tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post2704321650876286977..comments2024-03-29T05:53:39.358-05:00Comments on L.A.Times Crossword Corner: Friday April 28, 2017 Alan DeLorieaZhouqin (C.C.) Burnikelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12750267554729853785noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-47180525387316381772017-04-30T12:37:13.606-05:002017-04-30T12:37:13.606-05:00Hand up that I could only think of Lisa or Maggie ...Hand up that I could only think of Lisa or Maggie Simpson. Obviously a deliberate misdirection after Bart Simpson's bus driver. I have no idea about people who are famous only for being famous so ASHLEE Simpson is a total unknown for me.<br /><br />Clever misdirection with DATA mining, too. That was the last to fall in place for me.<br /><br />HAHAMOMENT was the first clue for me that solved the theme.<br /><br />No idea about DAHL, SNOW or LETO Hand up that OSIER is pure crossword-ese for me.Picardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17401317669146538447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-70118045457224683302017-04-29T08:43:39.051-05:002017-04-29T08:43:39.051-05:00Thank you, Tom.Thank you, Tom.Argylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09472446316589207365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-11750836341518016992017-04-29T07:35:47.307-05:002017-04-29T07:35:47.307-05:00CC: my Richmond Times Dispatch carries the LA Time...CC: my Richmond Times Dispatch carries the LA Times puzzle with no byline & the basic Thomas Joseph.<br /><br />Capt. Tom<br />Urbanna, VATomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17575830059022118774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-81257619237574572062017-04-29T01:55:12.236-05:002017-04-29T01:55:12.236-05:00Hey there. Long time lurker. Someone already cov...Hey there. Long time lurker. Someone already covered my options to the letter that are more mainstream. Funny part is if I were to get a grid going and published, it'd have to be NYT if I wanted to see it in print. And 5 weeks after it publishes in the main paper. Unless I hit a Sunday slot, of course. Funny part is that the paper in question switched to Universal (Tim Parker's grids), and then people complained because those were "frustrating" and "too hard". Bylines are anywhere from complete to none-at-all, even the publisher, on all the options I have access to. They were good about publishing author by-lines and publisher name since October or so, but before then I would have to go online to find out who set a particular Sunday LAT.<br /><br />@oc4beach<br /><i>They really didn't listen to us which is an indication of what they really think of their readers.</i><br /><br />@Michael<br /><i>The trouble with this "penny wise; pound foolish" MBA approach in newspapers is that people notice, and unsubscribe. I certainly did.</i><br /><br />Be careful what you wish for. There are grids out there with terrible cluing and fill that violate most all the typical grid "rules". I've found in talking to some of them that most editors don't really know what they're putting into the paper when it comes to their puzzle content, even to the point of having to research a couple myself because the editor/CSR couldn't tell me where the puzzle came from! More or less, I figured out that they basically just say "we need to put a crossword in" and just find the cheapest thing that works out with their other syndication source content. <br /><br />Point is quality puzzles that have any degree of difficulty are an incredible rarity in most places. To wit, I had to go to mostly all online sources to get any degree of challenge. I've mentioned before that most people probably find the yawnfests at the store and then dismiss it entirely. I definitely would have, if I wasn't as online-savvy as I am, given that the only "difficult" grids I would get otherwise are the Sunday LAT and NYT every two or three weeks.Glennnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-70738296371470335042017-04-28T18:34:50.232-05:002017-04-28T18:34:50.232-05:00I like the "WC" (water closet) reference...I like the "WC" (water closet) reference much better than the TOOL one. So noted! <br /><br />Constructive criticism:<br /><br />I always find limericks "sound better" when the meter is symmetric. Try working with the 9-9-6-6-9 (syllables) anapest scheme, where the accent is usually on the third, sixth and ninth syllables of lines 1,2, and 5. And then on the 3rd and 6th syllables of lines 3, and 4. I almost always re-write mine a few times.<br /><br />As example:<br /><br />In the early AM before dusk, <br />When she daubed oil right on his tusk;<br />His stiff tool did she grasp;<br />He let out a big gasp<br />As the air filled with sweet scent of musk.<br /><br />Cheers, bud! <br />Chairman Moehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830681893074853511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-9495682303749833032017-04-28T17:35:50.370-05:002017-04-28T17:35:50.370-05:00I read this on /. Re: should we (banks) let COBOL...I read this on /. Re: should we (banks) let COBOL die? I dribbled coffee all over my shirt whilst reading. Considering yesterday's Y2K discussion I thought I'd share; don't scroll to the end... wait for that HAHA MOMENT.<br /><br />=====<br />In 1998, a programmer who had been working on Y2K fixes started to get anxious because he couldn't believe how pervasive the problem was. He switched from company to company trying to get away from it, but everywhere he went he became regarded as the Y2K expert and immediately became the team lead for that company's Y2K contingencies. He finally had a nervous breakdown, quit his job, and decided he wanted to be knocked unconscious when the Y2K actually came about.<br /><br />A month before Y2K he was put into an artificial coma and cooled down to a near cryogenic easily sustained long term life-support.<br /><br />Unfortunately, the life-support notification system had a Y2K bug, and no one revived him for >9000 years.<br /><br />Finally, he was revived. He'd RISEN and saw himself surrounded by lots of glass, light, stainless steel, and tall beautiful people in white robes. He asked if he was in Heaven.<br /><br />They replied, "No, this is Chicago but it's a lot like Heaven to someone like you."<br /><br /> "Someone like me?"<br /><br />"You are from the 20th century. Many of the problems that existed in your lifetime have been solved for thousands of years. There is no hunger and no disease. There is no scarcity nor strife between races and creeds."<br /><br />"What year is it now?"<br /><br />"Yeah, about that - it's the year 9,998. You see, the year 10,000 is coming up, and we understand you know something called COBOL?"<br /><br />=====<br />// Hope TTP & other nerds in the MIX enjoyed :-)<br /><br />Cheers, -TAnonymous Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00459563526290288425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-64593903829181972932017-04-28T17:18:02.182-05:002017-04-28T17:18:02.182-05:00Ok C-Moe, there was a lot to work with today
It w...Ok C-Moe, there was a lot to work with today<br /><br />It was the early hours of dusk<br />When she DAUBed the OIL on his TUSK<br /><br />His TOOL she did GRASP<br />He let out an audible GASP<br /><br />And then the scent of musk<br /><br />From the Water ClosetWilbur Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08905123297841127198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-78255633019827325222017-04-28T16:51:21.952-05:002017-04-28T16:51:21.952-05:00Husker @9:51 - Not to its mother.Husker @9:51 - Not to its mother.chefwenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03999206352243329280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-6571185002983627732017-04-28T16:45:28.819-05:002017-04-28T16:45:28.819-05:00I was not aware, until I saw a PBS American Experi...I was not aware, until I saw a PBS American Experience episode, of the following:<br /><br />Synopsis:<br /><br />An account of an incident at a Titan II missile complex in Damascus, Ark., in 1980 that almost caused the explosion of a ballistic missile carrying a nuclear warhead 600 times more powerful than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. The near-calamity was kicked off when a socket fell from the wrench of an airman performing maintenance in a Titan II silo and punctured the missile, releasing a stream of highly explosive rocket fuel. Included: first-person accounts of USAF personnel on the scene.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGg477les2o" rel="nofollow">Full episode.</a><br /><br />(for those of you who do not want to watch the whole 2 hour nightmare above,)<br /><a href="https://www.westsidewholesale.com/leviton-1451-2t.html?gclid=Cj0KEQjw0IvIBRDF0Yzq4qGE4IwBEiQATMQlMWt7kY9X0KD5fHSwmqw68afGEc04Ar5YKX7QDmJeMkgaAq5W8P8HAQ" rel="nofollow">(This is why your ass is still on this Earth...)</a>CrossEyedDavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09745913007262424048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-82692937637579208542017-04-28T16:16:34.558-05:002017-04-28T16:16:34.558-05:00Not perused, persued by a predator, dang autocorre...Not perused, persued by a predator, dang autocorrect.Yellowrockshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09590216912123103432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-50875201693233251622017-04-28T15:54:01.797-05:002017-04-28T15:54:01.797-05:00Hi All!
Only one lookup! [LETO] Not bad (for me) ...Hi All!<br /><br />Only one lookup! [LETO] Not bad (for me) for a Friday. Thanks Alan for a fun puzzle who's theme when right over my head until HBOMB filled -- HALL FOR ONE filled immediately and I fixed HILL A' brAkE [sic] @62a (hey -sounded good at the time). The others all seamed "real" to me... HIP ADDRESS is where the "cool" people / companies are, HA-HA MOMENT could be what Mel Brooks calls it, HI ROBOT, well, what else would they say? [I suppose, if Jewish, Oi / Oy Robot... (LOL OKL)]<br /><br />Thanks C.C. for the lovely expo. What DO said re: the <b>H</b>-Chron. DO, did they every reply to you? Crickets on my end. Re: the week old Sunday NYT - I don't do it. I learned early on I ruin it for myself by flipping the page to "check" a WAG and spoil my own fun; flipping is just too tempting!<br /><br />Re: BESTEST friends: One's known me all my life (Pop), 2 Bros & 2 Sises I've known all their's, and one woman I met at 17. Moving about doesn't help keep friends from grade-school (though one guy in St. Paul/Minn. and I talk every few years on LinkedIn -- we're the ones who together in 8th grade learned how to hack).<br /><br />WOs: See above; had Fargo b/f GRIMM (and worse, looking @22a's squares for 23a's clue, I saw 4 letters and filled in LOST - hey, it worked w/ BEATLES...), and (Hi Abejo!) LAST hope @20a.<br />ESPs: OSIER, OIL (duh!), ABNER - I kept reading 'Chap chap' - after C.C.'s expo I finally read it right!<br /><br /><b>Fav</b>: None. It's just too hard w/ Animal House as a clue, <b>H</b>I ROBOT [loved both the book and the not-at-all-the-same movie!] and BELLOW after I just used that last night describing FIL's voice. And, as HG pointed out GENE w/ Wonka creator. And the Up & Loud CRIEs dupes. How can you not love the whole thing? [me getting it helps :-)]<br />I'm being GLIB - HA-HA MOMENT was really cute as is the c/a for TATAs.<br /><br />OK, Who else really wanted 'hose' for 6a? AS IN <a href="https://goo.gl/images/PPN6Mu" rel="nofollow"> Up your Nose...</a> [I so wanted that game as a kid].<br /><br />RATE: {B, B-} {Cute, nice, I'm <b>not</b> touching <i>that!</i>}<br /><br />C.C. - Pop lives further south than you (SPI) and says "Never before Mother's Day" with respect to gardening. Did you sow seed or put in plants? If the latter, are they OK or do you have to start over? BTW, <b>H</b>-Town is great for gardening... I've got pickling cukes & banana peppers galore already; tomatoes are still green but I expect them RIPEN'd by mid-May.<br /><br />IM - Glad your feeling better. At least you're not still so sick you can't play; very much unlike Lem. Get well soon both of you!<br /><br />OMK - <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer" rel="nofollow">While I kinda recall an Apple on a Beatles record, this lawsuit </a>put 4d's c/a firmly in my brain.<br /><br />TATA, er, Cheers, -TAnonymous Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00459563526290288425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-49534630903817830942017-04-28T15:12:59.032-05:002017-04-28T15:12:59.032-05:00Eh, did you see any DART GUNS?
C-Moe, let's j...Eh, did you see any DART GUNS?<br /><br />C-Moe, let's just call it Water Closet humour. Quite juicy today. Owen. At least Bs. <br />I should have put the xword down and come back later. ARF killed me and I should have known DATA mining. No caffeine today<br /><br />Anon-T, ODoul relocated to SF and managed and played several more years there. It was a third major league. He mentored Joe D. <br />A-PVX, I thought of you whilst cursing the theme. I thought the pols went to a VILLA and VIS a vis were the pair. <br /><br />Actually, Alan, very clever work. <br /><br />CC, I'm a pen and ink TB Times guy and today, the merged Tribune has one too. All with constructors names. Readers complained that Latimes was too difficult so they added one. So, four today. <br /><br />Lemonade, looking forward to your return. <br /><br />WCWilbur Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08905123297841127198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-25001109293610322312017-04-28T14:46:17.398-05:002017-04-28T14:46:17.398-05:00I'm able to post again.
Used red letter help ...I'm able to post again. <br />Used red letter help for vowels the last few days, but solved with that help.<br /><br />MontanaMontanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00291743761732429768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-27167689233327510562017-04-28T14:41:59.066-05:002017-04-28T14:41:59.066-05:00I use my iPad.
I haven't been able to sign in...I use my iPad. <br />I haven't been able to sign in for a few days. First I had to remember a user name and password for Across Lite, then after clicking I'm not a Robot, I had three sets of pictures I had to identify objects in. Following that I had to sign in to my Google account. I rarely use it, but thought I remembered my password. No deal. <br /><br />I looked for my password yesterday. I found it written down, but it didn't work. Didn't work this morning either, but I was using the correct password. So, today I tried going to Google.com to sign in. That worked. And if you are reading this post, it carried over to our Corner. <br /><br />My Great Falls Tribune has our crossword everyday. It lists constructor. (It has circles.)<br /> On the reverse side of page is Thomas Joseph puzzle plus Sudoku and other puzzles. <br /><br />Have a good weekend,<br />MontanaMontanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00291743761732429768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-66457713541893079482017-04-28T14:40:14.283-05:002017-04-28T14:40:14.283-05:00The local paper, the "Vacaville Reporter"...The local paper, the "Vacaville Reporter", dropped the LAT cwd a while ago, and substituted some generic thing. It's the kind of paper that predominates these days: all the news comes off of fax machines, along with every other money-saving dodge possible.<br /><br />The trouble with this "penny wise; pound foolish" MBA approach in newspapers is that people notice, and unsubscribe. <br />I certainly did.Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13270740184766230842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-2528973066893229582017-04-28T13:44:03.649-05:002017-04-28T13:44:03.649-05:00YR, thanks for the warthog info. Very interesting...YR, thanks for the warthog info. Very interesting. We saw them on our safari in Kenya.<br /><br />oc4beach, thanks for the hilarious Bestest Friends link!CanadianEh!https://www.blogger.com/profile/05688358229402732332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-51189507247181615142017-04-28T13:43:39.083-05:002017-04-28T13:43:39.083-05:00Finished in about 25 minutes; a little slow for me...Finished in about 25 minutes; a little slow for me but not terrible. Had a real hard time getting anything going in the NW but the other parts filled up OK and then FINALLY that last corner fell. <br /><br />Best wishes to Lemonade; that can't have been even a little bit amusing!<br /><br />We used to get both the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times delivered. The Trib always ran 'our' puzzle (with author and editor credits). Since I had mainly subscribed to keep up with current events (I taught, among other things, social studies), when I retired I dropped both. Now I use a very nice iPad app (cleverly called "Crossword") and download the LA Times puzzle from Cruciverb.com. It always has both the constructor's and the editor's names. WikWakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14873144164842777944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-65826448595832982042017-04-28T12:47:50.522-05:002017-04-28T12:47:50.522-05:00Same experience as yesterday. I had a great run to...Same experience as yesterday. I had a great run to start - not easy, but chew-illy delicious - right up until my last two words, DAUBS and BEATLES. (Fightin' words, for they surely fought me!)<br />For the life of me, I couldn't get the ol' walnut to make the obvious connection between those two words. For a long while I even thought perps had taught me a new word - DAURS. (Indeed, if you look up DAUR you'll find it's a Scots variant of DARE.)<br />Anyway, this was otherwise a fine Friday pzl, nicely challenging and almost a <i>Ta-</i><b>DA!</b> <br />Thank you, Alan DeLoriea, and thanks too to C.C.!Ol' Man Keith https://www.blogger.com/profile/02073553138045178596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-58266719277243554632017-04-28T12:46:24.717-05:002017-04-28T12:46:24.717-05:00C.C. et al: Here is Jeanne Robertson's descrip...<br /><br />C.C. et al: Here is Jeanne Robertson's description of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdKzdIWl51E" rel="nofollow">Bestest Friends in the South.</a><br /><br />I talk to my best friend from Grade school, who lives in Clearwater, FL, about once a year. But if I want to know what he had for lunch or where he ate it, all I have to do is go on Facebook. It appears that he lives on Facebook so I don't have to call him to find out what he's doing.<br /><br />oc4beachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06568497002517859531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-39072199114179679392017-04-28T12:45:22.443-05:002017-04-28T12:45:22.443-05:00What is above the warthog's tusks? Not a secon...What is above the warthog's tusks? Not a second pair of tusks.The warthog has a pair of thick protective pads (called warts, but they aren't) below its eyes and another pair above the two long tusks. A pair of shorter, very sharp tusks are under the long tusks, just barely visible in CC's picture. When perused by predators the warthog will flee or else slide backwards into a hole and protect itself with its sharp tusks.<br /><a href="http://wonderopolis.org/wonder/do-warthogs-really-have-warts/" rel="nofollow"> What are the warts for? </a>Yellowrockshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09590216912123103432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-70263614005522682592017-04-28T12:44:02.603-05:002017-04-28T12:44:02.603-05:00Tampa Bay Times has 3 crosswords daily including a...Tampa Bay Times has 3 crosswords daily including a week old NY Times on Sunday.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01166351048900957910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-28541135494121987872017-04-28T12:14:39.924-05:002017-04-28T12:14:39.924-05:00An average Friday puzzle, I thought, another gimmi...An average Friday puzzle, I thought, another gimmick/theme puzzle but not objectionable. <br /><br />Here in Charleston, SC, the local Pulitzer Prize winning paper - they never let up on that - the Post and Courier, still publishes Letters to the Editor arguing that the Civil War wasn't about Slavery, and the Democrats are responsible for all of Trump's issues. That was today, they are in there all the time. This paper never corrects any of this, they just keep letting people keep that pot stirred. It's kind of despicable. <br /><br />They publish the Tribune puzzle ( this one) Mon-Sat, along with a UFS puzzle the same days. They then publish The NY Times puzzle on Sunday, a week late. No other puzzle on Sunday. AnonymousPVXhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10078186298428497941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-89614725507184262892017-04-28T12:11:35.917-05:002017-04-28T12:11:35.917-05:00Wyoming Tribune Eagle only has your crossword. Wo...Wyoming Tribune Eagle only has your crossword. Would be great to have two!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-46202478606361001642017-04-28T12:08:21.228-05:002017-04-28T12:08:21.228-05:00The Stuart (FL) News is a crossword puzzlers haven...The Stuart (FL) News is a crossword puzzlers haven. On the comics page they feature the LA Times puzzle that is bylined. On the previous page there are three puzzles one of which is the syndicated NYT (bylined) and two other generic puzzles that aren't very good but can be difficult at times. Plus, the stuart News buries yet another puzzle in the want ads section. So that's five puzzles in each paper. Who knew there were so many published every day?Sailormanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14908665121030702592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-17667432711445545512017-04-28T12:03:17.607-05:002017-04-28T12:03:17.607-05:00Younger Simpson is not Maggie?
Animal house (Delt...Younger Simpson is not Maggie?<br /><br />Animal house (Delta) rivals is not OMEGA Theta Pi?<br /><br />Rats!<br /><br />CC, my procedure for Sciatica was a simple epidural steroid injection.<br />Which is only recommended 3 times a year.<br />The radical difference was my Doctor believed that 3 injections spaced two weeks apart<br />would be more beneficial. <br />(The question is, more beneficial for Whom?)<br />Unfortunately, everyone reacts differently...<br /><br />I did not know Lemon was having difficulties, <br />was it Sciatica/Surgery related?<br /><br /><br />CrossEyedDavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09745913007262424048noreply@blogger.com