A place to discuss the weekly Wall Street Journal Crossword Puzzle Contest, starting every Thursday around 4:00 p.m. Eastern time. Please do not post any answers or hints before the contest deadline which is midnight Sunday Eastern time.
Kas wrote: Tue Feb 01, 2022 10:12 am
I just want to share (for whomever peruses the Metathread this late after the puzzle and solution): One of my all-time favorite words is utterly useless, but still pretty excellent: "Omphaloskepsis." I was really tempted to post that as my answer to Gaffney & Co. this week, but my desire for a mug overrode the urge. (And yet...no winner alert--so yeah, I should've gone with the first inclination, lol.)
Yeah, one of my favorites too. (I mentioned omphaloskepsis in post #368). I remember wondering if that's where the "om" chant came from.
Ha! I happily cede the Weird Word Wit of the Week, Al! I had missed your earlier post!
Kas - the snow looks frozen on the dogs. What did you do? 1) leave them out hoping for a January thaw, 2) put them in the garage until the snow melted, 3) sequester them in a bathroom while they thawed and you mopped up the water?
Vigorous toweling, Bob. The dogs enjoy it, and we keep a supply of old towels handy, year round. (If it’s not snow, it’s rain, or mud, or…whatever else those two monsters get into…)
@Kas Skunks?
Only one (glancing) polecat event with either of these two--but I've experienced it with prior pooches. That requires a bit more than "vigorous toweling," lol. These two guys are pretty good about not rolling in truly vile stuff, but they'll go off on swamp/estuary-hopping escapades if unattended. Messy...but not Skunk Messy.
Kas wrote: Tue Feb 01, 2022 10:12 am
I just want to share (for whomever peruses the Metathread this late after the puzzle and solution): One of my all-time favorite words is utterly useless, but still pretty excellent: "Omphaloskepsis." I was really tempted to post that as my answer to Gaffney & Co. this week, but my desire for a mug overrode the urge. (And yet...no winner alert--so yeah, I should've gone with the first inclination, lol.)
Yeah, one of my favorites too. (I mentioned omphaloskepsis in post #368). I remember wondering if that's where the "om" chant came from.
Ha! I happily cede the Weird Word Wit of the Week, Al! I had missed your earlier post!
Love the word too, but for some reason it always makes me picture some weird Seuss creature. Something along these lines?
Still no winner? Well, as a graduate of the US Navel Academy, I think the mug should be awarded to me . True story, the Class of 1990 received diplomas which spelled Naval as Navel. Ah, sweet memories.
Gman wrote: Wed Feb 02, 2022 3:43 pm
Still no winner? Well, as a graduate of the US Navel Academy, I think the mug should be awarded to me . True story, the Class of 1990 received diplomas which spelled Naval as Navel. Ah, sweet memories.
When I owned a UPS Store, I had the license plate on my car as "ship4u". A fellow once asked me, "Are you a Navy man?" In retrospect, I should have responded, "No, just a navel man."
Don & Cynthia
We are always happy to get to know other muggles and help in any way! PM's are always welcome. The next best thing to winning a mug is helping a fellow muggle win a mug!
I like a challenge and start Wordle with a different 5-letter word every day. I haven't failed yet (not trying to humble brag). From what I understand, I really play in hard mode, because I always use all of the correctly guessed letters in my subsequent guesses.
. True story, the Class of 1990 received diplomas which spelled Naval as Navel. Ah, sweet memories.
