JBoard.tv

Roughly equivalent to "congressional districts" in the United States, what is the standard term used in the United Kingdom for the 650 electoral areas through which members of the House of Commons (MPs) are elected? What made 9% come up with "riding"; would like to know what I'm not seeing with tha...

...Phoebe Waller-Bridge also created Killing Eve , another show people hadn't heard of a few weeks ago, and an even better one (at least the first series, when Waller-Bridge was writing it). I still haven't watched that, although it's on my list. She also had a fairly minor part in one series of Br...

For some reason AT&T TV showed a rerun of Mackenzie Jones (her seventh game I think). This is confusing to me. Is there some way to watch J! on AT&T TV other than watching it on your local affiliate's channel? I have AT&T TV but I always watch it on KOMO and they showed the correct show last night.

...but I was one of the few who did not know that Ralph wrecked the Internet. So, I guess it was a wash. Count me as another, and to add insult to injury I assigned that one my defensive three! I was just a little surprised when I saw that question had by far the lowest average defense of yesterday...

The FJ! clue had me think of Gertrude Ederl's swimming feat and I could not imagine that matching the mileage given. Good point. Her swim was 21 miles, if anyone was wondering. (I looked it up.) Keep in mind that's the minimum distance. The actual swim is considerably longer due to the tides and cu...

Fleabag was quite popular a year or two ago. I forget what service/network it was on, but I don't think I got it. Even so, I had heard of it. It's been about a year and a half since any new episodes have come out, and the name escaped me at the time. The pavlov that's probably easier to remember th...

Is 98% correct for "Ice rink" the all-time record? Interestingly, there's a thread about it on the LL forum and many Canadians missed this one by putting "arena." Apparently many Canadians feel that an "arena" is synonymous with a building housing an ice rink. I lost on defense yesterday 8(5)-7(5)....

I did think of a couple more decent examples, Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) by C+C Music Factory and Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) by Green Day. Both of these have clues in the J-Archive calling the song only by the parenthetical title. The correctness of these could be debatable b...

Embarrassing FJ miss for me since I just watched a multi-hour documentary on Monty Python. They didn't mention this fact as far as I can recall, but still...

My wife got it.

I don’t even know what a full credit roll is or the interest in tracking down games that had them. There seem to be a number of credit rolls videos on YouTube, not sure why. (Hey, I have a bunch of old unarchived games, I bet people would love to see who the key grip was in 1987). Pretty bizarre, i...

TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 28, 2020 5:35 pm

NHO "atmosphereic rivers". That was a very obtuse clue IMO.

That's a term you'd probably hear a lot more if you lived near the Pacific Ocean. Meteorologists here talk about them all the time.

I knew Zimbabwe is too far south since it borders South Africa, but wasn't sure about Zambia. Ended up picking it after considering Uganda. There are just so many countries in Africa it's difficult to keep them all straight.

So would they accept "ahm?" No, but maybe "åm" would pass muster. That is a totally different syllable: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%A5m Besides, it is pronounced differently in parts of the country that haven't undegone the om/åm merger. Come on, "om" and "åm" are pretty close in pronuncia...

So would they accept "ahm?" No, but maybe "åm" would pass muster. That is a totally different syllable: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%A5m Besides, it is pronounced differently in parts of the country that haven't undegone the om/åm merger. Come on, "om" and "åm" are pretty close in pronuncia...

thenextofken wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 26, 2020 8:29 pm

So would they accept "ahm?"

No, but maybe "åm" would pass muster.

Robert K S wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 26, 2020 2:11 pm

This Is Kirk! wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 26, 2020 1:43 pm

Robert K S wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 26, 2020 11:29 am

First Ken, now Sajak is canceled!

I watched the show and it seemed pretty tongue in cheek on Pat's part to me.

How did my post about it seem to you?

Sorry, it's sort of hard to read the room here when some people are accusing KJ of "hateful" posts.

And I thought it was well known that Madonna was from Detroit. Well, Michigan anyway. She was born in Bay City and grew up in the Detroit 'burbs. Eminem made it pretty well known that Eight Mile Road is the northern city limit of Detroit. Rochester Hills, where Madonna attended HS, is something lik...

Robert K S wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 26, 2020 11:29 am

First Ken, now Sajak is canceled!

I watched the show and it seemed pretty tongue in cheek on Pat's part to me.

I didn't realize Cher was from California, but it definitely seemed more of a hint against Babs, so Cher it was...

Seemed pretty close to the right year for Moonstruck, too, so I was quite confident.

I don't really follow Twitter much, but my wife does and she follows Ken. From what she's shown me he's usually pretty clever and funny. Obviously anyone's going to lay an egg once in a while in that arena. If we've learned one thing from Spinal Tap it's that there's often a fine line between clever...