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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( :( :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: I'll be the first to admit that I missed Thursday's FJ. In all the metals I thought of, brass didn't enter my mind. Oh well. Initially veered too far south and said Maryland, then veered too far west and went with Ohio. Should've veered too ...

Instead of "comparison," I fixated on the "good or for evil" portion of the clue and said Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Dickens keeping his butt covered (as Cliff Clavin would say) never crossed my mind.

Nice to see a 4xer after having the carousel sputter since mid-March.

:mrgreen: :( :( :( :( :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: Started the tournament 6/6 and then absolutely cratered. Nicaragua, Jefferson City, Othello, Napoleon. Picked the other musketeer. Negged with fir, but got Halsey. Before last week's discussion, if you told me Equatorial Guinea touched the Equator, I woul...

I must have conflated "cartographic" with "geographic," because when I saw "passes near" in the clue, I started thinking of rivers or other bodies of water. Ended up with Nicaragua. First FJ miss of the tournament.

I watched tonight's episode at work, but was distracted near the end with something so I missed watching the FJ round. Usually when I miss an episode, I'll read the FJ clue off the Archive or here on the board. My method is to read the clue out loud, then play a YouTube video of the think music whil...

So if Veronica ends up making the ToC, would her 21-letter name (22 if you want to count the hyphen) be a ToC record? I took a quick look and the longest I found if I'm counting correctly was (no hypen) Jill Bunzendahl Chimka (20) For 17 there are: Pranjal Vachaspati Ashok Poozhikunnel Vinita Kaila...

I don't know what it is, but I can never keep east and west straight. I always have to do that "Never Eat Shredded Wheat" mnemonic just to differentiate the two. So it's not surprising that I went in the wrong direction and said Belmopan, thinking Belize was in the uppermost left corner of Central A...

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( :( :mrgreen: I know I'm late to the party, but I thought I'd give myself a public pat on the back for finally getting a 5/5 week this season. I guess technically, it's also my first of the year. ;) I've read Catch-22 a few years ago. I liked what ...

Speaking of film, this year's list of 25 films inducted into the National Film Registry were announced earlier this week. Some notable inductees include: - Amadeus (1984), the Mozart biopic that won the Academy Award for Best Picture - Boys Don't Cry (1999), a film about a transgender teenager that...

Oscar-nominated actor Danny Aiello has died at the age of 86. Aiello was nominated for an Academy Award for his supporting role in Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing , in which he plays an Italian-American pizzeria owner whose business is at the center of rising racial tensions in a predominantly Afric...

I had Marian Anderson, but crossed it out and went with Ella Fitzgerald. Though Anderson came to me fairly quickly, I succumbed to my nagging suspicion that it was someone else instead. :oops: On the bright side, I had my best performance of the tournament so far, though as a whole, these tournament...

:( :( :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: :( :( :( After getting a 4/5 week for the first time in regular play since April, I responded with a lousy week. Said mourning on Monday, Custer on Tuesday (Hickok came to me at the 31st second), and went West instead of East on Thursday. Couldn't remember if Clyde or Su...

:mrgreen: :( :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: :( Community colleges on Tuesday. Knew Pele = Hawaii, but went with Mauna Kea. Never seen Fiddler on the Roof, and since the furthest west I've ever been is Ottawa, that's a no on the Sydney Opera House. 10/20 during Jason's run. Haven't had a week be...

I have a book of New York Times articles from the 1970s and I remember that there was an article about the Sydney Opera House finally opening after years of delays and overruns. Vaguely remembering that fact helped me get this clue pretty quickly, especially since I missed the "librettist" hint. Con...

Watched the recording of this yesterday. Missed Naked Maja. Not ten minutes after, picked up a book I got for Christmas that I’ve rarely looked at in the past 5 months, opened to a random page, and found this: https://www.imgur.com/WvTIV70?r I did a crossword puzzle on the weekend where there was a...

Laughing my butt off at the New York Times spoiling this for the entire country with a push notification. Between seeing a link to this story on Twitter and seeing over 20 comments in today's game thread when I went here an hour ago, I knew something was up. Luckily my online episode source already...

Rackme32 wrote: ↑

Thu May 30, 2019 1:37 pm

Oh... and GO WARRIORS!

Yeah, I'm gonna have to disagree with this sentiment.

:( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( Took the grassy negbait on Monday and said Whitman. Misread Thursday's clue as needing two countries and said USSR and North Korea. This week could've been worse considering security blanket and Maine came to me within the last 10 seconds ea...

Rough week for me. Knights of Columbus Monday, Bern on Tuesday, Pestilence on Wednesday ( a classic case of overthinking), and friending on Friday.

Misremembered the Hillenbrand title as "Unbreakable" (dammit!).

The FJ! clue took care of my 10/10 tourney dreams right off the bat. I played it like a simpleton and wrote Walt Whitman in going off “grassy” towards a Leaves of Grass connection. :oops: You're not the only one. I guess I should have paid more attention to the quote itself, but like you, I latched...