What I thought was a dangling modifier was in fact a misplaced modifier ie, the modifier is placed far away and hence there’s ambiguity as to just what it’s modifying:Īfter rotting in the cellar for weeks, my friend brought up some oranges.Ī dangling modifier is one whose noun it’s modifying isn’t even in the sentence: It’s only been since I’ve been teaching that I’ve come to understand what a dangling modifier actually is. The former, you’re on the outside left to your own devices to figure it out. If you’re the latter, you’ve been included as one of the gang. I always think about the subtle difference between ON TO and in on. I’d rather sit through two hours of Uncle Mike’s slides from China than another NOH play. (FWIW, you can change your Waze voice to sound like Cookie Monster, but it goes from cute to tear-your-hair-out-annoying in about 30 seconds.) Didn’t I read somewhere that, what with our obesity epidemic, there’s been some push-back on Cookie Monster’s message? I just checked, and yeah, I guess they haven’t changed him to Veggie Monster, but he is trying to tout fruits and vegetables, too. I smelled rat early on and sussed out the trick with COCOONING/ME WANT COOKIE. Like others here so far, I rather enjoy having a rebus thrown at us on a Wednesday it makes the aha moment that more satisfying. I already mentioned this late yesterday but can't resist.because it can't last, let me enjoy it. Didn't we just have Olga KORBUT?įun fact, which I just learned 2 hours ago when searching for something else entirely: we get the word TYCOON from. They're everywhere! If I never see another one I won't mind not that they're obnoxious, they're just. Yes the pigeon-like birds that make that similar noise. Liked it! Although for some odd reason, here in southern British Columbia for the last 2 years we've had an invasion of doves. but some constructor, please make that puzzle?īut I shortly saw the COO rebus, and made the leap to: "Oh, it's a pigeon theme'. Each answer will complete the phrase! Brilliant! No. and I thought wow, this will be a great theme. OK, that's all for now.įor "Good advice in an emergency" I saw KEEP-L-D and thought oh! oh! KEEP CALM AND. I forget the title, but it was pretty famous).
FALLEN DOLL 1.19 MOVIE
COCOONING is when you never get old and you never die, like Wilfred Brimley, than whom I am now older (that is, older than he was when he made that movie about COCOONING. It's weird to think it needs a special name. Doing dinner and a movie at home just sounds like. unless that too has been replaced, which seems very possible. I think it's been replaced by "Netflix and chill. I wrote in DUH before D'OH (40D: "I'm such a meathead!"). I forgot WPA even though I think it was just in the grid. or else the intervening time between when she was famous and now has just garbled my memory.
FALLEN DOLL 1.19 HOW TO
But that was back in the '70s, when no one knew how to pronounce anything. I feel like I've heard her name pronounced a bunch of different ways, with different vowel sounds at the end and even different syllable numbers. I misspelled COMANECI (with an "E" on the end) ( 25A: Gymnast on Time's August 2, 1976, cover with the headline "She's perfect"). Then I drifted over and got OIL TYCOON, discovered its "COO" square, and everything was easy from there on out. The real winner of the day is the Cookie Monster answer, which is also the answer that gave me the theme-I drifted down the west coast, got MEW- at the front of the answer, and realized it was going to be " ME WANT COOKIE," only at that point I didn't know what part of the answer, exactly, was going to be rebused. I don't know that I'm in AWE, but I definitely think it's A-OK (why am I doing this, I don't like doing this, I'll stop doing this now). I am not IRKed, nor do I look ASKANCE at this theme.
The puzzle has birds in it and they are cooing at me. It gives the puzzle an auditory dimension that is both unusual and soothing. It's really adorable and slightly brilliant to have the little bird sounds (instead of the birds themselves) inside the rebus squares. Just, you know, put it on Thursday, make the clues somewhat harder, and maybe take another pass at some of the fill, and you've really got something here. Usually I'm ugh-ing at a theme and finding something to like in the fill. But then the revealer came and I have to admit it's actually a very cute idea, and the execution is pretty nifty as well-those themers are By Far the best part of this grid. Thursday), not Wednesday, this is just annoying, and second because the fill was, er, rough in many places, and third, because the rebus seemed absurd. I was not on this puzzle's side for the longest time, first because ugh, put the rebuses on rebus day (i.e.
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