Thursday, March 19, 2015 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]

[BigDaddyMatty]

Coryat: $36,000
41 R/1 W
DD: 2/3; I couldn't quite pull Self-Reliance out of the recesses of my brain and ended up going with Self-Determination
FJ:
LT: garble, time-lapse, Death Cab For Cutie, Christopher Marlowe (DD)
C: volcano, dressing, India, kettle, shamrock

This was a bit of a weird FJ! category for me, as it combines a wheelhouse area (wordplay) with a weak one (literature). I couldn't come up with anything for 20+ seconds and then finally pieced together Nabokov. I couldn't remember his first name and didn't have time to tease it out, but, hey, it's J! First names not required unless specified, Mr. Troublemaker Mark Barrett.

Dat DD wager doe. Martin, I'll let you take it from here...

[alan tiger]

re: paucle

complete funeral details and obituary:

http://ferrarifuneralhome.com/book-of-m ... ituary.php

[dhkendall]

Judges: Would "craton" be acceptable for "shield" in GEOLOGY $1200?

The clue asked for "the Laurentian or Canadian one" which could be Laurentian Plateau or Canadian Shield since they refer to the same thing, but I believe craton should be incorrect even though the shield is the core of the Laurentia Craton. Source: wikipedia.

Anyone else care to give a whack at it? (Sorry, cosmos, but I don't think your stated source is a slam dunk for the neg column)

[fowlerism]

The K and the V had me thinking Kurt Vonnegut, before I realized that was plainly wrong. Couldn't get anything after that.

[seaborgium]

I got FJ off the category, thanks to a certain former ToC participant

I can think of a certain non–ToC participant who might make one think of Lolita.

I could have gotten this FJ if it had read simply "Vivian Darkbloom". Is there a more famous literary anagram?

Rex

Erewhon?

[willwoodlen]

Nice, lively three-way game.

Thought of Death Cab for Cutie just as time ran out and just before AT revealed. Sometimes the little hints slide right by me; in this case I didn't give adequate attention to the "Taxi!" at the start of the clue.

Only other literary use of anagrams I can think of is the Harry Potter one: TOM MARVOLO RIDDLE/ I AM LORD VOLDEMORT

[skullturf]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltaire#T ... oltaire.22

[Judy5cents]

I saw the Vs, L and B and immediately came up with Vladimir Nabakov. Wish they were all that easy.

[opusthepenguin]

I saw the Vs, L and B and immediately came up with Vladimir Nabakov. Wish they were all that easy.

Hmmm.... Would they neg that for misspelling Nabokov? It doesn't fit the stipulation that the response be an anagram.

It took me a few seconds and I did it by running through authors from 1955 that might get asked about on J! On another day I might have whiffed entirely. If I don't get an anagram almost immediately, I start to panic and my mental wheels spin uselessly.

Mrs Penguin is the same way. Hence, the following conversation took place in our living room.

[Alex finishes reading the clue. Two and a half seconds elapse.]

Me: Got it!

Mrs P: Good for you. Shut up.


But it was too late. Her mental wheels were already coming off the mental bus. They spun uselessly until time ran out. Sorry Mrs P. I'll keep me mouth shut next time.

Spoiler

I probably won't.

[econgator]

I saw the Vs, L and B and immediately came up with Vladimir Nabakov. Wish they were all that easy.

Hmmm.... Would they neg that for misspelling Nabokov? It doesn't fit the stipulation that the response be an anagram.

That's tough. I think if you wrote out the whole name, then yeah, they'd neg it, because "Vivian Darkwood" cannot anagram into "Vladimir Nabakov". However, you can get "Nabakov" alone from those letters. Still, I don't know.

[dexterG]

I saw the Vs, L and B and immediately came up with Vladimir Nabakov. Wish they were all that easy.

Exactly how I got FJ.

[mystcmage]

I finished with 38R/1W, $32000 Coryat, one of my better games.
For final, I initially thought of Dr. Zhivago, but Pasternak didn't work.
"Lolita guy" popped into my head with about 5 seconds left, but I would not have been able to write it down even if Nabokov had come to me instantly.
Back to Pavlov study for me...

For Year-Book Pavlovs, 1818 for Frankenstein is etched in my mind.

[ihavejeoprosy]

Would they have simply accepted Nabokov or would his first name be necessary?

[econgator]

Would they have simply accepted Nabokov or would his first name be necessary?

I'm thinking full name only.

[opusthepenguin]

(Anyone have any idea why Pride & Prejudice seems to be such a popular target for niche audience remakes?)

Public domain and Austen's had a weird revival lately.

Is that the PC term for getting zombified?

[opusthepenguin]

Gina's smirk could give Colby Burnett's a run for its money!

I think she's adorable. Of course, I was also a Colby fan. That dude rocks. And Gina... skas? I hated to root against her when she made her bad DD wager. But if we don't stick to our principles, what are we?

[BigDaddyMatty]

Would they have simply accepted Nabokov or would his first name be necessary?

I'm thinking full name only.

I disagree. The clue is built around a full-name anagram, but there is nothing in the clue, and there was no guidance from Alex, that suggests that normal J! response rules are not in effect.

[This Is Kirk!]

Would they have simply accepted Nabokov or would his first name be necessary?

I'm thinking full name only.

I disagree. Just Nabokov would have been accepted. I don't think there's any reason not to.

[ihavejeoprosy]

Would they have simply accepted Nabokov or would his first name be necessary?

I'm thinking full name only.

I disagree. Just Nabokov would have been accepted. I don't think there's any reason not to.

I got Nabokov when I saw the two V's. I would've just put Nabokov to account for slow writing speed.

[Winchell Factor]

I agree with Kirk and Matty WRT "Nabokov" only.

Not that I am the judges, of course, but there it is.