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In Constructor's Notes, Mr. Curry ended with a side note about dad jokes. My adult daughter and I have fun with them, so I texted her with his joke, "When does a dad joke become a dad joke?" Instead of "When it becomes apparent, she replied, "When your children are all groan?"
The first long entry I got was POST HOC ERGO PROPTER HOC ("Because of this, therefore because of this"). And that was because of a wonderful introductory English teacher who taught us the logical fallacies of propaganda. The puzzle turned into a delightful one for me at that point. And I just wanted to use this forum to pay tribute to that teacher (who would be embarrassed if I mentioned her by name). Hope that's ok with you folks. Thank you.
Deb, Once again I want to thank you for your humor, friendliness, and encouragement. I was daunted by Times puzzles at first and you inspired me to give it a go and I try to never miss a puzzle now and it has been what you have wanted it to be for us -- fun! Have a wonderful retirement.
@Sam Corbin I just now was going to say what Steve L said (thanks, Steve). I said "Yeets" for half my life (now 85) and discovered the correct pronunciation. As for "yeets," I learned of it from NYT crosswords only in the last year. Sam, your wordplay is great and funny and I like it. Keep it up!
Delighted to know that Stephan Prock, co-author of today's puzzle, is a composer of classical music. Thanks, Stephan. I am enjoying visiting your website: <a href="https://www.stephanprock.com" target="_blank">https://www.stephanprock.com</a>
Sorry for your loss, Deb, of your dad. I have two feisty daughters and they're my favorite kind. I love them as much as I know your dad loved you, and am as proud of them as much as he was proud of you. You are one of my favorite people, having helped me a lot to get started as a pretty decent NYT crossword solver in my eighties. Bless you and carry on!
From an undergrad physics major (60+ years ago), "M = v/c" baffled me. I was thinking it had something to with density, mass per unit volume? From crossings I got that the M in question had to do with Mach number, which is speed of an aircraft divided by the speed of sound, pretty much of a constant (c?), = to about 760+ miles per hour. The letter c (everybody is familiar with E= mc squared! E stands for energy, btw, not Einstein) stands for speed of light, which is 186,000 miles per second.
@Francis: "c" appears also to be the letter standing for the speed (v, velocity) of sound, at least according to the Wikipedia entry, "Speed of sound." Don't recall from college days that sound's speed had a standard letter we used in equations, as we learned right away that the speed of light does. (P.S.: This 85-year-old who changed occupations soon after college is pretty rusty on physical science now!)
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