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:( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: Mon - Vespucci, spent too long on Polo before realizing "Panama!" and just couldn't make the right jump in time. Fri - Nada. While I know a book exists called Brave New World and it was written by Huxley and the title comes from The T...

TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 20, 2018 3:34 pm

Note to self: "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" is a 1970s alien film directed by Steven Spielberg. File this in your rolodex Rolodex™, even though it'll probably fall back out two days later.

Fixed.

most annoying thing on the site is when people use non-universal abbreviations...what exactly is GL and SW? George Lucas / Star Wars (another 1977 film) My first thought was Star Wars , but Watch the Skies felt more like an alien invasion than space travel to me, so I changed it to Close Encounters...

I got FJ, but possibly too late and I almost certainly wouldn't have gotten it while under pressure. I couldn't remember who Reagan ran against in 1984, but I knew that 1980 fit. Sen. Walter Mondale This got me wondering, who has been both a Senator and a Governor? Because just saying "Senator" doe...

Have the mods here ever heard of freedom of speech? https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/free_speech.png Alt text: I can't remember where I heard this, but someone once said that defending a position by citing free speech is sort of the ultimate concession; you're saying that the most compelling thing you ...

Anybody know which double-letter capital was used for the J6 clue? I pre-called Tallahassee. Another possibility is Cheyenne. What other capitals qualify? We only saw 4 clues played in the category. Pierre (to answer the second question). Amerigo Vespucci. I started off on a very wrong track with M...

I believe it's the TV in the last photo here? At least to give an idea of size and positioning. https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/12/alex-trebek-stylist-phil-wayne No. Watch the game tonight closely during Final Jeopardy. There's a jib that starts on a long shot of the set that zooms in tow...

Where do the contestants read the FJ clue from? Across the studio. You see it when the camera zooms in at the start of the music. I believe it's the TV in the last photo here? At least to give an idea of size and positioning. https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/12/alex-trebek-stylist-phil-wayne

France 4 - Croatia 2
https://deadspin.com/france-topple-croa ... 1827611515

France wins their 2nd Cup in 20 years (their previous, and only prior, win was 1998)

Tue - Dates

I knew the Puccini name started with an 'M'...

Seen Jaws

https://deadspin.com/angelique-kerber-e ... 1827601228

Angelique Kerber made short work of Serena Williams in the final, 6-3, 6-3, to capture her first Wimbledon title

Looks like they got to use a J!6 from last December live Abridged, "The naturalist Boaty's parent vessel is named after." Sir David Attenborough Thought of hippie first, realized "No...that doesn't quite fit the deforestation pin...forest...tree... Oh." Edit: And the ship is being launched in a few ...

Fire up the JA Classical. Play #2. Disney! Tchaikovsky! Once Upon a Dream!
*types in Cinderella*

This Is Kirk! wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 13, 2018 11:25 am

Smithson seemed like a strange triple-stumper. Who else has an "Institution" named for them?

I bet if they asked for the Institution name, they'd be fighting over the buzzer. Or if it was higher up someone would take a chance with "Smithsewn" (vs "Smithsun"; wasn't it a bottom row clue?).

Musical was awesome. Book it was based on was...quite the slog.

Took advantage of both reversals.

Bamaman wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 11, 2018 5:36 pm

The $100 clue in US States is still correct.

Google? Or did you call it?

Finally, Reuters. I knew you wouldn't embed the Instagram photo. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-cardib/rapper-cardi-b-gives-birth-to-girl-with-husband-offset-idUSKBN1K12EX Rapper Cardi B has given birth to her first child, a baby girl, with her rapper husband Offset The parents named the ...

I had no clue on FJ. I figured that the best bet on a TOM was to look at Cerasus from the etymological angle, but I got nowhere. I guessed pomegranates. I figured Cerasus was the TOM, but it did nothing for me. I guessed pomegranates because they seem like something that would grow in Turkey. Ditto...

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Tue Jul 10, 2018 5:45 pm

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Wed Jun 06, 2018 11:55 am

IHOP is flipping the P and changing its name to IHOb with the announcement of the new name coming on June 11th.

I wonder if they just got tired of all the jokes about the one-legged waitress named Eileen.

Turned out to be some New Coke gimmick anyway and it's back to IHOP.

I would have thought a landscaper would know Briggs & Stratton. Did anyone else notice everyone but Alex was pronouncing "mnemonic" sort of like "new-monic." Strange. Guessed TR for FJ. I doubt I would've gotten Briggs & Stratton regardless, but I was thrown with the previous four all being single ...