"We're In This Together" - August 28, 2020

[JennyByrd]

Like many others, I think I have the mechanic, but the result is nonsense! Back to work, and hoping for an aha moment in the next few days

[Geezer Weezer]

Had it 10 minutes ago but needed to be 100%. Now I am. Guinness me please!

Sorry I ever doubted you, Al.

[Al Sisti]

Had it 10 minutes ago but needed to be 100%. Now I am. Guinness me please!

Sorry I ever doubted you, Al.

Glad to have you with me... but as my friend, you could have stopped me about halfway through my Guinness intake last night. Oof!

[fstadler]

Fairly confident of being on shore, but also sharing the slight doubt about a further step, "Pageant-style."

[Geezer Weezer]

Had it 10 minutes ago but needed to be 100%. Now I am. Guinness me please!

Sorry I ever doubted you, Al.

Glad to have you with me... but as my friend, you could have stopped me about halfway through my Guinness intake last night. Oof!

I never stand in the way of a man on a mission.

[Meg]

Honestly, I don’t see any possibility for a pageant debacle here.

[TPS]

I don’t know know how many people would get PAGEANT’D if that puzzle came out today - Based on what I’ve seen in my 18 months of doing this puzzle and from what I am told by a few on here who have been doing the puzzle a lot longer - the difficulty has steadily ramped where I think that would be a 60-70% puzzle now. I’ve certainly seen more difficult mechanisms is year with higher solve rates. But that is just my opinion.

[Bob cruise director]

Fairly confident of being on shore, but also sharing the slight doubt about a further step, "Pageant-style."

By the way, I love your avatar

[cbarbee002]

Common theme, think I have step one, but perhaps it's a red herring . . . .

[Jeanrosz]

I’m on shore..liked this one a lot...

[Gpiggies]

Yes, first thing I thought of Now I can't get the song out of my head. My daughters just recently watched High School Musical for the first time, and sadly it was a hit.

By the way: Anyone else get an earworm from the title? My kid was 4 or 5 when High School Musical became hugely popular with the preschool set, and I must have heard the soundtrack hundreds of times. (The song actually has "All" in the title, but close enough!)

[LadyBird]

I am COMing out of the water on this hot suMmer day and planting my umbrella upON the beach! The path to the answer was a bit of an eNIGma at first, but then the ligHT came on. I am HAppy to be sitting here listening to the seabirds squaWK while I sip on a summer shandy.


**These birds are on their fall migration now. I've seem them before, but never from my yard. Until last night when I saw a few winging overhead at dusk. That now makes 63 species that I have seen from my yard--not bad for a lot that is 25 feet by 150 feet.

[Bob cruise director]

I am COMing out of the water on this hot suMmer day and planting my umbrella upON the beach! The path to the answer was a bit of an eNIGma at first, but then the ligHT came on. I am HAppy to be sitting here listening to the seabirds squaWK while I sip on a summer shandy.


**These birds are on their fall migration now. I've seem them before, but never from my yard. Until last night when I saw a few winging overhead at dusk. That now makes 63 species that I have seen from my yard--not bad for a lot that is 25 feet by 150 feet.

Great bird to see. We don't get them as much in New England

[Bob cruise director]

On shore. To quote Johnny Most "he fiddled, he diddled and then he scored"

Not quite in the Havlicek Stole The Ball category but...

[ALS]

Ashore, and at 99% if not 100%. There was one slight inelegance, I thought, but not terribly awful.

Not wow'd by the answer but it seems inevitable.

ALS

[higgysue]

I am COMing out of the water on this hot suMmer day and planting my umbrella upON the beach! The path to the answer was a bit of an eNIGma at first, but then the ligHT came on. I am HAppy to be sitting here listening to the seabirds squaWK while I sip on a summer shandy.


**These birds are on their fall migration now. I've seem them before, but never from my yard. Until last night when I saw a few winging overhead at dusk. That now makes 63 species that I have seen from my yard--not bad for a lot that is 25 feet by 150 feet.

LadyBird,
I was just going to message you about seeing the nighthawks fly through here like crazy last week. They are a fun bird to watch. Enjoy!

[michaelm]

On shore.
Have a safe weekend everyone.

[Alec]

On shore. Clever one!

[michaelm]

On shore. To quote Johnny Most "he fiddled, he diddled and then he scored"

Not quite in the Havlicek Stole The Ball category but...

Or, to quote Gene Hart, the long-time voice of the Philadelphia Flyers: "he shoots, he scores...for a case of Tastykake!"
Genius-level 1970s product placement.

[DrTom]

Well, I'm still on the ship and unless something hits me soon I'll be there forever. I am just not seeing the "clearing" that others have seen and continue to get a jumble when I feel I must have tried everything (though obviously not). I even tried the MGWCC to see if it would clear my head; word to the wise, it won't. Heck I had to struggle on the GIRD and have about 1% idea on the mechanism.

I'm depressed because the WSJ one looked soooo promising and now I am stuck in the bar with Isaac.

Oh, and if there are spoilers there I am certainly not getting spoiled.

I do have to make one comment about this magnate puzzle; I'm afraid the idea has polarized me. I mean on one end of the spectrum I am attracted to the puzzle, but on the other repelled. I suppose I will just have to steel myself and hopefully get drawn to the answer. Perhaps I will have to go into my files of how I ironed out other META answers. I've always had interesting results with iron filings and magnates. OK Joe Ross, your turn!!