DON'T EAT THE FISH~!
Today's
puzzle, I believe, is Daniel's debut, at least for the LA Times. Way to Go~! And - it's NOT from Rebecca, and NOT 16x15 - but still about food. Hey,
I'm getting there, slowly but surely - "and don't call me Shirley".
Five foods, or "snacks", with movie title adjectives, and no reveal.
The themers:
17. Wrapped movie snack for a Rowan Atkinson comedy?: BEAN BURRITO
23. Spicy movie snack for a Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze fantasy romance?: GHOST PEPPERS
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38. Roasted movie snack for a Leslie Nielsen disaster comedy?: AIRPLANE PEANUTS
The best comedy movie ever~? Airplane~! Trailer
50. Cold movie snack for a Disney princess musical?: FROZEN YOGURT
62. Sweet movie snack for an Arnold Schwarzenegger comedy?: JUNIOR MINTS
And Away We Go~!
ACROSS:
5. Media network based in Ontario: THE CBC - the Wiki, and a shout-out to our friends up north
11. Tanqueray liquor: GIN
14. After-lunch sandwich: OREO - I really like BJs chocolate-chip cookies
15. Nickelodeon toon tyke: RUGRAT
16. Blackjack card: ACE
19. Not quite break, as a record: TIE
20. Seasonal mall worker: SANTA
21. Exam: TEST
22. Slough off: SHED
26. Monastery leaders: ABBOTS
- I recommend the "Cadfael Chronicles" by Ellis Peters, Cadfael being a
Crusader turned Benedictine monk, set in 1100 England, and a great set
of mystery novels
29. Christian name?: DIOR - Christian Dior, designer, very clever
30. __ Lanka: SRI
31. "Very funny": HA-HA
35. Shasta and Fanta: SODAS
42. __ dish: lab container: PETRI - Spellcheck doesn't like this
43. Graph lines: AXES
44. Ready to go: SET
45. LP player: Hi-Fi
30. __ Lanka: SRI
31. "Very funny": HA-HA
35. Shasta and Fanta: SODAS
42. __ dish: lab container: PETRI - Spellcheck doesn't like this
43. Graph lines: AXES
44. Ready to go: SET
45. LP player: Hi-Fi
47. Eases: ABATES
55. Passed-down tales: LORE
56. Mower brand: TORO - Mine is a Massey-Ferguson, and I am getting better at driving it~!
55. Passed-down tales: LORE
56. Mower brand: TORO - Mine is a Massey-Ferguson, and I am getting better at driving it~!
57. On the open ocean: AT SEA - I ordered a piece of art from
China, and the website supplied the tracking info for the vessel it was
loaded on, then I found this site, which is incredible - the number of ships AT SEA. . . .
61. Not even: ODD
64. Itty-bitty: WEE
65. Apply a cipher to: ENCODE
66. "__ quote you on that?": "CAN I~?" OK boys, let's get some pictures
67. Den. neighbor: NORway - sorta; Sweden is much more "neighborly"
68. Itty-bitty: TEENSY - Spellcheck doesn't care for this, either
69. Bridge distance: SPAN
69. Bridge distance: SPAN
DOWN:
1. "And __ your uncle": Brit's "Voilà!": BOB'S - my parents were
born and raised in England; while I did not hear this phrase often, one
that did come up on a day of thunderstorms was "It's a bit black over
Bill's mother's" = more here
2. Field: AREA - think "expertise"
2. Field: AREA - think "expertise"
3. Favor one side: LEAN - like that tower in 25D.
4. "Stay!": "DON'T GO~!"
5. Hilton brand: TRU - On my first trip with the pipe organ company to Lynchburg VA, we had to stay at a different hotel for ONE night
due to some convention at the usual place; the second spot was a "Tru",
sort of like the "trendy", wacky color scheme, odd art, Millennial vibe
version of Hilton
6. Causes pain: HURTS
7. Wading bird found in salt- and freshwater marshes: EGRET
8. Crunchy: CRISP
9. Swung for the fences, maybe: BATTED
10. Engineering exec at a startup, e.g.: CTO - Chief Technology Officer
7. Wading bird found in salt- and freshwater marshes: EGRET
8. Crunchy: CRISP
9. Swung for the fences, maybe: BATTED
10. Engineering exec at a startup, e.g.: CTO - Chief Technology Officer
11. Sit untouched: GATHER DUST - my drum set has been sitting
untouched the whole time I have lived in CT; I am planning a music room
in the basement - complete with pipe organ - once my new kitchen is done
- but that can't happen until the side porch gets done, and so on and
so on....
12. More slick: ICIER
13. Requires: NEEDS
18. Thai currency: BAHT
22. Sour cream utensil: SPOON - I prefer the newer squeezee bottle
24. Plant inspection org.: OSHA - the National Cathedral insisted
on steel-toe boots for all who work with the pipe organ company, so we
went shopping at Skechers last week, and I got some new, free kicks~!
25. Tuscan tower town: PISA
26. Rush job letters: ASAP
27. "The Marvels" star Larson: BRIE - no clue, filled via perps
27. "The Marvels" star Larson: BRIE - no clue, filled via perps
28. Factor in sibling relationships: BIRTH ORDER - I am first
born, have but one sibling, a brother, and he has some sort of
inferiority issue with me - so he comes across as the Alpha male in most
instances; it doesn't make any difference to me
32. The NHL's Ducks, on sports tickers: ANAheim - Florida could have hoisted the Stanley Cup last night, but they're going back to Edmonton
33. Bad spell: HEX - ah. Missed this. A "?" would have helped.
34. Large primate: APE
36. Fit to __: A TEE - Crosswordese
37. Old fleet fleet: SSTs - I am fascinated by the TV Show "Air Disasters", mostly because of how the show depicts the investigation progresses, and how a very tiny part failure can make a very big tragedy
39. Cherish: PRIZE - Dah~! not ADORE
40. Word with hack or coach: LIFE - Life-hack, Life-coach; I like watching the mini Life Hacks and carpentry tips on Facebook
41. Biblical twin: ESAU
46. Not sharp or flat: IN TUNE - Meh. "Natural" did not fit.
Being musical, I am not entirely in agreement with this clue; e.g. Van
Halen songs are all tuned a half-step down, or "flat", but they are "in
tune"; pipe organs can be sharp and/or flat and still be "in tune" - the
temperament Wiki
48. Gothic horror novelist Stoker: BRAM
49. Rooms that often have little room: ATTICS - Meh. My attic is huge, and I plan to make it into a loft one day; I prefer the "top floor" kind of clue for this answer
50. __ the coop: escaped: FLOWN
51. Event with clowns and bulls: RODEO
52. Part of the Queen Bey song "Partition": YONCÉ - Beyoncé - her Wiki, and that's as far as I go
53. Hunter in the night sky: ORION - this is more like my musical tastes
53. Hunter in the night sky: ORION - this is more like my musical tastes
R.I.P. Cliff Burton, bass player, Metallica - Orion
54. Merchandise: GOODS - I tried WARES first
58. Pic: SNAP - semi Meh.
58. Pic: SNAP - semi Meh.
59. Volcano on Sicily's east coast: ETNA - ah, trying to throw us for a loop with the whole "east coast" thing~? I wasn't fooled~!
60. Q __ Quebec: AS IN - more Canadien, Eh~?
62. East Coast NFLer: JET - yes, us long-suffering NY Jets fans. . . . can we get a quarterback in here~?
63. Daisy Ridley's "Star Wars" role: REY - I am a huge Star Wars fan - saw the original at a drive-in when I was six - but the last trilogy was lacking, sadly
Splynter
And a Juneteenth to all~!
Good Luck, we're all counting on you....
There were a good number of obscurities in this puzzle, so I wouldn’t say it was “easy.” However, the foods and the “movies” were well known ones so I can’t really complain about that. Anyway, FIR, so I’m happy.
ReplyDeleteGood morning!
ReplyDeleteTried FLAT at 1a...have I ever mentioned? Don't think I've ever seen a TRU hotel. The first Hilton I ever entered was in Hong Kong. (I had a hankering for a chocolate malt. It was great.) Methinks Daniel swung for the fences on this one. Well done. And a second well done to our semi-permanent temporary Splynter.
BIRTH ORDER: I'm the youngest of five. The oldest two have moved on, but the remaining three are still hanging in there.
AIRPLANE: We've got it on DVD. DW attached a Post-It that simply reads "No!"
Good Morning:
ReplyDeleteThe theme was cute, clever, and consistent but I thought Airplane Peanuts lacked the solidness of the other themers. Despite a few unknowns, i.e., Rugrat, Yonce, and Rey, the difficulty level was more Monday-ish than Wednesday, IMO, perhaps due to the ease of sussing the theme. The fill was fresh and lively, especially Birth Order, Gathered Dust, Don't Go, etc. Overall, a pleasant and enjoyable solve.
Thanks, Daniel, and congrats on your debut and thanks, Splynter, for a fun review and commentary. The Airplane movie clips are hilarious and your visuals are all striking. I enjoy your personal asides and tidbits about your job.
Today is the 4th anniversary of the Watermelon fiasco. 🍉 🤣
RIP Willie Mays.
Have a great day.
FIR without erasure. DKN THE CBC, BOBS, or TRU. I remembered BRIE only from Desperate Housewives. (I guess I really should look for that address to surrender my man card.) When I saw all the movie references I was ready to hate it, but I ended up enjoying it very much. Guess I'm nothing if not wishy-washy.
ReplyDeleteI know they all say "CAN I quote you," but shouldn't it be "may I...?" (Actually, anything you say to the media may and CAN be quoted, unless you get an agreement before you open your yap.)
Thought "bad spell" might be JINX, but I had too many letters.
Thanks to Daniel "buy a vowel" Hrynick for the easy and fun puzzle. And thanks to Splynter for another fine review, especially Nipper's cameo. BTW, yesterday I learned that Nipper was a real dog who was curious about the phonograph's sound, and that after the dog died his name and image was used for the dog in RCA's famous "his master's voice."
IM, you must not have been a patron of Southwest Airlines back in the day -- no meals, just AIRPLANE PEANUTS. My assigned territory was Texas and New Mexico. I flew Southwest at least twice weekly.
ReplyDeleteTook 5:47 today for me to eat the Manhattan clam chowder.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know the British expression, the Thai currency, or yonce. However, I knew today's actress (Brie) as Capt. Marvel and today's writer (Bram) and the Tuscan tower & the Sicilian volcano.
I wish we could retire the retired fleet (SSTs) from crosswords.
DO @ 7:03 ~ You're right, I have never flown on Southwest Airlines, but I do know that peanuts, or other nuts, were given out to passengers on many different carriers. I just don't think "Airplane Peanuts" has the same in-the-language usage as the other themers. 😉
ReplyDeleteSS @ 7:21 ~ Great catch on Manhattan Clam Chowder! 👏
This was a fun and fast puzzle - the theme was evident early and sped things along
ReplyDeleteI would have only vaguely known "And BOBS your uncle" until a week or so ago. I'm a part of a Facebook group called "A Way with Words" and they just had a thread about this and other British slang phrases that aren't used much in American English.
No more AIRPLANE PEANUTS due to the number of people with PEANUT allergies- usually pretzels or a snack mix that's similar to Gardetto's or a knock off of Delta's Biscoff cookies on morning flights. PEANUT and Shellfish are two foods that are the most likely to cause an anaphylactic reaction.
Being involved in choral music, I thought of the choir being IN TUNE vs. going flat or sharp. The choirs I have been in are much more likely to go flat than sharp.
Congrats on your debut Daniel!
Echoing IM - I saw that Willie Mays had died - the Sporcle trivia site posted a quiz related
https://www.sporcle.com/games/SporcleExp/anyone-but-willie-mays
today which they often do to honor som
FIR. Last to fall was airplane. Of course it didn't help to have Brie at 27D. Who? And I also didn't know the CBC so there was a little guesswork there.
ReplyDeleteI got the theme early with bean burrito. I don't know why airplane peanuts took me so long.
Overall this was fairly typical for a Wednesday, a tad on the crunchy side, but I finished, so I'm happy.
Great Wednesday level puzzle with an easy to suss theme. Fair and fun, but a big fail for me. I missed some very easy answers.
ReplyDeleteI tried gathering moss before dust. I use that more often.
I say teensy, quite a bit.
You haven't heard me sing. Having a poor ear for music, I sing flat at times. I can't always sing in tune.
I know people prize the things they cherish, but I couldn't think of it.
Airplane makes sense and it had perps. Missed that, too.
ReplyDeleteWednesday puzzles, landing on the cusp, can be easyish tending toward the beginning of the week or hard, LEANIng toward the right. This tended to lean left so an easy FIR
“And ….. your uncle!” Since I filled FLAT for the “bad Goodyear” clue, (clever btw) I had a four letter word starting with F. 😳 Yikes…good thing it’s BALD instead. 😰.
Gettable theme (BTW do they allow PEANUTS on AIRPLANEs anymore?)
Learnt about GHOST PEPPERS through the CWs, same with the “Hilton Brand” TRU.
“God sloughed off his grace on thee” just doesn’t have the same “resplendent majesty” to it 😖
“Rowan Atkinson?” (Ohhhh: Mr. Bean)
“Queen Bey (a SE Asian royal?) song Partition” (like India and Pakistan?). Uh NO! 😲
ETNA has spewn lava onto the LAT CW two days in a row now. “Pic”/SNAP? (snapshots are called “shots”)
“Purchased” in Thailand…..BHAT
Entré by Rob’s wife Laura, ___ …. dish…PETRI
”I wanna epidural and a doula”….BIRTH ORDER
Itty-bitty adolescent …… TEENSY
Purveyor of homemade marine items…ATSEA
Stay cool and hydrated. 💦
Good Morning! Thanks, Daniel, for today’s puzzle and congrats on your debut! I had to chuckle at BOB’S your uncle. I haven’t heard that in ages! Good start.
ReplyDeleteBut I made a mess of the North until I got it straightened out. All on me. I misplaced 22A -> the 21 slot and 8D in the 7 slot so WO got a workout, and all was soon fixed.
All perps for TRU, THE CBC and REY. 👋👋👋CanadianEh!
Thanks, Splynter. Grand tour today!
FLN:
Yooper Phil: I’ve been to Mackinac Island only in my dreams. I’ve seen travelogues and it does look beautiful.
RE: tomatoes. If you have Campari Tomatoes available in your area, I recommend them any time after summer tomato season and are available year round. I’ve enjoyed them for many years. They are about twice the size of cherry tomatoes but are located in the same area of the produce section. Lots of good flavor and as versatile as summer tomatoes.
I join others who enjoyed this smooth and fairly easy CW. My only unknowns were YONCE and REY.
ReplyDeleteBURRITO as a movie snack?
I agree with Jinx about the difference between MAY I and CAN I, and other “misuses” of the word MAY but that’s a losing battle.
Thank you Splynter for a nice recap.
For fans of "Airplane!" I recommend "Zero Hour!", starring Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell and others, the 1957 film that was basis for the spoof, though I kept waiting for the punch lines (as when "that's a different kind of flying, altogether" isn't followed by the repetition)
ReplyDeleteSplynter, I checked out the marine tracking site. Unbelievable the amount of traffic at sea.
ReplyDeleteMusings
ReplyDelete-Does anyone here eat GHOST PEPPERS as a snack?
-Patti has added new meaning for ACE complete with its own flag
-I have never laughed harder than when I first saw Airplane!
-I am getting used to my new TORO mower. My electric only went four years and a new battery cost as much as a new gas-powered model.
-Omaha has a pork barrel foot bridge that SPANS the Missouri River named after former U.S. senator BOB Kerry. Now they are building a bridge to that bridge called The Baby Bob
-The most famous ENCODED messages
-I prefer my bacon very CRISP! You?
-It can be a struggle to open sour cream, catsup or other packets in a restaurant!
-The head of the entire Boeing fleet is getting grilled in D.C. this week
-One day we woke up and our neighbors had FLOWN the coop.
-Nice job, Splynter, are you trying to set the world’s record for planned projects? :-)
-I guessed wrong on Wordle yesterday and have to start a new streak today. :-(
Today's puzzle was fun to do, with theme answers that aided the solve, but I have to echo Monkey at 10:02 AM; these are "movie snacks" only in that they involve movie titles. You wouldn't eat any of these items in a theater except for JUNIOR MINTS. I'm not familiar with the BEAN movies, and barely recalled JUNIOR (in spite of being a Schwarzenegger fan), so those didn't leap out at me. YONCE is current pop music (not my thing), and "may I" very rudely became CAN I.
ReplyDeleteThanks to Daniel for a nice puzzle, and to Splynter for explaining and embellishing. Also to Patti as ever, and to all you good natured Cornerites for sharing the experience.
I was misled by thinking the snacks were also available at the movies. But this kind of theme is common here. Only the move titles apply. I eventually realized that. It was fair.
ReplyDeleteNot knowing most of the movies was a problem,
"May I" is losing the argument with "Can I" in informal writing and speaking. Irregular common usage over long periods of time can lead to formal recognition. Many usages the strictest of us accept with out blinking were once considered crass.
Snacking on ghost peppers: They are 400 times hotter than Tabasco sauce, and about 200 times hotter than a jalapeño pepper. Not for me. I like the other two.
We like crisp bacon. Alan will not touch it otherwise. I prefer crispy, too.
Took awhile fully to grasp the movie/food theme. Quite clever. Never heard of JUNIOR, which slowed me down. Utterly mystified by YONCE until coming here. Other unknowns: TRU, BRAM, BRIE. FIR.
ReplyDeleteAs a teen I listened to THE CBC on this Radio Shack shortwave radio kit that I built.
I think it cost $25 and I could listen to stations all over the world. It had a super-regenerative tuner. A throwback to the early 20th century. Finicky, but it kept the price low. Any other shortwave fans here?
Got 'er done today, with the North Central holding things up a bit. Took an alphabet run to arrive at TRU, but nonetheless, an enjoyable puzzle. Thanks, Splynter, for the Airplane! references. I still laugh out loud watching. When, as a kid, I would start a question with "Can I..." my Pop would always answer, "I don't know, can you?"
ReplyDeleteWonderful Wednesday. Thanks for the fun, Daniel and Splynter
ReplyDeleteI FIRed in good time and got the theme movies and food.
I saw the two Canadian clues/answers with THE CBC and AS IN Quebec and Googled Daniel’s name. Sure enough, I have a fellow-Canadian today. He hails from WINNIPEG, MANITOBA (I suspect a Ukrainian heritage). He might have clued JET as a Prairie NHLer but Patti probably thought it was too obscure. And of course, he couldn’t correct the spelling of the trademarked name, JUNIOR MINTS!
I got off to a rough start as my tires were flat and bare before BALD. I see that I was not alone at the side of the road.
I was lost at sea when the usual ASEA was too short. Oh, we have a T.
That BOBS phrase is rarely heard here.
I waited for perps to decide between CAN or May for that quote.
I agree that IN TUNE can be applied to choral or any singing groups.
Would tithe ETNA and OREO clues be ECKTORPs?
Wishing you all a great day.
Thank you Daniel for a tasty Wednesday puzzle, with just the right condiments.
ReplyDeleteAnd thank you Splynter for the splendid review (except for striking out on 27D)
Some favs:
1A BALD. I had FLAT first to and I'm blamin' it on you D-O!
23A GHOST PEPPERS. Not to be trifled with.
26A. ABBOTS. Cadfael was also made into a Medieval mystery series starring Derek Jacobi.
27D BRIE. You should have done your homework on this one Splynter -- this photo op is a way better than that Nipper painting for 45A HI-FI. 😁
1D BOBS. DNK your parents were Brits. Loved the link on English idioms.
7D EGRET. HERON fit the clue and the space, but not the perps.
28D BIRTH ORDER. I'm the oldest of 5 and basically spoiled rotten. 😀
41D ESAU. JACOB loses again!
52D YONCE. C'mon -- Queen Bee as "one of the greatest voices of all time?" -- Renée Fleming maybe!
Cheers,
Bill
Irish Miss @6:40 AM Re AIRPLANE PEANUTS. Obviously you've never flown Southwest (a major hub in Baltimore). All you get is PEANUTS and no assigned seats. The airline attendants used to make up for it with a lot of bad puns, but their shtick is wearing off.
HUSKER @10:07 AM. Thanks for the Bletchley Park link. This ordinary enough looking place spun off two flicks -- The Imitation Game, featuring Alan Turing played by Benedict Cumberbatch; and a series called The Bletchly Circle about the aftermath of the war and about 4 women who had worked together at Bletchley. They were bound by the Official Secrets Act to tell no one, not even their husbands, about their previous work, but they all independently saw a pattern in a series of murders taking place in the London underground. Somehow they found one another again, and using many of the decryption skills they learned at Bletchley, eventually worked out who done it.
Took me twice as long to eat the Halloween candy as it did SS to eat his Manhattan chowder. YONCE and BOBS were about the only true unknown other than the themers which all perped nicely. I’ve seen TRU hotels popping up along the interstates, their logo looks like TRU TV. Surprised that some aren’t familiar with THE CBC, maybe I am because of my proximity to Canada. Thanks for your fine work Daniel, congrats on your LAT debut!
ReplyDeleteSplynter ~ fine job on today’s expo! I’ve had that Marine Traffic app for some time now, I’ve seen ships pass through the Soo Locks and tracked them around the world. I too ordered something that shipped from China, tracked it (in Mandarin 😂) about a dozen places around there, then I think it got stuck on that ship that ran aground in the Suez Canal, arriving 6 months later. There is also an app, Flight24, which tracks almost all air traffic in real time, almost like being in the cockpit.
RosE ~ I hope you can get to Mackinac Island someday, I’ve been there often as I’m only 4 hours away. No motorized vehicles (except for emergency ones), transportation is by horse drawn carriage or bicycle. Beautiful hotels and Victorian homes, landscaping is amazing! I have had Campari tomatoes, about the closest thing to homegrown, they call themselves “the tomato lovers tomato”.
Fiance and I were kicked off the island. Could not stay because we were not married. Ca 1959.
DeleteHere's what the late Jimmy Buffett said about movies and JUNIOR MINTS in his hit song Fruitcakes:
ReplyDelete"Take for example when you go to the movies these days, you know.
They try to sell you this jumbo drink, 8 extra ounces of watered
down cherry coke for an extra 25 cents. I don't want it.
I don't want that much organization in my life.
I don't want other people thinking for me.
I want my Junior Mints. Where did the Junior Mints go in the
movies. I don't want a 12 lb. Nestle's crunch for 25 dollars. I
want Junior Mints."
Picard - I was more of a Heathkit guy myself. But my favorite radio by far was an army surplus ARC5.
Bill O, I remember seeing one of those "the making of" documentaries for Airplane! including "guess I picked a bad to day to give up..." I don't remember the source movie, but it's probably that one.
Ray-o, you've outdone yourself today. Thanks.
D-O, were you flying SWA when their frequent flier program consisted of a piece of paper that the gate agent would stamp when you checked in? IIRC, 16 flights = 1 free flight. Flying from Phoenix to Dallas required a change of planes in Albuquerque because the Wright Amendment to the International Air Transportation Act of 1979 prevented flights to Love Field except for the four states neighboring Texas. (Poor DFW needed protection.) Seems that the Amendment also required a minimum layover of 2 hours. But the good news was that I got double-stamps for those trips.
I enjoyed this puzzle.
ReplyDeleteI thought I was being so clever in putting in BALE for that Christian name. Mr. DIOR took me down a peg.
Had no clue what the heck YONCE meant until reading the explanation.
I remembered the actress but couldn't remember whether her name was spelled Bree or BRIE.
Picard, I once built a simple one-tube super-regenerative receiver. It wasn't short wave; it only received regular AM radio broadcasts. I wanted to use super-regenerative technology in our magnetometers, but the boss vetoed it in spite of my having demonstrated that it increased sensitivity by at least an order of magnitude. The boss's decision was based solely on price, though.
Good reading you all.
Hola!
ReplyDeleteAgain I'm late to the party because of a bad night. I did not get to sleep until 4 A.M. I am disliking the aging process more and more.
Thanks to Daniel Hrynick for the snacks. I can confirm that Southwest Airlines offers a small bag of mixed nuts and pretzels. I'm on one of their planes at least once, sometimes twice a year. We have a trip planned for September but I may go before that to escape the heat.
FROZEN YOGURT would not be my preferred snack but a BEAN BURRITO might be what's on for dinner tonight. Definitely tacos are on schedule. We finally finished the lasagna which I had never made before but turned out surprisingly good.
The RODEO comes to Scottsdale once a year though I haven't attended in many years. I believe I've mentioned the time Hopalong Cassidy rode in the RODEO parade and I was mesmerized by his piercing blue eyes. That would have been in about 1948-49.
Thank you, Splynter, for your fine analysis of the puzzle and also keeping us abreast of your busy and interesting life.
Yes! I have read the Cadfael books by Ellis Peters and still have them all.
I hope your day is going exceedingly well, everyone!
Daniel would know that the Calgary Stampede RODEO coming up in early July is the biggest outdoor RODEO in the world.
ReplyDeleteRe BIRTH ORDER- I am the youngest of three. Spoiled rotten - never!
Yooper Phil - I have crossed the Mackinac bridge but never had another day to go over to the island. I will put it on my bucket list.
Yes Splynter, you gotta love those Edmonton Oilers (and McDavid) for never giving up. Their fans are ecstatic!
Hi All!
ReplyDeleteThanks Daniel for a fun food-movie theme. Congrats on the debut.
Thank you Splynter for the rockin' (& leggy) review.
WOs: N/A
ESPs: BRIE
Fav: HAHA - Houston Area Hackers Anonymous. We meet 1st Thursday of every month. What happens at HAHA, stays at HAHA.
Growing up on Bob & Doug McKenzie, I knew The CBC asked Rick Moranis (Bob) and Dave Thomas (Doug) to make Canadian content to fill the two minutes that commercials did in US markets.
That two minutes became "Great White North," eh? [cite].
//When I introduced the Girls to Bob & Doug they laughed "Rutt and Tuke!" from Disney's Brother Bear ;-)
Oh, and D-O, our local NPR station plays CBC's "Day 6" programme Saturdays at 1p and again Sunday at 11a.
"And BOBS your uncle" I've know seemingly forever but I don't know why. Is that also a Canadian thing, C, Eh!? //you said above 'not so much.'
LOL "And F*** your Uncle!" Ray-O. Kin to what my (Army) Bro says: "...and the horse you rode in on."
Speaking of horses: C, Eh!, WikiP says Houston's Livestock show and RODEO is the largest in the world. Reuter's ranking disagrees. I guess it depends on how "Largest" is measured ;-)
The Making of Jive Talk. [1:51]
Cheers, -T
Denmark ruled Norway for many years. Sweden and Germany did too. Today Norway is the best for its citizens, providing a safe environment including food, lodging and education for its citizens. All share in the oil profits as well.
ReplyDeleteIt is comforting for me to have my return to the blog and commenting having Splynter and other familiar faces providing commentary. The continuity of the fixation with legs is reassuring as his rock and roll mindset.
ReplyDeleteBrie Larson is a movie star that I think is quite pretty. Sadly I do not recall how to insert a picture.
Daniel Hrynick had his first mainstream publication in the Universal daily in August of 2023, then another first in the NYT in November 2023 as well as 5 other Universal publications, including his first Sunday this year and today's LAT.
Many of the AMC theaters have eat at your seat offerings including burritos.
D-O says he is one of the youngest of five siblings and "two have moved on, but the remaining three are still hanging in there." I am the youngest of three and my brothers have both "moved on."
Welcome Daniel.
Here ya go, Lemony. Brie Larson just for you. Have I ever mentioned that redheads are my kryptonite?
ReplyDeleteThanks & congrats to Daniel! Movies & snacks -- what could be better?
ReplyDeleteFIR after I changed my "flat" to BALD because I was 100% on BOB'S. No issues after that.
Plenty of interesting fill today: GATHERDUST, BIRTH ORDER, and the clues for TIE and DIOR.
Thanks for another fun tour, Splynter. I especially liked the English phrases and that Marine Traffic link. If you rest your curser over a ship, it tells you more info.
Jinx Heathkit was mostly out of my price range as a teen, but I did build another radio that was Heathkit with my father. I later built a Heathkit Digital Multimeter. And a Heathkit Color Generator to fix a broken used TV I bought. First color TV our family ever owned.
ReplyDeleteJayce Cool that you also built a super-regenerative radio. Back in the day every tube or transistor was precious. Interesting about the magnetometer and your boss.
Not sure if kids these days build things like this.
AnonT Thanks for the Jive clip. Airplane is a close second to Blazing Saddles as the funniest movie ever.
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ReplyDeletewaseeley Thanks for the BRIE photo layout. Very nice.
Building radios and giving them away to underprivileged kids was a hobby for my late DH. He spent many Saturdays doing that.
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It's always good to see your post. I hope you are in good health.