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According to Will Shortz on today's show. I'm beginning to think he lives in his own Puzzleworld and doesn't get out very often.

Or, he doesn't buy his own 'small items'.

I'm very quickly becoming disillusioned with him.

I became disillusioned with him about 15 years ago or whenever, about the time he showed up on NPR Sunday morning mispronouncing Yiddish words. Just because you know some of 15 possible phonetic spellings for something in someone else's language, & you're "into meanings" & your buddies gave you the meaning (but not the pronunciation, apparently) does not mean you get to use the word. At least not until you learn to pronounce it. Any of them.

Why am I not surprised he doesn't look at $5 bills?

And oh yeah I am singularly uninterested both in crossword puzzles & Sudoku, but I don't hold that against him.

Sounds like someone needs a nappy....

clem21 wrote:Sounds like someone needs a nappy....

Sounds like someone is new around here

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:

clem21 wrote:Sounds like someone needs a nappy....

Sounds like someone is new around here

Yes, are nappies a common occurrence? I often need a nappy....it's better than switching to decaf anyway...

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:

clem21 wrote:Sounds like someone needs a nappy....

Sounds like someone is new around here

LOL


LOL


LOL


I am not done LOL.

...aren't nappies what the Brits call diapers?

clem21 wrote:Sounds like someone needs a nappy....

Remember that tutoring session?

kayrharris wrote:

clem21 wrote:Sounds like someone needs a nappy....

Remember that tutoring session?

Is clem a slow study?

peacock2121 wrote:

kayrharris wrote:

clem21 wrote:Sounds like someone needs a nappy....

Remember that tutoring session?

Is clem a slow study?

Quite fast actually pea.

Quite fast indeed.

clem21 wrote:

peacock2121 wrote:

kayrharris wrote:
Remember that tutoring session?

Is clem a slow study?

Quite fast actually pea.

Quite fast indeed.

I have to agree with Clem. Or maybe we can blame the tutor.

clem21 wrote:

peacock2121 wrote:

kayrharris wrote:
Remember that tutoring session?

Is clem a slow study?

Quite fast actually pea.

Quite fast indeed.

maybe you were absent that day.

Maybe he should spend less time polishing apples and passing notes.

I have about 50 $5 bills in my possession as we speak.....

Maybe I could let Mr. Shortz borrow one of them....

lb13

peacock2121 wrote:Or, he doesn't buy his own 'small items'.

I thought the same thing at first, but then he commented that,

"ones and twenties are a lot commoner [sic]"

It seems safe to say that Mr. Shortz has been a much weaker expert than one might expect, given his day job...

As I stated in another thread, I would have been initially happy to get some like Will Shortz as my ATE. After watching him at work for a few shows, I'm admitting that I've been proven wrong. He's gotten a couple of tough questions, but overall I'm not particularly impressed by him as an ATE.

slam wrote:As I stated in another thread, I would have been initially happy to get some like Will Shortz as my ATE. After watching him at work for a few shows, I'm admitting that I've been proven wrong. He's gotten a couple of tough questions, but overall I'm not particularly impressed by him as an ATE.

Sting was watching and said something about the guy being New York Times Crossword blah, blah, blah.

Then he watched some more and said - Maybe that's not the guy - the guy I was thinking of would be way smarter.

I've never seen a fiver with "Where's George?" on it.

ne1410s wrote:I've never seen a fiver with "Where's George?" on it.

Keep looking. I have 5,123 of them out there somewhere....

lb13

peacock2121 wrote:

slam wrote:As I stated in another thread, I would have been initially happy to get some like Will Shortz as my ATE. After watching him at work for a few shows, I'm admitting that I've been proven wrong. He's gotten a couple of tough questions, but overall I'm not particularly impressed by him as an ATE.

Sting was watching and said something about the guy being New York Times Crossword blah, blah, blah.

Then he watched some more and said - Maybe that's not the guy - the guy I was thinking of would be way smarter.

I, too, have been disappointed in Mr. Shortz's ATE appearance, but it's important to remember that he edits the NYT puzzles, he doesn't create them himself.

earendel says:

I, too, have been disappointed in Mr. Shortz's ATE appearance, but it's important to remember that he edits the NYT puzzles, he doesn't create them himself.

He's created them in his life. He still does, a few. Or at least that's what I remember hearing from interviews.

He is a trivia buff of sorts, but obviously its a different kind of trivia than the kind that would tell you "what's in your wallet".