![]() The trio of Steve, Robin, and Nancy really works-the Golden Rule of this show is that Joe Keery as Steve will have chemistry with anybody-which is why it was such a bummer to not be able to see any of their scenes together, which amounts to about an hour and a half of the final two episodes. ![]() It’s one of my favorite shots of the year. The scene where she forces the helicopter that’s shooting at her to crash in the desert is stunning. Millie Bobby Brown does the best acting of her career in this episode, and her showdown with Papa made up for how annoying it was to have her cordoned off in her own little show most of the season. Joyce and Hopper kissed! I cheered! I wanted to see them bone! Stranger Things: If you think it is OK for me to watch children be massacred-multiple times!-and random characters have their limbs cracked and twisted, then you can show me Hopper boning Joyce. Joyce and Murray’s buddy-comedy trip to Russia and Hopper’s whole storyline there-the biggest drag of the season until the finale-delivered a handful of great action scenes and the emotional reunion. Never mind trying to remember why they’re driving across the country.īut there was finally rousing gratification to what had, over the course of more than 10 hours, seemed like pointless creative larks. Each time we flashed back to the Mike, Will, Jonathan, and Stoned Guy Who Delivers Pizza (if they gave him a name, I missed it) quartet, it was a genuine shock to be reminded that they still existed. Clue of the fortnightĪs usual, if the words look like they go together, we must consider that they don’t, as Hectence tricks us in her quiptic clue …įind a collection of explainers, interviews and other helpful bits and bobs at alanconnor.Yes, there were still so many storylines and random character groupings that by the time one of them was revisited you totally forgot those characters were even in the show, let alone what they were doing. Please leave entries for this fortnight’s competition – as well as your non-print finds and picks from the broadsheet cryptics – below. The runners-up are PeterMooreFuller’s seamless “Regularly getting de-icer – Shell garages have litres of the stuff!” and Smallboat01, who takes us somewhere completely different with “Squeezed into ladies’ elegant jeans?” the winner is Phitonelly’s on-point “Drivers deal regularly with this product”. GappyTooth gets the audacity award for the perky “Vin (as in van, perhaps)“, although I’d be hard-pressed to specify the precise audaciousness. What lovely letters they have proved to be. Reader, how would you clue HOPSCOTCH? Cluing competition Square one mentioned in the novel Saigon Singer by Francis van Wyck Mason.Īs usual, I’ll send this to the Oxford word-hunters … unless you know of anything earlier? Meanwhile, the subject of our next challenge is another activity with a “square one”. There is an American thriller titled Saigon Singer which the Library of Congress says was published in 1946 the copy at the Internet Archive has this exchange: Investigation part two: the earliest record mentioned is 1952. Investigation part one: the OED mentions the Radio Times entry for 28 January 1927 but I can’t see anything relevant there. There is a little more investigation to be done, though it seems more likely that some especially vicious snake on a Snakes and Ladders board may be the culprit. This is unlikely, as the system was abandoned several decades before the first record of the phrase This being Notes and Queries, another reader sternly insists that throughout years of following the game in this way, he never heard the expression … and the Oxford English Dictionary agrees: And, it’s said, every so often the commentators would inform you that the ball had gone “back to square one”. To help you picture where the action had got to, the pitch was divided into eight notional rectangles. The expression BACK TO SQUARE ONE was discussed there, with one reader mentioning a charming tale that many say they recall reading in the Radio Times.īefore television, you might listen to radio commentary of football matches while looking at a diagram of the pitch printed in that magazine. Here’s a typically elegant jumble from Nutmeg:ħ/1d Engineer can request a book, needing to start afresh, it’s said (4,2,6,3)īefore social media, one of the best places for assertion and hearsay was this paper’s entertaining Notes and Queries section. Put another way, what does it mean when Eccles’s clue for FIBRES defines the word FIB with sole reference to you? Latter patter “What’s a PM to do,” wondered Laura Kuenssberg in January, then the BBC’s political editor, “when even kids joke about his future?” Could the same be asked of crossword setters?ĩdThreads about plugging Boris Johnson’s statements? (6)
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