CROSSWORD SOLVER PUZZLE:
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In case you missed it, I had this past Friday’s Wall Street Journal puzzle. Do it here: [PDF] [Across Lite].
And in case you missed our recurring BEQ Fan Du Jour columns, let’s get back to it. Say hey to Ken Lauterbach of Jackson Heights, Queens. Ken not only introduced himself to yours truly at Lollapuzzoola a few weeks back, he also wore one of the bad ass B.E.Q. shirts (get yrs. here). The pics a tad blurry, but let’s just pretend it’s a Gerhard Richter photorealist painting. Anyway, Ken writes:
I’ve been wearing this shirt most weekends since last summer with never an incident, not a word from anyone about it. Finally last month, I was eating dinner in a Mexican restaurant in Red Hook with some friends, including my good friend Victor Mather, a sometime crossword blogger who was the one who got me into crossword competitions a few years ago. After about an hour some guy who was leaving the restaurant said “I’ve been staring at that shirt from across the room for the whole time I’ve been here and I can’t figure out what is going on.” I told him what it was and he seemed satisfied with my explanation and went on his way. Then the next weekend somebody else said “Cool R.E.M shirt” not noticing that there was anything amiss and getting annoyed when I tried to point it out. I suppose my obligations as Shirt Wearer will be complete and the classic joke format of the triple will be realized if somebody in the next few weekend says “Hey, I love Brendan Emmett Quigley, but what’s with the serpentine imagery and the Harborcoat?”
Let me know when that happens Ken. I’d like to meet him/her.
Send in your fan photos of you doing my puzzle, using my swag, stalking me, whatever! In the meantime, share the puzzle. New one on Thursday.
Thanks for the shoutout, Brendan. One thing I will never ever forget after Lollapuzzoola Five is how to spell UTZ, especially after watching Mike N make like Sammy the Seal trying to catch one of those cheeseballs. Although I did create a mnemonic just in case, perhaps of use only to me – “my UTZ weighs ATONOF”
Perhaps for the first time, I was confident about PENISSIZE.
As you’re probably aware, that WSJ puzzle of yours got a lot of people to scratch their heads in bafflement, wondering if there was more to it than a random switch from weekdays to dog breeds. Care to comment?
Yes, that is a good question. Was there anymore to it than Every Dog Has His Day?
My youngest daughter (high school
junior-to-be)appropriated my
Reckoning T-shirt at least a
year ago. Neither she or her
friends have any crossword
knowledge base (or REM for that
matter), but it must be
well-received since she
wears it quite a bit.