Thursday, June 28, 2012 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
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Re: Thursday, June 28, 2012 Game Recap & Discussion (SPOILERS)
Geez, I read page 2 of this thread & realize I need to stop doing other things while the show is on. It sounds even worse than I'd remembered in re the unanswered clues.
I too guessed Lady C's Lovah but I had little faith in it. Brave New World crossed my mind too.
I too guessed Lady C's Lovah but I had little faith in it. Brave New World crossed my mind too.
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Re: Thursday, June 28, 2012 Game Recap & Discussion (SPOILERS)
Were you checking to see which players got it in alphabetical order?zakharov wrote:Thanks to Twitter, I now know that actual Major League Baseball pitcher David Aardsma got the northpaw clue, so I am apparently a dummy.
(I'd never actually heard the term, but I figured it out.)
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I maintain it wasn't a fair clue, since southpaw is a frequently used baseball term but northpaw is not.trainman wrote:Were you checking to see which players got it in alphabetical order?zakharov wrote:Thanks to Twitter, I now know that actual Major League Baseball pitcher David Aardsma got the northpaw clue, so I am apparently a dummy.
(I'd never actually heard the term, but I figured it out.)
Trivia time: Aardsma is the first alphabetically of all baseball players in history by last name. Whom did he displace on the list?
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Re: Thursday, June 28, 2012 Game Recap & Discussion (SPOILERS)
Hank Aaron.zakharov wrote:trainman wrote:zakharov wrote:Trivia time: Aardsma is the first alphabetically of all baseball players in history by last name. Whom did he displace on the list?
Northpaw I'd heard before but only as a joke. Still and all, I make it as a legit question in the spirit of the category.
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I completely agree, Steven, and not just concerning the triviality of today's board. Count me among those who took a stab at FJ with The Plague, though I was pretty certain it took place in Algeria. (It's only been thirty years since I read it.) But I figured Camus was French, so why not? What threw me was the notion of a "scandalous" book written after the 1930s. As jaded as our society has become, it's hard to imagine any novel causing a true scandal after about 1970.StevenH wrote:I was underwhelmed by this board. This one took the cake for having clues that were too trivial. This brought back memories of Wright vs. Rhee vs. Spak. Please, don't blame the contestants for this game. I am not sure if they could have done better on a more well written board, but they deserve the benefit of any doubt that there may be.
I guessed The Plague on FJ. I think that it was probably a good clue, but they should have saved it for the finals of UToC II.
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Ditto. 0-4 so far this week!econgator wrote:Me, too, but that's all I could come up with.MarkBarrett wrote:I knew it was too soon for Lady Chatterley's Lover and that was about it for hitting me in the scandalous department.
None of those "nearly opposites" were frequently used terms. However, their opposites are. Tricky wordplay category, but a clever one. Beats the pants off some of their other attempts at being too smart for their own good, too *cough* noble gas *cough*zakharov wrote:I maintain it wasn't a fair clue, since southpaw is a frequently used baseball term but northpaw is not.trainman wrote:Were you checking to see which players got it in alphabetical order?zakharov wrote:Thanks to Twitter, I now know that actual Major League Baseball pitcher David Aardsma got the northpaw clue, so I am apparently a dummy.
(I'd never actually heard the term, but I figured it out.)
Trivia time: Aardsma is the first alphabetically of all baseball players in history by last name. Whom did he displace on the list?
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Re: Thursday, June 28, 2012 Game Recap & Discussion (SPOILERS)
I'm wondering how you did on the Stars category? I found the category insanely easy, and I've missed my fair share of astronomy and constellation clues on the show. (Thought today's was almost kids week level).TenPoundHammer wrote:Wow, was this a bizarre board. Ran Fruity Rhyme Time, Stars and Partial Opposites, but was completely lost on Marx, Lennon, State Capital Birthplaces and African American Actresses.
(In case you haven't figured it out, TPH, you're our guinea pig. If a category was easy for you, it can definitively be declared an "easy category" (Offer null and void for country music, cartoon, and otter categories). Hense why I asked. )
I got the impression that it was a non-official term, one used "jocularly" (I think that was even in the clue), so "northpaw" was an easy guess. I think this is where knowing little about baseball actually *helped*, baseball die-hards (like, it seems, most of the board) would over-think it.zakharov wrote:I have been playing and watching baseball since I was 7 or so, and I have never heard of a northpaw. Southpaw is the only one I've heard. Jeopardy writers aren't baseball fans apparently.
I'd like to know too! I counted my answer wrong, since it added a syllable (I'm pretty tough on myself when I mark my Coryat, since I know the judges in Culver City will be, and that's why I do this every day.), but it'd be nice to reverse it.Vanya wrote:I thought Amy said "apertif." Is that an accepted alternate pronunciation of aperitif?
Was looking forward to the Marx category, but was a little disappointed upon reveal. (But, since I eagerly read Marx in college and it influenced my subsequent politics*, I didn't do too bad in the category, but had a brain fart for "Das Kapital")
*keep in mind that Marxism/socialism isn't nearly the dirty word up here as it is down there. Besides, I think that most people tend to swing wildly to the left in their politics while in university, at least that seems to be my observation. (In my "old age" (I'm 40 now), my politics have gravitated more towards center of the road. Marxism was nice when I was young, but as I actually started to actually become politically involved, I went with beliefs that would actually *work* in real life. ) I can almost guess what the Sony board denizens have to say about letting those clues on the show ...
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Re: Thursday, June 28, 2012 Game Recap & Discussion (SPOILERS)
I said right there in the very post you just quoted that I ran it.dhkendall wrote:I'm wondering how you did on the Stars category? I found the category insanely easy, and I've missed my fair share of astronomy and constellation clues on the show. (Thought today's was almost kids week level).TenPoundHammer wrote:Wow, was this a bizarre board. Ran Fruity Rhyme Time, Stars and Partial Opposites, but was completely lost on Marx, Lennon, State Capital Birthplaces and African American Actresses.
And I thought I was bad at glossing over key words…
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http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aperitifdhkendall wrote:I'd like to know too! I counted my answer wrong, since it added a syllable (I'm pretty tough on myself when I mark my Coryat, since I know the judges in Culver City will be, and that's why I do this every day.), but it'd be nice to reverse it.Vanya wrote:I thought Amy said "apertif." Is that an accepted alternate pronunciation of aperitif?
aper·i·tif
noun
\ə-ˌper-ə-ˈtēf, a-; ˌä-pər-(ə-)ˈtēf\
Note the parentheses.
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Re: Thursday, June 28, 2012 Game Recap & Discussion (SPOILERS)
WHY did Lindsay, $200 behind with a minute to go, select a $1200, a $1600, and a $2000 in a category no one was nailing, and then $2000 in a yet-unexplored category??? She was pretty dominant on the buzzer, and the unseen $400 clue would have given her a lead going in to FJ.
Second, has anybody found LIndsay's blog of litter-shaming? I thought that was pretty funny but couldn't find it after some Googling.
Second, has anybody found LIndsay's blog of litter-shaming? I thought that was pretty funny but couldn't find it after some Googling.
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I meant to start googling that as soon as the show was over, but of course, I had forgotten by that time.CAPS LOCK wrote:Second, has anybody found LIndsay's blog of litter-shaming? I thought that was pretty funny but couldn't find it after some Googling.
I would be very interested, so if anybody finds it, post a link here.
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Re: Thursday, June 28, 2012 Game Recap & Discussion (SPOILERS)
I think it's mostly a northeastern/New England 'pahk yah cah ovah deah neah Hahvahad Yahd' accent that distinguishes those words. Most of America long ago decided that 'HAHree doesn't want to MAHree becawse the ideahr is SCAHree' is just too much trouble to pronounce with its 'original' accent.zakharov wrote:My Oklahoma native girlfriend agrees that scary/cherry rhyme. I'm from Jersey and they're quite distinct when I say them. Go regional accents!
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Scary (rhymes with hairy) and cherry (rhymes with ferry). The two aren't even close.TenPoundHammer wrote:They sound the same to me. How do YOU pronounce those words?econgator wrote:"Scary" and "cherry" rhyme? Riiiiiiight.
In Oklahoma, scary rhymes with Inhofe.zakharov wrote:My Oklahoma native girlfriend agrees that scary/cherry rhyme. I'm from Jersey and they're quite distinct when I say them. Go regional accents!
Hank Aaron, followed by his kid brother Tommie Aaron.zakharov wrote:Trivia time: Aardsma is the first alphabetically of all baseball players in history by last name. Whom did he displace on the list?
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What does a little girl's diary have to do with black actresses?Sage on the Hudson wrote:Ah, the Helen Keller defense.TenPoundHammer wrote:I have honestly never seen H[a]lle Berry, so I never knew she was black.
I've seen Halle Berry many times, as well as the other actresses in that category, but I didn't realize that any of them were black. I guess I don't really see people in terms of color.[/Costanza]
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Her silly, breathless Oscar speech should've told you she was black. "This is for Diahann, blah blah blah & all those other black actresses who never won this." endless & loony.
Scary & cherry? No way.
Scary & cherry? No way.
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You've got to be kidding.jeff6286 wrote:What does a little girl's diary have to do with black actresses?Sage on the Hudson wrote:Ah, the Helen Keller defense.TenPoundHammer wrote:I have honestly never seen H[a]lle Berry, so I never knew she was black.
And I wonder if Anne-Lise's won enough money yet to afford a comb and pair of scissors.
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I'm still missing something. How was 1900 not a leap year?bpmod wrote:All Leap Years are divisible by 4, but not all years divisible by 4 are Leap Years.CyrusChan wrote:Aren't all the leap/Olympic years divisible by 4(what I figure growing up.....) ? WHat the....?
ANyone can elaborate?
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Think the rule is divisible by 4, but not by 100 unless it is divisible by 400 (explains why 1900 wasn't but 2000 was).Woppy T wrote:I'm still missing something. How was 1900 not a leap year?bpmod wrote:All Leap Years are divisible by 4, but not all years divisible by 4 are Leap Years.CyrusChan wrote:Aren't all the leap/Olympic years divisible by 4(what I figure growing up.....) ? WHat the....?
ANyone can elaborate?
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Um, this doesn't help me. Where I come from all four of those words rhyme.Sage on the Hudson wrote:Scary (rhymes with hairy) and cherry (rhymes with ferry). The two aren't even close.TenPoundHammer wrote:They sound the same to me. How do YOU pronounce those words?econgator wrote:"Scary" and "cherry" rhyme? Riiiiiiight.
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And you can throw in Halle Berry and make it 5-for-5.Swift'sSecondCourse wrote:Um, this doesn't help me. Where I come from all four of those words rhyme.Sage on the Hudson wrote:Scary (rhymes with hairy) and cherry (rhymes with ferry). The two aren't even close.TenPoundHammer wrote: They sound the same to me. How do YOU pronounce those words?