Tuesday, March 5, 2013 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
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Re: Tuesday, March 5, 2013 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
I believe I knew "rook" from David Copperfield's childhood home -- The Rookery.
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Re: Tuesday, March 5, 2013 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
At my watch party, I felt as if I should have gotten "rook", but that could be because I remember it from October. But I didn't get "Patton" yesterday.kickerofelves wrote:I knew 'rook' from the XTC song...ElendilPickle wrote:Also in The Dark is Rising, to continue with the nerdism.ComingUpMilhouse wrote:I want to say rooks showed up in the Redwall books from time to time as well, if we want to get even nerdier with this.
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Parsing through Alex's comments, I guess they were going for just "fit", but I'm guessing "snit" would have been accepted.
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Re: Tuesday, March 5, 2013 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
When the heck are they going to release more music??? It's been 13 years already!kickerofelves wrote:I knew 'rook' from the XTC song...
I said "snit" as well.Linear Gnome wrote:Parsing through Alex's comments, I guess they were going for just "fit", but I'm guessing "snit" would have been accepted.
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Re: Tuesday, March 5, 2013 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
Anybody else know "rook" from the card game?
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Re: Tuesday, March 5, 2013 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
Yup.marpocky wrote:Anybody else know "rook" from the card game?
I don't think I've even played the game. But my parents had a deck in the house when I was growing up.
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Re: Tuesday, March 5, 2013 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
I remembered the card game, but couldn't come up with rook until I saw the second part of the clue.marpocky wrote:Anybody else know "rook" from the card game?
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Re: Tuesday, March 5, 2013 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
Got FJ, through a lucky guess. I've never read the novel, but had a vague notion that the title character was kind of similar to Hedda Gabler, except with a train. And I had no better guesses.
Apropos of an earlier discussion of WAGs, this is an example of why even a crazy guess is better than no answer.
Apropos of an earlier discussion of WAGs, this is an example of why even a crazy guess is better than no answer.
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Re: Tuesday, March 5, 2013 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
I'm actually usually OK with wordplay--comes of being married to a 9th-degree black belt punner (he ran the category naturally). Just wasn't my day for some reason...*shrug*jkbrat wrote:Same here: 1/5 (vestigial).OKlibrarian wrote:I got murdered on the starts with clothing category
My brain operates too slowly to do well on wordplay categories (for me it's not "the dreaded opera", it's "the dreaded anagram"). For example, I thought of "HATCHERY" instantly, but rejected it as I couldn't think of any articles of clothing starting with "HATCH" . Also stumped by articles of clothing starting with "MIME" .
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Well said.Magna wrote:Got FJ, through a lucky guess. I've never read the novel, but had a vague notion that the title character was kind of similar to Hedda Gabler, except with a train. And I had no better guesses.
Apropos of an earlier discussion of WAGs, this is an example of why even a crazy guess is better than no answer.
Even if someone had absolutely no idea on this one, they may as well just randomly guess some novel where (a) the title of the novel is a person's name, and (b) the novel was written sometime after the invention of trains.
Furthermore, maybe the best wild guesses would be not too long after the popularization of trains, so possibly late 19th or early 20th century. Further still, maybe the best wild guesses are novels that have an element of sadness or gloominess and/or where the title character is thought of as a tragic character somehow.
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Re: Tuesday, March 5, 2013 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
I got rook from the game and said glove.
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Of course, if you can put all of that together, it ceases to be a wild guess.skullturf wrote:Furthermore, maybe the best wild guesses would be not too long after the popularization of trains, so possibly late 19th or early 20th century. Further still, maybe the best wild guesses are novels that have an element of sadness or gloominess and/or where the title character is thought of as a tragic character somehow.
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Re: Tuesday, March 5, 2013 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
Discworld/Redwall crossover. Make it happen.opusthepenguin wrote:I like Grannie Mole. You could move to Discworld and hang out with Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg and have the time of your life.
And I had literally zero guesses in that field.skullturf wrote:Even if someone had absolutely no idea on this one, they may as well just randomly guess some novel where (a) the title of the novel is a person's name, and (b) the novel was written sometime after the invention of trains.
Furthermore, maybe the best wild guesses would be not too long after the popularization of trains, so possibly late 19th or early 20th century. Further still, maybe the best wild guesses are novels that have an element of sadness or gloominess and/or where the title character is thought of as a tragic character somehow.
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Re: Tuesday, March 5, 2013 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
Yup. I played it a lot with my parents.marpocky wrote:Anybody else know "rook" from the card game?
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You couldn't think of any books with a character's name as the title? I came up with David Copperfield. Was pretty confident it was wrong, but it was better than nothing.TenPoundHammer wrote:And I had literally zero guesses in that field.
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Certainly none within that early 20th century timespan. Unless I've had it wrong all this time, and it turns out that Wrath really is a person who owned some grapes.This Is Kirk! wrote:You couldn't think of any books with a character's name as the title?TenPoundHammer wrote:And I had literally zero guesses in that field.
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Yep, that's my usage as well.alamble wrote:Catchers use mitts. Everyone else uses gloves.bpmod wrote:Glove for me. Could it be a regional thing?MarkBarrett wrote:I don't want to waste two poll slots to ask at the end of the week, so I'll ask here: Mitt or Glove? Mitt for me. And save the political stuff as November is long past.
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For me, "mitt" was the first word that happened to jump into my head. But then, I corrected myself, thinking "only catchers have mitts", and I said "glove" out loud as my answer.
Judging by Alex's remark, I was overthinking things, and either "mitt" or "glove" would've been fine.
I didn't know until reading this thread that first basemen are said to have "mitts" as well as catchers.
Judging by Alex's remark, I was overthinking things, and either "mitt" or "glove" would've been fine.
I didn't know until reading this thread that first basemen are said to have "mitts" as well as catchers.
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Re: Tuesday, March 5, 2013 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
The Nac Mac Feagles invade Mossflower Woods and Redwall Abbey. Hilarity ensues.TenPoundHammer wrote:Discworld/Redwall crossover. Make it happen.opusthepenguin wrote:I like Grannie Mole. You could move to Discworld and hang out with Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg and have the time of your life.
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Rex Kramer wrote:Just before he says, "Hey, Bond! Get your damn hands off her!"silverscreentest wrote:This is the only other Wint I could think of.CyrusChan wrote:I was surprised that the same case wasn't applied for his last name(Wint).
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Re: Tuesday, March 5, 2013 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
No Gabler connection for me, but I also got FJ through a vague impression that AK had something to do with trains. Never read the book and couldn't even remember which Russian wrote it.Magna wrote:Got FJ, through a lucky guess. I've never read the novel, but had a vague notion that the title character was kind of similar to Hedda Gabler, except with a train. And I had no better guesses.
Apropos of an earlier discussion of WAGs, this is an example of why even a crazy guess is better than no answer.