goatman wrote:
LMAO There was "Ball & Chain" for "the little wife"! (see another thread on my prior post); Null & void; Nuts & Bolts; but NHO "X's & O's, apparently a tic-tac-toe reference, I gave back to the 'drawing board', bah.
On ___&___ got only Norman & Cathy Bates, Diane & Michael Keaton, only knew Adam West NHO Kanye West, sigh; clam on Patrick & Martha Stewart, for clue 'Star Trek Captain' was going; "How the Heck does James Kirk fit in here?! lol Clam on Lisa & Bart Simpson, was still trying to grasp the category and what are they asking? ROFL...
I immediately thought of you with the ball & chain clue.
x's & o's are the symbols used in football plays (usually x is your team and o is the opposition)
I'm with you on wondering how either picard or kirk would work in that clue and never thought of the real names of the actors. By the way, that category was not ___&___ but pop culture relatives or some title like that(essentially famous people/characters that have the same last name).
Leander wrote:
My theory was that in a category like Poetry, the J! writers are not going to go with something obscure to the general public, like Blake Wordsworth Shelley etc, unless the clue is much more obvious. Settled fairly quickly on The Raven, but it was an educated guess.
Well I haven't heard of Blake Wordsworth Shelley either. What did he write?....
How presumptuous of you. You should be asking, "What did she write?".
dhkendall wrote:But I don't really see why Seattle is negbait?
I'd suggest it's much more common knowledge that Seattle hosted a World's Fair than Spokane, so a clue about a World's Fair in Washington is going to elicit lots of "Seattle" guesses.
Since I live in Washington I got this one right, but not at all sure I would have otherwise.
It sure had Ryan swinging from the heels.
And once he negged on it, the other two appropriately clammed. It would be interesting to hear from them, to see if they would also have been duped.
I kept wondering if I mis-heard the introduction: "Hey, I thought the lady in the middle was ALYSHA?" Now reading this board, that mystery is cleared up, but not the one of her choosing to go by her last name. Different strokes, I suppose.
The champ made what I thought was a horrid FJ wager (not to mention a very odd number). Of course she made it work with the sole get, and Ryan's FJ wager was even worse, if predictable.
I had a pretty good game of Lach Trash: Crime and Punishment, East of Eden, Assumption, X's and O's, Akhenaten (sp?), and Spain for $6600, among a total of 40 right for the night. Not enough to overcome an absolute sit-and-stare FJ that became a head-slapper at the reveal. Raven, oh yeah, right, mutter, mutter....
I agree with a lot of you in wishing the post-production people would edit out some of the banter and let us see the dadgummed game (esp. the last DD). C'mon, people!!!
Leander wrote:
...something obscure to the general public, like Blake Wordsworth Shelley etc,..
That makes me sad.
It makes me sad that elsewhere in the thread the text of The Raven has been called obscure...
Perhaps the most read, recited, and quoted poem in American history.
I think it's more the fact that everyone knows it, but don't know the words (except for "Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore'"). Heck I didn't even know the prophet part (but I did remember the wind part from the beginning of the poem), but it seemed like something that would be in there.
"Jeopardy! is two parts luck and one part luck" - Me
"The way to win on Jeopardy is to be a rabidly curious, information-omnivorous person your entire life." - Ken Jennings
Some of the contestant interviews are quite painful to watch. They need to do some re-takes.
FJ- I could not pull it out of the back of my brain in time. But when it was revealed, I said "Of course, that's it."
As a professional author and a member of the Mystery Writers of America --- which each year gives out the Edgar Allan Poe Awards --- I hang my head in shame in not getting the FJ.
goatman wrote:Pretty tough get IMHO, as the TMO is very minute and obscure. Everyone would instaget, "Quoth (this title character); 'Nevermore!'" But that would be a giveaway...
I'm still wondering what the hell TMO is.
For me the first TOM was the wind reference, which I vaguely remembered from the poem. The second was the prophet, as in "Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore!'"
Admittedly, my first thought was of the Jabberwock, until I looked deeper.
doh TOM/TMO is staring at goats inducing dyslexai?
The corridors of my mind are plastered with 3M Post-It notes!
BADuBois wrote:As a professional author and a member of the Mystery Writers of America --- which each year gives out the Edgar Allan Poe Awards --- I hang my head in shame in not getting the FJ.
I think this was one of those clues that's easier for people who know little about a subject. There aren't that many poems I can name, The Raven was the first one that came to mind that had a "title character".
goatman wrote:Pretty tough get IMHO, as the TMO is very minute and obscure. Everyone would instaget, "Quoth (this title character); 'Nevermore!'" But that would be a giveaway...
I'm still wondering what the hell TMO is.
For me the first TOM was the wind reference, which I vaguely remembered from the poem. The second was the prophet, as in "Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore!'"
Admittedly, my first thought was of the Jabberwock, until I looked deeper.
doh TOM/TMO is staring at goats inducing dyslexai?
I've got an idea. TOM and TMO should be opposites. TMO= threw me off!
goatman wrote:
LMAO There was "Ball & Chain" for "the little wife"! (see another thread on my prior post); Null & void; Nuts & Bolts; but NHO "X's & O's, apparently a tic-tac-toe reference, I gave back to the 'drawing board', bah.
On ___&___ got only Norman & Cathy Bates, Diane & Michael Keaton, only knew Adam West NHO Kanye West, sigh; clam on Patrick & Martha Stewart, for clue 'Star Trek Captain' was going; "How the Heck does James Kirk fit in here?! lol Clam on Lisa & Bart Simpson, was still trying to grasp the category and what are they asking? ROFL...
I immediately thought of you with the ball & chain clue.
x's & o's are the symbols used in football plays (usually x is your team and o is the opposition)
I'm with you on wondering how either picard or kirk would work in that clue and never thought of the real names of the actors. By the way, that category was not ___&___ but pop culture relatives or some title like that(essentially famous people/characters that have the same last name).
Ahhha see from staring at goats too long I fail to notice the category, novice mistake! I'm trackin X/O's on play now, DOH! OF course it's football, funny how minds work, or not@!
The corridors of my mind are plastered with 3M Post-It notes!