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"37A: Author/TV personality who wrote 'Your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park.'"

The clue to the longest answer in today's NYT crossword. I'll put the answer below the jump in case you care about solving the puzzle and — what's wrong with you?! — haven't solved it yet.

Here's the grid — filled out — at Rex Parker's blog. It's great clue, because it's an interesting quote, and you actually want to know who said that. My first thought was George's mother on "Seinfeld":



"I come home and find my son treating his body like it was an amusement park!"

But the answer is not Estelle Costanza. She's not an "Author/TV personality." Well, I thought, who wrote that episode? What's the episode? It's "The Contest"! It's about masturbation. Would the NYT center its puzzle on masturbation?! The writer of the episode could be considered an "Author/TV personality"... maybe. It's Larry David, but it's a 15-letter answer. Maybe Lawrence David? Lawrence Gene David? No, still not 15 letters.

With a few down answers, it became easy to visualize the full name, though I'd never associated him with the quote. It's Anthony Bourdain. Oh, the amusement isn't masturbating, it's eating? Or is it hanging yourself in a hotel bathroom?

I'm going to recommend visualizing your body as a temple, then. It's not a thrill ride. Treat it with respect, in good times and bad.

The Bourdain line is in "Kitchen Confidential," originally published in 2000. The "Seinfeld" episode "The Contest" first aired in 1992. And Larry David has resisted killing himself.

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Jorg Jorgensen म्हणाले...

A bunch of engineers are sitting around discussing God.

The mechanical engineer states that God must also be a mechanical engineer because "if you look at all the pulleys and levers that drive the body, how the tendons and muscles and bones all work together, well, it's just amazing."

The chemical engineer says that no, God has to be a chemical engineer because "if you look at all the chemical processes that drive the body, how the hormones and the brain and the glands and everything else all interact, well, it's just astounding."

The electrical engineer says that no, God has to be an electrical engineer because "if you look at the circuitry of the body, how the thousands upon millions of nerve cells transmit signals from one part to another, well, it boggles the mind."

The civil engineer speaks up last of all and says, no, God is definitely a civil engineer, because "only a civil engineer would run a waste treatment plant under a beautiful recreational area.”

Darkisland म्हणाले...

Or as Jimmy Buffet said in Fruitcakes "Some people treat their body like a temple, you treat yours like a circus tent"

There's a fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning.

Does being a songwriter count as being an "author"?

John Henry

Darkisland म्हणाले...

I'm going to recommend visualizing your body as a temple, then. It's not a thrill ride. Treat it with respect, in good times and bad.

Agree, not a thrill ride.

"It's a joy ride"

Joyful, Joyful. "THis is the day the lord has made, let us be glad and rejoice in it.

John Henry

Kevin म्हणाले...

Estelle Constanza wore it better.

wild chicken म्हणाले...

One of my favorite stories by Flannery O'Connor is A Temple of the Holy Ghost.

That is all.

MD Greene म्हणाले...

I lost interest in NYT crosswords when the hints referred to video game characters and every single puzzle seemed to reference "_____ the Explorer" or "_________ on!"

The solutions are "Dora" and "its." Yuck.

BTW the biggest stories of the day are a reduction in unemployment, from 13.3% to 11.1% during a pretty terrible Covid month and a major, serious study that says hydroxychloroquine applied early in Covid patients' hospitalizations reduces death rates by 50%. The NYT ignores both, presumably because of it decision rule: It's only news if it makes Trump look bad.

In fact, the paper launched a jihad against hydroxychloroquine after Trump tweeted about it. I could understand mentioning that fact -- who relies on a politician for medical advice? -- but the effort was more akin to aiming a howitzer at a mosquito.

Some newspaper.

Joe Smith म्हणाले...

It's not an amusement park, it's a wonderland. Btw, one of the most cringe-inducing songs ever written.

glam1931 म्हणाले...

Actually that line was used many years earlier on LAVERNE & SHIRLEY!

glam1931 म्हणाले...

https://www.quotes.net/show-quote/44933

Rusty म्हणाले...

I first heard that line in the TV show "Laverne and Shirley".