in sports pulling your arm back for a throw is referred to as cocking. it even gets used in sports like volleyball for serving and spiking. i assume it just comes from cocking a gun.
11:45 the trick to remembering the distinction I was taught is to imagine the slash is a stick about to tip over - a forward slash / would fall forward (as you read it).
I never actually got the theme when I was solving today, just kinda powered through. Hadn't actually done the crossword in a minute, gotta get back into it.
Coney island hot dogs are endemic to Detroit , MI if I'm not mistaken, although I've never had one or been there before, or to Coney island for that matter.
@@adamventures13 London born too which is a bit surprising. His American mother was a costume designer for some famous stars and his father British but he grew up in LA when his father took him to live there when Slash ( Saul Hudson ) was 6. Prior to that he was living in Stoke-on-Trent of all places.
So clever.
I learn a lot from your content.
Cheers Chris, from England. 🇬🇧🇺🇸
in sports pulling your arm back for a throw is referred to as cocking. it even gets used in sports like volleyball for serving and spiking. i assume it just comes from cocking a gun.
11:45 the trick to remembering the distinction I was taught is to imagine the slash is a stick about to tip over - a forward slash / would fall forward (as you read it).
I never actually got the theme when I was solving today, just kinda powered through. Hadn't actually done the crossword in a minute, gotta get back into it.
Coney island hot dogs are endemic to Detroit , MI if I'm not mistaken, although I've never had one or been there before, or to Coney island for that matter.
Elie Wiesel: el'-ly vee-zel'
I also got stuck on Parr vs Paar (albeit for longer than the 2 seconds it took you)
Still don't get the slash part for rock guitarist but can look it up later.
"Slash" is the name of the guitar player for Guns n Roses
@@adamventures13 London born too which is a bit surprising. His American mother was a costume designer for some famous stars and his father British but he grew up in LA when his father took him to live there when Slash ( Saul Hudson ) was 6. Prior to that he was living in Stoke-on-Trent of all places.