MarkBarrett wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2020 12:47 pm
KNICKKNACK $1600: You don’t see these brass receptacles for tobacco chewers much anymore, at least not used for their original purpose
Any judges have a problem with my counting my "cuspidor" as an acceptable alternate response?
I have no problem with it. My dictionary defines cuspidor as simply "a spittoon".
Nope, that was my response in showoff mode
Count me as that New York minute was a TS.
Cedar is a Pavlov for Lebanon for FJ
I watched tonight's episode at work, but was distracted near the end with something so I missed watching the FJ round. Usually when I miss an episode, I'll read the FJ clue off the Archive or here on the board. My method is to read the clue out loud, then play a YouTube video of the think music while I think it over. I immediately scrapped any intention of playing the music tonight when I came across "cedar" while reading the clue. Thank you, J! Pavlovs.
Funny how your fate and/or legacy on this show can be determined with one clue. Amal misses the final Kerouac clue, which leads to MacKenzie getting the rebound. That $4k swing puts MacKenzie into the lead, which results in a victory, which results in extending her win streak to 4 games, which puts her into ToC consideration. Probably hundreds of scenarios like that.
"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge."
-Bertrand Russell
The Talking Mime wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2020 9:21 pmFunny how your fate and/or legacy on this show can be determined with one clue. Amal misses the final Kerouac clue, which leads to MacKenzie getting the rebound. That $4k swing puts MacKenzie into the lead, which results in a victory, which results in extending her win streak to 4 games, which puts her into ToC consideration. Probably hundreds of scenarios like that.
MacKenzie only needed $2k of that swing to take the lead. So unless she needed Amal's miss--either to eliminate an incorrect response or just to buy some time--MacKenzie would have jumped into first on that last clue even if Amal had clammed.
MitchO wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2020 7:30 pm
Also, as much as I think MacKenzie has been kicking ass, I think it was less about her closing the gap and more about Amal guessing her way out of the lead. "Moriarity"? Ya never know how your brain fires off, huh.
Dean Moriarty is the other main character in On the Road, so if heavenly in the clue doesn't fire off anything, it's a reasonable guess...
Right before the "BOM BOM" hit on Think!, I facepalmed. I thought it was a "name a Middle East country with a space program that dates back to at least the 1960s", and went with Israel. At the last second, I noticed the word cedar. Three months ago, I wouldn't have had the cedar-Lebanon Pavlov, but "this Middle East country is known for cedars" was one clue out of the 300K in my anki J! deck that got picked and that I've had drilled into my head. I had time enough to type (Lebanon?) in my spreadsheet, but didn't have the time to go over and check my work. If I'd had time to reread the clue , where it said "HAD a space program", I would have easily flipped my answer.
Count me in for musical clues - Don Henley for "New York Minute", and The Byrds for Ecclesiastes. I almost said "Goodnight Saigon" instead of "Miss Saigon" - both employ helicopters.
Speaking of Vietnam, time is a flat circle. I literally got the "identify Vietnam on this map" clue right not because of its location, but from its shape, because it was on that weird category a month ago where they randomly superimposed countries on the US. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that you can actually study for J!.
I clammed on the Bolivar clue, but my weird psychic ability would have guessed "Pizarro" if there were no penalty, since it's the only "Spanish guy who came to South America" name I had at the tip of my tongue. My skill is being able to give the right response to the wrong clue (or the wrong resposne to the right clue?) I didn't get Pizarro when he did come up, either.
I thought BODY ADJECTIVES was going to be stuff like "cold shoulder", "hot hand", "evil eye". If I'd seen all five and had a chance to go back, like on a written test, I would have easily run the category, but 4/5 ain't bad. Same thing with BIBLE BOOK TELLS ME SO - they threw up some random quote that I knew was from Genesis, but I was trying to figure out if they were going for who was speaking, or who it was about?
On the other side, I precalled "knuckle", so sometimes categories are helpful.
Last clue - McKenzie trailing by $800 and a $2K opportunity. Then she is gifted the lead by $1200 and has NOTHING to gain. Her payday is 2X times second place + $1 so her actual score is irrelevant as long as she remains in first place. She must have really known that final answer cold.
I thought the Thursday hex and a strong competitor would be the end. These last second rallies are not a sustainable model, but I hope she gets the fifth win (unless we have a boardie playing, lol..)
Easy FJ, but only because of the writer's fondness of this connection. I have never heard crap about the Ceders of Lebbenon before.
Disclaimer - repeated exposure to author's musings may cause befuddlement.
2nd super strong game in a row for me with 40+ correct, all 3 DD's and instaget Finals.
However, today's game made me squeamish when I knew I could run Kerouac, but fumbled on the last 3 clues.
-$1200 for also saying France instead of Canada
-$1600 for picking the wrong Burroughs work with Junkie
-$2000 for saying Paradiso instead of Paradise for some ungodly reason.
Also said Good King Cole instead of Old King Cole for another forehead slap.
Here's hoping I clean up my act whenever I get on the show
True North wrote: ↑Thu Feb 20, 2020 8:07 pm
(beat poet = Allen Ginsberg, always).
Well, not quite, but Ferlinghetti wasn't particularly a friend of Kerouac, and Gregory Corso isn't a top row name.
I thought the 1200 clue there was rather tricky: '"TI JEAN" on Jack's grave reflects his heritage; his parents immigrated to New England from this country'. Was "New England" (rather than "USA") meant to suggest a shorter trip than the one from France?
That was one bad spelling - she did get lucky that the bad spelling was still phonetically correct. Wow.
She once again came back from a big deficit but the leader certainly helped out with the negs. Her 4-day total is impressive but you may as well clinch the TOC spot on Friday.