tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post2596053391494538736..comments2024-01-25T10:14:06.567-08:00Comments on L.A. Crossword Confidential: THURSDAY, June 25, 2009 — John LampkinOrangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12433254398377357737noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post-50116118471794501832009-06-25T20:13:12.695-07:002009-06-25T20:13:12.695-07:00CPU Drive is a really bad clue, but I can't u...CPU Drive is a really bad clue, but I can't understand why anyone has a problem with BREASTWORK.<br /><br />http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&defl=en&q=define:breastwork&ei=aTtESsX_NYHFmQeE3pmuAg&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title<br /><br />Cheers!Jazzbumpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07337490817307473659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post-11714299274607919032009-06-25T15:51:35.397-07:002009-06-25T15:51:35.397-07:00PG, you're so funny. I like your comment abou...PG, you're so funny. I like your comment about the tractor and the dirtwork. Sounds like something I'd say.<br /><br />I was perturbed by the breastwork clue but now that some of you have enlightened me on what it is, it no longer vexes me.<br /><br />As for Sanford: what always irritates me about any one who cheats is the example it sets for the children. He's got 4 boys for God's sake! What does it say to them? I hope their mother really lets them know how this makes her feel and that maybe they should think about that as they go on to be men. I'm also glad that the wife didn't stand up there with him - that's tacky!<br /><br />Finally, thanks for NOT putting up a Backstreet Boys video, PG.Waynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16165259499917393643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post-6090030953843943212009-06-25T15:07:26.320-07:002009-06-25T15:07:26.320-07:00When entering dates into my genealogy database, I ...When entering dates into my genealogy database, I enter date, abbreviated three letter month, year, so today would be 25 JUN 2009. It's a standardization that leaves little room for error, as long as the person using the information knows the English names for the months.Crockett1947https://www.blogger.com/profile/06404431645533093707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post-4252260514735823132009-06-25T14:07:36.156-07:002009-06-25T14:07:36.156-07:00@Gary Lowe - You've never seen me typ.@Gary Lowe - You've never seen me typ.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post-18408263618600289102009-06-25T14:01:09.951-07:002009-06-25T14:01:09.951-07:00I think JUN is fairly common, for anyone who wants...I think JUN is fairly common, for anyone who wants standardized, 3-letter column headings. It's not like JANUAR or WEDNESDA, which you don't see often.<br /><br />- GarGary Lowenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post-14645498510487148732009-06-25T13:49:51.813-07:002009-06-25T13:49:51.813-07:00My hat's off to constructor Mr. Lampkin--alot ...My hat's off to constructor Mr. Lampkin--alot of work went into this puzzle and it was fun, clever, nicely-themed...and gave this relative newbie (what is a TYRO?) a nice sense of Thursday satisfaction...much more so than completing today's NYT-<br /><br />Had no trouble w BREASTWORKS only because I'm a New Englander and a Civil War buff...for anyone interested, many intriguing studies have been done of the all-importance of whether the Rebs or Union got to high ground first (eg, Round Tops at Gettysburg) and quickly built good breastworks. At Gettysburg it may have carried the days for the NORTH...<br /><br />What, no Pete Rose doing the HRTROT today! Dave STIEB and ERNIE ELS are much more appealing, even though the US Open is "history" for this year (I did like the tennis/Wimbledon refs)<br /><br />And ABE VIGODA, while again not a real noteworthy celeb, is an improvement over LAT's recent picks..(As Courteney COX is also)<br /><br />@puzzzlegirl you're so right-what is JUN doing as an abbrev for JUNE?<br /><br />A little known art history fact. The great Kandinsky was out for a walk one day w his protege, PAUL KLEE 59D. They saw a garter snake slithering down the country lane, first in almost linear shape, then curling up in a circle as it sensed the masters' presence.<br /><br />At that point, Kandinsky turned to Klee and said, "You know, Paul, a line is just a dot that went for a walk."<br /><br />Klee, dumbstruck by his teacher's insight, said: "Would you mind if I used that line?"<br /><br />Kandinsky, taking Klee literally, responded, "Sure, It's yours."<br /><br />So Klee got widely-known for being erudite as well as innovative, leading to an unfortunate estrangement with Kandinsky.For the rest of his ife, Kandinsky would leave a room whenever Klee's name came up, saying "He stole my line!"Charles Boglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15667976595355657752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post-32670691469950913372009-06-25T13:46:48.036-07:002009-06-25T13:46:48.036-07:00@Norm - actually, your temporizing my have delegit...@Norm - actually, your temporizing my have delegitimized my gripe. Googling BREASTWORKS shows sites where people actually are interested in BREASTWORKS, shows it's part of their vocabulary, not merely a list of definitions (some replete with pictures) which is what Googling BREASTWORK does.Sanford'sBackHomenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post-18549748053825940742009-06-25T12:59:14.960-07:002009-06-25T12:59:14.960-07:00Nice puzzle, but I'm sorry PG didn't treat...Nice puzzle, but I'm sorry PG didn't treat us to the Chinese students lip-synching a Back Street Boys' song - I laugh out loud every time I see it! I think it's called "That a-Way". <br /><br />I always love the idea of the Butterfly Effect. <br /><br />@PG: are all parents supposed to have stop watches at these meets?<br /><br />This morning my (young German) hairdresser said: "Times have really changed. It used to be that Republicans would be caught in tax fraud, Democrats in adultery. It seems to be the other way around now". I for one am so glad this man's wife stayed home.... She seems like a class act.<br />Completely agree with most of you: hypocrites should be called on breaking their own rules, but in general, people's private life is just that. Disappearing while in charge is not right and should have concequences.machttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06794371617847975218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post-70069354597631556732009-06-25T12:57:27.867-07:002009-06-25T12:57:27.867-07:00Actually, I'll temporize. BREASTWORKS is far ...Actually, I'll temporize. BREASTWORKS is far more common, so "Sanford'sBackHome" may have a legitimate gripe -- and definitely does about "CPU drives/DVDBURNERS"Normhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10032302346488486116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post-60764591087046132182009-06-25T12:52:25.832-07:002009-06-25T12:52:25.832-07:00I'll defend BREASTWORK as a perfectly good his...I'll defend BREASTWORK as a perfectly good historical military term. It's not even crossword-ese. Fun puzzle.Normhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10032302346488486116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post-41731997599212341612009-06-25T12:24:27.170-07:002009-06-25T12:24:27.170-07:00Izod's back in the high life again. They bough...Izod's back in the high life again. They bought the naming rights to a stadium. Is it the place the N.J. Nets play?Orangehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12433254398377357737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post-10991302215910662932009-06-25T12:19:28.747-07:002009-06-25T12:19:28.747-07:00easy Thursday puzzle.
Isn't Izod still aroun...easy Thursday puzzle. <br /><br />Isn't Izod still around? Or are people just wearing really old polo shirts?chefbeahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15195945085405126511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post-61348259195141855372009-06-25T10:59:08.250-07:002009-06-25T10:59:08.250-07:00I just plain liked how this puzzle came together. ...I just plain liked how this puzzle came together. Had "swim" at 1A, didn't look at 71A to see how this worked into an "extracurricular group", got all the answers and then "team" and then "Ah-HAH!" Fun. Good theme density. Got "all" the strokes, though you won't see any side-stroke races. And I recognized breastwork as something I've seen before--medieval siege, anyone? Thanks to the constructor/editor!Ruthnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post-74819010505238816612009-06-25T10:56:24.329-07:002009-06-25T10:56:24.329-07:00If you google "breastwork", the first im...If you google "breastwork", the first image is of a trench. Trust me.<br /><br />CPUs are physically measured in square millimeters. That's one mighty small DVD.<br /><br />But really, I just wanted to say that PG, you're brilliant.SethGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13753036404140901368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post-71848026482905234222009-06-25T10:39:52.925-07:002009-06-25T10:39:52.925-07:00I hated WORKBREAST! Just didn't make sense to...I hated WORKBREAST! Just didn't make sense to me. But thought the rest was pretty much like a Thursday solve (which are pretty hard for me).<br />Now about the Sanford Escapade, I have to side with Rex. It is a sad commentary how common adultery is these days. BUT, MIA is irresponsable for anyone, especially an elected official.eileenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08982438058437100914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post-66102323988069776062009-06-25T10:38:47.441-07:002009-06-25T10:38:47.441-07:00David letterman said: "It's crazy that th...David letterman said: "It's crazy that the governor of South Carolina went missing for a week and couldn't be reached. What if North Carolina had declared war on South Carolina?"<br /><br />FredFredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14376277682993763836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post-31264297536916101362009-06-25T09:14:41.829-07:002009-06-25T09:14:41.829-07:00I suppose I should like this puzzle after gettting...I suppose I should like this puzzle after gettting as far as I did on a Thursday - but I just don't like it. I started with not a single across but managed to have some luck with SE corner. Nothing came easy but had just enough to fill across with and pull together until I got BUTTERFLYEFFECT and CRAWLSPACE. I was trying to figure out what BUTTER had to do with CRAWL at first but then I figured it out. Managed to get everything straightened up. In then end had all but 16 blanks that I just couldn't fill. All of which surrounded names or obscure things that made no sense. Such as TYROS for Novices. Also couldn't get two of the splits 9A and 16A. Still I suppose not to bad for a Thursday - but I did not like the puzzle. To many obscure things I solved only from crosses and then just barely.Sanhadornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post-2639392388763671812009-06-25T09:01:00.511-07:002009-06-25T09:01:00.511-07:00Swim strokes as a theme was great, except that the...Swim strokes as a theme was great, except that there is no swimming here these days -- still below 70 degrees and cloudy. Lots of time for puzzles. (Cape Cod)<br /><br />I really like clues where there is the same word several times in the puzzle and the solver has to think of the different meanings.Denisenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post-14730534874537513122009-06-25T08:59:35.766-07:002009-06-25T08:59:35.766-07:00I thought the puzzle was all right but a few thing...I thought the puzzle was all right but a few things did seem a bit odd. Like "extracurricular group" to describe SWIM/TEAM (STROKES could have been another way to tie the theme together, but might have been harder to fit in the grid). BREASTWORK could have been something else. Anyone have a problem with BREASTMILK? (BREASTWORK sounds more like a silicon implant than a fortification.)<br /><br />I didn't know the Riverdance fiddler but thought it was fair, gettable. Still, I'd have gone with the '40s film noir "The Strange Love of Martha IVERS," starring the great Barbara Stanwyck (also, Kirk Douglas's debut), even though some people round here are allergic to any pop culture reference from before you were born.<br /><br />Good rant on Sanford. Exactly right. If he had any job but governor of a state, he'd be fired.john farmernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post-45319948348980512572009-06-25T08:37:00.944-07:002009-06-25T08:37:00.944-07:00Just having a quick look, there's a lot of pit...Just having a quick look, there's a lot of pitfalls going for a decent phrase with BREAST (safesearch should be ON, btw), but BREASTBONE seems to be available. Maybe it wouldn't fill with that.<br /><br />I guess the theme was good enough to overlook the riverdancerfiddler, but I'm guessin a person would mostly never get away with it.Gary Lowenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post-50335399133484744592009-06-25T08:25:50.303-07:002009-06-25T08:25:50.303-07:00I too fell afoul of Ogre despite having just read ...I too fell afoul of Ogre despite having just read The Three Little Pigs yesterday to a friend's grandchildren. I did like the way BREASTWORK meshed into yesterday's discusion of HAVEATIT and thought the multiple "split" clue variations had a timely echo for Governor Sanford's woes. To say nothing of BACKSTREET being an all-time-great mistress movie. All together lots of fun!gjelizabethnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post-7963998109506011342009-06-25T08:25:06.581-07:002009-06-25T08:25:06.581-07:00I was at first "hating" the puzzle but f...I was at first "hating" the puzzle but finished it off and said hmm not too bad. STEIB was one of those solid pitchers that Toronto had that I knew off the top of my head, when does HALLIDAY get his debut?<br /><br />Affairs and politics go together in every party, as in life, with startling frequency. The disappearance is what was problematic. Saying you're on the Appalachian trail and crying with your lover in Argentina, that makes it a headline pertinent story.*David*noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post-57197439053577927172009-06-25T08:23:46.277-07:002009-06-25T08:23:46.277-07:00There was a good puzzle lurking around here somewh...There was a good puzzle lurking around here somewhere, but this wasn't it. When a google search for a word, e.g. BREASTWORK, returns only links to dictionaries in the first 40 hits, it's not a suitable entry for a puzzle keyed to this level of difficutly. CPUs don't have DVDBURNERS, they just don't.Sanford'sBackHomenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post-88056056538221338752009-06-25T08:08:12.438-07:002009-06-25T08:08:12.438-07:00I too could not get away from Ogre, which made me ...I too could not get away from Ogre, which made me briefly consider King as a silver salmon, but I was very confident with THAR so I didn't spin my wheels too long there. I immediately wanted to go for DIVVY, but took pause when I saw was was brewing with what turned out to be DVD BURNER. At least I'm in good company.<br /><br />I also expected a Backstreet Boys video when I put that answer together, so big thanks to PG for sparing us all.Charlienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8626052240584383873.post-83836622450136351182009-06-25T07:49:18.113-07:002009-06-25T07:49:18.113-07:00Orange, I can see a Seinfeld moment in the future...Orange, I can see a Seinfeld moment in the future where Rex wants his key back from PG and soon your breaking into PGs apartment to get your key. . .LOL.toothdochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05789603460108959746noreply@blogger.com