Monday, January 7, 2019 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

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Being half Scottish definitely helped make this FJ easier for me. If you ever find yourself in Edinburgh, the Writer's Museum there has a lot of artifacts from Stevenson's time in Samoa.
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I said Nebulizer instead of Atomizer. I think it's probably no good, since the clue said "spray," and the fine mist of a nebulizer just sort of wafts out of the machine.

Meredith's extra dollar withheld could have been fateful under different circumstances, namely a sole get by her and a wager by Zorn to cover her by $1; he would have won $10,399 to $10,398.

It's too bad when a good player loses from the lead in a triple miss; so much the worse that it's someone I know, at a juncture where the loss might keep him out of a ToC.
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This triple-stumper FJ reminds me of one from a couple months ago that some thought obscure, about Sherlock Holmes. I thought everybody read Robert Louis Stevenson as a kid, at least "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." I had "Hyde" in a book with other stories, some taking place in Samoa. And I was fascinated that he died of "consumption" in a place so far away.
Before the short stories there was "A Child's Garden of Verses."
When I was sick and lay a-bed,
I had two pillows at my head,
And all my toys beside me lay
To keep me happy all the day.
And sometimes for an hour or so
I watched my leaden soldiers go,
With different uniforms and drills,
Among the bed-clothes, through the hills;
And sometimes sent my ships in fleets
All up and down among the sheets;
Or brought my trees and houses out,
And planted cities all about.
I was the giant great and still
That sits upon the pillow-hill,
And sees before him, dale and plain,
The pleasant land of counterpane.

OK, a little simpering I suppose for a modern taste. An early literary influence for me, though...
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I can forgive the Aristophanes TS, but not Tanzania!
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The FJ! clue seems like one where the writers could have had 19th CENTURY AUTHORS and Alex knowing the Samoa/Stevenson connection so well could have led a switch to 19th CENTURY NOTABLES?

For Jonathan & the TOC? It's not a great position with so much time left in the season yet it's better than the 4xers he surpassed.

For when the TOC will be held? I checked here and on Reddit and found fairly recent postings by the 6xer, so I suspect he's not at one-month warning yet. And probably not even close yet.
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seaborgium wrote: Mon Jan 07, 2019 10:44 pm I said Nebulizer instead of Atomizer. I think it's probably no good, since the clue said "spray," and the fine mist of a nebulizer just sort of wafts out of the machine.
I should do the research instead of giving two cents, but I think nebulizer would have to be OK. Atomizers don't really atomize and it's just a matter of semantics imho.

I started with Darwin, decided he probably wasn't native Scot and picked the Pavlov Scot Robert Burns. TIL that RLS was Scottish - I would have guessed American. This is pure YEKIOYD with no helpful TOM.

Tough break for Jonathan but this could be the beginning of some amping up of the FJ clues.

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TenPoundHammer wrote: Mon Jan 07, 2019 9:38 pm
CasketRomance wrote: Mon Jan 07, 2019 8:34 pm dude from the shows boston legal and the blacklist
Neither show name rings a bell for me.
I think the most memorable thing about Boston Legal was William Shatner as Denny Crane. If that doesn't ring a bell, you probably didn't see the show.
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I closed-captioned a fair number of "Boston Legal" episodes. Denny Crane!
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Bob78164 wrote: Mon Jan 07, 2019 5:02 pm I've known this one ever since I read "Requiem" by Robert Heinlein when I was a kid.

"Under the wide and starry sky
Dig the grave and let me lie:
Gladly did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.

"This be the verse you 'grave for me:
Here he lies where he long'd to be.
Home is the sailor, home from the sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.
"

I thought it was beautiful and poignant then, even before D.D. Harriman appropriated it as his own epitaph. --Bob
Thank you for this lovely reminder. I've known the last two lines forever and never knew where/who it came from.
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davey wrote: Mon Jan 07, 2019 10:52 pm This triple-stumper FJ reminds me of one from a couple months ago that some thought obscure, about Sherlock Holmes. I thought everybody read Robert Louis Stevenson as a kid, at least "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." I had "Hyde" in a book with other stories, some taking place in Samoa. And I was fascinated that he died of "consumption" in a place so far away.
Before the short stories there was "A Child's Garden of Verses."
When I was sick and lay a-bed,
I had two pillows at my head,
And all my toys beside me lay
To keep me happy all the day.
And sometimes for an hour or so
I watched my leaden soldiers go,
With different uniforms and drills,
Among the bed-clothes, through the hills;
And sometimes sent my ships in fleets
All up and down among the sheets;
Or brought my trees and houses out,
And planted cities all about.
I was the giant great and still
That sits upon the pillow-hill,
And sees before him, dale and plain,
The pleasant land of counterpane.

OK, a little simpering I suppose for a modern taste. An early literary influence for me, though...
What a trip down memory lane! A Child's Garden of Verses was my absolute favorite reading at about age 5-6.
"Dark brown is the river, golden is the sand...."

I heard somewhere, sometime, ages ago, about Stevenson and Samoa, so this was pretty much an instaget FJ.

LT for the night: (As I was going to) St. Ives; Aristophanes.

I was shocked to get even one of five in collaborations, but that was my little victory for the evening.

I for one thought the Dumb Superheroes was a dumb category. Writers, please don't go there again.

Also very sorry to see Jonathan go, but many congrats on a fine run. He had the lead going into FJ, and made exactly the correct wager (probably much to AT's shock) and just didn't know the answer. Atsa da way da pizza crumbles.

Meredith's wager was also right on target, but poor Zorn jobbed himself out of an extra $3K by wagering too big. No idea what he thought was the upside of wagering $6,000. Oh well. He gets to come back next game, so good for him.
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Another Darwin, just to have something.
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I read Treasure Island again recently and looked up RLS on Wikipedia so this was an instaget.

I was surprised by how good Treasure Island is; it had been a while. A high (and somewhat gruesome) body count but kids were made of sterner stuff in those days, I guess.
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Some 19 previous references to Stevenson dying in Samoa in the archive.
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FJ: :mrgreen:
LT: St. Ives, (Go), Tanzania, Aristophanes

Knew Pakistan just from Rawalpindi.

Knew Johannes Gutenberg just from Mainz.

Died in Samoa in 1894 was all I needed to get the Final.

James Cook died in Hawaii in 1779.
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CasketRomance wrote: Mon Jan 07, 2019 8:13 pm no clue on final jeopardy...only british person i could come up with who died around that time and was known for travel was darwin
heppm01 wrote: Tue Jan 08, 2019 9:57 am Another Darwin, just to have something.
Charles Darwin died in 1882.
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Looks like I'm unusual in NOT remembering (I'd say never having heard of, but the archive proves me wrong) the Samoa connection but guessing Stevenson anyway. Scottish author with an adventurous streak in the latter half of the 19th century. RLS just fit.
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LucarioSnooperVixey wrote: Tue Jan 08, 2019 1:08 pm
CasketRomance wrote: Mon Jan 07, 2019 8:13 pm no clue on final jeopardy...only british person i could come up with who died around that time and was known for travel was darwin
heppm01 wrote: Tue Jan 08, 2019 9:57 am Another Darwin, just to have something.
Charles Darwin died in 1882.

i see that now...darwin was still a better guess than gaugin and cook...seeing the former died in the 1900s and the latter died in the 1700s
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John Boy wrote: Tue Jan 08, 2019 9:17 am
davey wrote: Mon Jan 07, 2019 10:52 pm This triple-stumper FJ reminds me of one from a couple months ago that some thought obscure, about Sherlock Holmes. I thought everybody read Robert Louis Stevenson as a kid, at least "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." I had "Hyde" in a book with other stories, some taking place in Samoa. And I was fascinated that he died of "consumption" in a place so far away.
Before the short stories there was "A Child's Garden of Verses."
When I was sick and lay a-bed,
I had two pillows at my head,
And all my toys beside me lay
To keep me happy all the day.
And sometimes for an hour or so
I watched my leaden soldiers go,
With different uniforms and drills,
Among the bed-clothes, through the hills;
And sometimes sent my ships in fleets
All up and down among the sheets;
Or brought my trees and houses out,
And planted cities all about.
I was the giant great and still
That sits upon the pillow-hill,
And sees before him, dale and plain,
The pleasant land of counterpane.

OK, a little simpering I suppose for a modern taste. An early literary influence for me, though...
What a trip down memory lane! A Child's Garden of Verses was my absolute favorite reading at about age 5-6.
"Dark brown is the river, golden is the sand...."
Glad I'm not the only one. I should point out that despite what I wrote above, Stevenson did not die of consumption (though he famously suffered from lung disease), but of a cerebral hemorrhage/stroke, at 44.
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CasketRomance wrote: Tue Jan 08, 2019 2:49 pm
LucarioSnooperVixey wrote: Tue Jan 08, 2019 1:08 pm
CasketRomance wrote: Mon Jan 07, 2019 8:13 pm no clue on final jeopardy...only british person i could come up with who died around that time and was known for travel was darwin
heppm01 wrote: Tue Jan 08, 2019 9:57 am Another Darwin, just to have something.
Charles Darwin died in 1882.

i see that now...darwin was still a better guess than gaugin and cook...seeing the former died in the 1900s and the latter died in the 1700s
Gauguin died closer to the date in the clue than Darwin did.
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Not so great today. Probably would be negged for skipping the "St." in front of "Ives", so can't claim that LT nor the run in the category. Got all of the rejected superheroes, though.

No clue today on FJ. I've heard of both Treasure Island and RLS. Didn't know the two were connected, nor anything about RLS' biography.

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