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Re: FJs for the 2/25/13 week
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 12:04 am
by seaborgium
Re: FJs for the 2/25/13 week
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 12:06 am
by This Is Kirk!
I'm a little shocked that Trinity College is polling under 50% right now. Thought that was an easy one. I guess the ones you know always are!
Re: FJs for the 2/25/13 week
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 12:56 am
by TenPoundHammer
Well, of COURSE I remain the spoiler on Thursday.
Re: FJs for the 2/25/13 week
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 4:35 am
by marpocky
Ms. Ferber prevented my sweep for the week.
Heh.
Re: FJs for the 2/25/13 week
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 8:19 am
by nlw44
As others have stated, I have heard of "The Odessa File" and Odessa, Texas, but I certainly couldn't put them together that fast. On the other hand, as a big-time and life-long fan of movie musicals, the railroad was right there for me, with no eye to brain to mouth delay at all.
It's not that I object to all the (relatively) easy FJs lately, because I certainly do like having a long string of gets, but it feels like TPTB have lost all sense of the easy-to-difficult gradient. That 1841/1881 one was the most egregious, IMO, but my usual get rate is 60-80 %. For the last few months, I've been doing much better. Probably jinx myself with this post, however.
Re: FJs for the 2/25/13 week
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 9:21 am
by seaborgium
nlw44 wrote:It's not that I object to all the (relatively) easy FJs lately, because I certainly do like having a long string of gets, but it feels like TPTB have lost all sense of the easy-to-difficult gradient. That 1841/1881 one was the most egregious, IMO, but my usual get rate is 60-80 %. For the last few months, I've been doing much better. Probably jinx myself with this post, however.
It seems to me like TPTB try to err on the side of easiness for the last FJ for a ToC. (Too bad that didn't work out for me!)
Re: FJs for the 2/25/13 week
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 11:30 am
by nserven
Re: FJs for the 2/25/13 week
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 3:13 pm
by Johnblue
Re: FJs for the 2/25/13 week
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 3:33 pm
by opusthepenguin
This Is Kirk! wrote:I'm a little shocked that Trinity College is polling under 50% right now. Thought that was an easy one. I guess the ones you know always are!
Nah. I reasoned my way to Edna Ferber, but it wasn't easy. And more than once, I've gotten a clue right while thinking it's too obscure to be a good clue. Sometimes I yell at the TV, "Oh, come on! Who knows that?!?!" There are plenty of things I happen to know that I don't expect most contestants to know. The author of the Second Helvetic Confession. Edgar Allan Poe's birthday. The mascot for Baton Rouge High School. My favorite color.
Re: FJs for the 2/25/13 week
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 3:40 pm
by gsn93
5/5 for Finals.
I said Transcontinental Railroad on "Trains" clue (even though I knew it was wrong).
Re: FJs for the 2/25/13 week
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 4:20 pm
by ElendilPickle
Re: FJs for the 2/25/13 week
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 4:55 pm
by jmenjes
Re: FJs for the 2/25/13 week
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 5:47 pm
by bpmod
jmenjes wrote:(Howdy. Hope there's room for one more new person here...)
Always!
Welcome.
Brian
Re: FJs for the 2/25/13 week
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 6:01 pm
by TenPoundHammer
Okay, I see 73/75 on the Pluto clue now. Who else missed it?
Re: FJs for the 2/25/13 week
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 6:12 pm
by alietr
bpmod wrote:jmenjes wrote:(Howdy. Hope there's room for one more new person here...)
Always!
Welcome.
Brian
Unless, of course, you have issues with your eyebrows ...
Re: FJs for the 2/25/13 week
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 6:41 pm
by Vanya
Re: FJs for the 2/25/13 week
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 7:11 pm
by Volante
Re: FJs for the 2/25/13 week
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 7:49 pm
by StrangerCoug
Re: FJs for the 2/25/13 week
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 9:03 pm
by TryphonTournesol
Monday: had no great guess, went with Margaret Mitchell as "Southern female author I knew was active in that general time frame" but figured it was unlikely to be right. Wife knew it was the author of Show Boat but didn't have the name.
Tuesday: knew 'em both without even having to think. Presidential history is kind of a thing of mine.
Wednesday: wrote "Don't Ask" first because it was more conversational, then quickly figured I was overthinking and corrected in time.
Friday: best guess was Marconi, though I knew that wouldn't be it. Wife came up with Nielsen.
Railroad: only had Santa Fe from the obvious clue; wife came up with "Atkinson/Topeka/Santa Fe" at which point I was able to correct her to Atchison.
Odessa: like Craig, my first thought was Ipcress!
Re: FJs for the 2/25/13 week
Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 12:18 am
by davey