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MinnesotaMyron wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 20, 2018 2:39 am

I had the definitions of cryonics and cryogenics flipped in my head. Cost me the tie.

Did the same thing. Talked myself out of "cryogenics", which sounded more like a biology term.

A federal judge ruled that AT&T's $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner does not violate federal antitrust laws. Next up: a contest between Disney and Comcast for the entertainment assets of 21st Century Fox. http://money.cnn.com/2018/06/12/media/att-time-warner-ruling/index.html Mentioned upthread...

Also, the clue was based on a claim that's on John Hickenlooper's own web site- https://www.colorado.gov/governor/gov-hickenlooper By the way, I've been to the Wynkoop Brewing Company in Denver, which Hickenlooper owned before he was elected governor. Their Railyard Ale was perfect for a warm, sunn...

I overthought the brewer/governor question and answered "Thomas Jefferson". Jefferson was governor of Virginia, and he made his own beer (his brewing equipment is on display at Monticello). However, he didn't take up brewing until the War of 1812, when he was given custody over a British POW who tau...

Started the season with an incredible run of luck, which means the Regression Monster awaits. That monster appeared yesterday in the form of a 7(5)-9(6) loss. The one good thing is that yesterday's game doesn't lead to second-guessing. I flat-out didn't know the answer to the Pokemon Go question and...

Peachbox wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 08, 2018 12:13 am

Oh my goodness :o I just received an invite to audition in San Francisco on July 12 at 2 p.m. :)

That's wonderful news! Go get 'em!

Justify is also the second horse (the first was Seattle Slew) to win the Triple Crown while still undefeated.

In other news, I bet $10 on Vino Rosso at the local OTB parlor. First wager of any kind--including lottery tickets--I made all year.

Noah Webster's house is one of the attractions at Greenfield Village. I've been inside it a couple of times, and I remember that one reason for his reasons for compiling his famous dictionary was to make spelling more consistent (it wasn't consistent 200 years ago). For some reason, I remember a ser...

Volante wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 05, 2018 9:34 am

Knew I was going to miss that glasnost/perestroika coin flip...

I wonder how many people did the same thing with jambalaya and gumbo.

Question 6: "Not Tonight Josephine"—purportedly (but likely not) once uttered by Napoleon to Empress Joséphine one evening—was the working title of what 1959 comedy film, in reference to a character portrayed by a character portrayed by one of the movie's main actors? Thought Process: So, I don't k...

Still looking for my first HQ win. I've gotten to Q12 once, and Q11 twice. Close, but no cigar. By the way, did anyone else see the story about Scott Rogowsky's appearance on Yahoo Sports' "Old Baseball Cards" show? He's a die-hard NY Mets fan (as I was growing up in NJ), so we have that in common: ...

I took the loss against a six-pack yesterday, but I was pleased to come up with Christmas Island. I was going to put Tasmania, but I was almost certain that Tasmania was an official state of Australia and not a territory. Finally the word "December" in the clue wording jumped out at me and I rememb...

Ohio State used to be in the CCHA with Lake Superior St. and Michigan Tech. I'm glad that there were enough people who knew about these two colleges to keep it from being in the single digits. Michigan alum here. The Wolverines also used to be in the CCHA. And the annual Great Lakes Invitational ho...

Returning to A Horizon. Good luck to all of y'all!

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is this year's winner of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor: https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/23/entertainment/julia-louis-dreyfus-mark-twain-prize/index.html. Earlier this month Bill Cosby, the 2009 winner, had his Mark Twain Prize revoked by the Kennedy Center after he was conv...

Key literary figures of the 1960s and beyond, both Philip Roth and Tom Wolfe died within the past seven days. Roth grew up in Newark, NJ. NJ.com (website for the Newark Star-Ledger and other Jersey papers) ran this story about Roth, who won almost every literary honor except the Nobel Prize: http:/...

The runoff primary in HD-45 took place yesterday, and Erin won the nomination: https://elections.dallasnews.com/2018-r ... e/859e71f7

Plenty of trivia surrounding today's wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Most likely to come up: They are now known as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/19/europe/r ... index.html

In a 7-2 decision, the Supreme Court has ruled the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992 unconditional. The law, which placed a federal ban on sports betting in states where it was not already established (namely, Nevada), was challenged by the state of New Jersey. It, along with a...

Heck with it...it almost feels like it keeps happening because of my volcano tags earlier and doesn't want to be left out Kilauea has been bubbling regularly on the big island of Hawaii. It might even classically erupt like a stratovolcano rather than the shield volcano it is (though not as disaste...