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I'm totally stuck in a FJ! rut and can't seem to figure out a way how to change it.

I mean, I tried to reason this one out, but even thinking "well, initials would have to mean a town name comprising at least two words" got me nothing but dead ends.
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Volante wrote:Wasn't a fan of the water one...at least, not when rivers were concerned. "Wait, which Great Lake is Montreal on?...it isn't...but..."
Had I just not watched the Montreal Grand Prix last weekend, it may have taken me a bit longer.
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Vanya wrote:
mswanson wrote:Re: the Winner's Circle segments, I think they just do a single one once the champion's run has ended now instead of after every game. The champ does record a new hometown howdy before retreating to the green room, though. I actually miss the written blog posts by champions. Those, I thought, were more interesting and varied and gave a much greater insight into the experience than the sort of stilted interviews with the silent, disembodied interrogator that they have now...
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Volante wrote:"Wait, which Great Lake is Montreal on?...it isn't...but..."
For future reference:

The Great Lakes border 8 US States, but only one Canadian Province.

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...but the senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity.

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bpmod wrote:
Volante wrote:"Wait, which Great Lake is Montreal on?...it isn't...but..."
For future reference:

The Great Lakes border 8 US States, but only one Canadian Province.

Brian
Yeah, that's what threw me for a loop. I hadn't gotten down to rivers yet, what with the first being an ocean and the next a bay.
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Volante wrote: Yeah, that's what threw me for a loop. I hadn't gotten down to rivers yet, what with the first being an ocean and the next a bay.
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kristinsausville wrote:Why did I stick an apostrophe in "screenshots"? That's embarrassing.
plurastrophe! plurastrophe!
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Paucle wrote:
kristinsausville wrote:Why did I stick an apostrophe in "screenshots"? That's embarrassing.
plurastrophe! plurastrophe!
What a delightful term, for such a TERRIBLE phenomenon.
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Today's CrosSynergy crossword in The Washington Post:

1 Across (5 letters) - Like Jeopardy! contestants
29 Down (5 letters) - Fabric first created at DuPont
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alietr wrote:Today's CrosSynergy crossword in The Washington Post:

1 Across (5 letters) - Like Jeopardy! contestants
29 Down (5 letters) - Fabric first created at DuPont
Nerds/Nylon?
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Vanya wrote:
alietr wrote:Today's CrosSynergy crossword in The Washington Post:

1 Across (5 letters) - Like Jeopardy! contestants
29 Down (5 letters) - Fabric first created at DuPont
Nerds/Nylon?
That would be nerdy. My guess was going to be brite.
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TenPoundHammer wrote: Crimson & Clover seemed way, way undervalued at $200 IMO.
Yeah, no. Crimson and Clover is a standard of Classic Rock/Oldies radio playlists.
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alamble wrote:
TenPoundHammer wrote: Crimson & Clover seemed way, way undervalued at $200 IMO.
Yeah, no. Crimson and Clover is a standard of Classic Rock/Oldies radio playlists.
Yeah, Tommy James and the Shondells originally did the song in the '60s, and Joan Jett did a well-known cover in the '80s.
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mswanson wrote:Hometown howdies were kind of mortifying to do!
You can be relieved that the only people who seem to watch them is us. (Despite having several contestants in the past few months (well, a couple anyways) from the Twin Cities area, I have not once seen a Hometown Howdy on KARE (my J! station).)

The subsequent howdies that you tape after you win are seen by even less people, since jeopardy.com doesn't seem to show them, they seem to be very elusive.
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DBear wrote:
alamble wrote:
TenPoundHammer wrote:Crimson & Clover seemed way, way undervalued at $200 IMO.
Yeah, no. Crimson and Clover is a standard of Classic Rock/Oldies radio playlists.
Yeah, Tommy James and the Shondells originally did the song in the '60s, and Joan Jett did a well-known cover in the '80s.
Yeah, mentioning Joan Jett to TPH as a reference doesn't help. You know he don't hardly know her.
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TenPoundHammer wrote:Is it really that well known that mozzarella is traditionally made from buffalo milk? New to me.
I'm straining for some cheesy bison pun with no luck. Hearing it now, buffalo seems vaguely familiar, but watching I rang in with sheep. Not your every day R/W juxtaposition.
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Spoilered because it refers to Wednesday's game:
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davey wrote:
TenPoundHammer wrote:
Is it really that well known that mozzarella is traditionally made from buffalo milk? New to me.
Buffalo mozzarella is pretty common at hoity-toity food places...though if someone asked I would have guessed it was an American development, since I didn't know they had buffalo in Italy.
The "buffalo" mozzarella is made from are water buffalo. (Also pretty strange to imagine in Italy.) Our "buffalo" are bison, only found in N. America. And, most importantly, bison have tiny little teats (I just learned this about 2 weeks ago!) and even if they were tame would be verrry difficult to milk. So regardless where you are in the world, if it's a dairy product from "buffalo", it's water buffalo.

(Sincerely, your resident milk-product expert)
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debramc wrote:The "buffalo" mozzarella is made from are water buffalo. (Also pretty strange to imagine in Italy.) Our "buffalo" are bison, only found in N. America. And, most importantly, bison have tiny little teats (I just learned this about 2 weeks ago!) and even if they were tame would be verrry difficult to milk. So regardless where you are in the world, if it's a dairy product from "buffalo", it's water buffalo.

(Sincerely, your resident milk-product expert)
And here I thought that you only knew about Mare's Milk.

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...but the senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity.

If I had 50 cents for every math question I got right, I'd have $6.30 by now.
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bpmod wrote:
debramc wrote:The "buffalo" mozzarella is made from are water buffalo. (Also pretty strange to imagine in Italy.) Our "buffalo" are bison, only found in N. America. And, most importantly, bison have tiny little teats (I just learned this about 2 weeks ago!) and even if they were tame would be verrry difficult to milk. So regardless where you are in the world, if it's a dairy product from "buffalo", it's water buffalo.

(Sincerely, your resident milk-product expert)
And here I thought that you only knew about Mare's Milk.

Brian
Yeah, the problem is that's the one I didn't know.
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