Austin Powers wrote:alietr wrote:Another counterargument is that some people like to get them early as a defensive measure to remove them from the other contestants.
True, but since you don't know where it is, you're best going after it in categories where your opponents might be strong. For example, if I am playing jpahk, I take out those math and physics categories early. If I am playing TPH, country music is off the board, fast!
That's a noble strategy, however, it also runs a real risk of getting out buzzed. While it's a good idea to, say, get the country music questions away from TPH, my money is on TPH getting to the buzzer quicker because he would know the answer faster than you. (And, if you're generally a quicker buzz than your opponent, if you think that you'll buzz in first whether you know the answer or not, that leaves you wide open for negging and having him get it on the rebound.) And, since the Daily Doubles are usually lower on the board, there's a greater chance that TPH would know the country music questions that are lower on the board.
TenPoundHammer wrote:I'm surprised dhkendall hasn't said anything to me about the Pinky and the Brain reference in the clue.
Awkward moment there too. Something like: "What is Thinky?" "Yes, Pinky." [jump cut] "Oh snap, he said Thinky and I gave out the answer. Stupid me."
I didn't even noticed the "brain" TOM until you pointed it out (and still haven't, technically, as I erased my recording and the archived version isn't up yet.) Fortunately, I got it from figuring out the category and being a huge Pac-Man fan since the age of 10 (probably when it came out). (So "Pinky" collides with one of our wheelhouses, either "Pac Man" for me, "Pie" for you, or "& the Brain" for both of us.)
Austin Powers wrote:jeff6286 wrote:
*ETA* Forgot I could check the DVR and clear up all the details. $400 was middle C, $600 was index (follows "cost of living" or "consumer price"), $800 was Pinky, and $1,000 was ring gauge (unit used to measure diameter of cigars). They went $600, $800, $400, $1,000, so the "Pinky" clue wasn't first, it came after index, which is why at least two of us got the impression that the category theme may have been 5-letter words.
Probably that urban legend about how we get the phrase "rule of thumb."
So, basically the same thing I surprised about 12 hours earlier:
dhkendall wrote:Any guesses on the clues we didn't see? I got a pretty good idea at 2 of the 3: Five finger $200: "blah, blah, blah, blah, rule of this", and April 23 $400 would have as a correct response "Who is William Shakespeare?", being the most famous writer who died on that date (arguably the most famous writer ever), the clue may have included the fact that he may have also been born on that date - no one knows when he really was born, but he was baptized on April 26, and it wouldn't be unheard of to baptize at the age of 3 days.