MikeyG wrote: ↑Fri Jun 16, 2023 12:16 pm
Aarrgh, Lily and Niko, haha! All in good fun, of course. Another bronze to add to my collection, I'll take it!
I want to use this time not only to say the meta was great but also to build up @DrTom for a moment. He has been such a kind, instrumental force in helping me with my craft - as well as being an equally jocular punster in rhyme (perhaps much to the chagrin of many). I have loved his dedication to this forum, and I leave all of our interactions feeling better about the world and a little bit happier as a result. So major props to his cruciverbal craft and also to how he brightens up the forum and this world.
Okay, that's enough maudlin pontificating for now, haha. Carry on with the puzzles!
Mikey G
Wow Mike, I am humbled and perhaps blushing a bit. It is very easy being a Muggle since beginning with my first time on the site (hard to believe that was four years ago) I have been treated with kindness, and support. I had never experienced (and certainly have not since) such a collection of camaraderie, humor and intelligence. There is no place of which I can conceive, outside of some professional forum, where the depth and breadth of knowledge exceeds that of this community, and certainly not one where it is all done with such a healthy dose of funny. I truly could not imagine a life without Muggles.
That brings me to you sir. Your creativity in mechanisms and innate sense of humor in writing clues have brought me untold amusement. I always make sure that for the MikeyG puzzles I have enough time to solve and savor. I never rush through to make sure the fill is correct; I look for why the fill is funny and don’t want to miss a punchline. Working with you on our combined puzzle (and fair warning Muggledon, there is a DrTom/MikeyG coming soon so get your abdominal muscles ready for a workout) was like looking into a younger, probably more clever, mind of my own.
Speaking of looking into my own brain, for the records I have done that and do not recommend. Reviewing my results it looked like I was asleep because the brain kept playing REM, none of my neurons could control their impulses and the EEG tracing spelled out puns. To give my brain a break I sent it a nearby zoo where there are large collections of semiaquatic mammals, it is called Hippo Camp US (ouch)
I cannot tell you how delighted I am to have a puzzle in the MGWCC, and how hard it was to keep quiet about it! I have been counting the minutes until noon since about 0730 this morning.
Very cool indeed.
Stared for a brief period, then noticed something and hey presto. Awaiting beam, but confident.
