Friday, October 14, 2016 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]

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Re: Friday, October 14, 2016 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]

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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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opusthepenguin wrote:
harrumph wrote:We should do a poll on what Mark Barrett should poll on.
That's a terrible idea. Somebody should make a poll so I can vote against it.
It'll be rigged just like every poll! Sad!
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zakharov wrote:
opusthepenguin wrote:
harrumph wrote:We should do a poll on what Mark Barrett should poll on.
That's a terrible idea. Somebody should make a poll so I can vote against it.
It'll be rigged just like every poll! Sad!
Will this be a poll of all registered boardies, or just likely voters?
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IronNeck wrote:
ZachTheRiah wrote:Was it just me who said PER-SON-I-FI-CA-TION for the $1600 clue in the 6-syllable category?
No, you're not. I had the exact same reply.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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hbomb1947 wrote:I had "mushrooms" for "truffles" on the very first clue of the game. Judges?
They're both fungi, but what makes you think they're the same?
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dhkendall wrote:
TenPoundHammer wrote:Same thing with the other DD. I knew "Oh, not Macbeth, the other one that kind of has a similar name".
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.
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.
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dhkendall wrote:
TenPoundHammer wrote:Same thing with the other DD. I knew "Oh, not Macbeth, the other one that kind of has a similar name".
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.
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.
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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. :)
That reminds me: I said Edward Cullen Bryant (combining him with the Twilight character). :mad: 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.)
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davey wrote:
hbomb1947 wrote:I had "mushrooms" for "truffles" on the very first clue of the game. Judges?
They're both fungi, but what makes you think they're the same?
My very low food & drink percentage in LL. :D
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Coryat: $28,600
39 R/2 W
DD: 2/3
FJ: :mrgreen:
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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