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TO EBAY OR NOT TO EBAY gets my vote
@Mike R Dyslexics of the world, untie!
Oh, never shall I Forget the cry Or the shriek that shrieked he As I gnashed my teeth When from its sheath I drew my snickersnee! — W.S. Gilbert, The Mikado
“Wherefore art thou, theme?”, the caption for the Romeo & Juliet illustration, is a trigger for me. “Wherefore” does not equal “where,” it means “how come?” Which is what Juliet is bemoaning— “Why did you have to be ‘Romeo’?” and therefore forbidden. That is all.
CRASH BLOSSOMS is now the name of my fantasy girl band. I eternally regret not having taken a photo of a sign at a motel in DeKalb Illinois many years ago, advertising FREE WOMEN IN BUSINESS SEMINAR
@Ener G.The First Amendment, giving the right to freedom of religion, could be designated as Amendment I
My father worked part-time at Little Chick Shoe Store in Chicago, supplementing the G.I. bill for his graduate degree in the late '40s. There was a "foot-o-scope" there which my four-year-old self enjoyed very much. So far no foot cancer.
In my kitchen MISE EN PLACE can be translated as “messy place”
Aww! Was so hoping the bulb would light up.
You people seem to have lost sight of the fact that the crosswords purpose is to fill the empty hours of our meaningless existence until we achieve the sweet release of death. Also to teach us cool words like Bowser and enthalpy
@Mike meanwhile the world is going to Helena handbasket
@Steven M. My feeling about the clue was “wow, that is not what moot means”
@Chris Edsel shows up a lot, actually. Ford will never live it down
I think it’s time someone complained about the people complaining about all the complaining
@Barry Ancona it seems like very often when someone posts "this was hard!" someone comes back with a variant of "quitcher gripin'!" They're just giving their opinion, jeez.
Saw Illinoise in Chicago before it moved on, and loved the album years before that. REALLY good music, highly recommend. Best to Deb!
In Indonesian, East Timor is "Timur Timor", the eastern part - timor - of island Timur, abbreviated as "TIM-TIM". (East Java = "JATIM", etc.) The Timorese call it "Timor-Leste" using the Portuguese, whom they hate less than the Indonesians; they were colonized longer by the former but more brutally, at least in recent times, by the latter. The name Timor itself may derive from Portuguese "temer" meaning "to fear". Presumably the Timorese were seen as seen as pretty scary, being darker and fiercer than some other islanders -- they are more of the Melanesian type vs. Polynesian, but who knows. The other terms for the directions in Indonesian/Malay are clearly based from the peninsula, with Indian influence: "south" is "selatan", from "selat' meaning "strait", as in the Straits of Melaka, "north" is "utara" from Sanskrit meaning "high" which is what the Himalayas are to the north of India, and "west" is "barat" from Sanskrit "bharata" meaning India itself. Timor is the odd one out, in more ways than one.
Re 57d: Nemo doesn’t really interact with Dory. It’s his dad, Marlin, who’s the pal
I rarely get emu-ed, but perhaps I should have said “I’LL SEE YOU IN AITCH EE DOUBLE HOCKEY STICKS” to indicate what I wished for 5D
@john ezra lots of eyeliner should count for something
@Bob T. my favorite bit of the SNL 50th celebration was “New York to Ford: Who's dead now?”
April 17, 2010: IMBRUES clued as “Stained.” Impenetrable to any discovery process except Autocheck, I believe. (I consider googling a legitimate part of the learning experience.) now THAT is a tough Saturday. Today’s no romp, but doable
@Bill I love Sarah Vowel! Must get this book. Lafayette in the somewhat United States helped me come to terms with fact that we've always been crazy. Not sure this will see me through but am trying...
@Gregory Melahn I held on to MARvIN Gardner way too long. I think Monopoly Marvin Gardens had gotten activated, for some reason
@Steve L I do not understand why ESPana but not DEUtschland
Sudoku is not a number puzzle. It uses 9 digits, but they could be nine letters or nine pictures of animals,etc. The tricky bit here is more in the Kenken department
@Ιασων Famous Potatoes will not be ignored
Ok, this was genuinely easy. I've been working my way back through the archives, now in the 20 teens, and have come to dread Saturdays as next to impossible. This week's Friday was much harder.
@Jane Wheelaghan there's almost always a professional playing the organ at the ballpark, as in "take me out to the ballpark, take me out to the game..."
@Harri pretty sure Romeo says the true apothecary line when he's drinking the poison. Juliet grumps that he didn't leave any for her then stabs herself
@Francis and @J. These nits don’t pick themselves, y’all
@Ιασων I think Pete Best released an album entitled “Best of the Beatles”
@Bill in Yokohama me too. Downhill means you can coast the rest of the way. Never knew the “getting worse” meaning
@jas I didn't buy SNOT instead of SNOB when it turned up in the recent past, and I don't buy it now. SNOT is the stuff in your nose that drips out if you don't use a tissue, indicating immaturity. Insult mostly towards children, as in, "Don't be such a snot!"
@Jerry think “liberty cap” as in the French Revolution
@B Hmm. I always thought she was bewailing that Romeo was who he was —she goes on to say something about a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, or something like that (I think)…
@Cat Lady Margaret count me in team leg cramp
@A.B.”scenic overlook” very apt! And happy vernal equinox to all
Put me on Team Too Easy. 30 minutes faster than average and no lookups, and I am a shameless Googler of tv shows I don’t watch. Re. Sporty felines: Montana State Bobcats, Northwestern Wildcats.
I still resist the notion that SNOTTY means “arrogant”or such-like; for me it’s for bratty and/or snot-nosed kids. Not the same as SNOOTY.
Furthermore, Columbus was trying to reach the Spice Islands, AKA Indonesia now (minus EAST TIMOR!), also not India, when he labeled the original inhabitants of the West Indies
@Ken S Show of hands, all who relate to the broken thermometer mercury fun! It made having a fever much more exciting
@Allen And really, LOLA is pronounced LOLUH so it matches
@Michael B. Plus I do not think the plural of computer mouse is MICE. Mouses. Not that we usually have more than one. Took me a while.
@Patricia Henry Amsay not Amat.
@R.J. Smith Also no fan of IGOTTAJET but what’s wrong with HAJIS?
@Brneyedgrrl So THAT’S what that means! Had no idea, not offended. Malay/Indonesian proverb: lain ladang, lain belalang (different fields, different grasshoppers).
I am going to say “Doh!” or maybe “AY PAPI!” when this is explained, but why is AMA the answer to “wide-open Q&A”? And while I’m up, I feel that cueing NNE as the opposite of SSW is kinda lazy. Looking at a map to see what city is SSW of Albuquerque is very educational