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by heppm01
Thu Dec 08, 2022 9:18 pm
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Thursday, December 8, 2022 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Replies: 33
Views: 2786

Re: Thursday, December 8, 2022 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

econgator wrote: Thu Dec 08, 2022 7:53 pm So the standard for quotations is now, "Eh, it's close enough?"

OK ...
My jaw hit the floor on that one. If Matt Amodio was still playing would “What’s Galt?” be accepted?
by heppm01
Thu Mar 31, 2022 10:58 am
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Wednesday, March 30, 2022 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Replies: 41
Views: 3720

Re: Wednesday, March 30, 2022 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

None of the other names I've seen in this thread is actually associated with France. I picked Venus Williams for winning the French Open. Please clap. Not only did I pick someone who is not dead, I had the wrong Williams sister. I quickly wrote Venus, then crossed it out for Serena. So glad I'm not...
by heppm01
Thu Mar 17, 2022 11:04 am
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Wednesday, March 16, 2022 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Replies: 46
Views: 4335

Re: Wednesday, March 16, 2022 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

Add me to the list of those having trouble parsing FJ. I thought they were asking for some quality of the words, not the words themselves, and responded with "improvisations".
by heppm01
Wed Mar 16, 2022 10:31 am
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Replies: 34
Views: 3049

Re: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

Immediately wrote down "flash flood", eventually realized it had twice as many words as the clue indicated and crossed it off in favor of the correct response. Hurricanes are slow-forming and slow-moving so it didn't seem like an impossible phenomenon to predict - either landfall or the st...
by heppm01
Sat Mar 12, 2022 10:20 am
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Friday, March 11, 2022 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Replies: 44
Views: 4599

Re: Friday, March 11, 2022 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

Got FJ pretty quickly but I hit on rainbow flag early and from there it was a short jump to the correct response.

Could rewording to be "local US politician" or "civic US politician" have been just the nudge to increase the get rate here?
by heppm01
Thu Mar 03, 2022 8:26 am
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Wednesday, March 2, 2022 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Replies: 36
Views: 4074

Re: Wednesday, March 2, 2022 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

How in the world does the response of "Green" for Books Within Books $800 not warrant a BMS, when the author's own brother has also written popular novels?
by heppm01
Wed Mar 02, 2022 10:04 am
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: A Very Special Viral Episode Of Wheel Of Fortune
Replies: 105
Views: 12079

Re: A Very Special Viral Episode Of Wheel Of Fortune

How does Pat Sajak not strangle people?
by heppm01
Fri Feb 25, 2022 10:03 am
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Thursday, February 24, 2022 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Replies: 49
Views: 4747

Re: Thursday, February 24, 2022 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

I'm curious to see the get rate for FJ, since it was the insta-est of insta gets for me, but sounds like it's not nearly as common knowledge as I thought it was. That's the thing, it seems pretty YEKIOYD, and I didn't. I would have liked a little more TOM such as "this darkly-humored family&qu...
by heppm01
Wed Feb 23, 2022 1:34 pm
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Tuesday, February 22, 2022 National College Championship Finals Game 1 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Replies: 14
Views: 2068

Re: Tuesday, February 22, 2022 National College Championship Finals Game 1 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

The JNCC clues can sometimes be on the easy side, but the response had to have a little more sophistication than Liz's shot. Yep, francium seemed too obvious (unless the category was Stupid Answers). I went with polonium (named for Poland, discovered by the Curies but not until 1898). Unfortunately...
by heppm01
Sat Feb 12, 2022 9:04 am
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Friday, February 11, 2022 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Replies: 31
Views: 3024

Re: Friday, February 11, 2022 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

Tossup between Ibsen and Wilde. Unfortunately I was flipping the wrong coin entirely.

American Folklore $600: I am familiar with the legend but always assumed the Babe was female so the pronouns in the clue threw me for loop.
by heppm01
Fri Feb 11, 2022 10:36 am
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Replies: 62
Views: 5568

Re: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

TenPoundHammer wrote: Thu Feb 10, 2022 1:16 pmthere are lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of big cities in California that have a zoo.
I doubt this very much.
by heppm01
Fri Feb 11, 2022 10:27 am
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Have the Olympics affected your J! viewing?
Replies: 13
Views: 1461

Re: Have the Olympics affected your J! viewing?

* Other

My NBC affiliate has moved J! up by 30 minutes and is broadcasting local Olympic coverage in the usual Jeopardy timeslot. No problem catching the episodes but it does alter my usual dinner prep and eat schedule slightly.
by heppm01
Thu Feb 10, 2022 9:10 am
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 FJ Poll (SPOILERS)
Replies: 21
Views: 2391

Re: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 FJ Poll (SPOILERS)

Went to elephants almost immediately but the number of "really"s in the quote had me start doubting. Maybe two reallys for an elephant but the third brought to mind redwoods. Fortunately the idea of redwood trunks being described as long was awkward enough for me to stick with my original ...
by heppm01
Wed Feb 09, 2022 9:25 am
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Tuesday, February 8, 2022 National College Championship Game 2 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Replies: 25
Views: 2502

Re: Tuesday, February 8, 2022 National College Championship Game 2 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

Plant? Love? All I had was mistletoe. Grr. So much for a 15-for-15 week. Yeah, that's the best I could come up with as well. Between the championship and regular show, this is a whole lot of Mayim to stomach in one night. I had been ambivalent when she first started but since then have gotten incre...
by heppm01
Wed Feb 09, 2022 9:21 am
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Tuesday, February 8, 2022 National College Championship Game 1 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Replies: 14
Views: 1807

Re: Tuesday, February 8, 2022 National College Championship Game 1 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

Thank goodness they blurred the breasts on Dorm Room $800. I would hate to have been accidentally exposed to artistic nudity. :roll:
by heppm01
Sat Feb 05, 2022 8:53 am
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Friday, February 4, 2022 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Replies: 48
Views: 4293

Re: Friday, February 4, 2022 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

For FJ I went with Westinghouse. I never heard of the ride, but if I knew it featured a drop then Otis would have been a slamdunk.

Looking forward to seeing the wide variety of incorrect guesses that come up here.
by heppm01
Thu Jan 13, 2022 11:32 am
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Wednesday, January 12, 2022 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Replies: 35
Views: 6514

Re: Wednesday, January 12, 2022 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

MarkBarrett wrote: Wed Jan 12, 2022 1:44 pm...it could have helped if I had known the Scott work had nothing to do with the King Arthur area. :oops:
Same here. I spent 20 seconds sifting through Arthurian lore before abandoning it in favor of random "...ss" names. That didn't work either.
by heppm01
Wed Jan 05, 2022 9:35 am
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Tuesday, January 4, 2022 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Replies: 43
Views: 9613

Re: Tuesday, January 4, 2022 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

colosseum, stadium, arena: pick one. I went with arena and circus was not even on my radar. It is clear from this and past clues that I have a huge gap in words derived from greek.
by heppm01
Sun Jan 02, 2022 11:40 am
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Best News Aggregator: What Do You Recommend?
Replies: 12
Views: 3624

Re: Best News Aggregator: What Do You Recommend?

I went through a similar exercise a couple years ago and at that time nothing really clicked with me. Currently for general news I use news.yahoo.com although I'm not especially crazy about it. There is more fluff than I care for and they seem to intermix their in-house "reporters" with co...
by heppm01
Tue Dec 28, 2021 9:49 am
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Monday, December 27, 2021 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Replies: 36
Views: 6681

Re: Monday, December 27, 2021 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

Theater is definitely a weak spot for me. My first thought was something Russian but nothing came to mind, but it did trigger A Doll's House which is what I went with.