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Re: FJs for the 3/30/20 week

Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2020 7:02 pm
by Carpe Diem
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Re: FJs for the 3/30/20 week

Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2020 7:23 pm
by seaborgium
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I said Hearst because I was completely blanking on newspaper publishers otherwise.
I thought the picture looked like San Francisco, but that was all I had to go on and so I clammed. I might have been able to get the Mary Quant -> miniskirt connection if it weren't for the car element of the clue distracting me. Maren Morris was completely new to me when Alex gave her name.

Re: FJs for the 3/30/20 week

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2020 10:36 am
by opusthepenguin
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McGruff was a WECIB. Mrs Penguin missed it because she has a memory (apparently false) of McGruff the Crime Dog from before 1980. Something about him appearing in a Berenstein Bears TV special in 1976. She distinctly remembers sitting there and watching with a jar of Jiffy peanut butter and a spoon.

State with very short coastline led to New Hampshire and the rest of the clue confirmed that that was a good guess. Considered Delaware and Pennsylvania for due diligence but was never tempted.

Considered the right response for Canada's 4 corners, but talked myself into going the other way. The map in my head wasn't quite right. At least I said Alberta and Saskatchewan, the best wrong answer available. The two losing contestants made that response and got counted just as wrong as the winner who guessed Newfoundland & Labrador. Sigh. That part was disappointing, but it was... appointing that he won by making a good wager from second.

Didn't recognize the name Lady Duff Twysden, but I knew Lady Brett Ashley in The Sun Also Rises was based on someone real. Everything else about the clue fit. I was confident enough that I didn't chase down the other possibilities. That laziness has bit me in the butt on more than one occasion, but no harm no foul this time. Had I chased them down, I'd have rejected A Farewell to Arms based on the location, For Whom the Bell Tolls based on the publication date, and The Old Man and the Sea based on come on, duh. As an aside, if you had to guess whether Lady Duff Twysden or Lady Brett Ashley was the fictional version, wouldn't you go with Lady Duff?

I was tempted to check the box saying Hearst was my incorrect guess for Friday's clue. He definitely was. But I went with my correct guess of Joseph Pulitzer.

Didn't know Mary Quant. Didn't know how the mini-skirt got its name. Always assumed it was solely a reference to the skirt's length. But... '60s skirt? I can only name one. Same name as a car? Yeah, that checks out.

Re: FJs for the 3/30/20 week

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2020 2:16 pm
by seaborgium
opusthepenguin wrote: Thu Jul 09, 2020 10:36 am She distinctly remembers sitting there and watching with a jar of Jiffy peanut butter and a spoon.
Not only does McGruff date no further back than 1980, but Jiffy peanut butter has never existed! (Apologies if you knowingly inserted that detail as a joke.)

Re: FJs for the 3/30/20 week

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2020 3:41 pm
by opusthepenguin
seaborgium wrote: Thu Jul 09, 2020 2:16 pm
opusthepenguin wrote: Thu Jul 09, 2020 10:36 am She distinctly remembers sitting there and watching with a jar of Jiffy peanut butter and a spoon.
Not only does McGruff date no further back than 1980, but Jiffy peanut butter has never existed! (Apologies if you knowingly inserted that detail as a joke.)
You forgot to correct my spelling of the Berenstein Bears.

Re: FJs for the 3/30/20 week

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2020 3:52 pm
by davey
opusthepenguin wrote: Thu Jul 09, 2020 3:41 pm
seaborgium wrote: Thu Jul 09, 2020 2:16 pm
opusthepenguin wrote: Thu Jul 09, 2020 10:36 am She distinctly remembers sitting there and watching with a jar of Jiffy peanut butter and a spoon.
Not only does McGruff date no further back than 1980, but Jiffy peanut butter has never existed! (Apologies if you knowingly inserted that detail as a joke.)
You forgot to correct my spelling of the Berenstein Bears.
The way I remember it is that the Bears special never aired because it was preempted for special coverage of the death of Nelson Mandela...!... ;)

Re: FJs for the 3/30/20 week

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2020 4:22 pm
by opusthepenguin
davey wrote: Thu Jul 09, 2020 3:52 pm
opusthepenguin wrote: Thu Jul 09, 2020 3:41 pm
seaborgium wrote: Thu Jul 09, 2020 2:16 pm
opusthepenguin wrote: Thu Jul 09, 2020 10:36 am She distinctly remembers sitting there and watching with a jar of Jiffy peanut butter and a spoon.
Not only does McGruff date no further back than 1980, but Jiffy peanut butter has never existed! (Apologies if you knowingly inserted that detail as a joke.)
You forgot to correct my spelling of the Berenstein Bears.
The way I remember it is that the Bears special never aired because it was preempted for special coverage of the death of Nelson Mandela...!... ;)
Excellent! But I thought Mandela didn't die until some time in the 1980s.

Re: FJs for the 3/30/20 week

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2020 4:54 pm
by seaborgium
opusthepenguin wrote: Thu Jul 09, 2020 3:41 pm
seaborgium wrote: Thu Jul 09, 2020 2:16 pm
opusthepenguin wrote: Thu Jul 09, 2020 10:36 am She distinctly remembers sitting there and watching with a jar of Jiffy peanut butter and a spoon.
Not only does McGruff date no further back than 1980, but Jiffy peanut butter has never existed! (Apologies if you knowingly inserted that detail as a joke.)
You forgot to correct my spelling of the Berenstein Bears.
Oh man, I was looking for something else to affirm the joke nature of that paragraph and completely missed that! Please accept my apologies.