"The Play's The Thing" - April 9, 2021

[John77]

Ashore in 28 minutes flat, a record for me. It will be a crowded beach bar.

[Jackie88]

On shore! Thanks to google!

[cbarbee002]

Quick swim this morning; any one I solve is a good one!

[EdStrong]

Ashore

[TomAndDenise]

Ashore in record time. Cute puzzle.

[rexthree]

on shore!

[Bob cruise director]

Friends, muggles and countrymen

The rush to shore continues as we have 159 there already. A very clever puzzle from Mr. Gaffney

Speaking of Matt, for MGWCC participants, the puzzle will not come out until 2 pm as little Ada has been colicky. I remember those days and as Matt said - not fun for everyone.

[spotter]

On Shore!

[Susan Goldberg]

On shore!

[DCBilly]

Ashore. Singapore Slings and Arrows all around.

[EVJ]

One of the customers on the fishing charter I worked today accidentally caught an octopus. Have you ever tried to remove a fishing hook from an octopus? It's not easy, but there is a technique, and the boat captain told me how: you squeeze the head, keeping your hand away from the beak. It worked. I got the hook out, and the octopus jetted to the depths as soon as I set him over the side.

I also learned that there is a cocktail called an octopus: 151 light rum, orange juice, passion fruit nectar, and angostura bitters. I think I'll order one now.

The documentary My Octopus Teacher is a fantastic Netflix movie. I highly recommend it to everyone.
(I tried to attach a link but it didn’t lead to anything so I removed it).

[ajk]

Speaking of Slings and Arrows, the Canadian TV show of that name is worth your time if the Bard tickles your fancy in general.

[Dennis]

An hour last night well spent! Probably my fastest trip from ship to shore yet, and I am on a two out of four "streak." Will readily admit I had to utilize the search engines a bit having been a pre-med major. Although I will here give enormous credit to my high school English teacher: small rural school, my graduating class was 92 in number, and we had Mrs. Yoder all four years for English. Probably the best teacher in my total years of pre-graduate, graduate, post-graduate, and professional education. It seems appropriate to publicly honor her here. Suspect many here have similar stories.

[Bonnibel]

Ashore in record time...Yes it will be crowded but all the more fun! Two MaiTais, please.

[BigRedBob]

no need “to be or not” - onshore, grateful for sophomore college literature course...though, being raised in Pittsburgh, PA, thought soliloquy was simply “or not”

(Grew up hearing “Your room needs cleaned up” and “the car needs washed” and “the garbage needs taken out”...)

[LadyBird]

On shore! It was not a HARd swim at all--no need to use an aTLAs to find shore (although I did need a quick consultation with google). These puzzles--and this forum--have been a sUBStantial source of enjoyment these past 52 weeks (and 51 birds)! The occasional anGUish from an unsolved meta is more than compensated for by the goodwiLL of everyone here. Thank you!

If we were still having yesterday's weather, then I would ask for a summer shandy at the tiki bar; however, today's weather dictates a dark and stormy.

And after 51 birds, you finally stumped me with one I had not heard of before. But seeing the range of it, I am not surprised

I saw it in Cape Town--Robben Island to be exact. My poor, long-suffering husband. I think that I can say, with extreme confidence, that I was the only one touring the prison with a pair of binoculars!

After reading all of the witty, Shakespearean replies (I don't think anyone is topping Bird Lives, though), I realized that I should have chosen a bird mentioned by the Bard. Oh well--maybe next time.

[PeterLeea1a]

Reasonably quick swim to shore.

[hunkra]

Speaking of Slings and Arrows, the Canadian TV show of that name is worth your time if the Bard tickles your fancy in general.

This is my all-time #1 fave comedy. Whenever I need a really good laugh, I dig this out of our DVD collection. Paul Gross is exquisite in it!

[John77]

An hour last night well spent! Probably my fastest trip from ship to shore yet, and I am on a two out of four "streak." Will readily admit I had to utilize the search engines a bit having been a pre-med major. Although I will here give enormous credit to my high school English teacher: small rural school, my graduating class was 92 in number, and we had Mrs. Yoder all four years for English. Probably the best teacher in my total years of pre-graduate, graduate, post-graduate, and professional education. It seems appropriate to publicly honor her here. Suspect many here have similar stories.

I, too, was a pre-med major but fortunately was able to include an elective that used this text:

[tobivillanovi]

Dedicating this one to my professor, Dr. Schlauraff, from freshman year English seminar! Enjoy the sand everyone!