tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post7040343045646469021..comments2024-03-28T22:14:27.877-05:00Comments on L.A.Times Crossword Corner: Monday, Aug 12, 2019 Matt McKinley Zhouqin (C.C.) Burnikelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12750267554729853785noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-89735015140658458042019-08-13T02:57:22.573-05:002019-08-13T02:57:22.573-05:00Bill, you can trying clearing cookies and site dat...<br />Bill, you can trying clearing cookies and site data, and then reload the puzzle.<br /><br />To do so in Firefox, there's a lowercase i enclosed in a circle next to the green lock symbol on the address bar. Select the lowercase i and then select "Clear Cookies and Site Data"<br /><br />There's also an option under Support to send a note to to get help:<br /><br />Technical problems?<br />Contact customer support at support@amuniversal.com<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> TTPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03978803962510303498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-11822459639076811232019-08-12T22:17:12.735-05:002019-08-12T22:17:12.735-05:00Yes, Bill G., it is a dry heat, thankfully. We wou...Yes, Bill G., it is a dry heat, thankfully. We would likely all pass out if the humidity was high.Lucinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16278649651081244724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-5259926943425740882019-08-12T20:13:21.685-05:002019-08-12T20:13:21.685-05:00I usually use the Mensa site to solve online. I al...I usually use the Mensa site to solve online. I also often solve WSJ puzzles online. I used to be able to enjoy the puzzles at USA Today. Something has gone awry with USA for me. I'm using a MAC and Firefox. The puzzle finally appears but I can't enter anything. Maybe my MAC and my Firefox version are too old. Any ideas? Bill Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04495413609545426668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-58818227149639422472019-08-12T20:01:11.228-05:002019-08-12T20:01:11.228-05:00106 degrees, a nice respite? (115 degrees in Yuma?...106 degrees, a nice respite? (115 degrees in Yuma?) Yes, but it's a dry heat. That's why I live here I guess. It should hit 76 or so... I guess 'Es macht nichts' since we finally got AC. Bill Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04495413609545426668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-37330072554555892652019-08-12T19:57:31.452-05:002019-08-12T19:57:31.452-05:00oc4, et al, I pulled down an old rotting fence pos...oc4, et al, I pulled down an old rotting fence post when I was 6 or 7 that housed a huge nest, and got stung repeatedly as I ran as fast as I could all the wat back to the house.<br /><br />Speaking of yellow stuff, Evan Kalish has a Yellow Bellied crossword over at the Merriam-Webster site, and<br /><br />Zhouqin Burnikel has a puzzle over at <a href="https://puzzles.usatoday.com/" rel="nofollow">puzzles.usatoday.com</a>.TTPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03978803962510303498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-17291486842027119062019-08-12T19:46:49.225-05:002019-08-12T19:46:49.225-05:00Jinx, Hombre, the green Amazon was making a racket...Jinx, Hombre, the green Amazon was making a racket . Why? Because there was smoke adjacent to his perch. Mr Stupidity had taken a rare night off. <br />So...<br />I investigated and quickly evacuated and called 911. The conduit from fireplace to chimney had overheated and finally ignited the surrounding wood. <br /><br />I gave Hombre extra peanuts after that.<br /><br />WCWilbur Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08905123297841127198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-84810565299555736292019-08-12T19:18:56.119-05:002019-08-12T19:18:56.119-05:00
AnonPVX, WikWak and WC: My worst encounter with ...<br />AnonPVX, WikWak and WC: My worst encounter with Yellow Jackets was many years ago when I hit a ground nest with my lawnmower. Again a 50 yard dash to the house, but they got me over 30 times and I passed out next to the phone before I could call anyone. I woke up a little later with a lot of sore stings and a very high heart rate. Eventually everything settled down and it took a few days for the stings to stop hurting. Calamine lotion helped somewhat. I have a very healthy respect for Yellow Jackets.<br /><br />oc4beachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06568497002517859531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-4887471029129709442019-08-12T18:28:04.380-05:002019-08-12T18:28:04.380-05:00WC, I read that Amazon was experimenting with robo...WC, I read that Amazon was experimenting with robots for home delivery, but I never knew they used parrots!<br /><br />I remember when Schmidt's of Philadelphia sold for $0.69 per six pack. Roughly the same time that the Allman Brothers were playing mall openings in Georgia.Jinx in Norfolkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05891694970152198474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-48553660767950723182019-08-12T18:27:39.402-05:002019-08-12T18:27:39.402-05:00A nice, quickish puzzle to start off the week. Tha...A nice, quickish puzzle to start off the week. Thanks to <b>Matt</b> for a little Monday brain tuneup and to <b>Boomer</b> for an as-always interesting exposition. And Boomer, I do believe you have the same Chad Mitchell Trio album that I have. One of them, anyway. <br /> <br />I caught the theme early and that helped. <b>Anonymous PVX</b>, Hand up for SASSY/SAUCY. <b>CanadianEh!</b>, I bit on NOTE/TONE too. About 13 minutes to solve, quite a bit slower than my typical Monday. <br /><br />About a million years ago when I was in college I had a job on a “roving” crew for GTE. A good chunk of our time was spent burying cable. For this we had a (I think) D-9 Caterpillar with a plow on the back that put the cable under the ground. One day I plowed right through a huge hornets’ nest; one minute I was chugging happily along and the next I was surrounded by an enormous cloud of hornets. Since D-9s dont go all that fast even when they don’t have a plow in the ground, I dropped my hands from the steering levers and got my foot off the go-faster, and broke any records for the 100-yard dash, getting away with only a dozen or so stings. Not my best day at work. <br /><br />Time to go make supper. I’m making spaghetti over spaghetti, a tasty treat. G’day all!WikWakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14873144164842777944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-55187146682317530272019-08-12T16:52:33.273-05:002019-08-12T16:52:33.273-05:00"Don't go cheap, though. It's gotta b... "Don't go cheap, though. It's gotta be a wine that's actually good enough to drink.". Except when cooking with beer. Cheaper is probably better like Schmidt's or something.<br /><br />"Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet."<br />"Twain derives from the Old English twegen, meaning two". Re. TW. I can see where the W was dropped.<br /><br />Oc4, tg it weren't paperwasps. Betsy and Phil have both had that experience. That's borderline emergency room bites/Sting. <br /><br />Someday I'll recount my "flue" fire or did I. The one where the Amazon parrot saved the day.<br /><br />CED, do you know the rule of Nines?<br /><br />I didn't see the 6x theme. So… I had LAYNE. All the other 13-19 add teen but EIGHT already had T. I kept doing the mental alphabet run and skipping E. <br />Tricky for a Monday mixing the obvious with cute stuff.<br /><br />As I started reading the write-up it took a bit to realize it was the inimitable Boomer. B, did you see my crack about the 1967 Twins-Redsox?<br /><br />Jayce, the last holdouts seem to be the Japanese<br /><br />WC<br />Wilbur Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08905123297841127198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-91750963790938695542019-08-12T16:09:27.756-05:002019-08-12T16:09:27.756-05:00Hi Y'all! Enjoyed the puzzle, Matt! Much fun w...Hi Y'all! Enjoyed the puzzle, Matt! Much fun with the expo, Boomer!<br /><br />Boomer: you are so right about many owies in childhood. There were a few years when I went around with big red scabs on my knees all summer. The top of my body seemed to be faster than my feet and I was always flopped down on the sidewalk. Loved my roller skates.<br /><br />Great puzzle theme which I got by the second & third and filled in the first & last from there. No red-runs today.<br /><br />DNK: LEXI, ESPNU, ELAYNE.<br /><br />TuNE before TONE.<br /><br />YR: Welcome back. I hoped you were having a good time on vacation.<br /><br />My son came yesterday and surprised me with a map and picture share of his family's Mediterranean Cruise. The pictures of Rome were especially excellent. He had put a lot of work and thought into his presentation for me. So kind of him. He was awed by things that I wouldn't have expected him to be interested in at all. He's a practical work-oriented guy, but he's worked in construction of several kinds and the ancient builds without modern machinery blew his mind. Love that my kids get to do the things I wanted to do and couldn't.PKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14570575955563406341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-69194961694188507642019-08-12T16:00:03.739-05:002019-08-12T16:00:03.739-05:00Ach, Firefox! What hast thou done? (As the crowd, ...Ach, Firefox! What hast thou done? (As the crowd, aghast at seeing Hagen murder Siegfried, cries out, "Hagen, Was thu'st du?") You totally screwed up bookmarks. Thou art dead to me.Jaycehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15906163232315177399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-60395132968817009142019-08-12T15:50:16.588-05:002019-08-12T15:50:16.588-05:00I liked this puzzle. Once I got the multiples of 6...I liked this puzzle. Once I got the multiples of 6 I jumped ahead and filled in TWENTY FOUR HOURS. Bzzt! Other than that, and having to change ADAGE to MAXIM and SASSY to SAUCY, it all went as smooth as ice. Easy but fun.<br /><br />Boomer, I also liked your D RAT comment.<br /><br />CrossEyedDave, very interesting about the rule of sixes.<br /><br />Good wishes to you all.Jaycehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15906163232315177399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-36724113306838165712019-08-12T15:02:32.547-05:002019-08-12T15:02:32.547-05:00Thank you Matt and Boomer. Here in Yuma we are goi...Thank you Matt and Boomer. Here in Yuma we are going from hot to really hot, 115 for Wed. and Thur. The pool water is too hot to swim, and getting a cold shower won’t happen until Oct. you need oven mitts to drive, and don’t even think about sitting on hot leather car seats.<br />Yumanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03652134683862744042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-77906297105490056502019-08-12T14:27:10.044-05:002019-08-12T14:27:10.044-05:00So many languages, so little time. German today, ...So many languages, so little time. German today, and French, and Spanish. But if I am to believe the <i>NY Times</i> in a Sunday editorial, the world is actually becoming monolingual--with English as the <i>lingua franca</i>. (<i>Ironique, n'est-ce pas?</i>)<br /><br />This will save lazy Anglophone tourists the trouble of learning another language, but still doesn't help when you want to know what the natives are saying among themselves--about us.<br /><br />An enjoyable pzl today. Nice write-up, <b>Boomer</b>!<br />~ <b>OMK<br />____________<br />DR: </b> A 3-way on the near side.<br />Not much doing in the anagram department. In the main diagonal, I spot HARD and DEVIOUS--but why bother?<br />More of interest can be found in the top sub-diagonal where, with a single borrowing from the main line, I find a most unusual piscine main dish, indeed so rare one would have to look very hard to find the Chef who will serve it, a delicious...<br />"<b>LEG OF TROUT</b>"!Ol' Man Keith https://www.blogger.com/profile/02073553138045178596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-87170512575825880572019-08-12T12:38:49.453-05:002019-08-12T12:38:49.453-05:00Hola!
Besides German we also have Spanish lessons...Hola!<br /><br />Besides German we also have Spanish lessons today, REY, CHICA, ISLA and a bit of French is not surprising, EAU.<br /><br />Arizona also has good billing in the puzzle. Speaking of Lake Mead, it is down to record level low capacity and very troubling for our draught prone state.<br /><br />I once saw ELAYNE Boosler's name on a marquee and was surprised at the spelling.<br /><br />Thank you, Matt McKinley and Boomer! I thoroughly enjoyed the puzzle and the humorous review.<br /><br />It's a warm, sunny day here, likely to reach 106 degrees, a nice respite from the over 110s that have plagued us. <br /><br />Have a beautiful day, everyone!<br /><br />Lucinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16278649651081244724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-22293909965682224352019-08-12T12:20:21.357-05:002019-08-12T12:20:21.357-05:00A little trivia about 6's<a href="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/39/59/75/395975360967bcdf4ddc9c7dff46fbe4.jpg" rel="nofollow">A little trivia about 6's</a>CrossEyedDavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09745913007262424048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-87145350859885452412019-08-12T12:14:18.147-05:002019-08-12T12:14:18.147-05:00
This Monday puzzle went quickly, but I bit too qu...<br />This Monday puzzle went quickly, but I bit too quickly on an “obvious” clue, thus...<br /><br />Markovers....just the one, SASSY/SAUCY....should have known.<br /><br />Jinx....I spent my career in IT, but not in the same groups. When I went to the BOSS group (business office sub-system) we were charged with making changes based on user requests. I got my first assignment, checked the requirements and coded it up. It worked precisely as requested. Unfortunately, I got the “but that’s not what we meant” response on review. From then on, I would not code one line until I met the request author and insured the request was “what they meant”. After that momentous decision, no more redos. Right after that everyone started doing the client review meeting. No idea why they waited for me to start that up.<br /><br />oc4beach....your alias reminds me of an ABEND code, SYSTEM 0C4, S0C4, a protection exception. Also....yellow-jackets....nasty little things, I still remember kicking a stump along a path and having my calf covered in them....unlike bees, they keep stinging. My mom said she heard a kid scream and wondered what happened, that was me getting stung. 55 years ago and I will never forget that experience. AnonymousPVXhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10078186298428497941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-44426341437707806982019-08-12T11:43:06.369-05:002019-08-12T11:43:06.369-05:00Delightful Monday puzzle--many thanks, Matt. I beg...Delightful Monday puzzle--many thanks, Matt. I began with lots of blanks at the top, but pretty soon on the way down everything filled in, and I got the fun numbers theme. Always nice to see EDIE Falco in a puzzle, and I'm glad I know my German because German words seem to show up a lot in puzzles these days. Boomer, I always love your write-ups, and the one this morning gave me two treats: the sweet Argyle Santa picture, and the reference to Peter Paul and Mary's jet plane song. That one's going to buzz in my ear all day--not a bad thing but something I'll enjoy.<br /><br />Have a great week, everybody!Mistyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17570695193695039956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-35443559190054133232019-08-12T11:07:49.850-05:002019-08-12T11:07:49.850-05:00This is not German or PA Dutch, but our neighbors ...This is not German or PA Dutch, but our neighbors and our family used to say, "If you drop a knife, a man is coming to visit, while a fork means a woman is coming, and a spoon means a child is coming." <br />I never have dropped in on anyone without warning, even family members, and no one drops in on me. I believe you cannot expect a person who is in the midst of doing something, to suddenly drop everything to entertain you.<br />My dear cat groomed himself several times day without bringing us company. LOLYellowrockshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09590216912123103432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-48275678438936338422019-08-12T10:52:08.300-05:002019-08-12T10:52:08.300-05:00YR @ 0945 - In L. German it was always: Dat mookt...YR @ 0945 - In L. German it was always: Dat mookt nix. (It doesn't matter.). When I looked that up (for spelling), I also found:<br />"Wenn de Katt sick putzt, denn kummt Besöök". (When the cat grooms itself, company's coming.)<br />I don't think people drop in on each other, unannounced, as much today as they did a couple generations ago.Spitzboovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04448007368332133086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-91456202463061643942019-08-12T10:08:28.912-05:002019-08-12T10:08:28.912-05:00I liked the numbered approach of today's puzzl...<br />I liked the numbered approach of today's puzzle from Matt. Boomer, as always, added a lot to the enjoyment to the puzzle.<br /><br />Perps filled in the couple (2) of unknowns today and many that I did know but were already filled in by the time I got to the clue. My DW's name is spelled ELAINE, so that is what I entered for Boosler, but then the TWENTY FOUR SEVEN set me straight.<br /><br />I remember when I was a kid Dad would get the chimney sweeper in to clean the flue every winter so that a flue fire didn't happen. Over time the soot and tars and creosote would build up from the wood and coal that we burned and were a hazard. The few times that it did happen were scary and could have resulted in the house burning down. It was not uncommon for a house fire to occur in our town in the winter because of a flue fire.<br /><br />Yesterday while power-washing the side of the house and sidewalks, I apparently angered some Yellow Jackets. Those little buggers can really sting. I made a mad dash into the house to get away from them with only a couple of stings that still hurt. <br /><br />Beautiful day here in Central PA. I hope it's nice where you are and if it isn't, hopefully it will be soon<br /> oc4beachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06568497002517859531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-85796530640999502452019-08-12T09:52:02.568-05:002019-08-12T09:52:02.568-05:00Marvellous Monday. Thanks for the fun, Matt and B...Marvellous Monday. Thanks for the fun, Matt and Boomer.<br />I moved through this CW slightly slower than my usual Monday, but I FIRed and got the Times SIX theme. (Actually, I found more numbers with TWICE, TENS (end of 29D!), X0X0 (Roman Numerals count) and DUAL.) I also smiled to see that the CW CEDEd the finish with ENDS.<br />I thought we might be on an X kick with 4 of them by 22A but then they ENDed.<br /><br />Hand up for Note before TONE.<br />ECG is more common this side of the border (I waited for perps to decide between the C or K).<br />My first thought for the surgical tool was a scalpel but CLAMP fit the spot.<br />Yes, I remember laughing at LAUREL and Hardy.<br />Boosler was unknown, but perps gave the different spelling of ELAYNE.<br />No great EUREKA moment today.<br />China CEDEd Hong Kong to Britain in 1841; in 1997, it was peaceably handed over to China in exchange for a Chinese pledge to preserve Hong Kong’s capitalist system. How is that going?<br /><br />Yes, I saw the CSOs to LemonADE(S) and YUMAn. Thanks, Boomer, for reminding us of Santa, Argyle, with SOOTY.<br /><br />Wishing you all a great day.CanadianEh!https://www.blogger.com/profile/05688358229402732332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-28673870404561606202019-08-12T09:45:41.787-05:002019-08-12T09:45:41.787-05:00Musings
-I enjoyed Matt’s grid-spanning Six Step P...Musings<br />-I enjoyed Matt’s grid-spanning Six Step Program this morning<br />-Korea is well represented <a href="https://www.rolexrankings.com/rankings" rel="nofollow">in the Top Ten LPGA rankings</a><br />-LUGGING pig carcasses used to be a low level job at Hormel’s in our town<br />-Close to CHICA - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DObJ4hWFF-U" rel="nofollow">A Swedish group singing a lovely song with a Spanish title in English</a><br />-I was raised among SOTS in our small town and saw that as normalcy <br />-NOT ME – Is OJ still pursuing the real killers?<br />-EDIE has won many awards on <i>The Sopranos</i> where gorgeous young women seem to be attracted to older, heavyset thugs<br />-IN FULL – We’ve paid off three mortgages. I want to go again but DW says no.<br />-STAN said he and Oliver maintained very separate personal lives<br />-The stars “in” ORION are really trillions of miles apart. The constellation’s shape is completely random<br />-This AVID golfer is sidelined today with 4” of rain recently<br />Husker Garyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09980336006827988210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-51979589385695828142019-08-12T09:45:04.830-05:002019-08-12T09:45:04.830-05:00Anonymous @ 8:49, I have great respect for the Vo...Anonymous @ 8:49, I have great respect for the Vocabulary.com site and visit it frequently. They say ADE is a slang word, but offer no sample sentences showing its stand alone use. I did find it in my huge Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, but not in any others beside these two references. Most of the common dictionaries do not include it. Scrabble and Words with Friends do not accept it. It seems Spellcheck does. I haven't found any written examples of its use and I haven't heard it in everyday speech as a stand alone word. As my parents used to say. "Es macht nichts aus." I just find it interesting that it is so little used.<br /><br />Spitz, in looking up our German phrase to see if I remembered it correctly, I found the following and thought of you.<br /><a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pseudo-German_words_adapted_to_English" rel="nofollow"> When we adopt foreign words we change them</a>Yellowrockshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09590216912123103432noreply@blogger.com