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12 hours ago, Etta Place said:
The validity of “before your time” aside, if you go on jeopardy and you haven’t studied presidential assassinations and near-assassinations, you haven’t done your job. Everyone standing there in silence on Hinckley was inexcusable.
(small voice: I couldn't think of Hinkley, and I live in the area that his mother does. He's in the newspaper sometimes when the legal system is figuring out how much time he can spend out of the hospital. I believe he's currently living with his mother and brother. I knew what the answer was, but couldn't pull the name out.)
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Is anyone else watching Westminster dog show? It's an event I watch every year, though often recorded and then watched.
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I’ll get an asterisk for FJ today too!
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Starz westerns channel recently changed their lineup, adding Wyatt Earp, moving Big Valley a half hour later. They still have Laramie, then Maverick, and then Cheyenne. Cheyenne ends after the local news starts, so we don't often watch it. I wish they'd switch the times for Maverick and Cheyenne; I don't care for many of the Maverick episodes. On the other hand, I usually skip Maverick to get some household chores done, so there's that.
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Week 22: 4/5
YTD: 55/110 6*
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2 hours ago, Prevailing Wind said:
I kept second guessing myself - instead of Jane Eyre, I thought of The Turn of the Screw and said Henry James. Then I went back to Charlotte, and back to Henry. It was a real dilemma for me until I realized J! likes the Brontes.
2 hours ago, GreekGeek said:I said Henry James too. I thought the description in the clue fit the Turn of the Screw governess better than Jane Eyre. Much of the book is devoted to Jane's romance and eventual marriage, so I didn't associate her with "spinster". And yet Charlotte Bronte was making the point that a Victorian heroine does not have to be beautiful to make for interesting reading, so I guess someone decided "plainness = spinsterhood."
I also guessed Henry James for Turn of the Screw.
I've read a couple of Jane Smiley books (Moo and A Thousand Acres), so I knew her right away.
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43 minutes ago, Clanstarling said:
My husband did too.
As did I.
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Another proof that yelling the answer at the tv doesn't work! Dodge City!!!
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6 hours ago, AnimeMania said:
Not true, if Abishola truly respected her elders, she would already be married to Chewymoccha (Chukwuemeka) or Bob. Abishola would never let Auntie or Uncle talk her into doing something she doesn't want to do.
Abishola is still married to her first husband, I think. Anyway, respect doesn’t mean to me that she follows all their wishes/command. Rather, she considers and acts respectfully even while taking her own path.
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After re-watch, I thought that all had points to their side.
Abishola was raised to respect her elders and doesn't understand why Bob and his siblings are so disrespectful of their mother. She didn't see how the children were raised (and neither have we) so she doesn't know what Dot was like as a mother. From what we've seen so far, she was probably difficult to get along with, and didn't treat her children with kindness and respect.
It's a sad situation all the way around. Dysfunctional families can be so difficult and complicated.
Have we heard anything about Abishola's parents and upbringing? That would color her perspective, too.
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Taking the college admissions topic here.
My dad went to college in about 1941. (Enlisted in 1942, post Pearl Harbor, but that's a different discussion.) He was having too much fun to be doing well with studies & grades, so his parents received a letter from the dean, expressing concern and warning them that he was not likely to pass the semester. Those were the days of in loco parentis. Over the years, the age of majority has changed, such as for being able to vote. So now, it seems as though the parents have less contact with the college, etc., and the students have more.
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On 1/30/2020 at 12:00 PM, ErinV said:
Once again in FJ, Alex did his thing where he presses the contestant to say what they wrote, when it was clearly a wrong answer. The woman who wrote her husband's name kept shaking her head, like she knew it was wrong. Why does he insist on doing that? It's just embarrassing for the contestant, who already feels bad because they got it wrong.
On 1/30/2020 at 12:41 PM, saber5055 said:In this case, I suspect AT already knew what she had written, and she got a shout out to her husband which would have been "illegal" if she had written it along with a real/wrong answer. She might have been spooked because writing shout outs was declared against Jeopardy law during James' run. Much of the time, there is a tell cluing us to AT knowing what everyone has written for FJ. I imagine that player and her husband and family watching at home got a kick out of it, now that the show has aired and the result is known. JMHO.
She was the one who snuck her children’s initials on her signature display as well. I didn’t feel a bit annoyed that Alex pressed her on the FJ answer.
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Week 21: 1/5
YTD: 51/105 6*
Bad week, and I've slipped below 50%. 😩
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I was happy Anna Kat got her cookie win. I guessed that Taylor got accepted. However, it used to be that college acceptance notifications came with a thick envelope with info and paperwork; thin envelopes meant rejection. Has that changed?
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7 hours ago, Whimsy said:18 hours ago, AuxArx said:
I was waiting for our local celebrity Mary Steenburgen to show up, and there she was.
Was the guy at the end, with the mail and the little light following him, anybody?
I'm pretty sure that was kurt braunohler, although he's not credited with being on the finale (yet, at least)
Yep, that was him; it's up on IMDB now.
Loved seeing Mary Steenburgen!
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What does "episode" in the little blue box denote?
Example in All Rise:
S01.E13: What The Bailiff Saw
By WendyCR72, January 12 (Next to this is the little blue box with episode, it's a link, but what's the purpose?)
Thanks.
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@SyracuseMug It was hyperlexia. Has to do with precocious reading ability. Google to get a better description.
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Re: Valentine hearts, I’m so confused! 😯
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6 hours ago, Adgirl said:
I thought she was a flake at first too but I also wondered if maybe she knew she was sick by then and figured a big vacation with her daughter would be a better use of her money.
Yes, a bit of a flake. Who plans a big vacation with her newly-wed daughter without discussing it first?
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2 hours ago, Katy M said:
ETA: I looked it up and found NECCO hearts that said "Beep Me." I did NOT find any that said "Page me." I also did not do an exhaustive search because quite frankly I have better things to do. Or, not, but either way.
Well, all righty then. That would explain accepting "Beep Me." Not the answer they were looking for, but still correct. Thanks!
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1 hour ago, SHD said:
I think it was the other way around (but could be remembering wrong), but I agree that neither is more right than the other! That was an odd judgment call.
You're right; I looked it up on J! Archive.
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I call foul on the Valentine’s hearts clue, rejecting “page me,” then accepting “beep me,” when the answer was supposed to be “fax me”!
Also Sarah’s story, wanting to visit all the California state parks, but having no idea how many, seems ridiculous to me. I also find that head toss thing she does a bit annoying. But her voice is fine.
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56 minutes ago, saber5055 said:
I think of Sandberg every time I cross the Spoon River, which is whack since that poem was by Masters. Good thing that wasn't a FJ.
We lived in Illinois for a few years, and in Canton IL for less than a year. I had read Spoon River Anthology, and was able to visit the cemetery that was inspiration for it.
When my DD was living in New Hampshire, we were able to visit the Robert Frost farm at Derry.
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9 hours ago, saber5055 said:
Well, OUCH. I'd never suggest someone has bad taste in books just because they like something different than I do. Books are a personal and private journey for the reader. I would never denigrate someone for having a better trip than someone else.
I'm so sorry! That isn't what I meant to suggest at all. I am sorry.
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S03.E15: A Boyfriend's Ex-Wife and a Good Luck Head Rub
in Young Sheldon
I have never liked Reba McEntire, but she and Connie played well off each other.
How far would the students have to go from campus to Sheldon's house? How far would John have to bike to get to the bar? I can hand wave that, though it took me out of the story a bit.