GreekGeek

They had one on 11/8/22, the second anniversary of his death. Maybe they could do that on 11/8 (or the Friday before if the date is on a weekend) every year.

I can't stand the ad for Saatva mattresses where the wife makes her point by grabbing her husband's sandwich off his plate and squishing it. Gross! And I'm creeped out by the crazy glint in her eyes.

Doctors Without Boundaries. A takeoff on "Doctors Without Borders". I was sorry Jake didn't last longer--though the haters will be happy--but good for Patti. When she was introduced, I thought she was the sort of sweet old lady the younger contestants usually run roughshod over. I'm glad I was wrong.

Interesting...I was thinking that because it was from Greek, there are no silent letters.

I would have given you credit--"Carthago" is the Latin name. I didn't think "mnemonic" should have been included in the "silent and not silent letters" category. The "m" kind of blends with the "n", but it's not silent.

I was surprised by all the TS’s in Nursery Rhymes. The contestants were all young, so I wondered if parents just don’t sing them to kids anymore. For “Baa baa black sheep,” though, I always knew the last line as “for the little girl…” and not “boy.” There was even a Jodie Foster movie called “The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane.” UO: I don’t mind any of Jake’s quirks. If he isn’t neurotypical, that makes me root for him even more.

Do you answer in Paul Lynde's voice? I thought of him rather than Match Game, although I used to watch it as well as Hollywood Squares.

I'm glad I wasn't the only one thinking this. I got worried when he came within catching distance of Troy. This was one time I was hoping for a runaway!

I always thought it was funny given his name that he was a broker!

I wondered if "theft" would have been acceptable as an alternative to "fraud." It's not exactly the same, but it seems wrong to look for a specific five-letter word when asking about a work most English speakers have probably read in translation and not the original Italian. On FJ, I thought of Updike and Roth before I remembered the category name and came up with Nabokov.

Right, they were Space Food Sticks. They popped up on this thread back in 2017, around pages 10-11.

Close. There was once a bad tv show called Pink Lady and Jeff.

I know Eddie, of course, but I don’t remember Tutti. I am guessing you meant Tooey, though I’m not sure that’s how to spell his name either. I don’t remember him doing anything particularly bad or stupid. He was the “nerdy” one of Wally’s friends. (Played by “Tiger” Fafara, brother of Stanley “Whitey” Fafara).

I'm trying to imagine someone using *that* body part to judge a gladiator contest! This is the first time I noticed Ken channeling Alex with "Before your time." I remember looking forward all week to Hill Street Blues on Thursday nights!

Here's a story about the disappearance of Stoned Wheat Thins.

The host chooses.

XTreme Latin can help. I knew Joe Frazier, having gone through a fascination with boxing in the 1970's after the first Ali/Frazier fight. I also got Rubicon and Linda Evans. No clue about FJ until I did the math and came up with 1972. Here are some of the alternate choices for Godfather characters.

Potato chowder.

I never thought of corn chowder as "Kid Cuisine" either. Tomato soup and grilled cheese, maybe. I always associate corn chowder with The Devil Wears Prada, where Andy orders it for lunch on her first day at Vogue and gets snark for eating something so fattening. Yes, I too was surprised that there was no Mac and Cheese clue, and add Chicken Nuggets. I knew the Fish Sticks DD, along with DAR, Tacoma, Battery, and tract. I figured out FJ although it took awhile. I did not realize Isabel Allende has lived in the US for years, and wondered why the category wasn't titled "International Authors."

Three 6 Mafia's Gangsta Boo is dead at 43. About the only thing I know about Three 6 Mafia is that their "Hard Out Here for a Pimp" beat out Dolly Parton's "Travelin' Thru" at the Oscars, but 43 is way too young to die.

In fairness to him, he was played by another cartoon character named Gerald McBoing-Boing, who elsewhere "spoke" solely in sound effects. But has there ever been a Tiny Tim who seemed like a real child and not a plot device to melt Scrooge's cold heart?

Sometimes books become known by an abbreviated title that is deemed acceptable. Thus we have Alice in Wonderland rather than Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz rather than The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, or Tom Jones rather than The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling. That was a really exciting game today. I love it when all three are serious contenders right up to the end. I did wonder whether they wanted the Greek or the Roman name or both in FJ.

I still use the Netflix DVD service, but I miss the more obscure titles it used to carry. It was a shock to see my queue abruptly reduced by more than half.😪

TCM just showed a movie I had never heard of but which a number of people seem to remember with great affection: All Mine to Give. It seemed like two different movies: the first half dealing with a Scottish immigrant couple's life in frontier Wisconsin in the 1850's, and the second half about their six young children after the death of the parents. On Christmas Eve, the oldest boy has to find new homes for his brothers and sisters. Rather grim stuff for the holidays, but a lot of sweet and funny scenes too. Cameron Mitchell and Glynis Johns were the parents, and there were some faces familiar from TV also. Alan Hale Jr. (Skipper!) was a lumberjack boss, and Reta Shaw did her best "haughty old biddy" shtick as an unpleasant church lady. Patty McCormick played the oldest sister, and it was nice to see her as a good girl in contrast to her role as the murderous Rhoda Penmark in The Bad Seed.

My Life as a Dog, which came out in 1985, so not a 70's movie. I didn't know it either, because I *whisper* have never seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Too many "quoters" have made me think, "Eh, I've pretty much heard all the good bits already." Sean may well turn out to be a multi-day champ, so hang on. I don't dislike long streaks, but I do dislike too many runaways. I was surprised that out of 3 contestants, one came up with a three word phrase that is French (which admittedly came from Latin), one forgot the "three word" part of the clue, and the champ had no idea. They either never saw The Silence of the Lambs or forgot the moment Anthony Hopkins says "Quid pro quo" to Jodie Foster.