Small Talk: "I'll Take Non-Show Chat For $400, Alex."

[Prevailing Wind]

Damn. I thought it was gonna explain how military brass bands were started.

[30 Helens]

On 9/2/2024 at 12:25 PM, Ancaster said:

Am I the only one who finds this somewhat creepy?

I know I'm very late to this, but no, you're not the only one. And it's not because the dog is abnormally large. It's because it's looking at me sideways with its big creepy eye like it wants to bite my face off. Also, it has robot feet.

Other than that, it's fine.

[Prevailing Wind]

Has Ryan Fenster been to Egypt?

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/hDTW5q2Mi9zioLQ3/

[The Wild Sow]

13 hours ago, Prevailing Wind said:

Has Ryan Fenster been to Egypt?

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/hDTW5q2Mi9zioLQ3/

Heh heh - came here to see if anyone caught that!

The Cairo dog got up there safely on its own, and got down on its own just fine, by the way.

[zoey1996]

We're leaving on our Kansas/Nebraska trip today. Center of Continental USA at Lebanon KS, Willa Cather, Pioneer Village museum at Minden, Great Platte River Archway near Kearney, Car Henge, Alliance, Arikaree Breaks, High Plains Museum at Goodland, KS. The planned trip has been postponed twice, so I hope the third time's the charm!

[Driad]

Gordon Lightfoot is relevant here because of "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."  There will be an auction of his guitars and many other items in November.

[Driad]

Was the Cheers Jeopardy episode shot on the actual Jeopardy set?  The set has been redesigned several times so I'm not sure.

[chessiegal]

24 minutes ago, Driad said:

Was the Cheers Jeopardy episode shot on the actual Jeopardy set?  The set has been redesigned several times so I'm not sure.

Looking at the Cheers filming location for that episode on IMDb it says it was filmed at Paramount Studios in Hollywood where all the Cheers episodes were filmed.

Google tells me J! was/is filmed in:

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Jeopardy! is filmed at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California: 

The show has been filmed at several locations over the years, including:

NBC Studios in New York City: The original series was filmed in Studio 6A

NBC's Burbank Studios in Burbank, California: The All-New Jeopardy! was filmed in Studio 3

Metromedia Stage 7 in Hollywood: The Trebek version was initially filmed here, but moved to Hollywood Center Studios in 1985 

 

So I would say no, it was not filmed on the J! set.

 

 

[Driad]

@chessiegal -- Thank you!  (The emojis didn't appear when I clicked around.)

[Prevailing Wind]

I finally watched "How Green Was My Valley" on Amazon Prime. I'm not sure why Jeopardy! likes that movie so much. I was sort of "meh" about it. But I guess for a movie over 80 years old, I suppose it was OK.

[30 Helens]

10 hours ago, Prevailing Wind said:

I finally watched "How Green Was My Valley" on Amazon Prime. I'm not sure why Jeopardy! likes that movie so much.

I’ve never seen it, but I don’t think “Jeopardy” is actually endorsing it. Ken said that it was Alex’s favorite movie. And I don’t know about you, but I’ve been known to like some pretty crappy movies, just because. Nostalgia, or something about it just spoke to me at the time. So who knows why Alex liked that one, but I guess you’d have to factor in the personal bias.

[Browncoat]

On this date in 1975, the freighter Edmund Fitzgerald sank in a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 aboard.  Thank you, CBS Sunday Morning for that little tidbit, and also for putting that song in my head!  (They played the song while they had that blurb on screen.)

[Clanstarling]

2 hours ago, Browncoat said:

On this date in 1975, the freighter Edmund Fitzgerald sank in a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 aboard.  Thank you, CBS Sunday Morning for that little tidbit, and also for putting that song in my head!  (They played the song while they had that blurb on screen.)

And you just had to share. 😘😆

[Browncoat]

4 hours ago, Clanstarling said:

And you just had to share. 😘😆

I'm generous like that. 😉

[possibilities]

I lost my cool today. I know I'll get it back, but whew! I was never all that cool to begin with, but I nearly blew my own head off, I got so worked up about something.

It's weird, because I'm actually great in a crisis. The ability to get super-activated is useful in that circumstance. 

But on a medium day, it's really not a way to add to ones quality of life.

 

[Clanstarling]

19 hours ago, possibilities said:

I lost my cool today. I know I'll get it back, but whew! I was never all that cool to begin with, but I nearly blew my own head off, I got so worked up about something.

It's weird, because I'm actually great in a crisis. The ability to get super-activated is useful in that circumstance. 

But on a medium day, it's really not a way to add to ones quality of life.

 

I'm the same, but am also having a bit more of a temper these days than usual.

[shapeshifter]

23 minutes ago, Clanstarling said:

I'm the same, but am also having a bit more of a temper these days than usual.

I've taken to channeling some of my anger into writing thinly-veiled political limericks using my Wordle words to post on the NYT Wordle Review comments section. Seems to be working. Maybe because it's exhausting, LOL.