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Is this show on a budget, sending guys home before the RC? Amsterdam is one of the most expensive cities in Europe so I guess there's that. Now there's four left, right? So we know who gets the HTs. Even when he's with that wet blanket Hannah.

OMG, to see those Rembrandts in person? The Girl With the Pearl Earring? Incredible. So is she crying because she's sending Mike home? Editors compared her to the painting with the woman holding the big sword. So I guess it's "See ya, don't wanna be ya, Mike." Mike for next Bach, please.

I used to be on the Tyler Train, but that date made me dislike him so much that I'm all in for him NOT to be the next Bach. "Can't stand ya, Tyler Costanza." That art studio took me back to my five years of life drawing while pursuing my BFA. By the fifth year, we told the models: "Put your clothes on!" And p.s., that woman artist sucked. I would have killed those sketches of both Mike and Whatshername.

Cut him some slack. The boy can't help it, he's just going through puberty. At least he got some travel overseas for it, and a valid passport. That's something. He can use the passport to get to BIP.

I guess the only way Connor can get air time is if the PAs send him to Hannah's room so he can give a speech and then leave. Bye Connor. We hardly knew ye.

I swear the editors add those LOUD SUCKING NOISES when Hannah kisses. Most adults know how to perform that task silently.

Oh, wow, Hannah walking and wearing that faux fur coat over a mini dress that can't be seen made me think hooker, which is totally legal in Amsterdam. YES! And not almost auto tuned, ALWAYS auto tuned.

LOL! Tyler's jeans are also skin-tight stretch jeans, like those white pants. And he rolls them up so they are high-water pants too, like the white ones! Oh, man, they are going to ride Friesian horses, only the most COOL HORSES ever (besides my American Saddlebreds.) What a bunch of dumb asses. A horse won't move forward when you are clinging to the reins and pulling back, which mean STOP in horse language. Worst waste of a date ever. Tyler barfing the fish describes how I feel about this date. I hate both of these people right now.

Especially when he said something like, "My heart just fell through the earth." Ha ha. When your heart sinks, that is not a good thing. Freudian slip? Maybe. Maybe not.

I see no personality in Hannah, so IMO they are perfect for each other. Yes, so at the end when she must make up her decision between the two men she "loves," she can do a couple Mesnicks, cry a lot, sob into CH's arms, and look wistfully off into the sunset while she makes up her mind which is her One True Luv.

Oh, man, Hannah's "conversation" over dinner with Jed is so freaking painful. Girl doesn't have a brain cell in that head.

Now that I have my first HDTV, I can't stop staring at Hannah's plastic eyelashes. They are white on top. What's up with that? Does this show run an ad for old people who have been married forever so they can chat with the B and her date? It happens in every foreign city. i was wanting the man to pipe up and say they really are not married and are only sitting together because the show's editor told them to, and paid them each a hundred Amsterdam bucks to follow the script. Even he doesn't want to admit he's American. That, or he's just a dumb ass. Take your pick.

What is the green drink of the Netherlands? I'm serious. What is that?

Coming in this episode: Luke eats salami just like Chad. Is this a coincidence? LOL. I want to see how Hannah gets out of the middle of that five-mile-long field of tulips.

Great photo! Now I want to see your 2016 photo of the lions wearing Cubs hats.

Tell company that watching Jeopardy is on the schedule. As long as they don't shout out the FJ answer. You can serve peanut-butter sandwiches just before the clue is revealed. Agree. Because the map never made sense to me. Visitors should be able to rent a GPS that shows them as a You Are Here dot as they make their way around the building. You know, like on Leverage, when Hardison is telling Parker which way to go.

You get one-half credit for NATO/UN only if I get one-half credit for my answer to clue 198: Chicken pox. The pox part was right. Irritated that I missed smallpox since I have old western reruns on during the day (Rifleman, Wagon Train, et. al.) and every few episodes there is a smallpox outbreak on one or the other. Sometimes multiple shows at once! The Art Institute is impossible to see all in one day, but it has something for every interest. My friend loves the miniatures so we spent much time there during last visit. It's also easy to get crazy lost, so thank goodness for the docents who are used to telling people how to get where. I hope you took a souvenir photo outside with the lions. It's a traditional must. The storm hit in the afternoon when the Pride Parade was only half-way done. People were bailing off of floats so as not to be killed by lightning. Yikes! Lucky you, you live to play Jeopardy! another day!

Huge parade in Chicago today. Did you say "Hi" to my Hoppers at the Art Institute? Nice you visited on the worst weather weekend of the year -- so far anyway.

Congratulations on your graduation to The Smartie Pants Table. Don't be too stuck up to not wave back at Saber, I'm the kid in the corner wearing the dunce cap.

There is so much negativity everywhere, which is why I left the Season 35 thread. (That, and getting spanked by the mod.) I agree with your assessment of the tournament. And if the show can help some talented teens with the direction of their future, where's the bad in that.

WEEK 42 — ONE asterisk 204. Colleges & Universities. Starting a university after his only son died in 1884, this man said, “The children of California shall be our children.” * 205. Other Nations’ Presidents. This nation’s 1st 8 presidents were all born in the U.S.; the 1st local-born Pres. came in 1884, 37 years after independence. * 206. 19th Century Literary Characters. “Hard and sharp as flint…he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn’t thaw it one degree at Christmas.” 207. International Organizations. The first time this organization invoked Article 5 was September 12, 2001. 208. Places of Lore. The first mention of this locale is in Chretien de Troyes’ 12th century poem “Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart.” I was impressed by all the teens in this tournament, it was a good tourney. Avi, the eventual winner, is a young man of the highest order. His parents (and teachers) should be proud, as should the parents and teachers of all of the contestants. Well done to all.

Well, I jinxed it by posting last week about no asterisks. It was a great 31 days, folks, almost a full six weeks. Now it's like a Simpson's episode, "We've gone THREE days without an accident." Or, in this case, asterisk. I do want to say I caught the TS shout out a while back to @MrAtoz, Ball State/Muncie. I also caught two TS shout outs to me, my favorite artist Edward Hopper, and the TS reflected by the five cameras in my camera bag, Nikon. Here is the painting Hopper did of me taking the train to Chicago for a day at the Art Institute:

I turned over from the debate for 15 minutes, then went back to the debate. I'm disappointed I can't find where I am able to watch it online free, even the ABC site wants me to have a cable provider and I have only antenna tv. The little I did see involved Poppy getting the motorbike back, but not sure why it was being held hostage for $500. And her husband is now her EX husband. That happened quickly as last week she wanted someone to look at the divorce papers, I guess she signed them during the week. I noticed this last week and again last night. Isn't Reef Island suppose to be a U.S. property? I guess they should get cars that steer on the left then, and get rid of all those right-driving Aussie autos. I didn't think Poppy looked all that great in the baggy bra-less blue dress thing, but I have no room to talk, she looked better than I would in it. I do like that she lets her hair go all scraggly and her makeup looks like no makeup. That sets her apart from every other actor on a prime-time tv show these days. No comment about the plot since that 15 minutes didn't tell me a thing. Maybe that's good.

Thanks for posting that. I am so glad the family is suing the U. I wonder if the Dateline story had anything to do with their decision. I hope so. The only thing that would make me happier is if they took the U for every penny it has, and all the people involved lost their jobs. And got no severance, just a YOU'RE FIRED, and all of them kicked to the curb.

I just remembered that Howie told one of the first performers, it might have been Opera Girl, that she was going to be famous now, and she's even standing on a star on the stage. The problem with that was she was standing on a big red X.