Season 41 Final Jeopardy Contest

[helpmerhonda]

I did it, too! Perfect week!

0/5 - what the heck is wrong with me? LOL

[Clanstarling]

11 hours ago, secnarf said:

1/5 - gaslight was an instaget. So close with Icarus - maybe a half point for "Daedalus' son"?

Sorry, no halfsies. Score calculation would be a bear.

Would be nice, as I have also known all the data around the answer on FJs below - just not the answer. When I was in school I used to complain that I had a faulty eidetic memory - I could see and read everything on the textbook page, just not the part with the answer, LOL.

27 minutes ago, helpmerhonda said:

I did it, too! Perfect week!

0/5 - what the heck is wrong with me? LOL

You're just hankering after some donuts, that's all.

[illdoc]

Week 11: 3/5  0*   Overall: 27/55  5*   How about some Edam cheese, covered in wax (just for you, Icarus!).

[Bliss]

3/5 and one *

Almost well, so hopefully I can start baking goodies again... soon. In the meantime, here are some cyber candy canes (we had an early Christmas party).

[30 Helens]

3/5. 
In defiance of Carrie Nation, I will bring lots of alcohol. (Hold the hatchets.)

[possibilities]

I wanted to also bring salt wwater taffy (for Icarus) but I couldn't find a picture I really liked.

[shapeshifter]

2 hours ago, possibilities said:

I wanted to also bring salt wwater taffy (for Icarus) but I couldn't find a picture I really liked.

This reminds me of the boardwalk in the 1960s:

And here's a picture postcard from around 1940, but it fits my memories from the 60s:

Edited 19 hours ago by shapeshifter

[Grundoon59]

I am with @Good Queen Jane in terms of score and cold suffering but not in terms of the wonderful treatment (your remedy sounds much better than my OTC preparations).  5/5 with 1* - more than a couple were lucky guesses.

In terms of obvious news - don't get this cold that is going around if you can help it.  My cough is ridiculous (think sounding like a victim of consumption).  I actually went to urgent care yesterday to make sure it was nothing worse.  Good news, it isn't.  Bad news, the doctor said this delight was hanging around and taking people weeks to recover from.  

[Clanstarling]

1 hour ago, Grundoon59 said:

I am with @Good Queen Jane in terms of score and cold suffering but not in terms of the wonderful treatment (your remedy sounds much better than my OTC preparations).  5/5 with 1* - more than a couple were lucky guesses.

In terms of obvious news - don't get this cold that is going around if you can help it.  My cough is ridiculous (think sounding like a victim of consumption).  I actually went to urgent care yesterday to make sure it was nothing worse.  Good news, it isn't.  Bad news, the doctor said this delight was hanging around and taking people weeks to recover from.  

Because I can't use more than one emoticon per post - what an achievement while you and @Good Queen Jane are both down with nasty colds!

With no nasty cold to help me out - only 1/5 this week. No *.

Edited 17 hours ago by Clanstarling

[Trey]

@Grundoon59, I gave you Fire for your 5/5 + 1* but I would also like to send hugs to you for your awful cold.  My cold is also hanging around and sounding like consumption. I guess it will eventually go away.  I am having chicken soup for  lunch to help it on its way.

We need to be able to do two emojis at once to make our response more precise, like Fire/Hugs, LOL/sad, etc.

6 minutes ago, Clanstarling said:

Because I can't use more than one emoticon per post - what an achievement while you and @Good Queen Jane are both down with nasty colds!

Pipped by Clanstarling right before I posted!

[Browncoat]

My cold must have been a different variety.  It was only really nasty for about a day, although I was still a little congested for a couple more days after the horrible day.  I'd say it was maybe four days total from the time I started feeling icky until I felt well.  But that one nasty day was exceptionally nasty.

(I'm sitting in the airport in Charlotte, waiting for my flight to Dallas.)

[Grundoon59]

@Browncoat - I am glad you avoided whatever I got.  My whole office is in varying degrees of "the cough".  Travel safe and have a great holiday!

[possibilities]

Apparently there's a whooping cough (pertussis) outbreak. I don't know if it's everywhere, or just local to here. I read about it in the local newspaper, They were begging people to get vaccinated for it-- apparently it's one of the ones you're supposed to get every 10 years, and most people don't know that.

Ginger tea with honey and all the sympathy you can use!

We should probably go to the small talk thread if we're going to continue talking ailments....

[theartandsound]

WEEK 11 (18 NOV): 5/5, one *.

[Prevailing Wind]

9 hours ago, possibilities said:

Apparently there's a whooping cough (pertussis) outbreak. I don't know if it's everywhere, or just local to here. I read about it in the local newspaper, They were begging people to get vaccinated for it-- apparently it's one of the ones you're supposed to get every 10 years, and most people don't know that.

it's the TDAP vaccine. Since '92, I've been getting one every 10 years, but I missed 2022 because Medicare wouldn't pay for it if I got it at the pharmacy when I was also getting my Covid booster. They wouldn't pay for it at the doc's office, either. I never got around to going to the Doc-in-a-Box, where they would pay for it. Apparently now, with the pertussis outbreak, they will pay for it at the pharmacy, so I got it last month, along with another Covid booster and the RSV vax. The nice dude giving me the vaccines said I wasn't getting too many at once - we give babies a lot more at one time.

Oddly, my immune system over-reacts to flu shots. Even though it's a killed virus, my body thinks it's gotten the flu and acts like it. I'm down for at least 2 weeks til I get over it. So it's a guarantee I'm going to get sick. I take my chances that I won't get flu if I'm gonna get sick trying to prevent it. The doc agrees with me and doesn't push me to get a flu shot, since I get practically every other shot - I've gotten both pneumonia vaccines, a Hep B, two shingles vax, and a tuberculosis vaccine (that one was required by the hospital when I was doing volunteer work there. The HepB was required by the dentist office where I worked.) And, of course, ALL the Covid boosters.