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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: --- :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: --- Knew Walt Disney was the all-time Oscar champ, so.... I knew Edina from crosswords, and my check just now shows "twin cities suburb" as a sometimes clue, so I think one can claim credit with St. Paul, though it is clear...

This Is Kirk! wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 11, 2021 11:12 am

I'll bet 12 Foot Boy was thinking of the Focke-Wulf 190. That and the Messerschmitt 109 were the two principle German fighters of WWII.

Though Fokker was Dutch, he did design planes for Germany (I hadn't known he was Dutch):

I have no words or I'd share. RIP.

Wow, I'm surprised no one has yet remarked on the inherent problem of measuring coastline length. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_paradox I remember having a problem with this clue for that sort of reason but since here they gave such very different numbers for "shoreline" and "coastline", ...

I figured the main hurdle in FJ was understanding that the clue was about Crime and Punishment , and followed the KISS principle to Moscow. Once Alex told Michael he was wrong, I guessed St. Petersburg. Ken Jennings has a new nickname? "Alex" was originally just a personal name but since the days o...

EDIT: Looking up "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" I see that it also involved the murders of two women. So for those not familiar with the death date of Poe, Paris is a really strong attractor. It certainly occupied my mind. But not only is it too late for Poe, and too American for the category, it'...

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: ---- :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: ---- On Wednesday, I first focused on "nuit" and thought of Hypnos and Morpheus. "Greco-Roman" then steered me to Apollo and sun king was confirmation. "Seuss" looks German and also I'd seen that poem before. I've w...

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...

Thanks to the dentist numbing my mouth and delaying my lunch, all done early: I had a 9:00 appointment and got home at 10:01 just as Gina was being introduced. It was very close to being the time to send out the Bat Signal for a pinch hitter to archive the game. I think you meant to link this: http...

Also got all but the DD in There's a Word for That. The wording just didn't mesh for me. I thought that "take the blame" meant "voluntarily accept that you are being blamed", whereas "scapegoat" means "you are the one being blamed, regardless of whether or not you did it". Anyone else have that dis...

I legit liked Myrlin's custom monogrammed top. More of us should wear our initials. It used to be a thing, especially for men on their shirt pockets (although usually understated). You don't see it too much anymore. There's the privacy thing Bamaman mentions, but three-word names have also come to ...

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: ---- :( :( :mrgreen: ---- Algeria and Monaco both helped on the Med clue. So did the recent FJ about the pilot who flew across. We used to have on the wall a painting from a painting, by my grandmother. We weren't quite sure whether it was of Custer ...

Robert K S wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 30, 2021 6:21 pm

opusthepenguin wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 30, 2021 5:37 pm

Was there supposed to be an image there?

No, that is a social media thing, where the typer knows that typing a description is enough to evoke in the reader the image of an animated gif, saving the typer the trouble of trying to find the gif.

Yet another miracle of this modern age.

Not good for me as I sheeped with the contestants in having nothing better occur to me other than common Irish counties such as Clare and Cork. The name I tried to recall, but was nowhere near was Ulster. I realize you didn't mention this to show off your knowledge, but I don't think a county can r...

morbeedo wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 28, 2021 8:57 pm

Frida and Trotsky? Who knew! I had no idea so I said Kandinsky

I did, or at least, I had an inkling, thanks to this old FJ.

Are there many pop songs about cicadas?...I ask merely for information....I'm not great with pop music...Witness: I had no idea on this clue. Not that I know of but that's not a bad thing, because it means that no one who does know "1999" should be thrown off track, while those who don't know it ha...

No TOM, just something you had to know. Seems jarringly out of place in the top box. Poll request? The onomatopoeia in the name is the TOM. Nice. Sure hadn't thought of that. I liked the FJ clue, not that anyone's dissed it here. The symmetry at 17 years on each end, plus the false lead of cicadas....

Didn't there use to be a poster with the handle "playforthetie"? I haven't noticed him around lately.

I can imagine this clue in a future "rhyme time" category: Shell-collecting cancer doctor.

This probably wasn't worth another post, but there it is.

I'm not asking anyone else to do research that I'm too lazy to do but at the same time, I am too lazy to research the history of tiebreaker FJs. I suspect they may tend to be easier, to avoid drawing the game out too long. This is a good start for research: http://www.j-archive.com/help.php#tiebrea...