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FJ needed 'until' the 1980s to make sense. Terrible wording. This. Jon and Tim need to be invited back. As bad as I feel for both of them, I disagree. It was a brutal clue but they both had their chance. What crappy luck to be in the tie like that, forcing their hands to go all in. As it has been s...

Another Notre Dame here. I was unaware that the Louvre was that old. I'm 0/3 in FJs this week for the first time in a while. Well at least I don't feel so all alone in my o-fer-ness. To my brain, this week's FJs have been just brutal. On this one I also immediately glommed onto France and tried to ...

Mr. October? Mr. November?

Harrumph.

As a fan of the Cleveland Indians, I know our best players are usually known as "Mr. February."

In eighth grade or thereabouts, The XYZ Affair was one of a bajillion things we learned that made me think, "When will I ever need to know this?" Today, for at least one of those items, I got the answer, remembered the lesson, and ended the week with an instaget on a FJ TS. Now if I had only been on...

Dirty rackafratz Eritrea cost me a superfecto. Grumble, Grouse!


Use Avon Products? Count me along with Phyllis Diller. The only products I use on my face are sandpaper and silly putty.

J! contestants are notoriously bad at African Geography. THAT should make me a shoo-in to get The Call. I didn't recall at all what country was created or took land and a seacoast away from what other country. I thought about Sudan, but.... I hate clues like this (translation: clues I have no clue ...

I don't mind Mike's hosting so far. His energy/enthusiasm feels awkward compared to Ken or Alex, but other than that, he's doing a solid job for filling in the gaps. I won't mind seeing him for 8 more episodes. Ditto. I never heard of this guy, literally (OK, sue me, I don't read the credits). When...

How many people got Samuel Barber? I must have confused the clue. For me Barber and Adagio for Strings is insta-Pavlovian, an all-time favorite. But my reading of the clue had it being paired somehow with a composer of madrigals, which seems like hundreds of years earlier. If anyone has the correct...

Johnblue wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 19, 2021 9:20 pm

Good game by Sam. Easiest FJ of the week for me.

How about easiest of the season?

If Ken never hosts again at least his last one was a good game. Through 30 games Ken demonstrated he was a more than capable host and I suspect it will become more apparent as the parade of other guest hosts have their time. For a few seconds during his stint, I found myself thinking, "That looks a...

These wagers show the same preparation that the utility commission has shown here in Texas. :roll: Aaannnnddd right you are. Still a head=shaker to me that NO ONE seems to give wagering strategy even a passing thought before showing up to make an appearance on Our Show. If Phil bets just enough to ...

Pittsburgh gave it to me. Not me, man. I saw the movie version of "Fences" with Denzel Washington and Viola Davis, and loved it, but I cannot remember a single thing about it that would link it to any city in my mind. I thought tonight' returning champ looked good (last Friday) to have something of...

STEM girl You understand why this appellation is insulting and sexist to a respected Ph.D. molecular and developmental biologist? (Or indeed any person over the age of adulthood?) IMHO, there are ways of expressing fair criticisms of guest readers without resorting to sexism. Thank you. I have foun...

mas3cf wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 08, 2021 4:43 pm

Said Hermia for Angela. Negged myself, but upon further review...

https://nameberry.com/babyname/Hermia

Judges?

I will also poll the judges. For "heavenly messenger," "angel" does indeed give us "Angela." But "Hermes," (Greek Messenger God) gives us "Hermione," not so?

What say?

The FJ! clue had me stumped. I ruled out Poe's "Rue Morgue" as a sucker's play and had no inspiration for anything connected to Jack the Ripper. OK, what exactly makes that a "sucker's play" or a rule-out? (Apart from the years of publication, which would be awfully hard to have at hand: the clue s...

Catholic nation sending an invading force in the late 16th century??? Since 1588 is firmly established in my memory bank as the date of the invasion, the armada was an instaget. So much so that I was shaking my head a bit to see it a TS. But what the hey....

Never heard of "Sooce" pronounced as "Soyce" but knowing how to speak German a bit helped me to arrive at the "E-U" diphthong (as in Freud) and land correctly on the side of the good doctor.

I'll take it.

Today's Ken moments: Nothing added on the Scottish poet clue other than, "Right". Tampico not said as "Tam-PEE-koe" but more like "TAM-puh-koe" For Burns, maybe he couldn't decide between these two options. If so, let me recommend the latter. As for TAM-pi-co, it seems to be analogous to PEE-ru Ind...

I thought I was sunk when I saw the FJ category. Another horrible weak spot for me. I surprised myself by actually instagetting C-Span. As many finals as I have whiffed on this season, I'll take this even if it is a fluke.

econgator wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 29, 2021 7:29 pm

I can name one city in Northern Ireland. (London)Derry isn't it.

Amen, brother. On the other hand I was pretty certain that President Lincoln didn't name General Lee to head the Union Army.

(And that it wasn't General Custard either)