Tuesday, October 22, 2019 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

[gnash]

Comment on one of the comma clues:

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A serial comma is commonly known as a "Harvard comma" as well as an "Oxford comma"... either should be acceptable, right?

Who gives a

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#&@%

?

[heppm01]

I didn't consider Cher but the other singer that I thought about for a moment was Diana Ross, who also started her recording career about the same time. I don't think she had 30 top 10 albums though, even if you considered her brief career with the Supremes. She has also only done a small number of acting roles, so that she probably would not be referred to as a singer-actress.

My thought process exactly and for lack of anyone better, my reluctant final response.

[alietr]

I went with Barbara because she is the worst and most overrated singer since Tony Bennett. Schmaltz sells, somehow .

Ok everybody, let's gather around Mr. Grouch and sing "People" to him until he feels better.

Or better yet, have Celine Dion do it.

[This Is Kirk!]

Anyone else try Dolly Parton?

She was me first thought, but I ultimately went with Diana Ross. Never even thought about Barbra.

[mas3cf]

Comment on one of the comma clues:

Spoiler

A serial comma is commonly known as a "Harvard comma" as well as an "Oxford comma"... either should be acceptable, right?

Who gives a

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#&@%

?

Thank you for your constructive comment.

[This Is Kirk!]

Diana Ross, who also started her recording career about the same time. I don't think she had 30 top 10 albums though, even if you considered her brief career with the Supremes. She has also only done a small number of acting roles, so that she probably would not be referred to as a singer-actress.

She does have a best actress Oscar nom, though, so I think singer-actress would be appropriate.

[Woof]

Upon reading the clue, I immediately thought of Streisand, but then second guessed myself wondering if she'd have that number of Top 10 albums and thought about Cher. After due consideration, though, 1963 led me back to Barbra. Had I been up there writing on the slate, it would have been interesting to see what I ended up with.

[hbomb1947]

Diana Ross, who also started her recording career about the same time. I don't think she had 30 top 10 albums though, even if you considered her brief career with the Supremes. She has also only done a small number of acting roles, so that she probably would not be referred to as a singer-actress.

She does have a best actress Oscar nom, though, so I think singer-actress would be appropriate.

And Cher can match Streisand for having won a Best Actress Oscar, so it wasn't crazy to think of Cher as a singer-actress.

[Peter the accountant]

Put me down for another FJ response that has Respect, but isn't right. I had to do some poking around on this interweb thingy to find out, but Cher isn't even in the top 50 of the list. (I can only get to 50, since the actual Billboard list is behind a paywall.) At least Aretha is at 19, even if her acting creds aren't that great. In looking at the bit of the list I can see, it appears that it is heavily weighted towards sales. You'd think a top XX list would have performers with a lot of experience - and it does. But the top 10 includes Taylor Swift, Adele, and Miley Cyrus. (Oxford comma time!!! - I've been a user of that since long before I knew it had a name. When a high school English teacher marked me wrong for using it, I found multiple examples of it in the LA Times and managed to convince the teacher it was at least an acceptable option.)

[Volante]

Cher was my first thought but, amazingly for me, felt 30 #1s was simply way too much for her. Few more seconds and focusing more on the actress part, Streisand came up shortly after.

Even a .300 Pop Music score can find an acorn once in a while...

[davey]

On another topic of discussion, I have never heard of any of those terms for the comma (Oxford, splice, whatever). My teachers referred to it by the generic "comma blunder."

It's not a blunder, it's a necessity. Why would you use commas for an entire list except (suddenly and inexplicably) the last one?

Consider the following:

"I am so grateful to my parents, my sister and God."

That sounds like a really messed up family tree. Or how about this one:

"Yesterday for lunch I had a sandwich, chips and mac and cheese."


Like nails on a chalkboard to me....

Not to get all religious on everybody, but shouldn't God come first? Put Him first and there's no ambiguity...
As to the 2d - you may not like how it looks - I don't either, for the record - but it's not ambiguous. Seems like overload for lunch tho...

[Peter the accountant]

On another topic of discussion, I have never heard of any of those terms for the comma (Oxford, splice, whatever). My teachers referred to it by the generic "comma blunder."

It's not a blunder, it's a necessity. Why would you use commas for an entire list except (suddenly and inexplicably) the last one?

Consider the following:

"I am so grateful to my parents, my sister and God."

That sounds like a really messed up family tree. Or how about this one:

"Yesterday for lunch I had a sandwich, chips and mac and cheese."


Like nails on a chalkboard to me....

Not to get all religious on everybody, but shouldn't God come first? Put Him first and there's no ambiguity...
As to the 2d - you may not like how it looks - I don't either, for the record - but it's not ambiguous. Seems like overload for lunch tho...

Not ambiguous? Were the chips a crushed topping on the mac n cheese? (Not a horrible combination, BTW.) Were they a separate side dish? Is this mystery food a combination of chips and macaroni with some kind of cheese as a separate dish (sounding more on the horrible side)? Are you British, implying that the chips are rectangular bits of fried potato, or are you American, making the chips thinly sliced circular bits of fried potato?

I think there's plenty of ambiguity there.

[Rackme32]

While I don't keep track, I felt I did about average (for me) on this game... Much of my comeback to respectability after a very slow start was due to the wheelhouse 5/5 in Classical Music.

Didn't look that way at first... After seeing the names of the categories, then clamming for the first twelve clues... I started thinking, "Do the clue writers really want to hurt me?"

:::::: runs like hell ::::::

[CasketRomance]

The Baby Boomer curse strikes again...younger contestants might not realize that Cher couldn't have been hitting the top 10 as early as 1963. And what's up with Ryan's FJ wager?

what does baby boomer have to do with anything? i got it right and i am not a baby boomer

[CasketRomance]

streisand came to be immediately...then during the music i was like..."oh what about cher?" then i realised 1963 was too early for her and stayed with streisand

[CasketRomance]

I really liked how Martha wrote her name, but I'm surprised she'd bet more than $5 on that CLASSICAL MUSIC DD given how little she seemed to know about the subject

Cher for me, too, but I was afraid I was overlooking somebody HUGE

Third place bet it all!

still trying to figure out how one misses 1812 overture...pretty sure that is something a jeopardy people should know...hell...i even got it and i don't know crap about classical musical

[CasketRomance]

56 R (Missed Jennifer Garner(I know, bad miss.), Reefer Madness, Bivouac, and Filene's.)
DD: 3/3
FJ:
LT: God, Splice, (Venice), Bead, Tyne, (1812 Overture), Night on Bald Mountain, Symphonies

not as bad of a miss as missing reefer madness

[CasketRomance]

We've seen Streisand in FJs at least a few times; surprised that more didn't remember that. People here remember Leadville but not Barbra.

i am the opposite...never heard of leadville, but got streisand

[CasketRomance]

I went with Barbara because she is the worst and most overrated singer since Tony Bennett. Schmaltz sells, somehow .

Ok everybody, let's gather around Mr. Grouch and sing "People" to him until he feels better.

that song sux imo...i think her best song is the duet with celine dion "tell him"

[CasketRomance]

I went with Barbara because she is the worst and most overrated singer since Tony Bennett. Schmaltz sells, somehow .

Ok everybody, let's gather around Mr. Grouch and sing "People" to him until he feels better.

Or better yet, have Celine Dion do it.

i love celine dion...my 2nd favourite musical act after cannibal corpse