Thanks for the pursing of lips, it pointed me in the right direction to mash the long, crazy pangram, in a world that still does not allow ALEE.

Besides dissing the Ramones, why does the kid randomly draw the line at not accepting Outta, when in the same puzzle its cousin is a word.

How is Tontine not a word? It's been accepted before. And not Monotonize?

No DAAL or DAHL-- does that make sense?

That Xmas drink is one of my blind spots, I never see it until prompted, and I actually love the drink!

I'd've is the best thing I have seen all day.

And how is there no"Dudette": slang term for a female person, analogous to the male slang term "dude."

I only saw 2 protozoa, thanks.

I've known a form of the Pangram my whole life because I was born in October and it's an alternate birthstone because of the superstitions around opals. . .

Albert Dock: my maternal GG, born in Trier, emigrated frm Liverpool to Philadelphia at 10 w her mom & 5 siblings. Volunteers type ship manifests into databases they so can be searched so we know she was on the USS Kenilworth in Liverpool in 1875. It was v poignant to visit.

I heard the most beautiful Evensong service there a few years ago, amid the beauty of the stained glass.

It reminds me of curtain calls, when characters come out bunched together, which seems right given the strong ties to the Abbey Theater

Lady Gregory (1852-1932) playwright, folklorist, and Celtic revivalist, and she co-founded the Irish Literary Theatre and the Abbey Theatre. Collected and translated several Irish myths for the first time into English including Cuchulain of Muirthemne.