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Took me longer than I should have, but as they were reading out the first (incorrect) response, an image of the Swiss guards popped into my head. A bit slow but I'll take the credit ;)
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1 hour ago, SoMuchTV said:
I remember my daughter, born in 1991, doing the Macarena as a toddler. So 1996 seemed way too late, but because I didn’t have a better alternative, I lucked into the right answer!
I am similarly aged to your daughter, and "won" a copy of Macarena as a young child. It was a dance contest to the song, and I'm pretty sure I won because I was the cutest (read: youngest).
After FJ tonight I was asking my mom about it, thinking I was maybe 5 or so, and she commented that the clue said 1996 - so I would have had to be older than that. I googled, and it was initially released in 1993, but the version with some English lyrics was released in 1996. Not sure exactly how old I was at the time of the contest, then.
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I can't watch Yogesh win. It is too painful.
I don't recall the last time I viscerally disliked a contestant so strongly - and I don't think I felt this way prior to his comments after his initial run.
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I finally got FJ! Been on a run of losses...but although the CIA was the first thing I thought of, I knew the Cuban missile crisis was in October, not November. NASA came to me at the last second - I wouldn't have had time to write it down, but I am counting it.
Sad to see Amy go. Bad luck that the DD in ologies wasn't a medical ology.
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2 hours ago, MissLucas said:
The writing for the ELITE team was horrible: a combo of teenagers on their worst day with added testosterone poisoning.
Also: Rosemary, Thyme and Jesse??? My OCD called and asked for some Basil.
Nobody checked Doctor Cruz's backstory to figure out if she had really arrived with the Russians? Two best teams on the island indeed.
I wanted there to be two more, called Parsley and Sage.
From the second they found Cruz I knew she was bad. Figured they were tying her up while everyone else was getting shot, so that she could play the victim when found.
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5 hours ago, proserpina65 said:
It's an alternate pronunciation for some things using the name Staunton but it is not the correct pronunciation for Imelda Staunton's name and therefore it was absolutely right that they did not accept it.
I completely agree with you, but mentally trying to justify this led me back down the Berry/Barry spiral. For that one, as far as I am concerned are both pronounced exactly the same, I cannot hear any difference regardless of the accent, and therefore feel both spellings should have been accepted. Do people genuinely not hear the difference between Stanton and Staunton in the same way I don't hear any difference between Berry and Barry?
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0/5 again for me :(
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2 minutes ago, chitowngirl said:
I sometimes don’t get the Connection even when it’s revealed! 😆. Those purple ones can be a REAL stretch. I dislike when there are five words that can be a connection. I then work on the other ones until one of the five is eliminated. Otherwise, I can run out of chances trying to eliminate one.
This is often what does me in, too!
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Athens made me think of Olympia so I went there. Obviously completely off-base, but there you go.
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Back to zero for me :(
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9 hours ago, Chaos Theory said:
If you don’t say Fornell I don’t know what show you are watching.
That being said I will say Diane Sterling is also a valid answer.
I'm watching the show where Fornell pulled a gun on a doctor just doing his job??
Irredeemable. Moreso because I got the feeling the writers wanted us to be rooting for Fornell as he did this. Really spoiled the character for me.
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7 hours ago, anna0852 said:
As excited as I am for the Artemis program and the return to the moon, I’m dreading the inevitable disaster that will occur. The only reason NASA hasn’t had another one by now is because they stopped flying the shuttles. If you look back over the timing from Apollo One to Challenger to Columbia, they’re all approximately 15 to 20 years apart. NASA is overdue and I sincerely hope that all of these culture changes that get thrown around every time something happens actually occurred this time.
Every generation needs to learn the lesson for themselves, it seems. And now, with so many people there who will be sending astronauts to space for the first time ever, it wouldn't surprise me at all for the cycle to repeat.
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Anyone except for Yogesh can win, thanks.
Although, I do want to watch him play against James.
Looking forward to seeing the rest back. I really like Amy so am happy she is back, but also sad that there are many other deserving candidates who don't get a chance.
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19 hours ago, Bastet said:
I was hella confident for FJ based on the category, but it turned out what you actually needed to know was British naval history, so I had no idea. I can name all the space shuttles, but not tell you how any one of them got its name. Off to look that up ...
I was also very confident based on the category - and I mean, there were only 6 shuttles, so I thought odds were good I could figure it out.
I didn't know that fact about Endeavour and Discovery - but somehow knew those were the two shuttles in question. I hadn't the foggiest idea, however, who the explorer might be, and so went with my default "No-idea-which-explorer" answer, which happens to be Cook (I did a project on him in grade 3, and don't remember much about him at all).
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1/5 for Sacramento
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2/5* with special thanks to @Clanstarling for allowing just "Scarface".
Uzbekistan was my other get.
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I enjoyed this episode, I thought it was one of the better ones the show has had.
It is weird though how Nikki seems to take a backseat in the show this season, and I could do without the drama of her boss, but the A plot was good.
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10 hours ago, proserpina65 said:
FJ seemed really easy to me but if you didn't know enough Latin to realize that argentum vivum mean living silver, you probably didn't. Not that I know a lot of Latin.
I translated it just fine, but didn't get beyond that. I mean, I did actually briefly think of mercury but then somehow convinced myself that the element was in fact just plain silver.
Tonight I was able to translate the "middle" part but didn't separate out the compound word well enough to get to night>midnight.
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I instantly knew "scarface" was the nickname being referenced but could not, for the life of me, dredge the name Al Capone from my brain. I could have written a paragraph on the man, but could not get the name out. In high school we did a trip to Chicago that included a gangster/crime tour, and I got a hair comb that was styled as a pocket knife.
Will leave it up to our FJ contest judge @Clanstarling if "scarface" is sufficient, though I don't think they would have accepted the nickname on the show.
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3/5 after a long streak of zeroes!
I got thymus, Gagarin and Rosetta Stone this week.
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Got FJ today! First thought of the plane crash with Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and JP Richardson, and couldn't think of anything analogous in the Soviet world. Then focused on "trailblazers", thought of Gagarin and remembered that he died in a plane crash so went with that. Happy for Andrew winning, though Pam certainly made him work for it.
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An emergency C section planned in advance?
I hope that's just an error in the official description, and not part of the actual plot.
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S21.E10: Reef Madness
in NCIS
I was genuinely surprised Jess took the job. I couldn't help but feel that her decision was made when Parker didn't tell her about Lily, yet I was still surprised when she said yes.
I thought they were going for a "Lily went overboard and drowned" angle.
My heart broke for Jimmy a bit, when Jess said yes. I think they are my two favourite characters, separately, and I do like them together when their relationship is mature and relatively drama-free. Not that Jimmy was really behaving that way in this episode, though.
I feel like they will move the job to DC and have Jess do both the training and NCIS part time...or have her just do 6-week blocks or something of training, a few times a year.