"Ringing In the New Year" - December 27, 2019

[EdStrong]

Ashore at last - great one to finish the year. Happy New Years everyone!

[Joe Ross]

Ashore, thank you very much!

"Symbol in Gregorian chant notation" (36-across) was a learning experience that I will forget by the time I type this.

Having intoned more than a few Gregorian chants, 36A was new to me, too, unless I'd forgotten it by the times we'd finished our larynx-restoring Guinness draughts.

I'll need another few synapse-restoring draughts to help me forget how I'd flailed around the Sea Venture/Pacific Princess far too long before the lighthouse showed me her way to shore.

Thanks, again, to Brian, Bob, and all of you muggles who have made 2019 a banner year in this man's life with your wit, warmth, and welcome.

Here's to 2020 and beyond... Sláinte!

[Patty]

Ashore with help from my husband. Am submitting the answer using his email because he's the lucky sort who always manages to find a parking space

[jag]

Ashore, with help from my daughter this week. Happy New Year everyone! Be safe, and wishing everyone a joyous 2020!

[SeanS]

Lost at sea. Ahoy, polloi ? Happy New Years to all.

[Commodore]

Pipe me aboard, Sir Robert. Have Isaac send 46A down to my quarters. Bit under the weather.
Cable the admiral that I hope to dine at his table Tuesday evening.

[Horsesense]

Ashore... another clever puzzle!

[PeterLeea1a]

Ashore!

[Jeff S]

I was going nowhere, and then suddenly I was going somewhere. Feet are dry on the shore, a welcome relief after last week's debacle. Happy New Year to all!

[Bob cruise director]

Good morning fellow muggles. I had something written and then poof it vanished. It may show up in some other universe so if you see it, you will know why. Most likely I hit a key that the system did not like

A couple of muggles have posted their results. If you want what I have let me know by PM and I can send you the entire spreadsheet or whatever you want. Two caveats are that I may have missed anyone who posted late Sunday night and that I can not tell if you are on the right shore or in the mouth of a whale or on a deserted island.

Also thanks to Brian Mac for adding the Santa touch to Isaac's picture at the top.

We have 8 of us keeping Isaac company and 72 on the shore

With me in the bar are
Inca
rexthree
Janet
Scott M
seans
Homer Buckle
WBYonder

and on the shore are
Les
anita
damefox
Chris
Wendy (who is probably the only one who has used 47D or knew 36A)
Barbara K
Tmart
Beth A
Eric P
Al
streoto
MajorDomoTom
Toby
Leslie
Mike H
rad26
scooby
Beth T
Heidi
Tina
Juliet
MaryCC
ky-mike
Frank H
David K
Trey and Marion
the Thurman8er
oldjudge
Fred
Bill T
John B
Brian Mac
Tony S
elan
ImOnToo
burd
Laura M
tim1217
Cynthia J
CallMeShane
DrTom
Cindy
Jim and Anita
anjhinz
Hector
DBMiller
RDalehall
Geoduck
Dennis
our three new muggles - higgysue, Rpardoe, Jackie88
Frankie
Tom S
Ed S
jag
Billkatz
Patty
LaceyK
Commodore
Joe R
Jennifer
George and Rita
Barry
Lucas
Mark L
kay
Brian D
Peter L
horsesense
Jeff S
and Maine Marge

Good luck to the rest of us in getting to shore and hopefully we will end the decade with a muggle winning the mug

If I don't talk to you before New Year's Eve, have a good time but stay safe

[Meg]

Good morning fellow muggles. I had something written and then poof it vanished. It may show up in some other universe so if you see it, you will know why. Most likely I hit a key that the system did not like

A couple of muggles have posted their results. If you want what I have let me know by PM and I can send you the entire spreadsheet or whatever you want. Two caveats are that I may have missed anyone who posted late Sunday night and that I can not tell if you are on the right shore or in the mouth of a whale or on a deserted island.

Also thanks to Brian Mac for adding the Santa touch to Isaac's picture at the top.

We have 8 of us keeping Isaac company and 72 on the shore

With me in the bar are
Inca
rexthree
Janet
Scott M
seans
Homer Buckle
WBYonder

and on the shore are
Les
anita
damefox
Chris
Wendy (who is probably the only one who has used 47D or knew 36A)
Barbara K
Tmart
Beth A
Eric P
Al
streoto
MajorDomoTom
Toby
Leslie
Mike H
rad26
scooby
Beth T
Heidi
Tina
Juliet
MaryCC
ky-mike
Frank H
David K
Trey and Marion
the Thurman8er
oldjudge
Fred
Bill T
John B
Brian Mac
Tony S
elan
ImOnToo
burd
Laura M
tim1217
Cynthia J
CallMeShane
DrTom
Cindy
Jim and Anita
anjhinz
Hector
DBMiller
RDalehall
Geoduck
Dennis
our three new muggles - higgysue, Rpardoe, Jackie88
Frankie
Tom S
Ed S
jag
Billkatz
Patty
LaceyK
Commodore
Joe R
Jennifer
George and Rita
Barry
Lucas
Mark L
kay
Brian D
Peter L
horsesense
Jeff S
and Maine Marge

Good luck to the rest of us in getting to shore and hopefully we will end the decade with a muggle winning the mug

If I don't talk to you before New Year's Eve, have a good time but stay safe

Bob!! I’m on the shore! I’m fairly confident it’s the right one. Happy, happy new year

[MajordomoTom]

Meg - what's that on your face?

[Meg]

Meg - what's that on your face?

Ummmm. A head of romaine lettuce, I think. Why?

[MajordomoTom]

just looks ... odd.

[DrTom]

Meg - what's that on your face?

Ummmm. A head of romaine lettuce, I think. Why?

Perhaps she encountered it "en dive"

[DrTom]

Since it will soon be New Year's Eve I thought we might place the MUGBOAT in a more festive port?

Happy New Year to all my fellow Muggles and especially to those who take so much of their personal time making this forum as much fun as it is, and believe me when I say this place is often the only happy spot I can find of late.

[DrTom]

Meg - what's that on your face?

Ummmm. A head of romaine lettuce, I think. Why?

Perhaps she encountered it "en dive"

Or am I just being radicchiolous?

[sharkicicles]

Still nothing here... had a nice streak going but the last few weeks have been pretty rough for me meta wise.

[Bird Lives]

The gym yesterday afternoon. On the elliptical machine next to me, a tall sixtyish man.. He is pedaling very slowly because he has the WSJ folded open to the puzzle and is writing in answers with a pen. “Any ideas?” I ask. He pretends not to have heard. As he is getting off the machine a few minutes later, I ask again
Me: Any ideas?
Him: Huh?
Me: I finished the grid, but I can’t get the answer.
Him: Oh, I never do that part.
Me: But that's the fun part.

I should have added: except when you can't figure it out.

[Bird Lives]

[Off topic] 4A in the new MGWCC, 1A iin the Sunday NYT diagramless. Coincidence or conspiracy?