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MarkBarrett wrote: Wed Jun 02, 2021 1:42 pm Did Mayim have some happy juice before the game? She seemed a little too giddy and amused by too many of the clues today.
I noticed this too and must admit I found it a bit annoying.
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The excitement of the bsck-and-forth partially offset the fact that it wasn’t the best display of J! acumen tonight. I wonder if anyone was helped to the FJ! answer by thinking of the meaning of the word tribunal.
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MarkBarrett wrote: Wed Jun 02, 2021 1:42 pm Did Mayim have some happy juice before the game? She seemed a little too giddy and amused by too many of the clues today.
That's my girl. She's likely to become even more quirky and wacky as she gets more comfortable, so buckle up, everybody.
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seaborgium wrote: Thu Jun 03, 2021 12:11 am
Volante wrote: Wed Jun 02, 2021 10:54 pm
MattKnowles wrote: Wed Jun 02, 2021 10:47 pm Some clues that I missed that I want to get next time are towel (terry cloth)...
That one might not be pinned strongly enough. I associate 'terry cloth' more with robes at least (and is what I negged with). Google shopping also hits clothing and straight fabric (e.g., JoAnn's) more than bath towels when searching terrycloth.
Unless Ikea sells Flodalen robes, the clue was plenty pinned. ("Pinning" refers to limiting a clue to one correct response, not to hints.)
I meant that Matt's flash card might not be pinned well enough, not the clue.
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Mayim has been bubbly, but I think it injects some needed life into the show without being distracting. And unlike with many of the other guest hosts, she comes across to me as having a convincing grasp of the material.

Nice FJ clue. I had briefly thought of Sentinel but couldn't pin it to the cities. San Diego's current major paper is the Union-Tribune, and Greeley's New-York Tribune does not survive in any current iteration, but a later version makes me think of one of my favorite movies:

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How does Patricia Franchini have a perfect American accent when shouting "New York Herald Tribune" but not know what a horoscope is?

If you want some depressing trivia, read the last paragraph of the lead of Jean Seberg's Wikipedia page.
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This Is Kirk! wrote: Thu Jun 03, 2021 12:17 am
MarkBarrett wrote: Wed Jun 02, 2021 1:42 pm Did Mayim have some happy juice before the game? She seemed a little too giddy and amused by too many of the clues today.
I noticed this too and must admit I found it a bit annoying.
I found it extremely annoying. So much so that for me it DQs her from a permanent gig. I gave her a pass during the "I'D LIKE TO BUY" category but she kept it up after that.
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Robert K S wrote: Wed Jun 02, 2021 4:09 pm Regarding this clue: This Nirvana song shares its name with an element used in medications for bipolar disorder

I got this clue right because, even before MP3 players, I had a copy of the song on my TI graphing calculator. Somebody had written a program for the calculator that allowed it to play a reasonable facsimile of music when you plugged headphones into the data transfer port. The song took up almost the whole memory of the calculator and the lyrics were barely decipherable.
That sounds amazing. I never knew that was possible. could you clip it sometime? :D
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Didn't get Tribune. oh well. I wasn't around for the NY Tribune.

European History was hilarious, to say the least. No grab on Alexander II the Liberator from 1861
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heppm01 wrote: Thu Jun 03, 2021 10:39 am
This Is Kirk! wrote: Thu Jun 03, 2021 12:17 am
MarkBarrett wrote: Wed Jun 02, 2021 1:42 pm Did Mayim have some happy juice before the game? She seemed a little too giddy and amused by too many of the clues today.
I noticed this too and must admit I found it a bit annoying.
I found it extremely annoying. So much so that for me it DQs her from a permanent gig. I gave her a pass during the "I'D LIKE TO BUY" category but she kept it up after that.
She kept visualizing squished bus face and couldn't recompose. At least it didn't involve another goat dying from Quikrete.
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CyrusChan wrote: Thu Jun 03, 2021 11:03 am That sounds amazing. I never knew that was possible. could you clip it sometime? :D
That calculator was stolen from me long ago, but with a little Googling I found this page where you can download the Nirvana clip and several other songs:

anthem.zip Silverchair's Anthem For The Year 2000
duhast.zip Rammstein's Du Hast
eminem.zip Eminem - The Way I Am
farley.zip Farley
furelise.zip Fur Elise
higher.zip Creed's Higher
lastresort.zip LAST RESORT song (Papa Roach) with !!!GRAPHICS!!!
lithium.zip Nirvana - "Lithium" Clip
prodigy.zip Music From Prodigy
rugrats.zip Rugrats Theme Song (complete)
scentapp.zip Nirvana's Scentless Apprentice
shine.zip Collective Soul's Shine
soundtutorial2.zip Updated On-Calc Sound Tutorial
stairway.zip Led Zeppelin's Stairway To Heaven
tapion.zip Tapion's Theme (DBZ Movie 13) full 1:55
twist.zip Korn's Twist
wav86.zip Wav 86
wwry.zip We Will Rock You
yahoo.zip Yahoo
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My high school math teacher personally deleted my baseball game off my calculator so I can only imagine how he would have reacted had I played one of these files in class.
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I had Herald. Might have done better if I hadn’t watched after working an 11 hour shift overnight.
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Satellite radio's grunge channel is also called Lithium.

Got to the FJ solve early, then doubled back to talk myself out of Sentinel, then went back to the solve. Choppy game with seven wrongs for Lydia, but she was close to a tortoise and the hare potential win if the other two had been tied going into Final. Didn't pan out that way and the solves made it moot, but looked possible late.
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Volante wrote: Thu Jun 03, 2021 11:15 am
heppm01 wrote: Thu Jun 03, 2021 10:39 am
This Is Kirk! wrote: Thu Jun 03, 2021 12:17 am
MarkBarrett wrote: Wed Jun 02, 2021 1:42 pm Did Mayim have some happy juice before the game? She seemed a little too giddy and amused by too many of the clues today.
I noticed this too and must admit I found it a bit annoying.
I found it extremely annoying. So much so that for me it DQs her from a permanent gig. I gave her a pass during the "I'D LIKE TO BUY" category but she kept it up after that.
She kept visualizing squished bus face and couldn't recompose. At least it didn't involve another goat dying from Quikrete.
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Volante wrote: Thu Jun 03, 2021 8:33 am
seaborgium wrote: Thu Jun 03, 2021 12:11 am
Volante wrote: Wed Jun 02, 2021 10:54 pm
MattKnowles wrote: Wed Jun 02, 2021 10:47 pm Some clues that I missed that I want to get next time are towel (terry cloth)...
That one might not be pinned strongly enough. I associate 'terry cloth' more with robes at least (and is what I negged with). Google shopping also hits clothing and straight fabric (e.g., JoAnn's) more than bath towels when searching terrycloth.
Unless Ikea sells Flodalen robes, the clue was plenty pinned. ("Pinning" refers to limiting a clue to one correct response, not to hints.)
I meant that Matt's flash card might not be pinned well enough, not the clue.
Gotcha. Sorry for misunderstanding.
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From this show I learned how Robert Henri pronounced his name (Hen-rye). Kudos to MB or the staff for getting it right.
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Tribune was instaget.

Here is a very incomplete list of cities that had Tribune newspapers:
New York
Chicago
Minneapolis
Oakland
Winnipeg
Saskatoon
Tulsa
Los Angeles (Lou Grant was editor)
San Diego
Salt Lake
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I used to read the Tampa Tribune.
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