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Given the amount of ugliness out there on the Internet, it really warms my heart to see the culture that has developed here at jboard.tv — the way that even the most basic objectification or dehumanizations is simply not socially acceptable. And when I see you all on social media jump to the defense...

alietr wrote:Huh. Could have sworn Obama just started a Twitter account recently ...

Didn't Obama post a photo on election night 2012 that set the record for most retweeted tweet (later surpassed by Ellen's Oscar selfie)?

Volante wrote:Too obscure a reference? Too obscure a reference...

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Ha! Yeah, that went right over my head the first time. Good one!

[Sigh...] I’ve made this point before, but I’ll say it again: Counting wins or losses based on the contestants’ actual right or wrong answers is an intellectually dishonest way of evaluating Shore’s Conjecture. The measure of a wagering strategy is how it performs against all possible combinations ...

A follow-up trivia question, thanks to Wikipedia: In addition to John Denver, who is the only other songwriter to have written two official state songs? A guess.... Stephen Foster Bingo! The two are: "My Old Kentucky Home" and "Old Folks at Home" (a.k.a. "Swanee River"), one of the state songs of F...

A follow-up trivia question, thanks to Wikipedia:
In addition to John Denver, who is the only other songwriter to have written two official state songs?

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :?: :mrgreen: :( :?: :mrgreen: I didn't see Thursday, and it was spoiled before I could play it here. I like to think I would have completed my perfect week, but who knows. I might have come up with WHHarrison given a few more seconds. And I said Diana, since I know it ...

I couldn't tell all the old white guys apart, but my BF got 70. I keep telling him he should try out for Jeopardy!

RandyG wrote:I added this Intro section to the sticky post: ....

THANK YOU! That's great! Very helpful!

That Adele question was the most "recent" I ever remember on the show. The relevant news came out on 11/28, and even assuming the show was taped the next weekday, that's just 22 days between the news happening and the show airing. My game taped in November 2004 and had a whole category on the 2004 ...

I got FJ, though I didn't realize that the ruins of the Temple of Diana still exist! I had to work my way through the Wonders I could remember: The Great Pyramid at Giza is the only one of the seven that's still around, but (a) it's not dedicated to a woman, as far as I know, and (b) it's not in rui...

I'm just disappointed that nobody has mentioned...

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Robert K S wrote:I feel like I didn't get the "dummy"/"effigy" pun, if there was one.

I saw "Hey dummy" and could only think of Dennis Duffy from 30 Rock.



Which didn't help. At all.

No answer Monday, Notre Dame Thursday, and Bering.

It just seemed odd casting blacks to play historical figures that were white. A little different than casting The Wizard of Oz with an all black cast. I have not seen it so I might have gotten the concept if I had. I didn't have a problem with it, was just curious as to why they did it that way. An...

hbomb1947 wrote:Add me to those who negged with "crocs" for the shoe named after an Australian animal. Is there enough of a critical mass for that neg to have it as a poll choice?

Crocs were my initial (and only) response, but at least I had the good sense to recognize they couldn't possibly be right.

I haven't heard anyone say that they approached FJ the way I did: I started with thinking about presidents where it's easily known what year they died. That pretty much left only Lincoln and Kennedy (maybe Garfield, McKinley, or FDR, but those weren't likely). OK, Kennedy ... John, John. Done. That...

To change the topic slightly: as a newbie to (this version of) the board, I would have found it very helpful to have a short intro to what a TD is . For instance: Is it (like LL) something you have to sign up for? Is there a season commitment? Are points cumulative? How is it scored? What's the time...

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: Montenegro on Wednesday's clue, as I lost the coin-flip with Kosovo on a 50-50-90.... The only Grimm brother I could name was Jacob. Ditto, ditto, ditto, and ditto. :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

As a new-sh Minnesota resident, I thought that FJ was a softball down the middle of the plate. "Minnesota has a lot of Lutherans" is trivia in the same way that "snow is cold" is trivia. I'm surprised to see so many people having trouble with it.