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The "Small" category reminded me of this: Q: How can you get out of the commodities market [or the cryptocurrency market] with a small fortune? A:

The lighting in that painting is incredible. As the linked article mentions, this is one of the paintings that were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston in 1990, and remain missing. There is some hope that the paintings might be recovered after the people who have them die.

Maybe Claire had watched "ER" and was thinking, "At least they didn't drop a helicopter on me."

Week 37: 3/5.

I can. Prospective contestants need to do a lot of studying, so they should have a basic background in Shakespeare, classic movies and books, etc.

“Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee," the Rembrandt painting from Thursday's FJ.

From today's clues: Stop motion: "The Wizard of Speed and Time" (1979) by Mike Jittlov Barbieheimer costume

With all the extra characters I had even more trouble than usual identifying them, even some of the men this time. Who was the man who got shot and stuffed into a trash can at the beginning? (And why did he put out a can that was almost empty?) I thought at first he was Wesley but we saw Wesley alive later.

I hope the chairs can be adjusted to swivel or not. On Downton Abbey, at one point the Dowager Duchess visited someone's office and sat in a chair that turned out to be a swivel chair.

Did they ever say why Sheldon got his name? In BBT, he once recounted an argument between his parents in which George said the name Sheldon was Mary's idea, but we don't know where it came from AFAIK. (In the real world, Sheldon and Leonard were named for Sheldon Leonard.)

If the correct reply is itself a question, is that enough? Or would you have to say "What is 'Who's on First?'"

Luckily the contestants do not bet the money in their pockets. AIUI it takes a while for their winnings to arrive, so they have to pay their own way to the airport.

3.5, no *.

Has anyone imagined a crossover of "Young Sheldon" and "King of the Hill"?

The word Boricua comes from Borinquen or Borikén, the name given to the Island by indigenous Taínos who inhabited Puerto Rico for hundreds of years before the Spanish arrived in 1493. I looked it up here so I'm posting this for anyone else who is less familiar with the word.

In the past few days I have received several emails about So Help Me Todd via change.org. Have other folks received these? I don't object to the messages but I wonder how they got my email address. I have not posted about SHMT anywhere besides here, IIRC.

Just curious -- if someone's pronoun is "they" should we say bravo or brava or something else? I looked up the plural in Italian and it's bravi (regardless of gender) so maybe that's the right word.

I watched the drama MaryLand on PBS and started laughing at a serious scene between two British sisters that went something like this: Sister 1: You went off to college and I had to deal with [family crisis]! Sister 2: I never even heard about [family crisis] until years later! Sister 1: We didn't tell you because [reasons]. So it's still your fault! Familiar, eh?

I hope they will have more animals next season. A quick view of a bull's head, a pig taking a few steps, and a parrot not related to the job are not enough IMO. We can see human soap opera on almost any show, but the animals make this one different.

I don't either. I wondered if their firm was somehow renting (paying for) two floors of the building but thought they had only one. If they could straighten that out, they would have to pay only half as much rent, which would help their financial situation.

There should have been, although we have all seen worse cases on other shows. Shall we call this type of error an "obfuscating omission"? I don't mean to complain about "So Help Me Todd" specifically. I'll miss this show, and I hope it finds a home somewhere.

Week 35: 3/5, no *. (Wednesday I had "Rigoletto" but no libretto so no point, but that evening I got the "Pirates of Penzance" FJ in Masters, so not a complete washout opera-wise.) YTD: 117/175, 16 *.

Yes. I'm still mourning Alaska Daily, which had a running theme of investigating disappearances of Indigenous women. Nope. This show is so serious, we could have used a laugh. Ormewood's recent work is more tolerable than the family drama though.

Ken sometimes wishes the contestants "Good luck" before the game begins. I think he means that he hopes they will not make mistakes that will keep them awake at night, like Isabella's bet or giving the title of a book when the clue asked for the author. Why he says "I'm sorry" when someone is wrong is beyond me, though; it takes up time.

My vision is not great and I have more trouble telling characters apart on this show than any other, specifically the many brunette women. I can usually recognize Nyla Harper and Celina Juarez, but sometimes I can't recognize the others unless there is a closeup. (I do recognize the redhead, and hope she will vanish soon.)