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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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- of course! a fun solve. And thanks a LOT! for rekindling that grade school earworm.
- 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?
- 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 · 2023-05-29T01:48:55.640ZI love it -- I like silly! Thanks, woozy!
- 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".
- 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.
- 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 · 2023-05-31T17:29:40.157ZI always heard "She died, of course" also, but I entered "She's dead" because that's what popped up in my Google results.
- 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
- Laura M 🤓9:09 · 2023-05-31T16:17:39.115ZFun!
- hoover 7s · 2023-05-31T17:28:39.602ZFun one! I saw fly and spider and thought, huh! Just like that nurs--hey, waitaminnit!
- MatthewL 12:56 · 2023-05-31T18:33:18.399ZFun one. Glad I picked one of the 13 variants.
- Fun solve. Only took me two "guesses". Is there a typo in the clue to 2A? I.e. a missing letter?
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Get away quickly
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Across
- 1AGet away quickly
- 4AThe rate movies
- 8ATurning points
- 13ANorthern passage explorer John
- 14AAutomobile pioneer Ransom
- 15ASmall dining establishment
- 16AShowy moths, a moon of Jupiter, and Zeus' conquest that was turned into a cow; OR what Apple phones run on
- 17AOgden who never saw a three-L lllama
- 18ATwo deck solitaire game that requires removing eight foundation piles
- 19AWhy one would go to a 15A (duh.)
- 21ASoft drinks that could serve as cough drops if you change the second letter to a vowel
- 23ACharlie Parker's nickname
- 24AWizard of Oz's state (no... not Kansas)
- 26AMemorable times
- 28ADecaffeinated drink that would give you presents if you changed a letter (oh, all right. I'll stop)
- 30ARousseau's treatise on education (or 5280 feet of digital data?)
- 32ATerrain entouré d'eau
- 33APried
- 35AIt was once called the Argentine Rummy game
- 37AJazz lover
- 38AWhat to get at a Gray's Papaya
- 39AKitchen cloth (or Scott Joplin composition about a plate?)
- 43ATipi's actress daughter
- 47AIndustrial insect (hey, does anyone else remember those kid's books "--- and Bee"?)
- 48ABig O purchases (or is that only a local chain?)
- 50AMake amends
- 51AThe best ever (Slang is so capricious...)
- 53ARests against something; as in that famous Mondegreen: "Christ, the Royal Master, ----- against the phone" (actually "Master" is equally often misheard)
- 55A.... and so on
- 56AWhere to hear Steve Innskeep or Ayeesha Rascoe
- 58AVocal, instrumental, or mechanical sounds having rhythm, melody, or harmony (Bless you, Merriam-Websters)
- 60A2022 reboot of an earlier Will Smith title (also a chain of Grocery stores... )
- 61AComposer Stravinsky
- 63AIntimidate
- 65ACatalysts
- 66AGod who had an eight-legged horse called Sleipnir
- 67AMoody music beloved of cruciverbalists
- 68AStreet name for Heroin (which I have never heard used seriously)
- 69ADesigner Saint Laurent
- 70ASee-___, Margery Daw; sold her bed and slept on straw
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- 1DLast day of the work wk.
- 2DVientiane native, for one
- 3DSimple binary choice
- 4DWilliams whose last novel in 1978 was "This House is Burning"
- 5DIdeal philosopher
- 6DComercials
- 7DSpiritual retreat
- 8DMob boss
- 9DServiceable
- 10DAuthor who suggests you dress your family in corduroy and denim
- 11DSeason early
- 12DBashar al-Assad's ctry.
- 15DAn attack by laddering up the walls or ramparts
- 20D"How'm I doin'" mayor
- 22DFashionable
- 23DBogus Short Synopses
- 25DMediocre Entry Definition (okay, I'll stop now)
- 27D"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
- 29DSeparate
- 31DWoman that is back to being alone
- 34DOnline sellers
- 36DStriped stones
- 39DDried feces hanging from a sheep's rear end (You're welcome)
- 40DAll at a single attempt
- 41DOffice supply for fastening papers together
- 42DExpanded
- 43DWeb portal
- 44DBecomes aware
- 45DAn acceptable excuse for missing my birthday party
- 46DSlippery critter
- 49DWithout difficulty
- 52D"______- Europe Express". Inane Kraftwerk song.
- 54DEye irritant that may be an indication that one's heart is on fire
- 57DTighm when there is no lite and it mite be hard to see
- 59DMagician and psychic Geller, discus thrower Gallin, Russian Jewish writer Nissan Gnessin, and others
- 60Dscoff
- 62DState hd.
- 64DAstound them so they don't know if they are coming or going
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