Official Jeopardy! Board is back online ... NOT
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Re: Official Jeopardy! Board is back online
Yeah you can go there and read brilliant analysis like the following.
(This is a real post- i swear i did not make this up)
Spoiler
Final Jeopardy - NFL Poor Choice
It certainly was not fair to have a final jeopardy category of NFL when one of the three players was a female. She performed so well during the competition, taking the lead with the final question. How unfair a choice the NFL was.
Charlie Cappello
Northford, CT
It certainly was not fair to have a final jeopardy category of NFL when one of the three players was a female. She performed so well during the competition, taking the lead with the final question. How unfair a choice the NFL was.
Charlie Cappello
Northford, CT
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She caught the Katy and left me a mule to ride.
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Re: Official Jeopardy! Board is back online
Yeah, see my comments in the "About this board" thread, basically a) they don't make a good first impression (with a "they shouldn't ask this FJ category to a woman" thread without a spoiler tag in sight (thankfully, despite not having watched, I was only spoiled on the FJ category), generally the type of people that we used to be annoyed with on the old board) and b) they won't let Canadians sign up (unless you say you're American - it is cosmic balance for you wearing our flag on your backpacks, but really, there's no need to bar Canucks)
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I tried to log in there under my old idenity but failed. MarkBarrett commented on that thread and shows one post, so apparently they've started from scratch.
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Just gonna mention, this is NOT a daily post thread, so spoiler tags are recommendedbilly pilgrim wrote:Yeah you can go there and read brilliant analysis like the following.
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(This is a reaql post- i swear i did not make this up)
The best thing that Neil Armstrong ever did, was to let us all imagine we were him.
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Re: Official Jeopardy! Board is back online
I had to go through the registration process again. My name was available, but I created a new password. Same old avatar though. The first posts in the FJ thread were almost enough to make me give up on the whole process.
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Yeah, I noticed that the posts were of the "rant" sort, but without guidance, how will they ever learn?billy pilgrim wrote:Yeah you can go there and read brilliant analysis like the following.
Spoiler
Final Jeopardy - NFL Poor Choice
It certainly was not fair to have a final jeopardy category of NFL when one of the three players was a female. She performed so well during the competition, taking the lead with the final question. How unfair a choice the NFL was.
Charlie Cappello
Northford, CT
(This is a reaql post- i swear i did not make this up)
Plus, it appears that all of the previous board's archives are gone, not to be recovered.
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Volante wrote:Just gonna mention, this is NOT a daily post thread, so spoiler tags are recommendedbilly pilgrim wrote:Yeah you can go there and read brilliant analysis like the following.
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(This is a reaql post- i swear i did not make this up)
Point taken- my bad. Fixed.
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I'm not even going to bother registering back there.MarkBarrett wrote:I had to go through the registration process again. My name was available, but I created a new password. Same old avatar though. The first posts in the FJ thread were almost enough to make me give up on the whole process.
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But some knowledgeable looking around on archive.org might be able to help (that's how I got my "A Visit to Culver City" text to post here)cbec wrote:Yeah, I noticed that the posts were of the "rant" sort, but without guidance, how will they ever learn?billy pilgrim wrote:Yeah you can go there and read brilliant analysis like the following.
Spoiler
Final Jeopardy - NFL Poor Choice
It certainly was not fair to have a final jeopardy category of NFL when one of the three players was a female. She performed so well during the competition, taking the lead with the final question. How unfair a choice the NFL was.
Charlie Cappello
Northford, CT
(This is a reaql post- i swear i did not make this up)
Plus, it appears that all of the previous board's archives are gone, not to be recovered.
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Re: Official Jeopardy! Board is back online
Actually I agree the is an unfair category for FJ. And it was a stupid clue, imo.
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the first three letters? Who the hell cares? And what does it have to do with football? Now if they had asked to name one of two expansion teams that joined in 1976, that would be a good clue.
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Care to elaborate, or just state an opinion without a reason?Vanya wrote:Actually I agree theis an unfair category for FJ. [/spoiler]Spoiler
NFL
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There's already one-time newbie posters there starting special threads to complain about something. Didn't take long. That is not missed here on JBoard.
So the Sony site can keep all of those complainers. We're good.
So the Sony site can keep all of those complainers. We're good.
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I have absolutely no desire to go back there. No need, I'm staying here.
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Well, in their defence, *everyone's* a one-time newbie there for the momentchuck5982 wrote:There's already one-time newbie posters there starting special threads to complain about something. Didn't take long. That is not missed here on JBoard.
So the Sony site can keep all of those complainers. We're good.
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THAT would be unfair! Consider how much specialized NFL trivia you need to know to answer that one.Vanya wrote:Actually I agree theis an unfair category for FJ. And it was a stupid clue, imo.Spoiler
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the first three letters? Who the hell cares? And what does it have to do with football? Now if they had asked to name one of two expansion teams that joined in 1976, that would be a good clue.
With this FJ clue, that data only gives you an advantage; to answer this phrasing, all you need to know are the names of the teams/ cities.
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Wow.... wow.
Here's good, thanks.
Here's good, thanks.
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They could not be dropping the ball more if they tried. Guess they're making this decision REALLY easy.
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You're kidding, right?Paucle wrote: THAT would be unfair! Consider how much specialized NFL trivia you need to know to answer that one.
With this FJ clue, that data only gives you an advantage; to answer this phrasing, all you need to know are the names of the teams/ cities.
Heaven forbid a Jeopardy clue should require actual knowledge, rather than picking some silly random circumstance that requires contestants to go through 32 names in 30 seconds.
Can you tell I hate those kinds of clues?
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I think you can figure it out.dhkendall wrote:Care to elaborate, or just state an opinion without a reason?Vanya wrote:Actually I agree theis an unfair category for FJ. [/spoiler]Spoiler
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