FJs for the 4/13/20 week
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Pretty disastrous week for FJs. "cartographic feature ... passes by" had me fixated on rivers. Cleveland was a forehead slap after I couldn't come up with anything and was left hoping that Jebediah Springfield might have been embiggened by being related to a president. There are many Shakespeare plays I really enjoy, but I've never been able to make past the first act of The Tempest.
I first learned that Bull Run and Manassas referred to the same battle in about fifth grade or so -- from an Encyclopedia Brown story.
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It seems like if I go 9/10 during a College Championship or Teachers Tournament, the one I miss will be from the first game of the finals.
Pink, fir.
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Don't feel bad if you couldn't solve it--it was the tenth-most difficult case of Brown's career as of 2009 (though three or four books were still to appear).
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Aaaannnd...the guy from Cleveland misses out on a superfecto because of the clue about, Cleveland. Stupid show anyway. Grouse, grouse.
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I appreciate the thought, but I'm just about over it by now. Maybe the nightmares will stop in a year or two. Might have made me feel better as an 11-year-old though.Lefty wrote: ↑Sun Apr 19, 2020 4:57 pmDon't feel bad if you couldn't solve it--it was the tenth-most difficult case of Brown's career as of 2009 (though three or four books were still to appear).
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Started the tournament 6/6 and then absolutely cratered. Nicaragua, Jefferson City, Othello, Napoleon.
Picked the other musketeer. Negged with fir, but got Halsey.
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I don't remember those lyrics being in "We Didn't Start the Fire".
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Speaking of Encyclopedia Brown, I wished today that I were he, or at least that he were by my side. I was at the H Mart (a Korean supermarket chain) in Yonkers (not my usual) and asked a pair of employees (of unclear ethnicity, especially with the masks we all wore, but not very Asian-seeming) who were standing together where I could find pepper paste. I was told "try aisle 4", and so I set out on my merry way. Had Brown been along, though, wait, forget "had he been along"; let's back up a bit and pretend that he was. So after I said "thanks" and turned in the direction of aisle 4, Brown jumped in front of me and said "WHOA, save your legs, pal! Look for a second opinion first!"
WHY SUCH ADVICE FROM LEROY?
WHY SUCH ADVICE FROM LEROY?
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Bump in case there is someone to get this poll from 99 voters to 100.
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I went 5/5 on FJ this time around, and I wasn't consciously affected by the original airing when I got the Shakespeare FJ Thursday night.