Browncoat

Oh good about the interviews and commentary -- I was worried they'd added a whole hour of commercials! I remember it being two hours -- I was a Freshman in college, and we had a huge watching party.

Hm. Wasn’t it only two hours originally?

I hope your arm heals well! Meanwhile, we can call you e.e. cummings, or perhaps archy from archy and mehitabel (Don Marquis).

I'm making chili -- the high today was 48 degrees. Good chili weather, and I can freeze leftovers for later.

Aw, man! That sucks! But he did have a good run. RIP, Mr. Connery.

3/5 thanks to the same magnanimous ruling by our judge.

Affects. And add me to the list of those who said red menace, so I'm awaiting the ruling as well. I probably wouldn't have noticed Alex's orange tie if he hadn't called attention to it. TS that I got include hep, Buddhism, Discovery, dram & drum, and diamonds. I also said cavern and tavern, but am okay with cafe and cave. I don't count signature required as a TS because technically one of them got it, but just screwed up the phrasing.

That just looks like a steaming pile.

I heard Narrangansett, with an extra n in the middle both times.

As soon as Alex got to "late Brit with multi-octave range", I wrote down the correct FJ. He was also one of the ones I pre-guessed, so good for me! Hey @saber5055, when did Des Moines leave Iowa and move to Idaho? I want to see one of those fluffy cows in person. Anyone know what breed it is? It's not a Highland Cow -- they're shaggier (and also adorable). Seems like there were lots of TS tonight. I got cure, Good Samaritan, Mammoth Caves, Graham Greene, Ireland, benighted (as a guess), Sangre de Cristo mountains, and Narragansett.

I can see DJ having a full voice-mail box -- I hardly get calls, but I also don't think about deleting voice mails, and mine has gotten full before. That didn't bother me in the slightest. If Mary goes to the same school as Mark, then she's only going two days a week. That leaves her home alone the other three days, and depending on what the laws are where they live, and how old she is, that *might* be illegal. I think around here, a kid has to be more than 13 to be left home alone even just after school for a few hours, much less all day. I think DJ way over-reacted about that. Darlene and Becky weren't trying to take his daughter away from him -- they were just trying to help Mary, and really, help DJ for that matter. And they did try to call him before they did it. I loved the body parts coming down the conveyor belt. And I really loved the indoor trick-or-treating. Reminded me of, "Welcome to the Tunnel of Terror. Ha ha ha. Please, join us." from DJ in one of the early seasons -- was it the first? I also appreciated the conversation between Dan and Darlene at the end.

Read the clue. Read. the. clue. READ. THE. CLUE. You'd think they all would have learned from last week's episode to read the damn clue, but nope. Were Will and James the only ones to figure it out? I am over Michelle and Victoria. They can go any time. But really, Frank and Jerry deserved to be eliminated for following them in the first place, though I am sorry to see them go. I am loving the tour of South America!

I might have gotten FJ if I'd known what the Pritzker Prize was for, but alas, no such luck. But at least I was able to get Augusta, flounder, glucose, and Instant Pot.

I wander around the house, too.

Did she really, though? She’s still got a long way to go, I think.

I grafted John Lithgow onto Richard Jenkins, and assumed Evan Rachel Wood was going for an approximation of Debra Winger's voice. I thought this was a pretty depressing movie. That poor girl never stood a chance, starting with her name.

Add me to the list of those who've never heard of a flatform shoe -- in fact, the autocorrect here changed it to platform! I had no idea on FJ, but picked Virginia just because I live there. And the only TS I got were root and Mayor.

Almost instaget FJ tonight, but I may or may not have misspelled it. I only wrote down two TS tonight -- honky-tonk and Dayton. I would like to claim aileron, but I suspect I would have mispronounced it, too. I would like to thank Snoopy and the Red Baron for my knowing the Sopwith Camel.

The manager did enough sucking up that we were okay with buying some token from the registry. IIRC, the expensive item might have been store-specific? It's been, oh my god, it's been more than thirty years! since this incident! Now I have to go lie down.

Once upon a time, when I was a college student, a friend got engaged and registered at Big Department Store (that worked on commission). Several of us pooled our money to buy a gift from the registry, but when we went to the store, looking like college students, the sales clerks completely ignored us. I mean, they looked at us, sneered, and looked away. That made me so angry that I waved our money around and started shouting, "Hey, we have money! Is it not good enough for you? We'll be happy to spend it somewhere else! Where's the manager?" and so on, in that vein. Of course my friends were ready to crawl under the nearest rock, but damn if we didn't get waited on. But as retribution, I told the clerk we weren't going to buy the expensive thing we'd wanted to (and could afford), because we didn't want to give their rude asses that much in commission. The manager was pissed, too. Sadly, I couldn't convince my friend to change the registry to another store. All that to say, your peeve is other people.

I thought he was a magician, unrelated to the mother and daughter, and it was meant to be magic that he pulled all that out from behind her. But I do agree that those are the worst of a bad lot.

Zurie is the best. I guess Rachel did okay with the singing, but I'm not a fan of that style. I am enjoying this show far more than I expected to. I think it's at least partly because Terry doesn't take himself too seriously.

I suspect because the quote just says, "tear down this wall" without specifying which one.

I was hoping for better, but only had 3/5 this week. But I did have an asterisk, so I've got that going for me.

Totally blanked on FJ tonight. Boo, hiss. Good on middle guy for getting it and the win! I got Parthenon, Jesuit, basilisk, ubiquitous, and Argo. I had no idea there was an opera called Nixon In China.