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Bird Lives wrote: Sun Jun 04, 2023 9:53 am I must be living in a different universe. I had to Google them all, I've never eaten the answer, and I don't understand the title I had to Google to understand the title, whose wit will be more appreciated by those who didn't have to Google it.

I had to google them all but was able to take an educated guess (which I need google to confirm) for the last. I haven't eaten the answer in 40 years. I don't understand the title. Googling doesn't reveal anything except.... maybe.... I'm about 60 years old and .....

But I thought it was fun and easy even if it did require 100% googling.

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Oh... and with eight people answering "sssolved" I wondered if that was something about cereal I didn't understand.... but at least I get that now.

Bird Lives wrote: Sun Jun 04, 2023 9:53 am I had to Google them all

That's why I didn't use Speedy, I wanted to make you work.

I stand by my 50% forecast as evidenced by our Cruise Director.

Abide wrote: Sun Jun 04, 2023 12:37 pm

Bird Lives wrote: Sun Jun 04, 2023 9:53 am I had to Google them all

That's why I didn't use Speedy, I wanted to make you work.

I stand by my 50% forecast as evidenced by our Cruise Director.

Yes, my knowledge in this area is largely confined to the years before the mute button.

75% chance of google here, though if I'd been more patient it might have been 50%. Fun start to a rainy day, thanks. Maybe Colorado is just trying to prepare me for heading to Norway this evening.

Sunday Nudges

There is a helper entry at 22-Across

With an entry like 22-Across, you don't need help from a title. But you can Google the meta answer with the title to see the connection.

First time trying this! Didn't need the nudges today but did have to Google 1 thing and found the answer surprising! Very fun to do over lunch. Thanks for the delightful puzzle @Abide .

lbray53 wrote: Sun Jun 04, 2023 11:21 am
My question is: Do you pick up the bowl and drink the delicious leftover milk out of it? And if so, who taught you to do that?

It was my father in my case. Just one of the perks of eating a family breakfast around the kitchen table.

Please don't tell anyone, but when I'm at home by myself - absolutely!! That's the best part! It kills me to not do so the few times I have cereal in the presence of others.

And like you, I learned it from the family breakfast table growing up. My parents would never have allowed us to let perfectly good milk go to waste.

Didn't need nudges but had to Google all of them. Fun one Peter!

Abide wrote: Sun Jun 04, 2023 1:02 pm [.. second nudge...]
With an entry like 22-Across, you don't need help from a title. But you can Google the meta answer with the title to see the connection.

Seriously? It's that recent?. It always amazes me when things I asssumed had been around forever actually were very new in my childhood. I was surprised when I found out Barbie was only a few months older than my older sister and I'm exactly as old as The Phantom Tollbooth. And my mother would have been a teenager when Tony the tiger first a appeared in the world.

I guess most people assume our surprise should go the other way (It's that old!) and I do for things but only things in my lifetime. Usually, I'm just surprised what counts as icons now. (Wait! The Goonies are 40 years old. I'll admit I'm mildly surprised but I'm more shocked I'm expected to care.)

Sssolved. Thanks for a fun one!

No nudges needed, just Google and then a headslap moment. Tasty Sunday afternoon snack with enjoyable cluing.

lbray53 wrote: Sun Jun 04, 2023 11:21 am SSSolved!

My question is: Do you pick up the bowl and drink the delicious leftover milk out of it? And if so, who taught you to do that?

It was my father in my case. Just one of the perks of eating a family breakfast around the kitchen table.

No, there's no leftover milk because there was never any milk to begin with. I prefer my cereal dry.

SSSolved!

SSSolved - didn't need the nudges but I have always enjoyed this passage from Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon.

edestlin wrote: Mon Jun 05, 2023 7:38 am SSSolved - didn't need the nudges but I have always enjoyed this passage from Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon.

My favourite novel!

Very nice, @Abide! Enjoyable grid, mechnism, and meta

benchen71 wrote: Mon Jun 05, 2023 9:10 am

edestlin wrote: Mon Jun 05, 2023 7:38 am SSSolved - didn't need the nudges but I have always enjoyed this passage from Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon.

My favourite novel!

True, reading that novel years ago started me through the Baroque Cycle series . In re-reading that passage, there is a glaring error [wrong manufacturer] that slipped past the editors.

SSSolved!

Didn't see this until this AM. Didn't use nudges. Pretty quick solve today. Thanks for the memories.

Just picked this one up last night (Tues) — definitely didn’t need the nudges. Enjoyed!

Also - good catch on this:

Abide wrote: Mon Jun 05, 2023 2:24 pm True, reading that novel years ago started me through the Baroque Cycle series . In re-reading that passage, there is a glaring error [wrong manufacturer] that slipped past the editors.

I was more puzzled about the S-V agreement issue in the last sentence: “…verbal explanations only goes so far…”. They does?