vandono wrote: ↑Wed Mar 09, 2022 2:24 pm
The grid was a ton of fun but I still sit here searching for the meta word. It reminds me of a poem I recently read in a book my oldest daughter bought me for Christmas, and it was written by a 9th-Century Irish scribal scholar in the margins of a manuscript he was copying - which fits the title of today's Meta. So there with a Latin commentary on Virgil and a list of Greek paradigms he penned this:
I and Pangur Ban my cat,
'Tis a like task we are at:
Hunting mice is his delight,
Hunting words I sit all night.
<snip>
When you're a monk and copy out
Manuscripts all day without
A fifteen-minute coffee break
The mind can wander. It may take
You back to your warm Irish house
And idle games of cat and mouse.
You're just another bored scribe that
Pens doggerel about a cat.
But ask yourself, wouldn't it be better
To puzzle out madhatter's meta?
Re: MEOW #67: "Copy That"
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2022 6:08 pm
by madhatter5
Or better yet, perhaps the cat
Can try her paw at "Copy that"
And annotate those exegeses
While you hunt mice and steal their cheeses
But maybe it would turn out funky
If the cat became all monk-ey
Re: MEOW #67: "Copy That"
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2022 6:41 pm
by KayW
Great meta! Cat is out of the bag and learning a lot from the grid and these posts.
Re: MEOW #67: "Copy That"
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2022 8:52 pm
by lbray53
whimsy wrote: ↑Wed Mar 09, 2022 1:14 pm
@woozy -- I didn't get 9D either -- still don't -- but it didn't get in the way of the meta.
FRONT IER
Re: MEOW #67: "Copy That"
Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2022 10:21 pm
by MarkWoychick
OK, cat out of the bag (pending confirmation). Great puzzle and meta - thanks, Josh!
Edit: confirmed
Re: MEOW #67: "Copy That"
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2022 5:43 am
by Joe Ross
madhatter5 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 09, 2022 6:08 pm
Or better yet, perhaps the cat
Can try her paw at "Copy that"
And annotate those exegeses
While you hunt mice and steal their cheeses
But maybe it would turn out funky
If the cat became all monk-ey
Re: MEOW #67: "Copy That"
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2022 7:11 am
by Dave C
The cat is out of the bag. Fun clues.
Re: MEOW #67: "Copy That"
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2022 12:44 pm
by Cap'n Rick
Hey, I think I figured one out for myself this week!
I guess even a blind cat finds his way out of a bag now and then...
Re: MEOW #67: "Copy That"
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2022 1:32 pm
by Darth
The copy cats are out of the bag bag bag...! [No spoiler... just cloning around! ]
Re: MEOW #67: "Copy That"
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2022 3:35 pm
by ship4u
Phew! The cat is finally freed, but not without a lot of hissing and clawing, and a nudge from a muggle friend!
Re: MEOW #67: "Copy That"
Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2022 11:59 am
by HeadinHome
No earthly idea what to do with this one…
UPDATE: nice unsolicited nudge from BirdLives (always welcome) - still thinking it over…
UPDATE 2: Ohhhhh! Yup. Bye bye kitty kitty. (No not a nudge)
Re: MEOW #67: "Copy That"
Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2022 1:27 pm
by Ergcat
HeadinHome wrote: ↑Fri Mar 11, 2022 11:59 am
No earthly idea what to do with this one…
Copy that! Thought I saw something but no. Still pondering….
Re: MEOW #67: "Copy That"
Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2022 2:07 pm
by Dannyvee
Cat's out!
Was on the right track but it hit me right away when I looked at it again this morning
Re: MEOW #67: "Copy That"
Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2022 4:08 pm
by madhatter5
Nudges!
The title is an instruction - apply it to the themers
^^^ I mean literally do this on paper, place the copies side by side and stare at what you see
I made one misspelling unfortunately. Thanks to Darth for catching it. I did know that NATO spells it differently but that fact did not occur to me when making the puzzle
Re: MEOW #67: "Copy That"
Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2022 5:00 pm
by woozy
madhatter5 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 12, 2022 4:08 pm
Nudges!
About frickin' time!
The title is an instruction - apply it to the themers
Yeah, yeah, obviously....
^^^ I mean literally do this on paper, place the copies side by side and stare at what you see
Yeah... whatever, and .......... *gasp*...... Oh, for #@!* sake!
....
Got it now.... The groaning and anger I feel is just proof that this is a clear and clever puzzle that did it's job and legitimately puzzled me.
Good job. Good puzzle.
I'm going to go take a walk and kick squirrels and growl at small children now.
Great meta! Cat is out of the bag and learning a lot from the grid and these posts.
[No spoiler... just cloning around! 
]