tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869983234842507044.post5470614380563679976..comments2024-03-27T07:17:39.554-04:00Comments on Horace and Frances discuss the New York Times Crossword Puzzle: Friday, February 26, 2021, Chuck DeodeneHorace Fawleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04676932991883111336noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869983234842507044.post-85442951447011600612021-03-01T17:15:25.562-05:002021-03-01T17:15:25.562-05:00Happy, of course! I love the later movies with the...Happy, of course! I love the later movies with the new bunch, and they haven't had one in five years now. On another note, I am keeping up with the newer series(es?) as they come out: "Discovery," "Picard" and "Lower Decks," which is extremely funny, but references every series out there. Once, for example, a character referred to another's sex appeal as "a Captain Kirk sundae with Tripp Tucker sprinkles." That's the original "Star Trek" and "Enterprise" references.Huygenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14539030936919012404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869983234842507044.post-70014536677156704862021-02-27T07:57:33.837-05:002021-02-27T07:57:33.837-05:00Funny what comes to people. I dropped IMPASTO in o...Funny what comes to people. I dropped IMPASTO in off the clue. It is paint applied so thickly that it casts shadows. That's how I think of it anyway. <br /><br />That Star Trek project is quite ambitious, Huygens! After it all, will you be happy or sad if they release another movie?<br /><br />And thanks, Colum, for putting a name to the face-recognition situation. I sometimes wonder if it's really a thing or if I'm just being really dumb. With me, it might be a little of each. Horace Fawleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04676932991883111336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869983234842507044.post-24976764087793040822021-02-26T19:48:23.231-05:002021-02-26T19:48:23.231-05:00Excellent themeless! I think the middle triple sta...Excellent themeless! I think the middle triple stack is remarkably smooth. Prosopagnosia is the word for the loss of the ability to recognize faces, which is sort of what "the man who mistook his wife for a hat" had.Colum Amoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15026647589873845732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869983234842507044.post-14491940530232751292021-02-26T15:22:40.283-05:002021-02-26T15:22:40.283-05:00What a workout for me! Took me an hour, at least. ...What a workout for me! Took me an hour, at least. IMPASTO, I didn't know and still don't. (Even though I *love* the van Gogh painting.) And then I kept wanting to PUT A NAME TO A FACE...like, you know, when you meet a Facebook friend in real life. Still I struggled on, really admiring the clues. Amazing construction, isn't it?Kelly Clarknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7869983234842507044.post-31134706989574443252021-02-26T09:04:40.419-05:002021-02-26T09:04:40.419-05:00I enjoyed most of it. The NE gave me some trouble....I enjoyed most of it. The NE gave me some trouble. In fact, around ten minutes' worth. I never heard of IMPASTO, LATENEWS wasn't coming too quickly, IRA Levin isn't known to me (I tried aRi for a while), Never heard of this SVEN and Ole pair (would've been better, IMO, being StaN and Ole, which I tried for a while), and I was unsure about EXIST, even though I put it in first. The rest was fine, and fast, and I finished in around 17 minutes save for the aforementioned NE, giving me a final solve time of 26:53, which is somewhat long for a Friday. Funny that RAH and BAH appear side-by-side. I'm just finishing up my massive "Star Trek" project, where I watched each episode of each series, in order, then the Animated Series, and finally all of the movies, in order. I have the final three movies to watch now, and I'm finished. So I liked seeing BEAMUP in there. I didn't love MAINROOM, but not really much to complain about in this one. A nice challenge.Huygenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14539030936919012404noreply@blogger.com