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Re: "Connect The Dots" June 11, 2021

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2021 4:57 pm
by SReh26
otlaolap wrote: โ†‘Wed Jun 16, 2021 4:50 pm
whimsy wrote: โ†‘Wed Jun 16, 2021 4:24 pm (Mike Miller needs an eye-catching avatar! :) )
A simple WSJ, using large letters to fill the avatar space and using the Wall Street Journal title font, would do nicely.
Or a filled in crossword puzzle. Once on a college application I submitted that in response to the question, send a picture of something you like.

It will surprise few of you to learn that I did not gain admittance to that particular college, although fortunately that did not impede my subsequent inexorable progress to dizzying heights in academe and beyond. ๐Ÿ˜…

Re: "Connect The Dots" June 11, 2021

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2021 5:33 pm
by mheberlingx100
mntlblok wrote: โ†‘Tue Jun 15, 2021 3:47 pm
CPJohnson wrote: โ†‘Tue Jun 15, 2021 8:14 am
mntlblok wrote: โ†‘Tue Jun 15, 2021 7:32 am Thank you! Have greatly enjoyed reading through these post-Sunday posts. Don't know that I can make it up to the level "kindred spirit", but the level of discourse certainly far exceeds what I'm used to dealing with. :-) Love me some wit. . .
And, if you like puns and limericks (and the occasional haiku), you'll be in hog heaven! It's a great community.
Haikus remind me of Ruby Allen - English teacher senior year, so that's a non-starter. I pretty much "think" in puns. :-) And, AFAIC, limericks are the only true form of poetry. Am most definitely getting the sense that this is the kind of community that this individualist could latch onto. :-)
I remember an article in the late 70โ€™s in Time magazine that described a limerick contest with Isaac Asimov as the judge. The winning entry:

The bustardโ€™s an exquisite fowl,
With minimal reason to growl.
He escapes what would be
Illegitimacy
By grace of a fortunate vowel.

Re: "Connect The Dots" June 11, 2021

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2021 7:36 pm
by mntlblok
I'm game. :-) Ruby insisted that Hemingway was using symbolism in instances where he explicitly stated that he wasn't. *And* declared that Norman Rockwell's stuff wasn't "art". Grrrr. . .

Re: "Connect The Dots" June 11, 2021

Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2021 7:43 pm
by SReh26
mntlblok wrote: โ†‘Wed Jun 16, 2021 7:36 pm I'm game. :-) Ruby insisted that Hemingway was using symbolism in instances where he explicitly stated that he wasn't. *And* declared that Norman Rockwell's stuff wasn't "art". Grrrr. . .
Top this: I had an English teacher who asked us to write a Shakespearean sonnet. I stayed up into the early morning hours working on mine, fueled by tea, chocolate, creativity and an appreciation (since lost) for Shakespeare. I got a D minus.

When I asked her about it she said it was too good, that I couldnโ€™t have written it myself, that I must have copied it from a book on Shakespeare, and demanded to know where I got it from. I was like ???!!!!

I was only 13, but that was my first of many ๐Ÿง๐Ÿง๐Ÿง moments... close encounters of the third kind with... the stupidity Goliath.

However, it has a happy ending. The AP (Advanced Placement) English teacher visited and transferred me to his class, unasked.

Re: "Connect The Dots" June 11, 2021

Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 8:11 am
by Joe Ross
Is it Thursday, yet?

Re: "Connect The Dots" June 11, 2021

Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 11:52 am
by BrianMac
Since I think of Thursday as the day the puzzle comes out, I sometimes get excited on Wednesday because I'm thinking the puzzle comes out a day early, forgetting that Thursday is the day early!

Re: "Connect The Dots" June 11, 2021

Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 11:54 am
by Ergcat
BrianMac wrote: โ†‘Thu Jun 17, 2021 11:52 am Since I think of Thursday as the day the puzzle comes out, I sometimes get excited on Wednesday because I'm thinking the puzzle comes out a day early, forgetting that Thursday is the day early!
Me, Too! Here I am checking in already and thereโ€™s still 4 hrs to go...๐Ÿ˜‚

Re: "Connect The Dots" June 11, 2021

Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 12:43 pm
by whimsy
BrianMac wrote: โ†‘Thu Jun 17, 2021 11:52 am Since I think of Thursday as the day the puzzle comes out, I sometimes get excited on Wednesday because I'm thinking the puzzle comes out a day early, forgetting that Thursday is the day early!
What I immediately thought of! :)
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Re: "Connect The Dots" June 11, 2021

Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2021 12:32 pm
by Natalie
SReh26 wrote: โ†‘Mon Jun 14, 2021 10:31 am
Natalie wrote: โ†‘Mon Jun 14, 2021 10:26 am On a beach but totally wrong beach. Hall of shame. Have a good week, all!
No shame! The only shame is in not trying or not doing your best. Re read The Man in the Arena (โ€œit is not the critic who counts, but the man in the arena, who dares greatly, and if he fails, bruised and bloodied, at least did so in pursuit of a great cause...โ€).

Other beaches are nice too!
Thanks for the kind words, but this really is a hall of shame. I saw something and got so excited that I actually forgot to consider the number of letters in my answer...HALL OF SHAME! And I laughed a lot about it.