Browncoat

I think I could have done it without going in circles, but it would have taken me a while. It might have taken me longer to figure out the explorer's name, especially if Da Gama and Magellan were already taken.

Wow! Arun and Natalia turned the correct direction!

This should be fun.

I would have to move out of "regular" or "original recipe" Virginia if I'd missed the Blue Ridge Parkway clue. Especially since it's so close to me! Instaget FJ for me tonight. I seem to recall hearing about that when I visited many years ago. The only TS I got was malocclusion.

Catching up from last night, when I went to see "The Power of The Dog" instead. Almost instaget FJ -- I did have to think briefly before I remembered that Gone With The Wind was Best Picture of 1939, and once I did that, Clark Gable was the only choice. TS I got include Bergen, "Married: With Children", "Cheers", and Fellini. Fellini is the go-to Italian director -- when in doubt, say Fellini! I knew Bergen because I was looking into a trip to Norway and Scotland that had people flying into Bergen. I decided against that trip, though.

Probably because the books are referred to as the "Little House" books.

I didn't really mean the not looking like Montana as a criticism, just a little nitpick. If I hadn't driven all over Montana, I would have no idea what the state looked like, and probably wouldn't have noticed one way or the other. It didn't bother me, per se, in terms of how much I love the movie. I just noticed, is all.

I loved this movie. I mean really truly loved it. I almost always do like a good revenge movie, though, and this was a masterpiece in revenge. It wasn't fast-paced, and action-packed, but it didn't need to be. In fact, if it were, it wouldn't be nearly as powerful at the end. The payoff was so very much worth the tension-filled (to me) build-up. Cumberbatch did such a fantastic job with Phil that I never fully trusted his motives with Peter. What was he doing? Grooming Peter? Setting Peter up? Was the rope really meant to be just a gift, or was it meant to be something more sinister? And Peter -- good on him for understanding that the way to help his mother was to rid her of her tormentor. Phil just never let up on her. I suspect Peter had thought of several options for getting rid of Phil, but anthrax in the open wound worked best. Lots of anthrax around, Phil never wore gloves, completely untraceable back to Peter. I thought it was terribly interesting that Phil and George continued to share their childhood (?) bedroom, despite having that entire giant house to themselves. And that they shared a room and bed in the hotel. Phil might have been a big man on the ranch, but he was also a very lonely, needy individual. Magnificent bastard, indeed. And no, there is no universe in which New Zealand looks like Montana, but it was still a gorgeous movie, shot beautifully under trying circumstances. As I understand it, COVID prevented shooting anywhere else. I would watch it again. I feel like I paid attention and caught a lot of little things, but I probably missed a lot more.

No, no, no, no, no, and no on the baby thing. Can we once, just once, have a couple who does not want and does not have a baby?

Seemed a bit prophetic, didn't it? I did not get it, though. Bad start to the week! I got a lot of TS, including Wampanoag, golf, infinitesimal, Coral Snake, Yeats, jacaranda, The Band, and Mothers of Invention. I love The Band, and was quite sad that it was a TS.

Now that's the way to do an In Memoriam segment. No annoying live music, or cuts to the annoying singer. Just show us nice pictures and clips of those who have died.

"Maaaaybe..."

I say both "eeether" and "eye-ther", and probably "eye-ther" more often. I've mostly lived in the south.

Sam should have been transcribing the story as Sasappis told it. That way Jay could have followed along by reading, and she would have had a record of it. In fact, Sam should transcribe all the stories that all of them tell. Other than that, I really liked this episode a lot.

I agree with @chocolatine -- never fake it. I would much rather someone tell me they don't have experience doing X than bluff then screw something up on the job. If you're a strong candidate in other ways, I can teach you X.

It might have been nice, though, if Gomer had said where he was going before just running out of the house. Barney was definitely more chauvinistic than Andy, but Andy had his moments.

I rolled my eyes so hard at that clue that I almost missed the next clue.

3/5 for me this week.

Instaget FJ for me tonight, although I really thought I was wrong. But I couldn't think of anything else that fit, so I stuck with it. I also got the TS of Columbus, Hamlet, soybeans, and Nancy Reagan. Assuming they would have counted me correct for Nancy Reagan instead of Nancy Davis.

Aren't there usually three per season? Maybe it seems like more because this season is shorter than previous ones?

How many NEL have there been this race? Not counting the extended leg from before the shutdown -- I know some consider those to be NEL, but I do not.

See also Colin and his broken ox.

My response to that clue was, "Oh crap, it's that Russian woman whose name I never can remember."

Pettiest of pet peeves -- when movie studios and theaters heavily advertise a movie, but then do not show it in any theaters within several hundred miles of me. There are several of the theaters near me (Regal), but none of them has Cyrano. They did the same thing with Licorice Pizza, too. Meanwhile, though, they are still showing Sing 2. So annoying!

I can't believe I missed FJ tonight. I just couldn't get my brain engaged, but I knew it would be so obvious after I saw the correct response. Indeed, it was. I said the Flintstones, but knew it was so incredibly, horribly wrong wrong wrong. The only TS I got were ethics, on an even keel, bulkhead, and The Jeffersons. And we got another genre from Ken!