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I was taking the NYT Upshot dialect quiz, and one of the questions asked how you pronounce Mary, merry and marry. I answered 'all the same', and the heat map showed almost the entire country in dark orange, with three little blue spots: NYC/NJ, Eastern Mass, and N'awlins.

If it's true that the wreck discovered in 1999 was not the Carpathia, but the Isis, and the Carpathia was actually found in 2000, shouldn't this 2002 question have reflected that?

That FJ could use some copy editing. At first I thought it was asking about an English-speaking country with a Spanish article in it. The actual clue is way less interesting. Agree 100%. My suggested wording: It's the only country in the world whose English name contains a Spanish article. I do thi...

This FJ! broke my streak of 7 straight gets. The town name and rest of the clue led me to the right area, but I couldn't narrow it down and guessed Venezuela because I think that is next to French Guiana... I was thinking 'Isn't it regular ol' Guyana that borders Venezuela?', and went for a quick G...

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TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑

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There's a Mr. Burns in The Simpsons?!

OH COME ON!

I just think that if you're going to ask for a Simpsons character in the top box, it should be someone a little more iconic than that.

Like Smithers?

45 New York

45 for rillz on this one, after 48 and 45 (if I give myself 'skinny hinny') from the video on Tuesday/Wednesday.

Blanked completely on the Italian author (not sure I've ever heard that) and young female prime minister. Simply wrong on Wagner, Farrow and 'Shallow'.

Are we sure the Mexico painter wasn't

Spoiler

Frida Kahlo

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Instaget FJ for me, but I did need the dialogue to assist. Given just the year, it would have been a guess between a couple of films. Even having the movies (mostly) memorized, I would be leery of a question that was just '1970 Best Picture winner'. I've seen too many arguments of the form 'That mo...

wouldn't it have been awesome if gilligan had done "sunshine on my shoulders"? Is gilligan a death metal band? there should be one...want to be one of the founding members? my vocals are shot in my old age, but i can still churn out some decent growls and grunts...screams a bit shakier though I'll ...

CasketRomance wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 10, 2019 9:58 am

wouldn't it have been awesome if gilligan had done "sunshine on my shoulders"?

Is gilligan a death metal band?

Also, I gotta get those damn Presidential dates on some flashcards. This is something I should commit to memory, but it just seems so dang boring. I also went with Andy Jackson on this FJ, even though I figured it was probably wrong. I would argue no more or less boring than rote memorizing anythin...

so they went alliterative with the all of the names of the pierogies except for 1? any idea why jalapeno hannah instead of say jalaepno juanita? a phonetic thing? Jalapeno Hannah is alliterative, Jalapeno Juanita is not. I'm more disturbed by the switch in nomenclature order for the onion one.

For anyone misparsing the FJ! clue, I'd recommend the one technique I've learned painfully from misinterpreting clues myself: look for THIS. Literally, the word "this". I think in almost every FJ!, the correct response replaces the word "this" in some sense...I read it somewhere in here or online s...

I was a little surprised to see this TS in final. When I think of major beneficiaries of this internal migration, I think of Arizona and Nevada, and those don't signal 'Bible Belt' to me. I was very excited to get one that James got wrong, but then thought maybe this was gamesmanship. In a similar n...

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Tue Nov 12, 2019 2:09 am

Anyone else pronounce "diabetes" in the style of Wilford Brimley?

Nope. I usually go with 'the BEET-us', or simply 'the sugar'.

This quiz has two errors. Nashville, TN is NOT one of the correct answers, as even the information above the quiz proper points out. And Columbia, SC is omitted as a correct answer. Columbia should replace Nashville. No, the quiz is correct on both counts. That article is out of date. The problem i...

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Wed Nov 06, 2019 11:12 am

Guyana, French Guyana, Suriname.

Why do those, along with every single South American country, completely fall out of my head whenever I need them?

It's the holes.

I wonder if we should change the name of this game from 'Think Different' to 'Confirmation Bias'.

I found the use of the term 'urban places' in the FJ! clue a bit confusing. Are we talking just about city populations, or are we talking 'urban area' or Metropolitan Statistical Area (many of which cross state boundaries)? Both Worcester and Springfield, MA (+ CT) show up in the top 100 of the latt...