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Took the test every year barring the one where Canadians were of questionable status.

Passed at least once (2013) but the audition invite went to my spam folder and I missed the chance to audition. Haven't passed since as far as I can tell.

Ken Shimura: one half of the Japanese comedy team who inspired, among other things, America's Funniest Home Videos.

MarkBarrett wrote: ↑

Mon May 06, 2019 11:06 am

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.

Your Honour, I also plead guilty to this.

Is it any wager ending in 69 that's verboten, or just $69 itself?

Because if I could ever somehow pull off a James...

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For a threadjack we can remember some add-ons or personal messages which I would think are banned as well. Jill B C on losing her 5th game: What is Sorry Cory no Jag? Ken Jennings when losing to Watson: (I for one welcome our new computer overlords) ********* Those are the first two that came to mi...

I went for the pride, but if it was like, game 5 or something I'd probably go for the infamous "What is a man" response.

Seems a bit silly to expect contestants to know whether Tony Blair was born in 1953 or 1951. Yeah, that was a lame clue. You could easily think it's Major, Blair, or Brown. I precalled Cameron. I guess I figured if you were a British PM you were older - Blair would have to have been what, 43-44 whe...

twelvefootboy wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 14, 2018 10:16 pm

Got the FJ by remembering the category - otherwise it could be a lot of misdirections. I don't know why it was qualified as a US location thing - maybe they have international entities surviving. That TOM didn't help, but wasn't negbait either.

The Canadian operations are still going strong.

MarkBarrett wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 26, 2018 11:30 am

The FJ! clue had “Garth” and “Julian” meaning nothing to me. That left 1877 and New Hampshire as I matched Bridget for the solve. Twain and Thoreau were not on my radar for misses and I thought someone might try Poe going off “curse” and “crime.”

I'll plead guilty to this.

Got stuck on Reagan because of his pre-Presidential career, totally blanked on Nixon.

MarkBarrett wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 03, 2018 6:43 pm

Jack solved the clue for the win although I got a chuckle out of him making it one word to have me picturing TR playing in the CFL.

I blame the occupation for this.

I haven't been able to watch as much Wheel the past few years, and it kind of threw me a bit to see someone spin lefty.

Great job, Bobby!

As the news editor for a long-standing Nintendo fansite, I really have to wonder where they pulled "Hyrule Legends" as a Wii game from. (There's a Hyrule Warriors Legends which is a handheld version of a game on the Wii's successor.)

Fell for the vicious Schindler's List negbait too.

No guess M-Th-F.

Kenny wrote: Who is Jerry Slowik and why is he persona non grata? (I'm new here.)

Child sexual assault charges.

I finally got a chance to watch one of Cindy's episodes tonight, having just lost my own uncle to cancer... I have to say, it got a little dusty when Cindy began the comeback and way too dusty when she got FJ.

Received the email, was kind of annoyed since I bombed Tuesday night, promptly deleted it, sent Jeopardy a polite yet stern Twitter message over the whole thing.

I can understand thinking Canadiens (five straight cups in the latter half of the decade) so I locked in on that and Islanders. Would have made for a nice :facepalm: picture if I had been at the lectern.

John Oliver is indirectly to blame/credit for me getting FJ: "That boy... da boy... heh, ol' Soybean Wind himself?"