tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post1818148981368497909..comments2024-01-25T10:14:06.567-08:00Comments on L.A. Crossword Confidential: TUESDAY, February 16, 2010 — Nancy KavanaughOrangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12433254398377357737noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post-18981774118476297462010-02-18T21:31:13.903-08:002010-02-18T21:31:13.903-08:00I really enjoyed reading this article.I really enjoyed reading this article.Term Papershttp://www.flashpapers.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post-45765491774451028392010-02-17T07:39:40.161-08:002010-02-17T07:39:40.161-08:00@Tinbeni I have lived in TAMPA (Never liked the mo...@Tinbeni I have lived in TAMPA (Never liked the moniker TAMPAN as in the billboards TAMPANS are rushing to ...), but anyway I had a hard time trying to fit PENSACOLA into the five squares (haha) as that is a "Western FL City" to me.<br /><br />I'm just trying to make a fair call here as I type in my captcha <b>reffe</b>xyzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08287781952915413013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post-63437792666645010162010-02-16T19:31:13.764-08:002010-02-16T19:31:13.764-08:00There are 10 types of people in the world, those w...There are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.<br /><br />I thought the theme answers were very good for a Tuesday. But I didn't get clue before I solved it<br />with the fill-ins.<br /><br />Kobain was a very interesting fellow. I didn't get into his music until after he died.badspelllernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post-87569637704232159302010-02-16T19:25:32.436-08:002010-02-16T19:25:32.436-08:00Here's another sad thing, my capcha is MEWEATE...Here's another sad thing, my capcha is MEWEATER, I know @crazycatlady is NOT going to like that.chefwenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03999206352243329280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post-56174350005123198862010-02-16T17:46:24.386-08:002010-02-16T17:46:24.386-08:00It's my Baltimore sister's 64th birthday, ...It's my Baltimore sister's 64th birthday, and fat Tuesday. The city still hasn't plowed their street. The cats are going nutz. They're used to warm weather.<br /><br />@Tinbeni - I always say, "As long as you're up, get me a Grants," because most people are too young to know the magazine ad. <br />How about rum? I have a framed magazine ad of Bacardi Limon, Rocks, Tonic, Juice, Magic. Besides it's being blue and yellow, my kitchen colors, it is a picture of the Twin Towers dancing under a new moon. Turns out, they are in denial of the existence of this ad. I like it anyway. <br /><br />@Gethsemane - I'm presently listening to a radio show about a new NYS law on the rights of families of the dying.<br />Anyway, in Italian, they say, instead of "the late..." they say "il fu..." which literally means "the was." Being a WASP, I'm not bothered speaking of the dead. The Italians usually have to include various incantations to ward off the evil eye when speaking of the dead. So, "Kurt Cobain, may he find peace."Sfingihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06903616949048940858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post-30134563389110934142010-02-16T16:52:54.049-08:002010-02-16T16:52:54.049-08:00Going from the sublime to the ridiculous---
All a...Going from the sublime to the ridiculous---<br /><br />All about SYLPHS in the August Bournonville ballet <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Sylphide" rel="nofollow">LA SYLPHIDES</a><br /><br />I've always liked Catherine OHARA on SCTV... a brilliant comedienne. Here's something for an after dinner chucklefest.<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96I1GiHmNG4" rel="nofollow">CATHERINE O'HARA</a>JOHNSNEVERHOMEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13447455788629988277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post-89907418230253768102010-02-16T15:53:27.558-08:002010-02-16T15:53:27.558-08:00Hand up for OILman, my only write-over. Had to ge...Hand up for OILman, my only write-over. Had to get the baseball stolen base guy from crosses, so he was last to fall with the Y in THEY'RE.<br /><br />Cute, little Tuesday puzzle.chefwenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03999206352243329280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post-79095980051151967072010-02-16T14:19:47.227-08:002010-02-16T14:19:47.227-08:00@Gesthemine, my bad. Thanks for explaining.@Gesthemine, my bad. Thanks for explaining.lit.dochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06729199575329286046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post-88401929835448005982010-02-16T13:41:09.849-08:002010-02-16T13:41:09.849-08:00Nice little puzzle, and thanks for the shout-out. ...Nice little puzzle, and thanks for the shout-out. <br /><br />I liked the cross of bones (up) and trout, they do have a lot of pesky little bones. Bones up does not relay the urgency of an all-nighter to me either. Haven't we seen orient or orientate a lot the last few weeks?<br /><br />I'm going to a Western Florida city the end of this month. Naples. Just to warm my bones for a few days after all the snow.machttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06794371617847975218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post-83955579908080072362010-02-16T13:38:38.890-08:002010-02-16T13:38:38.890-08:00It was simply that it was 10:30 EST and no one had...It was simply that it was 10:30 EST and no one had posted yet. I clearly referred to the comments section, not the blog, in my post. Lonely might have better, but no offence was intended. <br />Orange is clearly correct about Cobain vs Lennon, but somehow "The late Kurt Cobain" is indelibly stuck in my head.Gestheminenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post-71647791200082787112010-02-16T13:34:04.091-08:002010-02-16T13:34:04.091-08:00@Rube
Living about 15 miles west of it, TAMPA prev...@Rube<br />Living about 15 miles west of it, TAMPA prevented my first thought. Ham and Cheese sounds a lot better than Mac & Cheese to me.<br /><br />@Sfingi<br />Dylan is an actor. Reyes plays for the NY Mets.<br />I will admit, when I see some of the more obtuse sports clues in puzzles I groan. Thinking about how my lady friends here are reacting. Then I remember some of the music stuff that stalls me.<br /><br />Personally I want an ALL MATH and names of various Scotch brands puzzle.<br />Then I could die a happy man.Tinbenihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14661395078047234853noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post-91014263880420400062010-02-16T13:06:06.108-08:002010-02-16T13:06:06.108-08:00@Orange, your 11:02 post leaves me both sad and an...@Orange, your 11:02 post leaves me both sad and angst-ridden, the latter because it makes me wonder if I misunderstood Gesthemine's early post, which I took to be a patronizing remark about Puzzle Girl's understandably brief write-up.lit.dochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06729199575329286046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post-82741481461867518052010-02-16T12:49:43.603-08:002010-02-16T12:49:43.603-08:00After finishing this puzzle I drew circles around ...After finishing this puzzle I drew circles around the answers that I found annoying to me, and I had too many of them for my taste today. I'll spare everyone the list.<br /><br />Positives for me were the decent theme plus (pun intended) RAPPORT, CRASS, SYLPH, DMBRYO, ORIENT and PREAMP.Van55https://www.blogger.com/profile/15904942044695917615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post-37805681698073741442010-02-16T12:37:57.355-08:002010-02-16T12:37:57.355-08:00I blew this one. I had the theme and elements - ex...I blew this one. I had the theme and elements - except the salary. I had "half of SALARY" rather than SIXFIGURESALARY. Thinking like a retired civil servant, "Contented wi' little and cantie wi' mair." After that, nothing would come in the middle West. <br />I Googled Aleutian Islands and there was a list of 150+. I picked the wrong one (Adak). I refuse to study Alaska until I'm sure Barbie won't be President.<br />Also, a personal Natick at DYLAN (sports) cross WAV.<br />Help me. WTF is WAV?<br /><br />How about a mathy one, like the Roman Numeral ones wherein you translate 1101 or the like from a decimal. Unlucky number? for instance. <br />I could also go for hexadecimal using letters and only zero and one of the numbers. <br /><br />Hubster (67) misses working. Or I'm driving him nutz. Spent a better part of the day filling out a long application for him.Sfingihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06903616949048940858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post-36035285322272205412010-02-16T12:37:41.407-08:002010-02-16T12:37:41.407-08:00Didn't anyone else have hAm before MAC?
Onl...Didn't anyone else have hAm before MAC? <br /><br />Only 4 pinks here, but Remington STEELE is part of our culture as is the name COBAIN, (but I didn't know who he was - spelled it with a K at first). Leaving Catherine Who and Whatshisface McDermott as the only true pinks.<br /><br />All gettable with crosses making it a pleasant Tues puzz.Rubehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04773241241484881566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post-46661947203020817272010-02-16T12:14:57.460-08:002010-02-16T12:14:57.460-08:00@Orange - Thanks for making us sad again : )@Orange - Thanks for making us sad again : )CrazyCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00245025301434920905noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post-53722853083963111452010-02-16T12:11:36.520-08:002010-02-16T12:11:36.520-08:00Another fun SOLVE this morning. I finally sucked ...Another fun SOLVE this morning. I finally sucked it up and paid for the NYT and thought this one was definitely easier.<br />@Lit.doc I had the same thought RE: CRAMS instead of BONES UP. BONES UP just sounds a little CRASS to me.<br /><br />Knew Fort ORD immediately. I once went to Marina, CA just north of ORD to escape an August heat wave. I froze the entire time. Never saw the sun, could barely see the ocean it was so foggy and cold. Spent the week reading by the fireplace. <br /><br />Thanks for the above explanation of WAV - an unknown for me. ELHI and PREAMP were both new as well. ORANGS was a wild guess. I remembered ATTU finally BRAVO! Hand up for OILMAN<br /><br />I'm late commenting because I spent an hour at the gym with a personal trainer doing lots of REPs. Tonight I will probably need to DRAW a NICE HOT BATH. <br /><br />Oh and I liked the AVON and ARPEL cross.CrazyCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00245025301434920905noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post-5283886231130554332010-02-16T11:16:21.625-08:002010-02-16T11:16:21.625-08:00@PuzzleGirl:
I think it was you who mentioned in t...@PuzzleGirl:<br />I think it was you who mentioned in the comments last week about going by first initial/middle name (and maybe something about hyphenating). Well, I've been waiting all week till you were the blogger of the day to say that I'm a proud F. Middle Hyphenated-Lastname myself ;) Why it was relevant in the first place I've long since forgotten, but I've wanted to post it all week so I did, LMBO. I blame preggo brain.<br /><br />Oh and I've started referring to my dear husband as GespenstsMann :)<br /><br />Oh, and the puzzle?? Glad you asked. I liked it fine. I enjoyed the theme. Straightforward solve. I did particularly like the ZEROS/ONES pair and the MOB/MELEE pair.gespensthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17345498521904521489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post-79721035266358973252010-02-16T11:02:58.920-08:002010-02-16T11:02:58.920-08:00Everyone will die someday.
This comments section ...Everyone will die someday.<br /><br />This comments section had lost its sadness, so I thought we could all use a reminder of our mortality.Orangehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12433254398377357737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post-72327461360002600222010-02-16T10:12:05.714-08:002010-02-16T10:12:05.714-08:00Was absolutely shreeeding this one till I hit a br...Was absolutely shreeeding this one till I hit a brick wall in central California. Nothing. Tick tick tick. Nothing.<br /><br />My personal solving lesson for the day: when that happens, check the surrounding words for altenate forms or answers. Focused entirely the unfilled areas and didn't question OILMAN for far too long.<br /><br />@Orange, thank's for your temperate response to Gesthemine's "sad little" post.<br /><br />@parsan, .WAV = Waveform Audio File Format (but why V?), and is a compressed file format used because audio files tend to be gigundous.<br /><br />@JNH, zero can pluralize as either zeros or zeroes. Not a Dan Quail "you misspelled 'potatos' [sic]" moment. And "mac & cheese" is common usage. Can't say I've ever seen "mac. & cheese" or "mac' & cheese".<br /><br />@all who've commented re "all-nighter", hell yeah. The word is CRAMMED.<br /><br />@Burner, I regret to report that elhi is actually in the dictionary, though I can't imagine why.<br /><br />Can't seem to get ATTU to stick in my CW101 file. It might just as well be clued "Elicits 'gesundheit' when mentioned in Alaska?" for all the good "Westernmost Aleutian island" does me.lit.dochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06729199575329286046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post-68156781438213059062010-02-16T09:41:42.006-08:002010-02-16T09:41:42.006-08:00Hand up for oilman instead of OILRIG.
A .WAV fi...Hand up for oilman instead of OILRIG. <br /><br />A .WAV file means music the way a .JPG means pictures or .DOC means a word document -- they're computer file name extensions.<br /><br />I agree with @johnsneverhome about ZEROS. It should be ZEROES. (I also though the title of Dan Naddor's Sunday puzzle a week ago should have been HEROES, not HEROS.)Margarethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08341231728699840926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post-53970471861611273462010-02-16T09:16:20.185-08:002010-02-16T09:16:20.185-08:00@the redanman--No, Ft. ORD a given. Also Gen. Pow...@the redanman--No, Ft. ORD a given. Also Gen. Powell, RET, came immediately. <br /><br />Also had oilman for OILRIG.<br /><br />Can someone explain 64d. WAV?parsannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post-38909717336791525712010-02-16T09:11:12.645-08:002010-02-16T09:11:12.645-08:00@Any-none-muss 0901 - just missed your post, thank...@Any-none-muss 0901 - just missed your post, thanks learned that and ATTU todayxyzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08287781952915413013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post-45774817078259789732010-02-16T09:05:14.466-08:002010-02-16T09:05:14.466-08:00Waaaaaaaaay more fun than the NYT and for me a lit...Waaaaaaaaay more fun than the NYT and for me a little easier, I suppose, but definitely much more fun.<br /><br />Nice to see 33A clued with other than the NYT reference @Gesthemine aludes to in his gripe session; made the idea of 'process' more clear. Funny how relatively obscure words show up in both on the same day such as this one.<br /><br />Why was this more fun?<br /><br />15A & 46A were a good clever pair.<br />33A as above, more clearly "general" not single faith "specific" process (RITE)<br />38D great word SYLPH - that's a rare one in Xword to me<br />REBAR is great word, fun to say<br />44A is mystery to me, maybe I'm missing the forest somewhere?<br />62D needed a cross as was a little vague - I say good one in retropsect, it was all there<br /><br />and ...<br />61D (TMI) Should this be Pa. or PA? or are both OK?<br /><br />60A for me was gimme, was this hard for those not familiar with <b>CA</b>lifornia?<br /><br />Very enjoyable, notable lack of tedium compared to first puzzle of the day ...<br /><br />now to finish Sunday NYT which I started latexyzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08287781952915413013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post-6516705680760633742010-02-16T09:01:55.992-08:002010-02-16T09:01:55.992-08:00@Burner10 ELHI is a purported abbreviation for Ele...@Burner10 ELHI is a purported abbreviation for Elementary / High School. Some claim it's commonly used in educational publishing circles.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com