LearnedLeague 77 - Official Thread

[morbeedo]

I'm on a 4 game losing streak and it looks like I'm at risk of being relegated to E. To add insult to injury, my opponent chose yesterday to drink the beer.

E rundle or not, I'll still enjoy participating daily.

yeah, I'm with you. losing sucks. and I wasn't optimistic about MD15 after missing Buddha with Muhammad (ugh), but managed to win my main match with just 3 right and perfect defense again (!!), getting that stat up to .909, unbelievably

the ny times crossword had a clue on sunday about Diane from Black-ish, so lucky lucky me!! anyone else see that?

is there a list of the rundle in the jundle players matching LL name to Jboard alias?

[Woof]

This has been hands-down the weirdest season of my 18 seasons in LL. I am in the running for a Maso, but thanks to a league-leading CAA and a career-low DE I am also flirting with relegation. I simply cannot buy a break. For instance, yesterday my opponent gets the Chinese dowager emperor but doesn't get the Apollo theater despite living in Brooklyn, thereby beating me 6(4)-5(4). Bah.

[bomtr]

'Past lives' brought Buddha to mind immediately, of course, .... but, then, I got a little too clever by half. Thought that word could sound Korean, and since Kim Jong-Il scored 11 holes in one in his very first round of golf, I thought maybe they're claiming heroic deeds in past lives for the current one. My answer: Kim Jong-Un. Aw, geez. Bet I was the only one with THAT one.

[georgespelvin]

I thought of Buddha and Jack and Diane first on their questions. I talked myself out of Buddha because I thought the question sounded mythological and went with Vishnu, thinking of his avatars. And then I talked myself out of Jack and Diane because I thought that the song came out in the mid to late '80s.

But I still won. Yay for being in D.

I might be joining you there next season. . .

[Woof]

'Past lives' brought Buddha to mind immediately, of course, .... but, then, I got a little too clever by half. Thought that word could sound Korean, and since Kim Jong-Il scored 11 holes in one in his very first round of golf, I thought maybe they're claiming heroic deeds in past lives for the current one. My answer: Kim Jong-Un. Aw, geez. Bet I was the only one with THAT one.

Eek! That a with the horizontal diacritical mark over it put me in mind of Sanskrit, so that helped direct my thinking. When combined with past lives and acts of virtue I had my answer. I spent the most time thinking about how to refer to him: Prince Siddhartha, Siddhartha Gautama or The Buddha? Went with the latter and, of course, it wouldn't have mattered what I chose.

[RandyG]

This has been hands-down the weirdest season of my 18 seasons in LL. I am in the running for a Maso, but thanks to a league-leading CAA and a career-low DE I am also flirting with relegation. I simply cannot buy a break. For instance, yesterday my opponent gets the Chinese dowager emperor but doesn't get the Apollo theater despite living in Brooklyn, thereby beating me 6(4)-5(4). Bah.

Well, if you're thinking geographically, NYC's Chinatown is closer to Brooklyn than Harlem is.

I'll speculate that your opponent answered "Cotton Club", which was the MCWA. That was my first thought until I realized that, wait, of course it's The Apollo.

[Ironhorse]

This has been hands-down the weirdest season of my 18 seasons in LL. I am in the running for a Maso, but thanks to a league-leading CAA and a career-low DE I am also flirting with relegation. I simply cannot buy a break. For instance, yesterday my opponent gets the Chinese dowager emperor but doesn't get the Apollo theater despite living in Brooklyn, thereby beating me 6(4)-5(4). Bah.

Oddly enough, my opponent yesterday was also from Brooklyn. I gave him 1 despite him having low scores in all fine arts categories, and that made the difference in breaking my losing streak.

[morbeedo]

This has been hands-down the weirdest season of my 18 seasons in LL. I am in the running for a Maso, but thanks to a league-leading CAA and a career-low DE I am also flirting with relegation. I simply cannot buy a break. For instance, yesterday my opponent gets the Chinese dowager emperor but doesn't get the Apollo theater despite living in Brooklyn, thereby beating me 6(4)-5(4). Bah.

Well, if you're thinking geographically, NYC's Chinatown is closer to Brooklyn than Harlem is.

I'll speculate that your opponent answered "Cotton Club", which was the MCWA. That was my first thought until I realized that, wait, of course it's The Apollo.

Cotton Club came up in a recent LL season - I remember it well, because I went with Apollo that time

[teapot37]

Two other people in the rundle get 9(6)s. I had to be playing one of them. Sigh. #Arundleproblems
At least I snapped a 3-game losing streak.

[Volante]

"Rarebit" isn't lepus related...gotta be something else...
(I ended up putting down 'hare of the dog')

And curse you Clyde Bruckman for not saying who the Big Bopper lost the coin flip to!

[classicroadster]

Tied yesterday 1(2)-1(1), thanks to some inexplicable defense on my opponents part. I got scissors literally by using them in my office and fairchild/national led me straight to semiconductor. Based on yesterdays question categories, bus/econ should've been a 2 or maybe a 3 but I was assigned a 0 even though my opponent with his .650 bus/econ correct percentage got it wrong (I gave him 0, and 1 for scissors).

[econgator]

fairchild/national led me straight to semiconductor.

Definitely should have gotten this, but the only thing that came to me was aircraft, as I was raised in Farmingdale, NY where Republic/Fairchild was based.

[boson]

If Thorsten keeps bringing questions about semiconductors and cryogenics, I'll soon have to ask him to stay for dinner. Next week: questions about my son's ball hockey results.

(just to help you all out, they are in fourth place in their league).

[morbeedo]

fairchild/national led me straight to semiconductor.

Definitely should have gotten this, but the only thing that came to me was aircraft, as I was raised in Farmingdale, NY where Republic/Fairchild was based.

I thought toothpicks was as good a guess as any

[acthomas]

"Rarebit" isn't lepus related...gotta be something else...
(I ended up putting down 'hare of the dog')

And curse you Clyde Bruckman for not saying who the Big Bopper lost the coin flip to!

I immediately flashed back to that episode too. I may have mentally edited the right answer in.

[This Is Kirk!]

Hate to jinx myself but I've been on a nice streak and haven't lost since MD 8. After yesterday I'm sitting 6th in A Fjord with first only two points ahead of me. Pulled out a 7(5)-4(4) victory yesterday. I missed Welsh Rarebit my opponent missed Gonzo and semiconductor.

[1stlvlthinker]

fairchild/national led me straight to semiconductor.

Definitely should have gotten this, but the only thing that came to me was aircraft, as I was raised in Farmingdale, NY where Republic/Fairchild was based.

Took me a while to get there, as those names just seemed so familiar. Finally, I realized it was from my old life as an electrical engineer.

[Woof]

"Rarebit" isn't lepus related...gotta be something else...
(I ended up putting down 'hare of the dog')

And curse you Clyde Bruckman for not saying who the Big Bopper lost the coin flip to!

I immediately flashed back to that episode too. I may have mentally edited the right answer in.

For me, it was all about The Outlaws, which to me is Willie, Waylon and Merle. Of the three, I could dismiss two: Willy for being too famous and Merle for not being Texan (because Bakersfield). That being said, I was pleasantly surprised to see that my guess was good.

[Woof]

This has been hands-down the weirdest season of my 18 seasons in LL. I am in the running for a Maso, but thanks to a league-leading CAA and a career-low DE I am also flirting with relegation. I simply cannot buy a break. For instance, yesterday my opponent gets the Chinese dowager emperor but doesn't get the Apollo theater despite living in Brooklyn, thereby beating me 6(4)-5(4). Bah.

Well, if you're thinking geographically, NYC's Chinatown is closer to Brooklyn than Harlem is.

I'll speculate that your opponent answered "Cotton Club", which was the MCWA. That was my first thought until I realized that, wait, of course it's The Apollo.

I too went to the Cotton Club first, mostly because I'd walk past it twice daily when I lived within view of Grant's Tomb. Since it's best known as a speakeasy, though, I quickly refocused my gaze on that other 125th St institution.

p.s. Happy Belated, Randy!

[Blue Lion]

"Rarebit" isn't lepus related...gotta be something else... :evil:
(I ended up putting down 'hare of the dog')

And curse you Clyde Bruckman for not saying who the Big Bopper lost the coin flip to!

I immediately flashed back to that episode too. I may have mentally edited the right answer in.

For me, it was all about The Outlaws, which to me is Willie, Waylon and Merle. Of the three, I could dismiss two: Willy for being too famous and Merle for not being Texan (because Bakersfield). That being said, I was pleasantly surprised to see that my guess was good.

For some reason, Waylon's name never bubbled up in my memory; Willie's and Merle's did, and I went with Merle. That cost me 3 points and the game.