Glibcrostic 5

by | Mar 17, 2022 | Games | 140 comments

Okay, that was a little harsh, I probably should have said “ninnies” instead of ‘gits.’  I built this puzzle before I decided to try and ease you people into the solving process, thus it’s a little longer and harder than I would like but TPTB were begging for submissions and this one was ready to go so put on your big boy pants and give it a try. I’ll endeavor to build a middling level one next time. You know the drill- not your sponsor… entertainment only… no gambling…

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Remember if you want to be immortalized in as a Glibcrostic like Fourscore try to make a witty or astute comment that includes the letters necessary to spell out your handle, or alternately change your handle to match the letters in your witty or astute comment.

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140 Comments

  1. Mojeaux

    I take pride in being one of your proclaimed gits.

  2. Plisade

    I came close to solving the 1st puzzle you posted and ‘twas fun. Thanks for the time you put into these. But re ninny uber git, please limit inflammatory-styled abrasive derogations exclusively to those of non-English origin.

  3. Not Adahn

    COUSIN YETI NOT PART OF SMITH FAMILY!

    • Animal

      SHERPA SMITH BEG TO DIFFER. AND BY BEG, MEAN RAPE.

    • Tres Cool

      I thought we already had Snow Smith ?

      • Animal

        Why not both? The Himalayas are a big place.

      • STEVE SMITH

        THERE NO SNOW SMITH! COUSIN YETI GET KICK OUT OF FAMILY.

        HIM HAVE FEUD WITH SMITHS!

      • Animal

        Well, what about SHERPA SMITH?

      • Swiss Servator

        Not sure anyone would hire a Sherpa that raped them and stole their snacks.

      • Animal

        You never know. People voted for Joe Biden.

      • R.J.

        PAY UP FRONT! NO REFUNDS!

      • invisible finger

        Cousin Yeti is a white supremacist?

  4. Not Adahn

    “Insanity clause” doesn’t actually fit.

    • Not Adahn

      On that, some old comedy routines really do hold up. I watched a reaction video where a coupe of twenty-something Brits were earnestly laughing at a recording of “woh’s on first.”

      • Rat on a train

        Hoes on first?

    • Tres Cool

      “you cant fool me- there’s no sanity clause!”

      • STEVE SMITH

        THERE AM SANTA SMITH!

      • Hyperion

        RFLMAO!

  5. Not Adahn

    You didn’t put enough spaces for “banging supermodels.”

  6. Sean

    A has to be Tarot.

  7. Not Adahn

    Reaching back to KK’s seafaring,

    I may have mentioned I lived with a stripper back in my Austin days? We have remained good friends and I just got an email from her saying she’s going to be out of contact for a couple of weeks because she’s going to be doing this. She’s hot, smart and fearless. Too bad she likes her dudes rail-skinny. Seriously, she did the whole “support your boyfriend while he embarks on a ‘music career’ thing” for years until he put on some weight, then she kicked him out and found a skinny customer to bang.

    The moral of the story is: sometimes the stripper really does like you.

    • Drake

      I thought the moral of the story was stay skinny…

      • Not Adahn

        A few years back she found an ultramarathoner to have a baby with. The kid is going to be drowning in tail when he hits puberty.

      • Tulip

        Where is Deadhead?

      • Not Adahn

        I should have specified, an absolutely gorgeous racially indeterminate ultramarathoner.

        And the kid got both sets of good looking genes.

      • deadhead

        in his bunk.

      • Plinker762

        I knew a stripper that would dance to Conjunction Junction. It was funny as hell to watch the other guys try to dance when that song came on.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I remember one that came out in a T-Rex furry suit to the tune of Walk The Dinosaur.

      • Plinker762

        guys should be girls, lol.

      • Ted S.

        There’s no shame in admitting you like to watch male strippers.

      • Timeloose

        I still have a few of these guys tunes in my car’s MP3 rotation. Still fun as hell.

    • rhywun

      Boyfriend dropped the “rock star” thing didn’t he, because that is like the best weight-loss program out there.

      • Not Adahn

        Not until after she dumped him. She didn’t actually make enough to keep him in cocaine.

      • Tres Cool

        In spite of all my vices (past and present) Im glad cocaine never ‘clicked’ with me. I don’t have a very functional off-switch. I wouldn’t be doing a bump or two off a car key- Id have to do ALL the coke.

      • slumbrew

        Aye – I had a phase of my life where it was widely available, often for no cost to me. Thank dog it didn’t click for me either.

      • R C Dean

        I tried it once. Eh. Certainly not worth the money.

      • Tres Cool

        I never liked coke. Only the way it smells.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        I don’t know how people stand numb noses and reapplication 3-4x an hour. Sounds inefficient to me.

      • MikeS

        I’ve always assumed I’d enjoy it very, very much. Because of that, I’ve never tried it.

      • Tres Cool

        PJ O’Rourke on cocaine.

        6 – Topics of Conversation

        . . . one of the things you’re really getting into is cable TV which is going to be like the rock & roll of the Eighties because everybody’s going to be hard-wired into 240 channels and there’s this huge market for software already which is why you’ve got this programming development deal together that right right now is a class at the New School but is almost sold to Home Box and is going to be an hour a day that’s part news but like part entertainment too like this New Wave group that you’ve already done three minutes on with mini-cam on quarter-inch but you might turn that into a documentary plus maybe a docudrama for PBS because it’s this sound that’s sort of Western Swing but punk but ska which is all in the interview you got with the bass player that you’re going to publish in this magazine you’re starting which will be all the complete cable listings for all of New Jersey with public access stuff that isn’t listed anywhere plus like interviews too and . . .

        Just because your mouth is moving much faster than your brain is no reason not to carry on an engaging conversation.

      • Tres Cool

        Given the size of my nose, its a matter of cost-benefit-analysis.

        For the same reason, I avoid strip clubs- $8 draft at the rate I drink them make it prohibitively expensive.

      • pistoffnick the refusnik

        After the initial titillation of seeing neckid wimmin, I find strip clubs depressing…and, uhm, painful.

      • Mojeaux

        I once went to a male review with my bestie. It was awful. We sat apart and away from all the screaming middle-aged women fighting to stuff dollar bills into the dudes’ g-strings. When a couple of dudes came over to pay attention to us, I jerked away and snapped, “Don’t touch me.” They were surprised.

        In any case, I find casinos to reek of despair and desperation. Also, the clanging and jangling and strobe-y lighting make me go bonkers.

      • rhywun

        “Don’t touch me.”

        LOL I should have tried that at the various strip clubs I’ve had to patronize over the years. But I’d be afraid the poor ladies might want to start something or call over the “management” or something.

      • MikeS

        I stopped going after my daughter was born. It really changed how I viewed them. Instead of eye-candy, I suddenly saw each one of them as some daddy’s little girl.

      • Tres Cool

        I used to have the body of a Greek God. Now I just look like a goddamn Greek.

      • Animal

        With MikeS on this one. Being a Dad of four daughters, those places aren’t that much fun.

  8. pistoffnick the refusnik

    I am Spatacus a git!

    • pistoffnick the refusnik

      feckin db’s law: should be Spartacus

      • R.J.

        Spatacus: Savior of the spatulas.

  9. slumbrew

    “There’s an error in the grid that makes it unsolvable”

    They have a legitimate grievance there.

  10. Not Adahn

    Oh Fredo:

    November 2021, CNN anchor Don Lemon was widely criticized for a flagrant breach of journalistic ethics when actor Jussie Smollett testified at trial that Lemon had texted him to warn him that Chicago police did not believe Smollett’s allegations of suffering a racist, homophobic attack,” Cuomo’s legal team argued. “Lemon had covered Smollett’s accusations and his subsequent investigation and prosecution, so intervening in the ongoing investigation by texting Smollett was an inexcusable breach of ethics. Yet CNN did nothing; Lemon was not disciplined in any way.”

    Expecting the same rules to apply to you and M. Lemon is just proof you’re a white supremacist.

    • R C Dean

      Ethics are just white supremacy, keeping the black man down? Sure you want to go with that?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      journalistic ethics

      What are those?

      • R.J.

        Those are those little rock squares you put under drinks to save the coffee table, right?

      • R C Dean

        Good catch. Complaining about someone violating journalistic ethics creates the impression that there is such a thing.

      • MikeS

        Those are the optional kind of ethics.

      • Rebel Scum

        An old, English ship?

      • invisible finger

        CNN doesn’t have a problem with journalistic ethnics.

  11. MikeS

    I want to be one of your gits, but some of us HAVE TO WORK!!!11!!

    • Tulip

      You tell ’em Mike!

    • Tundra

      LOL!

      He nailed it.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Too bad the Abraham Lincoln brigades were on the side of the commies. Not that there was a good side in the Spanish civil war.

    • Drake

      The Russians already nailed a hotel full of “mercenaries”. Somebody was probably bragging on social media and gave away their position.

      • Tres Cool

        I was told that our soldiers would often enter the jungles of Vietnam reeking of after-shave. Or smoking cigs on patrol or guard duty.
        Same idea.

      • Drake

        Except this time somebody a thousand miles away with Google Maps and a cruise missile launcher can take them out.

      • Tres Cool

        “Cant we just drone this guy?” -HRC

  12. Rebel Scum

    She wishes.

    Stacey Abrams appears in the episode’s climactic scene as the president of United Earth, the borderless government that rules over the entire planet. In the episode, she declares Earth as part of the interplanetary Federation.

    There are far too many women in leadership roles in that show.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      OFFS

    • Rat on a train

      It is the only way to end war.

      • pistoffnick the refusnik

        That was horrible. If you want to end war and stuff you got to sing loud.
        I’ve been singing this song now for twenty five minutes. I could sing it
        For another twenty five minutes. I’m not proud… or tired.
        So we’ll wait till it comes around again, and this time with four part
        Harmony and feeling.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m57gzA2JCcM

        *sits on Group W bench*

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      I thought that must be The Babylon Bee.

    • Drake

      The future really sucks these days. Idiocracy is starting to look optimistic.

      • Tres Cool

        I’d vote for President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho.

        For the past few elections Ive just been writing in Vermin Supreme and Barry Goldwater. I need to remember Jimmy McMillan.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        +1 burrito coverings

    • rhywun

      ??

    • Not Adahn

      Since when are there fat people in the Trekverse?

      • Swiss Servator

        She found the replicator keys….”20 pecan turtles and a pint of Ben and Jerry’s!”

      • Not Adahn

        “Klingon Battle Simulation Calisthenics Program #1. Disable safeties.”

      • Drake

        Maybe she’s allergic to Retinax V.

    • Grummun

      ::Adds Star Trek Discovery to long “never to watch” list::

      • UnCivilServant

        I had it on that list years ago.

  13. Sean

    “Mine now.”

    I’m not sure why I find this so damn entertaining.

    • Sean

      Nyet.

    • Grummun

      Your “work day”, as defined by your superiors? Probably not, east coast buddy. The “work you’re going to do today’? If you’re posting on Glibs…

      • UnCivilServant

        It marks the point where I can log off, wander off, and fall asleep.

      • MikeS

        Use this time to recover from DST.

        ?

      • UnCivilServant

        If I take a nap, my internal clock will stay off-kilter.

        I have to stay awake until a normal bedtime… but I don’t know how well I’m going to manage since I’m in the serious brain fog stage.

    • Mojeaux

      I am chilling with my anatomy book, thanks to Tulip, who was wise and gave wise advice.

      • UnCivilServant

        It’s 3 o’clock

        I can log off work. Yay!

      • MikeS

        Would you say you were chilled to the bone?

      • Tres Cool

        If only I could write a book about your anatomy…

    • MikeS

      $83,000/year pension. That’s fucking ridiculous.

    • R C Dean

      “The benefit Smith is now collecting was funded by the taxpayers,” court records state.

      “He paid into that program. He had filed for retirement as allowed,” Dakmak said of Smith.

      They can’t both be right. I suspect they are both half-right – his pension was partially funded by Smith via payroll deductions, and partially funded by the county.

      • Ted S.

        Smith’s payroll deductions are taxpayer-funded, too.

      • R C Dean

        But they are taken from his pay, so I think its fair to say he pays them.

  14. Rebel Scum

    I can’t think of anyone better to carry the administrations message.

    Vice President Harris will be hitting the road more frequently in the coming weeks and months, sources familiar with the plans tell The Hill.

    With COVID-19 cases declining across the nation, Harris will be spending more time crisscrossing the country and touting the successes of the administration, the sources say.

    On the trips, the vice president will be discussing issues including infrastructure, expanded broadband access and key executive orders signed by President Biden.

    • MikeS

      …and much hilarity will ensue.

      • R C Dean

        Well, she’ll be laughing, anyway.

  15. J. Frank Parnell

    it’s a little longer and harder than I would like

    STEVE SMITH LONGER AND HARDER THAN YOU WOULD LIKE

  16. The Late P Brooks

    Depraved indifference

    Koch Industries is continuing its operations in Russia as dozens of other companies have pulled out of the country due to the war in Ukraine.

    Dave Robertson, president and COO of Koch Industries, released a statement Wednesday explaining the company’s decision and business ties in Russia.

    Koch owns a company called Guardian Industries which will continue its operations in Russia as it employs 600 people across two glass manufacturing facilities.

    Koch Industries employs another 15 people outside of Guardian Industries in Russia.

    They’ll never get into Heaven that way.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      WE’VE GOT THOSE DIRTY KOCH BROTHERS THIS TIME

  17. Sensei

    Sorry we can’t lock down again. The new squirrel to focus on is Ukraine.

    Once again, America is in denial about signs of a fresh Covid wave

    It IS interesting that the UK is having noticeably more infections than the US. It makes me wonder if that is coming here. Not that I’m suggesting we actively do anything about that.

    • The Other Kevin

      “At least 12 countries, geographically extending from Finland to Greece, are experiencing new increases in cases, some quite marked, such as Austria exceeding its pandemic peak, and Finland with an 85% increase from the prior week. Many of these countries are also showing a rise in hospital admissions.”

      So just like the last wave, lots of cases but not a lot of hospitalizations. But we should still panic, because stuff MIGHT happen.

      • rhywun

        Also, it’s The Guardian so there is a high probability that they are just flat-out lying.

      • Sensei

        Also a bit of good news for those of us who got reluctantly got J&J and were later told we were idiots for not getting boosted.

        As Virus Data Mounts, the J.&J. Vaccine Holds Its Own

        Roughly 17 million Americans received the Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccine, only to be told later that it was the least protective of the options available in the United States. But new data suggest that the vaccine is now preventing infections, hospitalizations and deaths at least as well as the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines.

      • The Other Kevin

        Minimal compliance FTW. *high fives sensei*

      • Sensei

        ✋?

      • Tundra

        Interesting. I guess the Pfizer smear campaign didn’t work, huh?

      • R C Dean

        Sure it did. It drove J & J from the market, which was its purpose.

      • MikeS

        Oh, it worked all right.

        Johnson & Johnson has at least temporarily shut down the only plant making usable batches of the vaccine.

      • Tundra

        I didn’t RTFA. Thanks for that. I could have sworn I saw them available still at Costco.

      • Sensei

        I believe they shut down as they had enough inventory to satisfy current demand versus expiry. I’m imagining they’d restart if demand picks up.

        Mind you that doesn’t change the point everyone here has made.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        at least as well as

        Damning by faint praise

      • Fatty Bolger

        Interesting. J&J was the only one I really considered getting.

      • MikeS

        Same here. When I finally caved, I drove an extra 60 miles round trip to get the J&J.

    • Sean

      *This message brought to you by big pharma and the mask industry*

      • Raven Nation

        5 4
        7 6

  18. Fatty Bolger

    I’ll start doing these when they are interactive. – Upper Class Git Of The Year

  19. Sensei

    Nothing like German efficiency.

    Many of the rest were killed, in alphabetical order, in September 1941, she found, when, too ill or injured to work, they were driven to Schloss Hartheim, the Austrian castle, where the Nazis had already been poisoning disabled and mentally ill people with carbon monoxide gas.

    She Discovered What Happened to 400 Dutch Jews Who Disappeared

    In a new exhibition, Wally de Lang, a Dutch historian, has tracked what happened to each of the men rounded up in the first Nazi raids on Dutch Jews, whose fates have largely been a mystery for decades.

  20. db

    bad

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Oh, I’ve got a really good CA proposal for the afternoon links. It’s really good.