tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post6202620488356870082..comments2024-03-29T03:51:31.793-05:00Comments on L.A.Times Crossword Corner: Saturday, August 10, 2019, Evan KalishZhouqin (C.C.) Burnikelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12750267554729853785noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-47843870086502519832019-08-18T16:57:40.770-05:002019-08-18T16:57:40.770-05:00RetFizz,
Comments on blog posts over two days ol...RetFizz, <br /><br />Comments on blog posts over two days old get sent to moderation. We had too many spam comments getting posted to older blog posts. They will be reviewed when C.C. or I see them in the moderation folder. If not spam, we usually post them.<br /><br /><br /><br />TTPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03978803962510303498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-82778993145859563722019-08-18T11:33:12.548-05:002019-08-18T11:33:12.548-05:00My post above was made w/o a full understanding of...My post above was made w/o a full understanding of your new policy. My name is RetFizz and my email is retfizz46@gmail.com. Please don't make me an Anonymous! Please!<br /><br />Have mercy. After filling out the data below for my Google account, I couldn't click in the I'm not a robot box, and when I tried again I was asked to pick all the images with CARS. My eyesight isn't so great at my age, so maybe I missed one. My email for comments is herbroyd@aol.com. Mercy! Mercy!<br />RetFizzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08492328517293770112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-90208903358393577562019-08-18T10:36:12.195-05:002019-08-18T10:36:12.195-05:00Well, I'm now only a week behind, I thought it...Well, I'm now only a week behind, I thought it might be OK to post, but still doubt if anyone will read it.<br />This was a tough puzzle for me because of so many LUs. WEES about TALKED TRASH instead of ...what was it again? Also, the middle took longer not only because of TRASH/SMACK but also because it took me so long to break down and put in NUCLEAR WINTER because the clue was wrong. Nuclear winters would be apocalyptic, all right, but have nothing to do with global climate change (also apocalyptic, of course).<br />Whoever commented about the lateness of the first post reminded me that I haven't seen usually-first Fermat Prime for ages. I hope she's OK, and that her absence is due to my inability to keep up with reading the blogs.<br />Many thanks to Evan for a fine, mostly tough (for me, anyway) and to HG for his usual plethora of illustrations.<br />Couldn't find Woodland Hills in the PO list for CA. It's a large suburb of LA, and in fact is part of the city of LA, like many other LA "suburbs."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-37706875136910862302019-08-10T21:21:02.331-05:002019-08-10T21:21:02.331-05:00Oc4, fortunately I was heading that way to try the... Oc4, fortunately I was heading that way to try the new Culver's for which my friend raved about the BURGER. I'd rate the cod sandwich a B or on the Owen scale a C+.<br /><br />Ironically, the famous icecream barely got a C-<br /><br />Sam's actually broke the mythical $2.20 barrier. Diesel and regular only have a rough correlation; the former not getting any respect but plenty of excuses.<br /><br />I would compare gas pricing with a basketball game where two of the refs and several players on both sides are shaving points. The delivery price to the station is immaterial; whatever the "Master Cylinder"* says , that's the price <br /><br />WC<br /><br />*Old enemy of Rocky and Bullwinkle or similar Saturday character.<br /><br />Just LIU, it was Poindexter (and Felix the Cat)Wilbur Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08905123297841127198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-62281222171792233072019-08-10T20:10:43.408-05:002019-08-10T20:10:43.408-05:00
WC: I find that using the GASBUDDY app on my IPho...<br />WC: I find that using the GASBUDDY app on my IPhone gives me the current gas prices at all of the local gas stations before I head out to get gas. Another good one is GAS GURU. They both work on Android phones also. I think there are others that work just as well. Saves me an unfruitful trip. <br /><br /><br />oc4beachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06568497002517859531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-6500033625993960602019-08-10T18:53:03.414-05:002019-08-10T18:53:03.414-05:00Jayce, it is also good to keep a drive image made ...Jayce, it is also good to keep a drive image made with disk cloning software. With the cloned image you don't have to reinstall application software (or for that matter, Windows). Just load up your new drive (hopefully an SSD) and swap out the drives. Won't work to upgrade to a new PC, just to recover from a bad drive on your existing machine.Jinx in Norfolkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05891694970152198474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-47070119947975098782019-08-10T18:44:47.280-05:002019-08-10T18:44:47.280-05:00Hi Y'all! Great puzzle, Evan. Great expo, Gary...Hi Y'all! Great puzzle, Evan. Great expo, Gary.<br /><br />WEES. I filled it, but needed more than usual red-letter runs to get some toe-hold on vague clues.<br /><br />USPS isn't very popular with me these days. I paid my bills this past week and put the letters out for the postal carrier to take. Three days junk mail appeared in my box but the 6 envelopes clipped to the front remained. I saw the back of a very large uniformed person down the block climb into the mail truck. Not my usual tiny female carrier who is super. Not wanting to incur late fees on my utility bills, I finally unhooked my car from the battery charger and drove to a mailbox and the bank. (First time I have driven since early March.) The next day I happened to see my substitute mail carrier: female, very tall, very obese, staggering down the street in the heat with a very red face. I was alarmed that she was going to keel over, so watched until she was safely back in her truck. While I applaud her effort, she was not doing the needed job and endangered her health. The next day, my tiny mail lady was back. She looks too small to carry the big bag, but is very efficient and congenial. Don't men apply for this job anymore?PKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14570575955563406341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-45092550921440382632019-08-10T17:16:45.341-05:002019-08-10T17:16:45.341-05:00I enjoyed yesterday's and today's puzzles....I enjoyed yesterday's and today's puzzles. No opportunity to comment yesterday but I read all of your comments. <br /><br />Based on my very recent personal experience I am going to harangue all of you Windows 10 users to <b>make regular backups!</b> I thank my lucky stars I did, otherwise years of my work would be lost forever. Also, please regularly make what are called a "recovery drive" and a "rescue disc." You'll need an external USB hard drive for the former and writeable DVD discs for the latter. I was darn sorry I hadn't kept mine up to date, so they were almost worthless when good ole Windows got irrecoverable dementia several days ago. The upside is that I now have a lovely Solid State Drive and a completely "clean" new installation of Windows that I bought and for which I was very willing to shell out less than $140. Another upside is that I am slowly realizing I can, and will, do without a lot of the junk apps that I had before. It's like throwing away a lot of junk when you move.<br /><br />Also, keep a list of your passwords somewhere, and keep it up to date. My lucky stars saved me again because I had a list stashed in my sock drawer. I was surprised how many passwords there were. Again, though, I will probably never again need most of them, but man oh man what a pain it would have been not to have a list of those I frequently use. For example, the one needed to sign in here.<br /><br />See y'all tomorrow. Good wishes to you.Jaycehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15906163232315177399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-34108127226621978752019-08-10T16:09:33.565-05:002019-08-10T16:09:33.565-05:00A worthy Saturday Jawbreaker.
As a solver, I rat...A worthy Saturday Jawbreaker. <br /><br />As a solver, I rate myself as pretty good. But then along comes a pzl like this from Mr. <b>Kalish</b> and --Boom!--I am blown out of the water. This is the type of challenge that tells me I'll be spending way too much time doing Xwds if I can ever beat it (thank you very much).<br /><br />All respect to those who <i>can</i> finish a tough Saturday job; they're just beyond me.<br /><br /><b>Jinx in Norfolk</b> (once more FLN) ~<br />From Tom Joad (movie 1943, book 1939): “Good, rich land layin’ fallow… One guy with a million acres, and 100,000 farmers starvin’…”<br />Sound familiar?<br />~ <b>OMK<br />____________<br />DR: </b> One diagonal on each side.<br />On the near end, the diagonal's anagram would seem to be an updating of Tom Joad's opinion of the million-acre one-percenters. They're just...<br />"<b>BAD SCUMBAGS</b>"!Ol' Man Keith https://www.blogger.com/profile/02073553138045178596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-23672273155540023322019-08-10T16:09:18.079-05:002019-08-10T16:09:18.079-05:00PP, it doesn't measure anything. It is a parl...PP, it doesn't measure anything. It is a parlor game, nothing more.Jinx in Norfolkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05891694970152198474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-84647341028889116152019-08-10T14:34:29.148-05:002019-08-10T14:34:29.148-05:00FIW, missing my WAG bOLa x bALI x BaNES. Don'...FIW, missing my WAG bOLa x bALI x BaNES. Don't normally attempt Saturday puzzles, but yesterday's grid left such a bad taste that I decided to give it a try. I'm glad I did, and even though I got beat I had a swell time.<br /><br />Adam Ruins Everything skewered the Myers Briggs test. The two ladies are great marketeers, but the product is rubbish. Aside to Abejo - When my DW and her gal pals used to give this test to everyone who would sit for it, I told them I already knew what I was - a TJSF! My No. 2 EAX buddies got a kick out of that, but uninitiated folks just gave me a blank stare.<br /><br />I wonder if DEALER plates signify something something different in Colorado.<br /><br />Thanks to Evan for the fun and easy-ish Saturday challenge. Had I not been the only person who hasn't watched <i>Seinfeld</i> I think I would have gotten the whole shebang. And thanks to HG for yet another fine review.Jinx in Norfolkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05891694970152198474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-89113619627015723882019-08-10T13:35:12.251-05:002019-08-10T13:35:12.251-05:00
I just looked up the Post Office in the town wher...<br />I just looked up the Post Office in the town where I grew up, East Haven, CT. NADA. <br /><br />I also just took the personality test. Tried to answer truthfully...the results include recommended careers....the top one suggested was Computer Engineering and similar.....which is what I did for 36 odd years. Not bad. AnonymousPVXhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10078186298428497941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-70684669418284909372019-08-10T13:22:17.184-05:002019-08-10T13:22:17.184-05:00I just erased my Friday comments. Not much since ... I just erased my Friday comments. Not much since PK knew the GASOLs and my mention of Tony OLIVA's 1-5 in the penultimate game of the 1967 Pennant Race was TMI for Boomer.<br /><br />Speaking of.. Nice delivery there.<br /><br />Re. Gary's comment: I guess for Aaron, Alex was a BURr in his side. I had TRASH which greatly slowed me down until I grok'ed TELL ME ABOUT IT. Thus FUN became REC. Those leagues quickly become NO FUN as a former umpire/REF can attest.<br /><br />My mother laughed uproariously at unca Miltie. He was King for the first decade of TV<br /><br />Re. Gas.. As I was telling Picard, the Senate sustaining the Trump veto on Saudi arms is the predictable key to gas plummeting. Diesel following a little slower. Sam's ticked me off when I drove the 8 miles to find the Wawa I passed had the same price.<br /><br />I liked Gary's links and style of the write-up. FIR on a very doable Saturday. The NE held me until GOES LAST Popped.<br /><br />WC<br /><br />Wilbur Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08905123297841127198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-52950494766099430722019-08-10T13:05:17.294-05:002019-08-10T13:05:17.294-05:00Tossed the dead tree version to do the puzzle at t...Tossed the dead tree version to do the puzzle at the Mensa site,<br />but now it doesn't work at all for me. I used to get an option<br />to enable flash, but now nothing...<br /><br />Reading the Blog having not done the puzzle<br />is no fun...<br /><br />The inkblot test link just added insult to injury...<br /><br />I think I will just go outside and enjoy the sunshine,<br />but I bet a bird will shit on me...<br /><br />Meh!<br /><br />CrossEyedDavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09745913007262424048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-63363482438723354542019-08-10T12:59:35.009-05:002019-08-10T12:59:35.009-05:00
This Saturday puzzle was appropriately tough.
O...<br />This Saturday puzzle was appropriately tough. <br /><br />Okay, let’s start a TALKED TRASH club, lots of members today. I wonder if it’s a generational thing, Talked Trash vs Smack?<br /><br />Got the solve, but not without <br /><br />Markovers.....ABS/BOD, TALKEDTRASH/TALKEDSMACK. <br /><br />A Prop Bet...for instance, during the Super Bowl, you may have a bet on the game. A Prop bet would be betting on the next play being a first down or something similar. <br /><br />Enjoy the weekend, see you Monday. AnonymousPVXhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10078186298428497941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-48514520474733426242019-08-10T12:31:15.092-05:002019-08-10T12:31:15.092-05:00Hola!
I see I'm in good company with my write...Hola!<br /><br />I see I'm in good company with my write overs! WEES. I've also never heard of BRIGGS but knew RORSHACH TEST with a few spelling iterations. FOLLY and BERLE finally yielded the right combination.<br /><br />I got BET but didn't know prop BET.<br /><br />Issa RAE is new to me so LIU. ROSY gave way to RASH.<br /><br />NL EAST is unknown, too, so LIU as well.<br /><br />Whew! My eraser worked double time today but it was a satisfying solve. Thank you, Evan Kalish! What an interesting hobby you have and I have yet to peruse the photo gallery. Phoenix has some interesting architecture on the older POS.<br /><br />Thank you, Gary! As has been noted, you provide us with some colorful details and illustrations to give depth to our solve.<br /><br />Boomer, happy Bowling Day!<br /><br />Have a super Saturday, everyone! Book club meeting today.Lucinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16278649651081244724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-49936082983703404962019-08-10T11:52:14.144-05:002019-08-10T11:52:14.144-05:00Fun puzzle. Had the same hits and misses most of y...Fun puzzle. Had the same hits and misses most of you had. Rec league was new to me.<br />CartBoy, yes the temperature down but the humidity is high the dew point this morning is 70,you will probably get rain, we will get a dust storm. Next week we will be back to 114!Yumanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03652134683862744042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-67908020056521621952019-08-10T11:15:54.903-05:002019-08-10T11:15:54.903-05:00Good Morning:
It took me longer to read HG's ...Good Morning:<br /><br />It took me longer to read HG's commentary and check out the links than it did to solve the puzzle. Both tasks were equally enjoyable and informative. My unknowns were Briggs and Benes. I know Elaine from short clips of Seinfeld, but didn't know her last name. Briggs was a total unknown. I did take the test, though, and discovered that I'm The Defender: Protective, Warm, and Caring. I'll settle for those traits. I, too, Talked Trash before Smack and conflated the Tutsis and Hutus by fillin in Tutus. I also mixed up Aden for Oman, Led for Fed, and Cola before Soda. My favorite C/A was What an anchor does=Goes last.<br /><br />Thanks, Evan, on a just-right Saturday challenge. I'm impressed with the depth and breadth of your very unusual hobby. Continued good shooting! Gary, you are a blogger extraordinaire. I feel so much smarter after reading your diverse tidbits and the many detailed and in depth facts and figures in your summaries. I particularly enjoyed the clip of Boomer's outstanding achievement of 20 perfect games! Happy National Bowling Day, Boomer. <br /><br />Have a great day.<br /><br />Irish Misshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12527047622731333304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-35499085825676789482019-08-10T10:09:10.261-05:002019-08-10T10:09:10.261-05:00Finished Evan's puzzle in about 30 minutes. HG...<br />Finished Evan's puzzle in about 30 minutes. HG's write-up explained a lot of my perp fill ins.<br /><br />I knew RORSCHACH and MEYERS-BRIGGS from courses that I took years ago. Most everything else fell into place with Perps. My biggest sticking point was the crossing of AURAE and REF. I had an S at the end of AURAs, so I couldn't figure out what a RsF was. Finally the light bulb lit up and I stuck in the E. <br /><br />I checked out a few of Evan's Post Office pictures and found that he still has a few to go in Pennsylvania where there are a number of small village and hamlet POs that only have mail boxes and no delivery service. Places like Hawk Run, Pleasant Gap (closed in the last few years), and Morrisdale. Wellsboro, PA (actually a town with over 3200 people) and Philipsburg, PA are two of the larger towns not included in Evan's database yet.<br /><br />Nice day here, hope it's nice where you are.<br /><br />oc4beachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06568497002517859531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-86543631127674312432019-08-10T09:27:31.940-05:002019-08-10T09:27:31.940-05:00Good Saturday puzzle that most will like. I had to...Good Saturday puzzle that most will like. I had to red letter one cell because i couldn't spell rorschacH, and didn't know the answer going down for Many Rwandans ?utus.... so a DNF for me. Ive ridden about 75 mi. this week but the last 2 days have played golf with my 20 year-old. It's beautiful here today, so I think it'll be golf again today.<br />Enjoy your weekend!JJMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10160962871151825507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-90161085725712138502019-08-10T09:23:12.351-05:002019-08-10T09:23:12.351-05:00Good morning !
Well, I woke up in the middle of t...Good morning !<br /><br />Well, I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't get back to sleep, so I solved it then. Not so easy for me today, at 47 minutes and change. But still fun.<br /><br />I looked up a bunch of Post Office pics in the PMCC online tool in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas. Got hits that brought back memories of 5 for 5 in Ohio, 1 for 5 PA, and 4 for 5 in Texas. But granted, I was cherry picking very small towns in Western PA just to see if there were pics of them.<br /><br />Busy day. Gotta run. Thanks HG, and Thanks Evan ! Fun stuff all around.<br /><br />TTPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03978803962510303498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-87530613883159227952019-08-10T08:19:49.366-05:002019-08-10T08:19:49.366-05:00Fun puzzle, but one of the easier Saturdays in a w...Fun puzzle, but one of the easier Saturdays in a while IMO. Got the top and bottom pretty quickly, struggled a bit with the long middle answers. Also had TRASHTALKED, then TALKEDTRASH, before getting that figured out.<br /><br />It’s been a great summer in VT, but high only in the 60’s today. I’m in a golf tournament, with a bad back, so a nice warm day would be preferable.jfromvthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16864768391894999950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-90362333395972414562019-08-10T08:15:58.941-05:002019-08-10T08:15:58.941-05:00Good morning everyone.
Fine intro as always, HG. ...Good morning everyone.<br /><br />Fine intro as always, HG. <br /><br />Eventually cobbled it together without aid. A little more white-out than I would have liked, but guesses were touchy. Had …trash before …SMACK. Thinking about a ship's anchor, I had 'hold fast' before perps firmed up and I saw we were talking about a sporting event and so GOES LAST made sense. Also had 'biome' before BIOTA.<br />GAS is really cheap now. The GAS supply rate on my last couple bills was lower than the futures contracts at Henry Hub, LA. Since more electricity is being generated with GAS, it seems to be helping with that spot rate, too.<br /><br />Spitzboovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04448007368332133086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-88753342708375908752019-08-10T07:41:38.324-05:002019-08-10T07:41:38.324-05:00HG, the last LOG CABIN president was JAMES Garfiel...HG, the last LOG CABIN president was JAMES Garfield. John Garfield was a 1940s actor.<br /><br />Had kiwi before RHEA, glad to know they are relatedbillocohoesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-5587780623460868542019-08-10T07:29:14.659-05:002019-08-10T07:29:14.659-05:00It's Saturday and it must be test day- RORSCHA...It's Saturday and it must be test day- RORSCHACH and BRIGGS (unknown). I passed with only BRIGGS, BENES, BET and RAE as the only perp-filled unknowns. Fast fill for a Saturday.<br /><br />A prop BET is a term I've never heard of but I'm not a gambler.<br />NL EAST- knew it was Miami, but didn't know if they were AL or NL<br />GOLDA & GATOR- gimmes<br />Changed TALKED TRASH to SMACK<br /><br />EVENT- no 15 minute weddings in NOLA. The Catholic ceremonies at a church take forever. Then everybody drives to a reception hall, usually half way across town, then everybody waits (seemingly forever) while photos are taken with every possible relative, and finally the newlyweds appear. Sometimes the bar is already open and food is passed around by waiters; sometimes you have to wait until the bride & groom appear before the band starts and you can get anything to eat and drink.<br />Big Easynoreply@blogger.com