And getting them. Geeze, 15 16 pages...zakharov wrote:Welcome to JBoard, your number one source for learning about ulcers.
^^opusthepenguin wrote: At the very least, we can say this. It's not an issue that the judges could have (responsibly) ruled on quickly. They'd have seen numerous search hits for serious-sounding medical articles coupled with no easily findable (unless someone cares to embarrass me) authoritative declaration of the term's incorrectness. That made it wise and proper to move slowly on a ruling, especially considering the stakes. During the window provided by this prudent pause, Diana provided the expected (and only proper?) response and preempted a potential problem. I'm seeing that as a positive outcome to a difficult situation in which all parties did the right thing.
One point of order that I didn't see brought up is that if you match the card, you're right, and we move on.
If do not match the card, the judges will still look up your answer and verify that you are, in fact, 100% wrong. This is why answers (See: Montys) get reversed. They always seem to err on the side of "even if this has only a one in a million chance of being right, we HAVE to accept it."
I can't recall the last time a DD was reversed. Maybe due to the nature of a DD, they can't reverse it later (I recall Roger Craig mentioning DDs have different time rules). So it may not be on the card correct (which is the second best kind of correct) but it might still be possibly correct, and the judges need to be 100% sure before ruling. Alex likely was waiting for this, and since Diana hadn't been explicitly ruled incorrect, her window is still open, which allowed her to give the on the card response, saving us from the debate to whether the judges should've/n't accepted 'peptide ulcer'.
*Citizen Kane applause* I so needed that diversion halfway through this threadAustin Powers wrote:Jesus. I can't even get my own jokes. Time to retire.Rex Kramer wrote:Sorry, my bad. I was quoting from memory. What I meant to say was, "Summer of her third year, she and her squad went down in a chopper accident in the Med. Bad - pilot, crew killed. That kid spent ten months in traction, another year learning to walk again. Did her fourth year from the hospital. Now it's up to you, Charlie, but you might consider cuttin' the kid a little slack."Austin Powers wrote:I'm not mad at the "kid" (a grown woman) - I'm mad at the show's frustratingly inconsistent standards. Alex decides when to cut folks off for different reasons at different points of time all the time.Rex Kramer wrote:It's your call, but you might want to cut the kid some slack.Austin Powers wrote:BTW, what the hell was with that peptide question? She said peptide. It's wrong. Don't give her the chance to change it. This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it.
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And, BTW, peptide != peptic. The only reason she got it right was because Alex basically suggested to her that her initially answer was wrong. I'm a little surprised more folks aren't having a problem with this.
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Went with George I, after ruling out William of Orange. Totally forgot about the abdication (King's Speech is 162 on my Netflix queue) and William IV. As soon as Alex said 'brother' I headslapped. Very nice clue though.