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Roaster

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  1. Vicki was a very good player and was leading about 20% through the DJ round.  Then Matt turned on the gas and steamrollered everyone.  I think Vicki would have won many days but she got unlucky and was put in against Matt.

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  2. Dylan's luck ran out.  He started at the bottoms of the categories in an apparent attempt to build big bucks fast, but he didn't convert.

     

    Newcomer Matt had a runaway, finished with over $20,000.

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  3. I don't know how they all missed Ringo.

     

    I did not get FJ either.  With enough time I might have been able to reason my way into it, but it did not come to me in the time given.

     

    Amanda had to bet big; she would have felt terrible if all three contestant got FJ (which is common) and she lost because she underbid.  That's why when FJ is a TS and the game is not a runaway, the second place contestant often ends up winning.

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  4. STOP THE ACCENTS, TREBECK! The Pancho Villa quote was beyond painful.

    I know!  That was so ridiculous it took me right out of the game.  And it just seemed to be some generic accent, not really a Spanish/Mexican one.  Tone down your ego Alex.  Nobody wants to hear these non-jokes.

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  5.   When will Jeopardy stop shilling the Steve Jobs movie?  It's getting tiresome. 

     

    Earlier this week there was a category about Jobs and I didn't think anything of it, until somebody on these boards mentioned the movie about him due to come out soon.  Today during Jeopardy there was a TV commercial for the movie (which is odd because the show's on in the late afternoon here and they rarely show commercials for movies then.)  Then, a minute later, there was an official Jeopardy sponsorship message about the movie (as they often do with Aleve).  So, yeah, that Steve Jobs category earlier this week was not an innocent coincidence.  Wish they wouldn't choose categories based on their sponsors.

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  6. NO SPOILERS.  And we're back.  Good representative game for the new season.  Contestants generally knowledgeable.  (Only a few triple stumpers.) Alex made some typically unwitty quip in the interviews ("It's not unusual.")   Everybody had lots of money at the end of DJ.  And the FJ clue was at the right level of difficulty.

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  7. Lauren had $6400 at the first commercial break - halfway through the first round.

     

    That's impressive, but she still didn't win.

     

    All three contestants came off as good today,, even  the defending champ who actually finished with no money.  Usually people who finish with no money seem lost during the game, but he was no slouch.

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  8. http://www.cruxnow.com/church/2015/05/14/vatican-official-praises-modern-family-for-raising-family-issues/

     

    "A senior Vatican official paid tribute to Hollywood on Thursday for raising the profile of family issues, specifically citing the American sitcom “Modern Family,” a show that features two married gay men who adopt a baby, plus an older divorced dad who remarries a woman half his age.....

     

    ....Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia told the United Nations on Thursday that thanks to “phenomena like the media production ‘Modern Family,’ or same-sex marriage initiatives in a significant number of jurisdictions, the family has become the subject of increasingly intense interest and discussion.”"

  9. I have to say I have been disappointed by Celebrity Jeopardy all week.  I don't mind the contestants' histrionics, but do they have to make the clues so easy?  Jeopardy's brand - what sets it apart from other TV game shows - is that the game is reasonably challenging.  The viewer who is good at Trivial Pursuit / bar trivia should be able to get a lot of answers, but still get stumped regularly.  I don't want to see a show where I can pretty much get everything.  (Not EVERYTHING, but close.)

     

    This week has been like Kids Week, which I also don't really care for.

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  10. They all wrote their names obnoxiously.

     

     

    Wendi dotted the I in her name with a tiny circle.  Which the girls back in middle school used to do, but which is over-the-top cutesy for an adult.  All three contestants mugged for the camera during introductions, which I could have done without.  Other than that, they didn't bother me, but in general player behavior doesn't bother me as much as it seems to bother many others around here.

  11. J! provided my "learn something new every day" moment for today -- I had no idea whence "bell, book, and candle" came.

     

    Same here.  That was pretty interesting.

     

    No, Terra Cotta Warriors was not FJ.  I agree with whoever said it was overvalued, though.

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  12. Greg, my friend!  The Last Tycoon!  Even I knew that.

     

    Stevie Wonder, Mark Rothko.  (OK, those were harder.....)

     

    But FJ was not difficult and if you're going to write down What is PETA? you don't deserve to win.

     

    Oh, well.  Long live the new champion.

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