"Family First"
- ky-mike
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- Location: Near Louisville Ky
Fun puzzle. I completed the grid Tuesday morning, but let it sit while I worked on other things. Got around to looking at it over lunch today and the pathway quickly lit up like a Christmas tree for me.
Nice puzzle BrianMac
Nice puzzle BrianMac
- hcbirker
- Posts: 2074
- Joined: Thu Apr 11, 2019 7:24 pm
- Location: Studio City, CA
Off the couch! Thanks for a fun puzzle Brian! Glad everyone reminded me to look it up last night on our Zoom call.
Heidi
- DrTom
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- Location: Jacksonville, FL
Yes the Vega has to rank up there with the worst. Unlike the Yugo it would never get blown off the Mackinaw bridge because the Macinaw Straits wouldn't want it. I had a 1971 British Racing Green GT Wagon that I bought new and everything that ever went wrong with a Vega went wrong with mine:
Engine warped
Cylinder seal/oil leak
Leaking around the windshield so that your feet got wet as it rolled off the dash
Leaking of radiator into the passenger compartment
Separation of the shock absorbers from the rear bed after hitting a bump
It wasn't a bad looking car, but I was always mad that I got rid of a nice Chevy Nova II to buy it. The 1964 Chevy II was still running strong several years after the Vega was rusting on a junk yard. The rumor was that they repurposed the car from another product - they just removed the MATIC from the VEGAMATIC and put wheels on it....
NUDGES!I am always willing to give nudges where needed; metas should be about fun, not frustration. Send me what you have done so far because often you are closer than you think!
- DrTom
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- Location: Jacksonville, FL
GREAT BrianMac puzzle, and as usual entertainment within entertainment. Great clues (thanks for the drug treatment clue, I appreciate it!) and some very funny moments. I am waiting for confirmation but I truly feel there is no way I got the wrong answer (for a change).
NUDGES!I am always willing to give nudges where needed; metas should be about fun, not frustration. Send me what you have done so far because often you are closer than you think!
- Bob cruise director
- Cruise Director
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- Joined: Thu Apr 11, 2019 2:38 pm
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Mine seem not to be going out to anyone.BrianMac wrote: ↑Wed Dec 02, 2020 12:50 pm Even better solution. I changed the setting for when a folder is full from "hold back new messages" to "delete oldest message."
So now, it hopefully should not be an issue, but know that your oldest messages will start to be deleted once you are over 1,000 PMs and new messages start coming in.
Brian - I just sent another PM at 2:45
Bob Stevens
Cruise Director
Cruise Director
- BrianMac
- Site Admin
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- Location: Connecticut
- BrianMac
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- Cinny
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Solved, confirmed, and OTC!! I really enjoyed this meta. Thanks, Brian!!
Cindy Heisler
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I actually wasn't off the couch until just now when I read the third hint :-) I had all the pieces but didn't put them together the right way. Excellent answer though!
- SusieG
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- Location: Arkansas
Very fun puzzle! I think I’m off the couch. I could add several “worst cars ever” to the list.
1. A 1980-ish Fiat Spider that had endless transmission and engine issues (but it was sooooo cute!). I spent way too much money just to keep it running.
2. My mom’s 1980 Chrysler Newport, which would die at the most inopportune times. Once, as I turned a corner the power steering went out and I slid down the snowy bank of the Rio Grande, luckily stopping just before going into the icy water. Another time as we made a left hand turn with a semi barreling down the highway toward us. And as crazy as it sounds, on the railroad tracks. We all wanted to leave it there and walk away, but we sadly had time to push it out of the way.
1. A 1980-ish Fiat Spider that had endless transmission and engine issues (but it was sooooo cute!). I spent way too much money just to keep it running.
2. My mom’s 1980 Chrysler Newport, which would die at the most inopportune times. Once, as I turned a corner the power steering went out and I slid down the snowy bank of the Rio Grande, luckily stopping just before going into the icy water. Another time as we made a left hand turn with a semi barreling down the highway toward us. And as crazy as it sounds, on the railroad tracks. We all wanted to leave it there and walk away, but we sadly had time to push it out of the way.
- Cap'n Rick
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Solved and confirmed. Fun puzzle.
- Cindy
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Plymouth cricket. Not mine but my husband’s sometime during college. It needed repairs at some point and he just let the repairman keep it.
- ReB
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- Location: East Tennessee
Off the couch after viewing spoilers, but not going to send PM. I don't think my heart was in it enough this week.
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Off the couch.
I've come to love how numbers within clues can be used to send solvers in so many different possible directions.
Thanks for the puzzle!
I've come to love how numbers within clues can be used to send solvers in so many different possible directions.
Thanks for the puzzle!
- Richard B.
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- KayW
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My sentiments exactly!
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- FrankH
- Posts: 242
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I managed to find what I needed to find and solve the meta without noticing what was mentioned in Brian's second spoiler. But it took longer as I went down some rabbit holes.
- Abide
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- whimsy
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Same here -----