Saturday Themeless by Rafael Muse
I made great time through Rafael's puzzle because the fill was very "gettable" or had sufficient perp help.
1. Take credit?: OWE.
4. Kevin's "Bull Durham" role: CRASH.
9. Up: ASTIR.
14. Autoreply sender: BOT.
14. Autoreply sender: BOT.
15. Prefix with -centric: HELIO - Ptolemy's geocentric (Earth-centered) theory was believed to be right for 1,500 years
16. Pressure: FORCE.
17. Device used in some medical and military training, informally: VR HEADSET.
19. Sooty passages: FLUES.
20. Closing statement?: I'M ALL DONE.
21. Mid day?: IDES 😀 It's the mid day of a month
22. Reptile that dominates Taylor Swift's "Reputation" era imagery: SNAKE - Daughter and granddaughters knew this instantly when I sent the clue to them. I, uh, had to wait for the crossings.
23. Punk, grunge, emo, et al.: ALT ROCK.
25. Camper's protection: TARP - Yeah, I put TENT first too.
27. Important figures of preindustrial Japan: SAMURAI.
29. Oktoberfest order: BIER
31. Border: ABUT.
33. Highly intelligent songbirds: TITS - When I searched for a picture of this pretty little bird, I got a lot of NSFW images.
34. All of the Barenaked Ladies, actually: MEN - Their frontman Ed Robertson (far right below) wrote the theme song for The Big Bang Theory in the shower in 15 minutes. The band recorded it and made big bucks.
35. Crème de la crème: TOP TIER.
38. Not amazing: MEH.
39. Suggestions, informally: RECS.
41. Confer, as authority: VEST.
42. Busy travel days: EVES.
44. Baby, in Irish slang: SNAPPER.
46. Allay: EASE.
48. People with no class?: TRUANTS.
...and FWIW
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| Wednesday's Rose Parade had a float with scenes from moviedom's most famous TRUANT |
53. Some beachfront dwellings: HUTS.
54. "I've heard quite enough": OH SPARE ME
57. Deceptive move: FEINT - Gotta love this one! (Explanation at bottom if you don't see it)
58. Follows a boat, in a way: WATER SKIS.
59. Bert's bestie: ERNIE.
60. Put up: ERECT.
61. Furniture wood: ELM.
62. Standing __: DESKS.
63. Some jabs: LEFTS 😀
64. "Called it": SEE.
Down:
1. Curt "Clearly": OBVI.
2. Nematodes, e.g.: WORMS.
3. Hunt in action movies: ETHAN.
4. Works outside?: CHALK ART.
5. More ripe, perhaps: REDDER.
6. To boot: ALSO.
7. Tuscan city that hosts the Palio horse races twice a year: SIENA.
8. Rooms together?: HOTEL SUITE 😀 Rooms as noun not a verb
9. Emotionally encourage: AFFIRM.
10. Was wildly popular, say: SOLD OUT.
11. "Serial" genre: TRUE CRIME.
12. Cutting-edge footwear?: ICE SKATES 😀
13. Hi or low follower: RES.
18. Tickle pink: ELATE.
24. Sugar magnate who established a network of British art galleries: TATE.
28. "Sorta": ISH.
29. "Relatable": BEEN THERE.
30. Many tourist sites in Peru: INCA RUINS.
32. Group formed in Seoul in 2010: BTS.
34. __ Puff: SpongeBob's driving teacher: MRS.
36. Oast, for one: OVEN.
37. Takes it from the top: RESTARTS.
40. First artificial satellite: SPUTNIK - As a NASA guy, I would have had to turn in my Official Space Decoder Ring if I missed this one.
43. Swerves: VEERS.
45. Follows up on copying: PASTES.
47. __ ratio: ASPECT.
49. Portion: SHARE.
51. Some toys, for short: PEKES 😀
52. Upside-down frown: SMILE.
55. Australian actress Dawson: STEF
56. Bianco of "The Magicians": ESME - Signing autographs at Comic Con
57. Stoked: FED.
Baseball feint explained: There was a runner on first and the hitter hit a ball out to the center fielder. The shortstop pretended he caught the ball on the fly and the runner thought he would be easily doubled off first base, just gave up and returned to the dugout. The center fielder then fired the ball to the shortstop and the runner was tagged out. 😀
62 comments:
I got this! And pretty fast, too! I just had to replace “tent” with “tarp” and everything else fell into place. Am I getting smarter or was this puzzle much easier than the usual Saturday fare? In any case, FIR, so I’m happy!
Good morning!
Here I was, feeling pretty good about my failed attempt, and then see that Sub-G thought it was "much easier than the usual Saturday Fare." It all came down to that "Irish slang." D-o went with a KNAPPER. Bzzzzt. Along the way, Wite-Out corrected ETHNO to HELIO and TENT to TARP. OBVI (distasteful) was back rather than OBVS (its really distasteful cousin). Thanx Rafael and Husker.
ASPECT ratio: Why is it that older DVDs sold as "widescreen" in the days of 4X3 TVs can't fill the screen of a modern flat-screen TV? That little rectangle in center screen is dissatisfying.
I had to travel to the SW to get a foothold on this one, then work CCW to finish in the NW. Significant perp help and a couple WAGs got me the FIR in 23:20, better than my average Saturday time. DNK CRASH, STEF, ESME, and SNAPPER was not OBVI to me either (I wonder if IM☘️ even knew that one). I knew TATE was an art gallery, not that he was a sugar magnate. I guess I didn’t remember 9th grade biology either as I was unfamiliar with nematodes. As a bird watcher, of all the species in the avian world, my favorites are the highly intelligent songbirds. Thanks to Rafael for the puzzle, and to HG for your detailed expo!
And VR HEADSET was my biggest all perped roadblock.
Took 9:09 today.
I didn't know either of today's actresses (Esme or Stef).
Astir instead of awake was a hang-up for me, as was the Swift clue, and the Irish baby.
I agree with HG that the perps were all fair, which hasn't been the case for several recent Saturday puzzles.
CCTF (came close to finishing.) Had two blank squares at 20A x 5&7D. Fingerboned everything else into the LAT site, then did a "check grid." Oh, Cosner wasn't CoAcH? That led to REDDER and SIENA, but still no TADA! Oh OBVs has a red slash too. Yeah, I guess IM ALL DONE makes more sense than sMALL DONE.
Yup, I fell into the OBVI traps of tent and noon.
Writing and lecturing that the planets might - just might - be HELIOcentric led to Galileo's arrest, conviction and imprisonment. Dark period for the Catholic Church.
IDES falls on the 15th only in March, May, July and October. In other months it falls on the 13th. Romans were brilliant in a lot of things, but calendering wasn't one of them.
Thanks to Rafael for the Saturday puzzle that was so easy that my dumb mass was almost able to solve. And thanks to H.Gary for another fine review. Was our first satellite Telstar? I remember sitting outside and watching the night sky for it to pass by. (If you got any extra of them NSFW pics of birds, could you send em my way?)
Methinks that the Fri & Sat puzzles got switched. Today was definitely easier than yesterday. I wonder - is SNAPPER short for whippersnapper?
FIR. I had to really work at this one as all I could see at one time was a sea of white squares. But I was persistent and won the day.
I too had tent before tarp, and the device, vr headset, had me puzzled for a while. Two consonants together just looked wrong. Last to fall was the NE when suddenly ice skates appeared and I was home.
Overall, although quite difficult, an enjoyable puzzle.
The early Roman calendar is fascinating. Days were numbered backwards, counting down toward special dates like IDES or festivals. Even weirder, at the end of Saturnalia (winter solstice) nothing happened until the new year in spring, so they simply stopped counting. The months of January & February didn't exist and were essentially dateless.
Saturday puzzle. Typical tough Saturday challenge for me…also clues kinda murky. Just saying.
Greet the day.
I think the Romans were on to something. Suits me if we just skip January and February. Bears have a bright idea too. Eat everything in sight, then when you're full, take a nap until spring.
Good Morning:
Subgenius is getting smarter and I’m getting less smart because this was a big, fat, disappointing DNF. I seldom give up on a puzzle but this one just wasn’t in my wheelhouse. The North Central was my downfall because of not knowing (and not being able to gain any footholds) Crash, Helio, VR Headset, Chalk Art, I’m All Done, Siena, Hotel (I had the Suite). If I never see Obvi or Obvs again, it’ll be too soon and the mystifying conversational entries such as, I’m All Done and Oh, Spare Me are getting tiresome and annoying. Puzzles aren’t supposed to be mind-reading exercises. That said, the rest of the puzzle was challenging but doable and had some clever cluing and fresh fill.
Thanks, Rafael, and thanks, HG, for shedding some light on some of the tricky entries. I was happy to see the Bichon represented in the small dog breed chart.
My power went out at 2:45 and wasn’t restored until 10:00. Temp in the house fell to 61, a little too chilly for my taste! All is well now, fortunately.
Have a great day.
No, YP, I’m not familiar with that term for a baby. 😉
Desper Otto gave me the idea for this song parody yesterday, to the tune of “Winter Wonderland.”
WITEOUT WONDERLAND
Foreign words may perplex us.
Proper nouns tend to vex us.
Those clues set in quotes are getting our goats.
Squawking in a Wite-Out Wonderland.
Natick, Mass., sent me reeling.
Like an ass, I am feeling.
It took me too long. I finished it wrong.
Squawking in a Wite-Out Wonderland.
In the Corner I can get pedantic
As I’m weighing in while eating eggs.
Meanwhile, miles away near the Atlantic,
Our blogger posts a pair of pretty legs.
Saturday, it’s a themeless.
C.C.’s tend . . . to be seamless,
With nary a word that seems too absurd.
That’s a puzzle we can give a hand.
That’s a puzzle we can understand.
Waltzing . . . through a Wite-Out Wonderland.
Finally, I finished a Saturday puzzle. But it wasn't easy. Starting with the stupid abbreviation for obvious-OBVI- and ending in the NE. I started the NW in the hole after filling HELEN Hunt and finally changing it to the unknown ETHAN. I knew WORMS and guessed SNAKE, which changed my AMUSE to ELATE. My TARP was originally a TENT.
I had no idea what "Serial" was but after CRIME was filled, the perps took care of it. STEF, MEN, MRS, ESME. and RECS (another stupid abbr.) were perps. So a whipper-snapper is only a SNAPPER in Ireland.
Gary, Your NSFW-TIT- is showing some on ESME photo.
I'M ALL DONE.
Bravo!!!
I came closer than I usually do on a Saturday puzzle, but in the end, I'll just Echo Irish Miss.
...and two thumbs up for Copy Editor!
Looks like some real competition for Wierd Al Yankovich! CE, you rock!
That should be the Corner’s anthem. LOL. Thanks for the free entertainment.
DNF. The Middle East got me. Those naked ladies, some lady named Puff and án Irish baby eluded me. Had I entered BIER instead of BeER, I have have stood á chance.
I didn’t know STEF, ESME, ERNIE, ETHAN (I too wanted Helen) and CRASH, but perps helped.
As I’ve stated before, I don’t care for phrases; like everyone else, I hope OBVI disappears soon.
I really liked CHALK ART, PAPER TOWEL, TRUANTS. When we were much younger we spent most of our summer weekends on WATER SKIS. I miss those days.
Thank you HG and kudos to those of you who sped through this difficult CW.
👍🏼👍🏼
(I would put a thumbs up emoji here, but my keyboard doesn't have any...)
I wish it were easier to review my post. That should be “might have stood á chance”. Also I have tried off and on to correct the accent on my letter (the first letter of the alphabet) without acrobatics on my part, but to no avail.
Thank you, Rafael (do you also go by Ray?), and thank you, Husker Gary.
Rafael, we have a regular poster here named Rafael that goes by Ray.
No sweat Saturday. Solved it while flipping back and forth between SportsCenter and Inside The NFL, and still finished in really good time. Not much of a true Saturday challenge, but it was fun.
Didn't know that theme song for The Big Bang Theory was by Bare Naked Ladies, so a learning moment because of reading the blog. I can't watch TBBT though. Every other line or action has an overly loud laugh track.
Another learning moment reading the Wikipedia on Bare Naked Ladies. They were already making big bucks and were successful long before they recorded that theme song in 2007. By then they were in decline from their most successful years.
I didn't try tent. I already had the A from ART and the P from PAPER by then. I almost always start in the middle of the puzzle and work outward from there.
I had edge before ABUT until BTS and TATE disagreed, and kiln before OVEN until the obvious (OBVI?) VEST became apparent.
Never saw the clue for the Australian actress STEF Dawson. Ditto, ESME Bianco.
Copy Editor: Kudos for your very clever parody. Great blog-inspired lyrics, with my personal favorite being Verse 3. Well done, sir.
Well done!
I needed a lot of WAGS and luck to FIR. VR HEADSETS, SNAPPER (as clued), I’M ALL DONE, OH, SPARE ME, ESME, and STEF were impediments, and even TARPS gave me trouble. ASPECT was not the first ratio I tried. And OBVI took a while to seem, well, obvi.
CRASH Davis, SIENA, and TATE helped me along, and so did the most innocuous of George Carlin’s “Seven Words You Can’t Say on TV.” I love the positioning of that word as the last of the seven.
I hate “e before I” words, i.e., FEINT, e.g.
Husker Gary I have hundreds of photos of our local CHALK ART festival, but I won't try to top your photo. We have some that are similar and I am in awe of these ARTists.
Here is just one of my many videos of some local kids on ICE SKATES who are way better than I am!
We live just a few hundred feet from this ICE in Paradise rink. Enjoyed the puzzle and FIR.
Excellent!
Was considering giving up, but finally FIR on paper, no cheating. Oof! My head is still clogged up with grief over the loss of my dogs in August and December, even though they each reached their 16th birthday, and death was inevitable. That's my excuse for not thinking straight.
I use OBVS. My adult offspring use OBVI. I appreciate that recent puzzles suggest I am not completely out of it.
Fortunately I took down outdoor Christmas decorations on a snowless New Years Day. Since, we’ve been pelted and it’s still coming down. I worked the puzzle on and off while I took down inside Christmas stuff and incredibly finished😃. Seems each time I returned a stubborn answer popped into my head
Inkovers: Telstar/SPUTNIK, Ethno/HELIO, kiln/OVEN, shoguns/SAMURAI
Great clue for ICESKATES. The usual misdirection for “toys” Do Irish tourists get upset when they see SNAPPER on our seafood restaurant menus😆
Watched so many seasons of “The Magicians” what started out as a fascinating series got boring. (I’m looking at you “Black List”) but as usual no idea who the actors were
TITS are intelligent (which is smarter R or L?) 🤭
I kept thinking of actress Pam Dawber. Seems it should be INCAn (s’pose it’s like using “Iroquois” as an adjective more common than “Iroquoian”) My Apple watch monitors A fib (no! not how many lies I tell in day!🤨)
Don’t shake the cocktail just give it ____ …. ASTIR
where the bride and groom stand on a wedding cake….. TOPTIER
A pretend swoon….. FEINT
Drink at Oktoberfest and drive may end you up on a ___ …. BIER
DW: “That front walk snow ain’t gonna shovel itself”. …. “ Working on the puzzle dear. Almost done”(actually doing Wordle now 🤫)
"By then they were in decline from their most successful years." Yeah, but by that time they actually had a million dollars.
Try German. It's 'e before i' for the long 'i' sound. ein, mein, kein,sein...etc. and the 'e' many times sounds like our long 'a'.
TTP @ 11 AM
Just an FYI
My name is Raphael (Heb: “God heals”): English spelling and pronunciation: “Ray’ feel” like “Gay’ briel” and “My’ chael” my brother archangels. Unfortunately many people now use the less common “Raff-ee-EL” cuz of those &$X# Ninja Turtles!!😠
“Rafael” I believe is the Spanish version
Fun Saturday puzzle, many thanks, Rafael. And your commentary was helpful, as always, so thanks for that too, Gary.
Well, that CRASH was a bit of a worrisome foreboding, especially with TRUE CRIME turning up right away, with possibly some troublesome FORCES. But it turned out there wasn't much to worry about, since those INCA RUINS were probably from a long time ago. And who needs to worry about a few WORMS hanging out here and there.
When we got to SMILE at the end, we realized there was much to smile about, beginning with that attractive HOTEL SUITE right near the beginning. Hopefully they'll affirm that the TOP TIER rooms are not all SOLD OUT, and have comfortable DESKS inside and ELM trees right outside, giving us helpful shade. Yes, I think we're going to have a wonderful time there this weekend.
Hope you do too, everybody.
I enjoyed most of Rafael's Saturday challenge today, but felt that he and the editors could have been more diligent in final edit. There were some areas, mainly in the west, that they might have recognized as having Natick potential. Easing up on some of the peculiar cluing in those areas would have been in the best interests of us solvers, as would the obliteration of such abominations as OBVI.
Answers like that do not belong in a crossword puzzle, I feel, nor do verbalisms and conversational entries like OHSPAREME. ( Spare me, indeed!)
But overall I appreciated Rafael's cleverness in constructing this puzzle, particularly in the prevalence of misdirections in the clues. Such touches are at the heart of enjoying a crossword.
Beautiful! Thank you!
I like the way you think! I also like Telstar, the song. Great early rock instrumental. Telstar the satellite wasn't the earliest US effort, but was the first active communications satellite to provide live transatlantic TV.
Jinx, that was exactly my point.
Gary said in the review, "The band recorded it and made big bucks."
Although he probably didn't intend it, that was misleading. That silly song was not the reason for their success as a band nor their pocketbooks.
They already had made millions by then.
Oh, ok. My name is also different in Spanish.
One of my nephews couldn't get enough of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
One of their famous sayings was "We're lean, we're green, and we're mean."
Raphael would say, ""Totally tubular, dude!"
Egads! I just realized I made another mistake in my original post. My Waterloo was the middle west, not east. GRR.
Me too. Got all of the outdoor stuff down and put away before the temps dropped. The tree came down yesterday. 4 more hours of packing stuff up today and putting the bins back in the storage room. She goes overboard, but I have to admit she makes Christmastime feel special.
There's an old saying about momentum and change. The worm has turned.
Maybe it was the nematode has turned.
Slang and text speak are entrenched in LA Times (and other) crosswords now, and it's unlikely that they'll go away. Better to learn and accept them or find another hobby.
Channel 9 slaps, no cap!
Puzzling thoughts:
Copy Editor @ 10:21 => you did not disappoint, my friend. Well done
HG and RM gave us a tad easier Saturday themeless - for me, anyway - as I stopped the timer well under 20:00, and that included a few "check grid" and erasures (deletes). I was under a TENT/TARP; I had toy YO-YOS/PEKES; and celebrated mid day at NOON/IDES (the spelling of mid day should've been my hint)
Nothing more to add to the comments about those words that aren't that OBVS/OBVI ...
Tehachapi Ken @ 1:34 => certain phrases that are "in the language" (whether conversational or not) are becoming more popular and frequent in crossword puzzles. I am OK with those so long as they're not too obscure and are clued fairly. As you and Jim continue your constructor's hobby, you'll rely on these; trust me; they are much better than trite crossword choices or entries such as VR HEADSET, IMO. BTW, I had a great chat with AZ Jim. Hope I offered some useful tips. Nice "meeting" you both
Fantastic!
NaomiZ. My heart goes out to you about your dogs. This song was on one of those year-end lists. I was running when I heard it and just bawled through the whole thing. Maybe a good cry will help release some of the grief....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3hoalLQaVE
Thanks to Rafael for an actual SMILE while doing a Sat. puzzle! FAVs were the ICE SKATES and MEN clues.
CRASH was in the punchbowl, just needed a couple of perps. Hand up for Tent before TARP. I also had ElECT before ERECT. H-Gary's "gettable" description fit my experience. For example, I've never seen "Serial" but enough perps gave me confidence that my answer fit the clue.
FLN. TTP. Loved your SLAPS video. (I see you added it again today.) Watching them use that slang is cringeworthy. It goes to show that we can learn the slang for puzzle purposes without having to actually use it ourselves.
Thanks to H-Gary for a A+ review! By the powers VESTed in me, I hereby grant you a lifetime NASA patch. Today I needed your help understanding why PEKES worked. Also, your MEH gif. is perfect!
TTP, I was just playin' with the song that was probably their biggest hit, If I Had A Million Dollars.
When I sailed with someone else at the helm, sometimes I would say "turn about 10 degrees to the east...no, the other east.
I finally remembered why I knew nematode. When I lived in Dallas, I used to listen to a radio show by a guy who was an expert in natural gardening. No (crossword favorite) Ortho for him! One of the things he mentioned was "beneficial nematodes." Never knew what they were until today, but he talked about their applications a lot. (I kind of assumed they were microorganisms.)
sumdaze, I know, right? The WGN Morning News crew has a lot of fun and don't take themselves too seriously. And true, we don't have to use the new lingo to learn and understand it.
I'd never use some of that 1950s diner lingo that one of the bloggers linked, but it was a fun read and I learned some colorful new terms. Can you imagine William Safire using diner or other 50s/60s lingo? I can't, but as one of the most highly noted linguists of the 20th century, I also don't imagine that it escaped him.
I might use some of the texting abbreviations and slang if I actually spent more time texting, but I don't. I do know LOL, ROFL, IMHO and more. Even HG used NSFW today in a matter of fact way.
I've never seen any of the Star Wars movies, yet I've learned of Leia, Han Solo, Jabba the Hutt, Ewoks, Kylo Ren, Luke Skywalker, etc.
BTW, I think one of the keys to becoming a good solver is to pay attention to all of the clues and answers in early week puzzles. And then read the reviews.
You never know when you're going to see a ref to Experiment 626 for Disney, Lilo and/or Stitch. Or the variations we've had for OBVI and OBVS earlier this week, and then OBVI again today.
These words and slang aren't, as someone called them the other day, "bogus" for many people. They may not be the terms and slang that i would use, but I accept them. And it looks like solvers will have to learn them.
Hola! I spent waaaaay too much time on this puzzle working off and on throughout the day. My family (daughter, husband, granddaughter, gr-grandson) all came to help me put away the decorations and also clean the patio and trim the shrubbery. Whew! Thank you, my family!
In the meantime, I did finally finish the puzzle after putting it aside for most of the day. TRUANTS is a work no teacher wants to use! ALEXA had to help me with CRASH as I had no idea.
My s-i-l is a student of Japanese culture and SAMURAI are well known ot him.
I have a vivid memory of a day when I went outside to collect the newspaper and seeing the headline about SPUTNIK! It was shocking and amazing!
Interestingly, "Today in History" cites today as the day SPUTNIK I re-entered the Earth's atmosphere.
I hope your day has been wonderful! Time to go.
Jinx, there was a guy on one of the PBS stations here that was featured during their semi-annual pledge drives. He had tons of homemade "brews" for dealing with insects in the gardens. They often included liquid dish soap to act as a surfactant and laxative, water and a spray bottle. Then various ingredients like coffee or cola, or whatever.
5 or 6 years ago my star magnolia got attacked by scale. The scale sucks the sap out of the twigs and small branches, with result of the branches and limbs dying. The scales excretes a sugary sweet substance called honeydew that kills any foliage under the tree. If that wasn't enough, ants like the honeydew, and they have this symbiotic relationship with scale. They will protect and tend to the scale, defending them against natural predators so that the honeydew keeps getting "produced."
I was into trying natural remedies. Ladybugs and lacewings eat scale. I ordered 3000 ladybugs from a company in Oregon. Amazon delivered them just as the young'uns were getting off the school bus. They were really excited to see all of those ladybugs.
Long story short, they weren't terribly effective, and maybe the ants got to them before they could do their job. I ended up spraying the tree with horticultural oil and neem, and then having to do a root drench with imidacloprid for three years in a row to get the scale under control.
sumdaze at 4:34 PM, thanks so much. Sympathy is very healing!
-- Naomi
😎👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽 ====> Darren
OBVI again — aaaack!! Two days in a row. 🤮 again. I don’t care how “current” some of these terms are, they’re trite and suck like a Dyson. Hey, for an olde farte, I hang around enough young-uns to maintain some modicum of “hipness”, and use ROTFL, IMHO et al regularly in texting…but that doesn’t mean all these abbreevs are good !
Okay, I’m over it. Back to the rest of today’s puzzle…
Lots of crackle to this one; first runthrough ended with most of the Northern Hemisphere looking snowed in — all white! Getting a foothold down under got things started, however, and it became a bottoms-up process (maybe a stiff one would’ve made things easier…). I fell over the tent/TARP log too, along with Helen/ETHAN and edge/ABUT, but a few whacks up side da haid from the perps fixes everything, and it ended in a FIR. The only stinky ones were EVES for “Busy travel days”, and I put Shoguns for the “Important figures of…Japan”; they were more significant than SAMURAI, who served them. Basically the foot soldiers of the culture, albeit terribly skilled at what they did, and very devoted and loyal to the code of Bushido. Otherwise, a solid offering from Mssr. Musa!
Husker G’s analysis followed his customarily erudite form; thanks for the old Sputnik cartoon, Gary, that one’s historically hysterical! And the 2nd base fakie was one snazzy ad-lib job on the part of the player — completely snowed the runner, who bought it hook, line (liner?) and sinker. Where do you find all this cool stuff, dude? 😎👍🏽
====> Darren / L.A.
There's my papillon, on the top, right hand corner. I loved that little dog, my Menina. She lived 17 years which is very unusual for that size but I believe she was happy.
Darren, I agree with you, "...but that doesn’t mean all these abbreevs are good !"
Yet, just as some of the slang that you used or heard in your youth weren't good, some of these will stand the test of time, and some won't.
All I'm saying is don't flip your wig and become unglued and freak out. That's too heavy. Hang loose in some of these hairy scenes. You dig it? Puzzles aren't supposed to be a downer, so don't lay rubber and bug out. I do know of some people that were bookin' and their wheels ended up in the bone yard after they burned rubber in their flip top machines. Ain't that a bite?
In fact, I knew this one dead hoofer that was doll dizzy, and he thought he was a ducky shincracker. Natch, he wasn't. He was square.
So go with the flow and don't let the man bring you down. It will all come out in the wash.
The new Gens just communicate in a shorter, terser and more abbreviated language than the rest of us do. Abbreevs included.
HAH brilliant, my man!
I just like to bitch 🤣. D.
Well, then you may have come to the right place, because over the last two or three years, there has been a significant increase of that here.
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