tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post1353795321094231165..comments2024-03-28T22:14:27.877-05:00Comments on L.A.Times Crossword Corner: Saturday, September 7, 2019, Erik AgardZhouqin (C.C.) Burnikelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12750267554729853785noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-53451359666724716512019-09-08T09:33:29.270-05:002019-09-08T09:33:29.270-05:00Musings
-Here’s my defense for Beatles liner note...Musings <br />-Here’s my defense for <a href="https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/meet-the-beatles-liner-notes-writer-dies-angus-scrimm-rory-guy.492572/" rel="nofollow">Beatles liner notes</a>. I too think of the actual record sleeve but I'm flexible <br />Husker Garyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09980336006827988210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-85291672577327802102019-09-08T06:10:53.642-05:002019-09-08T06:10:53.642-05:00PK you have an amazing memory as NIECY NASH SEASON...PK you have an amazing memory as <a href="https://dancingwiththestars.fandom.com/wiki/Niecy_Nash" rel="nofollow"><b>NIECY NASH SEASON 10</b></a> was indeed a <b>DWTS</b> participant.The name is just a nickname for her birth name <b>DENISE</b>.Lemonade714https://www.blogger.com/profile/13642909374639570868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-68570486699845045832019-09-08T01:39:41.535-05:002019-09-08T01:39:41.535-05:00@9:50p - Don't look through our privileged len...@9:50p - Don't look through our privileged lens - women of the world <b><a href="https://allafrica.com/stories/201711200587.html" rel="nofollow">need it</a></b>. //see: 9th paragraph.<br /><br />TxMs - LOL Ogden. I thought (and erased it from my brain) too. <br />Re: Liner Notes - HG's image was not the album cover, which are cardboard-y, but the thin paper sleeve that actually holds the 33 1/3 RPM and keeps it scratch-free. At some point in history, artists would put notes/lyrics on the sleeve, er liner, and well, there you are.<br /><br />D-O, having been a DJ, could probably explain it better.<br /><br />Cheers, -TAnonymous Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00459563526290288425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-60423442842494343252019-09-08T01:06:16.944-05:002019-09-08T01:06:16.944-05:00Thanks, Gary, for the s'plainin'. Never h...Thanks, Gary, for the s'plainin'. Never heard of "Claws" and was sure Ogden Nash didn't star in it so I had to LIU. Never heard of "liner notes". Gary, though you posted the Beatles' album cover, I still don't see the connection - no matter. Never heard of winning by an "eyelash" - whatever happened to "by a nose?" All in all, I enjoyed the Saturday brain-stretch (for me at least). <br /><br />D-O @ 3:10p [snicker!]TX Msnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-17084544825400355662019-09-07T23:24:18.952-05:002019-09-07T23:24:18.952-05:00Wasn't Niecy Nash briefly on Dancing With the...Wasn't Niecy Nash briefly on Dancing With the Stars or did I hallucinate that?<br /><br />Pay toilets are cruel and unusual punishment. Hard to find a coin if your knees are crossed and clamped shut.<br /><br />Thanks for a great expo, Gary. As for the puzzle, I spent more time checking all my wrong answers than I did filling the squares.PKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14570575955563406341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-77720475666072748082019-09-07T23:15:31.564-05:002019-09-07T23:15:31.564-05:00Paying, er, tipping the toilet cleaners was the bi...Paying, er, tipping the toilet cleaners was the biggest surprise of all when I first traveled to Europe. One always had to insure having small bills or coins for that. Here in the U.S. the toilets once, many years ago, had coin slots at the airport. It's the only place I've seen them here.Lucinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16278649651081244724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-84251829755870621062019-09-07T21:50:33.437-05:002019-09-07T21:50:33.437-05:00Haha OMK.
Or at least I hope you are joking. Go...Haha OMK.<br /><br /> Or at least I hope you are joking. Government should supply us with a place to shit? Really? T. Crappernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-63803176005353409432019-09-07T21:18:09.725-05:002019-09-07T21:18:09.725-05:00Paying for public toilets is like our our wacky he...Paying for public toilets is like our our wacky health care system, but worse--without even the insurers. Essential physiological functions need to be serviced by general taxation, else what's a government for? <br />If this is too political, my friends, kick me now.<br />~ <b>OMK</b>Ol' Man Keith https://www.blogger.com/profile/02073553138045178596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-6168075036281329822019-09-07T19:45:19.777-05:002019-09-07T19:45:19.777-05:00Musings
-We paid for WC’s all across Italy and in ...Musings<br />-We paid for WC’s all across Italy and in Venice the only free toilet was at the McDonalds and so there was a line there and they had to close it down hourly to keep it from backing up.<br />-At the Leaning Tower my wife’s twin didn’t see the attendant and she got an earful from the woman who was sitting by the bowl, uh, the tip bowl not the porcelain device.<br />-Huskers got off to a big lead but in the second half Nebraska and Colorado both did the same thing: They stopped the Husker offense. Nebraska’s defense got tired in the heat and mile high air. Life goes on!<br />Husker Garyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09980336006827988210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-6654326750745186862019-09-07T19:09:43.148-05:002019-09-07T19:09:43.148-05:00Jinx - Flush... TEHEED meself, I did. -TJinx - Flush... TEHEED meself, I did. -TAnonymous Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00459563526290288425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-55033739657619418252019-09-07T18:56:54.542-05:002019-09-07T18:56:54.542-05:00WC, my experience with the pay... er, WC was in Ea...WC, my experience with the pay... er, WC was in Eastern Kentucky. You may have had to pay a quarter, but ours was only a dime. I guess it was whatever the market would "bare". Patrons in your neck of the woods must have been flush by comparison to my folks back home.Jinx in Norfolkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05891694970152198474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-79606256372763107782019-09-07T18:29:54.257-05:002019-09-07T18:29:54.257-05:00I remember seeing pay toilets as a kid. I didn'...I remember seeing pay toilets as a kid. I didn't like the idea then and I would like it even less now. I seem to remember an outdoor pay toilet in France. After you finished and left, the door locked for a couple of minutes and the inside was totally pressure-washed and sanitized. <br /><br />Heh heh, I remember that WKRP episode too. Bill Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04495413609545426668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-21680363301300574792019-09-07T18:26:11.736-05:002019-09-07T18:26:11.736-05:00 The pay toilets were cleaner. Generally a quarte... The pay toilets were cleaner. Generally a quarter.<br /><br />I started fast then struggled. Went to do other things. Kept at it and SLEEPYHEAD perped giving SHAREABED. I had ENTHUSE and RUPEES but they were shaky. I had no hope on VERT and ERMA without PHLEVEL.<br /><br />Satisfying FIR. ONESRTH was earlyweek type of clue which invariably throws me off on a Saturday. <br /><br />WC<br /><br />Canada wins while Nebraska losesWilbur Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08905123297841127198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-59937611921258833022019-09-07T17:32:03.037-05:002019-09-07T17:32:03.037-05:00Well, this has been an easy week, so it was bound ...Well, this has been an easy week, so it was bound to change sooner or (in this case) later. Clever stuff today, but impossible to get 100%...<br /><br />Thanks for setting the ol' walnut a-buzz, Mr. <b>Agard</b>! Please, sir, may I have another?<br />~ <b>OMK</b>Ol' Man Keith https://www.blogger.com/profile/02073553138045178596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-10050363639663177162019-09-07T17:25:34.236-05:002019-09-07T17:25:34.236-05:00Congratulations to Bianca Andreescu for her fine v...Congratulations to Bianca Andreescu for her fine victory in the US Open. CSO to C-Eh!Jinx in Norfolkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05891694970152198474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-81466402084726637832019-09-07T17:06:14.156-05:002019-09-07T17:06:14.156-05:00Canadian Eh, I'm happy for Bianca Andreescu, b...Canadian Eh, I'm happy for Bianca Andreescu, but you must be ecstatic. <br />6-2, 7-5, New U.S. Open champion.Sandyanonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05156440590675492735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-59217328990834686802019-09-07T16:59:50.145-05:002019-09-07T16:59:50.145-05:00She the North!
Wow! Bianca did it. US Open champ...She the North!<br />Wow! Bianca did it. US Open champion over SerenaCanadianEh!https://www.blogger.com/profile/05688358229402732332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-68126225524777659812019-09-07T16:57:38.459-05:002019-09-07T16:57:38.459-05:00Hi All!
So Peak wasn't an actor/actress who&#...Hi All!<br /><br />So Peak wasn't an actor/actress who's career fizzled out in the early-aughts?<br /><br />Erik Agard's puzzles are always fun because of his playfulness with the language. SLEEPY HEAD, GOT DARK, Foghorn LEGHORN, -- just a sample of fun fill.<br /><br />All the names, however, made this an impossible endeavor for me. TAP didn't help either. Thanks HG for the grid-peeks and extra-play. Thanks Erik for the puzzle.<br /><br />WOs: TLA (three letter acronym) instead of ALE [would have help if I could spell EXISTaNCE - which I knew sans perpage!], wraSLE, IdE b/f INE, and, hand-up, for film not BETE (hi Inanehiker!)<br /><br /><b>Fav</b>: LINER NOTES - I just miss the days of physically packaged music with all the care put into the artwork and backstory that's put into the music. Eldest loves it too and visits the RETRO stores for vinyl. <br /><br />{A (that's a solid 10 (DEC*)), B, B+}<br /><br />FLN: OKL - 42 :-)<br /><br />D-O: Oy! 1/3 € to go to the can? I wonder now how many Euros (cash) I must take to Italy.<br />LOL Alabama!<br /><br />Spitz - you beat me to the "shruggie."<br /><br />Jinx - I'm 49 and my 9yro self is giggling. The only time I recall seeing pay-toilets was on <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kalVG4XgIDM" rel="nofollow">WKRP's Fish Story</a></b><br /><br />Cheers, -T<br />*It's not weird to base-switch in your head, right?Anonymous Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00459563526290288425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-69445673958990644482019-09-07T16:29:06.502-05:002019-09-07T16:29:06.502-05:00d-o. Its sad how much real estate he owns in your ...d-o. Its sad how much real estate he owns in your head.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-2533653735570668252019-09-07T16:04:24.102-05:002019-09-07T16:04:24.102-05:00IIRC, $0.10 toilets were the norm in hotel lobbies...IIRC, $0.10 toilets were the norm in hotel lobbies, bus and train stations, department stores and the like. Seems like all but one or two required a coin, and the others were free. Difference was they apparently cleaned the pay toilets occasionally.<br /><br />I was about 9 years old when this rhyme was popular: "Here I sit all broken hearted, paid a dime to shit but only farted." Not quite OKL quality, but to snot-nosed nine year olds it was hilarious.Jinx in Norfolkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05891694970152198474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-26776767104141315962019-09-07T15:10:16.382-05:002019-09-07T15:10:16.382-05:00Lucina, the all-clear has sounded for Dorian in al...Lucina, the all-clear has sounded for Dorian in all states...with the exception of Alabama.desper-ottohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17242581085713882677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-27906430376691469212019-09-07T14:56:51.712-05:002019-09-07T14:56:51.712-05:00I liked this puzzle. It was, of course, quite a ch...I liked this puzzle. It was, of course, quite a challenge and for a while I despaired of being able to finish it without resorting to looking stuff up. But Finish It Right I did, and enjoyed every minute of it. Hand up for entering TAP and then having to change it. I also put in SEEK and had to change it to COMB. (COMB is way cooler.) I loved the cluing.<br /><br />Gary, your write-up is excellent. Thank you for doing it, and thank you for explaining what eye rhyme is.<br /><br />LW and I have a lot of respect for our letter carrier. Sometimes not so much for the substitutes, though.<br /><br />I love that Foghorn Leghorn character. Well said, Jinx.<br /><br />As for 5G wireless, I still can't decide if its downsides outweigh its purported upsides. Still a YES-NO question in my mind.<br /><br />Good wishes to you all.Jaycehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15906163232315177399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-58990017730311256752019-09-07T14:56:05.659-05:002019-09-07T14:56:05.659-05:00Great puzzle. One Look up Niecy. Does anyone know ...Great puzzle. One Look up Niecy. Does anyone know where to find and print out daily jumble?<br /><br />Mark SMark Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08076917280398040010noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-72397023005711027492019-09-07T14:50:42.018-05:002019-09-07T14:50:42.018-05:00¯\_(ツ)_/¯
An emoticon representing a smirking fac...¯\_(ツ)_/¯<br /><br />An emoticon representing a smirking face and a pair of arms raised in a shrug; a shruggie.Spitzboovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04448007368332133086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-48443208991332953792019-09-07T14:49:35.889-05:002019-09-07T14:49:35.889-05:00Lemony , I also remember putting coins in a slot i...Lemony , I also remember putting coins in a slot in the door to bathrooms. I also remember Bella Abzug putting a toilet on the steps of the Capitol with a HUGE sign that read “No one should have to pay!”<br /><br />Not sure of the effectiveness, but shortly after that I noticed the potties were free.<br />SwampCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06893584705424353444noreply@blogger.com