A place to discuss the WSJ Weekly Crossword Contest and other "meta"-style crosswords
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It was genius. I got to see Larry "Bud" Melman (Calvert DeForest) emcee a "Rising Young Comedian" show in St. Louis in the late 1980s and Im pretty sure the comedians included Jerry Seinfeld, Paul Poundstone, and Wil Shriner. Larry "Bud" Melman was the reason I went and he stole the show.DannyWalter wrote: ↑Fri May 14, 2021 12:33 amMy all time favorite was velcro night. Dave gets into a velcro suit, jumps off a trampoline and THWOCK - he's stuck to the wall. Perhaps the dumbest, greatest thing ever done on TV. I was still laughing after the commercial break. I'm laughing right now at the image of Dave trying to turn his head to the camera to go to commercial.sharkicicles wrote: ↑Thu May 13, 2021 11:56 pmI'm at the age where early Late Night was still a bit over my head, but my parents let me watch it anyway, and Larry Bud Melman, Stupid Pet/Human Tricks, and things getting crushed by a steamroller will always be the foundation of things I find hilarious.
We now return you to our regularly scheduled struggle with the meta puzzle. Film at eleven.
HeadinHome wrote: ↑Fri May 14, 2021 9:36 am Someone on page one said they had seen that only 40 answers had been submitted so far at that point... where are you seeing these stats?
Peter's post was the 5th after the Bob's opening, non-entry post, leaving 4 entries before his, which was posted 40+ minutes after the puzzle dropped.
Did he hand out any hot towels?Larrry wrote: ↑Fri May 14, 2021 10:31 amIt was genius. I got to see Larry "Bud" Melman (Calvert DeForest) emcee a "Rising Young Comedian" show in St. Louis in the late 1980s and Im pretty sure the comedians included Jerry Seinfeld, Paul Poundstone, and Wil Shriner. Larry "Bud" Melman was the reason I went and he stole the show.DannyWalter wrote: ↑Fri May 14, 2021 12:33 amMy all time favorite was velcro night. Dave gets into a velcro suit, jumps off a trampoline and THWOCK - he's stuck to the wall. Perhaps the dumbest, greatest thing ever done on TV. I was still laughing after the commercial break. I'm laughing right now at the image of Dave trying to turn his head to the camera to go to commercial.sharkicicles wrote: ↑Thu May 13, 2021 11:56 pm
I'm at the age where early Late Night was still a bit over my head, but my parents let me watch it anyway, and Larry Bud Melman, Stupid Pet/Human Tricks, and things getting crushed by a steamroller will always be the foundation of things I find hilarious.
We now return you to our regularly scheduled struggle with the meta puzzle. Film at eleven.
At the top of the Washington Memorial in DC is a relief of what you are seeing outside the windows, major buildings are labled, and are also written in brail.DrTom wrote: ↑Fri May 14, 2021 2:58 am
sharkicicles wrote: ↑Fri May 14, 2021 1:17 amwell, if it was near the urinals, that probably would not have been the cleanest rest stop in the country.DrTom wrote: ↑Fri May 14, 2021 1:05 am OK, my weird sense of humor had me chuckling about this for about 70 miles.
We stopped at a rest stop on the way back from the Keys. In the Men's rest room, above and to the left of the hand dryer and sink was this sign:
hands free.jpg
Now surely I cannot be the only one to have ever marveled at the irony of this and the futility of announcing that nothing there needed hands except perhaps to read the sign? I'm not being insensitive mind you, just gobstruck that this was the only information provided. What exactly would you get from reading that sign if you were not sighted?
The only thing that might be less helpful was a similar type sign on the waffle iron at a hotel breakfast that read in English and Braille "DO NOT TOUCH WAFFLE IRON IS VERY HOT" (and I'll bet you somewhere that sign exists!)
What are the dumbest signs people have seen? Given our collective senses of humor there have had to be those that made you go "WHAT"
I'm still "floundering"... I guess that means I haven't figured out the mechanism.... Back to the drawing board.Eric Porter wrote: ↑Thu May 13, 2021 7:08 pmSame for me. I'm trying to think of what step I'm missing.minimuggle wrote: ↑Thu May 13, 2021 5:31 pm Like others I have figured out the mechanism but I'm getting jibberish
for now, wine 
later!