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I thought the joke FJ response was fine. Unless he spent 7K large just to make it that is, then it is a pretty expensive troll :). It is very much an inside joke - if you get out of this ecosystem you will find very few viewers that get the joke. I barely pieced it together from lurking here for 3 y...

:mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: :( :( At this time, 19% for LBJ, 52% for JFK. I really don't know how the writers can rescue this clue without giving it away. Knowing the names of these inbred families is torture enough, asking the birth year is a bridge too far :lol:. It sounds like most the correct answers...

People hate this kind of final because they're typical Jeopardy fans/contestants who aren't capable of anything beyond basic recall, the lowest level on Bloom's taxonomy. They want to be asked something simple that they think no one else knows, like what's the capital of American Samoa. Today's FJ ...

+1 for the victims of the FJ clue, although I've no problem with it as a TOC level question, or if it polls above 55% on this august board. MY WTF moment: Until 1957 this metal, symbol Be, was known as glucinium NO IT WASN'T. I found a Mendeleev 1906 periodic table. It says Be for Beryllium. END OF ...

More hooves, please. And the 8 dollar podcast and FJ bet was a hoot also. My closed caption is still spoiling every clue before KJ has finished reading it in some cases, and always before it is spoken. Anyone else? Or do most boardies eschew the CC? This might be an interesting poll question when we...

Believe it or not...on Saturday, I watched a rerun of "Designing Women", in which Julia upset Charlene by referring to "the remains of a dog possibly orbiting Earth forever". Not knowing what she was referring to, I did a Google search and came across the sad story of Laika, who gave her life for t...

This is the domain of TPH I've spent four years trying NOT to listen to Trump's voice... Maybe he will spend a couple of weeks as a guest host at Jeopardy. He's got the time, and he has game show experience from over a decade of hosting The Apprentice. I wonder if his habit of repeating adjectives ...

Also, repel and rappel are homophones? Ok. Yes, at least according to Oxford. re·pel /rəˈpel/ rap·pel /rəˈpel/ Yeah, I guess it's just in the way I say it. Repel is close to ruh-pel, whereas rappel is more like rah-pel. Not just you. I do the same. I'm pretty sure that I say ree-pel a lot of the ti...

Well done, KJ. I suppose there was some unnatural delivery that might be based on nerves, etc.., but I think he is within 90% of where he will end up after he gets his sea legs (we did have an idiom category :lol:). As he did his opening tribute, I paused it to ask twelvefootgirl if he was reading i...

.... This is an FJ which is easy to overthink as the name of the lady and even the Greek roots are a distraction...I reworded it in my head as "what is the term for different forms of the same element?" "Different forms of the same element" would be allotropes. That's why the clue threw me off for ...

I hadn't thought about this, but I think I'd rather hear a Siri/Alexa computer voice in lieu of some deep fake of Alex's voice. I'm not ready for the CGI recreation of dead actors, etc... Does the app use a generated voice or actual recorded reads from him? Recorded reads. Not for the clues, but fo...

I hadn't thought about this, but I think I'd rather hear a Siri/Alexa computer voice in lieu of some deep fake of Alex's voice. I'm not ready for the CGI recreation of dead actors, etc... Does the app use a generated voice or actual recorded reads from him? Recorded reads. Not for the clues, but fo...

This morning, it was hard to play the J!6 clues knowing it's his last air date, and having to wonder if they'll still use his voice in the app. For 31 years, Alex has consistently brought joy and excitement into my life. Thank you Alex for a lifetime of entertainment. I thought the same and really ...

NHO "Dissent collar". That was a very weird clue. RBG always (as far as I can tell) wore a lacy collar with her judge's robes. It's not that a "dissent collar" is really a thing; it's just that collars were a thing for her and, I guess, she had specific ones that she wore for dissents. I knew what ...

In Re the Tuesday game, "Michael Falk wins his first game". I don't recall his name as one of the J! heavyweights, but I would put that teaser in third place behind: 1) The Muppets present a category, just one day after the first "Muppet Night Football" broadcast. (MNF was a hoot, and I'm glad I did...

Devon looks like a young Alex and that has to be intentional Absolutely my first thought - surely he grew the porn star mustache just for his show appearance :lol: . It's weird how men's facial hair cycles run, maybe the Al Queda look has run it's course and we'll recycle back to the Fu Manchu. Jus...

eta- Google has gifted me with uninvited links: https://tvanswerman.com/2020/12/18/dish-vs-nexstar-an-update/ looks like it will be a long haul :( I posted a similar thread about Nexstar the day after this one because I was behind on the threads and didn't recognize the subject as being related :oop...

Twelvefootgirl said Hallmark as a Pavlovish response. I pondered Macy's and Woolworth's and decided the latter was too arcane. I KISS'ed it with Hallmark, and told the nearest roadrunner :). I'll have to see wtf "yacht rock" is. I am the worst baby boomer ever, I knew those groups' names and a coupl...

Notable notes: Two JBL'ers are moving up from E to D - Bamaman got first in (redacted for dox reasons), and twelvefootbro got 5th in Taiga. twelvefootsis2 just missed promotion one notch behind in 6th. Ecological balance is restored as two JBL'ers moved down a notch. I am trading places with twelve...

Congrats to morbeedo for winning the third edition of the JBoardLite rundle . :mrgreen: morbeedo led the whole quintmester and finished with a 16-4-5 record for 34 points ClassicRoadster closed the points gap on MD23 and MD24 but couldn't break through the MPD tiebreaker advantage and finished with ...