Sunday July 3: 1984

Well, compared to a fortnight ago, this puzzler certainly posed less of a challenge.  Six or seven answers came  quickly with little hesitation.  Ok, so "talk back" was wrong, but later filling in mouth off was easy enough.

For those of us who were watching the Raiders defeat the Redskins that day back in 1984 that would change Super Bowl commercials forever, we cannot forget the remarkable Apple computer that introduced the Macintosh:



While I think of Captain Ahab coming from New Bedford, home of the Whaling Museum,  I've spent enough time in the environs to know that he sailed from Nantucket.  Still thinking of Ahab I was wondering if the driftwood of a later answer was part of the Pequod.

Answer like gobble that placed a 'g' at the end of a word is one of the back and forth plays between the answers and the quote - leading to the extra letters of 'ing at the end of a word.  Strangle later provided a similar opportunity.

We sometimes go to the beach for a burrito dinner. Inevitably we wrap them in tinfoil. It's been since World War II that aluminum replaced tin as the foil of choice. Like "dialing" a phone, it's another anachronistic term that has yet to fall out of favor.

On this warm Independence Day weekend, glad to be thinking about picnics - and now I know the right etiquette to follow.