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@Steve L If Shohei Ohtani posted in a community forum about how far he can hit a fastball, it would be pretty gauche! 😅

@Mike As the classic dad joke goes: What's the best thing about Switzerland? Well, the flag is a big plus...

@Mike I tried to start my own elevator business but I couldn’t get it off the ground. It didn’t help that my business partner kept pushing my buttons

@Mike I’m sorry but I didn’t find that remotely funny (but maybe we’re just not on the same frequency)

@Mike “You sure were upset when you didn’t catch the flowers “ “I just wanted to boo, kay?”

@Mike Your jokes are always sterling. You definitely urn your upvotes

@john ezra I recently joined a website to help me eat healthier. Whenever I get on the bathroom scale and see that I lost some more weight, I do a happy dance! My wife calls it my "Noom dab"

@Mariana One notable recent use of the phrase is in the song "Into the Unknown" from Frozen 2: You're not a voice, you're just a ringing in my ear And if I heard you (which I don't) I'm spoken for, I fear

@Karen Even better: Do you know who invented the Rubik’s cube? ER, NO

@Sammy That’s exactly what I thought. There have been several puzzles recently where the app couldn’t show some special formatting/presentation, so they just described it in a note and made the icon flash so you’d click and read it. It’s not perfect but it’s good enough. But why wasn’t that done today?

@Mike My favorite pun of all time in a children’s book is when Llama Llama meets a particular animal friend for the first time: “What’s the gnu girl want to do?”

@Geoff Offermann I agree! Maybe if enough of us comment here NYT will use shaded cells more often

@Lily TIL “selkie”. And now I know why the seal in the children’s show Puffin Rock is named Silky!

@MDT Thursdays are usually something “cute” like this.

@Ryan Actually it’s already been fixed. I don’t see it in the app where I solved it, but if I go to the website, I see 8 orbits instead of 7 (and Uranus has its own). They didn’t change the circled letter (it’s still A); I think they just fixed the placement of the circle (it wasn’t properly centered before)

@JohnWM "Pan out" means something totally different (the same as "turn out" or "end up"). That's not evidence that "pan in" is valid English (especially in the context of getting a closer look)

@Alex M I was completely stumped by PSST/SEE. I thought the first word was POST, as in Facebook post, since you can poke people on FB. But OEE didn’t make sense for the other. I couldn’t imagine what it could be!

@Mike I heard it has a great cast! But I’ll probably wait till it goes on sail

@BenHead Actually it’s already been fixed. I don’t see it in the app where I solved it, but if I go to the website, I see 8 orbits instead of 7 (and Uranus has its own).

@JohnWM Oh and if you look at the Google books search results for "panning in" you'll see they all refer to panning for gold (in a river, for example 😆)

@Thad I was stuck on that clue for a while, wondering how HED makes clutches (since I thought “stop right there” referred to “end”)

@Kevin I sadly agree. I think it had the most proper nouns of any crossword I’ve ever seen

@Patrick J. Even as an American, I encounter more roundabouts when traveling overseas than here so I also instinctually tried going left in the puzzle and got confused too 😂 I especially miss the Australian roundabouts where people use their blinker to tell you which exit they’re taking 😁