Comments on: Guardian 24,188, Brummie: Straight as Kate

By: conradcork

conradcork — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 09:50:48 +0000

The song ‘Back Home Again in Indiana’ quotes the state song ‘I dream about the moonlight on the Wabash’ in bars 25 thru 28.

By: radchenko

radchenko — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:15:29 +0000

On the banks of the Wabash, far away, so Google tells me, is the official song of the state of Indiana. Somehow I’m just not surprised I did not get that, and lacking the H, nor 3dn (KITSCH).

Beaten too by DISHWASHER, kept on thinking of patron as owner not customer. In principle nice CD but I’m inclined to think something like “Domestic machine role for diner without means?” is pithier without giving it away too quickly.

I agree that “utterly honest” is not in the same category as “flog a dead horse”, although I suppose it is said, e.g. in “if I was being utterly honest”, but more usual would be “completely honest” or “in all honesty”.

However the “straight as a die” made up of “straight A’s” and [kate] “Adie” was very clever, but I agree that “with space” was not necessary. Anyway is it “straight A’s” or “straight As”? Otherwise I’ll moan that it should have said “with space, without apostrophe, all lower case”…

By: conradcork

conradcork — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:14:27 +0000

23 A. Adsorption is literally the collection, on the surface of a solid, of gas molecules, so the clue gives an exact definition – with, perhaps, the merest hint of a sneer at the pundits for good luck.

By: conradcork

conradcork — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:09:32 +0000

7 down. ‘At’ can mean ‘next to’ quite fairly I think. Made for an enjoyable surface at any rate.

By: conradcork

conradcork — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:05:13 +0000

No way is Kate Adie a one-time broadcaster. Year year out she presents the 30 minute ‘From Our Own Correspondent’ on Radio 4, tiwce a week. (Thursdays and Saturdays).