SomeTameGazelle

Homer would have been too early to acknowledge the Romans at all, so I knew it had to be later. I did not like guessing Vergil and kicked myself for not thinking of Plutarch. However I couldn't imagine who was supposed to be the founder of Athens other than Athena and that obviously wasn't who Plutarch meant. (Apparently he compared Romulus to Theseus.)

For some reason I have been associating Plessy v Ferguson with tractors/farm equipment and did not make the connection to trains for FJ.

I really only know him from that utterly ridiculous Sarah Michelle Gellar series Ringer in which he played the handsome husband very handsomely. I do like Ioan but I am annoyed that I saw too much hype for this episode in advance so I anticipated too much and couldn't enjoy the story properly as it unfolded. To be honest when Angus popped up in NYC to meet Elsbeth and announced that he was by trade a fireman I really thought that meeting and their kiss was going to turn out to be just a lovely dream of Elsbeth's (which might have been followed up by a real meeting in the future). Since it was apparently real I am looking askance at him for apparently cavalierly disappointing his band's fans. It's not that I disliked the ep, it's that I did not enjoy it as much as I wanted to do and think I could have done under different circumstances.

I have found Domingo funnier than Sabado Gigante. The bad singing and the trainwreck of Kelsey & Matt's relationship manages to tickle me. I thought Andy really sold the Scottsdale story and I was amused to see Pedro Pascale but I spent too much time wondering about Kelsey's babies.

I have to say I can't understand objecting to acronyms. We say NASA, FIFA, PIN, etc without blinking an eye. JIT is fine by me.

I like both Matt and Hannah and it could easily have gone the other way under the circumstances. They both played very well. I enjoyed hearing about Hannah's visit with Mattea, Juveria, and Ray.

It seemed obvious that the use of the word direction had thrown them off. I had a very soft spot for Cleary's few teen novels (Jean and Johnny, and The Luckiest Girl, off the top of my head) but they were much more innocent than Judy Blume's. I enjoyed seeing Adriana and Isaac again and even stopped to listen to their anecdotes which I quite liked. (I normally listen to anecdotes in regular play, but sometimes in tournament play if the vibe has been wearing on me and there's a lack of joie de vivre I have to skip them.)

I didn't think it was presented as keeping the business solvent as much as it was about keeping himself rich, which is a different thing. There were no scenes of his caring about other family members, employees, or shareholders, or being at risk of becoming actually destitute.

I paused to think about it and as soon as I let Blossom go I managed to get from lizard to Wizard and made the leap to Waverly Place which I know nothing about other than the title. Tonight I had no idea re FJ and was thinking of Madeleine L'Engle or JK Rowling. I don't really enjoy the categories whose only feature is to cram so many irrelevant words into the clue that you have to throw 90% of it out in order to locate the key, so I threw up my hands at Meyer whoever. I managed to get to chip on one's shoulder. Neilesh knows a lot and is prepared to make big wagers that pay off. I respect that but I'm still rooting for Adriana. Hoping that she or Isaac win tomorrow.

I got stuck on the clue that mentioned the Russo children trying to change a letter in Blossom.

Although I knit, I have never been able to get the hang of crochet. Everything comes out lopsided and weird. I enjoyed Eric McCormack as well as Marcia DeBonis as Elsbeth's retreat buddy. And Wagner using baseball fandom logic to persuade the other Captain not to close the case on the murder Elsbeth had been on the jury for.

I think it was supposed to be a combination of business and personal motivation. Peter had always been jealous about Bill's popularity and it was deeply rooted in their childhood where he perceived that their mother loved Bill more. But when Bill opted out of the business and focused on charity, that also had a negative impact on Peter's business -- or at least Peter was sure he would be making more money if only Bill weren't pursuing his dream. And the cobalt played into that -- without Bill the value of cobalt went up and with it Peter's stock. The primary motive was greed but he was willing and able to murder his twin because he resented him personally. If it had been just the personal feelings he would have murdered him years ago. ETA: I have deleted the episode so can't double-check, but wasn't there a bit after Bill told Peter he was going to change his lifestyle where they put up a card that said something like "$3.6 billion later . . ."? It wasn't clear to me what the amount represented (what Bill had given away? What Peter had lost?) but I remember thinking about it.

I think he got distracted by the French part and overcomplicated it for himself.

It irks me that they're still having Ken say "best of 7" with the clarification of "first to 3" which is not the same thing. If contestant A wins the first 3, there is still the theoretical possibility that B or C could have bested them by winning all of the last 4. I was pleased that it was such a close game even though Isaac got both his DDs and Adriana lost hers. Go Adriana!

I told Goins not to do anything foolish and then when the clue came up I briefly hoped he would get grand mal and then realized that he didn't know. I was hoping he might recover but when I realised he ended DJ with half Neilesh's score I figured it would be very unlikely he could make it through. If Goins couldn't win I'm glad it was Neilesh.