Listener 4152: Inn Joke by Mr Lemon

[midazolam]

I don't get it! (the joke that is)

I am glad it was easy this week compared to last week, but I am not impressed.

The title, the rejoinder, the connection between the quotation? I suppose none of it matters to complete it. A shame there's no PDM (for me anyway)

[borealis]

Having only completed last week’s on Sunday, a late start for Inn Joke, and an great finish (for me) within 24 hours. Yes, easier than average, but I had to work a bit for quotation and rejoinder, neither of which were familiar, so thanks, Mr L.

Having read all you’ve been saying here, I wonder if any of you made the more Private Eye-level connection with the quotation’s older explanation in ODQ (at least in my early edition)?

[Clamzy]

No. Please enlighten us.

[laptoplou]

I ama Times Cryptic Jumbo person and am usually useless at the Listener crossword but this time I have solved it! Could someone enlighten me as to what BRB means. An earlier poster refers to the quotation being found there. Thanks

[aldanna]

I wasn't going to do this week's, as I was away for a long weekend with all the family, celebrating a significant birthday. However, encouraged by all the comments I have rattled it off (by my standards anyway). Might I even have made the Friday club given a free Friday evening?

laptoplou: BRB is an abbreviation for Big Red Book (maybe Big Red Brick for some) i.e. Chambers Dictionary.

[borealis]

Hi Clamzy. Difficult to answer you without giving away the quotation, but if you have it, type it in to google followed by <assurance of performance> and about the 7th entry down on the first page of search results you should find the wording that amused me. Its in ODQ first edition, but not third.

[harkin-]

I did this one in my head in 5 seconds.

[laptoplou]

Thank you aldanna

[Zabadak]

harkin- Nah, I can see in my head that you missed a bit. Top right hand corner. And you spelt three entries wrong.

[Clamzy]

Thanks Borealis - a gem of a quote. Maybe you could supply me with the last word(s) after "one..." which cuts off on my Google page. On the site I can't seem to get to the relevant passage.

[Clamzy]

Re query about BRB above, has anyone purchased the new edition yet?
If so is it both big and red?

[contendo]

Clamzy - I ordered it on Amazon and then got a message to say that there was a delay in their supply and they didn't know when they would be getting it. Don't know if it's available in bookshops yet. No rush, because there's always at least a year's delay before a new edition starts to appear in the published Listeners.

[ziller]

There's a thread on the new Chambers at the Crossword Centre http://boards2go.com/...d.cgi?&user=dharrison entitled 'Bargain of the summer'

[borealis]

Hi Clamzy; I am afraid the only word after the "one" is "step"!

[ichkeria]

Puzzles were undoubtedly more difficult years ago before the days of Wikipedia and Google (and Answerbank :-) ) . And all the other aids available now.

This was a nice puzzle, which I wonder how those unfamiliar with the lingo would have coped with.