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Anyone else having a roller coaster of a season? Here's my tally of correct answers so far in LL85: MDs 1-5: 26. 2-0-3 MDs 6-10: 18. 0-4-1 MDs 11-15: 28. 4-0-1 MDs 16-20: 11. 1-3-1. And on MD21 I pull a 6-pack. I know, A Rundle problems, but... almost makes me wonder if Thorsten doesn't break up the...

Looks like I'm the first to get Tilda.
None of the TS puns (pretty wretched category y'ask me, and I like wordplay), nor Raphael nor tumbrel.
Yes to St. Elmo (his fire appears atop masts), no to parliamentarian--I also thought of sergeant-at-arms.
Yes to FJ.

alietr, Thorsten is looking for BWA searchers on a beta basis. Now is your opportunity to impose, er, explore, your sense of humor with the community at large. I tend to think of that "Best wrong answer chitchat" thread as "People who aren't as funny as they think." You can find past BWA winners an...

Other than size, is there any reason whatsoever that should lead me to assume this was Concord NH instead of Concord VA? It's not like Virginia was a major source of early Presidents or anything ... Significance? Concord NH is the state capital; Concord VA is a burg of fewer than 1,500 that almost ...

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Tue Jun 09, 2020 12:50 am

Later this week: The Madness of George III.

Shouldn't they air the first two first?

With this thread on page 2 I found a reason to bump it. For crossword puzzle solvers check out Rex Parker's comment after you finish the Saturday 6/6 puzzle: The biggest issue / downer for me, though, was 1A: Capital of Chad (N'DJAMENA). At 1-Across, that is such a f***-you kind of answer. People w...

All they needed to do is watch the movie...and just the first 10 minutes. That would be a shame--you'd be missing one of the most stunningly shot films ever made. I believe there’s a grand total of two notable people who have perished in a motorcycle crash. I’d guess that if you asked 50 boardies t...

I think the get rate for this one will be the lowest in the weekly poll. My vote is yesterday's for that honor... Any chance of spoilerizing this? I made the mistake of reading the board just after watching today's game, and got spoiled on an FJ from an episode I hadn't yet found online. Probably m...

If I hit the two easy ones in a category we've left for last, then miss both $600 and $800 as Ivory did in Sayeth the Bible, and then find the DD on clue 30... maybe it's just me but I'm not betting the farm. I gave myself credit for stranger at $800 on the rebound but doubt I'd have rung in on set,...

Is there any way that I should have picked Aristotle for Alexander's tutor, and not Socrates or Plato? The emphasis on science? Chronology? Or is this just a YEKIOYD, otherwise it's a "pick one of three, and good luck"? Aristotle tutoring Alexander is used a lot in trivia. I know Alexander was the ...

Definitely one of the greats. Thanks for letting us know. For those who want to remember her, here's India Cooper's 5th game from 1991: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1g4Hkm0wkK5EoO5CT8JYZlPTygc8ysQMB Feel free to share this link. On this one, I'll take my chances. Thanks for posting this, Opus, ...

seaborgium wrote: ↑

Fri May 15, 2020 12:08 pm

I think it's worth mentioning that David Hankins had a much better showing on Millionaire several years later.

David Hankins reminded me of Prince/King Joffrey on Game of Thrones.

QuindlenA and BenioffD... and my unconfirmed hunch is Tablesaw is some sort of puzzle world stalwart.

Gotta disagree there--Scott omits an entire syllable. And it's perfectly acceptable to omit that syllable. There are published sources that use Shahrazad, Sharazade, Scherezade, Sherazade, and Scherazad--all close to Scott Lord's spelling, all choosing not to include the unnecessary middle syllable...

(As a side note, did the mention of Scheherazade remind anyone of the time Scott Lord got robbed of his 6th win for using the perfectly acceptable spelling "Scherazade"? Just me? Never mind then. What a ripoff .) Gotta disagree there--Scott omits an entire syllable. But thanks for the link, as I sp...

TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 30, 2020 7:02 pm

Thanks for another fucking unnanounced fucking preemption, you goddamn rude assholes at WNEM. I thought we weren't doing this shit anymore.

Bobby! Language!

It was $16,000. I wasn’t a fan of bending the rules, but it is for charity and she gets $32,000 anyway. And if they had everyone there like normal celebrity shows, someone would have known the answer and she wouldn’t have screwed up. She did know the answer. They'd talked about it for an exorbitant...

I learned something interesting last night. My wife bought a Polycom conference phone since she's been doing lots of virtual meetings lately. While setting it up the instructions mentioned using it in "POTS mode." I wasn't familiar with the acronym, but my wife knew it: plain old telephone service,...

In hopes of morphing this into a predictions thread while knowing nothing of the semifinal matchups, I'll predict these three make the finals: Nathaniel Tyler Beni That's in order of how likely I think they are to win. Of the other six contenders, Londyn and Joe seem to me the most likely possible ...