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"The Party Starts at 10" - December 31, 2020

Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2020 3:59 pm
by BrianMac
By Matt Gaffney.

The answer to the contest is a four-word phrase you might hear tonight.

Good luck with the puzzle and the contest. I hope you all have a safe celebration and a happy and healthy 2021!

Re: "The Party Starts at 10" - December 31, 2020

Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2020 4:05 pm
by Bird Lives
Each year at around this time, The New Yorker magazine publishes a bit of verse, “Greetings, Friends,” which is basically a long exercise in dropping names – some that you know, many that you don’t but think that you would if you were at all up to speed with the news, science, the arts, etc. You can find this year’s version here. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020 ... stmas-poem

So I have put together a bit of doggerel with names that should be more familiar, at least to visitors to xword-muggles.com.

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Re: "The Party Starts at 10" - December 31, 2020

Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2020 4:09 pm
by Joe Ross

Re: "The Party Starts at 10" - December 31, 2020

Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2020 4:11 pm
by Al Sisti
Toes in the sand… I’ll have a Guinness please! (Love the poem!!)

Re: "The Party Starts at 10" - December 31, 2020

Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2020 4:12 pm
by MikeM000
Am I first to say I made it ashore?

Edit: Nope! Shouldn't have looked at the New Yorker thing a couple posts up.

But that jogged a memory - I don't know if he still does this, but Will Shortz would be on NPR's weekend edition news and have a weekly puzzle. On the first weekend of the year, he'd give the contestant a list of about 10 names of people who were briefly prominent in the just-ended year and see how many they could remember who they were.

Who would be on this year's?

Joseph Maldonado-Passage
Melissa Carone
Randy Arozarena
Marie Yovanovitch

Re: "The Party Starts at 10" - December 31, 2020

Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2020 4:21 pm
by Dannyvee
On the beach!

Re: "The Party Starts at 10" - December 31, 2020

Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2020 4:23 pm
by KayW
Onshore. I can't possibly compete with Jay's fabulous verse and wishes - Bravo!!!

So I'll just add a non-spoilery four-word phrase of my own:

Happy New Year, Muggles!

Re: "The Party Starts at 10" - December 31, 2020

Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2020 4:24 pm
by jrdad
Ashore!

Re: "The Party Starts at 10" - December 31, 2020

Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2020 4:24 pm
by Cap'n Rick
Ashore!

Happy New Year everybody!

Re: "The Party Starts at 10" - December 31, 2020

Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2020 4:24 pm
by Joe Ross
Toes in the sand, ashore, on shore, on the beach!

HAPPY NEW YEAR, muggles!

Re: "The Party Starts at 10" - December 31, 2020

Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2020 4:30 pm
by Jace54
On shore, plus I just set a personal record of 10 consecutive meta solves! Had streaks of 9 and 8 broken earlier this year, so I was happy and relieved when I got this one!

Re: "The Party Starts at 10" - December 31, 2020

Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2020 4:30 pm
by stmv
I'm on the beach, though I'm not sure I totally understand (yet) how I got here

Re: "The Party Starts at 10" - December 31, 2020

Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2020 4:34 pm
by mheberlingx100
On shore. It's a bit chilly, so Irish coffee will be the drink of choice.

Re: "The Party Starts at 10" - December 31, 2020

Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2020 4:35 pm
by hcbirker
On shore! Have a safe holiday everyone!

Re: "The Party Starts at 10" - December 31, 2020

Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2020 4:35 pm
by whimsy
Gift my kids sent me -- as well as a word of warning ---
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(Anyone read his Thursday Next series -- lots of fun if you like books, and words, and noir detective fiction, and British tea cozy fiction, and alternative history, and lots of other bizarre stuff!)

On to the puzzle --
Happy New Year All!

Re: "The Party Starts at 10" - December 31, 2020

Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2020 4:35 pm
by Jim and Anita
Ashore. Wishing everyone a very happy new year!

Re: "The Party Starts at 10" - December 31, 2020

Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2020 4:39 pm
by BethA
On the beach! 🏖 🍹 <— nog with Myers’s rum

Enjoyed it!

Dan’s Gators are in the Cotton Bowl tonight. I think he’ll be on the beach by then! And my Bearcats are in the Peach Bowl on Friday! Was hoping they’d play against each other again!!

Re: "The Party Starts at 10" - December 31, 2020

Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2020 4:45 pm
by ky-mike
Pretty certain I have it.

Bonne Année

Re: "The Party Starts at 10" - December 31, 2020

Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2020 4:46 pm
by mattythewsjpuzzler
Page one??! Safely ashore. Happy new year all!

Re: "The Party Starts at 10" - December 31, 2020

Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2020 4:48 pm
by bskptkl
Got it.
Happy New Year all!