Cryptoquote Spoiler – 08/16/10

“Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.”   —   Robert Frost

(It would seem, then, that many of my truths must be out of favor, because George W. Bush might as well still be POTUS, as far as I’m concerned!  NOT the “Change” I was looking for!  Not by a longshot.)   —   YUR

Jumble Spoiler – 08/16/10

Visual Description:  Panting pooch after NOT catching the crop duster.

TRAAL  =  ALTAR,  UPMEL  =  PLUME,  LEUXED  =  DELUXE,  CLISHE  =  CHISEL   —   Giving us:  ATUEDXHSE

Clue/Question:  What Rover felt like after chasing the car.

Answer:  “EXHAUST–ED“

(Not bad!  Great clue words, decent scrambling of the answer letters, and a cute cartoon.  I’m pretty sure most of you got this without too much effort.  Be good, do good, folks!)   —   YUR

Sunday Cryptoquote Spoiler – 08/15/10

“Courtship is the process of seeking a girl’s hand until she has you under her thumb.”   —   Mickey Rooney

(After 8 wives . . . I’d say that Mick’s more than qualified to make this comment!  Y’all know how Your Uncle Rave loves puns and word play!  Have a great Sunday.  Be good, do good, people!)   —   YUR

Sunday Jumble Spoiler – 08/15/10

Visual Description:  Pre-fight scene from “Rocky III”.

KANTIE  =  INTAKE,  HURTOF  =  FOURTH,  GONALS  =  SLOGAN,  RIVETH  =  THRIVE,  DIOING  =  INDIGO,  YONDOB  =  NOBODY   —   Giving us:  TKOHSOTHEINNO

Clue/Question:  What the boxer did when he tripped in the locker room.

Answer:  TOOK IT ON THE SHIN

(Another awkward Sunday jumble puzzle.  It probably would have been clearer if the Clue/Question had been set up as:  WHEN THE BOXER TRIPPED IN THE LOCKER ROOM HE . . .  And, maybe there should be quotation marks around “SHIN”.  That word makes the play on words.  Love the cartoon, though!  It looks like Rocky and Mick!)   —   YUR

Cryptoquote Spoiler – 08/14/10

“Tact is the art of making people guests feel at home when that’s really where you wish they were.”   —   George E. Bergman

(Clever quote.  But this is yet another person who has – somehow – made himself quotable, but has also avoided any biographic info from reaching this here interweb!  Google and Bing take you to his quotes . . .  and then to Ingmar Bergman and other non-related places.  Very strange, indeed.)   —   YUR

08/16/10:  Correction to Saturday’s cryptoquote spoiler courtesy of Yolanda. (see comments).  I had it right . . . but I wrote it wrong!  So sorry, gang!   —   YUR

Jumble Spoiler – 08/14/10

Visual Description:  Hungry people acting like cattle.

DAIBE  =  ABIDE,  GYANT  =  TANGY,  WEDDAN  =  DAWNED,  INGRYP  =  PRYING   —   Giving us:  AITADWEING

Clue/Question:  What the pudgy diner did at the end of the buffet line.

Answer:  GAINED “WAIT“

(The Hungry Heifer?  That was Norm and Cliff’s favorite cheap eatery on “Cheers”. That takes me way back!  What a great show that was.  Great characters.  Great comedy.  Nice little pun today.  Clue words were pretty good, and the answer letters were nicely scrambled.  It’s the weekend, folks!  Be good, do good.)   —   YUR

Cryptoquote Spoiler – 08/13/10

“Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.”   —   Frances Wright

(Wow!  What a woman!  If this old bleeding-heart liberal ever becomes President, or gets to any significant position of power,  Your Uncle will declare a Fanny Wright Day.  I don’t know why this woman is not more prominent in the U.S. history books.  She was WAY ahead of her time.  Maybe she’s still way ahead of these times?  She needs to be recognized by the National Woman’s History Project.  So sayeth Your Uncle Rave!)   —   YUR

Jumble Spoiler – 08/13/10

Visual Description:  Somber job search at the funeral home.

ZOONE  =  OZONE,  EDDAJ  =  JADED,  ENFADE  =  DEAFEN,  BONDEY  =  BEYOND   —   Giving us:  OEJDDEABND

Clue/Question:  The mortician sought a career change because he had a . . .

Answer:  DEAD–END JOB

(Nice one!  Pretty obvious, from looking at the cartoon.  Which is something I rarely do, before unscrambling all of the clue words, but today there was one word that was “beyond” me!  Some days, I guess!  Be good, do good, people!)   —   YUR

Steven Slater Slam?

Update!  08/13/10:

AS IF yur uncle needed any vindication for writing the truth . . . look who’s (trash)talking Steven Slater now!  None other than the poster-boy for Corporate American Greed . . . Donald J. Trump!  Apparently, he’s slammed Steven Slater as a “horrible” employee.  Big surprise?  Only if you’ve been living under a rock for the last 25 years.  And many/most of the related Google searches are coming up with the word “Wacko”.  Does anyone think that this is just a coincidence?  I think there is a concerted effort here to land some knock-out blows here before this kid even taps gloves.  Fair fight???  Not if they can help it!   —   YUR

It looks like our friends in the Corporate Media have received their marching orders on this guy.  Have you seen how the network “news” is trying to spin this “Flip Out” story, today?  They are bending over backwards in their attempt to stem the tide of this guy’s overnight sensationalism.  And why?  Because actions like his pose a threat to the way corporations control things.  He’s a maverick.  A working man’s counter-culture hero.  They desperately don’t want any copy cats, that is for sure!

Initially, when they reported the story, it was purely a bizarre human interest piece.  Then they HAD to play up the potential for “danger” that he posed by deplpoying the emergency slide.  But, they didn’t really go after him at this point.

But now that his Facebook fan page has more than doubled over night they are starting to go right at him.  They’re “reporting” that passengers are saying that he was the one acting strangely, from the beginning.  And Jeff Rossen, of NBC “News”, is really going out of his way to point out that Steven Slater got into his “boyfriend’s car”.  Wow!  I bet none of you suspected he was gay, did you???

Supposedly, from some accounts, his knock to the head happened either prior to take off, or very early in the flight, and not after it had landed.  Yet, I haven’t heard any of the “reporters” suggest that any of his alleged strange, or bad, behavior could be related to some kind of blow to the head.  You’d think, while not excusing the alleged behavior, but possibly explaining it, that someone might have raised this as a possibility.  (Maybe FOX did!  They’re Fair and Balanced, right?)

This is so pathetic, the way the media toads are trying to take this guy down a peg, or two.  At least his ex-wife, and life-long friend, has come out to support Slater.  She is helping to counter the media slam, by saying how professional and courteous he is, and that he loves his job.  Good for you, girl!

I didn’t really have much of an opinion on this story until I witnessed today’s attempt to take him down.  Then, it just kind of pissed me off.  I don’t like to be spun.  Do you? 

—   Your Uncle Rave 

Cryptoquote Spoiler – 08/12/10

“The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.”   —   Bob Dylan

(Whoa!  Bobby-boy!  Sounds like you could use a little fiber in your life.  Unclerave’s first Dylan quote and it has to be this little downer?  Geez Louise, guys.  We all were born.  We all breath.  We all . . . poop.  Sure.  Eventually, we are all going to die, but that’s hardly the only thing we have in common.  Even at the point when that grand tsunami hits, or the monster asteroid takes out this big blue marble, you just have to look around and be in total awe of it all.  Sure it can be a bitch, but life rocks, baby!)   —   YUR