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.

[ProudMary]

I don't know if anyone else plays Thrice on a daily basis, but I got my first ever perfect score (15 points) today! I'm ridiculously excited. 😊 

Thrice Game #481 → I got a perfect score on today's Thrice!
🎲: 3️⃣3️⃣3️⃣3️⃣3️⃣
https://thricegame.com

 

 

 

Edited November 23, 2024 by ProudMary

[Prevailing Wind]

As to the earlobe crease, my mom, my brother, and I all had/have it. Both Mom & Joe had cardiac issues and had them treated - Mom with a pacemaker and drugs and Joe just with drugs. They both died from other issues. All 3 of us had/have diabetes. Joe's was not yet insulin-dependent, but Mom was on the Novolog pen insulin and I've followed in her footsteps.

My earlobe crease runs right through my earring hole. LOL.

I noticed their creases a few years before I developed mine - and only noticed it when putting on earrings while looking in a mirror. As far as cardiac issues, so far, so good.

[shapeshifter]

3 hours ago, Prevailing Wind said:

As to the earlobe crease, my mom, my brother, and I all had/have it. Both Mom & Joe had cardiac issues and had them treated - Mom with a pacemaker and drugs and Joe just with drugs. They both died from other issues. All 3 of us had/have diabetes. Joe's was not yet insulin-dependent, but Mom was on the Novolog pen insulin and I've followed in her footsteps.

My earlobe crease runs right through my earring hole. LOL.

I noticed their creases a few years before I developed mine - and only noticed it when putting on earrings while looking in a mirror. As far as cardiac issues, so far, so good.

Seems like you've already done a deep-dive research into this, but for anyone, there's this from 2019, for example:
researchgate.net/*/Anna-Bersano/*/Diagonal-earlobe-crease-Franks-sign-and-increased-risk-of-cerebrovascular-diseases-review-of-the-literature-and-implications-for-clinical-practice.pdf

and more at:
 scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C33&q=What+is+Frank’s+Sign%3F+Diagonal+Earlobe+Crease+(DELC)&btnG=

[ProudMary]

As info, I just posted a forum request for Pop Culture Jeopardy! which streams on Wednesdays, starting tomorrow, December 4th on Prime Video.

I'm looking forward to this. I love when the mothership has pop culture categories in the regular game, so I think I'll enjoy this. I also like Colin Jost. I think he'll be a good host for this.

Edited December 4, 2024 by ProudMary
Corrected the date

[SoMuchTV]

53 minutes ago, ProudMary said:

Edited December 4, 2024 by SoMuchTV
Never mind, all good here

[Bastet]

Just now, ProudMary said:

As info, I just posted a forum request for Pop Culture Jeopardy!

Thank you.  I meant to do that last week and forgot all about it in the Thanksgiving prep madness.

[shapeshifter]

11 hours ago, ProudMary said:

As info, I just posted a forum request for Pop Culture Jeopardy! which streams on Wednesdays, starting tomorrow, December 4th on Prime Video.

I'm looking forward to this. I love when the mothership has pop culture categories in the regular game, so I think I'll enjoy this. I also like Colin Jost. I think he'll be a good host for this.

Thanks. I just logged onto the Prime Video app on my Roku TV shortly after 7 a.m. EST, and there are 3 episodes showing, but I only watched the first segment of the first.

[Clanstarling]

2 hours ago, shapeshifter said:

Thanks. I just logged onto the Prime Video app on my Roku TV shortly after 7 a.m. EST, and there are 3 episodes showing, but I only watched the first segment of the first.

Just added it to My Shows. :) Thanks!

[SoMuchTV]

23 hours ago, ProudMary said:

As info, I just posted a forum request for Pop Culture Jeopardy! which streams on Wednesdays, starting tomorrow, December 4th on Prime Video.

I'm looking forward to this. I love when the mothership has pop culture categories in the regular game, so I think I'll enjoy this. I also like Colin Jost. I think he'll be a good host for this.

I don’t know how long it typically takes for a new forum to be created, and I don’t know how many posters are itching to post their opinions, but I suspect if you create a thread for it here, they could move it over when the new show forum gets created. 

Or maybe it’s just me, wanting to brag that I got the first FJ despite not knowing pretty much anything else. 

[MrAtoz]

I finally got around to watching the first episode of Pop Culture Jeopardy! This was the first time I had ever seen Colin Jost in anything.

And I'm sorry to say that I have no desire to see more of him. I found him immensely irritating, and will probably not watch any more episodes.

Edited December 6, 2024 by MrAtoz

[Bastet]

I gave it a solid try, of all three available episodes, and it's not for me.  I don't like the host, I don't like the contestants, and I don't like the clues.  I might still add the forum to my home page once it's created, as it's something I might watch occasionally while trying to get back to sleep in the middle of the night, it - by its own am using descriptions at the top of each episode - is not made for me, and I get that.  If I'm in a mood to tolerate it, maybe I could commit a few things to memory to help me do better with the pop culture clues in the regular game.

Edited December 7, 2024 by Bastet

[shapeshifter]

The Pop J! works for doing laundry, changing sheets, etc., and might help me:

On 12/6/2024 at 5:53 PM, Bastet said:

commit a few things to memory to help me do better with the pop culture clues in the regular game.

Watching Colin Jost the description of him that came to mind was “mostly harmless”
— which was before they had Douglas Adams in a clue. 
Jost's diction is crisp, so it's easy to follow the game without watching too much.

Edited December 9, 2024 by shapeshifter
typo

[ProudMary]

We now have an adjunct forum to discuss Pop Culture Jeopardy! I'm posting a link to the new forum here, but you'll notice that we also now have clickable buttons for both Celebrity Jeopardy! and Pop Culture Jeopardy! atop the original Jeopardy!  homepage. Thank you to our Mods!

I opened a thread there to discuss the first three episodes that have already dropped.

https://forums.primetimer.com/forum/8969-pop-culture-jeopardy/ 

Edited December 10, 2024 by ProudMary
Because already doesn’t have an "F" in it!

[chessiegal]

WTH is going on with formatting on Primetimer? It’s almost unreadable!

[ProudMary]

Every time this happens, I wonder if it's the end of the Primetimer forums. As it is right now, I had to do a lot of scrolling to figure out where I'd be able to reply. (I'm on my phone.)

I wanted to post my score in the FJ Contest thread, but I'm not doing that with this mess that's happening. 

I hope it gets fixed and that this isn't goodbye.

[illdoc]

This is the case I was on. I was one of the "3 men 9 women" It doesn't have a lot of details of the case (I'm happy to share), but I thought you might like to know what I've been up to this past week. https://www.cliffordlaw.com/clifford-law-offices-obtains-record-66-million-judgment-against-chicago-plastic-surgeon/

[Mindthinkr]

6 hours ago, illdoc said:

This is the case I was on. I was one of the "3 men 9 women" It doesn't have a lot of details of the case (I'm happy to share), but I thought you might like to know what I've been up to this past week. https://www.cliffordlaw.com/clifford-law-offices-obtains-record-66-million-judgment-against-chicago-plastic-surgeon/

What an unnecessary loss of human life. I’m glad at least the family will be financially comfortable although no amount of money can replace the mother/wife’s life. 

[illdoc]

Unbeknownst to us at the time, the surgeon in question has 2 other malpractice suits against him.

[Prevailing Wind]

My problem seems petty compared to that, but somebody down the street cut a cable and I haven't had internet since 4 PM 12/21.  ATT said it'd be back up Monday by 5. No, Thursday (today) by 5. No, Monday, 12/30 by 8 PM.

My sweet neighbor, who has Comcast, told me the password to her WiFi, so I'm hitching a ride on her internet connection. I'm glad to be back & see that whatever the hell was going on has been fixed.

[possibilities]

I hope you will complain to your Department of Telecomm. I don't know what state you're in, but in MA, where I am, the DTC is awesome and has kicked Verizon to fix outages here much faster than they used to. I  imagine they might do the same to ATT.

Being out of service for as long as you describe is unacceptable!!!!

But bless your neighbor for helping you get a connection as a stopgap.

[Prevailing Wind]

7 hours ago, possibilities said:

I don't know what state you're in,

Georgia. Our state government is useless.

[shapeshifter]

Thank you, @Bastet, for finding and posting a comprehensive and nuanced article on the issue of docents that was offensively (on purpose ?) clued in the December 31, 2024 game’s NOT FOR THE MONEY category’s $800 item as:

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Especially since a purge of old white ladies, the Art Institute of Chicago has openings for volunteer educators, aka this word

Google first finds a Fox News article, from  one of those local station outlets, that tend to be relatively independent, but also so fluffy as to have missed most of the points, unlike the article @Bastet found: “Chicago’s Art Institute fired its volunteer docents and caused a furor heard nationwide,” GMT (Greater Milwaukee Today) [Dec. 21, 2021, gmtoday.com/news/illinois/chicago-s-art-institute-fired-its-volunteer-docents-and-caused-a-furor-heard-nationwide/article_bc816578-56b3-11ec-a98f-5b15c9c07dce.html].

In anyone is interested in more, here’s a free recent article: “From Docent to Professional to Activist to Critical Race Theorist: A Biomythography of a Black American Museum Professional” (tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10598650.2024.2367302) from an entire issue on the topic (Journal of Museum Education Volume 49, 2024 - Issue 2: The Role of Docents: Past, Present, and Future).

An interesting bit from the GMT article is:

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At the Milwaukee Art Museum — which has experimented with weekend and online access to docent training, to attract more volunteers — there was a paid docent program for formerly incarcerated men; it ended when grant money ran out, said Brigid Globensky, senior director of education and programs, “but it showed me a broad community who would like to docent if those resources were there.”

and, in conclusion:

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Ask museum professionals about the Art Institute controversy and, along with issues of diversity and privilege, ageism comes up as well as a concern about deep-pocketed cultural institutions still using free labor in 2021. Goldthorpe at Northwestern doubts that phasing in part-time paid docents (especially if they don’t receive health care benefits) solves much. In fact, at University of Illinois at Chicago, the department of museum and exhibition studies is planning to remove a requirement that students complete a museum internship because those positions often provide only college credit, which favors students who can afford to work for free. Therese Quinn, director of the department, sees the docent issue as “symptomatic” of general mistreatment and low pay at museums. “There’s a massive concentration of wealth at the top. It’s clear (the Art Institute) doesn’t have its priorities right. I doubt they could have seen a better result.”

[Prevailing Wind]

Regarding Jan 1's CCH Pounder clue:

Back when the X Files was fairly new, they had a few one-off characters named Cindy. I belonged to the AOL chat room for XF, which some of the writers and producers followed.  I complained about all the Cindys and no Lucys.  Soon after that, CCH Pounder played a FBI Special Agent named Lucy.  I hold her dear to my heart.