Friday, November 8, 2019 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

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Note that "Black Holes and Revelations" is the title of an album by the rock band Muse.
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That was a TOC FJ? I would expect that to be a trigger in a college tournament. Surprised at the number of posters who already said they missed it. :o
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i guess fenster didn't remember the alamo
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never heard of that khan character
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got all of the celebrities clues accept for the top box clue...never heard of that person
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DBear wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2019 8:35 pm That was a TOC FJ? I would expect that to be a trigger in a college tournament. Surprised at the number of posters who already said they missed it. :o
maybe not all of us are tournament of champions material...never heard of that character before
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CasketRomance wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2019 8:47 pm
DBear wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2019 8:35 pm That was a TOC FJ? I would expect that to be a trigger in a college tournament. Surprised at the number of posters who already said they missed it. :o
maybe not all of us are tournament of champions material...never heard of that character before
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Of course, I'm familiar with Jungle Book, but I couldn't tell you all the characters' names. This was one of those instances.
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MarkBarrett wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2019 9:01 pm
CasketRomance wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2019 8:47 pm
DBear wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2019 8:35 pm That was a TOC FJ? I would expect that to be a trigger in a college tournament. Surprised at the number of posters who already said they missed it. :o
maybe not all of us are tournament of champions material...never heard of that character before
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why was she a top box? never heard of her..kesha probably should have been the top box...i mean...how many celebrities used the dollar sign in their name?
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teapot37 wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2019 8:33 pm Note that "Black Holes and Revelations" is the title of an album by the rock band Muse.
I heard "Black Holes" as category 5 and yelped out, "PLEASE be 'Revelations'!" One of my favorite albums of all time.

Glad they also worked "supermassive black hole" into a clue (track #3 on the album)
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I thought this was a week of softballs FJ-wise.

As sorry as I am to see Eric and Josh eliminated, I hope they at least get some comfort out of knowing that, with pre-FJ scores below $13,601, they were only done in by incorrect responses and not wagers.

Francois's $8,000 DD wager was ridiculous at that juncture, but I admit I was satisfied to see him displace James as the high scorer this week.
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trainman wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2019 10:44 pm Zendaya is Meechee.
after having seen that i guess i can delete smallfoot from my dvr...awful
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seaborgium wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2019 10:45 pm I thought this was a week of softballs FJ-wise.

As sorry as I am to see Eric and Josh eliminated, I hope they at least get some comfort out of knowing that, with pre-FJ scores below $13,601, they were only done in by incorrect responses and not wagers.

Francois's $8,000 DD wager was ridiculous at that juncture, but I admit I was satisfied to see him displace James as the high scorer this week.
James would look very strange in the middle if the powers put Francois against him in the semis.
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It's interesting to see the tournie winners win their QF games here. That doesn't happen too often anymore, does it? Usually the TT and CC champs seem to struggle in ToCs.
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Impressive win by Francois. Another easy-peasy FJ.
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trainman wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2019 10:44 pm Zendaya is Meechee.
I finally had this meme out of my head until J! put it back there. My out loud response was "Why is Zendaya Meechee?"

Never read the Jungle Book, and haven't seen the movie DEFINITELY since I was 10, and probably not since I was like 5 or 6, if I even saw it at all. Yet, somehow I knew from the clue - maybe it was the year, maybe it was "tiger" - that it was Jungle Book. Baloo and Mowgli ring a bell, but Shere Khan? Nope. Even if I'd figured out that "Khan" meant "king" from Gengis, Kubla, Star Trek, or Chaka, the first name wasn't coming to me. Dismissing Baloo as a bear, and not coming up with Mowgli in time, I went with Tar-zan.

Didn't we have an FDR/Warm Springs/March of Dimes question earlier this season? Or maybe it was from an archived game I played. It was also mentioned in a book by John Kerry that I just started.

I muttered "being in a bubble" for "confirmation bias" - I didn't ring in, and I don't think it quite fits the exact clue of "This phrase refers to the tendency to seek out information that supports your existing beliefs while avoiding facts that contradict them". I don't think of "confirmation bias" as being particularly recent - I know I studied it in my social psych class back in 1999. But I've heard the phrase "in the bubble" a lot recently, referring typically to the political sphere, where your view is set in stone and won't change.

I also muttered "Bay of Biscayne" as my best guess for the French-sounding bay. Linguistically close! Geographically...not so much.
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trainman wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2019 10:44 pm Zendaya is Meechee.
What was the point of that?
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xxaaaxx wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2019 7:42 pm Welp...that was...a Ryan Fenster game, yesiree. Sheesh. Clearly didn't learn anything about staying clam with the year of prep...yet he still might've pulled out a WC if he had gotten that DD right.
Ryan's just building the suspense, as is his custom. Now we wait for the inevitable reversal and Ryan being brought back to appear in the next TOC.
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econgator wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2019 11:37 pm
trainman wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2019 10:44 pm Zendaya is Meechee.
What was the point of that?
It was a meme that caught on when Smallfoot premiered. I guess the idea was the absurdity of the posters proclaiming "Zendaya is Meechee!", when people of a certain age (read: me) would have no idea what that phrase means, and also that Meechee is a new character AFAIK, so NOBODY should know what a Meechee is.
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