED captured my thoughts exactly. I don't know that I have ever come across that word before.
I saw an arts and entertainment segment on the morning news about ADELE and the correct pronunciation of her name.
AIRBASE - Ft Campbell, KY. Home of the 101st Airborne Division "Screaming Eagles"
My first duty station in Germany was at an army airbase at Coleman Army Airfield. I ran a computer on third shift, and got a job working at the bowling alley on afternoons, evenings and weekends. The big deal there was the unlimited free bowling and the extra pay that helped me buy a car and pay for the insurance and gas. Fun times.
FIR without erasure. Kinda guessed at BEGGARED x ASTER, having never heard for BEGGARED and, as always, lacked confidence in my spelling ability at ASTER. Waited for RNA/dNA. I had heard of "buggered," but this is a family Corner after all.
When I lived in Dallas, the radio morning show duo had a running gag for caller contests. The winner got a BRAND NEW REFRIGERATOR..............magnet.
NATO also has a North American HQ, here in Norfolk. I remember that every year during the weekend of the NATO Festival in our fair city. The main entertainment is the International Tattoo, basically bagpipes and drums.
BABY BLUES? I thought of Deacon Blues, Betty Davis Eyes, and Weird Al's Lizbeth Taylor Thighs.
I thought that "tare" was shipping weight allowance. Don't quite get the cluing for TONNAGE.
Thanks for the fun, MaryEllen. And thanks to Boomer for the PUNishment.
Zipped right along until I hit the SE corner. For some reason couldn’t bring the word TENURE to mind, and never heard of PETER Capaldi. I managed to not notice the plural and had AUNTY in there, putting a Y in the middle of where TRESSES needed to go. Could not think of a word for LONG LOCKS OF HAIR with a Y in the middle. As Jinx said, ASTOR or ASTER. Also agree with Jinx that shipping allowance is TARE; TONNAGE is shipping weight. I was surprised that some comments said they’d never heard of BEGGARED. “BEGGARED BELIEF” is a fairly common expression. I did see the theme but not until the reveal. Anyway, eventually it all came together to FIR in 15. Thanx for the fun CW, MEU. And thanx too for the fine write-up, Boomer. All your time and effort is appreciated.
I EASEd through this puzzle with nary a WO. That happens rarely for me. Thanks, MaryEllen, for a perfect start to the day. I must have been on your wavelength!
Thanks, Boomer, for a jolly review this morning, confirming the GREAT NEWS of my FIR. Good to see you are still blogging. The theme was clever with the matching sounds (OOHS) as well as all themers being exclamations. Woohoo!
I had heard of BEGGARED but hadn't thought of what it meant. D-Otto, my puzzle experience was similar to yours again today except for your thematic blindspot.
Hope everyone has a great start to the week!
You guys never heard of the phrase: “It beggared description “ meaning that it was basically indescribable? I’m surprised, seeing how many teachers, writers, and other literary folk we have among us. Other than that, I don’t have too much to say about this puzzle. FIR, so I’m happy.
FIR, but take exception to "beggared". By definition it means "reduce to poverty". What's that got to do with defying belief?
TTP @6:11 AM I use it all the time, e.g. "Darwinism BEGGARS belief!".
Took 4:09 today to get the congratulatory news.
Thought this puzzle was more of a snooze.
The Peter guy and "beggared" are words I do not use.
Tomorrow, do your duty and be sure to choose.
Thank you Ellen for OODLES of fun solving this puzzle.
And thank you Boomer for another punfully cheerful Monday review.
A few favs:
9A LADEN. As Hahtoolah would say, "Yummers".
54A PETER. Capaldi was the 12th Doctor Who (if you don't include Paul McGann, who appeared in a US movie and made the mistake of kissing one of his assistants). I've seen only a few of "new" doctors, who began with Christopher Eccleston, but saw ALL of the old episodes (Doctors 1-7) AT LEAST THREE times. I guess that qualifies me as an old school Whovian.
8D ADELE. Here's my favorite ADELE song from the sound track to a James Bond film. Upon hearing it one FAN said that now he's an entire AIR CONDITIONER.
36D BEGGARED. BEGGARS BELIEF.
41D TONNAGE. Not the same as a TARE, which is the weight of the container of the thing being weighed. TONNAGE is the maximum weight that a given ship or truck is allowed to carry.
61D MAH. Used to play an online version. Very addictive.
Cheers,
Bill
Hi All!
I could swear it was MAj-jongg. I used to play it in college - dominos on steroids.
//I also remember wondering around China Town in SFO and found a Mahjongg room... There are areas a pale-boy shouldn't go :-)
Thanks MaryEllen for the Monday morning wakeup call. Cute puzzle that filled EASily until I got into the deep-south.
BEGGERED? (UncleFred & SubG learned me).
I've heard BuGGERED (which I think is a 'bad word' in the UK... Jinx?).
You're the fruitcake NUT, Boomer :-) Thanks for kicking-off the after-party and happy to read you in good spirits.
//Almond Joy commercial.
WOs: Good_NEWS, MAj-jongg
ESP: PETER
Fav: Who doesn't love FREE BOOZE?
Paul Newman was BLUE EYES? I thought that was Frank Sinatra. #ItalianBias
During my stint in the Army, I got to visit Germany for two weeks setting up a field-hospital as part of a NATO exercise. The Germans had some very high-tech equipment for the field (MRI?!?). OOH, and I had a seat in a helicopter!
AIR BASE - after my stint in the Army, I spent 5 years at Tinker AFB designing computer networks for AFBs around the world. Fun stuff and Uncle Sam paid for my masters.
Jinx - Weird Al? I'm only coming up with Larry Larson re: 'Lizabeth Taylor Thighs. Maybe your Google-Fu is stronger today.
Waseeley - that you knew PETER inre: Dr. Who... I doff my brim and bow to you good nerd.
Bridges have a maximum TONNAGE. Pop said they drive heavier and heavier trucks over the bridge until it collapses - then they re-build it knowing the exact weight it can bear. //I think he made that up.
Y'all have a great Monday and I'll see you at the polls tomorrow.
Cheers, -T
Musings
-A fun CRUISE with no obscure names. Scratch that, someone named Capaldi showed up.
-Speaking of LILY, I got this amazing 3-D crystal of Joann and LILY for my DW’s birthday.
-MAGNET, NE - Magnet was so named by its founder B. E. Smith, who hoped to attract settlers to the region "as the magnet attracts iron". Today there are 43 residents.
-PEAS and carrots
-OP-EDS – It is a real shock when I read a reliably left or right columnist who takes his usual side to task.
-The teacher retirement program in Nebraska is almost fully funded/ENDOWED. Social security? Not so much, but D.C. has a printing press.
-Taverns are much more tolerable these days without cigarette smoke.
-I remember Marlo Thomas as That Girl from 1966. I would never have recognized her as she appeared in a recent TV show
A Moon-day puzzle that just oozes with EASE .... Or is it my most favoritist "UUU"s
Put NYC for "Nato" hdqts thinking of the UN. Perporrected. Almost put ACL for sinuous letter (then noticed it was singular)
Is there an "Aloe" falsa? 🤔. OLD is not "out of style" if it's retro we've learned from CWs. Shouldn't DEADEND be plural? ("Like many paths")
I'm not a fan of plastering a refrigerator with magnets et al...our fridge doors are cherry wood that match our cabinets so DW uses the metal door of the dish washer. 🙄...
I remember Gram would only let Gramps smoke his STOGIE outside (summer) or in the cellar (winter)
BEGGARD not sure I've heard b 4. Took goggle awhile too, kept correcting to "beggared"...."GREAT NEWS" was a fun short-lived Tina Fey written comedy.
Almost TEDDY bare 😲
At first thought "autotrader" had something to do with the stock market 🤭
The one non Monday clue: "Capaldi"
Hairstyle....ADO
Shout in a silver mine: "Get a ____ of this!!"...LOAD
How we got to daughter's this weekend....USEDCAR.
Almost hit 80⁰ yesterday (in November!) along the Thruway and Mass Pike.
Starting work late - had a dental appt that was faster than expected - so having a cup of coffee and the puzzle before off to work!
Fun and quick Monday solve - most of what I was going to mention today is "what Bill Said" usually it's "what D-O said"
I've learned from my Air Force son and my sis who does training at times for the Army - that it's Air Force base and it's Army post. Confusing when he was assigned to Fort Gordon in Augusta, GA as it is now the National Cybercommand - they have all branches involved in that!
Thanks Boomer for all the smiles and to Mary Ellen for the puzzle!
Oops - I missed a line in my notes:
WC - feeling any better? I had a bug two weeks ago that put me down for a few days. I hope that's all you have. Positive vibes your way. Get well soon 'cuz I want to hear you trash the Astros ;-)
C, -T
Learning moment (???)
Beggared...
(But I refuse to believe it...)
This was like the old Monday puzzles with tons of gimmes. Many answers were the first words to come to mind.
Peter was the only unknown to me. Thanks to perps, especially SPUR.
Wasseley, just what I was about to say about tare and tonnage.
I, too, am surprised that so many here have not heard the expression "It beggared belief." I hear it more often than beggared by poverty. "It almost beggars belief that so many can ascribe to such a ridiculous conspiracy theory."
OUTGO. I expected this month to be a low outlay month, just before Christmas. Not! An AAA call on Thurs. and another on Sunday requiring a new tire and a new battery.
Boomer is that picture what they call a luge in MN? We see luge only as an Olympic sport on TV.
Why is it called luge?
Why is it called the luge?
"Lugeing, also called luge tobogganing, form of small-sled racing. Luge sledding is distinctive from bob and skeleton sledding in that the sled is ridden in a supine position (lying on the back) and steered by subtle leg and shoulder movements. The sport takes its name from the French word for “sled.”
I didn't care for the reveal. The themers had neither the OOH sound or double OOs. EW! Off the mark!
DO @5:31 am (wow you are an early riser)
I read the same article about the reopening of a system of tunnels under Niagara Falls. The tunnels are enormous, like galleries and are part of a tour being offered....on my bucket list.
CC to Canada Eh
Hola!
OOH! A fast Monday solve, thank you, Mary Ellen. We hadn't seen your work in a while.
And thank you, Boomer! It's great to see you at the helm.
Nothing about this puzzle BEGGARED the imagination. It was straightforward and easy as Monday should be.
GRADE and TENURE are challenging academic achievements.
All my AUNTS and great-AUNTS are gone and now I am one to many great-nieces and nephews.
Oh, yes, those BABY BLUES on Paul Newman could mesmerize!
Have a marvelous Monday, everyone!
Most here have cited various forms of beggar, such as in phrases rather than citing usage of beggared.
I wonder why I've never heard or read beggared as a verb form before. I am familiar with beggar in the noun form sense of someone that begs. Also, "Beggar's Banquet" was one of the Rolling Stones greatest albums.Just not beggared, and given the most common meaning of the root beggar, I would have misinterpreted what beggared meant.
Google's Ngram viewer suggests that usage of beggared in American English peaked in 1840, and peaked in British English 1854. The usage of the phrase beggar belief started to rise in 1980 and peaked a few years ago.
I would simply say or write defied belief or unbelievable before using beggared.
As in, "For some people, it defied belief that drinking pickle juice would provide relief for leg cramping". Or, "Some people found it unbelievable that eating a teaspoon of pickle relish helped alleviate leg cramping".
Enough of that. Just so odd to me that I've never heard of this word.
Dash T and Tx Ms, it looks like it's going to be a great day for a parade in downtown Houston !
Marvellous Monday. Thanks for the fun, Mary Ellen and Boomer (hope this week is better for you).
Speed walk today with no DEADENDs (yes Ray-o, I wanted the plural too).
Plus, I saw the OOHS with BOOZE and NEWS.
DNA changed to RNA.
I noted TENURE crossing GESTURE.
Nice to see the British spelling of GREY (re Meredith Grey in the show). Oddly enough, the British doctor who wrote the book was Henry Gray (and the textbook title is Gray’s Anatomy).
I read this CBC article yesterday. It may explain some of our new editor’s shift in clueing.
Inclusivity
Back after lunch re that Niagara Falls tunnel!
Wishing you all a great day.
Delightful Monday puzzle, a real treat, many thanks, Mary Ellen. And always love reading your neat commentary on Mondays, Boomer, many thanks for that gift as well.
Well, I'm guessing PETER worked hard to get a good GRADE every class because he wanted to get TENURE and have his next teaching years ENDOWED. Happily, he got GREAT NEWS, and to celebrate his family bought him a USED CAR and threw a party with FREE BOOZE, and as a final GESTURE, sent him and his girlfriend on a CRUISE.
Have a great week coming up, everybody.
is this cheating?
Not sure how long the above link will stay as I saw it, but it is to "crossword nexus."
I typed the specific given clue in the space provided, hit look up, and the very first response (with four stars) was beggared...
With reference to CanadianEh's link "inclusivity" @11:31,
I had in the past asked if there was a website where you could input a clue, and receive alternate clues.
I ask again,
This time hoping I will be taken seriously....
Canadian Eh, I wanted GRAY for Henry Gray, but realized the show uses GREY, maybe to avoid confusion with Gray's book.
I really like beggars belief and have seen it written quite a bit in today's political news. Much of the lies and innuendo we hear beggar belief and are accepted regardless of logic. The fantastic conspiracies are prime examples. That may be the reason for the recent spike in usage. See the chart as you read farther down.
usage rising
Hi Y'all! Thanks, for a easy Monday, Mary Ellen! Thanks, for the humor, Boomer!
I was thrown off by the reveal in that OOHS usually has a long "O" sound. UU or OO without the H seems more like what was in the theme entries.
DNK PETER. Did know BEGGARED and promptly filled it in. Never uttered it in my life tho.
CanEh! interesting article on inclusivity. However, I don't see that much heterosexual inclusivity in puzzles, do you? Women do show up a lot--in the word BRA. Of course we have gender pronouns he & she, etc. which now seem PASSE in some cultures.
Tony: My ret. major AF pilot son is now an instructor of simulator training at Tinker AFB. Loves it. Staying on the ground to teach is one way to keep your students from killing you with their mistakes, so Mom is happy.
PK - Does he train on B2s or B-52s? [sorry, I can't help myself #RockLobster!]
A buddy of a buddy moved from Barksdale to Tinker to 'test fly' B-52s after maintenance. Dumbest thing one of the smartest guys I ever met could do :-)
OOH, and he could shred the electric-bass. //self-taught!
Anyone watch the $1MM CGC chess tournament today? I missed a bit (work!) but seems Wesley So of Toronto took it home. I'll have to watch the match later. post-game is live now.
CED - xwordinfo.com. DONATE and vast mysteries await. A bit clunky to navigate & it still has a bit of straight-dude bias when researching c/as - but worth the time.
Thanks for the article, C, Eh!
Cheers, -T
Good Morning:
Late to the dance due to a busy, busy day. This was a pleasant enough solve but I agree wholeheartedly with YR that the reveal sound (to my ear) doesn’t match the themers sound. Easy sailing except for the unknown Peter, as clued, definitely not a Monday clue. Two entries brought a smile: HG’s Darling Lily and Teddy, as I’m partial to those Toy Bears. 🐼🐻 My den is a haven for several dozen of my furry friends.
Thanks, Mary Ellen, for a fun start to the week and thanks, Boomer, for the usual wit and whimsy. You continue to amaze me with your tenacious grit and determination.
I did some grocery shopping this morning and continue to be taken aback by the increased price of practically everything. I just can’t imagine how difficult it must be for people with limited means, especially those with a family to feed.
Have a great day.
d’o @5:31 and Ray-o @9:40- Power Station and Tunnel attractions at Niagara Falls have been open all summer. I’m not sure why the American news is just picking it up. DH and I have not had a chance to go, but friends have raved about it.
PowerStationTunnelOpens
Here is the link for the actual Niagara Parks site.
Tunnel
Re the Inclusivity article, constructor Will Nediger (last appeared here March 26 2022 in a collaboration) was interviewed by C.C. back in 2010
NedigerInterview
Boomer brings us this Uthlaut PZL...
Happy Election Eve, everyone. Please be sure to VOTE (if you haven't already)!
An easy romp today. First time I ever timed myself.
Nine minutes. Is that good?
Probably would have been faster if I weren't so jittery because I was timing myself...
OMK
___________
DR: Two diagonals today, equally split.
The near-side diag has an abundance of "E"s. It offers an anagram (11 of 15) that reminds me of my days as a collegiate fencer.
This was long ago, of course, but I can easily recall how I always had an eye for the nearest way to my opponent's heart.
By this I mean, I would study his moves to see how I might draw him away from a block to my thrust.
For any non-fencers, a thrust is a direct forward attack, with or without a lunge.
I always wanted to suss out the most direct way to use my blade,
a sort of...
"EPEE BEELINE"!
HELLO! Can one of the moderators please retrieve my post from the censorship trash can? PLEASE!
I enjoyed this puzzle.
Wow, it's so interesting to find out how differently people hear and say the same words. To my ear, "oohs" and "ooze" sound exactly the same, as do all the theme sounds. But that's just my ear.
Anon-T, I ve never trashed Astros nor care about deflate gamers re. Bill Bellichek. I won't kick the Texans anymore than they've already been trashed
The article didn't mention the CC pet peeve Pop-cul names fe. PETER today
WC
Sandy, I completely agree
One might say this CW had good "clues".
Boomer, thanks for your awesome "reviews".
PETER Capaldi played a tormented iteration of Dr. Who. I put Matt Smith as #1fav and David Tennant as my #2fav.
WC @2:39 PM PETER Capaldi was the the 12th of 14 regenerations of Dr. Who. I wouldn't dismiss Dr. Who simply as a "popular culture" reference (more of a religion perhaps) as it has been around since 1963 and shows no danger of disappearing (and though fan Queen Elizabeth II has de-materialised, I'd wager that it will outlive Charles III). It is worthwhile I think for cruciverbalists to acquaint themselves with this being who transcends time and space. I guarantee you that it won't be long before his TARDIS materializes in a puzzle near you
I agree with you and WC about the theme sounds and the reveal's sound being like ooze.
To spell the words rhyming with owes, I'd use OHS or Os.
PETER Capaldi also did a terrific job playing a transvestite on Prime Suspect and the boss of a TV news organization on The Hour.
Picard, I strongly recommend you copy each of your postings and paste it elsewhere, such as into Windows Notepad or Apple Notes, before publishing it, so that if it gets deleted or otherwise disappears, you can post it again.
Jayce I did save my post. But it is of no value if no moderator is paying attention and it gets deleted each time. I tried three times. As far as I know, TTP is the moderator, but he has no way to contact him directly.
HELLO! IS ANYONE PAYING ATTENTION!
Picard, does your post possibly contain a word that triggers the Google algorithm to delete the post? For example, I once included the word Pr0$titute in a post and it was deleted within 10 seconds.
Jayce Sorry if I am not being clear. These algorithms are full of bugs. They can trigger on all sorts of words, despite there being nothing objectionable in the message.
Your example is a perfect example of how a single word used for a perfectly good reason can trigger deletion. That is why it takes a moderator to be paying attention. And we need a way to message the moderator when the system is broken. Does that make sense?
Picard, it makes sense if the system is broken, which I'm not convinced it is. Please peruse your post to try to identify any terminology in it that might trigger the delete algorithm, and if you think any word you used might even possibly be construed as objectionable per se, go ahead and respell it with a numeral or punctuation mark so that the algorithm won't trigger, and try reposting. It sure can't hurt to give it a try, and it sounds to me that you are eager for us to read it, so do what you need to do to get it published.
TTP Actually, a long time ago and relatively far away I watched Dr Who. This was the days of Lila the Jungle girl; anybody remember her?
My weakness is not knowing the names of actors. I'm forcing myself to read parade magazine
Speaking of… I managed to buy the tbtimes but slogging through the Sunday xword without being able to opine is an excuse to procrastinate.
I peeked and it didn't look Wednesday easy
Speaking of Doctors… I stopped by my non-VA Doctor to apprise him of my eye and negative covid test(rhinovirus)
He had a cancellation but was miffed that I showed up with a cold. So… Enlighten me, where do we go when we are sick? Emergency?
I don't like phone visits but I have one tomorrow with VA
WC
Wilbur Charles, I think you meant to address Waseeley rather than me. I recall that two of my sisters faithfully watched Dr Who back in the 1970s, but I've never watched a full episode.
Picard, what Jayce said. This blog is not setup to allow Adult Content, e.g., pornography and sexually explicit content. In the last year, we have also found that Blogger has implemented an associated change. There are trigger words that will result in reader comments being removed from a published status. In other words, if Blogger's AI or algorithm has determined that there is content in reader comments that isn’t suitable for all ages, it will be automatically removed. "All ages" would be the operative words.
If you saw your comment published, and then it disappears within a minute or so, then you have used a word or words that triggered the removal. At this point, I know of six root words (and their affix words) that will cause removal. (Dash T - cue the George Carlin bit)
So if you see your comments being automatically removed, ask yourself if the subject matter really needs to be discussed, or if the words in your comments really need to be used, and then either ditch them or rewrite your comments in a more appropriate "All ages" manner.
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