BarryBobPosthole
07-09-2013, 09:46 AM
I'm a crossword person and that probably makes me strange. A few years ago I started seriously attacking the NY Times crossword, which for me is the gold standard of crossword puzzles. I just was never able to do much of anything with the NYT one though because they were too dang hard. After about a month or so, they started getting easier and now I can get through the daily ones in about 10 minutes or so and the Saturday and Sunday ones in about an hour. I use an app on my ipad to do them and was surprised here recently when I looked at my profile and they said I was in the 'Masters' class. Wow. ain't I sumpin.
Anyways, the thing I am bitching about is rebus puzzles. That's where they have you put multiple letters in a square to solve the puzzle. What it basically is, is the author of the crossword is too damned dumb to figure out how to make a real crossword and thinks this bullshit is clever. They put one in the NYT about every two weeks or so and I've gotten pretty good about smoking them out early enough that I don't get really pissed. I even quit 'em once, but that lasted only a week or so. MY day really goes bad if I don't get to work my damned crossword.
I'm hooked through the bag.
But rebus puzzle authors oughta be shot in the balls.
BKB
Anyways, the thing I am bitching about is rebus puzzles. That's where they have you put multiple letters in a square to solve the puzzle. What it basically is, is the author of the crossword is too damned dumb to figure out how to make a real crossword and thinks this bullshit is clever. They put one in the NYT about every two weeks or so and I've gotten pretty good about smoking them out early enough that I don't get really pissed. I even quit 'em once, but that lasted only a week or so. MY day really goes bad if I don't get to work my damned crossword.
I'm hooked through the bag.
But rebus puzzle authors oughta be shot in the balls.
BKB