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I’m pretty good with geography but I totally blew that one! I said Alberta & Manitoba! I’ve tried using that pneumonic device (BASM) but I forgot it when it counted. How many days in a row is it for one hit wonders? Mnemonic. I'm pretty good with the provinces, but I didn't have a sense of where th...

reddpen wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 01, 2020 11:50 pm

It's spelled slalom but pronounced slolom. The first syllable rhymes with "fall", not the first part of "phallus".

I would assume Canadians typically pronounce it the second way. Kami is listed as being from St. Louis but I'm wondering if she grew up in Canada.

Mark one more for the AB and SK neg. I pretty much knew it was going to be a Kosman Koin, but I stuck with it.

TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 31, 2020 9:29 pm

Also NHO "two shakes of a lamb's tail".

I hadn't heard of that expression either, but my wife got it.

US State + named after an English county = only one choice as far as I know. Pretty straightforward once you ignore the coastline part of the clue. For me, the coastline part was the key. It might as well have just said, "This state has an 18-mile coastline." But that's what made it a good clue... ...

davey wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 30, 2020 8:34 pm

I knew FJ right away, then had a doubt - is it an "advertising character" if there's no product to advertise? It's a PSA character, isn't it??

This was me except I never thought of McGruff because I was thinking of actual advertising characters and none seemed to fit.

Khalilah certainly brought some entertainment to an otherwise pretty ugly day!

I keep trying to come up with 8 and my brain fogs over. I know no ketchup, and probably no mayo either. Which leaves mustard, relish, onions, chili, maybe bell peppers, and then my imagination just runs out of gas. Anyone have any clues? Sport peppers not chili peppers. Don't think they use bell pe...

My season ended with a whimper, losing the last three days. Still ended up sixth in A Fjord mostly due to good defense (.788 DE).

...Fawlty Towers in the '70s? Monty Python would've been a better guess. :shock: ... ?? Fawlty Towers was aired first-run from 1975-1979. It's true I suppose, MP would have been more likely to have an audience advisory... but I'm not sure what "concerns" either Cleese show ever addressed. The sale ...

TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 22, 2020 10:10 pm

Can we agree that the peacock clue was horribly misplaced, at least?

Definitely. I think they should have included the word "proud" in there to describe the bird and that would have provided the necessary TOM.

Plactus wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 22, 2020 2:09 am

Said emu instead of peacock.

Must be those damn Liberty Mutual commercials...

We've got a barn burner going on in Fjord A for the third spot. Right now third place has 28 points, but two of us are sitting at 27 (one of them being me), and one at 26 (FrankJ) and one just behind him at 25. Took a tough loss yesterday 4(4)-6(4) the differentiator being Mahfouz which I assigned t...

I had "Allende" but couldn't pull the first name in time. Judges? Do I need a first name to distinguish her from her father, even though he wasn't a writer? He also isn't likely to come up on Jeopardy! His name was Tomás Allende. Salvador Allende was her godfather and cousin once removed. Isabel is...

I think Aaron got the trifecta for the "al fresca" response, which was negged for being wrong on 3 levels - that's gotta be an achievement! 1) wrong language = wrong answer 2) wrong vowel ending 3) not in form of question. Tough day, didn't seem to be nerves, it just goes that some days you get the...

Bamaman wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 19, 2020 6:13 pm

The whole Mandela thing is that when he died, there were a bunch of people thought he had died in prison years earlier.

Which is really stupid. His release and subsequent election as president were big news.

I think these people might be confusing Nelson Mandela and Steve Biko.

After seeing the FJ category my precall was the Bataan Death March and then I whiffed on the actual question.

I put down Samoa.

twelvefootboy wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 19, 2020 12:29 am

and learning wtf is a pangolin from the wiki, I've had my fill of the squishy sciences for a long time. Now how can I un-see the pangolin?

Really? The pangolin is one of my favorite animals!

55 R (Missed Gritty and Roy Cohn.) DD: 3/3 FJ: :mrgreen: LT: Fortnite, 15th Century, Nexus, Stone Temple Pilots, Subcontracted, Dateless, Wuthering Heights, The Stranger Third time's the charm? https://jboard.tv/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=5055&start=20#p300611 Hey, it least this proves LSV is human! :lol:

I can't be the only one who had Cyprus for FJ?