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I was disappointed that nobody knew Roz Chast; I love her work!
I also knew figuratively, prohibitionist, pulchritudinous, and carbohydrates.
FJ was right up my alley, but I thought it might be hard for non-classicists. Obviously Ovid is better known than I thought.
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On 1/25/2019 at 4:35 PM, mansonlamps said:
Does anyone follow youtube cooking channels? I really like https://www.youtube.com/user/flavcity and https://www.youtube.com/user/MindOverMunch for keto and meal prep ideas.
I don't know about making me a better cook, but there are three YouTube channels that I really like:
The Anti-Chef. He started out cooking from Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking and has since branched out to other classic cookbooks. You really root for the guy to try again when he screws up.
B. Dylan Hollis specializes in cooking retro dishes, especially desserts, both good and bad. You need some tolerance for his cutesy vocabulary, like calling baking powder "floof powder" and eggs "eggies."
Cooking the Books. Another channel specializing in dishes from vintage cookbooks. Anna, the cook, is much calmer than Hollis, and she doesn't treat food trends of the past condescendingly.
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15 minutes ago, shapeshifter said:
Not my field of knowledge, but here's the clue for you to parse:
- Dutch gives us the name of these baked treats, an afternoon tea staple
Thanks for the exact phrasing. I guess one could argue that cookies aren't a staple of afternoon tea the way scones are, but the rest of the clue definitely fits.
I thought of joke on Frasier: Frasier tells the waitress at his favorite coffee shop that when she serves a biscotto to his blue collar dad Martin, she should call it a "cookie." (Of course, Martin knew the correct name, having worked with Italians.)
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I can't find the exact wording of the clue, but would "cookie" have been an acceptable answer instead of "scone"? It's also of Dutch origin, from "koekje" ("little cake').
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On 2/22/2024 at 10:20 AM, Spartan Girl said:
The one line I did like was about how Gore Vidal was probably celebrating Truman’s downfall “voodoo doll in hand.” Now why couldn’t we have had a Feud series about those two instead?!
Or Truman Capote vs. Jacqueline Susann! The author of Serious Fiction vs. the best-selling potboiler novelist!
Are we going to get an Ann Woodward-centric flashback? I've found her the most intriguing and tragic character thus far.
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On 2/9/2024 at 3:01 PM, jah1986 said:
Wow, that was stressful. I knew Ian would not take the eventual breakup well, but that was a mess. I didn't think Emma would have the affair with the headmaster, but what do I know. I saw the film once years ago and promptly forgot everything about it.
In fairness to you, the film omitted the affair with the headmaster.
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The visit to see his dying mother was one of the most poignant parts of the book, and I was happy that the series did it justice.
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On 2/9/2024 at 3:46 PM, jah1986 said:
Not sure I remember anything about the movie, not even the leads. Was it Anne Hathaway? Who was the male lead?
Anyway, these two are likeable and I'm curious how it will go forward.
Yes, Anne Hathaway played Emma (very miscast) and Jim Sturgess played Dexter.
I’m glad it was made into a miniseries, so that there’s time to develop parts of the book that the movie left out.
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I bought sheets of all those stamps relating to women's sports, so I should have known FJ. Instead I came up with L (Roman numeral for 50).🙄
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11 hours ago, Kimmmmmm said:
Already know who I'm rooting against
Who, and why?
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I knew Flowers for Algernon only via the movie Charly so I missed FJ. My only thought was The Maze Runner. I did know sphagnum, Get Smart, and Cyprus though.
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4 hours ago, Cotypubby said:
The Dune question confused me because I thought it was asking for the name of a real planet that Dune was based on. Not the real name of the planet in the book. 🤦♀️
For FJ I thought they meant the quote inspired Neil Armstrong but that didn’t help get the answer. I also said Magellan just to say something but I had no idea. Even had I connected the quote to Star Trek there is no way I’d have made the leap to Captain Cook.
I’m thinking that we should make a rule for FJ questions about explorers: “It’s never Magellan.” A few weeks ago there was that trick question about Columbus thinking he was in India, and then last night’s. Magellan seemed plausible both times, and was the wrong answer both times.
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If Mason had bet small on that second DD, would he have kept his runaway score? That was a real twist ending!
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Thank you, all who explained why we’re still seeing ex-champs brought back. I watched on YouTube because I wasn’t home at 7, and I thought “Didn’t we just do this?” when I heard the introduction.
I agree about the number of TS’s, especially in the plays category. I guess none of them are playgoers.
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19 hours ago, Spartan Girl said:
RIP to one of the most terrifying movie mothers of all time. I am of course referring to Carrie. I love that Piper insisted on keeping in Margaret’s “Red, I might have known known it’s be red” line in the movie, even when the dress was changed to pink, because it showed just how off her rocker that bitch was.
It was always pink from the beginning. But yes, the fact that she disapproved of a modest pink dress shows how extreme she was. I was a bit surprised at first by how different Piper Laurie's Margaret was from the book's, where she was described as very large and unattractive. Laurie made her more of a Southern fundamentalist than the New England Puritan that King imagined. But she was certainly memorable!
For a look at her playing a very different character, check out The Hustler, where she played Paul Newman's depressed alcoholic girlfriend.
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3 hours ago, ams1001 said:
October 9:
77% / 73% / 74%
Couldn't help rooting for Camron after his story about his babies.
Is it just me or are they giving them an awful lot of chances to get to the right answer...?
I'm still standin'
Camron's was such a tragic story!
Love the shot of Bruno Tonioli (Dancing with the Stars) in the black outfit.
I briefly became obsessed with heavyweight boxing in the 1970's, so I knew Rocky Marciano. I also knew all the "I'm Still Standing" clues, plus the fun fact that Nancy's death was a highlight of Dickens's public readings.
I did figure out George Eliot, but for some reason I thought she was earlier.
I thought the BMS requests were a bit much, considering all the other times people were allowed to leave things unspecified.
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9 hours ago, ams1001 said:
Found two videos and they were both crap so I was further annoyed (seriously, if you're going to go to the trouble of putting them up, why do you make them unwatchable? They were both crap in the same way, too).
Also, LBJ took office in November, so an April declaration wouldn't make sense there, either.)
I love that Ken did the human pyramid with Emily and her brother and husband. (Since I missed the story when I first turned on the TV, I had no idea what was going on! But the crap video at least didn't cut the sound on that part so I heard it afterward.)
The YouTube videos are a mixed bag. Some days they're fine--maybe a weird angle during FJ--and other days they're, as you say, crap. I played one last week that had around 10 minutes of chickens in a yard!
I also said Andrew Johnson and LBJ for FJ, but I thought the national day of mourning was for Martin Luther King (who was slain in April) and not JFK. Of course, I was off by about 20 years, but I became fixated on assassinations and not deaths from natural causes.
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21 hours ago, anniebird said:
Why wasn't Demeter an acceptable answer - aren't Demeter and Ceres the same? Did the question specify Roman and I missed it?
They are the same, but since the planets (including dwarf planets) use the Roman names, the Greek name wasn't correct.
Anyone else annoyed with Jill for coming in last after having such a huge lead after day 1? But good for Hari for a great come from behind win!
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7 hours ago, Ancaster said:
Knowing where Paul McCartney was born seems pretty KG level Jeopardy to me. Certainly not Double Jeopardy worthy. Just me?
The Beatles split up more than 50 years ago, so Kids These Days might not know even basic trivia about them.
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Nice to have J! back and "see" everyone again.
Good game! Does the decision to lead off the season with a Second Chance Tournament have anything to do with the writers' strike? I haven't followed every detail of how it affects the new TV season.
I wondered if "Kilmer" would have been judged correct, without adding "Val"?
I knew owl, hare, Orlando, Bocaccio, the Thebes DD, Ionian Sea, and soliloquy. Blew FJ though--I got stuck on the abdication of Edward VIII and thought, "Elizabeth II! No, she succeeded her dad...George VI! No, he succeeded his brother..." and never got around to Victoria. Gabriel must be kicking himself for adding "II."
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I watched Heroes for Sale on Loretta Young Day. It’s pre-Code, released at the height of the Depression in 1933. Young’s role is relatively small; it’s Richard Barthelmess’s movie. He gets injured in World War I, becomes hooked on morphine, moves out of town after a stay at a sanitarium, finally becomes a successful businessman and marries Young, only to have an invention he championed lead to a riot by workers who were put out of work because of it. Then things get even worse. It’s a really bleak movie; “We’ll get through it somehow” is as close as it comes to an uplifting ending. Very much worth seeing, though.
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On 11/9/2022 at 11:18 AM, GHScorpiosRule said:
And what kills me in "Lucy Hires an English Tutor" is how Ricky can't pronounce "boughs" when he's reading. I know it was played for laughs, but he did sing "Rock-a-Bye Baby" two episodes previously. Clearly he had to read the lyrics to learn them, right?
Not necessarily. He could have learned the lyrics without ever seeing them written out. They're not that complicated, even for someone whose first language isn't English.
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On 8/15/2023 at 4:50 PM, Quof said:
By that reasoning, Forest Whitaker and Charlize Therson should return their Oscars won for playing horrible humans?
No, because their movies didn’t expect you to see them as Good People.
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No more Nabisco Chocolate Wafers! I don't know how many people here still make icebox cakes or chocolate cookie crumb crusts, but this made me sad.
Fortunately the article I linked suggests some alternatives.
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The Baking Topic
in Food & Drink
I'm the same; I'll bake multiple cakes in a week but put off making a pot of soup for myself--maybe because I like to think about baking making others happy. I also like the exactitude of baking and the fact that I'm not expected to tinker with the recipe.