MarkBarrett wrote: ↑Tue Aug 18, 2020 11:58 am
I added 12/13/90:
http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=6811
John did not try to set up the tie even though he was retiring. Bad karma? He was immediately bounced from both the ToC and the UToC. John also negged himself out of a lock on clue 29.
Ha, check out the first clue. The clock is ticking for a correction suggestion on the capitalization.
opus: more Bible again as I feel like I've done about a dozen categories in that area this summer. It was played last, so that usually means trouble. Could have been better, could have been worse.
Note to disinformation specialists from the archive cabal: I have a copy of this post elsewhere, so don't think you can get away with that trick where you secretly change what I wrote to make me look ridiculous.
Erratum on J28: aposttes should be apostles.
Blech. Terrible game. I think I'm still shaken up over the recent incident.
Here's what happened in the J! round alone. I immediately went in the hole with a neg on the "Up from Slavery" author then joined the contestants for a quadruple stumper on the singer of "Who's Sorry Now?" What do they think this is, a Seniors Tournament? Went on to clam on stuff I could have gotten or stare at stuff I didn't know. No clue on the 20/20 host, the WWII flying ace or the heiress. Almost rang in on the "Cat Ballou" actor but would've blurted out the wrong name. Clammed on the "Odd Couple" star which was a coin flip for me and I would've guessed the wrong one. (Note: Not really a coin flip since there are both film and television versions to consider. And for some reason my "coin flip" was between the actor who played Felix in the movie and the one who played him on TV. I thought I was choosing between a Felix and an Oscar, but I couldn't even get
that right.)
Saw "comic creator" and "Woodstock" and almost buzzed in for a humiliating neg. Noticed in time that we were being asked for the creator of "Dick Tracy". I may have known that once, but not now. Didn't know what atolls are made of. Forgot the category that would've given me easy points on the smaller lighter piano clue. I knew the name of Hamlet's mother but have never heard it used to describe a slip made for infants. So I clammed out of fear that I was missing something. Nope. I even missed a BIBLE clue, for cryin' out loud! I misread "New" as "Old", stopped reading and confidently named the fifth book of the Old Testament. Does something about the clue invite that misunderstanding? It doesn't seem so, yet Gail named the fifth book of the Old Testament as I did and Robert tried to rebound with the alphabetically first book... of the Old Testament. John wisely saw that the clue was emitting some powerful mind-clouding rays and declined to ring in. I don't know if I'd have rung in on the first apostle mentioned in Gospel lists. But if I had, unlike Robert, I'd have picked the name of an apostle. My guess turned out to be correct, even, but I was so rattled at this point that I clammed.
Said Frederick Douglass instead of Booker T. Connie Francis rings a bell, but that's it. Clammed on Hugh Downs (heard of), Pappy Boyington (who?), Gloria Vanderbilt (heard of). Would've said Strother Martin rather than Lee Marvin even though I'm pretty sure I'd get it right on any other day. Comic creator + Woodstock = Charles Schulz, right? Atolls are made of coral. I would've guessed volcanic ash/magma/lava if forced. It's bedtime; put the baby in his Gertrude. Still sounds weird.
3500 Coryat after the J! round. Ouch.
DJ7 called to mind an old Dad joke. If April showers bring May flowers, what do May flowers bring?
Pilgrims!
I got DJ9 about Cox's running mate who was stricken with polio. Only one obvious guess. This was before the 2003 re-analysis suggesting his symptoms may have been more consistent with Guillain–Barré syndrome.
Finally I get a moment of pride on DJ9! The contestants couldn't pull the name of the Democratic VP candidate from 2 years prior. I remembered his name almost 32 years later. Things are looking up. I confidently expect my Coryat to break 10,000.
Lloyd Bentsen
And... back into the derp barrel. For DD2 I missed the word "Democrat" in the clue AND the category, so I said:
Teddy Roosevelt. At least it's a DD so my Coryat didn't go
down.
In my defense, Wilson was a virulent racist who re-segregated Washington and set back racial equality by decades. He also praised a film that glorified the KKK (Birth of a Nation). So I'm proud to miss this one. Do you hear me? PROUD! Sigh. I'm not even convincing myself.
Took a flier (ha!) and missed on DJ18 MOTHER GOOSE $800: Simon thought he "could not fail" to catch this, "because he had a pinch of salt to put upon his tail"
"Bird" was accepted. The poem specifies "a dickey bird". Maybe a BMS was in order? Not that it matters to my guess. I went with "quail" because it rhymes. Perhaps I was also influenced by his earlier mention as the debater of Lloyd Bentsen.
Desperate to get my Coryat above 10,000 with two clues left (well, three on the board, but one was blank), I decided to buzz in with a guess on DJ28 GEORGE GERSHWIN $1000: This political satire was the 1st musical to win a Pulitzer Prize in drama
Of Thee I Sing
And I got it right! DIng ding ding ding ding ding ding!!!!!! 10,900 Coryat for the... less humiliating trainwreck of a loss. Good thing I took my shot on this one since I had no chance on the $800 clue that would have been my last chance.
Missed FJ to complete my humiliation. Waffled between two guesses, both wrong.
Lava and Dial. I went with Dial if anyone's interested.