Jesse

So the Machia DL was just delayed? Woot! Unbreakable cookware -- Corelle? Corningware? I'm not going anywhere with this. Blue elixir - Curacao? You know the Caribbean always makes me think of calypso music.

Cheers!

So, who can explain why it's Day the one weekend I'm busy, and Night when I am trying to kill time at work????

Seriously. NB: That's a very solemn "Cheers." You can tell by the period.

I liked Maria! She won me over with a well-constructed and cute anecdote.

Whoa, what? A mug of the finest ale for Joxer and Drogo!

Thanks, Drogo. I've had free-floating suspicions about Lady Calypso, but nothing concrete to point to, which is why I didn't try to turn anyone else against her. I figured, if there was anything there, other people would see it, and if it was just me, I should keep it to myself. So I totally get it, Lisin.

Well, I'd love to know why anyone would think I'm a villain. I feel like I've been participating and trying to figure out who is what, same as anyone else. Maybe not as well as anyone else, but folks have had differing opinions on the strengths of the clues, no?

Yikes, you guys! Usually I'd have no problem with a weekend Day, but I just missed this whole one! Thank you for not DLing me, at least. (I would have been a vote for Machiabelly, obviously.)

A lot of people would argue with you about the state of rap and hip-hop today, but I'm not the right person to do it, and this definitely isn't the right place. I'm sure most people came up with a dish and then a name and/or a generic name that you could talk your way into "fitting" whatever your dish was.

Part of what is that it's not one movie, it's a series of like 10 movies at this point, between the big-cast Avengers movies and the individual movies for each major (male) character.

The thing that gives me comfort about Karen is the talking head clearly recorded way after the fact -- her haircolor is refreshed and she has a different style. So I'm hoping she makes it out of LCK, and that's not just from being a sous chef for the finale.

Yeah, that was dumb. "On the right track" like answering the Eiffel Tower when the answer is the Colosseum and the category is European Landmarks.

I guessed Lewis Carroll, just because I knew it was a pen name, and it had a W and an L. Why does that guy look just like the War Boy from Mad Max Fury Road?? Creepy.

It was Karen who missed losing last year's award for the first episode of this season, wasn't it?

I will say, I understand what Marcus was getting at with not selling clothes, etc., but I'm not sure about the semantic difference between a general store and a department store! Other than size. On the drum company, I was at a party recently (in Massachusetts) where someone brought one of those drums you sit on, and I wonder if it was literally one of those drums!

Woo hoo!!! (Although I'll pass on the Bloody Caesar, thanks.)

Ellen's done it on her show, too. So if you feel like you've seen it on TV, maybe you have!

You know, that seems obscure enough to actually be a clue in this game! And I don't have any good reason not to, so... 7 to DL aquarian1 (saoirse, HM, Drogo, Lady Calypso, Athena, Dougal, Jesse), 1 to tread water

Given that I don't have any specific information, my best hope is always that my noodling around with ideas will trigger someone else to come up with something better. (If I stop doing that, then I become one of the non-participants, and sometimes they look suspicious to the group as well!) And I don't think I tried to put anyone off the grouse clue, I just wasn't sold on it myself (wrongly, I guess?). I hope you agree that isn't suspicious in and of itself.

Should we be doing something with episode numbers? E.g., "Basil the Rat" Is season 2, ep 6.

Elderberries -- that Monty Python quote about your father smelt of elderberries? The genus is sambucus, according to wikipedia, if that goes anywhere? I just googled jerky, and there's a Lawless Jerky company, but that just brings me back to...Xena. Clean and jerk like in weightlifting??

I'll come back later today to look for clues...

Phew! Good one!

It's taking the product of the bees' work that's the issue.