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*Raises hand* I have a grill, albeit a little charcoal one. I can start the coals early (I'll carry some from Newcastle) and I can grill some garlic bread to go with those Champion Sam Grilled Mushrooms to help celebrate his Big Win. (Plus I absolutely LOVE mushrooms.) So all is good (for me anyway) at the T41 this week!

Thinking I need to switch over to a penguin.

WEEK 37 • May 24, 2021 — NO asterisk * 181. 20th Century Artwork. The artist’s wife described the scene of this 1942 painting as “Brilliant interior of cheap restaurant.” 182. Nobel-Winning Novelists. Falsely accused of murder, a character in his 1948 novel becomes “tyrant over the whole county’s white conscience.” 183. Classical Composers. Monsieur Crescendo & Signor Vaccarmini (“Mr. Racket”) were derisive nicknames for this composer whose last opera dates from 1829. 184. Music & Geography. In a British folk tune, the title lass Maggie May is sentenced to go way down south to this penal colony that rhymes with her name. 185. European Borders. It’s still there, but none of the countries that bordered this country at the beginning of 1990 exist anymore.

Well then if that were the rule, my recipe space would be freaking BLANK. That's the dif between you and me. You maybe actually have a couple recipes that you use to cook/make things that are edible. My most complicated recipe is put some oatmeal in a bowl and add hot water. But if I were so lucky (and outrageously smart) to make it to not only Jeopardy but Jeopardy's ToC, I'd look up some fab recipe online and post it just like my pal Ryan did. No law against plagiarizing a recipe. That I know of. Then y'all could hate on me for not only looking and acting like a dumbass on national teevee but I never made my recipe IRL either.

I thought that was you, but I didn't want to be so bold as to put in writing that I actually remembered something correctly. The recipe sounds like so much work. I'd be inclined to get some Pillsbury crescent rolls, smack the tubes open, roll some pepperoni up in them and bake. Which is why I don't cook for other humans. They sound delicious though. I could get involved in eating many of them. Heck, I might even try the crescent roll thing ...

Got a laugh that Everyone's Favorite Boy Ryan's recipe is West Virginia Pepperoni Rolls since we had quite a discussion about those either here or in the FJ Contest thread. Now we know how to make them. Will the fact I've been to West Virginia mean I can do a good job and make delicious ones? (Answer to that is a big NO.)

Hoping you will get some good new ideas about what to make and drop off at the T41, where I will be and where you, no doubt, will not be. It can be a TOCFJC smorgasbord!

While I easy knew the Star Wars answer, I admit it took me a LOOooong time to figure out the two dollars were two bucks. Like everything, "It's easy if you know it." I do know the difference between an optometrist and ophthalmologist though. The hidden-word puzzles are easier if one realizes there are no diagonal words. At least not that I've noticed.

That FJ was Jan. 14, game 89 of the season, the children's book with "so many holes." Whether the curse or not, it's safer to not be a FJ clue iMO. (In which case, I will live forever.) So sad to hear of his passing, I did not know that so thanks for posting here.

Today is the first I've heard that expression and I've already forgotten it. I''m guessing some writers' moms said it to them growing up though. Thank you @853fisher for your insightful views and the ability to see beyond what's an "easy mark" to what lies beneath, the grey under the black and white. People are inherently vicious (IMO) and SM lets them dog pile while hiding in anonymity. This quote was in a news feed I got yesterday, and I found it interesting: "You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him." -- Audrey Hepburn I remember "Hebrides" being an answer not long ago, and the contestant on that episode also wrongly answered "Shetlands." It was the weirdest deja vu moment, it almost made me dizzy. Maybe I had a Flash Forward and "saw" it then ... Got a laugh out of the Wienermobile photo. When I worked at an ad agency, I got my boyfriend a job driving the Wienermobile, and also got him a gig appearing as Papa Smurf, in full P. Smurf costume. Shout out to me and my FJ Contest scores with the answer of "Binary." Kudos to the player who actually could recognize and name a Dandie Dinmont terrier.

Are you thinking of Ben Grimm from Marvel's Fantastic Four? He's from about half a century ago. I was thinking Dust Guy could be The Smoke Monster. From ... well, you know.

And don't forget that capitol of Iowa, Dez Mow-NEZ. Heaven forbid someone who grew up with a regional accent doesn't pronounce something precisely like you think they should. BTW, the Arkansas River in Arkansas -- you know, the state it was named for -- is pronounced Ar-kan-saw, just like the state. Can't help it if out-of-state people (in Arkansas, those people are said to be "from off") mispronounce it.

I did a screen capture for you.

It's Count-down time on One, Two Threesday ... I mean Twosday, make that Tuesday ... and announcement time for the Winner of Week 1, 2, 3 ... I mean Week 34, 35, 36 ... yes, Week 36 of the FJ Contest. And that special person is the player who has been counting up for 1, 2, 3 weeks in a row, the player known as @Ailianna. Here to present the Counting Up With The Count award to Ailianna is none other than Count von Count himself. "Greetings. I am the Count. I am happy to announce the ONE winner of week 36 in the Final Jeopardy Contest THREE, @Ailianna. It is Ailianna's win THREE this season, and is given for the ability to score ONE, TWO, THREE in a row. I vant to come back next week for a FOUR 4 score." ETA: Hey Kelly, that's how you signal a third win.

Odd shape for a shirt. No arm or neck holes.

This is EXACTLY what I was seeing during those scenes. I hope they all got extras paychecks to help cover those acting lessons. I've seen every episode and, besides the two with Shelby, I don't have a clue what's going on. And this finale left me all "What the hell was that about." I come here to see if any of you posters know what's going on because I sure don't have a clue. Not that it matters I guess. Maybe this is like Seinfeld, "A show about nothing."

Wondering how much that gigantic pile of take-out food cost and what happened to it after the dust cleared. People in elevator couldn't tell they were being soaked in jet fuel? ("Something in here is giving me a headache.") Okay then. Owen better stick around for next season because for sure most of Austin will burn down and multiple people will die if he leaves. I do like this show. Really!

Thanks to one of my favorite authors, Tony Hillerman, and my favorite painter, Ed(ward) Hopper for making yesterday's game mean something to me. I have Edward Hopper stories that I will post in Small Talk if I find the energy to do so. Today ... tomorrow ... some day.

This was a pretty solid episode for me, with no "seriously" bad skits. But WU was my favorite, as it always is. This week I laughed so hard at the swapped jokes. They all struck me so funny, which was something I "seriously" needed. So, thanks show.

Never mind.

Eh, I would be wearing shorts and driving with my windows down.

I thought Cane's chicken sounded familiar. It turned out it is because it was big news when one opened in Davenport, Iowa. Raisin' Cane Chicken. I love chicken fingers, it's my first choice when eating out. Not that I've eaten out in the past two years. Anyway, its sauce is mayo and catsup blended. A better sauce would be horseradish and catsup together. I moved up to the T42 (Table For Two, How Do You Do) this week. I don't know a lick about King Lear so just picked an author from that time period and lucked out with Poe. I know, color me surprised. I also got Yemen by picking a name farther down the alphabet. That, plus I knew Zaire is in Africa. Well, it was, when it was Zaire. I guess I'm the only one who guessed Lee and Davis for the two sides of the Mason Dixon Line. Hey, I thought it was a pretty inspired guess. Wrong, but inspired. Meanwhile, I pity the fools stuck with me at the T42. Hope you aren't hungry. May the Magic Chefs at the other tables bestow their kindness upon you.

WEEK 36 • May 17, 2021 — ONE asterisk * 176. Ancient Greeks. Plutarch quotes this man who sentenced many to death: “Small ones deserve that, and I have no higher for the greater crimes.” 177. Animals. German settlers in Texas called this animal “panzerschwein.” 178. Middle Eastern Geography. Of the 6 countries that border the Red Sea, it’s last alphabetically. * 179. Colonial America. Milestones along the eastern end of the Mason-Dixon Line were marked on either side with the crests of these 2 men. * 180. American Authors. The year before his 1809 birth, his parents acted in “King Lear,” leading scholars to believe he was named for a “Lear” character.

Yeah, but he WAS an author from somewhere around that time period so Middle Dude's guess-answer was better than if he'd written Art Gurfunkel.