NYT Connections, Mini Crossword, and Strands | Aug 28, 2024

Intro [Music] Connections let's do connections we're finding four groups of four we have Martini teeth H humor pendulum steps teabag monkey bars tether ball things you do in the uh T Tito Tito taller Tito toer Tito taler I have no idea what that is slide Boomer desert swings yo-yo teeter totter I know what that is and blues I mean I I'm seeing stuff in the playground right slide teeter totter monkey bars tether ball I think I have to like it's probably a red herring but I have to is a red herring it's one away actually that's even worse um what else goes in a playground then ooh is it okay I I saw pendulum and I was wondering if it's things that swing back and forth so maybe teeter totter goes with swings and pendulum things that sort of rock back and forth what would be the fourth one a yo-yo maybe let's try it oh that's not even one away okay I am I need to focus on something else because I'm just going to lose immediately with nothing um Martini I don't know what a Tito toer is by the way I still don't know what that is uh Boomer I mean there's the generation the Baby Boomers and there's also uh left for dead there's the Boomer I don't think they make a left for dead reference though um humor teeth is weird too A lot of these are weird steps why is swings plural that's interesting so is monkey bars monkey bars swings are plural huh we know we know this was one away I'm honestly thinking tetherball maybe doesn't belong there because it's a game not a not a fixture I'm wondering if Tito taller is some kind of maybe slide goes with it wait what did I try though wait maybe this is what I tried if this is what I tried it it just won't let me lock it in so I think in this case I'm willing to lock it in if it's not something I tried so okay yeah so I I messed up last time I messed up put tetherball in there or some I don't know what I put in there anyway these are playground equipment okay um I think before okay I definitely tried yo-yo tetherball pendulum and swings and that wasn't even one away but I thought it would be things that like you know go back and forth but I guess not desert is weird too like Blues like none of these go together what's going on here martinis can be shaken or stirred what do I know about them they come with an olive right toothpick with an olive that's that's a martini thing right um that's the extent of my knowledge about martinis teabag things on strings tea bags tether balls and yo-yos what else is on a string I wish I knew what a Tito taller was is it t to taller t t to towerer I don't even know how to pronounce it um what else has a string I bet it's this I don't have mistakes to use up though pendulum like what would be pendulum other than something El it could be word play right we do still have green I don't know what our green category is I feel like I'm on to something with things with strings but I don't know what I don't know what the fourth one is these words all start with te or if there's something to that um I don't know let's highlight him again I don't think they just do words that start with te though yeah I don't I don't know what what connection they'd have okay I'm going to high them again just because I want to know like how would we split up these other two assuming that that was say the purple with some weird weirdness with starting with te but what could Boomer mean could it just be baby boomer like baby something yeah baby teeth okay it's just it's just a fill in- the blank baby boomer baby teeth baby blues and baby teabag no baby yo-yo baby humor baby Tito toer it might be I don't know baby baby steps ah yeah we take baby steps okay I think this is it yeah that was the purple okay baby black I'm actually wearing a shirt I don't know if you can tell it's got a little bit of a pattern on it today I know it's very surprising but I like the shirt so anyway it's still blue patterns very hard to see um I don't know things on strings still pendulum tetherball yo-yo oh pendulum's on a string duh I don't know why I didn't think of that so these are things on strings found at the end of a string SL cord that's that's what I said okay humor Tito toer martini and desert is the blue things that are dry dry martini dry humor dry desert I'm guessing a Tito toer is dry we're going to look it up in a second described as dry there you go didn't even know have to know what a Teo toer was to know that it's something that's dry all right I'm going to look that up all right a tea Toler is someone who never drinks alcohol so I'm a tea Toler um I have never heard that before but apparently it's been used since the uh early 1800s so I guess I just haven't heard it though wonder if it's specific to a region let me see if I can find out all right T toer is believed to have originated in England in the 1830s during the temperance movement which advocated for the complete abstinence from alcohol the most popular theory about its origin involves a speech given by Richard Turner a member of The Temperance Society Turner who had a stutter emphasized the total in total abstinence by saying t total and the term stuck as a way to describe complete abstinence from alcohol it doesn't seem to be Regional used in the UK and the US it's more associated with historical context interesting okay cool today I learned what a t to is and how' you do let's do the mini Mini Crossword cross word for Wednesday August 28th let's go tool for swabbing swabbing the deck I don't know doorbell sound chime I suppose would be probably the most common vertical lines on graphs in math um the grid I I don't know crept around in a weasy way M like you sneaking you're sneaking this is topsy turvy all right bungled situation um some maybe I'm guessing it ends an up like it's two words something up but I'm not sure what the something is signs of things to come Omens they've had that before bothersome I'm not sure yet skin bump what's a skin bump starts with c and maybe it's not I mean the M worked for chime um ah yeah I'm not sure angel hair topper so angel hair is a kind of pasta I really like angel hair actually um but it's a play on words so a Halo there we go okay an actual Angels here tool for swabbing the deck I still don't know what that means maybe a mop okay vertical lines on graphs in math oh with only the AE I'm not sure crept around in a weasly way um does it is it like it's not flong obviously but I'm wondering if it ends in g or E let's see if I can get three down bothersome pesky ooh clunk plunk plunk what is it I don't know oh this is bungled situation me mess it's not mess up mess up M mixup ooh Y axis okay and this is ass cist and it's slunk today was difficult I really feel like today was difficult if you did well then I am impressed and congratulations uh if you didn't do well well I think that's Justified because this was really hard all right well how did you do let's do Strands strands for August 28th today's theme is commuter benefits ooh commuter benefits are we talking about like how you commute or that seems strange but the the theme has been a bit strange lately in general like I'm looking for train bus car carpool I see car H where in the world is car in San Diego uh fairy okay I see faery so maybe these are ways of commuting what do we like what would our span be you know I'm not sure I'll be able to think of it so I'm just going to start locking in stuff fa so like bus is here but like we can't do a three-letter word it's four letters minimum so also buses here okay um maybe like City the bus I thought I might see City and be able to connect it to bus but I guess not okay so what what are what are New York Centric ways of commuting the subway all right Subway um taxi car I don't know okay walking bicycle no bicycle okay um I'm running out of ideas here car pooling can is there carpol somewhere I mean I see car right but I I don't think there's a there's a p here that's it right train trolley is there trolley tro I don't think I see trolley um teen something I don't know why it would be teen um slin sir is he car here is he car here what are other ways of commuting um helicopter no um jet how do people commute truck okay I need I need to find okay this is what bus was used by Subway but we still have this bus so is it like bus line or because I saw L that's why I thought of that bus pass bus I don't know what we're doing with bus if we do bus wait hold on let me let me click this so we can keep that on look at this RTP like there's no way right so I think I should give up on that what are we doing with this RT PTR like what if what if we like what about remote work right so like telecommuting do we have that internet don't see it um that's what I do and no I'm not saying Tik tok's my job my my real job I tell commun as a programmer all right um I feel like like a like a I don't know P like what's this P doing we can't end in TP so we could end in up that might be interesting or we could start with pu Public public trans Port oh that's a really neat spag okay monor rail okay who commets on a Mona rail that's interesting actually I went to um Portland and they have this really neat Sky thing that's kind of like um I don't know I see trained now um kind of like a ski lift like a ma on a massive scale I don't know what they call that the sky the sky Train I think is what they call it it's really neat I took that I I went on a business trip to Portland and I took that to the to the hospital every day and back anyway the VA hospital all right um this is one word carts what kind of carts Reit carts tier carts um huh air ere Erectors wait wait what why is he wrecked here um it's one word left re but like Montreal subway train and Ferry are all public transport why didn't we include bus I don't know train cars we already got train though not we're not doing that anyway um be like St oh street car there we go street car is it Named Desire all right that was a bit of a carousel moment for on street car there this was this was tough but the spag was really neat the way it the way it kind of Loops back around haven't seen that before all right well how'd you do a [Music]