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I hate when the contestants avoid a category I know I'll probably be able to run. It happens a lot with sports categories. I was surprised they avoided the movie category. Christine has to be older than I am, so it certainly wasn't before her time! I don't know about the other two.I always root for contestants from Philly, so I was happy with the winner. I've never heard of that poem, though. She missed Linus Pauling, which I thought was really easy. So I guess we're even.

I have a saying I use. It's "Don't be a stereotype." I get embarrassed for people of my race, my sexual orientation, my gender, all of it. But, like momtoall said, I hope people understand that one of us isn't representative of all of us. I can say there are times when I see a headline about something that went down and say to myself, please don't let it be a black person. But that's only because I know there are ignorant people out there who think one represents all.

I think what I like about Christine is her gutsy DD wagers. I know there's strategy to not wagering a lot on a DD, particularly if you're just trying to ensure your opponents don't get them, but I really hate timid wagering. Of course, I'm speaking as a viewer. If I ever do make the show, my wagering would be dictated by the category. I know it was mentioned previously, but I don't know if it was ever confirmed. Have they really outlawed ties on Jeopardy?

I didn't realize it until I watched it this morning that the victim dog was a beagle. I have a beagle. If another dog, regardless of breed, attacked my beagle I'd to it exactly what JJ said Byrd would do: I'd shoot it. And I wouldn't feel an ounce of remorse about it. I have zero patience for dog owners/sitters who think it's okay to let dogs run loose. If your dog attacks my dog, you're not going to have a dog any longer. BTW, JJ is right about beagles. They are the sweetest dogs, but they're not too bright. I've decided to just consider my beagle to be stubborn, but that's just to make myself feel better.

Seriously??? Are you in Seattle? Otherwise I can't imagine why anyone on the west coast would care about this silly football story. I'm only a couple of hours from where the Super Bowl is being played, and I don't think the local stations here aired that press conference.

I don't find her humorless. I actually think she has a sense of humor, hence the retired homemaker moniker. Some may not find it funny, but I think that she thinks it's funny. And I go back to her Hitler story. Granted, not everyone liked it, although I thought it was funny. I think she has the kind of humor that people either get or don't get.

I had Dustin Hoffman and was quite pleased with myself. Oscars is not my best category. Initially I thought of Tom Hanks but quickly moved on since they'd just mentioned him. While I liked Brian, I can't feel too sorry for someone who has a chance to put the game away and only wagered $700. Maybe he wasn't comfortable with the category, but I like big bets (and I cannot lie). The current champ doesn't bother me at all. I haven't been annoyed with a contestant since that guy that sighed and groaned the entire episode.

I miss Philly, too! But not today when I see weather reports and I'm chilling in 70 degree temps!

You all should have watched People's Court today. We got a new word for the lexicon: alterfication. As in, "We got into an alterfication." These two people must have made a left at Albuquerque and ended up in New York instead of LA. There's no way they didn't belong on JJ. Based on the posts about today, I think I'll actually skip JJ tonight. I can't do another freaking pit bull case.

Did anyone else catch the lady who's never been involved in a lawsuit but won all of them? She said, "We got into an alterfication." Thankfully, MM pointed out that there's no such word. Both of the litigants in the case had horrific grammar. I don't know anything about Hammond, Indiana. Based on these two fools, I don't think I'm missing much.

My brother-in-law asked me if I wanted to go into business with him renting bouncy houses. It's really lucrative, apparently. If the plaintiff In that case paid $1350 for her bouncy house four years ago and was still using it until Captain Responsibility didn't return it, she made pretty good money on her investment. And then she won a brand new one. Cha-ching! Sadly, my brother-in-law's idea of us going into business together constitutes me completely paying for said bouncy houses and him doing the leg work to get them rented out and manage the rentals. Unfortunately for him, I watch too much JJ to go into business with a family member, much less one with no capital for the start up. I don't think he's a hustla, but that scenario had disaster written all over it. If he'd come to me with half of the startup costs, I may have thought longer about it before saying no. So, once again, Teebax probably missed a shot at going on JJ. Sigh. Today's rerun featured one of my favorite litigants of all time, Ms. Chia Pet who sells 'insurances'. Much like Tommy from the sitcom Martin, she's one of those people who clearly makes money despite having a job she can neither name nor explain.

I associate 4/20 with something completely different. I guess Jeopardy isn't quite ready to go there yet.

Not to mention she's a huge, wordlwide freaking star. I didn't realize it until she started appearing on The Voice. There's a lot of pop culture I dislike, but I don't mind Jeopardy doing categories about big stars, as long as they still ask about the older stuff I can actually answer!

Was Jake not supposed to arrest someone doing coke right freaking in front of him? That was a lame way to end the Jake /Sophia relationship which, for me, had started really strong. Thank goodness for Terry. I love me some Terry. That's good since Terry loves love. Thank goodness for Wuntch versus Holt - that'll never get old for me. I didn't mind the Boyle story line either. But the A plot did little for me, except that I laughed at Terry and Jake doing their fake smiles.

It actually airs at 2:30 where I live, which is earlier than anywhere else I've lived. Jeopardy belongs on at 7 pm, dammit. Followed by Wheel of Fortune to make me feel smart again if I bomb during Jeopardy. I guess the time it airs shouldn't matter to me in the era of the DVR. I record Jeopardy since I rarely am home before 6 pm. I watch it while I pour my adult beverage, change out of my monkey suit and begin to unwind from the workday.

This show needs to find humor in something other than the gays. Seriously. It's 2015, yet every freaking episode has at least one uncomfortably gay joke or implication. I've been out since 1995, and I'm not saying gay humor should be off limits, I make jokes about myself all the time. But this show goes to that well way too often, to the point where I wonder if the writers don't have any other material. While it had a few moments (I'm starting a campaign for Riblet to take both Michael and Colin's jobs), it was an overall weak episode for me.

I'm on Arizona time, so I've learned to stay off the board after 12 pm or so. That being said, I don't want to know the FJ category or the clue in advance. I know there are people who like to do that, but I think it warrants a spoiler tag, just out of courtesy for those of us who would rather wait until we watch the episode. Just my two cents.

I've never seen the show, but I'll do my best. I've never seen an insurance policy that says it won't pay if something isn't up to code. They may pay a claim and then drop you like a hot potato immediately afterward, but to not pay a liability claim for that reason would be, in my opinion, unconscionable. Basically, that would be an unfair out for the insurance company since you,a third party, would have no idea whether or not someone's stairs were up to code.Now if the homeowner wanted to make a property claim for some damage to those same steps, that could be a different thing. But from a liability standpoint, I'd be surprised if her insurance wouldn't cover a claim.

Somewhere beneath that mess of collagen, makeup, overly-styled hair, and tattoos is a pretty girl who somehow has managed to lose all of her self-esteem, if she ever had any. My money is on daddy issues.Her punk-ass bitch of an ex wants everyone to know he dumped her, as if we should be impressed. Well, I don't feel impressed; I pity both of them. He's a loser who can't manage to take care of his own business without scamming some poor girl who fell too fast. She has no self-respect and makes decisions like tattooing some loser's initials on her body. Both of them are pathetic. She's better off, though. She may develop a spine over time, after she wakes up and realizes she deserves someone she doesn't have to buy. He'll still be a loser mooching off of anyone desperate enough to be with him.

Wait. No animal cases today? I'm stunned.

I am named after that movie - my first name is from the plantation and my middle name is from the actress who played Scarlet. t's my mother's favorite book and movie. I didn't bother seeing the movie until I was an adult, but I now know it inside and out. I ran that category, too. I also wrote a paper on Metamorphosis. It's definitely stayed with me.

Nice research. She may be nuts, but she's also gorgeous. I'd happily hang some of the less racier photos in my house. I just got a similar haircut, mine is just a tad longer, and I'm loving it. Not enough to pose nude, but I'm wondering why I didn't do this years ago. I wonder if seeing her when this episode first aired didn't subliminally make me think I could pull off a radically-short haircut. Bald, black beauties unite!!! I mentioned when this first aired that, as a native of that area, I can comfortably say that very little about that case surprised me. I was as unmoved as the neighbor who opened the door and handed a naked woman a phone. Some shit you just chalk up to living in Philly.

I couldn't really enjoy this game. I was too busy yelling at that ditzy contestant to pick the next clue and stop editorializing. Good grief, she was really grating my nerves. I'm sure she's lovely and even fun in real life, but I like my Jeopardy contestants a little more serious and a lot less chatty. I was happy she didn't win.

That's an inter theory, and I also think you're on to something there. It saddens me that there are dog owners who have no concept of what a leash is actually for.Add me to the list of posters who are sick to death of these freaking dog cases. And I say that as a dog lover and dog owner. Have we exhausted all of the other cases out there to the point that there are nothing left but dog cases? JJ hated all the cell phone cases, so we don't get them anymore. I wish she'd put an end to hearing dog cases, too.

The majority of litigants we see can be described as "gramophobes."