tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post4936064359769849557..comments2024-03-28T06:58:56.261-05:00Comments on L.A.Times Crossword Corner: Saturday, December 22, 2018, C.C. BurnikelZhouqin (C.C.) Burnikelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12750267554729853785noreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-19517642315869310032018-12-28T16:20:09.408-06:002018-12-28T16:20:09.408-06:00CanadianEh, CrossEyedDave, Anon at 4:35PM, Abejo a...<b>CanadianEh, CrossEyedDave, Anon at 4:35PM, Abejo and Wilbur Charles</b> thank you for taking the time to read my article(s) and for your comments!Picardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17401317669146538447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-62190345297382369872018-12-23T00:20:49.178-06:002018-12-23T00:20:49.178-06:00Owen: Hope the beauty of the trip will refresh you...Owen: Hope the beauty of the trip will refresh your spirit. I believe your poems are good therapy for you and for us, but rest also refreshes. Hang in there, man! I've been housebound lately too and it is only just bearable. When the crossword is the highlight of my day, you can bet I know at least a little how you feel. Big electronic hug!<br />PKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14570575955563406341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-9754546697594994892018-12-22T23:40:53.289-06:002018-12-22T23:40:53.289-06:00WC @ 7:04 -- "So, Sousa didn't invent his...WC @ 7:04 -- "So, Sousa didn't invent his own horn?"<br /><br />But he did invent the phrase, "He who tooteth not his own horn, neither shall it be tooted."Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13270740184766230842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-15965977082136267532018-12-22T23:27:32.747-06:002018-12-22T23:27:32.747-06:00OKL - You know we enjoy your daily muse but we don...OKL - You know we enjoy your daily muse but we don't expect you (or anyone) to be full-tilt every day. Take your time, meds, and IT EASY. Get well bro.<br /><br />D-O @1:45 - LOL G.O.D. Complex.<br /><br />HG - I have Libre on my Linux boxen. Insofar as giving you the boot - only if we're playing Monopoly :-) I enjoy your expos as well as daily musings.<br /><br />A ZAG back to puzzledome:<br />For the record - I like taTOr tots aside my Dog. [BAT SPEED, thankfully, wouldn't let it go in - and that's all I had at the time!]<br /><br />My solve: I got out of bed at 11a (I like to listen to NPR and drift in and out of sleep on Sat) to get ready to go to the mall and, as a "volunteer," wrap packages at noon. Grabbed the paper and coffee and started in while waiting for DW to get ready. I only got 1a: Angora(?) - perp check gave me CAmp which made ALPACA go in. Aha! Plastic_ (oops - good thing I counted before inking...) PAPER -A- (sac or BAG?)...; TUBAS -> BAG! b/f leaving the house.<br /><br />But I had time, in between wrapping packages, to noodle clues ('green span' a 'span of green', an era, wad of cash (nope too many letters), etc). Still took the L to aha! on LEA. That was essentially the hack-n-slash I did all the way through. <br /><br />How I ever thought TRENT... I had --EN- and thought T could follow an L (from OPEL) aaaaand TRENT just pop'd into my head(?!?) letting me see TALON, the N let NIGER ink. Ahh, Puzzles.<br /><br />Anyway, it was a fun romp that kept my little grey cells engaged whilst I wrapped gifts*... Thanks C.C.!<br /><br />Oh, I almost forgot: <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPqPAKqzx7M" rel="nofollow">NORM!</a></b> [3:09]<br /><br />Cheers, -T<br />*I'll tell you - last Sunday we (6 folk) pulled in ~$680 over 6 hours. I'd bet this afternoon we hit >$1,500 easy. 9 of us were wrappin' fools for a solid 4.5hrs (before relieved by 2nd-shift). This week of wrapping for donations is how the girls pay for their travel during competition season --It's the biggest fundraiser they do all year.Anonymous Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00459563526290288425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-58992055871913502612018-12-22T22:23:41.597-06:002018-12-22T22:23:41.597-06:00Owen ~
I am on your case about taking time off for...<b>Owen</b> ~<br />I am on your case about taking time off for your personal health & comfort. <br />Thank you for all you give us! You have contributed so much to both this Corner and the Jumble site. You provide us with daily poetry, a minimum of two poems, often more, of multiple stanzas, at serious length. <br />I am not alone in asking you to consider taking one or two days off each week. <br />Of course, I'm not suggesting you stay off the blogs, only that you needn't feel an obligation to entertain us seven days at a stretch.<br />Health first, good friend! <br />~ <b>OMK</b>Ol' Man Keith https://www.blogger.com/profile/02073553138045178596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-58236523981872505212018-12-22T22:22:15.694-06:002018-12-22T22:22:15.694-06:00OwenKL:
Please take comfort in the fact that we he...OwenKL:<br />Please take comfort in the fact that we here (I'm sure most) at the Corner admire you, your poetry, all the stress and health problems you have dealt with and wish the best for you. You inspire me, for one, with your customary poem at the beginning of our session. And more than once you have helped me find the solution to the Jumble with your poems.<br /><br />I shall keep you in my prayers.Lucinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16278649651081244724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-45083997606471669072018-12-22T20:55:01.724-06:002018-12-22T20:55:01.724-06:00Owen, I hear ya!!! I’ve been there. Hang in th...Owen, I hear ya!!! I’ve been there. Hang in there. You’ll survive.... even if it seems impossible now! We care about you! <br />SwampCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06893584705424353444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-92173620192365224722018-12-22T20:43:04.706-06:002018-12-22T20:43:04.706-06:00Puzzle stumped me at about 50% last night, but a s...Puzzle stumped me at about 50% last night, but a second crack at it this afternoon FIRight.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/owenkl/posts/10156197555278214" rel="nofollow">Extremely boring account of why I didn't poemize today.</a> My original failure with this puzzle did not help.OwenKLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16709695380239557575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-7633690957549356752018-12-22T20:29:11.004-06:002018-12-22T20:29:11.004-06:00WC: Sousa was probably too busy writing superb sti...WC: Sousa was probably too busy writing superb stirring marches and rehearsing his band to build a horn. By the way, as a teenager at summer band camp I had the enjoyable privilege of playing in a French horn choir directed by a man who had played French horn in Sousa's last band. The sound was incredible. I wrote a note of thanks to the director after camp was over and he wrote back the nicest letter, saying I sent the first thank you note he ever received. He sent me a signed picture which I hung on my wall. I have been trying to remember the man's name for days.PKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14570575955563406341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-90265989200317817422018-12-22T19:21:21.121-06:002018-12-22T19:21:21.121-06:00If anything is "pesky," it's that du...If anything is "pesky," it's that durn CARR fire (istead of CAMP). I still think PESOLES is an excellent way to fix a pump.<br /><br />Just a note of appreciation for <b>C.C.</b>. I have been on the lookout for over a year for a pzl with a diagonal message, either NW to SE or the reverse. So far, it has been a mission with elusive results, yielding only some interesting (to me) anagrams, but no message "in the clear." <br />Well, our <b>C.C.</b> found one, and she took the time and trouble to email it to me--off the Corner, as it were.<br /><b>C.C.</b>: A big <i>THANK YOU</i> for your kindness and consideration! <br /><br />~ <b>OMK</b>Ol' Man Keith https://www.blogger.com/profile/02073553138045178596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-45035617813749794322018-12-22T19:04:12.017-06:002018-12-22T19:04:12.017-06:00I tried to RESEAL that pump. And GRATED for Wore t... I tried to RESEAL that pump. And GRATED for Wore thin. And AS A RULE < USUALLY. <br />I tried to talk my friend into milk with his coffee instead of ND creamer and sweet-n-low. He went with the cream but insisted on fake sugar<br /><br />I thought the Cuban was CHE. <br /><br />When I saw CC's moniker I said to self "Ok, where's the baseball!". Later I thought of Picard who hates Sports questions and lo and behold CC throws him a "Sports" Physics question. <br /><br />So, Sousa didn't invent his own horn?<br /><br />Abejo, you actually found Friday more difficult than today? I agree with IM on difficulty. Btw, the Dr didn't exactly say "benign" just non-aggressive. <br /><br />Picard, I read your article. How in the world did Car mfg'ers get away with using the car horn as a lock acknowledgement??? <br /><br />Here's something that I'd add: Do not change to the right lane when cars are waiting to turn right . There's all too much lane changing going on. <br /><br />Also. I've decided that 80mph in a 70 is plenty fast for the Left lane and I'll only move out if there's a long stretch. <br /><br />WCWilbur Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08905123297841127198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-69460975628476602852018-12-22T18:06:24.601-06:002018-12-22T18:06:24.601-06:00Hi all!
5 hours while wrapping at the mall + anot...Hi all!<br /><br />5 hours while wrapping at the mall + another hour of hard-noodling to end with ITALIa being my one bad square?!? [Hi D-O & BigE!]. So close to a Saturday win.<br /><br />Thanks C.C. for the fine puzzle to contemplate in between wrapping packages for the dance team. Thanks HG for the sparkly expo (T.E.D. Talk later!).<br /><br />WOs: Oh, so many false starts - I thought it was Bubble TEA but that didn't fit. Pumps to move fluid not people (don't be sexist :-)), BUGGY b/f BETAS. Hand-up: CAmp Fire.<br /><br />SW corner was my 1st win, NE last.<br />We won't bother w/ ESPs again... Too many.<br /><br /><b>Fav</b>: Clue for LEA; I kept reading <b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-21/post-gaming-the-fed-decision-with-alan-greenspan" rel="nofollow">Alan </a></b> into it.<br /><br />I've only ready everyone though 9:27a but folks here want dinner. Read all and play later!<br /><br />Cheers, -TAnonymous Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00459563526290288425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-82410599012847257582018-12-22T17:25:47.259-06:002018-12-22T17:25:47.259-06:00Good afternoon, folks. Thank you, C.C., for fine ...Good afternoon, folks. Thank you, C.C., for fine puzzle. Thank you, Husker Gary, for a fine review.<br /><br />Tuba Christmas was today in Chicago, at the Palmer House. I elected to not go this year. My knee problems was what prompted my thinking. I have gone several times and it is a fun event. We get 200-300 horns in that event in Chicago. They always have a guest conductor, usually someone sort of famous. You had a nice article Picard.<br /><br />The puzzle started pretty good, but then bogged down for a while. Got it done, but it took me quite a while.<br /><br />A TUBA and a SOUSAPHONE are identical instruments as far as the sound. Of course they look different. One is for marching and the other for sitting. However, you can march with a Tuba. There are straps that will support it. And you can sit with a Sousaphone and play. I have one of each. I am playing Christmas Eve at church with three others. Two trumpets and a saxophone.<br /><br />My clue for 28D looked like Came_________. I only realized is was Carne___________ when I came here. Such is life.<br /><br />Tried FRENCH FRIES for 16D. Fit perfectly, except nothing worked crossing it. POTATO SALAD won that battle.<br /><br />BARBED was easy for 36D. And, yes, I have stuck myself with a fish hook a couple times. The trick is you are supposed to push it through the skin past the barb, cut it off and then pull it back out. Well, I never got it that deep that I had to do that. Maybe next time.<br /><br />I had MAI for 39A. FRENCH FRIES made me erase that. Then POTATO SALAD caused me to put MAI back in. Such is the life of a puzzler.<br /><br />Anyhow, I am off for now. Could not finish Friday's puzzle. Too difficult for me.<br /><br />See you tomorrow.<br /><br />Abejo<br /><br />( )<br /><br />Abejohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10318111258011554517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-68330273249698531812018-12-22T16:36:30.430-06:002018-12-22T16:36:30.430-06:00I could not finish this puzzle without looking up ...I could not finish this puzzle without looking up (1) the band who played Sweet Home Alabama and (2) the title of Elmore Leonard's novel. Then I had to turn red letters on the find out AS A RULE, AUDI, MILK TEA, and a few other places were just plain wrong. (I should have known milk tea was wrong because "milk" was in the clue.) Very difficult. I sure did like "Green span" and the clues for RESOLES, AROSE, and ESCAPE. Hand up for thinking of the CAMP fire at first. NORM makes me think of "Cheers."<br /><br />Good wishes to you all.Jaycehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15906163232315177399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-58952081873837325542018-12-22T16:35:08.845-06:002018-12-22T16:35:08.845-06:00Another very difficult, but great Saturday by CC, ...Another very difficult, but great Saturday by CC, and a fine Husker writeup. By the way, I’ll take that CSO along with Abejo for TUBAS.<br />Also by the way, a Sousaphone IS a tuba, just a different shape.<br /><br />And billocohoes @0929 had it partially right - as the movie depicted, one of Sousa’s tuba players suggested turning the bell forward. The already existing Sousaphone, which had an upturned bell, thus was dubbed “the raincatcher”, had been an improvement on the helicon, which was a similar shape to facilitate carrying on foot or horseback but had a much smaller bell and consequent thinner sound.<br /><br />Spitzboov @0928 Thanks for one of my favorite marches, “Alten Kameraden”, by a pretty good, very enthusiastic brass quintet of young women. Farther down on the same page you can hear an early Canadian Brass recording of Bach’s “Toccota & Fugue in D Minor”, which showcases some truly magnificent tuba (and trumpet, horn and trombone) playing.<br /><br />Picard @1017 Thanks for the brass Christmas. TubaChristmas includes only tubas and euphoniums (a small tuba). The name is trademarked by the Harvey Phillips Foundation. He was a great tuba player who started it many years ago in honor of his mentor William Bell. Groups have to pay something and register to use the name. They get standardized arrangements for tuba and euphonium only, and hats and scarves and buttons with Tuba Christmas on them. They are mostly organized by the tuba studio instructors at colleges and universities, and include all interested players of the two instruments in the area. Every year the TV network morning shows play a few seconds of the NYC Tuba Christmas, which occurs at Rockefeller Center. They usually have a couple of hundred participants. We used to get around 40-50 in Tucson. A friend forwarded me a link to a Huffington Post article about the one in Kansas City, where they apparently set a world record with 835!<br /><br />Big Easy @0927 ORGANIC means grown without industrial chemicals - in the soil or sprayed on the plants to control insects or weeds. Buying organic produce is a very small thing that millions of individuals can do to protect their own health and contribute to the effort to save this planet from being poisoned.<br /><br />Picard posted his article about the DOOR ZONE here recently. <br /><br />We’ve also had a discuaaion, fairly recently, about BOBA TEA, but I thought it was bubble tea. <br /><br />I drowned my laptop, am using wife’s, ao I’m not really Anonymous.<br />Mike SherlineAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-46785596406755402982018-12-22T15:52:46.097-06:002018-12-22T15:52:46.097-06:00Gary:
I use Libre to compose, write, create labels...Gary:<br />I use Libre to compose, write, create labels, etc.Lucinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16278649651081244724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-89017834316408208322018-12-22T14:42:37.933-06:002018-12-22T14:42:37.933-06:00Thx oas, fixes a shoe. Duh.
So.. CC, eh. Doable.... Thx oas, fixes a shoe. Duh. <br /><br />So.. CC, eh. Doable. Huh? After it's done, uh huh. I'm shocked I tell ya, shocked that I pulled a FIR. I pulled every trick: sips of regular coffee, peaks at the J.. I was trying to come up with the word: sauerkraut and since my new solve loc is Winn Dixie I thought I'd saunter over to the condiment aisle. Then SALAD perped but it took awhile to peel the POTATO. <br /><br />Btw, not a good P&I xword. Esp in the SE<br /><br />Gotta post church at 4<br /><br />WCWilbur Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08905123297841127198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-81940908680860035142018-12-22T14:35:25.513-06:002018-12-22T14:35:25.513-06:00Hi Y'all! For the first time ever, I started t...Hi Y'all! For the first time ever, I started the puzzle at midnight, read all the acrosses & downs for the top tier. No fill at all. Decided I was too sleepy. Shut off the computer and went to bed. Slept until nearly noon. See? I was too sleepy. Couldn't be that hard? Oh yes, it was! How does C.C., our Chinese puzzle master know this stuff when we, who have spoken English all our lives, don't know it? All I can figure out is: having to learn a new language makes her hyper-alert to everything. Her brain must be a super soak-up sponge with all synapses firing a/k/a SMART.<br /><br />Gary: Congratulations on one very fine year of blogging. Keep 'em coming! Wonder what Splynter has done all this time.<br /><br />Hand up for CAmp before CARR & AngorA before ALPACA.<br /><br />Right before coming to do the puzzle, I read a "friend's" posting of a recipe for Bubble Tea. Had to laugh at that. If you slur BuBble like you are a little drunk, BOBA kinda sounds like it. When most of BuBble turned red, I immediately WAGd BOBA. Yay, me!<br /><br /><br />PKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14570575955563406341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-9393193043151785922018-12-22T14:12:49.562-06:002018-12-22T14:12:49.562-06:00This was a doable Saturday for me - good thing- wi...This was a doable Saturday for me - good thing- with not much time on this pre-Christmas weekend!<br /><br />California has had so many major fires in the past year or two: the most recent Camp fire in Paradise, California, last summer's CARR fire in the Redding/ Mt Shasta area and the Tubbs fire in the Santa Rosa/Napa/Sonoma area!<br /><br />WEES about CHIPS before SALAD as the hot dog's POTATO side!<br />Thanks GARY - really enjoy your write-ups each week! And thanks CC for a fun Saturday solve!inanehikernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-80230717026971804442018-12-22T13:45:52.498-06:002018-12-22T13:45:52.498-06:00"Geriatric Ocular Disorder" -- is that a..."Geriatric Ocular Disorder" -- is that a GOD complex?desper-ottohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17242581085713882677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-79594341502250777182018-12-22T13:37:28.437-06:002018-12-22T13:37:28.437-06:00Ayee, what a slog! And I'm doing this volunta...Ayee, what a slog! And I'm doing this voluntarily? <br /><br />I see that I'm in good company with Geriatric Ocular Disorder ... 'carne' instead of 'came' wasn't clear at all.Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13270740184766230842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-28470297953840970412018-12-22T13:29:02.469-06:002018-12-22T13:29:02.469-06:00Just noting the Carr and Camp fires were separate ...Just noting the Carr and Camp fires were separate incidents in different parts of northern California.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-2576097307740726562018-12-22T13:13:29.560-06:002018-12-22T13:13:29.560-06:00In an unrelated 18a,
If you used this Tesla one w...In an unrelated 18a,<br /><br />If you used this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYlP5TEKf2w" rel="nofollow">Tesla one way valve with no moving parts</a> you would never have to fix the stupid pump...<br />(on the shoe end, I can only recommend superglue...)CrossEyedDavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09745913007262424048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-78673262935686857242018-12-22T13:06:15.066-06:002018-12-22T13:06:15.066-06:00HG, it's been a year already? No! It can't...HG, it's been a year already? No! It can't be...<br /><br />Picard, I found the EE Tech stuff fascinating,<br />but will have to reread it a couple of times to fully comprehend.<br />(In the back of my mind, I am still looking for another use for a multivibrator...)<br /><br />Conversation heard in my house this morning:<br /><br />Daughter#2, Where you going?<br />Me, down the basement to use the computer...<br />Daughter#2 Why?<br />Me, I have to do todays Crossword, even in red letters,<br />because it was constructed by our fearless leader...<br />CrossEyedDavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09745913007262424048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-48227699895574784282018-12-22T13:04:20.172-06:002018-12-22T13:04:20.172-06:00Gary, I forgot to mention my admiration for Addie!...Gary, I forgot to mention my admiration for Addie! <br /><br />My ALPACA scarf from Peru, clearly marked as such, itches. I wore it once and could not bear it so whoever thought it was hypoallergenic likely never experienced it.<br /><br />NIGER. Learning moment for me that it contains so much uranium. Doctors without Borders sent me a lovely world map with updated African countries. I checked it and noted all the five letter ones and since I already had the final r, picked NIGER. If I ever knew it, I don't recall. It's sad how much I've forgotten Lucinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16278649651081244724noreply@blogger.com