Browncoat

Around here, we call the winter knit hats "toboggans".

Of the three, I liked Katie best. Justin drove me nuts with picking higher value clues first, and Pam was about the same as she was Friday. The only TS I remember getting was Kafka. And I got a phone call just as the FJ clue was revealed -- I like to think I would have gotten it, though!

I've only ever heard it pronounced "toke".

I got a big kick out of just paying attention to the cat. The animators apparently really paid attention to expressions, attitudes and actions of pet animals! The cat (Chloe?) was always crammed into a box or a vase or something. I enjoyed it overall, but I agree that Zootopia and Dory were better.

I only know Kamchatka from Risk.

Can we have Bonnie back please thank you? Between the jumping to the highest value clue and the random gestures, I'm not a fan of Pam. Mostly it's the jumping to highest value clue. Funny, though, that she left the Swedish category for the other one -- she had to have known there was a DD in the Swedish category. Maybe she was afraid she'd bet big and miss? I got MiniWheats, and Freedmen's Bureau, and was yelling "Registrar!" at the TV when they all whiffed that one. I feel like I should have known FJ, but I couldn't come up with anything. It was familiar, when I saw it, but I don't think I ever would have thought of it.

I said Rhine, too!

Yay, Bonnie! Although I will say that two large dogs will fit without too much difficulty in the backseat of a car as large as a police cruiser. I used to have two Great Pyrenees, and they rode in the backseat of my Toyota Corolla, and each mostly stayed on its own side. I got Clark (and why no one else did after Bonnie missed with Lewis, I'll never know), postpone and oxygen. Not too many TS overall, though, so in that respect (as well as Matt losing) it was a good game. And clearly I haven't read enough -- I completely blanked on FJ. For some reason I went to Kipling as the author and couldn't think of any possible characters of his that were in multiple novels and were old enough to have war wounds. Oh well!

Good question about carnation/pink. I said carnation, too.

Of COURSE Matt won, dammit. If he were my investment banker, I'd have to fire him. Unfortunately, I suspect he'll be around for a while. TS I was surprised by, but that I got include thighs and legs, burpee (I have hated those for decades!), eel, LTD, samovar, and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (I still want my time back from seeing that one). FJ was an instaget for me, just from the category and first bit of the clue about a movie in 1984.

I finally remembered to DVR the game tonight! I nearly always have another thing on Tuesdays so rarely get to watch live, and usually forget to record. That said, I got scarlet fever (the response, not the disease!), Rhine, Flight 93 and of course Bartleby. Bartleby the Scrivener is one of my favorite stories, and I also will regularly say, "I prefer not to." when asked to do something unpleasant. For the stretch, etc. clue, I said mark, so I was glad Alex said they would have accepted that as well. Whale Rider was on the tip of my tongue, but I just couldn't spit it out. I completely blanked on FJ.

I haven't decided whether or not to see it. I am of the "did we really need a remake?" camp (regardless of the cast -- they could have remade it with the original cast and I'd still feel the same way. Incidentally, I am a female feminist.), and the trailers have not piqued my interest in the slightest. Well, except to turn me off with the vomiting librarian, of course. I did and do love the original, and perhaps it is nostalgia, since the summer it came out was a really good summer for me, but I don't care. I'll still watch it when I run across it on TV.

Oh, hurrah! So glad Zach was a one-and-done. The game was painful to watch while he was on. Yay, Liz! And Space Mountain? Really? UNICEF = children = It's A Small World. Instaget for me. Since I couldn't really pay attention with Zach's antics, I don't remember most of the TS, but I did get opossum and Clark Gable.

I would think you'd need something solid that covers the entire ear, like the Solo cups, and the tape helped create a nice seal so the aliants couldn't get under. Earplugs of any variety don't always block the ear canal entirely, and since most of them are soft and pliable, the bugs could probably chew through them (or wedge their way around).

Todd is an ass, and I'm still waiting for the polar bear. :)

I hated Zach from his smug grin and his salute before the game even started. Then he compounded it by rocking and bouncing when he buzzed in, being slow to answer and to choose the next clue, and of course, starting with the highest value clue. I'm kind of mad that he won. Other than that, it was a good game, with very few TS, though the ones I got were surprising. Not surprising that I got them, but surprising that no one else did. Those were Illinois, Gap, and Yea.

As did I.

Hooray for Shyanlee! I'm sure I butchered the spelling of her name, but I couldn't really watch because of the swaying and the not starting at the tops of categories. I mostly listened, so didn't really see her name. I got Schuylkill (and can't spell that, either -- no idea if that's right), Cleopatra's needle and Belvedere Castle.

Christie needs to stop it with the swaying, buzzer flailing and not starting at the tops of categories. I am sad to see Harris go (although he did his fair share of not starting at the top). I got Alfred Molina, spruce, Ron Kovic, Person of Interest, and dwarf planet (Pluto, you'll always be a planet to me!). FJ wasn't quite an instaget, but it was close.

With their luck, they'll end up in the touch tank. :)

Harris got lucky, though, that he was the only one who got it right. I thought it was probably one of the Louis, but I had no idea which one. Maybe Louis Carson.

Thank god Peyton didn't win. Between the rocking and the starting in the middle/bottom of categories, he drove me a little nuts. Is it wrong that I hoped he wouldn't even be around for FJ? Not that Harris was a whole lot better about not starting at the tops of categories, mind you. I would have preferred another Laurie win, but oh well! Loved the Worrier Princess category! Or possibly I just loved that Princess Buttercup and the ROUS were in it, along with Princess Leia. TS that I got included plank, Aaron, St. Bernard (missed DD -- and yes, Alex, the "dogged" part of the clue helped me!), and tangerine. I did have to think about FJ for a second, but the F part led me to photography, and the San Francisco part led me to Ansel Adams.

My opinion about the BMS for Plumb was mostly because Laurie had just named the incorrect first name. Had Laurie not said "Jan Plumb", then Marjika's answer of just "Plumb" would have been fine with me. OTOH, if Laurie had just said "Plumb" and been ruled correct, I would have been fine with that, too.

Not a horrible game tonight despite some wild-ass-guesses from Marjika. And she should have had a BMS for Eve Plumb. TS that I remember that I got were Swift, amalgamate (probably because I have quite a few mercury amalgam fillings!), Marc Cherry, and Louis XIV. FJ was an instaget for me.

The crate of sex toys was amusing, but that one guy's reaction wasn't. Owning sex toys doesn't make a person a pervert (or a rapist). Not even owning that many. However, the guy who owned the sex toys not knowing that "dong" was the currency in Vietnam was pretty funny.