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I didn't get FJ until Alex made his comment, right before the answer was revealed. And, although I went to grad school in AZ, it wasn't at U of P, but the football stadium is really nice. I wouldn't call an FJ that two contestants missed a Kids' Week level FJ. All three contestants seemed pretty bright to me. All the clues are easy if you know the answers.

I put a dash cam in my car, and it's one of the smartest investments I've made. As a recovering insurance agent, I can't tell you how many clients I've seen get completely screwed over by unscrupulous people who think every accident is a windfall.I paid about $50 for my dash cam. I haven't had an accident yet, but it did help me get out of a bad ticket. I was pulled over for speeding almost immediately after I'd turned out of a Target parking lot. There's no way I could have been speeding since the speed limit was 45 and I'd literally just entered the damn road. Anyway, the cop insisted he'd been watching me speed for several blocks. I tried showing him my Target receipt, which would've proved I'd just left the store, but he wouldn't hear it. So I challenged the ticket. I took my little usb stick to court and played it for the judge. Turns out, another car 'like' mine had gone very fast past me in the center lane when I pulled out into the right one. That was the car he'd been watching, not mine. Dumb ass. *When I say a car like mine, I mean my car is a white four door hybrid sedan and the other car is a silver two door convertible coupe. Practically twins, really. Anyway, if you can swing it, a dash cam is a good investment.

I don't understand why this, and every other police show I watch, feels a need to constantly put the main characters in peril. I guess it's supposed to up the suspense, but for me it just rings hollow and silly. SVU is a prime example; how many people have tried to kill Olivia? On this show, Jane has been in danger a ridiculous amount of times. Maura has had her scrapes too.I know police work is dangerous, but if you watched too many of these police dramas and didn't know better you'd think you're going to spend your life with people planning elaborate schemes to hurt you!

A friend of mine owned a restaurant and had no clue what he was doing. The food was amazing, but as a business owner, he was completely ill-equipped. For example, some scammer called him and pretended to be the power company. They said they'd cut off his power if he didn't pay them $2,000 in prepaid debit cards from 7-11. Now, your average person with connected brain cells would say, "Well, that doesn't sound right. I'm not going to do that." Did he? Nope. He paid them. After he finally thought about it, he called me for advice because I wrote his insurance at the time. I'd actually had the foresight to cover him for something like this with a crime policy, but he never did get his paperwork together in order for me to get his dumb ass reimbursed. (You'll notice that I wrote "owned a restaurant," not "owns a restaurant." He got his startup loan through the SBA as well. I'm not saying they don't do good work, but I agree that some people don't need to be in business for themselves or should at least take a damn class or two first.

I thought the second episode of this season was better than the first, but the show isn't at the level it was during season 1. I'm not sure why that is, but I still enjoy it enough to continue watching.

Funny, I thought it was abject stupidity. Politics aside, she was a vile woman. "Hottie" my ass. Her children need to be permanently removed. I don't know if they mentioned that they were, but she's never going to get her act together. She has no incentive to.

Hi, everyone. I'm trying to find out if there have been new episodes this week since I'm only able to watch on weekends now. Have any of you had new episodes? I'm trying to figure it out from your posts, but I must be dense tonight because I can't tell.

You guys covered the high points really well, so I'll just add to the WU love. My goodness, it has improved leaps and bounds this season. I would've loved it if Leslie Jones had come out after that kiss, but other than that it was perfect. The jokes were fantastic, and I loved the Riblet appearance. I've never seen The Bachelor, but I still felt like I knew the character Cecily was doing. I called dibs on Kate a long time ago. I'd even make out with her in that ridiculous fish costume. She's so awesome. I wonder if we'll get Keenan playing Steve Harvey in a sketch based on the Little Big Shots show.

I know it's always suspicious when people over-explain things in their 911 calls. That's just not normal to do. You find your spouse dead and the first thing out of your mouth is a lengthy siloloquy about your day, setting up your alibi? Guilty.

Well then, in my case, it's totally working.I'm so glad the guy on the end lost. His attitude once he realized he would lose was abhorrent.

I can't remember specifics but it's definitely happened.More frequently we'll see someone in second or third who doesn't bet enough to cover the leader and would have won if they'd bet smarter.

I'm a lifelong fan of all Philly teams (born and raised) and I couldn't get Connie Mack to come out, even though I knew it. They should take my Philly fan card away. Really, they should. Then I could at least root for winning teams instead of suffering through baseball, football, hockey, and basketball season every year.

Those of you who are regulars here know I'm one of the staunchest defenders of people who receive food stamps, Section 8, welfare, and other social programs. I just need to establish my bleeding heart street cred before I post what I want to say about the defendant in this case:If you can afford a jaccuzzi and a swimming pool, you don't need me (and Byrd) to pay your damn rent, you freaking moocher. I built my house in 2010. Or I should say I had it built. If I'd built it, it wouldn't be still standing. Anyway, one of the things I really wanted was a pool. It's almost a necessity when you live in Arizona. I could have financed a pool, but decided against it because it would have cost more per month than I budgeted for, and I refuse to be house poor. So I decided to wait to get the pool installed until it made more sense financially. Who knew I could just get you all and Byrd to pay half my mortgage and therefore afford a pool?

Exactly. We all know why it was done, but that doesn't make it any more interesting to watch. It was frustrating and overdone. They could have shown Eli struggling to hear it and still let us know what the heck was being said!

I feel for Eric and his family. No one should have their life taken away in such a manner. I have a brother who has always been a player. He's also a musician, so he's a walking stereotype. I shudder to think this type of thing could happen to him but it could. I know he'll say anything he needs to just to get into a woman's pants. I can tell you there's a long trail of broken hearts he's left behind, too. I don't know how long Eric had been seeing his Katrina, but I suspect he wasn't honest with her about his (lack of) intentions. She claimed he professed that he loved her. I don't know if that's true or not, but often people will say anything to get you into bed. I know it sounds naive, but Eric owed it to the women he was dating to tell them straight up that he wasn't looking for something serious and that he wasn't a one-woman man. There's no shame in that (for a person of either gender) but it's not nice to play with people's hearts and emotions. Katrina was clearly unstable but I'm not all that surprised that a so-called ladies' man finally met a lady who didn't take kindly to being played. This was such a sad case. I hope my brother watched it.

My comment to the friend with whom I watched this episode was, "I'm so tired of shows trying to convince me that family members with no respect for boundaries are enjoyable to watch." If I decided to sleep in on a rare day off and have massive amounts of sex or, more likely, treat myself to a bingeathon, anyone who dared to interrupt that would be summarily dismissed in such a way that they'd never attempt to do it again. Call before you come over, if you want me to answer the door. If you can't get me on the phone, assume I'm unavailable. My friend pointed out that if she couldn't get me on the phone she might come over out of fear something bad may have happened to me. To which I replied, "Well, your coming over wouldn't make me any less dead!" Anyway, I'm so over this show. I'm hate-watching with the rest of you, but I don't know if I'll make it to the finale.

We didn't have beach rental money, but some friends and I rented a couple of adjoining hotel rooms after graduation. My older sister let me use her ID for alcohol, but I didn't really know what I was doing. I bought some shitty beer and boxed wine because I had no clue and just bought was was cheap. Anyway, we all drank, went swimming, played cards, and danced to a little boom box we'd brought along. None of us got ridiculously drunk or destroyed any property. I don't know that we were particularly good kids. We just knew we could barely afford what little we were doing. Paying for damages beyond the money we were already spending was out of the question. I think these kids had a little too much money and too little sense. That's what happens when you indulge them and treat them like their shenanigans are cute. JJ would have eviscerated these little shits. And that lead defendant is going to look like Mama June if she doesn't get her weight under control. She's way too big to be her age, and I wonder if the others didn't befriend her simply because she could secure liquor and rentals for them.

I was born in late 1972 and got FJ before Alex finished reading the clue. The key to the clue was "anthemic." I couldn't think of another song that was anthemic from that time period.My mother watched with me and was surprised I knew it. I guess people really do think you can't know things that happened before you were born. That's strange to me. I'm glad to have a new champ. I don't know why, but I wasn't a fan of the last one. She seemed perfectly pleasant, but I just didn't like her. I thought maybe her stories were boring because she hasn't done much, but yesterday she mentioned how frequently she travels. Surely she could have come up with something more interesting than people asking her for directions. (And don't call me Shirley.)

Luckily for me, I have about 15 new episodes sitting on my DVR I just haven't gotten to watch yet, thanks to my insane schedule. I may have to unplug everything else this weekend and do a JJ binge, which will obviously need to be followed by a JJ cleanse. In case you're wondering, a JJ cleanse involves copious amounts of alcohol to help me forget the trainwrecks we see on the show.

No way in h-e-double hockey sticks is that old-ass woman 44.I know black doesn't crack, but I'm turning 44 this year and look a quarter of her age. My mom is 73 and looks half her age! I think she's lying. Some women do that. My brother's wife, who I don't like because he works two jobs so she can sit on her enormous ass all day, has been lying about her age for years. When he first met her, he was 30. She was claiming to be 35, but we all told him to check her license. I thought she was at least 50 back then. Now she looks like our former governor, Jan Brewer: the crypt keeper. ETA: That was uncharacteristically nasty of me. I think JJ picking on the litigant with the bad eye put me in a foul mood.

Cedar Crest.

What you describe is my uncle, exactly. The only black people I've ever seen him around are his family. He won't date within his race. (FTR - I'm not against interracial relationships at all and have had my share of relationships with people of different races, but I also happily date within my own race.) He lives in a predominantly white neighborhood and spends most of his time on the golf course with his rich, white friends. But you go into his house, and it looks like he bought out the inventory from a local African art store. He is always going on and on about black issues and is quick to complain about white people, but he only dates white women. It's the strangest dichotomy to me, but whatever. He's also abusive to his partners, physically and mentally, so I don't think our black community is missing him in the dating pool! He is married to Angela Bassett. That in and of itself is enough to make me jealous. Add his acting ability to it, and I should despise him. Thirded (or fourthed) I have had that print for as long as I can remember, and I think I got it from my parents.

I got Bernard correct; one of my best friends from HS went there. At least your alma mater gets asked about on Jeopardy. My grad school (Arizona) gets an occasional mention, but my undergrad college has never gotten a mention. It's a small, private women's college in Pennyslvania. I could see them asking about it during the TOC, but even then it would probably be a triple stumper.

Well said.

Let the recovering insurance agent shed some light on it: An SR22 is required when someone has had multiple serious traffic violations. I had one client who needed one because he'd had 2 DUIs. One DUI is serious to me, but most people with one DUI don't need an SR22, unless it was an extreme DUI. It's not an insurance policy per se, it's verifying that you have one. They will also require an SR22 if you've had an accident and didn't have any insurance (proof of financial responsibility) at the time of it. Most standard insurance carriers won't write you if you need an SR22. The ones that do charge an arm and a leg. Usually you have to have an SR22 for 3 years, so it's a steep penalty. Of course, your average JJ litigant won't get one; they'll just drive illegally.