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Curse you, Laura M. It took me 11 years to get that song out of my head - I volunteer in community theater and was a propmaster for a summer production featuring wall-to-wall teenagers - and now it's back! There are worse earworms, I s'pose. And, now that I think of it, an upbeat reminder of our shared humanity couldn't hurt.Laura M wrote: Thu Aug 27, 2020 6:34 pm By the way: Anyone else get an earworm from the title? My kid was 4 or 5 when High School Musical became hugely popular with the preschool set, and I must have heard the soundtrack hundreds of times. (The song actually has "All" in the title, but close enough!)
Keep sending them my way! They are such an elegant bird to watch.higgysue wrote: Fri Aug 28, 2020 2:21 pmLadyBird,LadyBird wrote: Fri Aug 28, 2020 1:41 pm I am COMing out of the water on this hot suMmer day and planting my umbrella upON the beach! The path to the answer was a bit of an eNIGma at first, but then the ligHT came on. I am HAppy to be sitting here listening to the seabirds squaWK while I sip on a summer shandy.
**These birds are on their fall migration now. I've seem them before, but never from my yard. Until last night when I saw a few winging overhead at dusk. That now makes 63 species that I have seen from my yard--not bad for a lot that is 25 feet by 150 feet.
I was just going to message you about seeing the nighthawks fly through here like crazy last week. They are a fun bird to watch. Enjoy!
michaelm wrote: Fri Aug 28, 2020 2:34 pmMichael, I have not thought about that slogan for decades but I vividly remember it -- as well as "The Flyers win the Stanley Cup!!!" of course! As suburban Philly kids in the 70s, we all loved the Broad Street Bullies and learned to skate at Radnor Rink and on the frozen pond at Malvern Prep.Bob cruise director wrote: Fri Aug 28, 2020 1:58 pm
Or, to quote Gene Hart, the long-time voice of the Philadelphia Flyers: "he shoots, he scores...for a case of Tastykake!"
Genius-level 1970s product placement.
Every time there is a clue referencing the film in 58A (which seems frequent lately) a song inevitably gets stuck in my head for days.....doesn't help that our three year old watches it nearly daily too.Tom Wilson wrote: Fri Aug 28, 2020 2:44 pmCurse you, Laura M. It took me 11 years to get that song out of my head - I volunteer in community theater and was a propmaster for a summer production featuring wall-to-wall teenagers - and now it's back! There are worse earworms, I s'pose. And, now that I think of it, an upbeat reminder of our shared humanity couldn't hurt.Laura M wrote: Thu Aug 27, 2020 6:34 pm By the way: Anyone else get an earworm from the title? My kid was 4 or 5 when High School Musical became hugely popular with the preschool set, and I must have heard the soundtrack hundreds of times. (The song actually has "All" in the title, but close enough!)
Many are wiser from the Pageant experience. At the time, the extra step was a bit out of left field and caught many off guard. That's why we say experience is the best tool in the box.TPS wrote: Fri Aug 28, 2020 1:14 pm I don’t know know how many people would get PAGEANT’D if that puzzle came out today - Based on what I’ve seen in my 18 months of doing this puzzle and from what I am told by a few on here who have been doing the puzzle a lot longer - the difficulty has steadily ramped where I think that would be a 60-70% puzzle now. I’ve certainly seen more difficult mechanisms is year with higher solve rates. But that is just my opinion.
Dr. Tom, if you don't get the meta by Sunday, I have a really, really good hint for you! And you are SO right about the Tastykakes.DrTom wrote: Fri Aug 28, 2020 3:39 pm Well I certainly remember TASTYKAKES and Broad Street bullies. I grew up eating TastyKakes and I'm sad to say they are not a shadow of what they used to be. For that matter neither are the Flyers. I can remember when "fight night in America" was any night the Flyers played the Rangers.... I'd love to go back and watch one of those classic matches complete with Kate Smith and God Bless America (and yes I know Kate Smith had some skeletons in her closet, but I am remembering the situation not the person)
Only, "Do you believe in miracles?" can come close to "Havlicek stole the ball!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"Bob cruise director wrote: Fri Aug 28, 2020 1:58 pm On shore. To quote Johnny Most "he fiddled, he diddled and then he scored"
Not quite in the Havlicek Stole The Ball category but...
Glad to see you here! Hope you survived the hurricane without too much trouble.Abide wrote: Fri Aug 28, 2020 3:52 pm "Less and Less" last week took me 8 minutes, but after a day and a half I am solidly on the ship. Think I will print out and start over.
As a kid, I used to love Butterscotch Krimpets.Wendy Walker wrote: Fri Aug 28, 2020 3:49 pmDr. Tom, if you don't get the meta by Sunday, I have a really, really good hint for you! And you are SO right about the Tastykakes.DrTom wrote: Fri Aug 28, 2020 3:39 pm Well I certainly remember TASTYKAKES and Broad Street bullies. I grew up eating TastyKakes and I'm sad to say they are not a shadow of what they used to be. For that matter neither are the Flyers. I can remember when "fight night in America" was any night the Flyers played the Rangers.... I'd love to go back and watch one of those classic matches complete with Kate Smith and God Bless America (and yes I know Kate Smith had some skeletons in her closet, but I am remembering the situation not the person)