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"Five Dollar Bills Are Not That Common"

#1 Post by TheConfessor » Wed Nov 26, 2008 3:24 pm

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.
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#2 Post by peacock2121 » Wed Nov 26, 2008 3:32 pm

Or, he doesn't buy his own 'small items'.
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#3 Post by madamemeisha » Wed Nov 26, 2008 3:53 pm

I'm very quickly becoming disillusioned with him.
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#4 Post by ghostjmf » Wed Nov 26, 2008 4:09 pm

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.
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#5 Post by clem21 » Wed Nov 26, 2008 4:15 pm

Sounds like someone needs a nappy.... :wink:
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#6 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Wed Nov 26, 2008 4:17 pm

clem21 wrote:Sounds like someone needs a nappy.... :wink:
Sounds like someone is new around here :)
Suitguy is not bitter.

feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive

The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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#7 Post by clem21 » Wed Nov 26, 2008 4:21 pm

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:
clem21 wrote:Sounds like someone needs a nappy.... :wink:
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...
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#8 Post by peacock2121 » Wed Nov 26, 2008 4:30 pm

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:
clem21 wrote:Sounds like someone needs a nappy.... :wink:
Sounds like someone is new around here :)
LOL


LOL


LOL


I am not done LOL.
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#9 Post by madamemeisha » Wed Nov 26, 2008 4:36 pm

...aren't nappies what the Brits call diapers?
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#10 Post by kayrharris » Wed Nov 26, 2008 4:46 pm

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

Remember that tutoring session?
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#11 Post by peacock2121 » Wed Nov 26, 2008 4:56 pm

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

Remember that tutoring session?
Is clem a slow study?
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#12 Post by clem21 » Wed Nov 26, 2008 4:56 pm

peacock2121 wrote:
kayrharris wrote:
clem21 wrote:Sounds like someone needs a nappy.... :wink:

Remember that tutoring session?
Is clem a slow study?
Quite fast actually pea.

Quite fast indeed.
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#13 Post by kayrharris » Wed Nov 26, 2008 5:11 pm

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.
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#14 Post by peacock2121 » Wed Nov 26, 2008 5:32 pm

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.
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#15 Post by ulysses5019 » Wed Nov 26, 2008 7:04 pm

Maybe he should spend less time polishing apples and passing notes.
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#16 Post by littlebeast13 » Wed Nov 26, 2008 8:37 pm

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

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

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#17 Post by doitneatly » Wed Nov 26, 2008 9:30 pm

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... :-(
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Re: "Five Dollar Bills Are Not That Common"

#18 Post by slam » Thu Nov 27, 2008 10:24 am

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.
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#19 Post by peacock2121 » Thu Nov 27, 2008 10:26 am

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.
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#20 Post by ne1410s » Thu Nov 27, 2008 11:05 am

I've never seen a fiver with "Where's George?" on it.
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#21 Post by littlebeast13 » Thu Nov 27, 2008 11:07 am

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....

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#22 Post by earendel » Fri Nov 28, 2008 6:25 am

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.
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#23 Post by ghostjmf » Fri Nov 28, 2008 6:42 am

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".
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