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I've heard it, mostly said by people over 70.
I've been away, giving a workshop at a writers conference ... miss me? :)
I've used "chifferobe" (ooh, spell-check doesn't like that word!) in my historical fiction. And seen some chifferobes (hah, spell-check!) on Antiques Roadshow.
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I took the first night's test and am positive I missed more than four so you guys will have to continue on without saber to kick around in your online posts.
And I took the test last night and definitely missed more than 4, so you can't diss me, either -- hah! My problem, which I should have realized before taking the test, was that I knew most of the answers (questions?) but I've never learned to touch-type. Okay, yes, I know; I've written over 20 books without touch-typing.
So <g>, time kept running out before I could click on Submit.
And now, thanks to y'all, I cringe every time I hear someone start a sentence with "So."
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Could FJ have been any easier?
Not if you haven't read the book or seen the movie. It was "my" category, dammit, and my mind was a blank (after I thought of and rejected Outlander <g>).
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I got stuck on thinking curry instead of groom for the horse
Me, too!
QuoteI guessed Gulliver's Travels...and I thought the lands Gulliver visited may have been thought of as utopias by some. I dunno. I've never read it.
I've never read it, either, but I've seen the 1939 animated feature (I'm now singing "Faithful/Forever"), and for those who have never seen it, it's worth looking up the songs on YouTube. The script was written by Jonathan Swift, based on his own satire. So <g>, I guessed Gulliver, too, after discarding Lord of the Flies by Brit author Golding. Talk about overthinking!
For some reason I thought Orwell was an American author.
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Dear Alex,
A person skis ON the water, not in the water.
If it was IN the water, Laura could audition for an Esther Williams biopic!
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"Candide", from which Dick Cavett got his theme song. That would be my dream category, too.
I wonder if they would have accepted Candide, which is considered an operetta. However, I saw it (with my mom) on Broadway when it featured Robert Rounseville as Candide and Barbara Cook as Cunegonde. I was, of course, a wee girlie (picture a plump Shirley Temple with red curls).
For Leonard Bernstein I would have said West Side Story and Candide. Or On The Town.
I swear on a stack of Stephen Kings I wasn't old enough to see OTT on Broadway. I've only seen the movie with Gene Kelly, who had the best butt, hands down (pun intended), in moviedom!
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Which Final Jeopardy category would tempt you to bet every penny you had, regardless of the situation because you're positive you'd get it right?
Broadway Musicals. I fantasize I can't be caught and FJ is Broadway Musicals. I bet every penny. The clue wants us to name 2 Leonard Bernstein musicals. [They actually did that once, for FJ, and everybody wrote West Side Story but couldn't think of a second show. I would have won bigly!]
Or, WOMEN authors. Heh!
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I got the "jet" TS, which I don't think anyone has mentioned yet.
I got it, too...I shouted JET! but no one ever listens to me. I mean, holy moley, wasn't "fly" in the clue? Frankenstein was an instaget. I even started singing "Puttin' on the Riiiitz" before Alex finished reading the clue.
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Nah nah nah nah nah nah, nah nah nah, Ca-meuuu
Not nice! You made me spill coffee all over my keyboard. Ca-meuuu, OMG, LOL!
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I got to see Jerry Orbach in the original production of Chicago - still one of my top ten theater memories.
I saw him on Broadway in Carnival, one of my top ten theatre memories (another was Streisand in Funny Girl). I think Carnival was Jerry's Broadway debut, but I saw him off-Broadway in The Fantastics (he was fantastic as El Gallo).
Which brings back personal memories of The Fantasticks. I played The Girl almost a whole summer in a dinner theatre venue.
For years I hated "Soon It's Gonna Rain." I love the song now and oft sing it in the shower.
Especially it there's a drought.
Someday I'll tell y'all about The Sound of Music :)
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Yes! Where is our Mystery Author? I, too, thought of our friend who better tell us she ran that category!
LOL. I know Michael Connelly, with whom I had dinner one night, along with Harlan Coben (we had the same literary agent), but I don't think I ran the category. I read Alienist years ago, but didn't remember the protagonist was a psychiatrist. I knew Smilla’s Sense of Snow was set in Denmark. Oh and I knew it was Brother Cadfael. I took a wild guess on Cleo Coyle's Coffeehouse series.
One of my books was inspired by events that occurred during the filming of The Exorcist, thanks to my sister, Eileen Dietz, who played The Demon and the possession scenes, and I was screaming: EXORCIST! THE EXORCIST!
Mr. Author hates it when I do that.
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Rule: If you are close to the leader in $$, bet nothing for FJ. Nada. Zilch. If the leader is wrong, you win. If the leader is right and bets accordingly, you'll lose anyway.
Sheesh!
Some LAZY clue writer---who maybe hadn't finished his first cup of coffee and was feeling caffeine-deprived---must have written the Dr. Seuss clue with the Dr. S characters. Raise your hand if you think it was a kiddie clue.
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As an unapologetic member of Team Austin so I'm going to draw a distinction between charming eccentricity and cloying parody. I realize I'm now dead to some of you.
You are very much alive to me! To be perfectly honest, I felt like I was a member of the jury in 12 Angry Men when I tried to "defend" Austin, finally gave up, and became an unapologetic member of Team Austin too.
Other have mentioned that Austin got almost all of his answers right. He was also quick, as in QUICK (some people thought too quick), so the boards were cleared. Austin didn't read the whole damn question and, except for the first day (I think), he started at the TOP.
Oh, and he didn't sway, wave his buzzer like a baton, or hug it to his bosom.
Thanks the gods Alex didn't ask Frank to mimic someone during his bio-speak.
Did I just throw shade on Frank? LOVE that expression :)
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Love me some Marty. I hope he sticks around <knock on wood>.
The half-hour PRE-Olympics blab-fest (where they talk and talk and say nothing amidst a bazillion commercials) took over my usual J! spot...color me pissed off...but Mr. Author and I get it on two networks (at 4:30 and 7:30), so we did see it (hah!) and went "WHEW" in unison when Marty won.
Re: AT's sniffles. Whoever said maybe they'd clear the boards took the words out of my...fingers.
My first husband's uncle had an Edsel. Who knew that someday it would be worth mega bucks!
Speaking of mega bucks, my dad had the very first Superman comic. He sold it at a garage sale.
I wasn't meant to be rich.
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I can totally see how becoming an uncle and getting the Jeopardy call on the same day would be the best day of someone's life. I think if that happened for me, I'd probably feel the same.
I stand corrected and a bit chagrinned.
Throwing shade is a new expression (for me). I like it...the expression...but I shouldn't have thrown shade.
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I'll bet Sean is a great uncle.
But if the birth of his sister's baby and getting the call to appear on Jeopardy! was the best day of his life, maybe he should get a life.
I was in Thornton Wilder's Our Town and sometimes I think about the day I'd like to re-live, assuming I was dead and could pick a day to re-live. It would NOT be the birth of my sister's kid --- or even my kids; too much pain --- and it wouldn't be "an ordinary day" like in the play.
The day(s) I pick change all the time :)
I said U of Georgia for FJ today. Oh, well.
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Since Jeopardy! has not been a daytime show since early 1975...
My first mother-in-law would watch J! during the day. Then we'd all watch at night and she's KNOW 90% (or more) of the answers. We were impressed.
Naturally, we begged her...please, please go on the show. She said she "couldn't press the buzzer fast enough." Heh!
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I joined the contestants in being stumped by Kristin Hannah
Kristin, a fellow author, was all kinds of thrilled when told she was a clue on Jeopardy! I would be, too. In fact, it's on my "bucket" list :)
My list includes publication, seeing my books in a store window, seeing my books in the library (I practically lived in the library when I was a kid), optioning at least one book for a movie, making the bestseller list, being a clue on Jeopardy!
Guess which one I haven't achieved yet ;-)
I didn't guess the weather channel, but should have (duh!)
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I didn't know what song of Guthrie's was about Oklahoma, but I stuck with it.
Woody didn't write a song about Oklahoma. He was born there. His real name was Woodrow Wilson Guthrie. Love me some Woody!
I played Ado Annie in Oklahoma (so FJ was easy-peasy).
I'm just a girl who can't say no ;-)
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Dr. Toothbrush said he looked liked a gangster.
And Mr. Author INSISTED -- quite seriously -- that he was wearing the costume from his melodrama.
For those who speed through the bios, Justin said he met his wife while playing the hero in a melodrama (his wife was the hero-ine, rhymes with wine).
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Open marriage and free love aren't the same thing. And Whippets aren't Italian Greyhounds
THIS!
Open marriage is...well, a marriage that's open. Free love is totally different (says this girl of the 60s) and Whippets aren't Italian, French or even Swedish Greyhounds.
Oh, and it's "Wire Haired Terrier"...there's no "Fox."
The 3 Jeptestants must have thought they were playing at home, where a wrong guess doesn't matter.
How could they NOT know Grace Kelly, or as AT would say, Princess Grace.
Speaking of AT, he never got a chance to finish the fruit in French category. Heh!
I said bra for FJ.
Only kidding.
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Rachel is not a teacher, she is a fire lookout in Bend, Oregon.
Oops. Right. I stand corrected.
Readers oft correct me, too. I once wrote: "Just like Tony Curtis, he came from Brooklyn."
Tony Curtis is from the Bronx.
Guess how many letters and emails I got? :)
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It’s a great category and I bet all anyone would really know would be Secretariat
Nope. They'd know Seabiscuit, thanks to the movie (and the book was a winner, too!)
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Still team Rachael
Me, too. Mumble-mumble years ago, before I became an author during the day and server at night, I taught school. I'm glad to see a teacher, even a hair-petter like Rachel, earn money in order to supplement her skimpy salary. Go, girl!
I loved the Will Rogers category. I used him in a book and the research was lots of fun.
Lord knows I have memory glitches, but even if a Jeptestant didn't know, or didn't remember, that Van Gogh wrote letters to his bro and went bonkers, as in cut off his ear, watching Jeopardy! on a fairly regular basis, you might realize the people who write the clues LOVE Vincent V. G.
They love Picasso, too, but he didn't go bonkers :)
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Jeopardy! Season 34 (2017-2018)
in Jeopardy!
For the British system of formal titles, "Sir" is a knighthood and "Dame" is the feminine equivalent. Sir and Dame are grouped under the general heading peerage.
Now, aren't you glad I write historical fiction? :)
Oh, and thank you for missing me. That was so sweet. Seriously.