Thursday, May 29, 2014 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]

[This Is Kirk!]

Fun fact: if you cut off the top of a pineapple and replant it to grow a new bottom, when you harvest it, you'll find a small sponge and snail living inside it.

Damn, beat to the punch on that joke.

I don't get it.

[Volante]

I love these horticulture FJs!! Bring 'em on. I'd much rather have whole categories of any kind of biology than almost anything presidential.

"You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think."

… speaking of Dorothy Parker quotes.

Also, it was neat how one of the presidential nominee responses was "Dole", and FJ was "pineapple".

Also how they asked for Harvard's city in J...then had a whole category spoiling it in DJ.

[econgator]

Fun fact: if you cut off the top of a pineapple and replant it to grow a new bottom, when you harvest it, you'll find a small sponge and snail living inside it.

Damn, beat to the punch on that joke.

I don't get it.

Hint: He lives in a pineapple under the sea ...

[Spaceman Spiff]

Fun fact: if you cut off the top of a pineapple and replant it to grow a new bottom, when you harvest it, you'll find a small sponge and snail living inside it.

Damn, beat to the punch on that joke.

I don't get it.

Hint: He lives in a pineapple under the sea ...

Absorbent and porous and yellow is he....

[Sherm]

Fun fact: if you cut off the top of a pineapple and replant it to grow a new bottom, when you harvest it, you'll find a small sponge and snail living inside it.

Damn, beat to the punch on that joke.

I don't get it.

Hint: He lives in a pineapple under the sea ...

Absorbent and porous and yellow is he....

If nautical nonsense be somethin' you wish.....

Kirk! don't feel bad, I considered myself somewhat clever and couldn't for the life of me see what the hell she was getting at.

[Woof]

Agree with others that if you ever saw a bromeliad, then you would instantly get pineapple.

Anyone else confused by the eye socket/orbit clue? It said something like "...fluid filling the eye socket, also know as this..." .
I was confused just like Matt because I thought they were asking for the name of the fluid, not the name of the eye socket.
Any english majors out there that can comment on the phrasing of the clue? Is it grammatically correct?

I thought I heard "... fat around the eyeball..." So I thought they were asking for the name of whatever fat is around the eyeball (which, as far as I know, is called, you know, fat...). I must have misheard since you and Matt apparently heard fluid. In any case, yes I think the wording was misleading if all they really wanted to say was "This is the fancier name for eye socket." I haven't double-checked the actual wording though.

I'm pretty sure that the actual wording was "fatty deposits around the eyeball," which ruled out the humors for me (aqueous and vitreous) but left me with nothing, so I grudgingly stayed clam. On reveal, my reaction was "the orbit is the eye socket bone, isn't it?" (it turns out that it's both)

[This Is Kirk!]

Kirk! don't feel bad, I considered myself somewhat clever and couldn't for the life of me see what the hell she was getting at.

Sponge Bob. Got it. I know of the show's existence, but have never actually seen it.

[Dr. J]

Kirk! don't feel bad, I considered myself somewhat clever and couldn't for the life of me see what the hell she was getting at.

Sponge Bob. Got it. I know of the show's existence, but have never actually seen it.

Wish I could say the same, Kirk -- it seems like it's been on a never-ending loop in my home since 2007.

[dhkendall]

Kirk! don't feel bad, I considered myself somewhat clever and couldn't for the life of me see what the hell she was getting at.

Sponge Bob. Got it. I know of the show's existence, but have never actually seen it.

Wish I could say the same, Kirk -- it seems like it's been on a never-ending loop in my home since 2007.

You don't have kids, do you, Dr. J?

(I'll admit, my kids watch more SpongeBob than I do, and were the first ones to watch in the house, but I often watch with them, and have been known to tune in quite often when I'm looking for something to watch, and enjoy it.)

[fowlerism]

I over-thought FJ, guessing that the word derived from the Greek "bromos," meaning "stench." I therefore went with "durian," which is both stinky and commercially important (at least in some parts of the world).

[Dr. J]

You don't have kids, do you, Dr. J?

Two delightful stepsons. The youngest still has Spongebob sheets at age 12 and has been Spongebob twice for Halloween. Whenever I need to reference a break in time, I find myself saying in a bad French accent, "Two Hours Later..."

[Spaceman Spiff]

Kirk! don't feel bad, I considered myself somewhat clever and couldn't for the life of me see what the hell she was getting at.

Sponge Bob. Got it. I know of the show's existence, but have never actually seen it.

Wish I could say the same, Kirk -- it seems like it's been on a never-ending loop in my home since 2007.

You don't have kids, do you, Dr. J?

(I'll admit, my kids watch more SpongeBob than I do, and were the first ones to watch in the house, but I often watch with them, and have been known to tune in quite often when I'm looking for something to watch, and enjoy it.)

Duuuuuude, I have a Sponge Bob beach towel that the lovely Mrs. Spiff bought me a few years ago. (Although I think it was primarily to replace a fading Powerpuff Girls beach towels that she was always embarrassed to be seen in public with...)

[periwinkle]

You don't have kids, do you, Dr. J?

Two delightful stepsons. The youngest still has Spongebob sheets at age 12 and has been Spongebob twice for Halloween. Whenever I need to reference a break in time, I find myself saying in a bad French accent, "Two Hours Later..."

My son once went as Zombie SpongeBob for Halloween. We bought a SpongeBob costume, gave it bloodshot eyes, colored the sponge a sickly greenish-brown, and gave it fangs.

[Woof]

You don't have kids, do you, Dr. J?

Two delightful stepsons. The youngest still has Spongebob sheets at age 12 and has been Spongebob twice for Halloween. Whenever I need to reference a break in time, I find myself saying in a bad French accent, "Two Hours Later..."

My sympathies. Our son (now 9) went through a brief Spongebob phase, but thankfully outgrew it within a year or less. My wife and I used to joke that our brains would run out of our ears if we had to listen to it any more than we did. More horrifically, his now-13 cousin still watches the damn show on a regular basis. (NB: the cousin also introduced our son to even worse shows such as The Amazing World of Gumball, 15 minutes of which feels like the equivalent of a lobotomy)

[Dr. J]

You don't have kids, do you, Dr. J?

Two delightful stepsons. The youngest still has Spongebob sheets at age 12 and has been Spongebob twice for Halloween. Whenever I need to reference a break in time, I find myself saying in a bad French accent, "Two Hours Later..."

My sympathies. Our son (now 9) went through a brief Spongebob phase, but thankfully outgrew it within a year or less. My wife and I used to joke that our brains would run out of our ears if we had to listen to it any more than we did. More horrifically, his now-13 cousin still watches the damn show on a regular basis. (NB: the cousin also introduced our son to even worse shows such as The Amazing World of Gumball, 15 minutes of which feels like the equivalent of a lobotomy)

Both boys now really love The Regular Show (and we like it, too), but the youngest one still has trouble going to sleep and has a DVD player with Spongebob on it that he plays at night, thankfully with the sound off. Could be worse...Tweety Bird and Sylvester are not on the list.

[StevenH]

More horrifically, his now-13 cousin still watches the damn show on a regular basis. (NB: the cousin also introduced our son to even worse shows such as The Amazing World of Gumball, 15 minutes of which feels like the equivalent of a lobotomy)

I had classmates in high school who still watched Spongebob. Yeah.

[Vanya]

(Sorry guys, but this is one of those "butt frustrated" moments for me)

Seriously...it's aggravating at a point. It's like a ton of bricks fell on the men, AGAIN.

I know, buddy. Come here. Let me hold you and whisper that you're still special and that superiority is your chromosomal birthright. We'll get through this.

We need MTGcollegestudent as a counter-balance to Arthur Chu.

[Bamaman]

My 16 year old son admits to still watching Spongebob. I think the show is funny, but my wife hates it.

[MTGcollegestudent]

(Sorry guys, but this is one of those "butt frustrated" moments for me)

Seriously...it's aggravating at a point. It's like a ton of bricks fell on the men, AGAIN.

I know, buddy. Come here. Let me hold you and whisper that you're still special and that superiority is your chromosomal birthright. We'll get through this.

We need MTGcollegestudent as a counter-balance to Arthur Chu.

What's that supposed to mean?!

[bpmod]

We need MTGcollegestudent as a counter-balance to Arthur Chu.

What's that supposed to mean?!

I think it's supposed to mean "We need MTGcollegestudent as a counter-balance to Arthur Chu."

Brian