tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post3872648263518989373..comments2024-03-29T08:35:40.450-05:00Comments on L.A.Times Crossword Corner: Wednesday, August 14, 2019, Craig StoweZhouqin (C.C.) Burnikelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12750267554729853785noreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-44152249808016955282019-08-15T15:24:18.667-05:002019-08-15T15:24:18.667-05:00Pluto and I have
a Platonic love relationship
no m...Pluto and I have<br />a <b>Platonic</b> love relationship<br />no matter how dwarf it is.<br /><br />ÐaveD4E4Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10722279710961820843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-10941381237956073012019-08-15T07:05:42.668-05:002019-08-15T07:05:42.668-05:00It's as if Pluto is just the largest asteroid ...It's as if Pluto is just the largest asteroid in a asteroid belt orbiting around the Sun's gravity.Clydenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-87937456453707616582019-08-15T06:59:55.704-05:002019-08-15T06:59:55.704-05:00Dear Micahel
Moon, or satellites orbiting planets...Dear Micahel<br /><br />Moon, or satellites orbiting planets ARE "cleared". They are under control as they have been sucked into the planets gravity. Thw planet has enough gravity(mass) to either pull the moon into orbit around itself or force other objects out of its orbit around the sun. There are no other objects within Earth's(or Jupiter'a) orbit that are also orbiting the sun with their own individual orbit. Clear as mud? Pluto shares it's orbit with thousands of other masses that are orbiting the sun outside of Pluto's influence. Clydenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-70055084369505702182019-08-15T03:55:22.523-05:002019-08-15T03:55:22.523-05:00[A poem I wrote back in June of '13.]
PLANETS...[A poem I wrote back in June of '13.]<br /><br />PLANETS<br /><br />When I was born the planets known they numbered just at nine.<br />As I grew up, and then grew old, that didn't change, 'twas nine.<br />But then things altered, worlds were found where none were seen before;<br />The Kupier Belt yields planetoids, then more, and more, and more!<br /><br />So Pluto gets demoted, but asteroid Ceres gets restored,<br />Like Pluto, once a planet, till lumped with its rocky horde.<br />Planets now are eight, but dwarf planets are abounding.<br />The heavens now are crowded, the increase is just astounding!<br /><br />But then, that wasn't yet enough to change our frame of mind<br />Sufficiently, so exoplanets they began to find.<br />Circling other stars, strange huge worlds far from home,<br />Giants first, then rocky core enclosed in gaseous dome.<br /><br />New methods are developed, telescopes in orbit hone<br />The grails are smaller planets in the Goldilockian zone.<br />Worlds are found in hundreds, promises of other Earth<br />Where life, not as we know it, could have had a cosmic birth.<br /><br />What does it mean to this old man, new things that humans learn?<br />I shall not live to fly out there, to ride a rocket's burn.<br />Yet when I see the stories science fiction has produced<br />There's comfort in the wonder science proves is not reduced.OwenKLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16709695380239557575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-39018860650628612762019-08-15T01:36:03.999-05:002019-08-15T01:36:03.999-05:00OwenKL:
Please hang in there! I, for one and many ...OwenKL:<br />Please hang in there! I, for one and many others, too, look forward to your posts and your verses. It adds further character to the quirkiness of our Corner group.Lucinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16278649651081244724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-70075999061303190722019-08-15T00:57:54.461-05:002019-08-15T00:57:54.461-05:00Dear Clyde:
Then by the IAU's criteria, has o...Dear Clyde:<br /><br />Then by the IAU's criteria, has our planet 'cleared' the moon from the neighborhood? Or better yet, how about Jupiter, with its 59 (or whatever the current count is) moons?Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13270740184766230842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-28093241143915655732019-08-14T23:46:55.502-05:002019-08-14T23:46:55.502-05:00Funny that the discussion of Pluto came up before ...Funny that the discussion of Pluto came up before I had a chance to read the blog this evening. I have just finished watching a show on PBS. Not sure what series or episode it was but they were discussing Pluto just as intoned in. And according to some dude he said:<br /><br />" A planet is a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (c) has cleared the neighborhood around its orbit.<br /><br />Pluto satisfies both a and b but not c. It has an orbit around the sun, no matter how erratic it may be. It is round. But they are several other objects in its orbit that it is too small and has not enough mass to force out of its orbit. Therefore the IAU or some arbitrary committee has deemed it a dwarf planet.<br /><br />I don't have a dog in this fight but those are the facts. The question is, do you give a hoot what the International Astronomical Union thinks?Clyde Tombaughnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-87237353353402907912019-08-14T22:06:48.727-05:002019-08-14T22:06:48.727-05:00OKL - you have friends indeed.
Remember when you...OKL - you have friends indeed. <br />Remember when you first came to the Corner and soon thereafter some snark would PAN just the act of you posting limericks? And Cornerites others stood-up and said they enjoyed your prose?<br /><br />Remember when you inspired C.Moe and Harry to Haiku?<br /><br />And then you started the JUMBLE site and Cornerites (with more time on their hands than I) joined you over there?<br /><br />You have friends indeed.<br /><br />Get well soon. Cheers, -T<br /> Anonymous Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00459563526290288425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-36356915472046549652019-08-14T21:10:31.134-05:002019-08-14T21:10:31.134-05:00Jayce, thanks for the comment about Campbelled! I ...Jayce, thanks for the comment about Campbelled! I love doing creative things with language, and doubly love it when anybody notices!<br /><br />Keeping my humor up is pretty easy for me, but I'm still feeling pretty miserable 😔. Weaker than a kitten, very tired all the time. I am so glad and greatful I have a wonderful community like all of you! My body may be ailing, but you keep my mind alert. And I'm also sooo glad I live in this modern day when I can talk to all of you folks I would never have known. When I'm in a little bit of pain with an ear ache, I think of how much worse it could have been facing a bone saw in the Civil War.OwenKLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16709695380239557575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-36125985220203139052019-08-14T20:17:21.206-05:002019-08-14T20:17:21.206-05:00DOYEN and SAMANTHA didn't fit.DOYEN and SAMANTHA didn't fit.Royhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00671636316561947612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-17126739631031100332019-08-14T19:17:45.251-05:002019-08-14T19:17:45.251-05:00Hi All!
Thanks Craig for the mighty fine puzzle; ...Hi All!<br /><br />Thanks Craig for the mighty fine puzzle; like Jerome said, anagramming DAILY into a phrase musta been a bugger. Thanks mb for the fine expo.<br /><br />WOs: eDI Amin, DRaBS b/f DRIBS, SyRUMS<br />ESP: ARHAT, MEG [actually, M was the result of ABC-run and I recalled the movie one letter past 'L' :-) SOMALI finally followed.<br /><b>Fav</b>: GNASHED is a really fun word.<br /><br />The theme was needed to figure out @24a: -A-Y-N-ED<br /><br />Docent - a word I couldn't think of May 3rd but Java Mama, TTP, Lem, and Lucina cemented it in my mind -- nailed it today with only the hesitation of 'C' or 'S.'<br /><br />{A, B+} - good to see you at The Corner so soon!<br />DR is a stretch today :-) //SaaB totally made up for it!<br /><br />IrishMiss! Ouch. Please get well soon. //And maybe a nip or two of Dewar's for the pain.<br /><br />Cheers, -TAnonymous Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00459563526290288425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-2412531056798985682019-08-14T18:54:05.811-05:002019-08-14T18:54:05.811-05:00OMK: Really good one!
~ Mind how you go...OMK: Really good one!<br /><br />~ Mind how you go...Bill Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04495413609545426668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-55841163715331704322019-08-14T17:54:56.057-05:002019-08-14T17:54:56.057-05:00FIR, but erased FaY, ADDler and ODeSSaY. Bad spel...FIR, but erased FaY, ADDler and ODeSSaY. Bad spelars of the world UNTIE!!!<br /><br />I found this one very tough, and was surprised to see that ARHAT was correct. Seems like what a pirate says when a kid(d) asks him "gee, Mr. Pirate - what's that on your head?" "ARrr, HAT".<br /><br />Teaching Microsoft Project today and tomorrow. Will probably not be able to finish tomorrow's cw until I get home, as was the case today.<br /><br />IM, wish you were close enough for DW and I to pitch in and help with your recovery. Get well soon. I'm so glad you didn't hit your head.<br /><br />Thanks for the interesting puzzle, Craig. And thanks to melissab for the fun review.Jinx in Norfolkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05891694970152198474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-56033855712255000102019-08-14T16:57:49.097-05:002019-08-14T16:57:49.097-05:00Today is Navajo Code Talkers day , honoring the co...Today is Navajo Code Talkers day , honoring the code talkers from WWII who used their native language as a code. They just said whatever was needed in Navajo. The “code” was never broken by the Japanese.<br />SwampCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06893584705424353444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-91405311383744325552019-08-14T16:43:40.014-05:002019-08-14T16:43:40.014-05:00
Well this Wednesday puzzle had more crunch than e...<br />Well this Wednesday puzzle had more crunch than expected.<br /><br />One markover.....NOTNOW/NOTYET.<br /><br />Irish Miss....I hate those pills. My son got addicted to them after a doctor prescribed them for THREE MONTHS before the operation, and then another couple months after. Gee, guess what happened? He bounced around rehabs for a while, then life got real and he pulled out of it. He’s been clean for quite some time now.<br /><br />When I had surgery a couple years back, they gave me “oxy in a bottle”....liquid. I took one sip the first night to get to sleep, and that was it.<br /><br />I substituted an herbal substance that is illegal here but not everywhere. New York, for instance, has just decriminalized it. That’s what I’d be using. Not encouraging anything by anyone, just saying. <br /><br />On to Thursday. <br /><br /><br /><br />AnonymousPVXhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10078186298428497941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-13399462112019454422019-08-14T15:54:28.333-05:002019-08-14T15:54:28.333-05:00I liked this puzzle. As Melissa pointed out, there...I liked this puzzle. As Melissa pointed out, there were some really clever clues. I especially like how DAYLIGHTS was clued. Some very nifty down words, too. It took me a while to parse ENGARDE because I got so hung up on the first three letters ENG having something to do with engines or engineering.<br /><br />I don't want to start or engage in an argument, but by every definition of planet I know of, Pluto is a planet.<br /><br />Irish Miss, so sorry you fell. I hope you, and you too Owen, recover quickly and thoroughly.<br /><br />Owen, I love how you rhymed Campbelled!<br /><br />Good wishes to you all.Jaycehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15906163232315177399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-28946091354673803312019-08-14T15:33:30.907-05:002019-08-14T15:33:30.907-05:00DOCENT is from the Latin, docere: to teach (from R...DOCENT is from the Latin, docere: to teach (from Random House Webster's College Dictionary)Lucinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16278649651081244724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-36518975542690661422019-08-14T14:38:45.534-05:002019-08-14T14:38:45.534-05:00Dear Agnes -- as one invalid to another, wanna rac...Dear Agnes -- as one invalid to another, wanna race?<br /><br />OwenKLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16709695380239557575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-6447065148302753962019-08-14T14:08:48.721-05:002019-08-14T14:08:48.721-05:00Melissa ~
Oh, I get it (I think). When you wrote ...<b>Melissa</b> ~<br />Oh, I get it (I think). When you wrote that "Breaks down noisily" = SOB made you think of a car, were you thinking of a SAAB?<br />~ <b>OMK</b>Ol' Man Keith https://www.blogger.com/profile/02073553138045178596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-51907631117811334192019-08-14T14:03:05.088-05:002019-08-14T14:03:05.088-05:00Dear Agnes (Irish Miss) ~
Very sorry to learn of y...Dear <b>Agnes (Irish Miss)</b> ~<br />Very sorry to learn of your bad fall. I hope the pills can at least help with the *#@! pain & that you can get rid of both very soon. I'm sure neither can dampen your spirit. We look forward to seeing you back in the Corner very soon!<br /><br />A clever pzl today, thanks to Mr. <b>Stowe</b>! Good to see the Jumble again on this side of the URL. <br /><br />Have a good session with your dentist, <b>Misty</b>. I hope you have as good luck with yours as I did with mine!<br />~ <b>OMK<br />____________<br />Dr: </b> One diagonal today, NW to SE. <br />It offers up an anagram that refers to the condition wherein one has just about had it up to <i>here</i> with attempting sexual reproduction between similarly sized and shaped gametes. I mean of course the infamous…<br />“<b>ISOGAMY DRAIN</b>”!Ol' Man Keith https://www.blogger.com/profile/02073553138045178596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-48315333926489000232019-08-14T13:09:57.781-05:002019-08-14T13:09:57.781-05:00Hola!
First, Agnes, I'm so sorry to hear of y...Hola!<br /><br />First, Agnes, I'm so sorry to hear of your accident and hope the healing goes well.<br /><br />Owen, you sound fit as a fiddle so I hope your healing continues well, too.<br /><br />Craig Stowe, thank you for a fine word fest! BAGHDAD/ARHAT almost beat me and even after I had filled the grid I LIU to make sure of the spelling.<br /><br />Count me in the number who never saw or heard of MEG.<br /><br />I loved OJOS/OCULAR crossing.<br /><br />One of my book club friends is a DOCENT at the Frank Lloyd Wright Taliesen West museum.<br /><br />How well I recall agonizing over Faulkner's AS I LAY DYING. Just reading sentences that were a complete paragraph almost mesmerized me into a hypnotic state. And that was at least 60 years ago.<br /><br />I also liked the three Js of late night hosting. <br /><br />Thank you, Melissa, for a fine review.<br /><br />Have a fantastic day, everyone!Lucinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16278649651081244724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-34052652052137803402019-08-14T12:21:30.902-05:002019-08-14T12:21:30.902-05:00 I read museum tour guide as Muslim and wondered i... I read museum tour guide as Muslim and wondered if the DOCENT came from the Arabic.<br /><br />I had a little trouble in the SW. <br /><br />Interesting that DAILY JUMBLE would show up.<br /><br />WC<br />Wilbur Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08905123297841127198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-22347693552762081492019-08-14T12:18:17.387-05:002019-08-14T12:18:17.387-05:00The problem with 11 down is clearly alien to me. I...The problem with 11 down is clearly alien to me. I thought it was a gimme. Susan, I played cribbage with my grandmother for 30 years; it was real bonding. She went on to play UNO with the other grandchildren.<br /><br />Dillinger's girl was <b>THE WOMAN IN RED</b>. <b>THE LADY IN RED </b> told a completely different <a href="https://storyofsong.com/story/the-lady-in-red/" rel="nofollow"><b> SONG STORY </b></a>.<br /><br />I agree that all information is available online; whether correct or not. I am sorry for what happened to Agnes and what happened to her. I use a cane because I fear falling down.<br />Best wishes and prayers.Lemonade714https://www.blogger.com/profile/13642909374639570868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-63170524231304814632019-08-14T11:55:44.581-05:002019-08-14T11:55:44.581-05:00Good clean Wednesday puzzle. Got the theme right a...Good clean Wednesday puzzle. Got the theme right away. Only issue is 11 down as alien to. Alien is being strange or foreign, not incompatible. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-83404536687164120702019-08-14T11:30:45.404-05:002019-08-14T11:30:45.404-05:00Off to a dentist appointment this morning, so just...Off to a dentist appointment this morning, so just a quick thanks to Craig and Melissa for fun puzzle and commentary this morning, and thank you for the news about Irish Miss, C.C. I was happy to know ENDORA, ELLEN, AYN, and JOHNNY, and I knew it had to be POE, but had a bit of trouble in that southeast corner. Never heard of MEG, like others, and kept thinking it was California page, not Calendar page--DOH! Have a good day, everybody. <br />Mistyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17570695193695039956noreply@blogger.com