We have our fifth offering from a Nancy Salomon, Jeff Chen disciple, and her first Friday. Debbie takes advantage of the beauty and variety of the English language. RUED and RUDE, ROWED and ROAD are clear sound a-likes. DUCKED and DUCT, PASSED and PAST may vary geographically, but the concept is the same. You take a familiar phrase and change the first word for a sound a-like word that creates a new meaning. Like all punny or sound a-likes, once you get the idea, they are easy but it requires filling lots of perps. These are all reasonable if not dramatically funny. Debbie also fits in some nice long fill WEBINAR, FIXINGS, SNARLED, THERMOS and two that are as long as theme entries- RARING TO GO and EYE OPENERS. On to the solve!!!!
16A. Played hooky from the office? : DUCKED WORK (10). DUCT work.
26A. Was sorry to have set the alarm? : RUED AWAKENING (13). RUDE awakenings.
46A. Made it through the Civil War? : PASSED HISTORY (13). PAST history.
60A. Reached the 2016 Olympics the hard way? : ROWED TO RIO (10). ROAD to Rio.
Across
1. Quick : RAPID.
6. Zurich-based sports org. : FIFA. Fédération Internationale de Football Association, not only the governing body of world wide futbol, but also beach soccer!
10. Dis : RIP.
13. Metaphorical title word in a McCartney-Wonder hit : EBONY. Ivory is suing SONY.
14. Major composition : OPUS. We have seen this often lately.
15. Dr Pepper Museum city : WACO. I had no idea. LINK.
18. Journalist/author Larson : ERIK. A very talented author.
19. Telegram period : STOP.
20. Long in the tooth : OLD. which is how I am feeling, not being able to walk, unaided.
21. Texas-Louisiana border river : SABINE. now that clues must be PC, we get this river.
I am sure our cajun contingent jumped all over this CSO.
23. "Without further __ ... " : ADO.
25. Taco toppings : FIXINGS.
31. Random selection : ANY.
32. Give a halfhearted effort : DOG IT. We use dog in many ways. READ.
33. Gratified and then some : SATED.
36. Pizzeria staples : PIES.
38. Romantic dining spot : PATIO. Never thought of that as a romantic spot, but that is just me.
40. Bush advisor : ROVE. Karl. No politics but you can READ his slant.
41. You can skip it : STONE. One of many fun clues.
43. Piaggio transport : VESPA. Interesting HISTORY.
45. X or Y preceder : GEN.
49. Lunchbox container : THERMOS. Vacuum sealed container. A valid trademark? The CASE.
51. "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" airer : NPR. National Public Radio.
52. Small creek : RUNLET. Nope. Never heard of it.
53. Meet at the poker table : SEE. I'll see you $1,000,000.00 and raise you...does anybodt watch the WSOP ?
55. Hound sound : YELP.
59. Downwind : ALEE.
63. Joker, for one : CARD.
64. Continental divide : URAL. Europe and Asia. LESSON.
65. "Buffy" spin-off : ANGEL. David Boreanaz has gone seamlessly from Buffy to Angel to Bones.
66. Superhero symbol : ESS.
67. They're fixed shortly after being intentionally broken : EGGS. Convoluted but cute clue.
68. Crystalline stone : GEODE.
Down:
1. Bench mates? : REDS. Really fun deception, as Hall of Famer Johnny Bench played for the Cincinnati Reds.
2. Bump up against : ABUT. A great word for Cartman.
3. Little, to Luis : POCO.
4. Rubber stamp partner : INK PAD.
5. Highlight provider : DYE. Those nice highlights in your hair.
6. Barnyard regular : FOWL.
7. 2001 Apple debut : IPOD. How time flies.
8. Lab coat : FUR. We continue with witty cluing using the capital letter starting the clue to attempt to deceive.
9. Welcomes warmly, as a visitor : ASKS IN. Of course, "ask sin" might be a warm greeting.
10. Ready in a big way : RARING TO GO.
11. Cupcake cover : ICING. Alliteration.
12. Uses a fireplace tool : POKES. That is why it is called poker.
15. Online workshop : WEBINAR. Very big in the law world.
17. The Platters' genre : DOO WOP. According to the dictionary it is a style of pop music marked by the use of close harmony vocals using nonsense phrases, originating in the US in the 1950s. LISTEN?
22. x or y follower : AXIS.
24. Senior, to Junior : DAD.
25. Amulet : FETISH. We tend to think more of behavioral fetishes.
26. Emulates Eminem : RAPS.
27. Meter or liter : UNIT.
28. Revelations : EYE OPENERS. Nice long fill.
29. Plants used to make tequila : AGAVES.
30. Cashed, as a forged check : KITED. Sorry, kiting has nothing to do with forgery. Check kiting is a form of check fraud, involving taking advantage of the float to make use of non-existent funds in a checking or other bank account. In this way, instead of being used as a negotiable instrument, checks are misused as a form of unauthorized credit. (per wiki).
34. "... happily __ after" : EVER. The fairy title of life.
35. Say no to : DENY.
37. Tangled : SNARLED.
39. Put in one's two cents : OPINED.
42. Mrs. Cullen in Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" : ESME. Played by Elizabeth Reaser.
44. Venomous snake : ASP.
47. "I know, right?" : SO TRUE.
48. Sign next to free samples : TRY ONE.
49. Hint : TRACE. Only reminds me of Hodgins.
50. Luau entertainment : HULAS.
53. Gala giveaways : SWAG. The famous Hollywood swag bags now worth about $40,000.00 at the Oscars.
54. "Electric" swimmers : EELS.
56. "For that reason ... " : ERGO. Latin word co-opted by English.
57. Told a fantastic story, perhaps : LIED.
58. North __ : POLE. A little late for Santa.
61. URL ending : ORG.
62. Identify on Facebook : TAG. A prefect segue, as tag you the reader are IT, as I have had my say with all the typos and errors that a human can create. Because there were so many words filled by the downs, this was pretty easy. As for the theme, YMMV. lemonade out.
55 comments:
Greetings!
Thanks to Debbie and Lemon!
Definitely non-trivial, but made it through!
Perped and WAGged were FIFA, EBONY, ERIK, SABINE, DOG IT, URAL, REDS, WEBINAR, DOO WOP, KITED and ESME.
More rain here.
Have a great day!
{B, B, B, B+, B+, C+.}
There was a GEN-Xer from WACO
Who never PASSED geography, ERGO
A Texas RUNLET or stream
To the river SABINE
Was how he planned to ROW down TO RIO.
Every EBONY STONE has a dream
To be a GEODE with a beautiful scene!
Like the yolk in an EGG
Or the beer in a keg,
An EYE-OPENER inside to be SEEN!
A DOG, IT can not be DENIED
Is an ANGEL, with FUR on the outside;
A producer of YELPS,
And also of whelps;
But it's SO TRUE, that one never has LIED!
Did you EVER think that it was odd
That when Apple introduced the I-POD
Teens began to zone out
Like that movie about
Pod people who invaded roughshod?
Music may lead to dances like HULA,
Or RAPS about SWAG and moolah!
But humming DOO-WOP
In class, teach would STOP,
And your knuckles she'd RAP with a rula!
This OLD world is too RAPID by far.
Memes and fake news replace N.P.R.!
Facebook TAGS and POKES
Are friendships for folks!
A classroom lecture's now a Ted WEBINAR!
Good morning!
Yay, I got the theme...once I changed RAMS to REDS and IMAC to IPOD. (Thought Bench might have been a football player. Guess not.) WACO and SABINE were gimmes for this pseudo-Texan. Bet we'll hear some gripes about those two answers this morning. On trips to LA the Sabine River Bridge on I-10 was normally our 90-minute mark, and the "Welcome to Louisiana" rest area just beyond was the first pitstop. The Sabine (pronounced suh-bean') is not a monster river, but it's not a RUNLET (learning moment), either. Thanks, Debbie and Lemon.
Good Morning, Lemonade and friends. This was one of the easiest Friday puzzles in a long time. I enjoyed the theme. RUED AWAKENING was my Rosetta Stone.
Lots of fun clues. I liked the Lab Coat = FUR.
Smiled at the SABINE River. The RUNLET, however, was a new word for me.
More rain ahead. Stay dry.
QOD: You’ve got to be honest; if you can fake that, you’ve got it made. ~ George Burns (Jan. 20, 1896 ~ Mar. 9, 1996)
Nice theme, which gave some help in the solve. I'm surprised that I had no writeovers today.
Hello Puzzlers -
Part of what Hahtoolah said. Rued Awakening gave me the theme, but even with that there were some very sticky spots. Didn't get Bench mates, didn't know the base phrase Road to Rio, didn't realize/recall that the Ural was the arbitrary divide, and so on. Got there in the end.
A doable Friday, needed ESP to get WEBINAR, learning moment of the day. Always a plus.
Caught the theme with DUCKED-WORK and slowly made it through the grid.
Cheers!
I loved this puzzle, even though it was a little easy for Friday. Even I got it with no help or erasures, but there were plenty of unknowns. Well-placed perps rescued me.
Lemonade's link to the Thermos/thermos mumbo-jumbo reminds me of why most folks hate lawyers (until they need one). I went to a Christmas party hosted by an attorney who was active in our sailboat racing club. He provided instructions which included a left turn, even though a right turn was called for. Instead of doing a mea culpa, he argued that his instructions were correct and all the people who complained were just reading them wrong.
My first though for "bush advisor" was waxer. Oh - THAT Bush, the one with the ubiquitous whiteboard.
Thanks, Debbie, for a terrific, clever puzzle, and to Lemonade for your usual clever comments.
I stumbled early and skipped around trying to work this puzzle but found my way while on the ROWED TO RIO. After that filling the rest was a cakewalk. The Johnny Bench clue delayed the NW from being completed until the end. And I agree with you Lemonade- the clue for KITED is wrong. Check kiting involved using multiple banks writing checks around a circle of banks to give the appearance of having a lot of cash when in reality there is nothing in any account.
ANGEL, ESME, VESPA, FETISH- perps all. I never knew that a FETISH was anything other than a behavior. That's an EYE OPENER.
FIFA- never knew it until all the scandals broke wide open.
RUNLET- that's a word I've never heard of but everything else fit so I let it remain.
THERMOS- we already had another sealed vacuum container this week-YETI
SABINE river- a gimme since I grew up on the TX-LA border and own worthless inherited property- 55 acres in LA, 63 acres in TX, both less than 5 miles apart and less than 1 mile from Arkansas, where I inherited a lot that I let go for a tax sale. Nobody wants to buy the larger properties but taxes still have to be paid.
I liked this theme. After I found it, the rest was fairly easy. I missed one cell, the Y in EBONY and DYE. Silly me, I never thought of hair highlights.
I don't think of a PATIO as a romantic spot.
I agree about KITE.
SABINE reminds me of a 1954 movie, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Six of the brothers decided to follow the example of the taking of the Sabine women and captured brides for themselves. I remember this because it was my first and only date with a guy I was dying to go out with. When he picked me up my brother purposely called him by a rival's name. He sat through the entire movie and the rest of the evening in stony silence and that was end for us. Darn brother!!
This was a RAPID run with a fun theme. Easy enough, too, even with the unknown SABINE, ESME (as clued), and REDS took a while since I took Bench literally but only DUCKEDWORK fit. Never heard of RUNLET either and learned of the Pepsi museum's location.
Road to Rio was one of the Bob Hope/Bing Crosby movies, if I recall correctly.
Thank you, Debbie Ellerin and Lemonade for your usual zesty offering.
Have a peaceful day, everyone!
Good morning everyone.
Very pleased. Got it all without lookups. A slog, tho. Misdirection, and arcane cluing. Favorite was lab coat: FUR. Got the gimmick with RUED AWAKENING. Well done! Had foal before FOWL. WACO was a WAG with an 'O' hint. Never liked the word WEBINAR. Also questioned KITING. Thanks, Lemon.
ROVE - Ran into him once in the head at FLL airport.
RUNLET - I've heard of runs as stream synonyms, but not RUNLET. A new learning.
Tis Friday and I thought this was going to be a DNF after I finished my first swing through the Across clues and only had a few words filled in: RAPID, FIFA, OPUS, ADO, and ALEE. But Debbie was more than generous with the Down clues and the grid started to fill in. Nicely done Debbie.
I basically agree with Big Easy's first paragraph, except for me it was the RUED AWAKENING that gave me the theme. Even though I filled in KITED, I knew that that clue wasn't right.
We were going to go to the beach for a week or two this morning, but woke up to freezing rain coating the cars and the roads. So, being retired and not really having any hard and fast schedule, we decided to wait until tomorrow when the temperature is predicted to be in the 50's. I don't mind rain or snow, but freezing rain is a wholly different animal.
I hope it's warmer where everyone is today.
Good morning all!
What a fun Friday puzzle- thank you Debbie! Loved the theme, which I got with RUEDAWAKENING.
Enjoyed the clever clues for FUR, EGGS, SEE and STONE
Learning moments were: FIFA, SABINE, RUNLET and KITED
Wonderful write up Lemonade - so many great links such as WACO (Dr Pepper is my favorite soda) URAL, HULA ( had to LOL at Peter Griffin in a grass skirt) VESPA ( my dream vehicle along with a Mini Cooper)
We had many FIXINGS on our tacos I made for dinner last night. Yum :)
SWAG - my BIL runs sound at various gigs around the country. At his latest one, part of the swag he got was a beautiful kate spade handbag. My SIL was very happy to receive it. She posted it on FB but I still don't know what event BIL worked to get a $350 purse.
My "doh!" moment was REDS. I can't believe I didn't think of my beloved Cincinnati team, especially Johnny. I thought it was 'Reps' as in bench weight lifting. Of course, I was scratching my head at 'Pucked work' until I saw the blog and DUCKEDWORK. Ooops, lol ;)
@IM- your comments yesterday regarding TV shows made me smile. I also haven't recovered from Will's death.
Rain here today, too. Although the temps are still unseasonably warm which I'm always grateful for in Winter. Snow in next weeks forecast, though.
Have a happy Friday!
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Musings
-After correcting three words, EYEOPENERS appeared and I was king of the hill
-An EYEOPENER (3:28) about the Civil War and other things
-So corrupt!!
-This National Championship trophy used to be sponsored by Sears
-I’ve never sent, received or even seen a telegram. You?
-SO TRUE? You’d better cut that PIE into 6 pieces, I could never eat 8
-There was a lot of Campbell’s Vegetable Soup in my Thermos
-RIVULET was one too many letters
-“Joker’s work with aces, straights and flushes” when I played
-My first “Bench mates” were SUBS
-An ESS in ICING
-DOO WOP or RAP? Not even close!
-“DENY thy father and refuse thy name…”
Never heard of RUNLET. Lemon is right about kiting checks. I did it when I was dead broke at one point in my life, and used it as a bridge to where I was solvent again. Never got caught. As for CW, never put together REDS with "Bench mates" even after I filled it with perps. I looked at it for a while, and was, like, "What?" and moved on. Overall a fun CW, thanx, DE!! Terrific write-up, thanx, Lemonade!! Nice limericks today, but too many to take the time to rate each one, Owen. I especially liked the one about getting your knuckles rapped with a "rulla". Anyway, thanx, Owen. Finally, after three weeks, that persistent dreadful cold has relinquished its hold on me. Finally able to sleep lying down. What a relief. Also, finally got my pool chemistry organized after getting it all whacked out by floating too many tablets. After thirty years with this pool, you would think I would know better than to overload the pool with chlorine stabilizer, making the very high level of chlorine ineffective because the stabilizer left no "Free" chlorine. Chlorine level was twice what it should have been, but pool get getting full of algae anyway. Then the lightbulb above my head finally turned on, and, after a month, have pH, free chlorine, stabilizer, calcium, etc FINALLY back to where it should be. Oi.
Husker, those first EYEOPENER questions were easy...but those last three were TOUGH! BTW, how did you come out with the tech and the IPAD?
Well this was a fun Friday. Thanks Debbie and Lemonade.
At first I thought it was going to be a tough day but as oc4beach said, the perps were generous and I just kept going back and forth.
The light dawned on the ROWED to RIO and I smiled.
Hand up for Foal before FOWL and not knowing RUNLET (Rivulet wouldn't fit).
KITED, NPR and ROVE were all perps thankfully.
I knew the musical term POCO a POCO and that helped there.
The last to fill was the cross of 1D and 16A. I had no idea about Bench and the REDs until I came here. I was doing the alphabet run and did not reach P like Bunny M. I knew that Rich would not allow ReFs but the results did Sorta fit the clues in both directions. LOL.
Off to watch your American celebration (or not!). We Canadians are waiting with bated breath. Our current Prime Minister's father, Pierre Trudeau said in 1969 that "living next to the U.S. is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly or temperate the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grunt". Still true today.
CanadianEh, you're welcome.
Good Morning:
I liked this puzzle a lot and caught the clever theme early at Rued Awakening. Hand up for foal/fowl and needed perps for Sabine, Webinar, and a few others. Like others, fav was Lab coat=Fur. Overall, an enjoyable Friday solve.
Thanks, Debbie, good job and thanks, Lemony, for the informative write-up. (Sounds as though your sciatica is still troublesome. Bummer!)
Have a great day.
Have you heard RUN used as part of a name of a creek or stream, as in Sand Run? I have seen several creeks named RUN. But, apart from the name, people would speak of it as the creek, not the run.
There is a small town in PA named Warrior Run. A friend would tell this joke:
Stranger: What town is this.
Me: Warrior Run
Stranger: No I won't run, just tell me the name of the town.
Me: I said, Warrior Run
Stranger, becoming angry:I said I won't run.
So I have no problem with runlet, a very small run or creek.
HG: Amazing answers to EYE OPENING! And these people can vote? As a teacher, I wondered what happened to the lessons year after year on the Civil War and the American Revolutionary War. Discouraging.
I have been of voting age for 14 inaugurations. This is the first one I won't be watching, not even in snippets on the evening news.
Yellowrocks, it's a shame that you weren't able to watch the great example of American democracy that I was proud to watch.
Thanks, Debbie, for a fun puzzle. Loved the theme entries.... especially RUEDAWAKENING!
Nice write-up, as well, Lemonade.
Have a nice weekend to all!
HG, re "eyeopener." Absolutely unbelievable! Sad, embarrassing. I'm wondering how many students were from the State of Texas, the great bastion of academic standards. (Texas is rated at the bottom.)
oc4beach
To bad I can't send you some of my 80 degree, sunny weather.
Husker: Your "Eyeopener" link was one of the funniest of all time.
geez, how dumb are our college students? LOL !!!
Regardless how you voted, the way we transfer power, in a peaceful manner, is cool.
Cheers!
Gary:
During WWII in my neighborhood we would see the Western Union delivery man arrive with a batch of telegrams. As we watched, we knew which house had lost a soldier and though I was a wee lass of 5 and 6 in those years, I knew sadness would envelop that house. Only one of my uncles was in the war but he came home safely.
DNF, Waco/Webinar & a lot of stuff around eyeopener,
combined with a lack of patience caused me to cheat.
(yes, it was a rued awakening...)
Runlet was a new word for me,
& made me go looking.
Here are(some, but not all) Stream names in order of size.
Should you actually read this link,
(& I wouldn't blame you if you didn't)
you might be rewarded by learning the name
of the opposite of a river bank, or deepest part of a river,
and it is pronounced nothing like it is spelled.
(cue Jeopardy theme music here...)
Musings
-Otto, the “12-year-old” Apple Genius saw the problem immediately and had my MacBook Pro and me back on the road in 10 minutes.
-It’s hard to imagine anyone today could have a real perspective on our country if they have no knowledge of the Civil War
-A very powerful recounting of those telegrams (7:46) in Saving Private Ryan
Hi All!
An EGGcellent offering from Debbie. I had one lookup (I SEE, there's no u in Aguave [sic]) but otherwise a fun, if not confusing RUN(LET). I was confused 'cuz I really thought, after DUCK, were were looking for FOWL phrases - Drake had to be part of 26a, no? NO. Thanks Debbie.
Thanks for the expo Lem. Have you seen a chiro-QUACK-tor? Pop did for his sciatica and hasn't a problem for 6yrs running.
WOs: wAitnTOGO; FOaL; and I ocellated between AGAVE & Cactus until spell check.
ESPs: ESME; KITED (hand up for "Rich has 'splain' to do!"), FETISH
Fav: I'm going rogue - I really liked c/a for 63 as there's a double-double-entendre there. A Joker is a Riot, er, "What a CARD."
OK, FUR was cute too; Johnny Bench was a 2-liter UNIT of V8!
FLN - Bill G re: Lemony Snicket. This am I woke to an NPR promo for tomorrow's Wait-Wait featuring the director of Snicket. Just a bit of synchronicity [how was 26d not lip-SYNC?!?]. (I wonder, what type of SWAG do NPR guests get? I'm supposing a .ORG can only afford a THERMOS or tote.)
{A-,A,A-,B,B+,A+}. OKL, I thought you might have crossed universes. Anachronistic, however, is correct (IIRC), because it's out of time and/or place. I trust YR will enlighten us IIRiC'ly.
HG - Telegrams only in movies of PAst HISTORY (@3:40 - if that clip doesn't make you too well-up you ain't human [or your fever's broke]).
The quiz? I missed the Snookie (who?) Q & who's married to whom. I'm the BUTt of that joke(?)
Unclefred - I found your cold. Glad you're feeling better.
Hahtoola - Loved the QOD! Cheers, -T
Well, tough morning for me, and not just the rainy, stormy, blustering weather. Kind of a "rued awakening" for me on several fronts, including the puzzle, which I just couldn't get started on until I cheated on a few top items. But then, mercifully, things began to fall into place, and I did enjoy the theme and some of the clues--the one for EGGS being my favorite. So, thanks, Debbie, and so sorry to hear about your walking problem, Lemonade. I loved your cartoon for HULAS, by the way--cheered me up.
Had FOAL instead of FOWL at first, like others, and never heard of KITED.
Have a good weekend coming up, everybody.
Loved "Lab coat" = FUR, although it is the one fill I missed. My old walnut insisted on FIMA instead of FIFA, hence (or ERGO?) my error.
It's a tough morning, as Misty says. I'm watching the DC cops tossing flash-bangs at protestors, and trying to stay UN-political in line with this blog's guidelines. Not easy to do as the band music keeps stirring my old patriotic nerves while the TV lingers on conflicting imagery. But I understand that others in this corner may hold different perspectives and are managing to keep their feelings UN-posted. I'll stop this almost-rant - out of sincere respect for them.
CED - New word! Rill. Yeah, I read it all and that was worth it. Now, if I can recall it later... Thx.
Unclefred - Pop KITE'd cheques (Hi NC!), or so he told me, when he travel'd between NY, MI, and IL. to keep things afloat (that was mid-'70's) -- can't get away with that now-a-days. No shame in working the system for your family. See: Hahtoola's QOD :-) -T
Hello all I have been busy again with the Bayou Gardener forum today a few members are coming over and we gonna make Orange Marmalade ~!~!
Pretty easy puzzle today. The R in WEBINAR stopped me for cross that was with it.
Crossed the SABINE many times going to Bridge City and Port Authur Tx. I have family over there. A lot of Cajuns over that way that migrated because of work. My two uncles were engineers in the plants.
Vendredi Enfin from Cajun Country ~!~!
AnonymousT, Say what? Will you please look it up and enlighten me? I don't know what you are referencing.
I was up all night with this dang cold. I'm as out of it is if I had four beers without the pleasant buzz. Making mistakes like crazy.
Having a bad day on the flight simulator,
keep getting shot down in flames...
In between daughters freaking out over inauguration day...
P.S. (while trying not to be political...)
I sent this text to daughter #1:
Just repeat after me:
"I will not let Trump ruin my day."
Repeat as often as necessary until you feel better...
(Also works for others on a T-Shirt.)
So I thought I would take a silly break:
I had no problem with ducked work...
Problem #1
Problem #2
Problem #3
Wait a sec? is this true?
Well, if you are going to row to Rio, you should do it in style.
Hmm,
I believe my post went into the Spam filter...
Watched the inauguration proceedings this morning, had a nice lunch date with LW, and didn't get to the puzzle until well after 1:00PM Pacific time. Enjoyed it. Learned a few things. Thanks to Debbie Ellerin for the puzzle and Lemonade714 for the write-up.
Such a nice bunch of people you all are; thanks and yes the score is still Sciatica 14
Lemonade 0.
Ah, those Middle Saxon words did me in, again.
You all know that there is a perfectly legitimate word for 52a, right? But it isn't 'runlet.' it's ...
run·nel
a narrow channel in the ground for liquid to flow through.
a brook or rill.
a small stream of a particular liquid.
"a runnel of sweat"
A big DNF, because I couldn't get past 'runnel' and died trying to figure out how 'tangled' at 37d could be 'snarned.' After Lemonade's scoring system: Anglo-Saxon words, 62; Michael, -0.
This week started very tough and seems to have gotten easier; what I mean is that the early week puzzles,were tough for that given day, the later days were easier, again compared to a previous week. So Monday was tough for a Monday, yesterday and today seem easy for a Thursday and Friday. Whew, that was a long walk.
Anyway, you have to wonder what side of this tomorrow will fall on.
YR - Oh, No! Not you too? Unclefred, you got us all sick :-)
To 'Splain: Yesterday, OKL had a verse where he "crossed" Star Trek's & Star Wars' universes. He said it was an anachronism. I understood that word as out of place AND/OR time - like a clock striking in the Bard's Julius Caesar. The dictionary says only 'time' but I think there's the connotation of place included. I say OKL's correct w/ his word choice but, I could be way off base. ERGO, I defer to you. [DW's not here :-)]
I can understand your confusion in my post... I meant 'oscillated' and I was "auto-corrected" to 'ocellated' which, if I'd meant it, would make me a bonafide comic genius. [look it up - to do w/ the EYE markings; EYE OPENER; +clip for Lemony Snicket - utter brilliance!]. Alas, I'm pedestrian. I also meant we were looking for FOWL... And to think, I didn't get 4 beers either :-(
CED - what post was IT eaten by the DOG?
OMK - "Man nod;" Yep, Mate...
Cheers, -T
I posted "it" twice
same result,,,
apparently you cannot mention "his" name today...
CED @6:17pm
By "his," are you referring to the fellow I call "Ubu"?
I'm tickled how the second syllable of the name is a homonym for "Boo"!
I'm sure many in this corner recognize the name, but for those who may be uncertain, I am comparing the unnameable "him" to the title character of an 1896 French play by Alfred Jarry, Ubu Roi. It is a satire about the title character, a man-child who through sadistic exploitation of societal norms becomes the emperor/dictator of his world. His careless use of power ends up destroying countries & murdering populations--all through his sadistic invasions and sheer ignorance.
Jarry accompanied the play with his own woodcuts of King Ubu. If the portrait is not clear enough, his aim is to show that Ubu is a Turd.
CED, your posts are both in spam folder. I'll post them both and you can delete the one you don't want.
Barbara got for me some CDs of Garrison Keillor and Prairie Home Companion. He makes me chuckle and smile whilst driving to the local espresso emporium. Then, when I have my macchiato appropriately sugared up, I settle down with my Nook and read. I finished one book and decided to reread another Dave Barry book, one of his best I think (though they're all really good). It's "Dave Barry Talks Back."
The place was full of lively high school kids seeking food, companionship and refuge from the rain. In spite of what they may tell their parents, there was no studying going on. I wonder what they thought of me, a geezer staring into an electronic gizmo and sporadically laughing until tears began to dilute my coffee.
Barbara had her last chemo appointment today. Both of us are really happy it's over. I hope the struggle with those unpleasant treatments yields the desired results. Yea for us!
OMK, thank you for your respect for this blog and it's readers. You continue to forgo the rules and ruin my enjoyment of the intended nonpolitized blog experience. Take your name calling and general whining to another place.
I see we were visited by the Blank ATM Card Scam.
Interesting that Karl Rove had an editorial in our TBTimes just above the xword.
I always thought of KITING as 'not nice' but not a mortal sin. One often cashed a check on Thursday night to keep on drinking and covered with Fridays deposit. It was important to know which bars moved money fast.
Speaking of golf, Phil just sank one from the sand. A genius.
REDS had to be right but this ol' bballer just couldn't get it.
I think a real romantic place to dine would be PAris.
I'm surprised Tin didn't 'splain that the difference between a rum and coke and a Cuba libre was the lime(as in lime-cola.
There must be another word besides anachronism for OOLA and ORION cavorting in the same 'lick.
Fun Friday, great write-up, great Private Ryan link(now I have to watch the movie)
WC
Tin: Thanks for the "Warm" thoughts.
This So. Lousiana native (cajun country, if not ethnically one) has no idea what you are talking about. Any of it. lol
21. Texas-Louisiana border river : SABINE. now that clues must be PC, we get this river.
I am sure our cajun contingent jumped all over this CSO.
Bill G., so glad Barbara's done with her chemo.
Agree with Anon: Can someone explain the politically correct bit regarding the SABINE River?
PASSED HISTORY was a bit painful: Past HISTORY is considered redundant. And remember, there is no need to be unnecessarily redundant.
Otherwise, loved the theme.
Thanks, you made me look it up! Previously, it was probably clued in relation to "The Rape of the Sabine Women". Now you can look it up.
Thank you once again, Argyle! Yes, I am familiar with "The Rape of the Sabine Women" from my college art history class.
The comment was a bit too cryptic for my Vulcan mind. Thank you!
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