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Author Topic: Thu., 5/14 Kevin Christian  (Read 4084 times)

magus

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Thu., 5/14 Kevin Christian
« on: May 14, 2015, 08:36:05 AM »
THEME:   BAN, BEN, BIN, BON, and BUN defined in that order
   
GOOD ONES:    
Sixth-day creation   BEAST [might've been ANT or OX]   
One way to be washed   ASHORE [is that a way or a place?]   
   
BTW:   
Greek org.   SOR [also the great Spanish composer Fernando]   
   
Lash LaRue was an early movie cowboy who settled things with a bull whip.   
   
   
RATING: ;D ;D   
Three grins = Loved it; Two grins = Enjoyed it; One grin = A bit bland for my taste; One teardrop = Not much fun   

Thomps2525

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Re: Thu., 5/14 Kevin Christian
« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2015, 04:37:54 PM »
I, too, objected to ASHORE as a "way" to be washed. ASHORE is a place or a direction to be washed to. The crossword also included AEONS, which frequently appears in puzzles although I doubt that anyone really spells the word that way. It is always EON. Perhaps someone can aexplain the use of AEON. (See what I did there?)

"'70s Sonny & Cher label" was KAPP. The record label was founded in 1954 by David Kapp, whose brother Jack had started Decca Records twenty years earlier. Most of Sonny & Cher's hits, including I Got You Babe, were released by Atco. They had three hits on Kapp in 1971-72: All I Ever Need Is You, A Cowboy's Work Is Never Done and When You Say Love, which was adapted from a 1970 beer commercial, "When you say Budweiser, you've said it all." Thousands of old rock'n'roll songs have been used in commercials, many of them with the lyrics changed---remember YMCA becoming "P-E-P-S-I" and Viva Las Vegas becoming "Viva viagra"?---but there have been very few commercial jingles turned into songs. The most well-known example: "I'd like to buy the world a Coke" became a hit for the New Seekers, I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing.

magus

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Re: Thu., 5/14 Kevin Christian
« Reply #2 on: May 15, 2015, 09:06:47 AM »
Rewind---
We have no single letter to represent the ae diphthong used in very early English and Greek orthography.  We are therefore forced to use the digraph ae if we choose to use the grapheme at all.  Mostly we just drop the letter a, but some linguistic conservatives prefer the digraph, which to most of us seems a bit pretentious.

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Re: Thu., 5/14 Kevin Christian
« Reply #3 on: May 15, 2015, 03:48:19 PM »
Thank you for that explanation, Mister maegus. :)

 


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