ACROSS LITE PUZZLE: [ FAKING IT]
PROGRAM: [Across Lite]
PROGRAM: [Java]
PRINTOUT PUZZLE: [ FAKING IT]
PROGRAM: [Adobe Acrobat]
Seems like a little much to throw out another oil spill joke on the site, when we’ve already done it twice before. But since today’s BEQ Fan of the Moment calls Biloxi, Mississippi, home and I reckon they’re due for environmental destruction in, oh, about a month, I figured he’s equipped to make these sorts of wry observations. Take it away Peter Abide:
Spent extended pre-holiday weekend helping chaperone 25 graduating seniors on an unofficial trip to Montego Bay (their first “legal” drinks). “Montego” is derived from the Spanish word for “lard”, which now seems appropriate after the all-inclusive food and alcohol package at our hotel. This pic was taken from my balcony on Top Kill Friday. Unfortunately, the only successful top kill that day was the puzzle and the tip of that Cohiba.
Let’s pull out the checklist: puzzle, booze, cigars (none for me, thank you, but I approve), working on a netbook when you should be out enjoying the weather. That’s a fourpeat in my book. Nice job! How can I sign up for one of those trips? Sidebar: Astute readers will note that Peter has shown his fandom of the site before as he had contributed this stellar theme back in February. Anyway, for his bravado, he’ll receive a copy of the “Diagramless” book. Keep those fan pics/stories pouring in.
Headsup: slight rerun of a Paste Magazine puzzle here (removed a few of the indie rock clues), but seeing as the overlap of the two is negligible, it’ll be new for virtually everybody. Share the puzzle. New one on Monday.
I’m part of the overlap! Saw this first, though. (Although I don’t know where in the Paste demographic it positions me that I started humming the ABBA first.)
New to me. Easy too, though only three of the band names were known to me (SPINAL, STILLWATER, BSHARPS). Got SEDANS, ONEHOP, SATORI bang bang bang off (easy) SOS. Then I hit DETHKLOK and things slowed down. A little.
Someday someone will write a children’s book about you and it will be called “He Said YESSES to ESSES.”
rp
Pretty easy, cause you were particularly kind on crossing all those bands I’d never heard of. Spinal Tap was the only one familiar – reminded of the hysterical smallish monument.
Hooray for kind crossings, and for a lovely, original theme! This is my favorite of all the BEQs for music-lovers, since it has so much I can actually get.
Rex with 3 and MitchS with 1 — well, let me be the one in the middle with two that I’d heard of. One of these days, I’ve got to learn all the Simpsons, Family Guy and South Park characters. Otherwise, it will be hard to continue doing x-words.
First DARLA, now DINGOES/ATEMYBABY. What’s next, THEANOINTEDONE? JENNYCALENDAR? FIVEBYFIVE?
Half-expected to see CRYSTAL SH*T as a shout-out to all the Dead Milkmen fans out there …
buffy, spinal tap, simpsons: check. everything else: work those crosses!
Really enjoyed this one, knoew many of the bands so the theme was enjoyable.
Great, fun puzzle. Left me humming “Shape of Things to Come” by Max Frost and the Troopers.
Any puzzle with one band featuring Oz or Apu or Nigel Tufnel would make my day, so this puzzle really hit it out of the park…
When Spinal Tap was on the Simpsons, they shoulda had the Be Sharps as the opening act… (maybe they did!)
These are a few of my many smells…