tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post3803339082110363018..comments2024-03-29T02:07:08.222-05:00Comments on L.A.Times Crossword Corner: Tuesday, September 4, 2018 Paul CoulterZhouqin (C.C.) Burnikelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12750267554729853785noreply@blogger.comBlogger59125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-39038652662709980182018-09-04T23:26:51.599-05:002018-09-04T23:26:51.599-05:00WC - this fool would have broken all 5 [but it'...WC - this fool would have broken all 5 [but it's lefty-loose-y!]<br /><br />PK - re: your last paragraph... As much as I hate the County Fair and The Rodeo (well, crowds and over-priced beer in general [except baseball!]), I'd always take the Girls so they got the idea of the circle-of-life and "that's your food."<br /><br />Illinois Boy, -T<br /><br />Anonymous Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00459563526290288425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-43436703291347362232018-09-04T22:16:26.208-05:002018-09-04T22:16:26.208-05:00Paul: best wishes for a fun and successful Jeopard...Paul: best wishes for a fun and successful Jeopardy audition. I watch most days and would love to see you. I answer a lot of the clues on the show and always feel good when I get some the contestants don't, but I would probably freeze up if I went on the show. I admire the courage of you, Hahtoolah & Inanehiker to try out.<br /><br />Picard: I knew the House Unamerican Activities Committee and McCarthyism, but not HUAC abbreviation. I've read the history of the period. I see parallels to some of the things going on today.<br /><br />TTP: I've been thinking about your ornery ball-playing cat all day and smiling. <br /><br />Thank you all who had kind words about my lug nut story & writing. I've thought about doing a book with a collection of stories, but I don't seem to be able to stick with a project very long any more. As a post script to the story today, when we got to the Kansas City Stockyards, we watched the cattle run down the shoot into the slaughterhouse pen. My 3-yr-old son said, "But how will our cows get back home?" I felt like a traitor to our animals. I hated to tell that little boy the truth. I just said, "They aren't coming back to our farm. This is their new place." He was satisfied for then. A few years later he had to face the truth with his 4-H pigs.PKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14570575955563406341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-30684758706401077382018-09-04T21:50:34.456-05:002018-09-04T21:50:34.456-05:00Ok. Since -T is still out there here's a lug s... Ok. Since -T is still out there here's a lug story I just hope it's not a repeat:<br /><br />So I'm tooling around cape cod in my '65 Barracuda and I get a flat. Girl friend is there of course. <br /><br />No prob. I have the four-way wrench and that lug doesn't wanna budge. Oh yeah?!!! I give the ol'Wilbur and presto, one lug broken off. Btw, Mr Stupidity was there in all his glory..<br /><br />How many lugs can an idiot snap off before he realizes that Plymouth came up with the ingenious idea to have the driver side lugs tighten "Lefty"!!!*<br /><br />WC in the ether<br /><br />* THREE. Out of five I think. I limped home on twoWilbur Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08905123297841127198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-71469063069664646882018-09-04T21:18:41.436-05:002018-09-04T21:18:41.436-05:00Btw, you may want to catch the entry for 2011 comp...Btw, you may want to catch the entry for 2011 complete with link<br /><br />WCWilbur Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08905123297841127198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-27570445487418151102018-09-04T21:08:31.021-05:002018-09-04T21:08:31.021-05:00* That's Mordecai"Three Fingers" Bro...* That's Mordecai"Three Fingers" BrownWilbur Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08905123297841127198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-76904163691954091422018-09-04T21:07:01.938-05:002018-09-04T21:07:01.938-05:00Spoiler alert: baseball talk follows
Well we had...Spoiler alert: baseball talk follows<br /><br /> Well we had UMP today so that's my excuse for the following:<br /><br />We have "This date in baseball" column which is my favorite reading especially today. 1916 Christy Mathewson and Mordecai* Brown arrange a mutual last game. CM becomes a Lieut and along with a certain Lt Cobb participates in a poison gas exercise in France that goes AWRY. Mathewson dies a few years later from complications.<br />I direct your attention to 1923, <br />1927, 28 and 1941. <br />Here's the <a href="http://www.nationalpastime.com/" rel="nofollow">Column</a><br />Note in 1923 the only player to strike out was Babe Ruth. And the Waners brothers homeruns were on the bounce.<br /><br />WCWilbur Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08905123297841127198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-7055538058415316792018-09-04T21:01:15.230-05:002018-09-04T21:01:15.230-05:00Good Luck, Paul ,
On the topic of artistic commen...Good Luck, Paul ,<br /><br />On the topic of artistic commentary on McCartyism, we mustn't forget The Crucible by Arthur Miller, using the Salem Witch Trials.<br /><br />Great reading on the blog tonight. Thanks, everyone.Madame Defargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02003303114163633197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-54719341002668216002018-09-04T20:13:41.163-05:002018-09-04T20:13:41.163-05:00Hi All!
Thanks Paul for the tasty* Tuesday taskin...Hi All!<br /><br />Thanks Paul for the tasty* Tuesday tasking, er, puzzle (lacking only the Mint Jelly :-)) and for stopping by the Corner. Good luck on the Jeopardy tryout; I didn't imagine the competition (after the testing) would be that stiff. Inanehiker's advice sounds sound - one thing they might really DiG about you: Crossword Constructor. And, a little-dig at Rich or Will (go w/ Will - he's more well-known from NPR, etc.) wouldn't hurt :-)<br /><br />Thanks TTP for the expo. Enjoyed Simon & Garfunkel and being reminded of both Chumleys. I knew WEBB but not that he <i>never</i> said "Just the Facts."<br /><br />WOs: STArS b/f STATS, SHAE, I put ON AIR in CACTI's squares [Perhaps, later tonight, I will have a rare (for me - never) double-bloom pic to share] <br />ESPs: HUAC, HILARY, and ELAM (thanks BillO for the pic - I've seen him before!)<br /><b>Fav</b>: I'm going w/ the stack of YOU, EAU, EWE<br /><br />{B+, A [I was going w/ B- because I think 'smell' more apropos w/ EAU-de-cologne --- but then "some of my best friends..." LOL], A}<br /><br />I knew what McCarthyism was but not HUAC. Thanks for the stories Lem, WC, OMK, Picard, and especially D-O; Nothing like learning the right way to curse :-)<br /><br />That's one nutty LUG story PK. If nothing else, Grand could publish from his scrapbook "The antics of Grandma PK."<br /><br />FLN: OKL, I assume, being lab-mice, white-bread... D'Oh, spell check didn't even help!<br /><br />My Army Bro was about to start "big-talking" about his girl-friend(s) and DW, w/o missing a beat, "You mean AMBI and Dextrous?" :-)<br /><br />Cheers, -T<br />*I've had a few servings of HUMBLE PIE at the Corner as of late :-)Anonymous Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00459563526290288425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-13700767125651305742018-09-04T20:06:11.147-05:002018-09-04T20:06:11.147-05:00 Billocoes. I agree 100% on those noisome analytic... Billocoes. I agree 100% on those noisome analytics. <br /><br />WCWilbur Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08905123297841127198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-45892263399976482112018-09-04T19:32:24.118-05:002018-09-04T19:32:24.118-05:00Good morning.
Paul, thanks for the insight. I ...Good morning. <br /><br />Paul, thanks for the insight. I was hesitant to add the proof in the pudding idiom, but Yorkshire pudding is baked, so I left it. Maybe not sweet, but baked, so it kinda sorta fits. <br /><br />Irish Miss, good one. Didn't think about frosting on the cake, but it would have been nice to work that one in as well. Plus, waffling from Lemonade and just desserts from PK. <br /><br />D-O, Tinker was a female :>), but my sister's outdoor cat was a big well fed male. He kept the mouse and chipmunk population in check. <br /><br />Paul, good luck ! If it comes up, take Crossword Constructors for 500 ! Wait, I don't watch the program. Take it for whatever is max. You'll do well !TTPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03978803962510303498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-18412849829217717422018-09-04T18:52:58.490-05:002018-09-04T18:52:58.490-05:00This was a fun puzzle - my only slip up was that I...This was a fun puzzle - my only slip up was that I initially wanted to put the answer to 58 across into the slot for 48 across! o/w smooth sailing. Thanks TTP and Paul C!<br /><br />Paul C- the Jeopardy auditions are a lot of fun! They break it down so there are only about 20+ people in the room at a time. You take another quiz and then you do some practice rounds with the buzzer in groups of 3. Only advice I can give is -they ask you to put 5 things down about yourself on a piece of paper - make them quirky, funny things about yourself or things that have happened to you. ( Kind of like what they talk about in the show to the contestants) They will discuss one of them with you in the practice round- be yourself, but be animated and like you are having fun. They make it fun- so it is not hard! They don't tell you if you have made it into the pool of ~2000 people they have at any time - just that if they haven't called you with in a year and a half you can try out again!inanehikernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-2096435665734233522018-09-04T18:37:22.891-05:002018-09-04T18:37:22.891-05:00Jack ELAM was a character actor in over 70 films a...Jack ELAM was a character actor in over 70 films and 40 TV series, famous for his mismatched eyes (stabbed in the left eye with a pencil in the Boy Scouts). Usually a villain early in his career, later moved to comedy spoofing himself.<br /><a href="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYjAyYjA4ZTgtZmVmYi00ZDM0LWIyNDAtODBlMWJhNGE4ZWM3XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjUyNDk2ODc@._V1_SX1777_CR0,0,1777,999_AL_.jpg" rel="nofollow">Photo</a><br /><br />Another annoyance in baseball is the overuse of analytics for "launch angle" and the exit speed of home runs.<br /><br />Other things they never said - "You dirty rat" by James Cagney, "Judy, Judy, Judy" by Cary Grant, and "Why dontcha come up and see me sometime" by Mae West.billocohoesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-84833381986901475222018-09-04T18:23:34.125-05:002018-09-04T18:23:34.125-05:00Paul, good luck on your Jeopardy! interview.
Spit...Paul, good luck on your Jeopardy! interview.<br /><br />Spitzboov - At the risk of making you drool, I will tell you that the peaches are beautifully juicy and sweet this year with all the heat and irrigation. You could come for a visit but I'm not sure if you are allowed to take them back across the border.<br />I am not aware of a mushroom farm in St. Davids although there are others in the Niagara area and around the Burlington area also. <br /><br />Picard - Thanks for not counting my Canadian disadvantage against me LOL. I was aware of that era but not all the committees and names. The stories from our fellow-bloggers are most illuminating.CanadianEh!https://www.blogger.com/profile/05688358229402732332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-91208641030834370832018-09-04T18:10:28.172-05:002018-09-04T18:10:28.172-05:00I liked this puzzle very much.I liked this puzzle very much.Jaycehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15906163232315177399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-17575102324946437262018-09-04T17:10:46.589-05:002018-09-04T17:10:46.589-05:00D4E4H do you mean "residents" rather tha...D4E4H do you mean "residents" rather than "residences"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-4717696600586467252018-09-04T16:35:25.763-05:002018-09-04T16:35:25.763-05:00Paul, good luck on your audition! I truly wish you...Paul, good luck on your audition! I truly wish you well and hope you make it. I watch every night and would love to see a familiar name there. It sounds like you would have a loud booster section in many homes.Lucinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16278649651081244724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-41093495081910780232018-09-04T16:00:46.790-05:002018-09-04T16:00:46.790-05:00Ironically, one of the HUAC lawyers was Bobby Kenn... Ironically, one of the HUAC lawyers was Bobby Kennedy. This from history.com<br /><br /><a href="http://www.history.com/news/remembering-robert-f-kennedy" rel="nofollow">Link</a><br /><br />WCWilbur Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08905123297841127198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-51838540374984186842018-09-04T15:45:30.296-05:002018-09-04T15:45:30.296-05:00Paul C.,that would be fabulous if you made it and ...Paul C.,that would be fabulous if you made it and came on Jeopardy. My husband and I watched Jeopardy together faithfully until three days before I lost him, and he still answered the occasional clue. Watching it remains one of my favorite events of the day, and having you on it would be utterly fantastic! Let us know how it goes!Mistyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17570695193695039956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-3042718459363646742018-09-04T15:23:44.287-05:002018-09-04T15:23:44.287-05:00Lemonade & desper-otto ~
I was in the student ...<b>Lemonade & desper-otto</b> ~<br />I was in the student protest the first day that HUAC came to hold hearings at San Francisco's City Hall. (1959? '60?)<br />We didn't do much that first day. We waited out in the street in silence for a few hours. Around noon, the committee took a break and some came out on the balcony for a smoke. That's when we all lifted our arms in the Nazi salute and began shouting "Sieg Heil, Sieg Heil!"<br />They took it for a minute or so, then filed quickly back inside.<br /><br />It was the next day, when I wasn't there, that students tried to storm the committee room and were hosed down the marble steps by SFFD and SFPD. <br />Many arrests ensued. <br /><br />~ <b>OMK</b>Ol' Man Keith https://www.blogger.com/profile/02073553138045178596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-32337552539883249572018-09-04T15:11:19.166-05:002018-09-04T15:11:19.166-05:00I learned how to swear from my father talking abou...I learned how to swear from my father talking about the McCarthy HUAC hearings. McCarthy hailed from only 35 miles away, but dad was not a fan of Tail-gunner Joe.<br /><br />Then there's the 64th note -- the hemidemisemiquaver.<br /><br />Paul, good luck on your <i>Jeopardy!</i> interview.desper-ottohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17242581085713882677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-62346406065026033032018-09-04T15:03:00.721-05:002018-09-04T15:03:00.721-05:00Afternoon folks.
Our week is backwards. Monday&#...Afternoon folks.<br /><br />Our week is backwards. Monday's CW was by <b>Mr. Paul Coulter</b> today, Tuesday. It was a sweet romp that I <b>FIR</b> IN 14:51 min.. The "expression" clechos came easily, and gave many letters for the perps. Thank you sir for my fun.<br /><br />Thanks <b>TTP</b> for the excellent review which I will turn to now.<br /><br />67 A - Lynn can eat one or the other of Yams or Sweet Potatoes, I forget which. The take home message is that they are not the same tuber. Tuber or not tuber, that is the question.<br /><br />7 D - Re your Baad joke, Paul is a border collie, the smartest cruciverbalistic canine.<br /><br />Expect <b>Young man Keith</b> to see himself in the mirror.<br /><br /><b>OwenKL</b> at 4:11 AM<br /> - - Dolly is looking for her 10% on the first poem. She advises, "Don't hide your lamb under a peck."<br /> - - Thanks for Too Edith and Kate.<br /> - - Oh boy, a Koi!<br /> - - They were each excellent.<br /><br /><b>Lemonade714</b> at 5:52 AM<br /> - - At breakfast one of our residences exclaimed "Only 4 days this week!" I countered, "What happened to the other 3?"<br /><br /><b>Idioms for Idiots:</b><br />There's a method to my madness.<br /> - - An assertion that, despite one's approach seeming random, there actually is structure to it.<br /> - - In my case there's a madness to my method.<br /><br />ÐaveD4E4Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10722279710961820843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-5860327984289155512018-09-04T14:51:32.530-05:002018-09-04T14:51:32.530-05:00Very enjoyable; that’s two days in a row now. Than...Very enjoyable; that’s two days in a row now. Thanks, Paul (and good luck on the tryouts), and thanks akso to TTP (great kitty story!).<br /><br />"Slithery squeezer"—I loved this clue. Hand up for instantly wanting EEL, but better sense prevailed right away. <br /><br />I was a tad young to be paying much attention to current affairs during the HUAC times, but being an American history major in college soon fixed that. I <b>do</b> remember that Pogo (one of my all-time favorite comics) had a recurring theme then which I realized years later was a satirical take on those times. One of the Pogo books that I still remember collected all those strips; it was titled "The Jack Acid Society Black Book."<br /><br />At one time I had every Perry Mason and every Cool and Lam book that Gardner ever wrote (in paperback). Unfortunately we had a major flood about 10 years ago which sent all 2,000+ of my books to the trash. Devastating. Now I’m slowly reacquiring them as e-books on my Kindle. <br /><br />Have a great day, all!WikWakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14873144164842777944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-14760435818230443382018-09-04T14:21:30.701-05:002018-09-04T14:21:30.701-05:00Who'da thought"Just the facts" would... Who'da thought"Just the facts" would become so contentious<br />I see I can read"Relics" on line. HBHG (circa 1980) sparked my interest in the knights Templar<br />Demise of candlestick? Why didn't you say "Wilbur, make sure you're sitting down...". Oh the memories*, oh the <br />I never thought"Big ball" as much fun as candlestick <a href="https://youtu.be/kEpLncBG_Nw" rel="nofollow">Humanity</a><br />I had STAR<STAT<br />Gordon was just one of another 20 storms we've had around Tampa Bay this Summer. Someone in Ruskin, nearer to the water, said there was fallen limbs<br />Among the many banes of baseball along with"Shifting" is the centerfield camera which encourages second guessing. They've just about ruined baseball in just five years of amateur, interference<br />And of course, the bane of all sports: Coaches<br />I see JACK Ryan is back in a TV series (Prime I think)<br />Picard, there's a book about the making of High Noon( an allegory of the HUAC ***)<br /><br />WC<br /><br />*** You find the wordWilbur Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08905123297841127198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-55208956615116433252018-09-04T14:12:28.634-05:002018-09-04T14:12:28.634-05:00Paul C. - Good luck with the Jeopardy audition. I ...<br />Paul C. - Good luck with the Jeopardy audition. I hope you make it. Please let us know if you do.<br /><br />Good puzzle Paul and TTP's tour through the grid was enjoyable.<br /><br />The Unabomber's use of the phrase "YOU CAN'T EAT YOUR CAKE AND HAVE IT TOO" as opposed to the more used "YOU CAN'T HAVE YOUR CAKE AND EAT IT TO" was partially responsible in Jim Fitzgerald's (the FBI agent who helped solve the case) use of linguistics that helped track the Unabomber down. There was <a href="https://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/manhunt-unabomber/" rel="nofollow">a Discovery Series</a> that told the story of the Unabomber's capture that you can watch on-line. Interesting.<br /><br />In the 90's again and will last for a day or two more before it rains and the temperature drops to the 60's. I'm not complaining though.<br /><br />Have a great one everyone.<br /><br />oc4beachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06568497002517859531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-52605010292156522582018-09-04T14:09:28.714-05:002018-09-04T14:09:28.714-05:00Ta -DA!
Paul C, good luck on your Jeopardy auditio...<i>Ta -</i><b>DA!</b><br /><b>Paul C</b>, good luck on your <i>Jeopardy</i> audition! It would be fun to see someone we know behind that podium.<br /><br />~ <b>OMK<br />____________<br />Diagonal Report:</b> We have a 3-way today on the mirror side. The anchor line is mainly vowels, with only two consonants.Ol' Man Keith https://www.blogger.com/profile/02073553138045178596noreply@blogger.com