Friday, February 7, 2014 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]

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I was pleased with myself for getting "BID" in response to the Sotheby's question.

But I too would have misspelled Medvedev -- I would have written Mededev. Would that have been acceptable, do you think?
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RedPoisonDevil wrote:But I too would have misspelled Medvedev -- I would have written Mededev. Would that have been acceptable, do you think?
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econgator wrote:
RedPoisonDevil wrote:But I too would have misspelled Medvedev -- I would have written Mededev. Would that have been acceptable, do you think?
Nope
Heh, then it's a good thing I wasn't on this show. :P
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After a no idea on Monday and three straight could-have-hads, this was a very satisfying FJ get.
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I've yelped enough times in the past about Stock Symbols when it's a category. It made me feel better that three greats did not blaze through it either. I got out with $200 plus guessing BID correctly on the DD. Jerome lost 1000 on that one.

It was the other DD where Jerome lost more than just the 3K. Give him the right guess for Mrs. Wilson and he has $14,400 entering the FJ! round. With his solve on the Russians he could have won the match. Too bad for him as DDs do allow a second reading of the clue and little leeway with extra thinking time than a normal clue.

Congrats to Tom for geting a W after his defeat in the UTOC. Bob exceeded my pre-taping expectations, but lived up to the sharpness I detected in the YouTube interviews all the players did. It's an unfortunate defeat, but good for Bob for having an excellent showing nearly 27 years later after first playing. He also gets to join the elite club for playing in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and 2010s.

The FJ! clue for me was one where I had no chance. To create a guess I thought of a place where I knew more than one name and tried Israel. Thinking about Begin, Peres, Sharon, and Netanyahu had me trying to recall who was dead, who is alive and who was still living in 2012. I picked Netanyahu and Sharon.

I'm so poor at the world material that even being spotted Putin would have been a miss. I should have at least got to Russia with the chess reference, but not even that happened.

Comments about all five games this week together:
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TOC winners won each night. (1986, 1992, 1993, 1988, 1989)
Five males won.
For my pre-taping rankings the winners were: Silver, Gold, Bronze, Bronze, Gold
For position entering the FJ! round the winners were: 2nd, 1st, 1st, 3rd, 2nd
All five winners were 0/1 in the UTOC.
The players were 8/15 on the FJ! clues with no 3/3s and no sole solves.
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Yah lol as if; Alex is such a fossil he thinking 'I was already old when that tune came out' lol. Used to pick it up on the AM radio in my Pontiac... yes GTO...hence why am I Goatman?! Now you know. Not b/c Men Who Stare at Goats (although funny not my speed, roflmao). So ya this game gets tougher when the tough get going I nailed 5/5 Myth Busting but bah 2/5 'old' music and could not recall 'Gauss' though it's DOH obvious in the retrospectometer! :lol:

No FJ for me, <cry> I was so upset I went online and did my taxes now I feel so much better!
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RedPoisonDevil wrote:
econgator wrote:
RedPoisonDevil wrote:But I too would have misspelled Medvedev -- I would have written Mededev. Would that have been acceptable, do you think?
I'm sure if "Emancipitation" was acceptable then this would be also!
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goatman wrote:Yah lol as if; Alex is such a fossil he thinking 'I was already old when that tune came out' lol. Used to pick it up on the AM radio in my Pontiac... yes GTO...hence why am I Goatman?!
Oh, so you're not a satyr then? What a letdown. :lol:
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goatman wrote:Yah lol as if; Alex is such a fossil he thinking 'I was already old when that tune came out' lol. Used to pick it up on the AM radio in my Pontiac... yes GTO...hence why am I Goatman?! Now you know. Not b/c Men Who Stare at Goats (although funny not my speed, roflmao). So ya this game gets tougher when the tough get going I nailed 5/5 Myth Busting but bah 2/5 'old' music and could not recall 'Gauss' though it's DOH obvious in the retrospectometer! :lol:

No FJ for me, <cry> I was so upset I went online and did my taxes now I feel so much better!
Just an observation:

I counted all of the lol's and roflmao's in the other 96523 posts (the ones not written by you), and there are fewer than in your 29 posts so far.

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bpmod wrote:
goatman wrote:Yah lol as if; Alex is such a fossil he thinking 'I was already old when that tune came out' lol. Used to pick it up on the AM radio in my Pontiac... yes GTO...hence why am I Goatman?! Now you know. Not b/c Men Who Stare at Goats (although funny not my speed, roflmao). So ya this game gets tougher when the tough get going I nailed 5/5 Myth Busting but bah 2/5 'old' music and could not recall 'Gauss' though it's DOH obvious in the retrospectometer! :lol:

No FJ for me, <cry> I was so upset I went online and did my taxes now I feel so much better!
Just an observation:

I counted all of the lol's and roflmao's in the other 96523 posts (the ones not written by you), and there are fewer than in your 29 posts so far.

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Plus, I highly doubt that goatman, or anyone else who uses those inane phrases, actually, are literally "laughing out loud" or especially "rolling on the floor laughing" (I have no idea how one can literally laugh one's ass off, so I'll at least give you a pass there.)
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I GOT MY FIRST REAL SIX-STRING / BOUGHT IT AT THE FIVE & DIME" BEGINS THIS REMINISCING SONG BY BRYAN ADAMS"
A: WHAT IS 'THE SUMMER OF '69'?

Alex: Pays to have 5 kids, doesn't it?

Boy, Alex, are you thinking a song (by a fellow countryman) released in *1984* is still 'music those crazy kids listen to.' Nothing frisky, all geriatric.

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I took that comment to mean that it pays to have kids who listen to modern music. I am slow.
I took it the same way. I assumed Alex had no idea when the song came out and assumed it was more current.
Nah, I apparently reside in the same gutter as Dr. J, Alex does have a bit of an "impish humour" as it were, and I wouldn't put it past him. (I doubt Alex really thinks it's as new as you think he thinks it is, when was the last time Bryan Adams topped the charts and was a figure in current pop culture? (My guess is when he released that song from "Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves" ("Everything I Do (I'd Do It For You)" I think it was))). Besides, the dude's Alex Trebek. He knows things.

I don't know if it's just me, if I've mentally been stepping my game up because I realized how difficult the boards are in the BotD, or if others agree with me, but I"ve been actually finding the boards getting easier! My Coryats show $13,800 on Monday, $15,000 on Tuesday, $12,400 on Wednesday, $24,000 on Thursday, and $23,000 today, the latter two being about average for a regular game. Do others agree that the BotD boards are a bit easier lately or is there some miracle at work lately?

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Wow! Another very strong game from three very good players. Lotsa Lach trash for me tonight, too. Jerome looked like he was having problems ringing in, which is most unfortunate. Bob certainly didn't look off his game (though I kept seeing him as a cross between Anthony Bourdain and Eliot Gould) but then couldn't get FJ. Ouch! FJ was an instaget for me, too, and I wasn't at all surprised to see that Jerome and Tom both nailed it. What a great week of J! programming. I can't wait to see the next BotD weeks, but I suppose that I will have to... *sigh*
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Man...I knew who final meant, but I didn't know Medvedev's name. Best I could do was Mendelev. :roll:
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dhkendall wrote:
Nah, I apparently reside in the same gutter as Dr. J, Alex does have a bit of an "impish humour" as it were, and I wouldn't put it past him. (I doubt Alex really thinks it's as new as you think he thinks it is, when was the last time Bryan Adams topped the charts and was a figure in current pop culture? (My guess is when he released that song from "Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves" ("Everything I Do (I'd Do It For You)" I think it was))). Besides, the dude's Alex Trebek. He knows things.)
Hey, I know from blue- plenty of Bill Hicks in my comedy diet (among other lesser pretenders like Tosh). But I really don't see a possible way to interpret referring to his kids as a 69 joke. Plus, there are plenty of times where Alex is out of touch or gets the word wrong. Was last week the stereographer/stenographer confusion? And 3 months ago he didn't know what a barista was (at least for the cameras)? I like him and lot and he does a great job, but he doesn't know everything. And all those awkward not-quite-'pro bono' situations he tries to sniff out (that about 30-40% of the time are)

If there's a simple connection to be made I might be simply missing that. Until then, when the flight attendants say "Sir, get on the plane!" I will say...

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I was in high school when that song came out and having no idea how old Adams was, I thought he really was reminiscing about his high school days. I did have dirty thoughts there was subliminal message, but am somewhat surprised he really did intend it that way.

I agree this was a well played game and was disappointed Bob lost.

No chance on FJ for me, though. At first I thought they wanted the country and went to Iran. I figured what they wanted and couldn't think of anyone there that would fit the clue, but wouldn't have gotten it even if Russia had been in the clue.
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I can only presume that someone hid a lump of kryptonite in the middle podium. :(

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Rex Kramer wrote:I can only presume that someone hid a lump of kryptonite in the middle podium. :(

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What is Jewish kryptonite, anyways? :) (Can't really come up with a good one and, not being Jewish, it frankly isn't my joke to make ... )
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Yeah, it's kind of funny how we assume book writers can come up with pure fiction but everything a songwriter writer writes has to be autobiographical [Bryan Adams' "Summer of '69" in case it's not clear what the heck I'm talking about].
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MarkBarrett wrote:Comments about all five games this week together:
Spoiler
TOC winners won each night. (1986, 1992, 1993, 1988, 1989)
Five males won.
For my pre-taping rankings the winners were: Silver, Gold, Bronze, Bronze, Gold
For position entering the FJ! round the winners were: 2nd, 1st, 1st, 3rd, 2nd
All five winners were 0/1 in the UTOC.
The players were 8/15 on the FJ! clues with no 3/3s and no sole solves.
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Previously, Leah Greenwald went the longest time, from 1988 to 2005, between victories, but both Mark and Tom, who had not won since their ToCs, have her beaten nearly a decade, and now Mark holds the record (besides, perhaps, some who have won a Fleming and a Trebek J! match).
Not to brag, but the room I watched the show in has a piano mentioned in the interviews. I only remembered Putin's name, argh.
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dhkendall wrote:
Rex Kramer wrote:I can only presume that someone hid a lump of kryptonite in the middle podium. :(

Rex
What is Jewish kryptonite, anyways? :) (Can't really come up with a good one and, not being Jewish, it frankly isn't my joke to make ... )
DIdn't you know that Superman was Jewish? He was, after all, created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, two good Jewish boys from Cleveland (well, Shuster was born in Toronto for whatever that's worth).
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seaborgium wrote:Not to brag, but the room I watched the show in has a piano mentioned in the interviews.
You were watching at The Edge's house? :)
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