TenPoundHammer wrote:Anyone else totally flummoxed by the Shoes category, or is it just me? I have never heard of any of that stuff.
If you had, we'd worry about you.
Gotta love someone who brings up Bama football in the interview segment.*
Knew the metals outright, but it helps to (a) be the son of a metalurgical engineer, (b) worked five years in a galvanizing plant, and (c) be too familiar with lithium.
FJ was a semi-precall. With the category name, I started running through obtuse offical names (the Congolese countries, all the "Democratic Peoples Republics" and, of course, the Swiss Confederation.) I also remembered that, although Canada is technically a confederation, it's not part of the official title (unlike it's semi-official pre-1967 "Dominion of Canada" title). I guess they figured it was too unwieldy in French, so they kept it simple.
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* For those of you too young to remember, Bama used those infamous tearaway jerseys from the early 70s until they were basically banned by the NCAA later in the decade. If the jersey was torn to the point that the number was not readable by the officials, the player had to come off for a replacement jersey. Sometimes they were quick enough and the player didn't even miss a play (until the NCAA rules made the player sit out a play in the late 1970s), but it depended on how swift the trainers on the sidelines were.