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The Lighter Side / Re: Today's Wordle ------- spoilers alert!
« Last post by Sason on April 17, 2024, 04:20:12 pm »
Wordle 1 033 5/6

⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ OUIJA
🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜ TYRES
🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 TINGE
🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 TITLE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TITHE
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The Culture Tent / Re: In the New Yorker...
« Last post by Jeff Wrangler on April 17, 2024, 11:25:45 am »
I continue to be weeks behind. I am finding lots to read in the March 25 issue. I've already read Rachel Monroe, Margaret Talbot, and Adam Gopnik. I'm currently reading Paige Williams. I want to read Molly Fischer and David D. Kirkpatrick.

Given the current state of our country, I really think everyone should read Adam Gopnik (if for no other reason than, well, it's Adam Gopnik). I expect David D. Kirkpatrick will also be important.

Gopnik and Kirkpatrick are duty articles, but in this case I think they really are a duty.
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The Lighter Side / Re: Today's Wordle ------- spoilers alert!
« Last post by serious crayons on April 17, 2024, 10:56:55 am »
Connections
Puzzle #311
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟦🟨🟩🟨
🟩🟩🟦🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦

Purple first!


Wordle 1,033 6/6

⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨SHIRT
⬜🟩⬜🟨🟨WIDTH
⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜LITHO
⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜PITHY
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩LITHE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩TITHE

If you read these aloud it sounds like you have a lisp. (As Henry Fonda's character in On Golden Pond observes of Katharine Hepburn's character's name, Ethyl Thayer. If I knew Ethyl, I wouldn't be able to unhear that.)


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The Lighter Side / Re: Today's Wordle ------- spoilers alert!
« Last post by southendmd on April 17, 2024, 08:13:30 am »
No hints!

Strands #45
?The long run?
🟡🔵🔵🔵
🔵🔵🔵🔵
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The Lighter Side / Re: Today's Wordle ------- spoilers alert!
« Last post by southendmd on April 17, 2024, 08:06:43 am »
Connections
Puzzle #311
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟩
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The Lighter Side / Re: Today's Wordle ------- spoilers alert!
« Last post by southendmd on April 17, 2024, 08:05:27 am »
Wordle 1,033 4/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩CRANE
⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨SLOTH
🟩🟨⬜⬜🟩THYME
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩TITHE
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The Lighter Side / Re: Today's Wordle ------- spoilers alert!
« Last post by Sason on April 16, 2024, 05:51:07 pm »
Connections
Puzzle #310
🟪🟪🟨🟪
🟪🟪🟨🟪
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟦🟨
🟨🟦🟦🟨

 >:( >:( >:(



No strands for me today. I started it, but too late and in the middle of it the clock struck 12 and it disappeared.
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The Lighter Side / Re: Today's Wordle ------- spoilers alert!
« Last post by Sason on April 16, 2024, 05:46:30 pm »
Wordle 1 032 5/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 OUIJA
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 TYRES
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ PLOMB
🟩🟨🟩⬜🟩 SNACK
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SHANK
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The Culture Tent / Re: In the New Yorker...
« Last post by serious crayons on April 16, 2024, 04:03:47 pm »
Did you mean you didn't have a class on civics rather than physics?

Oh, right -- good catch.

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In my junior high and high schools, "history" was "social studies."

In my junior high, everything was social studies -- history, government, etc. In high school, it was the Social Studies Department, but individual classes broke that down further. For example, in high school I took an elective in Eastern Religions.

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I had one elective on folklore and one on mythology; both were under the English department.

I may have mentioned this before, but my two sons went to two different high schools because we were midway between them. But neither of them had classes in creative writing! Writing a paper for history class was about as much creative writing as they got. I was appalled.



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The Lighter Side / Re: Today's Wordle ------- spoilers alert!
« Last post by serious crayons on April 16, 2024, 03:58:01 pm »
Wordle 1,032 3/6

🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜SHIRT
🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜SHALE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩SHANK

Beat the bot, but it nevertheless felt the need to remind me that ANKLE would have been a more efficient second guess. Well sure, once you know the answer is SHANK! Also, when you look at its guesses one by one, why does it say CRANE ANKLE SHACK SHANK ... but when you go to the next page it says its guesses were CRANE GHOST SHANK?


Connections
Puzzle #310
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟨🟨🟨🟨

I feel like the purple and yellow have switched roles lately.



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