Friday, October 14, 2016 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
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Re: Friday, October 14, 2016 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
Goofy board. The first 8 rows were not that bad, I got 33 correct, but I got slammed on 1600 and 2000, only getting one clue "foreign Affairs" in the China category, though Environment at 2000 was a gimme I clammed on. It didn't help that I negged on another 2000 clue, and had the lowest coryat of this season by a pretty wide margin.
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It'll be rigged just like every poll! Sad!opusthepenguin wrote:That's a terrible idea. Somebody should make a poll so I can vote against it.harrumph wrote:We should do a poll on what Mark Barrett should poll on.
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Re: Friday, October 14, 2016 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
Will this be a poll of all registered boardies, or just likely voters?zakharov wrote:It'll be rigged just like every poll! Sad!opusthepenguin wrote:That's a terrible idea. Somebody should make a poll so I can vote against it.harrumph wrote:We should do a poll on what Mark Barrett should poll on.
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Me too!IronNeck wrote:No, you're not. I had the exact same reply.ZachTheRiah wrote:Was it just me who said PER-SON-I-FI-CA-TION for the $1600 clue in the 6-syllable category?
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Re: Friday, October 14, 2016 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
I think Alex's intonation for some reason helped me get to the correct Final response.
While I said "Affairs" too thanks to the TOM, I'm wondering if "Relations" ("Foreign Relations") would also count for the $1600 clue in CHINA CABINET. "Foreign affairs" and "foreign relations" mean roughly the same thing, and a wife would worry if her travelling husband is having affairs with other women and if he is having relations with other women.
While I said "Affairs" too thanks to the TOM, I'm wondering if "Relations" ("Foreign Relations") would also count for the $1600 clue in CHINA CABINET. "Foreign affairs" and "foreign relations" mean roughly the same thing, and a wife would worry if her travelling husband is having affairs with other women and if he is having relations with other women.
Not a Harry Potter fan (though I got a couple, my Harry-Potter loving almost-12-year-old son was interested, but he couldn't anagram good enough), but I was hoping someone would go back for the $200 because that would, logically be the easiest/obvious one.Molecular Bacon wrote: For some reason the Harry Potter category was surprisingly tough for us. I kept going back to it because I'm big Harry Potter fan and kept thinking the next one would be obvious, but my brain just wasn't unscrambling those letters.
They don't have similar names at all, but you will get sympathy from me in that I also often get those plays mixed up, and I have no idea why. However, I'm slowly being able to fix that, as my correct response today reveals.TenPoundHammer wrote:Same thing with the other DD. I knew "Oh, not Macbeth, the other one that kind of has a similar name".
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Re: Friday, October 14, 2016 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
They're both fungi, but what makes you think they're the same?hbomb1947 wrote:I had "mushrooms" for "truffles" on the very first clue of the game. Judges?
Re: Friday, October 14, 2016 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
That's more where I was going. I have a basic idea of what both are, but for some reason my wires got crossed that time. Which is weird since usually I can keep them straight.dhkendall wrote:They don't have similar names at all, but you will get sympathy from me in that I also often get those plays mixed up, and I have no idea why. However, I'm slowly being able to fix that, as my correct response today reveals.TenPoundHammer wrote:Same thing with the other DD. I knew "Oh, not Macbeth, the other one that kind of has a similar name".
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Re: Friday, October 14, 2016 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
They both have one word two-syllable titles. The vowel sounds are almost identical for each syllable. They both end in a T sound, though in one case it's aspirated. I declare Hamlet and Macbeth to be more similar sounding than any other pair of Shakespeare plays, excluding plays that are differentiated only by Roman numerals.dhkendall wrote:They don't have similar names at all, but you will get sympathy from me in that I also often get those plays mixed up, and I have no idea why. However, I'm slowly being able to fix that, as my correct response today reveals.TenPoundHammer wrote:Same thing with the other DD. I knew "Oh, not Macbeth, the other one that kind of has a similar name".
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Re: Friday, October 14, 2016 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
That reminds me: I said Edward Cullen Bryant (combining him with the Twilight character). I have a mnemonic to make sure I don't get my William _____ Bryan(t)s confused, but it only keeps their last names straight and assumes I've got the rest worked out. (PoliticiaN = BryaN; poeT = BryanT.)hbomb1947 wrote: Among my LT was William Cullen Bryant. I gave a presentation on "Thantatopsis" in my 11th grade English class; and years later, when I played in a celebrity death pool, "Thanatopsis" was my username.
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Re: Friday, October 14, 2016 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
My very low food & drink percentage in LL.davey wrote:They're both fungi, but what makes you think they're the same?hbomb1947 wrote:I had "mushrooms" for "truffles" on the very first clue of the game. Judges?
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Re: Friday, October 14, 2016 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
Coryat: $28,600
39 R/2 W
DD: 2/3
FJ:
LT: Severus Snape, John Fogerty (DD)
Strangely, both of my negs were in Musicians' Memoirs, as I guessed Aretha instead of Carole King and the wrong member of Chic (Toni Thompson instead of Nile Rodgers). I also still haven't learned Stanislavsky, as "the acting method guy" was the best I could come up with there.
I love that Susan got Captain Ahab while wearing a helm on her chest, but what the what is she doing offering ties? Would that this were a sign TPTB have quietly rescinded the no ties rule.
39 R/2 W
DD: 2/3
FJ:
LT: Severus Snape, John Fogerty (DD)
Strangely, both of my negs were in Musicians' Memoirs, as I guessed Aretha instead of Carole King and the wrong member of Chic (Toni Thompson instead of Nile Rodgers). I also still haven't learned Stanislavsky, as "the acting method guy" was the best I could come up with there.
I love that Susan got Captain Ahab while wearing a helm on her chest, but what the what is she doing offering ties? Would that this were a sign TPTB have quietly rescinded the no ties rule.
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