tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post1116654218719332903..comments2024-03-28T12:35:00.522-05:00Comments on L.A.Times Crossword Corner: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 David PooleZhouqin (C.C.) Burnikelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12750267554729853785noreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-90900216506660182772013-07-16T22:45:28.090-05:002013-07-16T22:45:28.090-05:00BillG: What? Are you trying to get Dudley arrested...BillG: What? Are you trying to get Dudley arrested for taking and transmitting porn pictures of his neighbors wife? At the very least, he could make an enemy of his neighbor & wife. LOL!PKnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-27142042975511945412013-07-16T22:22:30.735-05:002013-07-16T22:22:30.735-05:00Dudley, how about linking a photo of the neighbor&...Dudley, how about linking a photo of the neighbor's wife's body part in question so I can more knowledgably advise you in this matter. :>)<br /><br />I have to say that I think baseball does their All Star game better than any other professional sport. Very classy, year after year.Bill G.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04142837879175561312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-32754598132187212462013-07-16T22:05:16.620-05:002013-07-16T22:05:16.620-05:00Maybe Hahtoolah does not know what "ironic&qu...Maybe Hahtoolah does not know what "ironic" means. Just sayin'...<br /><br />It seems that its unanimous, "Friendship" is a appropriate motto for Texas.Sam Hnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-17642397565945315312013-07-16T21:54:36.979-05:002013-07-16T21:54:36.979-05:00Forgot to say how adorable your grandkids are, Mon...Forgot to say how adorable your grandkids are, Montana! Hope you read the late posts!<br /><br />Dudley: I will be horribly disappointed if the Lewis series ends!<br /><br />Bought some of the old Morse series on DVD. Love it!fermatprimehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06391014624435192426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-75831356005747763942013-07-16T21:48:34.442-05:002013-07-16T21:48:34.442-05:00Greetings!
Thanks David and Argyle! Great work!
...Greetings!<br /><br />Thanks David and Argyle! Great work!<br /><br />A friend and I drove to San Antonio, Texas for a Math Assoc. Mtg. I presented one of my math videos. Wish I could have stayed longer. Everybody was extremely nice!<br /><br />Cheers!<br />fermatprimehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06391014624435192426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-33205747699643742232013-07-16T20:00:41.443-05:002013-07-16T20:00:41.443-05:00Nikola Tesla shows up in crosswords all the time. ...Nikola Tesla shows up in crosswords all the time. He was a great scientist but here's what he had to say about women, probably about 1900...<br /><br />“The female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental acquirements and achievements of men, and as generations ensue that capacity will be expanded; the average woman will be as well educated as the average man, and then better educated, for the dormant faculties of her brain will be stimulated to an activity that will be all the more intense and powerful because of centuries of repose. Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.”Bill G.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04142837879175561312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-29618150517371784252013-07-16T18:56:36.932-05:002013-07-16T18:56:36.932-05:00Bill G - The Pennsylvania Hay Report shows hay and...Bill G - The <a href="http://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/ln_gr111.txt" rel="nofollow">Pennsylvania Hay Report</a> shows hay and straw prices from last winter. Since their uses are different one wouldn't expect them to compete with each other. I know good quality straw for race horses at Saratoga is always at a premium, for instance.Spitzboovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04448007368332133086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-30497681291738605622013-07-16T18:33:33.701-05:002013-07-16T18:33:33.701-05:00Dudley at 2.26 pm - thanks to you I read the artic...Dudley at 2.26 pm - thanks to you I read the article on the WTVU anchor 'naming' the hapless pilots' of the Asiana flight 214, on their evening broadcast.<br /><br />I can't believe how the TV station , with a 140 person newsroom, fell for this age old trick .....<br /><br />And the NTSB confirmed it .... <br /><br />Would that be the NOT TOO SMART BROTHERS .?Vidwan827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-76074203981408176142013-07-16T18:33:23.090-05:002013-07-16T18:33:23.090-05:00Nobody else commented when I said I had found &quo...Nobody else commented when I said I had found "Robin and Marian" with Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn on cable and was watching it again. I savored it slowly and am finally up to the end. It is so sad and romantic that I tend to watch it in small pieces.<br /><br />Speaking of sad, I first heard of this young girl on Ellen. I just found that she died today. <a href="http://www.today.com/news/cancer-stricken-covergirl-talia-castellano-dies-13-6C10651620" rel="nofollow">Cover girl Talia.</a><br /><br />I wasn't sure about the difference between hay and stray but I bet Windhover knows. In summary, this is what I found. Hay refers to grasses or legume plants cut down fresh and baled for animal feed. Hay bales are usually greener than straw bales, the plant material finer. Hay smells really nice, too. You would not want to use this stuff as mulch, or you’d end up sprouting a yard full of alfalfa or whatever. It’s also more expensive than straw, about three times as much, depending on the grass type. No one would use hay as bedding.<br /><br />Straw is the dried stalks of cereal plants, like wheat. It’s a by-product of harvest. If any seeds remain on the stalks, it’s by accident. Therefore, straw is nutritionally void, and is not animal feed. However, that lack of seeds makes it a fine mulch, and an inexpensive bedding material.Bill G.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04142837879175561312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-25358397233583079592013-07-16T17:20:14.336-05:002013-07-16T17:20:14.336-05:00And I too love the whole C.C./ ninja movement. And I too love the whole C.C./ ninja movement. Lemonade714https://www.blogger.com/profile/13642909374639570868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-36212436689389757222013-07-16T17:19:46.883-05:002013-07-16T17:19:46.883-05:00Really what does any of that have to do with Texas...Really what does any of that have to do with Texas where the people are very friendly as well as often quite beautiful. As one often accused of being a liberal, and as one who understood the name history, friendship is perfect for the state. When I used to go on tour with a rock and roll band and we spent a week criss-crossing Texas it was wonderful. <br /><br />Coincidentally, I see today is COREY FELDMAN's birthday. You can link on the Two Coreys inside Argyle's Corey Haim link. <br /><br />Montana very precious. <br /><br />Have we ever had a hay vs. straw debate here?Lemonade714https://www.blogger.com/profile/13642909374639570868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-23862918630716370132013-07-16T16:49:01.813-05:002013-07-16T16:49:01.813-05:00I couldn't find a decent video of the slide st...I couldn't find a decent video of the slide stacker in action, but did find <a href="http://stephenbodio.blogspot.com/2009/07/beaverslide.html" rel="nofollow">This article</a> which gives a decent explanation along with a set of photos. <br /><br />The ranch I worked on in the early 70's had made a number of adaptations. The cage was solid rather than wire, and in halves. Half was on the slide, the other mounted on the front of a big tractor. Behind that half of the cage was a tall pedestal that had a "hydra-fork" on top. This eliminated having anyone in the stack (the worst job). The first year, I ran the tractor that pulled up the slide, then pulled that half of the rig to the next spot for a new stack. By year two, they made that hydraulic and the big tractor with the other half of the cage also pulled the slide, eliminating one more man.<br /><br />Back home in Eastern NE, we had always used a Farmhand or even a Jayhawk. The slide was much faster and allowed a lot more hay to be "made". Best day I can remember we put up 29 5-ton stacks. It was never used outside of the sandhills in NE that I'm aware of, but they were everywhere up there. Avg Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02301873113962640644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-61230553618834121622013-07-16T16:26:38.917-05:002013-07-16T16:26:38.917-05:00My mother-in-law was born in 1897 and helped with ...My mother-in-law was born in 1897 and helped with the farming with horses until her marriage. Somewhere I have her taped voice telling about building a haystack which was considered an art. Her German-born father wanted the long prairie grass laid a certain way using a pitchfork especially on the top of the "loaf" so the water would run off and not into the stack. Wet moldy hay was toxic to livestock.<br /><br />Living in Gunnison, Colorado about 50 yrs. ago, I saw the type of apparatus AvgJoe linked at work in many high mountain valley meadows.PKnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-46020418004757179512013-07-16T16:14:42.933-05:002013-07-16T16:14:42.933-05:00Spitz:
That is interesting about the origin of TEX...Spitz:<br />That is interesting about the origin of TEXAS. I once had a professor who after discussing the war between TX and Mexico declared that land was appropriated from the Mexicans who had settled there because they were not sufficiently intelligent to possess it and manage it.<br /><br />Lucinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16278649651081244724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-27446584013449148812013-07-16T15:58:24.756-05:002013-07-16T15:58:24.756-05:00Hi all,
This was a nice puzzle for a Tuesday. I us...Hi all,<br />This was a nice puzzle for a Tuesday. I usually don't get it done but did get most of it (with the help of my DH).<br /><br />Montana, your granddaughterd are beautiful. In two weeks our great grandson (and family)will be here. I can't wait!<br /><br />Des Moines- we go past it every time we go to NW.Missouri to visit family.<br /><br />I was amused at how the 2 Hugh's came together on 58 down and accross.<br /><br />In my early days of nursing we were basic care givers and passed meds. Now the nurses do many more things the Dr.s used to do.<br /><br />I was impressed by one of the nurses who cared for me in the emergency room when I cracked my pelvis last Dec. She was looking at my chart and looked at me and said "you're 80 years old?" I said yes and smiled.<br /><br />Haystack-There are some Amish communities in this area and every year one group has a 'Haystack'dinner to raise money for charaties. They hand you a plate and you go through the line and pile it as high as you you can stack it without spilling. Then there are the desserts,etc. Fun.<br /><br />I guess it's time to think about getting. Have a good evening!<br />MargeMargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07781756196891709805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-88183854504517281842013-07-16T15:54:10.410-05:002013-07-16T15:54:10.410-05:00Hahtoolah was clearly making a political comment a...Hahtoolah was clearly making a political comment as evidenced by a similiar comment about the subject in her own crossword blog, QOD.<br /><br />She has showcased her disdain for Texas, its residents and its politics on several previous occasions. But again its okay because of the liberal bias she and this blog prefer.Ron Whitenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-45956364785640150322013-07-16T15:22:32.878-05:002013-07-16T15:22:32.878-05:00Found this on the web:
"What does the word &...Found this on the web:<br /><br />"What does the word "Texas" mean?<br /><br />Texas is from the Caddo Indian word "teyshas" (meaning "friends" or "allies"). In the 1540s Spanish explorers took this to be a tribal name, recording it as Teyas or Tejas. It came eventually to mean an area north of the Rio Grande and east of New Mexico. The alliance concept is also incorporated into the state motto, which is simply "Friendship."Spitzboovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04448007368332133086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-67665432223070642762013-07-16T15:03:26.085-05:002013-07-16T15:03:26.085-05:00Thanks, CC, for posting the pictures. One was from...Thanks, CC, for posting the pictures. One was from iPod, one was on iPad and professional one was e-mailed from son's desktop. Too many devices these days!<br /><br />Ave Joe, that Slide Stacker you linked is the type of implement still used in the hay valleys in SW Montana. Lucina, I have never seen them used anywhere else in MT and there are no major roads through those valleys. I also like Mari's haystacks!<br /><br />Gladiola bulbs need to be dug up and stored over the winter here. Then in the spring, they can be replanted. Many, many gardeners grow glads.<br /><br />Abejo, I also was unfamiliar with UNO. My son just pulled out a deck and explained the game to me. He says I played it with my kids when they were young. (I don't remember it.)<br /><br />YR, my granddaughters are in Denver. It is a 4 hour drive to airport, but roundtrip tickets can be <$200 so that isn't bad.<br /><br />Have a good evening, all,<br />MontanaMontanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00291743761732429768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-84557643941496378212013-07-16T15:02:00.074-05:002013-07-16T15:02:00.074-05:00What a good theme! how do you constructors do it...What a good theme! how do you constructors do it? It was fun to come here after a harrowing half-day of work...instruments and computer system shell-shocked after a wicked electrical storm last night. <br /><br />We made haystacks when I was growing up, but not with one of those Slide Stacker things; we had a frame and just put loads of hay in with a thingy on the front end of the tractor made up of long metal teeth to gather the hay from the windrow and a pusher board to push the hay onto the stack. It was all hydraulic. I can't for the life of me remember what it was called, but it was fun to run, except when you ran it into a molehill and bent the dickens out of one of the stacker teeth. (not that that ever happened to me or anything...) <br /><br />Great links, Argyle. I hadn't seen the Sheldon/Uranus one. Enjoyed the nerd jokes too! <br />Cute grandkids, Montana. and nice to see you again, Mari.Qlihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02953464288856767755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-69851809590181130982013-07-16T14:41:20.074-05:002013-07-16T14:41:20.074-05:00Hahtoolah, why is 'friendship' in the Texa...Hahtoolah, why is 'friendship' in the Texas motto "ironic"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-76855661026648144822013-07-16T14:30:39.997-05:002013-07-16T14:30:39.997-05:00Dudley:
Yes. But that wasn't the worst one.Dudley:<br />Yes. But that wasn't the worst one.Lucinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16278649651081244724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-82465524126792054732013-07-16T14:27:46.576-05:002013-07-16T14:27:46.576-05:00Jeff Foxworthy @ 10:20, hilarious nerdy jokes. I e...Jeff Foxworthy @ 10:20, hilarious nerdy jokes. I especially liked the ones about the Buddhist monk, and how to tell a scientist from a plumber. HA HA!<br /><br />C.C., love your ninja avatar. Thanks for posting those sweet pics of Montana's grandchildren. <br /><br />Avg Joe, I can't even imagine how that stacker works, but it sure looks like it would be fun to slide down!HeartRxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08786026973246127946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-85768995423996372972013-07-16T14:26:36.896-05:002013-07-16T14:26:36.896-05:00Hey Puzzlers, am I the last one to hear about the ...Hey Puzzlers, am I the last one to hear about the embarrasment that happened at KTVU in San Francisco?<br /><br />The news anchor read the "names" of all four pilots on board the Asiana flight, not knowing they were all bogus. Example: she spoke the captain's name as Sum Ting Wong. Ouch!Dudleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07587399549104728305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-73035420632981543992013-07-16T14:23:53.667-05:002013-07-16T14:23:53.667-05:00Thanks for the warm welcome-backs, folks.
Abejo @...Thanks for the warm welcome-backs, folks.<br /><br />Abejo @ 9:00 am: UNO is it's own card game. I mean it comes with it's own deck and doesn't use standard playing cards. You'll have to fill us in on "Cinch".<br /><br />Cute pictures! Thanks for posting them.<br /><br />These are my kind of <a href="http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0oGdSwjneVRgDgAwyhXNyoA?p=haystack+cookies&fr=yfp-t-900&fr2=piv-web" rel="nofollow">haystacks.</a>Marihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15475079290527666605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-37854943719573490192013-07-16T13:55:34.813-05:002013-07-16T13:55:34.813-05:00Fun romp today. My only hang up was mis-reading th...Fun romp today. My only hang up was mis-reading the clue for 10D as plural, so I entered Gladioli, but that straightened itself out. Enjoyed the theme, especially that way the vowel sounds remained true.<br /><br />I've put up a lot of hay. I worked as a ranch hand in the NE sandhills during my summers in high school, and we'd typically put up about 600 stacks of native prairie hay per summer, using a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaverslide" rel="nofollow">Slide Stacker</a>. Our process was a lot more automated than depicted here, and the stacks were smaller, but you can get a lot of hay put up with these devices.Avg Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02301873113962640644noreply@blogger.com