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Of course

◆ · By woozy · Published 2023-05-27T16:49:05.272Z

Meta Prompt
The answer to this meta is what happened next
This one's silly. There are many ways to put the answer in. If Crosshare says it isn't correct but you think it is, be patient. If I see a new acceptable way of phrasing I'll add it. (I've got thirteen already)
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  • KayW 🤓8:49 · 2023-05-28T00:15:26.249Z
    of course! a fun solve. And thanks a LOT! for rekindling that grade school earworm.
    • woozy constructor · 2023-05-28T03:45:30.277Z
      Thanks for playing.
    • KayW 🤓8:49 · 2023-05-28T00:18:09.609Z
      oh - I don't know if you can see answers submitted. I submitted "She's dead" (of course) and google didn't turn up other alternatives. What others have you found?
      • woozy constructor · 2023-05-28T03:45:18.495Z
        Oh, variants. I always heard it as "She died, of course". But wikipedia gave "she's dead, of course" as an alternative. So my first three answers were. "She died", "She dies", and "She's dead". Then I figured people might add "of course" so I made three more with "of course" at the end. Then I figure maybe I should be specific with replacing "She" with "the old lady". So that's 12 answers. Then thinking in terms of language usage and being straight forward I add simply "Death". And that brings it to an appropriate 13 answers.
      • whimsy 15:21 · 2023-05-29T01:48:55.640Z
        I love it -- I like silly! Thanks, woozy!
        • woozy constructor · 2023-05-29T04:55:16.782Z
          Curious though.
          So I always heard the song as "She died, of course" but google and wikipedia seems to claime "she's dead, of course". Which versions do you know? And does the song just stop there are does in go through all the iterations a final time?
          By the way, My thirteen answer are:
          Either "she" or "the old lady" and either "dies" or "died" or "'s dead" and either the "of course" is included or not. (That's 12 if you like combinatorics). And "death".
          • KayW 🤓8:49 · 2023-05-29T22:52:28.906Z
            As I learned it (waaaaay back in grade school), the final verse was:
            I know an old lady who swallowed a horse She's dead, of course.
            And each verse started "I know an old lady...". When I googled to see if I could find 13 variations, it looked like "There was an old lady..." was more popular.
            • woozy constructor · 2023-05-29T23:13:20.459Z
              I meant there were 13 answers to this meta depending on ways to put it.
              I think I always did "I knew an old lady" most of the time but "there was" almost as often. They are all but indistinguishable to my ear. But I always did "she died, of course" and not "she's dead". Also we continued the horse onward as normal "she swallowed the horse to chase the cow,...." and we didn't do an abrupt cut off. (Always struck me as weird the finish with "perhaps/I think she'll die" when we just said she did.
            • hoover 7s · 2023-05-31T17:29:40.157Z
              I always heard "She died, of course" also, but I entered "She's dead" because that's what popped up in my Google results.
            • woozy constructor · 2023-05-29T23:17:20.798Z
              So the variants are I know/knew [] I think/perhaps she'll die []she's dead/she die of course [] Abrupt stop/continuing the run down
              • KayW 🤓8:49 · 2023-05-31T00:43:49.233Z
                So to recap/elaborate, I learned: I know... She's dead of course Abrupt stop
              • Laura M 🤓9:09 · 2023-05-31T16:17:39.115Z
                Fun!
                • hoover 7s · 2023-05-31T17:28:39.602Z
                  Fun one! I saw fly and spider and thought, huh! Just like that nurs--hey, waitaminnit!
                  • MatthewL 12:56 · 2023-05-31T18:33:18.399Z
                    Fun one. Glad I picked one of the 13 variants.
                    • frostyjhammer 11:59 · 2023-06-08T18:25:51.965Z
                      Fun solve. Only took me two "guesses". Is there a typo in the clue to 2A? I.e. a missing letter?
                      Play today's daily mini crossword
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                      Get away quickly
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                      Across
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                        Get away quickly
                      2. 4A
                        The rate movies
                      3. 8A
                        Turning points
                      4. 13A
                        Northern passage explorer John
                      5. 14A
                        Automobile pioneer Ransom
                      6. 15A
                        Small dining establishment
                      7. 16A
                        Showy moths, a moon of Jupiter, and Zeus' conquest that was turned into a cow; OR what Apple phones run on
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                        Ogden who never saw a three-L lllama
                      9. 18A
                        Two deck solitaire game that requires removing eight foundation piles
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                        Why one would go to a 15A (duh.)
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                        Soft drinks that could serve as cough drops if you change the second letter to a vowel
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                        Charlie Parker's nickname
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                        Wizard of Oz's state (no... not Kansas)
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                        Memorable times
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                        Decaffeinated drink that would give you presents if you changed a letter (oh, all right. I'll stop)
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                        Rousseau's treatise on education (or 5280 feet of digital data?)
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                        Terrain entouré d'eau
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                        Pried
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                        It was once called the Argentine Rummy game
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                        Jazz lover
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                        What to get at a Gray's Papaya
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                        Kitchen cloth (or Scott Joplin composition about a plate?)
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                        Tipi's actress daughter
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                        Industrial insect (hey, does anyone else remember those kid's books "--- and Bee"?)
                      25. 48A
                        Big O purchases (or is that only a local chain?)
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                        Make amends
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                        The best ever (Slang is so capricious...)
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                        Rests against something; as in that famous Mondegreen: "Christ, the Royal Master, ----- against the phone" (actually "Master" is equally often misheard)
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                        .... and so on
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                        Where to hear Steve Innskeep or Ayeesha Rascoe
                      31. 58A
                        Vocal, instrumental, or mechanical sounds having rhythm, melody, or harmony (Bless you, Merriam-Websters)
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                        2022 reboot of an earlier Will Smith title (also a chain of Grocery stores... )
                      33. 61A
                        Composer Stravinsky
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                        Intimidate
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                        Catalysts
                      36. 66A
                        God who had an eight-legged horse called Sleipnir
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                        Moody music beloved of cruciverbalists
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                        Street name for Heroin (which I have never heard used seriously)
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                        Designer Saint Laurent
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                        See-___, Margery Daw; sold her bed and slept on straw
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                        Last day of the work wk.
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                        Vientiane native, for one
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                        Simple binary choice
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                        Williams whose last novel in 1978 was "This House is Burning"
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                        Ideal philosopher
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                        Comercials
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                        Spiritual retreat
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                        Mob boss
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                        Serviceable
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                        Author who suggests you dress your family in corduroy and denim
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                        Season early
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                        Bashar al-Assad's ctry.
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                        An attack by laddering up the walls or ramparts
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                        "How'm I doin'" mayor
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                        Fashionable
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                        Bogus Short Synopses
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                        Mediocre Entry Definition (okay, I'll stop now)
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                        "Pour some salt water over the floor - Ugly I'm sure you'll allow it to be: Suppose it extended a mile or more, THAT'S very like the ---" Lewis Carroll
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                        Separate
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                        Woman that is back to being alone
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                        Online sellers
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                        Striped stones
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                        Dried feces hanging from a sheep's rear end (You're welcome)
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                        All at a single attempt
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                        Office supply for fastening papers together
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                        Expanded
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                        Web portal
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                        Becomes aware
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                        An acceptable excuse for missing my birthday party
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                        Slippery critter
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                        Without difficulty
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                        "______- Europe Express". Inane Kraftwerk song.
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                        Eye irritant that may be an indication that one's heart is on fire
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                        Tighm when there is no lite and it mite be hard to see
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                        Magician and psychic Geller, discus thrower Gallin, Russian Jewish writer Nissan Gnessin, and others
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                        scoff
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                        State hd.
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                        Astound them so they don't know if they are coming or going
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