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Surprised at the triple whiff on FJ. A Eurasian country = Turkey ---> gem/color that sounds like Turkey. QED. (That's based on an understanding that a Eurasian country is one situated in/on both continents - which could be a completely faulty, but in this case serendipitous, premise). My thinking e...

Woof wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 21, 2018 12:30 am

Yeah, yet another led from the Chinese zodiac to Confucius. The Buddha never occurred to me.

Same here. I'm guessing Confucius would score quite high if (hint, hint) it becomes a poll item this week.

Can someone name a "famous...speech" given by Paul Revere? Or really, any other famous speech associated with the early revolutionary period? I'm not coming up with one offhand...So yes, this was a little tricky since the speech was delivered in Virginia by a Virginian...but I couldn't come up with...

And, the winner of the 2018 Summer Hiatus Challenge, winning yet another championship, with a score of 414 points, is last year's champion, Schliemann I can't even keep count of how many championships Schliemann has won. Congratulations again to Schliemann for another amazing win and all the other ...

These boards seemed quite easy to me. FJ took me longer than I’d care to admit, but WECIB? Like Mark Barrett, I had to shift mental gears from literature to cartoons before it came to me. WECIB?! I'll tell you. For some stupid reason I stared at that thing and thought of the Roadrunner for about 15...

The last DD was an amazing clue to me, and not in a positive sense. I guess you're supposed to know that the US flag has 13 stripes (duh). And you learned long ago that for a while the country thought of adding a star AND a stripe for each new state, until they realized how unwieldy the flag might b...

MarkBarrett wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 17, 2018 1:22 pm

Reese’s story was about being a bourbon enthusiast while none of the players got the French royal house clue.

Let alone that the others didn't get it. When HE didn't get it, all I could think of was "What IRONY!"

Capitals + TV Guide = an easy 6k to start things off. And they got all of the capitals right! For FJ, the year meant nothing, 'posthumous' didn't seem relevant, and the name didn't ring a bell, but after staring at the name for about 10 seconds, axel -> figure skating finally clicked. I'll join the...

Like Vowela, I thought axel jumps were named for axles. Me three. I guessed rugby. I sat and stared for about 15 seconds before I realized Axel is spelled differently from the axle on you car, which I had previously noticed about the axel (not axle) skating jump. From there it was a reasonable gues...

Shawn’s 8000 was a pretty number and it more than covered Lauren’s potential doubling. It did not keep him above Kyle’s expected fall to number of 9599 though. Kyle says thank you. True dat. This certainly didn't take long. Only four games into the new season and some guy gives away a game he shoul...

Nobody else has mentioned Tom Lehrer yet -- as soon as I saw the FJ clue I got an earworm from "Alma, Tell Us" that lasted about half an hour. "While married to Gus she met Gropius, And soon she was swinging with Walter. Gus died and her teardrops were copious. She cried all the way to the altar. B...

Man, Monica had a tough game. Looks as if she couldn't get in on the signaling device for love or money, and when she finally did, she started tossing up wild guess after wild guess. And the champ played as solidly as she did in her win the previous game, but just not quite enough for this game. The...

DBear wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 12, 2018 7:57 pm

I got Guillotin without the E.

Seems that you and Dr. G. will do anything to get ahead.

Considered Brazil, but talked myself into Indonesia, figuring she ocean kayaked around the islands. Horrible answer. I'm just glad someone besides me went for it. I also thought about going around the many islands. Perhaps because I just the day before saw something on TV about the MANY islands of ...

When do we get to see the official answers to SCH, R5, D4-D6???

MarkBarrett wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 09, 2018 11:33 pm

#12 - S.O.S. and nothing ever changes as even 20-0 was not enough of a cushion for Chi against GB.

At least both of those teams have won something in their existence.

Yesterday the Browns managed to get a tie against Pittsburgh and they still exceeded last year's record.

Peachbox wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 07, 2018 9:21 pm

FJ-style current events clue

On September 18, the Baltimore Orioles will be the first MLB team to wear jerseys with names written in this alphabet

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What is Braille?.

...can't touch that...

A minor league baseball team in Madison, Alabama, is set to begin play in 2020. They had an internet poll to name the team and the winning name was the Rocket City Trash Pandas. https://articles.al.com/news/index.ssf/2018/09/what_is_a_trash_panda_slang_wo.amp There is a joke here and I will be pill...

2. utter 4. umber 6. underwater 8. umustbekiddingr 10. ureter 3. clam 6. Elizabeth 9. magnanimous 12. clam 15. Clifford Odets (this is the play that led one critic--I forget his name but he was a member of the Algonquin Round Table) to title his review, "Odets, Where is Thy Sting?") And with that I...