Jeopardy! Season 34 (2017-2018)

[Trey]

47 minutes ago, peeayebee said:

When Alex read the category name "Unbelievable", was he doing the "Inconceivable!" bit from The Princess Bride?

That's what I thought he was doing.

[Clanstarling]

8 minutes ago, Mindthinkr said:

The bacon or dog-earing...either is heresy. I’d rather choose to think that it was a snapshot of Kevin Bacon. 

Now that I can get behind. :)

[helpmerhonda]

On 7/5/2018 at 7:32 PM, lb60 said:

Same here.

<tiger claws>

Mitchell was my guess, except I thought I was wrong.  I'm also bad with time frames/dates.

lol

I think it says you're awesome.  :-)

Tonight I got manifold and Michael Flynn.  I was shocked no one knew him.  Then again, I'm an MSNBC junkie, where his name is frequently mentioned.  lol

Aw, thanks!

[opus]

Had a little free time, so I tracked down the actress who got the fivehead talk going on the Under The Dome board. MacKenzie Lintz.

 

 

[SuperCam1]

Yeah I really like Lauren aswell and hope she goes on a run(would not mind if she finish the season out lol) and makes the TOC.

[Browncoat]

I think I first heard fivehead in association with Kelsey Grammer/Frasier.

[saber5055]

4 hours ago, DrSpaceman said:

Maytag Blue Cheese?  I had no idea.

It's made by the Maytag Dairy Farm in Newton, Iowa, a stone's throw (maybe two stones) from me. (Newton also was the home of Maytag Appliances before Whirlpool bought it, and the town lost its biggest employer.) Maytag was the first company to make a successful blue cheese in the United States, and, generations later, the dairy is still owned by the Maytag family. (The blue "veins" are made by adding penicillium. Yum.) Maytag cheese has never advertised nor does the company have a sales force. Which is maybe why some haven't heard of it.

Beth lost me when she began her interview "Me and my husband went to ..." She should have boned up on some grammar in between her Bible studies.

Edited July 7, 2018 by saber5055

[GreekGeek]

5 hours ago, PaulaO said:

I got Maytag only because I had Maytag blue cheese years ago and remembered the name.  I thought it was odd that a company made cheese and appliances.

From FoodReference.com: 

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The process for making America's Maytag blue cheese was developed by the Iowa State U. in 1941, and production was begun by Fred Maytag II (of dishwasher fame) when he heard about the new process for making blue cheese from homogenized milk.

As for the "bacon as bookmark," did anyone else think of the great fictional sportswriter Oscar Madison? It seemed like such an Oscar thing to do.  (I can imagine Felix in the meanwhile frantically hunting for the bacon to use in a recipe.)

ETA: I see @saber5055 was writing about the Maytag cheese at the same time I was!

Edited July 7, 2018 by GreekGeek

[whinewithwine]

13 hours ago, PaulaO said:

I flew 4,000 miles to see The Rolling Stones.

I only had to drive to Houston twice.  My only story would be I got a ticket to ride in the Goodyear Blimp...20 years ago.

[Kathira]

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My only story would be I got a ticket to ride in the Goodyear Blimp...20 years ago.

For my story. maybe I could say I had a baby when I was over 40 and my mother was also over 40 when I was born. She lived to be 90 and had watched Jeopardy since the 60's.

I'd have to dig deep for anything else. Unless they want to hear my heartwarming story about how I work with educationally and economically disadvantaged teens and adults to help them get into college and succeed with their studies once they're in. That might earn me a "Good for you."

Edited July 8, 2018 by Kathira

[Bliss]

A few of you have remarked about the stories you'd tell as a J! contestant.

I'm afraid most of my stories have to wait until I'm dead. If my kids (or grandkids) knew some of the stuff I've experienced (aka done), I'd be banished from the family.

There's the $500 casino chip story from Aruba... the night I went golfing at midnight... that day in Vegas when I was so glad what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas... the time(s) I should NOT have been driving... and there's lots that I can't even refer to here - to protect the reputation of the innocent idiots who get tangled in my web.

Maybe I'll write a tell-all one of these days and leave it under my mattress. My daughters are quite beautiful and even more so when they blush... and that's exactly what they'll do when they read my stories of escapades while I was playing the Mom role. I can imagine their reaction: "Who are you and what have you done with my MOM?"

[secnarf]

I have nothing. There is a street in Rome with my last name, and it is super sketchy but my dad and I hiked across the city to go see it when we visited. It's a pretty boring story.

My graduation present to myself was a trip to Florida that involved a day at Cape Canaveral to see a launch, but the launch was cancelled due to a weather violation. Also a boring story.

When I was little, I read so many books so quickly that by the time I was 8, my parents refused to buy me books. They viewed it as a waste of money since I'd be done them in an hour or two. Again, boring story.

[Clanstarling]

I have a Jeopardy story - in '89, we were living in California, but visiting my husband's family in the mid-west when the Loma Prieta quake hit (the epicenter was very close to our home). We were scrambling to find out if we still had a house to come home to, flipping between the channels for the coverage, and my husband's Nana was ticked off. She groused "you can read about it in the papers tomorrow, where's my Jeopardy?!" Priorities, you know?

As a military brat, I also have a few go-to stories about my life in hot spots around the world.

But I'm not ever going to be on Jeopardy. My mind blanks under pressure. At home I'm a champ, on the program I'd be a chump.

Edited July 8, 2018 by Clanstarling

[opus]

1 hour ago, secnarf said:

 

When I was little, I read so many books so quickly that by the time I was 8, my parents refused to buy me books. They viewed it as a waste of money since I'd be done them in an hour or two. Again, boring story.

I think it's interesting. What'd you read?  At 8 I think maybe that was my Hardy Boys phase?

[Toothbrush]

Lauren is a great contestant, and I love her website. Hope she sticks around.

I said Louisa May Alcott for FJ Thursday also, but knew it was wrong as soon as AT made the comment about the author possibly having had started the Civil War. No idea for Friday's FJ. 

I know which of my stories AT would pick because it involves French pronunciations. That would be the only story I would need, because if by some miracle I made it on the show, I would never win!

On 7/5/2018 at 7:08 PM, helpmerhonda said:

Today I wanted so very badly for Steve to answer with "Who is Rick James, bitch?!?!?" 

I don't know what this says about me.

That would have been awesome! 

On 7/5/2018 at 11:07 PM, DrScottie said:

Breakin' II: Electric Boogaloo. I remembered as it was on TWoP for some forum about a sequel, as Electric Boogaloo is a standard for absurd sequel titles. 

I remembered that thread title, too, but had no idea what the original movie was. 

On 7/6/2018 at 8:20 AM, peeayebee said:

A friend of mine who's in her 70's has a friend from when they were babies together!

 

Both of my parents are in their 70s and still friends with their childhood best friends. A few months ago I overheard my dad introducing his BFF to someone & said they had been friends for almost 70 years. And Dad's BFF's great-nephew was on J! a year or 2 ago.

I am still good friends with a couple of girls from kindergarten, so that is going on 40 years.

On 7/6/2018 at 12:00 PM, Julia67 said:

I'm so excited to have found this forum!  Looks like you all are a friendly sort who enjoy Jeopardy--for LOTS of different reasons!  LOL!

Can someone either give me or point me toward a Cliff's Notes version of how the board works after a show has aired:  do you all post which answers you knew?  Does ""instaget" apply just to FJ?  

All that being said:  I also thought Suzanne looked bored out of her mind and, for a librarian, she sure didn't know much about books.  I felt like she gave up a bit shortly into the first round when she was being beaten on every buzzer.  Although she did come back by the end.  I, for one, didn't notice her chest.  I thought her clothing choices were lovely and sophisticated.  I thought Marilyn was a little strange, and I've had ONE best friend since 4th grade.  I'm 50, so you do the math!  LOL!

Can anyone tell me something I've always wondered:  those tv/computer screens that show each question look awfully small to me and the contestants look awfully far away.  How do they read them?  Are the questions shown somewhere else larger or are they really bigger than they seem?  I can't imagine how I would see them clearly that far away in enough time!

I also guessed LM Alcott for FJ last night.  Should have known it though! Thanks for letting me chime in!
 

Welcome! Glad you found us - "good for you"!

Edited July 8, 2018 by Toothbrush

[PaulaO]

I was so disappointed when an answer was existentialism.  I misread the clue and yelled out Alber Camoo.

[Kimmmmmm]

On July 6, 2018 at 7:37 PM, catrice2 said:

 I can only comment  on certain forums but mostly people have lightheartedly joked about maybe someone's hairstyle (which is something that is chosen) maybe their voice or a mannerism that they have. I personally have not witnessed a lot of comments about a physical attribute that may be God given. I don't know if I'm more amused by the ignorance of some people thinking that exercise or just a good bra doesn't have something to do with it, or that it is not known that some people are just blessed with a certain shape of breast.  age does not mean that they're going to be at your knees . Jeopardy is supposed to be a someone intellectual show. I find it  Interesting that people would be sidetracked by something that was not even that distasteful. I found it annoying that some people think that others should try to disguise one of their personal features just because it makes other people uncomfortable.  me thinks the problem lies with them and not with that person. She was dressed appropriately for a game show, I've seen way worse.  She was not in a place of business or church.  trust me when they are the certain size nothing you wear is going to disguise them. It's all about the angles.   You can be covered head-to-toe up to your neck and they're still going to be there.   hopefully she is lucky enough to be around people that care more about who she is than what she looks like. She was a deserving champ that performed admirably and I wish her well

Perfect.

[Clanstarling]

10 hours ago, secnarf said:

When I was little, I read so many books so quickly that by the time I was 8, my parents refused to buy me books. They viewed it as a waste of money since I'd be done them in an hour or two. Again, boring story.

My version of this would work too. We couldn't afford to buy books - but the library was the ticket. I got my first library card in third grade and was incensed that I could only check out two books at a time (which meant weekly, because it was a bookmobile where we were). Two are never enough. Not then, not now, not ever.

Edited July 8, 2018 by Clanstarling

[Sharpie66]

Hee. My library story might be my 12th summer when I was determined to get through as much of my small library’s collection as I could. One week, I checked out 42 books (almost all pretty short Harlequin romances). I probably read most of them in the two weeks, but didn’t check out that many again.

Edited July 8, 2018 by Sharpie66

[SoMuchTV]

15 hours ago, saber5055 said:

Beth lost me when she began her interview "Me and my husband went to ..." She should have boned up on some grammar in between her Bible studies.

I caught that too, but for some reason, I'm more tolerant of a misused "me" than the opposite.  "Me and Alex went to the movies" sounds casual; "Someone bought popcorn for Alex and I" just sounds pretentious. (And don't get me started on "myself".)  Just between you and I, y'know.  But I agree - if you're going to be on Jeopardy, for Pete's sake, pay a little attention to your grammar.

[AuntiePam]

17 minutes ago, SoMuchTV said:

I caught that too, but for some reason, I'm more tolerant of a misused "me" than the opposite.  "Me and Alex went to the movies" sounds casual; "Someone bought popcorn for Alex and I" just sounds pretentious. (And don't get me started on "myself".)  Just between you and I, y'know.  But I agree - if you're going to be on Jeopardy, for Pete's sake, pay a little attention to your grammar.

Legal secretary here, back in the days of dictaphones.  One of the attorneys I worked for liked to use "myself" instead of "I".  It bugged the hell out of me and I always changed it when typing the correspondence.  She never commented on the change. 

OMG - spellcheck doesn't recognize "dictaphones"!  Now that makes me feel old.

[secnarf]

10 hours ago, opus said:

I think it's interesting. What'd you read?  At 8 I think maybe that was my Hardy Boys phase?

Yep! Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew and The Babysitter's Club :P

[SoMuchTV]

2 hours ago, AuntiePam said:

Legal secretary here, back in the days of dictaphones.  One of the attorneys I worked for liked to use "myself" instead of "I".  It bugged the hell out of me and I always changed it when typing the correspondence.  She never commented on the change. 

OMG - spellcheck doesn't recognize "dictaphones"!  Now that makes me feel old.

Just so you didn't put the carbon paper in backwards.

[saber5055]

5 hours ago, PaulaO said:

I was so disappointed when an answer was existentialism.  I misread the clue and yelled out Alber Camoo.

That answer is correct in an existentialist way.

2 hours ago, SoMuchTV said:

"Me and Alex went to the movies" sounds casual; "Someone bought popcorn for Alex and I" just sounds pretentious.

"Me and Alex" doesn't sound casual, it sounds wrong and is wrong. It's "Alex and I went to the movies." If you want to be casual, say "Us guys went to the movies." Then you'd sound casual, wrong and stupid. "Someone bought popcorn for Alex and I" doesn't sound pretentious, it's also wrong. Correct: "Someone bought popcorn for Alex and me."

In my online dating profile, I've posted that correct use of pronouns is a requirement, right up there with liking animals and outdoor sports.

2 hours ago, AuntiePam said:

Legal secretary here, back in the days of dictaphones.  One of the attorneys I worked for liked to use "myself" instead of "I".  It bugged the hell out of me and I always changed it when typing the correspondence.

Bless your heart!

[Brookside]

3 hours ago, AuntiePam said:

Legal secretary here, back in the days of dictaphones.  One of the attorneys I worked for liked to use "myself" instead of "I".  It bugged the hell out of me and I always changed it when typing the correspondence.  She never commented on the change. 

OMG - spellcheck doesn't recognize "dictaphones"!  Now that makes me feel old.

But if you (I) changed things for correct grammar it meant ripping out three sheets of paper and two sheets of carbon paper and starting again.  And trying to find a decent reusable piece of carbon paper?  Or using the stupid Tipex that got everywhere and made everything look amateurish.

(Anyone else remember those early electric typewriters with a tiny display that allowed you to type in a few words before committing?)

I'm so old.

[Driad]

How do you know your boss used your computer?

Spots of White-Out on the screen.

[DrSpaceman]

I think I could come up with some stories to tell at least half way interesting. 

I dressed up as a gorilla to do a 100 mile bike ride.  And that resulted in me starting to date my wife

I know one other former contestant on the show from middle school and I could give a short story about the two of us and a science test

I paid $800 for one ticket the Colts-Pats AFC championship game and had to immediately leave afterward to drive 8 hours to get back home to work the next day. 

I road across the state of Iowa on a bike in RAGBRAI

Basically its the George Costanza theory.  If you take all your ENTIRE life and condense it down to a handful of interesting things.......it looks decent. 

[opus]

2 minutes ago, DrSpaceman said:

I think I could come up with some stories to tell at least half way interesting. 

I dressed up as a gorilla to do a 100 mile bike ride.  And that resulted in me starting to date my wife

I know one other former contestant on the show from middle school and I could give a short story about the two of us and a science test

I paid $800 for one ticket the Colts-Pats AFC championship game and had to immediately leave afterward to drive 8 hours to get back home to work the next day. 

I road across the state of Iowa on a bike in RAGBRAI

Basically its the George Costanza theory.  If you take all your ENTIRE life and condense it down to a handful of interesting things.......it looks decent. 

If I'm Alex, I'm picking the first one.

[Clanstarling]

39 minutes ago, Brookside said:

But if you (I) changed things for correct grammar it meant ripping out three sheets of paper and two sheets of carbon paper and starting again.  And trying to find a decent reusable piece of carbon paper?  Or using the stupid Tipex that got everywhere and made everything look amateurish.

(Anyone else remember those early electric typewriters with a tiny display that allowed you to type in a few words before committing?)

I'm so old.

I don't remember the display typewriters - but I remember being somewhat excited about working on Selectrics, where I could change the font wheel.

I do remember (and this dates me) working as a tech writer using a main frame computer and being absolutely thrilled when they finally developed line wrapping. Before we'd have to figure out when to stop the line and move to the next one.

[Sharpie66]

50 minutes ago, Brookside said:

(Anyone else remember those early electric typewriters with a tiny display that allowed you to type in a few words before committing?)

I'm so old.

That was my college typewriter in the mid-80s. The main library did have computers available for word processing (in WordPerfect, IIRC) starting my junior year, but you had to finish before the library closed at midnight, and as queen of the last-minute all-nighter, I used my typewriter more often than the computers. The teachers were fine with me marking my corrections in ink before turning the paper in, because even with having that little leeway of a few words before committing to paper, I usually missed errors due to typing too fast. 

[Brookside]

20 minutes ago, Clanstarling said:

I don't remember the display typewriters - but I remember being somewhat excited about working on Selectrics, where I could change the font wheel.

I do remember (and this dates me) working as a tech writer using a main frame computer and being absolutely thrilled when they finally developed line wrapping. Before we'd have to figure out when to stop the line and move to the next one.

What would really date you would be remembering the manual typewriter that would "bing" near the end of the line so you had to work out the grammatically correct hyphenation and when to start a new line so the letter was aesthetically acceptable!

And typing too fast meant the "arms" got tangled up!

[Browncoat]

1 hour ago, Brookside said:

(Anyone else remember those early electric typewriters with a tiny display that allowed you to type in a few words before committing?)

 

One of my college roommates had one.  I had a regular electric typewriter, but it had a cartridge with a ribbon in it, so instead of having to change a ribbon, I only had to eject and replace the cartridge.  Actually, now that I think about it, I think it had a correction ribbon as well as an ink ribbon.  I think it was a Smith-Corona.

I remember one professor would not accept a paper if it had any White-out, erasures or other errors.  It had to be typed perfectly.  I also remember getting to the bottom of a page, and making a typo in the last line.  I had to retype the whole page!  I borrowed my roomie's display typewriter after that. 

[PaulaO]

I took typing in high school.  We had Royal manual typewriters.  I can still hear Mrs. Thomas yelling “return.” The IBM Correcting Selectric II was like a gift from heaven.  I began my library career before computers.   Eventually we got a dumb terminal with an acoustic coupler.  That was before a lot of you youngins time.

[Clanstarling]

2 hours ago, Brookside said:

What would really date you would be remembering the manual typewriter that would "bing" near the end of the line so you had to work out the grammatically correct hyphenation and when to start a new line so the letter was aesthetically acceptable!

And typing too fast meant the "arms" got tangled up!

Consider me dated.

[ClareWalks]

If I go on Jeopardy I'd be tempted to tell the amazing story of how my friend lost his virginity - he was 16, living in China, and went with his dad's secretary, who was a decade older and spoke no English, to the Great Wall and they had sex. A group of schoolchildren walked in on them shortly afterward. This is by far the most compelling way to lose one's virginity that I have ever heard of. I doubt the Jeopardy folks would allow that story, but trust me, America would be captivated by it.

[Trey]

28 minutes ago, Clanstarling said:

Consider me dated.

Ditto.

[lb60]

On 7/7/2018 at 7:33 PM, saber5055 said:

Beth lost me when she began her interview "Me and my husband went to ..." She should have boned up on some grammar in between her Bible studies.

Thank you!  That annoyed me so much, I had a shitty game.  Thanks a lot, Beth.

[saber5055]

2 hours ago, ClareWalks said:

If I go on Jeopardy I'd be tempted to tell the amazing story of how my friend lost his virginity

Since you would be the contestant, the story should be about the amazing way you lost your virginity.

[ClareWalks]

9 hours ago, saber5055 said:

Since you would be the contestant, the story should be about the amazing way you lost your virginity.

Yeah, I would definitely put myself as the main character, LOL

[Prevailing Wind]

17 hours ago, Brookside said:

But if you (I) changed things for correct grammar it meant ripping out three sheets of paper and two sheets of carbon paper and starting again.  And trying to find a decent reusable piece of carbon paper?  Or using the stupid Tipex that got everywhere and made everything look amateurish.

(Anyone else remember those early electric typewriters with a tiny display that allowed you to type in a few words before committing?)

I'm so old.

Another thing old people might remember: Computer file names could only be 8 characters in length.

The typewriter 'arms' jamming is why the QWERTY keyboard has all the most common letters spread out like it does - it's to slow down really fast typists.

[Clanstarling]

For those of us who were discussing our library/reading stories, this came up on my Facebook feed just now. Thought I'd share:

[peeayebee]

18 hours ago, Clanstarling said:

but I remember being somewhat excited about working on Selectrics, where I could change the font wheel.

 

17 hours ago, Brookside said:

And typing too fast meant the "arms" got tangled up!

 

16 hours ago, PaulaO said:

I can still hear Mrs. Thomas yelling “return.”

Ahh, all those good ol' memories. 

I'm sure I have interesting stories from my life that I could share in an interview, but off the top of my head I can't think of any. I CAN think of stupid little ones, but, well, they're stupid and little. 

[illdoc]

The only amusing story I can think of is: while driving to a restaurant, my mother, sister and I were in the back seat with my aunt driving & my brother-in-law up front and we were trying to sing "Babaloo" (from "I Love Lucy")--just that word, but each of us was stressing a different syllable. This went on for about 20 minutes. When we stopped at a light, my brother-in-law rolled down his window and I swear, we all thought he was going to ask the driver in the car next to us the correct pronunciation! It turns out, he was just telling the driver that he had a brake light out. And...that's it for my funny stories.

[M. Darcy]

I got Truman! I narrowed it down to either LBJ or Truman and then remembered FDR died pretty soon into his 4th term. 

[Browncoat]

Good for you, @M. Darcy!  :)  I had several ideas, but none of them was correct.  Boo, hiss.  Also boo, hiss that  Lauren lost.  I hoped she'd have a nice run.  Not to disparage the new champ, mind you.  Third place guy wagered wisely, I thought.  It could have worked out well for him.

I did get Briggs & Stratton, moose, and Delaware, and I also learned that ketchup is derived from a fish sauce.  I had no idea.

[secnarf]

I was sure it was Teddy Roosevelt - and really, was only about a month off.

I am perpetually forgetting that FDR died while in office.

[Kimmmmmm]

Rats...I mean, nothing against the new champ (what's his name?), but I was really hoping Lauren would go the distance...

[SuperCam1]

Darn!!! I really wanted Lauren to win and go on a run but Wes seem cool too so its not all bad.

[lb60]

If he loses the thumbs-up during his intro and writes his name straight, I can probably root for Wes tomorrow.  I know my support will mean the world to him.  ;-)

I was surprised Lauren was a one and done.

I was waiting for King Henry Died By Drinking Chocolate Milk to show up in the mnemonics category.  I guess I spend more time with fifth graders than the writers.  I'm still bummed that Pluto got demoted and screwed up that mnemonic. 

[Kathira]

Poor Lauren. Done in by a tough FJ. I guessed Nixon, too. She bet correctly, to beat Wes if he was right and doubled his score. Sometimes you just can't win.

I also got World of Dance, ketchup, debate and brigantine, which was a pre-guess as soon as I saw the category of "brig."