hbomb1947 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 23, 2017 10:03 pm
Board historians: with 87 votes in, 4 of this week's FJ's are polling at 86% or higher, and 44% of responding boardies got all 5 FJ's correct. Has either of those things ever happened in a week consisting of non-tournament and non-Kids Week games?
hbomb1947 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 23, 2017 10:03 pm
Board historians: with 87 votes in, 4 of this week's FJ's are polling at 86% or higher, and 44% of responding boardies got all 5 FJ's correct. Has either of those things ever happened in a week consisting of non-tournament and non-Kids Week games?
I got Friday FJ after pausing the DVR to improve my "Caissons ..." and knew it was HTTC the second I thought of it. I picked Caissons in real time as sounding British enough to be Scottish, but it did not connect with anything else.
I scored on London as a simple WAG with the hope that "unions" had something to do with Guilds and stuff. This may be the first time in a long time I won a multiple choice guess - it had to be Paris or London.
Monomers was easy for me, but understandably esoteric. Have not heard the 'dismal science' cliche, but disagree with it, economics is a dismal pseudo-science. I don't know movies and I don't know composers, so no dice with the extra clue.
Certainly a soft week of FJ's for the boardies, but each clue had it's interest factor and traps.
Disclaimer - repeated exposure to author's musings may cause befuddlement.
Misunderstood the "first four letters" to think I was supposed to be rearranging p-o-l-y
Almost went down a rabbit hole Friday with dhu --> Johnny Dhu --> turkey in the straw before I realized that couldn't possibly be an official government song
Clam on monomers (would've been a DD get)
Cole Porter would've probably taken me about ...10 more minutes
And never would I ever have gotten Econ from that