"Leftovers" - November 29, 2019

A place to discuss the weekly Wall Street Journal Crossword Puzzle Contest, starting every Thursday around 4:00 p.m. Eastern time. Please do not post any answers or hints before the contest deadline which is midnight Sunday Eastern time.
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MajordomoTom wrote: Mon Dec 02, 2019 3:31 pm KS, they're getting closer and closer ... come to me, little mug, please!
If only that helped. Some time ago the mug was won by someone about 30 miles away so I was hopeful but alas......
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MikeMillerwsj wrote: Mon Dec 02, 2019 2:25 pm Congrats to this week's winner: John Haug of Roeland Park, KS!
Bob cruise director wrote: Mon Dec 02, 2019 4:52 pm
MajordomoTom wrote: Mon Dec 02, 2019 3:31 pm KS, they're getting closer and closer ... come to me, little mug, please!
If only that helped. Some time ago the mug was won by someone about 30 miles away so I was hopeful but alas......
So, I shouldn't be encouraged that I had the first two letters and was only one short of the total number of letters in the name? Dang.
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well, that would give you at least one letter towards the answer to the mug meta ...
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Hidden in 3D wrote: Mon Dec 02, 2019 2:16 pm
Bob cruise director wrote: Mon Dec 02, 2019 1:06 pm
Tom Shea wrote: Mon Dec 02, 2019 12:08 pm The nuns always told me my bad penmanship would get me in trouble some day.

I'll blame them for not getting the answer.
I blame my bad penmanship on being left handed. I remember in sixth grade having to pass a Zaner Bloser penmanship test using a fountain pen. I had more ink on my left hand and shirt cuff than on the paper. They had three levels of passing and I passed the lowest level - just barely - and probably by the grace of a generous teacher.
Oh the days when penmanship was important! As a wannabe calligrapher and third grade teacher, cursive practice was my favorite part of the school day. I like to think I was more nurturing and supportive than Tom's nuns and that some of my students actually enjoyed those lessons. (And I simply can't believe that those very students will be turning 50 in a couple of years! Yikes!) I post this hoping you will not envision me as a prim and proper school marm with a tight bun on the nape of my neck! And I realize that I only reinforce that image when I tell you how glad I was that a bill was approved in 2013 by NC lawmakers requiring that public schools teach cursive handwriting once again. My children will happily report that their mother is anything but prim and proper. :lol:
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Actually, that day is already here. Plus we also use punctuation, where it belongs, not just "where I want to use it".

But ... 56 isn't old, is it?
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MajordomoTom wrote: Mon Dec 02, 2019 7:06 pm Actually, that day is already here. Plus we also use punctuation, where it belongs, not just "where I want to use it".

But ... 56 isn't old, is it?
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Bob cruise director wrote: Mon Dec 02, 2019 1:06 pm
Tom Shea wrote: Mon Dec 02, 2019 12:08 pm The nuns always told me my bad penmanship would get me in trouble some day.

I'll blame them for not getting the answer.
I blame my bad penmanship on being left handed. I remember in sixth grade having to pass a Zaner Bloser penmanship test using a fountain pen. I had more ink on my left hand and shirt cuff than on the paper. They had three levels of passing and I passed the lowest level - just barely - and probably by the grace of a generous teacher.
The other problem (other than smeared ink) with using a fountain pen in the left hand, is that with the split in the nib; the left half of the nib catches on the paper and when it releases it spatters the ink. I know this from personal experience. Being designed for right handed people, it is meant to be pulled along the paper and when writing with the left hand, we are pushing the pen. I think this is the reason I have trouble using mechanical pencils as well. the lead is so thin, it catches like the fountain pen nib.
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Quick survey: How many left handers do we have in the Muggles Club?
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does ambidextrous count?
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SewYoung wrote: Mon Dec 02, 2019 8:32 pm Quick survey: How many left handers do we have in the Muggles Club?
I am left handed.
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MajordomoTom wrote: Mon Dec 02, 2019 9:26 pm does ambidextrous count?
Sure. I am sort of ambidextrous. I do a lot of things with either hand and some things exclusively with my right hand. I write and eat with a spoon and fork with my left hand, but during a meal use my right hand to cut with a knife. Although I use my left hand for spreading butter, etc. I did practice printing with my right hand so as not to have to continually put down the fork when eating and working crossword puzzles at the same time.
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Joe Ross wrote: Mon Dec 02, 2019 5:48 pm
MikeMillerwsj wrote: Mon Dec 02, 2019 2:25 pm Congrats to this week's winner: John Haug of Roeland Park, KS!
Bob cruise director wrote: Mon Dec 02, 2019 4:52 pm
MajordomoTom wrote: Mon Dec 02, 2019 3:31 pm KS, they're getting closer and closer ... come to me, little mug, please!
If only that helped. Some time ago the mug was won by someone about 30 miles away so I was hopeful but alas......
So, I shouldn't be encouraged that I had the first two letters and was only one short of the total number of letters in the name? Dang.
Pretty close... but your comment reminded me, a long while back, I REALLY did a double-take, when “Seth Allen of VA” was the winner!! Just a few off from “Beth Albers of PA”. I gasped.
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SewYoung wrote: Mon Dec 02, 2019 8:32 pm Quick survey: How many left handers do we have in the Muggles Club?
I *was* left handed. Then the nuns got hold of me and forced me to use my right hand. Ergo, bad penmanship.
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MikeMillerwsj wrote: Mon Dec 02, 2019 2:25 pm Another challenging contest! Your correspondent (like someone above) also assumed that 23A, "Glutton's Thanksgiving helping" (THIRDS) was a tipoff to look for the third letters... nice head-fake, Mike.

We had 1096 entries, about 80% correct.
The incorrect ones included DIET (32) and many variants: DIETING (8), NEWS DIET (2, so close!), and LOW CARB DIET, GO ON A DIET, BEGIN A DIET, RAW DIETS, and STRICT DIET.

Congrats to this week's winner: John Haug of Roeland Park, KS!
What no EEW DIET! Gosh, it seemed to make so much sense then...granted I did not use that answer but I almost did.
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