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B Outback again for me.

I lost the coin toss between hurling and Gaelic Football.

I also overthought the Shakespeare question and wrote Kate and Petruccio.

I thought it was cruel requiring both Mbeki AND Zuma. Very un-Thorsten-like. Funny thing: I was sure I'd be wrong on that one because I thought Zuma came immediately after Mbeki, but those were the only two I could name, so I put them down. Pleasant surprise! But yes, odd imbalance with asking only...

I enjoyed the Art ML a lot. I came third with 49 TCA, which seemed like a fair result for me. (There is no shame in losing to DhuwaliaR.) For me, this is now the second MiniLeague in which a player has forfeited the first 6 or more games, then joined shortly before playing me. If you're going to mis...

Columbus -- 45

Didn't even see the cactus plants. I went with Krasner Pollock.

A pretty typical season for me. I had the second highest CAA in A Midland, so it's not surprising that I'll be relegated this time around. I had mixed reactions about this article. It initially made me laugh, but then I really don't like the idea of publicly shaming people for how they do in trivia ...

If the question had simply asked who mentored the Velvet Underground, I would have answered Andy Warhol without hesitation. It's one of the only things I know about the group. Asking about Drella threw me off entirely, which I guess shows how little I know about them beyond a pub quiz level.

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“Captain” Daryl Dragon (Captain and Tennille), “Mean” Gene Okerlund (Voice of Professional Wrestling in the 80s), and “Super Dave” Bob Einstein have all recently died. https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/daryl-dragon-captain-dies-obit-1.4963971 https://www.cbc.ca/sports/mean-gene-okerlund-intervie...

Sister Wendy Beckett, the Carmelite nun and the tv 'personality' who introduced me to art history, has died at 88.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radi ... es-aged-88
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/26/obit ... -dead.html

My worst TCA ever and 11 ties meant that I was scraping the bottom of A midland most of the season. A victory in the last match lifted me out of the relegation zone, but it doesn't feel as if my play this season warranted it. I don't know if it was the distraction of a new job or that the questions ...

I went with boules, which I assumed was French bocce. I'm not sure I would have ever landed on fencing.

Woof wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 20, 2018 11:35 am

The Thurn und Taxis question was accessible only from Pynchon's Crying of Lot 49.

THAT'S where I had heard that before. (I wish I could say that it was from my PhD in Early Modern History.)

Troydozzy wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 07, 2018 11:18 am

Thanks for smithing this. Looks like fun. I may be overlooking it, but I don't see a link for where we should post the answers.

Oops. I read that as post meridian. Thanks for clarifying.

Thanks for smithing this. Looks like fun. I may be overlooking it, but I don't see a link for where we should post the answers.

I think that there were three A Rundle winners in my last group, so humility is a lesson deeply ingrained by this point. I'll join up. It currently stands at an odd number (5), so it may be that I am ejected into private Rundle limbo.

I actually remembered to create the private rundle with time to spare! Rundle Name: Rundle in the Jundle 8 Registration Code: readytorundle Thanks! Is there room in the private rundle for new players? I've been in a different one for a year, but they've lost a lot of members recently and aren't ver...

Congrats to all of the winners, and thanks for the fun game!