FJs for the 4/2/12 week

[dhkendall]

And sometimes they can pull some obscure fact out of thin air, like the Cubs on Catalina Island.

What bugged me about that clue wasn't the clue itself, it was Alex's practically saying "well, gee, Catalina was owned by the Wrigley gum magnate, what team do you *think* it would be? This is obvious, people!" I guess one man's (or game show host's) "obvious" is everyone else's "huh"? (Anyone remember what that one polled in the weekly poll? (Can't remember if we had a poll back then, but the Sony board was definitely around then ... )

[TenPoundHammer]

What bugged me about that clue wasn't the clue itself, it was Alex's practically saying "well, gee, Catalina was owned by the Wrigley gum magnate, what team do you *think* it would be? This is obvious, people!"

This. Hell, he did that on the liederkranz clue. "Come on, you morons, what's the German word for song? 'Lied'. Lied-erkranz. How hard was that, huh?!"

[DBear]

And sometimes they can pull some obscure fact out of thin air, like the Cubs on Catalina Island.

I remember the FJ with the Variety headline "Wall Street lays an egg". I had picked that up from somewhere reading about the Great Depression and thought it was a well-known fact. Surprised to find that it ranked second only to Liederkranz in obscurity.

[Turd Ferguson]

I was conflicted on which poll choice to select regarding Joey's wager. I usually try to avoid statements like "never bet a dollar more than the MSB", but I'm pretty sure that I said something very similar to that in a recent game discussion. I don't have nearly as much of a problem with Joey's all-in bet as I do with cases where the leader bets just slightly more than the MSB, which is what Sahir did in the game StevenH linked to. Sometimes it's an extra $99 dollars as the leader bets to cover 2nd place by $100, and sometimes it just seems to be some number they picked out of a hat, and is enough to cover 2nd by $247 or $318 or some other seemingly random figure. (Sahir's was $299.) .

Checking yes on the poll isn't really saying "I would never bet more than the cover + $1 bet", is it? (As opposed to just saying "I would never put myself in a position where I'd have no chance of winning if wrong, when betting from the lead"). I wagered to finish with a round number just because I like round numbers, never even considering in which scenarios the "extra" $199 might cost the game. There's no way, though, that I'd ever bet it all from first, even if the category was "The Toronto Blue Jays".