Formerly known as the “Sunday Summer Substitute”, editor Cap'n Rick now takes the helm for 'Smooth Sailing Sundays'. As The Commodores sang about Sunday morning, the SSS will focus on easier metas. SSS will also support smaller grids and will mentor new constructors on request. Puzzles released each Sunday around 8am Eastern. Nudges released same day at Noon Eastern. New constructors are welcome.
Bird Lives wrote: Sun Jun 04, 2023 9:53 am
I must be living in a different universe. I had to Google them all, I've never eaten the answer, and I don't understand the title I had to Google to understand the title, whose wit will be more appreciated by those who didn't have to Google it.
I had to google them all but was able to take an educated guess (which I need google to confirm) for the last. I haven't eaten the answer in 40 years. I don't understand the title. Googling doesn't reveal anything except.... maybe.... I'm about 60 years old and .....
But I thought it was fun and easy even if it did require 100% googling.
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Oh... and with eight people answering "sssolved" I wondered if that was something about cereal I didn't understand.... but at least I get that now.
Last edited by woozy on Sun Jun 04, 2023 12:39 pm, edited 2 times in total.
GUAVA is not an anagram of VAGUE and PEPPER is not a palindrome.
75% chance of google here, though if I'd been more patient it might have been 50%. Fun start to a rainy day, thanks. Maybe Colorado is just trying to prepare me for heading to Norway this evening.
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First time trying this! Didn't need the nudges today but did have to Google 1 thing and found the answer surprising! Very fun to do over lunch. Thanks for the delightful puzzle @Abide .
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lbray53 wrote: Sun Jun 04, 2023 11:21 am
My question is: Do you pick up the bowl and drink the delicious leftover milk out of it? And if so, who taught you to do that?
It was my father in my case. Just one of the perks of eating a family breakfast around the kitchen table.
Please don't tell anyone, but when I'm at home by myself - absolutely!! That's the best part! It kills me to not do so the few times I have cereal in the presence of others.
And like you, I learned it from the family breakfast table growing up. My parents would never have allowed us to let perfectly good milk go to waste.
Abide wrote: Sun Jun 04, 2023 1:02 pm
[.. second nudge...] With an entry like 22-Across, you don't need help from a title. But you can Google the meta answer with the title to see the connection.
Seriously? It's that recent?. It always amazes me when things I asssumed had been around forever actually were very new in my childhood. I was surprised when I found out Barbie was only a few months older than my older sister and I'm exactly as old as The Phantom Tollbooth. And my mother would have been a teenager when Tony the tiger first a appeared in the world.
I guess most people assume our surprise should go the other way (It's that old!) and I do for things but only things in my lifetime. Usually, I'm just surprised what counts as icons now. (Wait! The Goonies are 40 years old. I'll admit I'm mildly surprised but I'm more shocked I'm expected to care.)
GUAVA is not an anagram of VAGUE and PEPPER is not a palindrome.
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edestlin wrote: Mon Jun 05, 2023 7:38 am
SSSolved - didn't need the nudges but I have always enjoyed this passage from Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon.
My favourite novel!
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edestlin wrote: Mon Jun 05, 2023 7:38 am
SSSolved - didn't need the nudges but I have always enjoyed this passage from Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon.
My favourite novel!
True, reading that novel years ago started me through the Baroque Cycle series . In re-reading that passage, there is a glaring error [wrong manufacturer] that slipped past the editors.
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Just picked this one up last night (Tues) — definitely didn’t need the nudges. Enjoyed!
Also - good catch on this:
Abide wrote: Mon Jun 05, 2023 2:24 pm
True, reading that novel years ago started me through the Baroque Cycle series . In re-reading that passage, there is a glaring error [wrong manufacturer] that slipped past the editors.
I was more puzzled about the S-V agreement issue in the last sentence: “…verbal explanations only goes so far…”. They does?
