tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post6832292497707508409..comments2024-03-29T02:07:08.222-05:00Comments on L.A.Times Crossword Corner: Monday June 11, 2018 Matt McKinleyZhouqin (C.C.) Burnikelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12750267554729853785noreply@blogger.comBlogger60125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-80714924969899447782018-06-12T12:07:20.395-05:002018-06-12T12:07:20.395-05:00And finally, FLN, thx T and Moe for unhashing the ...And finally, FLN, thx T and Moe for unhashing the Ku. I knew it was clever but my brains on strike .<br /><br />WCWilbur Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08905123297841127198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-26109187098183276842018-06-12T12:03:11.886-05:002018-06-12T12:03:11.886-05:00The above was fln re. My attempt to link. Thx to T...The above was fln re. My attempt to link. Thx to T's advice. I'm still reading all the late posts . I guess the _J was a little stiffer today if my measuring is right. But I'm just a poor son of a Bostonian .<br /><br />WCWilbur Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08905123297841127198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-75008432069157535532018-06-12T11:56:41.280-05:002018-06-12T11:56:41.280-05:00Chickens <a href="https://youtu.be/97DKYE4ezm8" rel="nofollow">Chickens</a>Wilbur Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08905123297841127198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-55047897439999830162018-06-11T23:56:23.334-05:002018-06-11T23:56:23.334-05:00Mike Sherline at 11:17 PM
- - Anon T wrote "...<b>Mike Sherline</b> at 11:17 PM<br /> - - Anon T wrote "#Sweet." Like you, I am ignorant. I suspect that # activates apps on a smart phone somehow, but why is it called the cumbersome label of hash tag?<br /><br /> - - No news is no news. I pray that you are able to handle the vog when it comes.<br /><br /><b>Picard,</b> Any new word on Tam, and his house?<br /><br />ÐaveD4E4Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10722279710961820843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-88992596574089916492018-06-11T23:29:57.362-05:002018-06-11T23:29:57.362-05:00Mike - I call it a sharp sometimes too. In Unix s...Mike - I call it a sharp sometimes too. In Unix scripting, the 1st line starts with ShBang (#! - a Sharp followed by a Bang) before the path to the interpreter. Twitter coined #==HashTag to 'tag' something with a short-hand phrase. Meh, I'll play along.<br /><br />If # was 'sharp' in C.Moe's #orderPoached... well, that would make us little-Endians wouldn't it* :-)<br /><br />Cheers, -T<br />*If I have to explain Jonathan Swift... :-)Anonymous Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00459563526290288425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-80315015199390157792018-06-11T23:22:26.750-05:002018-06-11T23:22:26.750-05:00Oh. I finished the jumble quite some time ago and ...Oh. I finished the jumble quite some time ago and thought it very easy. Whoever suggested lining up the consonants and vowels apart, I'm grateful. It's a lovely technique that helps with the solve.Lucinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16278649651081244724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-82215078445036312502018-06-11T23:17:33.814-05:002018-06-11T23:17:33.814-05:00Anon-T - in my world # is pronounced "sharp&q...Anon-T - in my world # is pronounced "sharp". I still don't really know what "hash tag" is or means; or for that matter, why some people sometimes put @ before anybody's name that they type. I'm staying deliberately ignorant about some things that I consider culturally deplorable.Mike Sherlinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02420362294423320273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-22224567307414335592018-06-11T22:57:39.983-05:002018-06-11T22:57:39.983-05:00CanadianEh! Glad you enjoyed the Maple Syrup Man p...<b>CanadianEh!</b> Glad you enjoyed the Maple Syrup Man photos! I remember how mysterious and magical it felt when I was a child; going out in the woods and visiting this lone guy who gave us maple syrup. The photos were taken by my father and I am in awe of how they still revive that magical feeling today.<br /><br /><b>AnonT:</b> Glad you also laughed out loud at the juxtaposition of HASH and WEED!<br /><br /><b><a href="http://swt.org/crosswordcorner/weed/20170818-077.JPG" rel="nofollow">Once again, here is my photo of the gateway to WEED in Northern California.</a></b><br /><br />From yesterday:<br /><b>Wilbur Charles:</b> Hand up I also kept mis-reading BUM as BURN. I had heard of HEINIE as a very old derogatory word for a German and I was struggling to make the connection to the clue. And indeed wondering how it would make it into a family puzzle!<br /><br />I did Google "Shocked and Chagrined" and found the Seinfeld bit. As I remember, it was the final episode of Seinfeld.<br /><br /><b>Lucina:</b> Thanks for the further information about your Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction. If people are as partisan as you say, maybe the answer is for the good guy to run in that same party in the primary. In any case, I agree that it is frustrating that people can be so tribal. <b>I am Shocked and Chagrined!</b>Picardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17401317669146538447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-13529253308642121612018-06-11T22:51:32.678-05:002018-06-11T22:51:32.678-05:00Jumble Fan at 6:11 PM
- - I wrote an e-mail to Lu...<b>Jumble Fan</b> at 6:11 PM<br /> - - I wrote an e-mail to Lucina with your posting info. If you want to Jumble, the floor is yours.<br /><br /><b>Anonymous T</b> at 7:50 PM<br /> - - The story starts with my note to HG at 5:12 PM, for his ears only. I want you to eye the heels Lola Astanova is wearing as she enters the room. I wondered just what is the limit. I believe I found it at 6 1/4".<br /><br />DaveD4E4Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10722279710961820843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-20068525696749687402018-06-11T21:44:26.567-05:002018-06-11T21:44:26.567-05:00-T: yes, HASH TAG. As in, if the Hash had a tag, i...-T: yes, HASH TAG. As in, if the Hash had a tag, it would say, "order the eggs poached"!Chairman Moehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09830681893074853511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-356229624230552682018-06-11T19:50:55.757-05:002018-06-11T19:50:55.757-05:00Hi All!
Aha - a BREEZy Monday... Thanks Matt. Th...Hi All!<br /><br />Aha - a BREEZy Monday... Thanks Matt. Thanks Boomer for the fun expo; tee-hee at over-tip.<br /><br />WO: DORTHYGALE_(?) Oh, there's another O in DOROTHY [thanks ROTE]<br />ESPs: AZOV & CALE<br /><b>Fav</b>: FUNK - just so I can link <b><a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jL4rXHt0_GI" rel="nofollow"> Grand Funk Railroad.</a></b>. I saw them two years ago at Bacchus; they were outstanding and I was standing about 3' from the stage. #Sweet <br /><br />{}{LOL, ha, ?*, Ha!}<br /><br />D4 @5:39 - Not that there's anything wrong with that...<br />WC - do you still need a hand at linking SUSAN in They're all Turkeys?<br /><br />Welcome to The Corner Ed.<br /><br />Abejo - You musta heard <b><a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lQem15Ow6hw" rel="nofollow"> DUST IN THE WIND.</a></b><br /><br />Picard - I noticed and LOL'd at ACHE sandwiched between HASH & WEED.<br /><br />HG & PK - I heard talk about LeBron coming to Houston. That would give GSW a formidable opponent in the Rockets.<br /><br />Dust in the Wind, WEED, HASH, SCREW IN(?) (LOL PK!), DODGE THE DRAFT... <br />Pop took the W way out when his number came up; he was in USAF-Reserves that afternoon. //I always loved how he called Clinton a Draft Dodger without looking at himself nor caring the next few candidates he voted for were also Dodgers. [hope that wasn't too WONKy or P; I could go deeper into PA w/ oc4's re-districting ;-)]<br /><br />DW just discovered today's Google Doodle - Google Gnomes.... I probably won't see her the rest of the eve :-) [check it out, it's a CUTE game]<br /><br />Cheers, -T<br />*I've got to noodle harder... Is # pronounced just HASH or full HashTag?Anonymous Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00459563526290288425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-13491858876516303512018-06-11T18:11:18.803-05:002018-06-11T18:11:18.803-05:00
Lucina @ 11:50 am: How about letting us know whe...<br />Lucina @ 11:50 am: How about letting us know when you finish the Jumble so that we may be able to discuss it. <br /><br />Jumble Fannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-65256649595924184522018-06-11T18:07:37.003-05:002018-06-11T18:07:37.003-05:00Boomer (my own nickname in college BTW) you should...Boomer (my own nickname in college BTW) you should've written the last line as "little lamzy divey" so as not to give a hint to anyone who doesn't know that the first two lines refer to mares and does eating oats.<br /><br />I remember Kyle Rote as mainly a wide receiver with the Giants after a knee injury.<br /><br />Jinx, my favorite localismn is Greenwich, which is pronounced gren-itch in England, Connecticut, and the Village in NYC, but in Washington County NY is Green-witch, where they go so far as to name their high school teams "The Witches".<br /><br />I also knew the perp on a crime show once when a guy said he had lived on Houston Street, saying it like the city in Texas, instead of House-ton like a New Yorkerbillocohoesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-52201573248641705422018-06-11T17:39:19.586-05:002018-06-11T17:39:19.586-05:00I was shopping for a new pair of pumps, and wanted...I was shopping for a new pair of pumps, and wanted your input on these. I'm used to flats, but I think these will be fine, if I don't fall flat on mu face. <a href="http://vi.vipr.ebaydesc.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemDescV4&item=371397507197&t=1444293412000&tid=10&category=55793&seller=everydaysexy&excSoj=1&excTrk=1&lsite=0&ittenable=false&domain=ebay.com&descgauge=1&cspheader=1&oneClk=1&secureDesc=0" rel="nofollow"><b>The Emperor's new shoes,</b></a> only 6 1/4" Solid Brass Heel.<br /><br />ÐaveD4E4Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10722279710961820843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-27836614062563526802018-06-11T17:12:01.601-05:002018-06-11T17:12:01.601-05:00Husker Gary at 2:11 PM
- - I thought Roger pushed...<b>Husker Gary</b> at 2:11 PM<br /> - - I thought Roger pushed a broom for an 8 X 12 4 bed room, but I have come to realize it was a <b>4 bit</b> room, almost Uber income.<br /><br /> - - For your ears only <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEBcct5tnUA" rel="nofollow"><b>Andrea Bocelli & Lola Astanova - The Journey to the Theatre of Silence (Full film)</b></a> (19:16 and worth every minuto).<br /> - - Now that I have your attention, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfJQ3y3AFBk" rel="nofollow">"Continuum" (4:46) <b>by LoLa Astanova</b></a><br /><br />ÐaveD4E4Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10722279710961820843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-87388403141840508452018-06-11T16:37:56.572-05:002018-06-11T16:37:56.572-05:00You all are so far ahead of me -- I never even kne...You all are so far ahead of me -- I never even knew Dorothy had a last name!<br /><br />"FLN: PK, that was a time when newspaper folks had some decency. Now the "oops" crotch shots would be sold to some sleazy web site."<br /><br />Jinx, I'm sorry to say that even this Corner is infected. There's some swim suit outfit which -- when I'm on the Corner's main page -- bombards me with a vast series of soft porn shots of some young girl, from neck down to mid-thigh. It seems like everything is sexualized today.Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13270740184766230842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-5469116733322568652018-06-11T16:35:39.037-05:002018-06-11T16:35:39.037-05:00Heat (beginning with a capital letter), the basket...Heat (beginning with a capital letter), the basketball team.<br />PKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14570575955563406341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-32937873758423095952018-06-11T16:23:45.246-05:002018-06-11T16:23:45.246-05:00Once more I have confused Pat RILEY with Gregg Pop...Once more I have confused Pat RILEY with Gregg Popovich. Why I get those two mixed up I don't know. They both are kind of grim looking. It is Popovich who is the USAF ACAD grad. RILEY is with the heat. Now I need to go back and find out who was talking to LEBron. Think it was Riley.PKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14570575955563406341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-6296657729246100282018-06-11T16:18:07.013-05:002018-06-11T16:18:07.013-05:00Moe, thanks for the Ku.
Sorry about perpetuatin...Moe, thanks for the Ku. <br /><br />Sorry about perpetuating the mispronunciation of BANGOR. One would think that a former owner of a chain of travel agencies (Clark Howard) would know how to pronounce it correctly, but one would be wrong. BTW, If you aren't familiar with Clark he sold the travel agency chain, and as a very young man had enough money to last him the rest of his life. Not being one to sit idle, he started hosting a travel show on WSB that morphed into a consumer protection/advice show.<br /><br />But y'all come down to Kentucky and call our beautiful city to the west of Lexington "Ver-SIGH". Around here it is "Ver-SALES". At least y'all don't call the county seat of Bourbon County "Pear-EEE", and don't LOL when we call it "PEAR-is".<br /><br />PK, Pat RILEY did go to the USAF ACAD in 2010, but just to speak. WEES about his matriculation.Jinx in Norfolkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10066853291104407732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-49747318349533612942018-06-11T16:13:53.936-05:002018-06-11T16:13:53.936-05:00OMK:
That is an interesting anecdote about Orson W...OMK:<br />That is an interesting anecdote about Orson Welles and yet it saddens me to think that though he was NEWLY wed he was having an affair. Maybe he didn't love his wife. Lucinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16278649651081244724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-39375170056246216942018-06-11T15:53:16.069-05:002018-06-11T15:53:16.069-05:00Hello Puzzlers -
Breezed right through in Monday ...Hello Puzzlers -<br /><br />Breezed right through in Monday fashion. Hand up for oleo when I was a kid, apparently we thought it was healthier. Don’t touch the stuff now.<br /><br />Today’s post comes to you from the summit of Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts. It’s less that 40 miles from home, so perhaps that’s why I never visited before. At just under 3500 feet, it towers over the neighboring lands. I bet OMK has had a look. You can just about see IM’s place from here!Dudleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07587399549104728305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-71331478373677453012018-06-11T15:35:12.060-05:002018-06-11T15:35:12.060-05:00I liked this puzzle. Easy, of course, it being Mon...I liked this puzzle. Easy, of course, it being Monday and all. Maybe AZOV isn't a Monday word but it perped in easily. Whenever I see ACAD I reflexively, and momentarily, think of AutoCAD, a Computer Aided Design program that was the market leader during the 80's and 90's. Oh, and in that list of performers whom I dislike that I published a few days ago I forgot to include NIColas Cage. <br /><br />Gosh, I remember one of my duties as a kid and a supposed contributing member of the family was to crush that red pill and knead that damn bag of Crisco-looking grease for what seemed like an hour until it was all soft and homogeneously amber in color. I hated the taste of that margarine but mom and dad always claimed that real butter was too expensive. Another duty we kids had to take turns at was grinding the meat with a meat grinder very much like the one shown, and then clean the damn thing afterwards.<br /><br />Boomer, I love your comments on OTOE, ALERT, and DOTES.<br /><br />It was common to hear a character say "A WORD" to another character in many of the British "Inspector So-and-so" TV shows when he wanted to speak to him or her privately.<br /><br />I remember a brand of radio called "Telefunken." As I recall they were pretty high-end products. Their vacuum tubes were coveted as some of the best quality.<br /><br />Enough nostalgia. Best wishes to you all.Jaycehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15906163232315177399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-4735154038353768312018-06-11T15:34:31.655-05:002018-06-11T15:34:31.655-05:00Lucina,
Your mention of The Shadow reminds me of...<b>Lucina</b>,<br /> Your mention of <i>The Shadow</i> reminds me of a true story from Orson Welles. He recalls a special meaning to his opening words on each broadcast. <br /><br />He would begin each broadcast with a Satanic chuckle and then pose the rhetorical question, "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?" <br />Once when he was a young newlywed husband, he started an affair with a woman who lived in an apartment across town. He was new to this game at the time and was feeling pangs of guilt as he climbed the back stairs to his inamorata's door. <br />He remembers it was exactly 8:00 pm, because he heard his own recorded voice coming from a nearby window, asking that very question,<br />"Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?"<br />And then he shuddered as he heard himself answer his own question, with those infamous responding words,<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwknZZk1tS0" rel="nofollow">”The Shadow Knows!”</a><br /><br />Bwa-ha-ha-ha-hah! <br /><br />~ <b>OMK</b>Ol' Man Keith https://www.blogger.com/profile/02073553138045178596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-27724878484257266002018-06-11T15:26:00.834-05:002018-06-11T15:26:00.834-05:00As as a CSO to OMK I solved diagonally. It made an... As as a CSO to OMK I solved diagonally. It made an easy one interesting. <br /><br />So Boomer, you knew Susan of "There ALL Chickens" fame. I tried to link that but I need Anon T's advice. <br />Actually, the Giants made Kyle a split end. At Texas (or was it SMU?) He was a famous running back. <br />D-O, that's a great story. <br />For some reason the ROTE Times table stopped at 12. We should have gone to 19. <br />Didn't Bendix play Babe Ruth (horribly, baseball wise)<br />Pat Riley was on the team that lost to UTEP. (65?, 66?) Kentucky .USAF???<br />Lucina, Misty and others got me going on J_. I did it today but will remain mum. Ok. #3 is not TRAUMA. When I do it I have to write the 4-6 answers quickly but I forget them even quicker. <br />I'll probably only do them when somebody brings it up as the knack came back quickly. Now Sudoku. I can get bolloxed as fast as I can solve the_J. <br />Moe, you mean EVADER. I see the Feds are cracking down on the interstate traffic. IMHO, I don't want a dime spent on that nor immigration. <br /><br /><br />WCWilbur Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08905123297841127198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-41084264542384163222018-06-11T14:59:46.329-05:002018-06-11T14:59:46.329-05:00OMK:
I do remember all those radio shows as well a...OMK:<br />I do remember all those radio shows as well as The Shadow, Inner Sanctum and Stella Dallas. The low, raspy voice of Mercedes McCambridge still echoes in my head. I attribute my listening ability to those many years of sitting by the radio tuned in to catch every word.<br /><br />Dave 2:<br />Thank you for waiting to post the Jumble answers.<br /><br />I have always pronounced it BAN GORE from the time we landed for a customs check on the return trip from Spain when both the captain and the attendants pronounced it that way.Lucinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16278649651081244724noreply@blogger.com