tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post7374019716161122251..comments2024-03-29T07:32:30.750-05:00Comments on L.A.Times Crossword Corner: Saturday, March 21, 2020, Joe DeeneyZhouqin (C.C.) Burnikelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12750267554729853785noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-80866725453750742902020-03-22T01:08:55.797-05:002020-03-22T01:08:55.797-05:00Late I know... Need a joke?
Corona-pandemic talis...Late I know... Need a joke?<br /><br />Corona-pandemic talisman: Put on a Cubs jersey -- You won't catch anything.<br /><br />Cheers, -TAnonymous Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00459563526290288425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-28030549244749275222020-03-21T21:56:23.367-05:002020-03-21T21:56:23.367-05:00Saturday lurk (to quote AnonT).
I had a sea of w...Saturday lurk (to quote AnonT). <br />I had a sea of white after my short attempt at this CW. I have been busy here; we now have my 97 year old mother at our house. She is doing well with the move.<br />As for me, I am doing more cooking, cleaning, washing than usual! <br /> <br />But I thought I had better check in here so nobody would worry. Besides, it is the only way that I can get across the longest undefended border in the world, which is now completely closed (with just a few exceptions for trade and essential services)!<br /><br />I only read a few of you just above, but Oas@6:43pm gave me my belly-laugh for the day. He has the answer to ensure social-distancing!<br /><br />Belated Happy Birthdays to Spitzboov and rainman.CanadianEh!https://www.blogger.com/profile/05688358229402732332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-22244666274056982012020-03-21T21:47:18.872-05:002020-03-21T21:47:18.872-05:00Well done puzzle. Last to get via some perps was...Well done puzzle. Last to get via some perps was ROCKET in NW corner.<br /><br />Crosswords, FreeCell, jigsaws and a lot of reading is my new normal.jfromvthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16864768391894999950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-50468928390503281902020-03-21T20:36:34.822-05:002020-03-21T20:36:34.822-05:00-T, thanks for the entertainment. And CED, too. ...-T, thanks for the entertainment. And CED, too. Gary, great write-up. <br /><br />I'm heading back to Dunellon as I post<br /> <br /><br />WCWilbur Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08905123297841127198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-4208239162707410062020-03-21T18:54:15.241-05:002020-03-21T18:54:15.241-05:00NYS cornerites. FYI: An excerpt from our hospital ...NYS cornerites. FYI: An excerpt from our hospital CEO concerning essentials services starting this Monday . <br /><br />“Defining Essential Services” – The priority order of essential health care services: 1) life saving, 2) limb saving, 3) health improving or 4) quality of life. Our decision about the services we provide will follow these priorities and therefore may change based on the status of the pandemic in our community.<br />At this time, we have already suspended routine endoscopies, pulmonary rehabilitation, screening mammography (this does not include diagnostic mammo) and sleep services. Those will all be rescheduled. Specific decisions about the availability of certain outpatient services will be made patient by patient in consultation with the medical director of that area. For example, all decisions about rehabilitation, to include cardiac rehab, will be made on a patient by patient basis. All lab services must be essential. All radiology exams and ultrasounds must be essential. Diagnostic mammography will continue as an essential service. OB services are essential, but we will ask OB patients to wear a mask when coming in for an exam, labor check or ultrasound.<br />Services which will continue are dialysis, radiation oncology, infusion, and chemotherapy. Nutritional services testing will be available through telephonic consultations only.<br />Ray - O - Sunshinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04864005198472595370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-81298669295078610362020-03-21T18:52:26.262-05:002020-03-21T18:52:26.262-05:00You see what WC & Spitz did?
Right then... ...You see what WC & Spitz did? <br /><br />Right then... That's it. <br /><br />Python in the clues and y'all keep speaking of <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSo0duY7-9s" rel="nofollow">Elderberries</a></b> [@1:49].<br /><br />Enough, or I shall taunt you a second-timea [A TWO?] :-)<br /><br />//Quick story:<br />Friday, A buddy on our local hacker-group Slack channel asked if, during the shutdown of SeaWorld, anyone had checked on the dolphins to see if they left yet?<br />My reply:<br />The InfoSec dolphins left a message: "So long and thanks for all the phish."<br /><br />I'll see myself out. <br />//WikWak - you done with that nap? Can I use it now?<br /><br />Cheers, -TAnonymous Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00459563526290288425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-30481638755615542512020-03-21T18:43:02.726-05:002020-03-21T18:43:02.726-05:00HI, Trying to stay sane,I experiment in the kitche...HI, Trying to stay sane,I experiment in the kitchen. The other day I cooked up some white beans and when they were about done I thought I'd try to make them taste like the brown beans from a can. I added some molasses. syrup, ketchup, salt, pepper and cumin and simmered it for another half hour. It tasted so good that I ate the whole potful. Some hours later I produced enough bean power that could have filled a hot air balloon and I could have sailed off into the sunset.<br /><br />cheers Oashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06159331870007986544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-2150926236479990832020-03-21T18:28:51.912-05:002020-03-21T18:28:51.912-05:00Wilbur Charles @ 1519 - Re: Elderberry.
I grew u...Wilbur Charles @ 1519 - Re: Elderberry. <br />I grew up with Elderberry Soup with Dumplings. (Flederbein Supp mit Klümp.). BH makes it late each year when the berries ripen. I second the immune enhancement.<br />Spitzboovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04448007368332133086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-63809597387748012462020-03-21T18:18:27.125-05:002020-03-21T18:18:27.125-05:00Tony, I’m Replying to you because my regular post ...Tony, I’m Replying to you because my regular post is all squirlly (that’s a technical term).<br /><br />Bill G I just had to add that right now seems to be a special time for you ... and we all responded with support. But you need to know we are always here for you even in less dramatic times. Many of us have gone through what you seem to be dealing with and we care about you! Even in the sorta okay times . Lean on us!!SwampCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06893584705424353444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-36830982251626711412020-03-21T17:30:55.205-05:002020-03-21T17:30:55.205-05:00Hi All!
Another learning Saturday for me. Got a ...Hi All!<br /><br />Another learning Saturday for me. Got a little over 1/2 filled before I used poor-man's red-letter (HG's grid) to fix Bob to MEL [dang it!, it <i>is</i> EPSOM SALTS!]<br /><br />Thanks Joe for the puzzle. Thanks HG for the expo. Anyone click the NRG link? That's the Astrodome next door.<br /><br />Other missteps - NAM->ETO->IWO, TReIS, SAFE HOUSE, ADMITTED to.<br />Learning: OCTAVO, TELOS<br />Disappointment: Joe didn't self-shout-out with a CUP OF himself :-)<br /> <br /><b>Fav</b>: BETA next to CODER xing BOHR.<br />Clue for HUNTING SEASON is cute too.<br /><br />{A, A}<br />Funny DR, OMK.<br /><br />D-O: LOL'd at 10:16<br /><br />Nice to see you back WikWak. This too shall pass but not as quickly as we'd like.<br /><br />PVX - Your analysis of prep'ers is hilarious. I was flummoxed as to why folks were stocking up on water too. This isn't a hurricane!<br /><br />Well, we got 1/2 the gardening done b/f the skies opened up. I'll try again tomorrow but it won't be from ANEW; weeding & composting is done.<br /><br />Cheers, -TAnonymous Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00459563526290288425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-31865479670547647722020-03-21T16:15:40.629-05:002020-03-21T16:15:40.629-05:00A fun puz! Thanks, Mr. Deeney!
Sat. tough but do-...A fun puz! Thanks, Mr. <b>Deeney</b>!<br />Sat. tough but do-able--with one look-up. <i>Ta ~ </i><b>DA!</b><br /><br />TSE: You may not know his play, <i>The Cocktail Party</i>, but you can be pretty sure if a "monogram" is in the clue, it is going to be either TSE or YSL.<br />Hands up for QUARTO before OCTAVO!<br />Thanks for the explanation, <b>HG</b>: I thought HOF was a Bible book I couldn't remember.<br />~ <b>OMK<br />_____________<br />DR:</b> Two diagonals today, a perfect "X,"<br />The near-side anagram refers to how I often go at these Xwds, often with an insane attempt, or, as spelled out today, a...<br />"<b>DEMENTED TRY</b>"!Ol' Man Keith https://www.blogger.com/profile/02073553138045178596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-89279043118307900162020-03-21T16:00:58.330-05:002020-03-21T16:00:58.330-05:00Can't go anywhere and HATE daytime TV so I sta...Can't go anywhere and HATE daytime TV so I stayed with this toughy and slugged through many missteps and finally finished. Especially liked 34 & 35A but thoroughly confused by 30A??? Now, back to my task today: rewriting Sonny Terry's "I've Been Liven' the Blues" to express today's reaction to Corona Virus isolation policies!!Bobbihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13813467924796996540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-47471184806274859222020-03-21T15:57:29.397-05:002020-03-21T15:57:29.397-05:00Meanwhile...
in an alternate universe....Meanwhile...<br /><br /><a href="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/18/c7/76/18c7763dc7ca2c491af09e4f83a7b6f4.jpg" rel="nofollow">in an alternate universe....</a>CrossEyedDavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09745913007262424048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-53933530227779656912020-03-21T15:36:34.933-05:002020-03-21T15:36:34.933-05:00Thanks everybody. What a caring group!Thanks everybody. What a caring group!Bill Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04495413609545426668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-6289544727709156092020-03-21T15:23:46.872-05:002020-03-21T15:23:46.872-05:00Threw my pen down when 18A "Bob Ross painted ...Threw my pen down when 18A "Bob Ross painted with one" turned out to be AFRO.<br />Shoulda quit right there and then. Ptooey.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-64481046931418043162020-03-21T15:19:15.170-05:002020-03-21T15:19:15.170-05:00HOF along with the French TROIS were my first gimm...HOF along with the French TROIS were my first gimmes. The B in BETA gave me BOHR and the X in SAX unravelled the NE and the dominoes started falling. <br /><br />I'm resolving that when something ain't right to go online where I can erase and add. <br /><br />I found elderberry* syrup in the children's section of CVS. Manishevitz elderberry wine last night ($6 a bottle).<br /><br />Of course I can't touch the stuff unless I run it over to Father Tony to consecrate. <br /><br />WC<br /><br />* It's supposed to have excellent immune enhancementWilbur Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08905123297841127198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-43060569176924462292020-03-21T15:10:47.830-05:002020-03-21T15:10:47.830-05:00Not my cuppa tea. I did not even try to finish. My...Not my cuppa tea. I did not even try to finish. My forte in tough situations is total concentration which I did not have. Too much distraction. So many uncharted waters these days.Yellowrockshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09590216912123103432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-52468505662699423142020-03-21T14:34:32.056-05:002020-03-21T14:34:32.056-05:00I very much enjoyed solving this puzzle. Plunking ...I very much enjoyed solving this puzzle. Plunking in DIED for "Passed" got me off on the wrong foot, though. MILK OF MAGNESIA didn't fit in 1a so I waited for more perps. I, too, thought of Bible characters at "Ruth and Aaron" and when HOF finally filled I wondered what Bible book that was. Sheesh. Anyway, after looking up EFRON and the "Disturbia" singer, I realized that RIRI made sense as Rihanna's nickname. So I got it all filled and the clock kept running; I couldn't find where I had gone wrong so I used the "Check Grid" feature to find out. Sure enough, I had ACT II and MTI; changing the I to V fixed it.<br /><br />Thank you, Joe Deeney, for an entertaining and informative puzzle. Thank you, Husker Gary, for your eye-opening writeup. I learned a couple of new facts today. I was also reminded that the atomic number of Carbon is 6, not 12, which is its atomic mass used in Carbon dating.<br /><br />I have never dated a Carbon but have dated an Aries, a Gemini, and a Libra.<br /><br />Good wishes to you all.Jaycehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15906163232315177399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-72656758961014723522020-03-21T14:34:20.050-05:002020-03-21T14:34:20.050-05:00"ex-pat" as in a refugee from Boston to ..."ex-pat" as in a refugee from Boston to Florida. There are no ex-Patriot fans. But ... I will watch a few more Bucs gamesWilbur Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08905123297841127198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-10189059328418315332020-03-21T14:31:09.700-05:002020-03-21T14:31:09.700-05:00text
1966. Cape cod. I remember looking at the ... <a href="" rel="nofollow"> text</a><br /><br />1966. Cape cod. I remember looking at the NL Standings around labor day and the Pirates had a 2-4 game lead. I thought that would be sufficient. But the Dodgers had Koufax and Drysdale. But the Orioles pitching was even better in the WS.<br /><br />When Stevenson (Intrepid) of British Intelligence rescued BOHR from Denmark in WWII he had him assume an alias "Underhill". The same alias Strider used for Frodo to get him out of the Shire.<br />Was "Strider" an anagram of S. Intrepid?<br /><br />Owen, #1 was a W+. Tres magnifique.<br /><br />SAID tO ONE oVER did me in plus NAn as I couldn't get my Aristotle with the right perps. TRG sounded good. But I'm okay with getting the other 97%.<br /><br />Tbtimes has I-9. Oops thx anon@930<br /><br />IM, my b-i-l had a golf date(he played) and his daughter (4) was flower girl. And my solve experience was the same c above<br /><br />"I was thinking of "Ruth and Aaron" in the Bible instead of the Hall of Fame"- Sorry B-E but I had TB12 talk with an ex-pat* Bostonian and his girlfriend never heard of Tom Brady. I told her in CC land I've found lotsa folk like her. Much akin to my knowledge of so many other things. Then again, FLN, I didn't know Houston's stadium. <br /><br />All in all, not a too difficult Saturday. I couldabeen an FIRer. <br /><br />WC<br />Wilbur Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08905123297841127198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-9270359546631660852020-03-21T13:24:20.417-05:002020-03-21T13:24:20.417-05:00FIR and I must have been on Joe's wavelength s...FIR and I must have been on Joe's wavelength since this went pretty fast (for me, that is). Hope you all stay mentally as well as physically well in these trying times.<br /><br />JB2Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-69871697822094476142020-03-21T13:16:32.121-05:002020-03-21T13:16:32.121-05:00To anon FLN ( Not everyone know basic coding. Thou...To anon FLN ( Not everyone know basic coding. Thought I'd help you out.This is an easier way to try to link to your page (hope this helps): <a href="https://www.coursera.org/learn/the-science-of-well-being?ranMID=40328&ranEAID=EHFxW6yx8Uo&ranSiteID=EHFxW6yx8Uo-Uci2hsujbjhLhsPVPPWGCg&siteID=EHFxW6yx8Uo-Uci2hsujbjhLhsPVPPWGCg&utm_content=10&utm_medium=partners&utm_source=linkshare&utm_campaign=EHFxW6yx8Uo%E2%80%9D" rel="nofollow">Science of Well Being</a>JJMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10160962871151825507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-17168012488172102572020-03-21T13:12:05.824-05:002020-03-21T13:12:05.824-05:00
This Saturday grid had some tough clueing, in tha...<br />This Saturday grid had some tough clueing, in that multiple answers could fit. So, waited for crosses.<br /><br />Write-overs....STARTEDOVER/STARTEDANEW, EEL/AHI.<br /><br />Last to fill was the Natick (yes I’m calling it today) OCTAVO and TELOS. The “T”, actually. <br /><br />I went to the store yesterday, as I turned down the frozen aisle I just started laughing. There were no EGGO and similar products, completely cleaned out. So, America apparently has a huge need for TP, Gel, and now Waffles. <br /><br />Waffles, geez. Cannot live without them. Plenty of cereal though.<br /><br />My son said where he is, there was no chicken AND no eggs. I asked him if KFC, POPEYE’S and IHOP were still open for pickup/delivery, he said yes, and we both laughed. <br /><br />Bidets are sold out on AMAZON. I’m guessing shower heads with the hose attachment are next....think about it, haha.<br /><br />And of course, like in every emergency, guns are selling out. Because when they come for my waffles....<br /><br />Anyway...keep safe, see you Monday. AnonymousPVXhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10078186298428497941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-24708383253892489212020-03-21T12:41:13.171-05:002020-03-21T12:41:13.171-05:00Chiming in to admit defeat in the northwest. Not s...Chiming in to admit defeat in the northwest. Not so familiar with the original, physical meaning of "cathartic," nor with the use of Epsom salts that way. Nice to learn from you brainiacs! Thanks to all, especially to Joe Deeney and Husker Gary.NaomiZhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02024038841021678864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-42012031231972244882020-03-21T12:26:59.022-05:002020-03-21T12:26:59.022-05:00you don't use "safe" with the word &...you don't use "safe" with the word "haven." haven, by definition, means "a place of safety."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com