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Harvey Van Sickle
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| Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 2:46 am
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It had to happen: my reliable free, dailiy cryptic crossword from the
Globe and Mail has turned subscription.
["Alas", said this bloody cheap bastard who liked free crosswords.]
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Cheers, Harvey
Ottawa/Toronto/Edmonton for 30 years;
Southern England for the past 22 years.
(for e-mail, change harvey.news to harvey.van)
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meirman
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| Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 2:56 am
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In alt.english.usage on Mon, 13 Sep 2004 20:46:03 GMT Harvey Van
Sickle <harvey.news@ntlworld.com> posted:
| Quote: | It had to happen: my reliable free, dailiy cryptic crossword from the
Globe and Mail has turned subscription.
["Alas", said this bloody cheap bastard who liked free crosswords.]
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You can do the Baltimore Sun for a while. The one I saw was not very
hard, although the ones that are actually in the paper start easy on
Monday and get hard by Friday.
www.sunspot.net will take you threre.
s/ meirman If you are emailing me please
say if you are posting the same response.
Born west of Pittsburgh Pa. 10 years
Indianapolis, 7 years
Chicago, 6 years
Brooklyn NY 12 years
Baltimore 20 years |
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Harvey Van Sickle
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| Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 3:06 am
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On 13 Sep 2004, meirman wrote
| Quote: | In alt.english.usage on Mon, 13 Sep 2004 20:46:03 GMT Harvey Van
Sickle <harvey.news@ntlworld.com> posted:
It had to happen: my reliable free, dailiy cryptic crossword
from the Globe and Mail has turned subscription.
["Alas", said this bloody cheap bastard who liked free
crosswords.]
You can do the Baltimore Sun for a while. The one I saw was not
very hard, although the ones that are actually in the paper start
easy on Monday and get hard by Friday.
www.sunspot.net will take you threre.
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Many thanks -- I'll give that a go!
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Cheers, Harvey
Ottawa/Toronto/Edmonton for 30 years;
Southern England for the past 22 years.
(for e-mail, change harvey.news to harvey.van)
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Harvey Van Sickle
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| Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 3:11 am
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On 13 Sep 2004, Harvey Van Sickle wrote
| Quote: | On 13 Sep 2004, meirman wrote
In alt.english.usage on Mon, 13 Sep 2004 20:46:03 GMT Harvey Van
Sickle <harvey.news@ntlworld.com> posted:
It had to happen: my reliable free, dailiy cryptic crossword
from the Globe and Mail has turned subscription.
["Alas", said this bloody cheap bastard who liked free
crosswords.]
You can do the Baltimore Sun for a while. The one I saw was not
very hard, although the ones that are actually in the paper start
easy on Monday and get hard by Friday.
www.sunspot.net will take you threre.
Many thanks -- I'll give that a go!
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Aw, poop: unless I'm missing a link, it's not cryptic. :(
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Cheers, Harvey
Ottawa/Toronto/Edmonton for 30 years;
Southern England for the past 22 years.
(for e-mail, change harvey.news to harvey.van) |
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Harvey Van Sickle
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| Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 3:34 am
Post subject: Re: Daily free cryptic crosswords, RIP |
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On 13 Sep 2004, Harvey Van Sickle wrote
| Quote: | It had to happen: my reliable free, dailiy cryptic crossword from
the Globe and Mail has turned subscription.
["Alas", said this bloody cheap bastard who liked free
crosswords.]
Whew....I've found one.... (The one in "The Scotsman" still appears to |
be OK. Gawd bless the Scots, I say. For now...)
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Cheers, Harvey
Ottawa/Toronto/Edmonton for 30 years;
Southern England for the past 22 years.
(for e-mail, change harvey.news to harvey.van) |
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Dylan Nicholson
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| Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 3:58 am
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"Harvey Van Sickle" <harvey.news@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9563E1DCA4264whhvans@194.168.222.123...
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graham
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| Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 4:59 am
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"Harvey Van Sickle" <harvey.news@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9563DD743F552whhvans@62.253.162.203...
| Quote: | It had to happen: my reliable free, dailiy cryptic crossword from the
Globe and Mail has turned subscription.
["Alas", said this bloody cheap bastard who liked free crosswords.]
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Cheers, Harvey
Ottawa/Toronto/Edmonton for 30 years;
Southern England for the past 22 years.
(for e-mail, change harvey.news to harvey.van)
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Haven't you been in England long enough to do the Telegraph CW?
Graham |
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Dena Jo
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| Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 8:13 am
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On 13 Sep 2004, Harvey Van Sickle posted thus:
| Quote: | It had to happen: my reliable free, dailiy cryptic crossword from
the Globe and Mail has turned subscription.
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What's a cryptic crossword?
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Dena Jo
Email goes to denajo2 at the dot com variation of the Yahoo domain.
Plonk the bastards: http://www.schmuckwithanunderwood.com/trolls.html |
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Charles Riggs
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| Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 9:24 am
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On 14 Sep 2004 02:13:08 GMT, Dena Jo <me@privacy.net> wrote:
| Quote: | On 13 Sep 2004, Harvey Van Sickle posted thus:
It had to happen: my reliable free, dailiy cryptic crossword from
the Globe and Mail has turned subscription.
What's a cryptic crossword?
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Examples of cryptic cross words are 'piss off', since how can that be
done? and 'fuck yourself', an impossibility. I like to point out how
cryptic these words are whenever they are directed at me. That often
confuses my interlocutor, a Good thing. |
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nycram
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| Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 9:28 am
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In article <Xns9563E5C86A119whhvans@194.168.222.123>,
harvey.news@ntlworld.com says...
| Quote: | On 13 Sep 2004, Harvey Van Sickle wrote
It had to happen: my reliable free, dailiy cryptic crossword from
the Globe and Mail has turned subscription.
["Alas", said this bloody cheap bastard who liked free
crosswords.]
Whew....I've found one.... (The one in "The Scotsman" still appears to
be OK. Gawd bless the Scots, I say. For now...)
Where do they hide it on their site? |
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don groves
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| Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 9:43 am
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In article <smock0hdd21pf1l8ddafr7d5fqknvhf9gc@4ax.com>,
chriggs@eircom.net wrote...
| Quote: | On 14 Sep 2004 02:13:08 GMT, Dena Jo <me@privacy.net> wrote:
On 13 Sep 2004, Harvey Van Sickle posted thus:
It had to happen: my reliable free, dailiy cryptic crossword from
the Globe and Mail has turned subscription.
What's a cryptic crossword?
Examples of cryptic cross words are 'piss off', since how can that be
done? and 'fuck yourself', an impossibility. I like to point out how
cryptic these words are whenever they are directed at me. That often
confuses my interlocutor, a Good thing.
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Someone, it may have been Isaak Asimov (he of the _Lecherous
Limericks_), wrote a SciFi vignette back in the '40s or '50s
about man's first trip to Venus. The Venusians were extremely
aloof and ignored all attempts at conversation until one day,
tired of being treated as invisible, an Earthling turned to a
silent, passing Venusian and said, "Aw, go fuck yourself", at
which the Venusian brightened and vigorously shook the man's
hand. Turns out Venusians were autosexual and that was the only
greeting they recognized as civil.
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dg (domain=ccwebster) |
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Peter Moylan
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| Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 10:07 am
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Dena Jo wellfed:
| Quote: | On 13 Sep 2004, Harvey Van Sickle posted thus:
It had to happen: my reliable free, dailiy cryptic crossword from
the Globe and Mail has turned subscription.
What's a cryptic crossword?
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The only sort of crossword puzzle worth doing. The simple rule used
to be that broadsheets had cryptic crosswords, and tabloids had
crossword puzzles with straight clues. The lines are probably
blurring now that more and more broadsheets are going tabloid.
(In both shape and content.)
Perhaps you could think of it as the sort of puzzle where the clues
are Herdwick enabled.
I've never figured out why cryptic crosswords seem to be rare in
the USA. Are all the newspaper publishers scared of appearing
to appeal to the intelligent?
(OK, I know about Murdoch. But apart from him.)
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Peter Moylan peter at ee dot newcastle dot edu dot au
http://eepjm.newcastle.edu.au (OS/2 and eCS information and software) |
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Michael DeBusk
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| Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 12:33 pm
Post subject: Re: Daily free cryptic crosswords, RIP |
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On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 20:46:03 GMT, Harvey Van Sickle
<harvey.news@ntlworld.com> wrote:
| Quote: | ["Alas", said this bloody cheap bastard who liked free crosswords.]
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The following is not a crossword, but you may find it distracting for a
little while. It's semi-mindless fun, if nothing else. The download
version is Windows-only; the online version runs on Java and Flash.
http://www.shockwave.com/sw/content/bookworm
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Michael DeBusk, Co-Conspirator to Make the World a Better Place
Did he update http://home.earthlink.net/~debu4335/ yet? |
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Harvey Van Sickle
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| Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 12:36 pm
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On 13 Sep 2004, graham wrote
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"Harvey Van Sickle" <harvey.news@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9563DD743F552whhvans@62.253.162.203...
It had to happen: my reliable free, dailiy cryptic crossword
from the Globe and Mail has turned subscription.
["Alas", said this bloody cheap bastard who liked free
crosswords.]
--
Cheers, Harvey
Ottawa/Toronto/Edmonton for 30 years;
Southern England for the past 22 years.
(for e-mail, change harvey.news to harvey.van)
Haven't you been in England long enough to do the Telegraph CW?
Graham
I do the Guardian crossword each day -- the Telegraph's fair, but not |
really difficult enough.  (The web ones are an extra -- my
equivalent of a bit of reading before falling asleep.)
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Cheers, Harvey
Ottawa/Toronto/Edmonton for 30 years;
Southern England for the past 22 years.
(for e-mail, change harvey.news to harvey.van) |
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Harvey Van Sickle
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| Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 12:38 pm
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On 14 Sep 2004, nycram wrote
| Quote: | In article <Xns9563E5C86A119whhvans@194.168.222.123>,
harvey.news@ntlworld.com says...
On 13 Sep 2004, Harvey Van Sickle wrote
It had to happen: my reliable free, dailiy cryptic crossword
from the Globe and Mail has turned subscription.
["Alas", said this bloody cheap bastard who liked free
crosswords.]
Whew....I've found one.... (The one in "The Scotsman" still
appears to be OK. Gawd bless the Scots, I say. For now...)
Where do they hide it on their site?
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Under "Games": http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/games.cfm (I found it
by googling.)
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Cheers, Harvey
Ottawa/Toronto/Edmonton for 30 years;
Southern England for the past 22 years.
(for e-mail, change harvey.news to harvey.van) |
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