You forgot Syriana, for which he won Best Supporting Actor in 2006.Lore wrote:George Clooney's nominations:
Best Director: Good Night, and Good Luck
Best Original Screenplay: Good Night, and Good Luck
Best Actor in a Leading Role: Michael Clayton, Up in the Air, The Descendants
Best Adapted Screenplay: The Ides of March
Best Picture: Argo (he was one of the producers) (won)
Tuesday, November 24, 2015 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
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There's another reason for the move to shoes. When there are only one or two decks, there is more frequent shuffling. Depending on how many players, there are often only two or three hands per shuffle. This is time when no "action" is happening at the table. Casinos like to have continuous action so they have more opportunities to leverage their house advantage.alan tiger wrote:shoes are used in casinos for dealing games which use multiple decks, which include both blackjack and baccarat.
casinos have moved to using shoes in blackjack, and have virtually eliminated single-deck games. this is because single-deck games are targets of card-counters, who have a greater advantage in a game with a smaller universe of available (undealt) cards.
Shoes can be disadvantageous to casinos in relation to counters. The house has to continue to deal from what may be a very unfavorable shoe until the marker is reached. There have been successful teams, where counters wait for a favorable shoe to occur, then signal a confederate to swoop in and now place big bets.
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Thanks, Opus.opusthepenguin wrote:I think BobF's been around long enough that we can give him SOME benefit of the doubt, yeah? I thought his comment somewhat ill-considered. But this response seems way out of proportion to me. (Please don't try to re-explain your positions. I get it. If you think I don't, let's assume I never will and leave it at that.) I think there were less nuclear ways of pursuing this discussion. At this point I'm more worried about losing a valued boardie than about scaring off Laura. If I were Laura, I'd be scared off by this discussion anyway. I'd be a lot less scared by a quick comment to BobF that this might not be the time or the way to express his goofball streak.
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Seconded. Her vocal tic WAS off-putting, political correctness or not.BobF wrote:Thanks, Opus.opusthepenguin wrote:I think BobF's been around long enough that we can give him SOME benefit of the doubt, yeah? I thought his comment somewhat ill-considered. But this response seems way out of proportion to me. (Please don't try to re-explain your positions. I get it. If you think I don't, let's assume I never will and leave it at that.) I think there were less nuclear ways of pursuing this discussion. At this point I'm more worried about losing a valued boardie than about scaring off Laura. If I were Laura, I'd be scared off by this discussion anyway. I'd be a lot less scared by a quick comment to BobF that this might not be the time or the way to express his goofball streak.
But the overdone response to whatever Bob said was unnecessary.
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This was the rerun game today and decided to check out the game thread. Let's just say that the ban on Eastwood FJs didn't last forever. In fact, they didn't even wait for Trump to be elected.hbomb1947 wrote:And besides -- so he made an eccentric speech at a political party's national convention -- big whoop.BennyBXB wrote:All I can think of is the chair speech, but that's been pretty much forgotten by now.hbomb1947 wrote:I can understand why you would think Gibson's name would never be invoked in FJ, but why Eastwood?Category 13 wrote: In hindsight, it's extremely unlikely that Jeopardy! would present a FJ clue with either Clint Eastwood or Mel Gibson as the response. Ahh, what the hell, let's just say it'll never happen.
ETA: according to the j-archive, Eastwood has been the correct response to FJ five times; I see no reason why he can't be again at some point.
http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?g ... t+eastwood