Welcome to "Da Muggles"!Bill_Swerski_13 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 08, 2021 5:52 pm A late-breaking journey ashore on my first day as a Muggle. Hooray! Now it's pizza time.
(Hoping there are some fans out there of SNL from the 90s)
Welcome to "Da Muggles"!Bill_Swerski_13 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 08, 2021 5:52 pm A late-breaking journey ashore on my first day as a Muggle. Hooray! Now it's pizza time.
My dad always put a mark at the bottom of page 7 (his birth day) in library books to mark whether he had read them or not.LadyBird wrote: ↑Sun Aug 08, 2021 2:41 pmI have a number of mystery series that I read--and always had trouble keeping them straight. Especially when they have a similar setting. There are 3 series all set in and around WW1: two by Charles Todd (nurse Bess Crawford and Inspector Ian Rutledge) and one by Jacqueline Winspear (Maisie Dobbs). So I have a list on my phone with all of the (many) series that I read--listing all of the books in the series and I put an asterisk by them as I read them. Very helpful when I go to the library.
My neighbor's mom also loved mystery series. In those pre-smart phone days, she would just put a unique mark on the back cover of library books as she read them, so that she would know if she had already read it or not on her subsequent trips to the library.
And the "answer" that was planted in my brain
I caught some of the Esther Williams movies, also. Went on line to read more about her life, which was interesting.ZooAnimalsOnWheels wrote: ↑Sun Aug 08, 2021 1:44 pmTCM is doing an August with each day devoted to a different star. Yesterday was Abbott and Costello, today is Esther Williams. So I was able to watch this historically accurate musical number this morning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOXJZW6IS2M Of course, it was much higher quality on TCM.
Do we all have to don grass skirts and coconut bras?JAQT wrote: ↑Sun Aug 08, 2021 6:58 pmWelcome to "Da Muggles"!Bill_Swerski_13 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 08, 2021 5:52 pm A late-breaking journey ashore on my first day as a Muggle. Hooray! Now it's pizza time.
(Hoping there are some fans out there of SNL from the 90s)
Bob cruise director wrote: ↑Sun Aug 08, 2021 8:54 pm Good evening Muggles
Before our final report we have two more new muggles - Bill Swerski 13 and little pigeon
And we close with 9 on the ship and 215 on the shore.
Littlepigeon joined the group with Isaac for the week
and taking the last tenders to the shore are
Jean
WSJosh
Flying_Burrito
iggystan
pookie
Gman
CPJohnson
Bird Lives
eagle1279
JAQT
Bill Swerski 13
and just squeeking in before I closed the ledger Littlegreycells
Good luck winning the mug and stay safe
For all the new muggles, we have a zoom call at 7:30 pm EDT on Tuesday. Details at viewtopic.php?f=18&t=1003
Hopefully at this late date, it's not giving too much away to say, that sometimes its just a matter of breaking a code and knowledge of a subject is immaterial.littlepigeon wrote: ↑Sun Aug 08, 2021 7:41 pm .....
AND YET. After finishing *this* grid, I couldn’t detect anything—literally anything—useful to run with after going through all the usual meta-solving strategies; the few connections I noticed that I thought might matter were tenuous at best, so I decided just to put a pin in that route. I then thought of approximately 30 three-word song titles from the 2000s that I then cross-checked to determine which ones were truly #1s (hah). Based on comments from a couple of y’all’s posts, I can now safely throw out at least half my list, but I’m mostly hating that this CC is apparently one of those “right in your face” metas and I’m still failing to see it.
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No more nudge reliance
Three Little Words for you: "Ditka", "Ditka", and.... "Ditka"!JAQT wrote: ↑Sun Aug 08, 2021 6:58 pmWelcome to "Da Muggles"!Bill_Swerski_13 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 08, 2021 5:52 pm A late-breaking journey ashore on my first day as a Muggle. Hooray! Now it's pizza time.
(Hoping there are some fans out there of SNL from the 90s)
woozy wrote: ↑Sun Aug 08, 2021 9:33 pmHopefully at this late date, it's not giving too much away to say, that sometimes its just a matter of breaking a code and knowledge of a subject is immaterial.littlepigeon wrote: ↑Sun Aug 08, 2021 7:41 pm .....
AND YET. After finishing *this* grid, I couldn’t detect anything—literally anything—useful to run with after going through all the usual meta-solving strategies; the few connections I noticed that I thought might matter were tenuous at best, so I decided just to put a pin in that route. I then thought of approximately 30 three-word song titles from the 2000s that I then cross-checked to determine which ones were truly #1s (hah). Based on comments from a couple of y’all’s posts, I can now safely throw out at least half my list, but I’m mostly hating that this CC is apparently one of those “right in your face” metas and I’m still failing to see it.
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