Monday, January 28, 2019 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

[floridagator]

Okay, I should speaketh not where I haveth not knowledge. Then I got it from the year and nothing else.

Unless the clue mentioned top of the strip or something.

[LucarioSnooperVixey]

55 R (Only missing #NeverAgain, Dismemberment, and Hulu.)
DD: 3/3
FJ:
LT: Laurel, (Double Indemnity), Laura Hillenbrand, Bananas, Newberry, Good Grief, Rubber Cement, Pre-emption, Cable

1895 book was all I needed for Final!

[morbeedo]

I went with Caldecott over Newberry

Incidentally: https://www.npr.org/2019/01/28/68926062 ... -caldecott

[Volante]

Was there something in the clue to point to Circus Circus over New York New York?

Opened in 1966? NYNY was more like 1996.

if you are up on your casinos and years they opened i guess it would have been a breeze

Sometimes you just have to know the answer. Though I'm not sure how, if you can pull up NYNY, you can also place it in the era of Sands or Dunes. Circus Circus you can date to at least the early 70s due to its appearance in Diamonds are Forever.

Probably the only one who misread the "Lakers home" clue as "Laker's home" and went Kobe!

Not quite an instafinal. Knew what they wanted instantly, but it took some seconds to kick the dust off.

Edit: The Schultz clue got a laugh out of me, given he's been in the news lately.

[CasketRomance]

Was there something in the clue to point to Circus Circus over New York New York?

Opened in 1966? NYNY was more like 1996.

if you are up on your casinos and years they opened i guess it would have been a breeze

Sometimes you just have to know the answer. Though I'm not sure how, if you can pull up NYNY, you can also place it in the era of Sands or Dunes. Circus Circus you can date to at least the early 70s due to its appearance in Diamonds are Forever.

Probably the only one who misread the "Lakers home" clue as "Laker's home" and went Kobe!

Not quite an instafinal. Knew what they wanted instantly, but it took some seconds to kick the dust off.

Edit: The Schultz clue got a laugh out of me, given he's been in the news lately.

don't know eras of casinos...just names..have never been to las vegas (or the state of nevada for that matter)..have never seen diamonds are forever..james bond is boring

[CasketRomance]

Was there something in the clue to point to Circus Circus over New York New York?

Opened in 1966? NYNY was more like 1996.

if you are up on your casinos and years they opened i guess it would have been a breeze

Edit: The Schultz clue got a laugh out of me, given he's been in the news lately.

why has he been in the news lately?

[Lefty]

FJ was another WECIB. Not all that surprising an observation from the man who wrote "The Devil's Dictionary".

Not sure what you mean; I'd certainly take it for praise, and it seems to have been. On the other hand, the work quoted here (Robert H. Davis's entry) suggests the quote either was fabricated or at best that Bierce's opinion evolved quite a bit over not very long a time.

[Volante]

Edit: The Schultz clue got a laugh out of me, given he's been in the news lately.

why has he been in the news lately?

He threatened a 2020 presidential run yesterday and got some more mileage in today. It'll likely flame out soon though, so didn't feel it worth cluttering up the CE2019 thread.

[CasketRomance]

Edit: The Schultz clue got a laugh out of me, given he's been in the news lately.

why has he been in the news lately?

He threatened a 2020 presidential run yesterday and got some more mileage in today. It'll likely flame out soon though, so didn't feel it worth cluttering up the CE2019 thread.

oh....thought you were talking about the good grief clue and referencing the dude with a different spelling of the surname...was trying to figure out how a dude that died almost 20 years ago in the news recently...btw...never heard of the starbucks dude before

[TenPoundHammer]

So anyone wanna tell me how "water lily" BMSes to "lotus"? A cursory check showed those to be two different things.

[DBear]

FJ was another WECIB. Not all that surprising an observation from the man who wrote "The Devil's Dictionary".

Not sure what you mean; I'd certainly take it for praise, and it seems to have been..

Really? That's not at all how I took it, I took it as a condemnation of a man who knew nothing of war writing a war novel.

[Volante]

FJ was another WECIB. Not all that surprising an observation from the man who wrote "The Devil's Dictionary".

Not sure what you mean; I'd certainly take it for praise, and it seems to have been..

Really? That's not at all how I took it, I took it as a condemnation of a man who knew nothing of war writing a war novel.

The full quote by Bierce the FJ clue references: "This young man has the power to feel. He knows nothing of war, yet he is drenched in blood. Most beginners who deal with this subject spatter themselves with ink."

However, there are also accounts that Bierce wasn't a fan, once saying "I had thought that there could only be two worse writers than Stephen Crane, namely, two Stephen Cranes."

So...I dunno?

[twelvefootboy]

Jill was a force - it was nice how Alex commented when she got back her losings so quickly from a bitching generational clue. The double indemnity gimmick was just part of the scam in the "whole" life insurance sales pitches of the pre-boomer generation. It was sad that so many people fell for it and the so-called comfort of "a paid up life insurance policy". So Jill is a strong, good player with a big payday. If the trend holds up she'll be hitting the road tomorrow

Once the category said "novel", I went into derp mode. Civil War fake news - GWTW. 1895 - nope. I guessed War and Peace just to have something and hoping the Civil War grump was just a distraction.

I abhor fiction - all the time invested in reading it and you have learned nothing real. I'd rather read history. I believe I read the RBoC book in high school but thought it was a "short story", wtf that is... But no excuse, I just didn't know it was a Jeopardy fave.

I thought the quote was meant as praise, but seeing the whole thing (posted here), I'm not sure.

I'm a little surprised that $5 blackjack has made it to NYNY, but it is a lower tier casino now. I miss going downtown with the low rollers now that they are trying to make it a hipster/millenial destination.

[Euphonium]

Ugh, Howard Schultz. Can you not, please? Thanks!

I married Isis on the fifth day of May, but I could not hold on to her very long. So I cut off my hair and I rode straight away for the wild unknown country where I could not go wrong

Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon, Miranda, and Titannia...

Alex with the allusion to our worst nightmare!

Coryat: $37,800

J: 20R9P. Ugh. Got DD. 4/5 on Nonfiction and Blackjack. 3/5 on Plant the Flag, "Ace," and Insurance. 3/4 on Celebrities.

DJ: 25R3P1W. Got both DDs. 5/5 on Gods & Goddesses and Geograph"e." 4/4 on World Leaders. 4/5 on TV Biz and Award Etymology (it was 50/50 Caldecott or Newbery because I can never remember which is which, I went with the former). 3/5 on Oxymorons.

FJ: Instaget.

LT: laurel, Laura Hillenbrand, Good Grief, preemption, cable

[Euphonium]

if you are up on your casinos and years they opened i guess it would have been a breeze

You don't have to know the exact years, just that one is much more recent than the other.

[CasketRomance]

if you are up on your casinos and years they opened i guess it would have been a breeze

You don't have to know the exact years, just that one is much more recent than the other.

had no idea they were 30ish years apart

[JayK33]

Nothing good came to me for FJ. So I'm starting out on the wrong foot this week.

[opusthepenguin]

I went with Caldecott over Newberry

Newbery. One r. I did the same thing. I considered both but for some reason, leaned toward Caldecott.

[jeff6286]

Newbery. One r. I did the same thing.

No, you got it right.

[morbeedo]

It seems like NONFICTION keeps coming up as a category recently. Pretty soon they’re gonna run out of NONFICTION clues and be forced to get cute with “NON”FICTION, NON-NONFICTION or even NAAN FICTION