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"Glitch" just didn't come...and I rejected smallpox, though I think I would have come back to it with more time...
View-Master was the closest thing we had to the Internet in my childhood...!

Maybe I should repeat that "glitch" does not appear in the book The Right Stuff. The scene from the movie is cool, but if that's the only appearance, spoken by Gus Grissom with no indication it's a new word, it doesn't seem likely the J! writers had that in mind (but hey, whatever works!). Perhaps t...

Any reason I should know Parks had anything to do with streetcars? No reason, as she had nothing to do with them. I think this was just an oddly-worded clue that was basically saying that Parks is to buses what Truth was to streetcars. I think the odd part was that the category had nothing to do wi...

I didn't think of FUBAR but did think of SNAFU, which I might have put down in desperation if I hadn't already thought of glitch. Both my wife and I had SNAFU. I put that down right away and tried to think of something better for the rest of the time, but "glitch" never came to me. I read "The Righ...

In today's case I was able to match E.J. & Adrienne for the solve as I had nothing better to guess and it seemed to fit just fine even though I knew nothing of the source. Same here. I was 80% sure I'd be wrong as I didn't see how the clue led to it other than that I couldn't think of any other wor...

I had my ophthalmology appt today and what do I find on the waiting room table? viewmaster.jpg The wheel allegedly had befores and afters of cataracts and glaucoma surgery amongst a couple other advert related pictures, I only had time to skim it (after I posed it for the photo) Wow - more brand ex...

In today's case I was able to match E.J. & Adrienne for the solve as I had nothing better to guess and it seemed to fit just fine even though I knew nothing of the source. Same here. I was 80% sure I'd be wrong as I didn't see how the clue led to it other than that I couldn't think of any other wor...

I agree that the clue would better have referred to View-Master as a brand, not a product..For a second, I thought maybe we were back on National Geographic again...! But I ended with a WECIB for the right response...

If she mistook Asterix for an asterisk she didn't hit the k very hard. It sounds more like Asteriss to me - not much of a French accent, but an acceptable response... The (lack of) accent is partly why it's hard to be certain what she said, since she uses a short, American i and not a French i, mak...

If she mistook Asterix for an asterisk she didn't hit the k very hard. It sounds more like Asteriss to me - not much of a French accent, but an acceptable response... The (lack of) accent is partly why it's hard to be certain what she said, since she uses a short, American i and not a French i, mak...

As someone who runs a site dedicated to reviewing Franco-Belgian comics, I'm siding with those who heard Emma say "Asterisk," which is definitely wrong. The French version of the name has a different accent, but only in that the "I" sounds more like a long "E". So it's not an accent issue, either. ...

Like Dan, I said "seppuku" but worried a little bit that they were looking for "hara-kiri". I'm not entirely clear on the distinction or if, at least for J! purposes, they're interchangeable. The first dictionary I checked said that seppuku and hara-kiri are the same, so that's good enough for me.....

Tangent: What's the spiciest and/or shade-throwingest clue anyone can remember that did make it to air? A quick check tells me they never talked about Slick Willie except to refer to the "original" of that name, bank robber Willie Sutton. But Tricky Dick has been fair game since November 1997 (thre...

A few notable achievements involving last night's Tony Awards: At age 87, comedy writer/performer/director Elaine May won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for The Waverly Gallery , becoming the second-oldest actress to win a Tony. The record is held by Cicely Tyson who won for A Trip to Boun...

:mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :oops: :mrgreen: :( :( I feel like this was the first week in a long time with normal difficulty level on the FJs...which is why I'm not surprised my downfall was the 2 geography-related clues...I said Italy and, because I couldn't remember much of anything about Wes...

Emma came down hard on the d in mood to separate it from the d in disorder. That's all. If she mistook Asterix for an asterisk she didn't hit the k very hard. It sounds more like Asteriss to me - not much of a French accent, but an acceptable response... I never considered anyone but Woody Guthrie f...

I think there is only an excess of candidates from the candidates' point of view. As far as the show's concerned, there's no such thing. Yes, agreed. Also, promoting a product that is already sold out is pretty common. That's how it stays that way. Live in NY and you'll see endless ads for The Book...

I know that during James's run TPTB changed the rules to prevent people from using Final to send greetings or messages. The ruling is that any such message will now be considered part of the contestant's response (which likely will make the response incorrect). There's an easy workaround. Write you...

Liz said "cheddar heads," and then Alex slowly inhaled long enough for her to realize she was wrong and change her response to the correct one. Yeah, that may be what Golf meant, and Alex called it a correction, but is cheddarheads really out of the question for the clue? It has an entry in Urban D...

I think I thought the English Channel is a bit larger than it is and ended up with Portugal. Might have zeroed in on the right country with another 30 seconds. Liz gave a wrong answer and Alex let her get away with it. If you're thinking of the same clue as I am, isn't it generally acceptable to om...