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- Tue Jul 28, 2015 8:26 am
- Forum: Game Discussions
- Topic: Monday, July 27, 2015 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
- Replies: 136
- Views: 28452
Re: Monday, July 27, 2015 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
Backing into this discussion late, but I think Scott wuz robbed. TomKBaltimoreBoy to the contrary, it’s clear from all rules and precedents of Jeopardy! clue construction that a clue worded “the 1888 suite named for her” is asking for the character for whom the suite is named, not the title of the ...
- Mon Jul 27, 2015 11:56 pm
- Forum: Game Discussions
- Topic: Monday, July 27, 2015 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
- Replies: 136
- Views: 28452
Re: Monday, July 27, 2015 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
Your example shows the flaw in this argument, jeff. There is a wide difference between "The first movement of the suite named for her was entitled Yada Yada yada" and "The film Pride of the Yankees was named for him." The first is asking for the title of the suite and the second...
- Mon Jul 27, 2015 11:05 pm
- Forum: Game Discussions
- Topic: Monday, July 27, 2015 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
- Replies: 136
- Views: 28452
Re: Monday, July 27, 2015 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
They were asking for the name of the woman the piece was named after. The first movement of the 1888 suite named for her ... Sorry, Myron; "named for her" is simply a descriptive clause referring to the suite, as the rest of the clue makes clear. It's the movement of the suite that has th...
- Mon Jul 27, 2015 10:38 pm
- Forum: Game Discussions
- Topic: Monday, July 27, 2015 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
- Replies: 136
- Views: 28452
Re: Monday, July 27, 2015 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
They were asking for the name of the woman the piece was named after. The first movement of the 1888 suite named for her ... Sorry, Myron; "named for her" is simply a descriptive clause referring to the suite, as the rest of the clue makes clear. It's the movement of the suite that has th...
- Mon Jul 27, 2015 10:19 pm
- Forum: Game Discussions
- Topic: Monday, July 27, 2015 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
- Replies: 136
- Views: 28452
Re: Monday, July 27, 2015 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
They were asking for the name of the woman the piece was named after. The first movement of the 1888 suite named for her ... Sorry, Myron; "named for her" is simply a descriptive clause referring to the suite, as the rest of the clue makes clear. It's the movement of the suite that has th...
- Sun Jul 26, 2015 9:51 pm
- Forum: Game Discussions
- Topic: Interview with Tony Hightower re: TCONA 5
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4615
Re: Interview with Tony Hightower re: TCONA 5
Thanks for the interview, post and link, ArthurChu. (Curious, did you genuinely not know that Hightower was a fellow former J! champ? Don't you guys have a secret handshake, matching tattoos, something? ;) ) Well, Tony was a one-day champ back in 2011, and the only reason I know that is that I atte...
- Wed Jul 22, 2015 9:45 am
- Forum: Game Discussions
- Topic: Tuesday, July 21, 2015 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
- Replies: 100
- Views: 21226
Re: Tuesday, July 21, 2015 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
Not necessarily, I stayed to watch the last taping of my day. Not true. Lo those many years ago when I did it, they let me stay, as well as come back the next day. Alrighty then. I was relying on a fellow I met who was a one-time contestant back in the Hollywood Center Studios days. Hmmm... assumin...
- Tue Jul 21, 2015 5:38 pm
- Forum: Game Discussions
- Topic: On Your Mark, Get Set...It's TD 252! (Results Posted)
- Replies: 114
- Views: 28640
Re: On Your Mark, Get Set...It's TD 252! (Closed - Reveal Underway)
Other side of the coin, brick; our newbie smith is equating TD players with that hypothetical street. While we might be more likely to know Ronaldo, the Laker Effect kicks in with, "he's well-known; too well-known to risk an answer on." Or, as Yogi Berra might have said, "No one goes ...
- Tue Jul 21, 2015 5:23 pm
- Forum: Game Discussions
- Topic: On Your Mark, Get Set...It's TD 252! (Results Posted)
- Replies: 114
- Views: 28640
Re: On Your Mark, Get Set...It's TD 252! (Closed - Reveal Underway)
Seriously, guys? If I ask 100 people on the street to name a famous soccer player, Cristiano Ronaldo will be mentioned at least 25 percent of the time. Not one of you went with him? If this street is a random street in the United States, I strongly suspect that you're vastly overestimating American...
- Tue Jul 21, 2015 5:16 pm
- Forum: Game Discussions
- Topic: Monday, July 20, 2015 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
- Replies: 176
- Views: 34609
Re: Monday, July 20, 2015 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
My anecdote on my first show was about how I lost my voice the day of a performance -- where my character had to sing as he came on stage -- and people told me it was the best they'd ever heard me sing. After the show, it was mentioned that that if I was thinking of singing, I shouldn't. I had alrea...
- Tue Jul 21, 2015 4:37 pm
- Forum: Game Discussions
- Topic: For the LLamas Among Us
- Replies: 2115
- Views: 336443
Re: For the LLamas Among Us
Blew the movie question; never even noticed the shawarma reference. "High-grossing movie with a scene set in a deli/lunch counter -- gotta be When Harry Met Sally."
You kids and your new-fangled shawarma restaurants....
You kids and your new-fangled shawarma restaurants....
- Thu Jul 02, 2015 6:28 am
- Forum: Game Discussions
- Topic: Wednesday, July 1, 2015 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
- Replies: 57
- Views: 11858
Re: Wednesday, July 1, 2015 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
Bong bong for the Law & Order sound? Is that really right? There was a commercial circa 2005 in which Dann Florek explained that the folks on the show call it the "doink doink." The theme song also opens with a sound that roughly approximates "bong bong," although I would pr...
- Thu Jul 02, 2015 6:23 am
- Forum: Game Discussions
- Topic: Wednesday, July 1, 2015 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
- Replies: 57
- Views: 11858
Re: Wednesday, July 1, 2015 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
I have NHO "medley" in a swimming context, "pelt" in a throwing context, or "deadly nightshade" in any context. Sometimes bad performers are pelted with tomatoes. Or even "rocks and garbage", for those of you old enough to remember when Letterman was good.
- Sun Jun 21, 2015 10:09 pm
- Forum: Game Discussions
- Topic: TD - 248: Guess the Theme (Reveal)
- Replies: 207
- Views: 35655
Re: TD - 248: Guess the Theme
Sabby Piscatelli was on this TD?BobF wrote:As Deion might say, "You can't spell Deion without I"dnbguy wrote:One quick correction: Deion Sanders's name has an I in it.
Was the nickname you were thinking of "worst tackling defensive player in NFL history"?
- Sat Jun 20, 2015 8:51 pm
- Forum: Game Discussions
- Topic: LL65 (For the LLamas amongst us)
- Replies: 494
- Views: 83254
Re: LL65 (For the LLamas amongst us)
And seriously, bridges across Biscayne Bay? Uh, no ... Only reason I knew that was Rickenbacker... founded Eastern Airlines (based in Miami), and it's mentioned fairly often in Carl Hiassen's works. If you haven't read any of his books or columns, you are seriously missing out. Was seriously consid...
- Sat May 30, 2015 11:39 pm
- Forum: Game Discussions
- Topic: Toughest FJ! clues 1/5/15 - 4/17/15
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2798
Re: Toughest FJ! clues 1/5/15 - 4/17/15
Voted for Medea because I don't think her sorcery looms large in Euripides ... You mean aside from the multiple homicides she commits all being the result of her magic? That it marks her as an alien and foreign to the "rational" Greeks, and hence easy to abuse (so they think)? Or that she...
- Wed May 27, 2015 10:30 pm
- Forum: Game Discussions
- Topic: Wednesday, May 27, 2015 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
- Replies: 83
- Views: 20448
Re: Wednesday, May 27, 2015 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
My first thought was Brown (CA) and Brewer (AZ) - contiguous states and close alphabetically - so I didn't look any further. I doubt I would have thought of Christie and Cuomo even without that side step, not in 30 seconds anyway, though who knows. It had to be a couple of pretty prominent governor...
- Tue May 26, 2015 9:21 pm
- Forum: Game Discussions
- Topic: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
- Replies: 97
- Views: 20121
Re: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
Hi everyone, by now you've probably seen the slow motion trainwreck of my final game. I got hit with the perfect cocktail of insomnia and a three hour time difference, which affected my game in the worst possible way. I just sleepwalked through that final game, which should have been pretty evident...
- Sun May 24, 2015 12:37 am
- Forum: Game Discussions
- Topic: 500 Questions [POSSIBLE SPOILERS]
- Replies: 603
- Views: 125484
Re: 500 Questions [POSSIBLE SPOILERS]
I have decided that the next time our Stentorian host orders the contestants to "prepare for battle!", that one of them will nod, smile at the camera, and then bellow... "THIS! IS! SPARTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!" That should hopefully cause the blowhard to go find a crate of Xanax ...
- Fri May 22, 2015 11:41 pm
- Forum: Game Discussions
- Topic: Friday, May 22, 2015 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
- Replies: 99
- Views: 18343
Re: Friday, May 22, 2015 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
I was pretty solid between "metropolis" and the Dutch name. But I'm sure the name didn't look a thing like Dutch to you. Dutch makes me think of you know, maybe the Netherlands, not New York... Old New York was once New Amsterdam. Why'd they change it? I can't say; people just liked it be...