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Zero One posted:Me on today's final category: Oh dammit. I don’t know anything about Opera. 
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Holy poo poo that could have been a hilarious ending if they all bet it all and the winner actually lost.
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Jul 20, 2022 01:00
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But Doctor, I am Mayim Bialik!
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Jul 20, 2022 01:46
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I guessed it because it’s the only italian clown I’ve ever heard of, and that’s only because of a joke
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Jul 20, 2022 01:52
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I like calling out potential answers as they reveal the categories and boy was Charlotte's Web a layup for Possessive Lit.!
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Jul 20, 2022 04:00
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Pagliacci is the Italian word for clown not the name of the clown in the opera.
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Jul 20, 2022 10:02
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butt doctor
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Jul 20, 2022 18:48
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Zero One posted:Me after seeing the clue: Oh I know this! I just saw this episode of Seinfeld today! "You know, it's so sad. All your knowledge of high culture comes from Seinfeld episodes."  Same
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Jul 20, 2022 19:02
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In related news: Wheel of Fortune has had the top $100,000 prize won three days in a row this week.
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Jul 21, 2022 00:56
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That final was obscure.
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Jul 21, 2022 00:56
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RoastBeef posted:That final was obscure. I thought it was easy. And I'm not from that area or anything like that. Edit: maybe I learned it from Seinfeld too? Zero One fucked around with this message at 01:13 on Jul 21, 2022 |
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Jul 21, 2022 00:58
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I am and have lived in the city and had no idea Broadway left Manhattan let alone went half again north of the Bronx. Insert the xkcd about everyday 10000 people learn some fact &c.&c.
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Jul 21, 2022 01:01
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Another native New Yorker who didn't get that. I guessed Palisades Parkway.
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Jul 21, 2022 02:10
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I said Van Wyck expressway which I knew was wrong since it’s in Queens and named after a person.
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Jul 21, 2022 02:20
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Yeah, I’m in western Canada and couldn’t even hazard a guess. Also lol at Ken going “pledged”. Alex would never
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Jul 21, 2022 02:38
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I thought Final was pretty easy; Route 66 and Broadway are the two roads everyone knows, even via cultural osmosis. Maybe Lake Shore Drive, but that's in the Midwest.
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Jul 21, 2022 02:52
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Zero One posted:In related news: Wheel of Fortune has had the top $100,000 prize won three days in a row this week. Wheel is in reruns. I remember seeing this earlier this year. The odds were so against three straight days of $100,000 that I thought Wheel had rigged it to get attention. Wheel never pushed for mainstream attention, though, and didn't get it, so I dunno. Today's final: I came up with it at the last second. Dutch meant it was Pennsylvania or New York and Sleepy Hollow narrowed it to New York. Being a dumb, uncultured redneck, the only New York roads I could remember were Wall and Broadway. Wall's etymology is as a boundary street, so Broadway it is.
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Jul 21, 2022 03:53
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 Pennsylvania Dutch are actually German because somebody was too lazy to remember how to spell Deutsch
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Jul 21, 2022 04:13
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You could have given me a thousand guesses and I would have never said Broadway.
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Jul 21, 2022 06:27
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RC and Moon Pie posted:Wheel is in reruns. I remember seeing this earlier this year. There's no rule that says the bonus wheel has to have an equal distribution of prizes. S&P dictates that the contestants on a particular taping day have the same opportunity - so each taping day will have the same distribution. The exception is when the $1mm prize in play, and the rules clearly dictate that there will be one of those and that any of the $100k prizes will be removed. I've observed the car pops up more often when it's supplied by a specific dealership. And $39k is probably the most offered prize.
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Jul 21, 2022 14:50
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1glitch0 posted:You could have given me a thousand guesses and I would have never said Broadway. Yeah I grew up in NY and until yesterday had zero knowledge that that street goes anywhere outside of Manhattan. Hell I thought it ended at Columbus Circle, I've never had any reason to go to the upper west side.
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Jul 21, 2022 17:16
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Timby posted:I thought Final was pretty easy; Route 66 and Broadway are the two roads everyone knows, even via cultural osmosis. Maybe Lake Shore Drive, but that's in the Midwest. Yeah, but if it doesn’t fit your knowledge of that street you’re not going to think of it. Broadway is a downtown NYC street where theatres are, why would I ever think “oh maybe it extends thirty miles out of town to the creepy place?” I have obviously heard of Broadway but would never associate it with Sleepy Hollow, and I’m obviously not alone.
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Jul 21, 2022 19:46
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Goober Peas posted:There's no rule that says the bonus wheel has to have an equal distribution of prizes. S&P dictates that the contestants on a particular taping day have the same opportunity - so each taping day will have the same distribution. What about dogs? Are there rules about dogs playing Wheel of Fortune?
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Jul 21, 2022 19:48
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HookShot posted:Yeah, but if it doesn’t fit your knowledge of that street you’re not going to think of it. Broadway is a downtown NYC street where theatres are, why would I ever think “oh maybe it extends thirty miles out of town to the creepy place?” I have obviously heard of Broadway but would never associate it with Sleepy Hollow, and I’m obviously not alone. Until that clue I thought Sleepy Hollow was fictional.
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Jul 21, 2022 19:50
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HookShot posted:Yeah, but if it doesn’t fit your knowledge of that street you’re not going to think of it. Broadway is a downtown NYC street where theatres are, why would I ever think “oh maybe it extends thirty miles out of town to the creepy place?” I have obviously heard of Broadway but would never associate it with Sleepy Hollow, and I’m obviously not alone. I was trying to think of anything I knew involving the Dutch or Sleepy Hollow or maybe the Amish. Any tidbit of trivia in my brain. tbh I didn't even know Sleepy Hollow was even close to Manhattan.
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Jul 21, 2022 20:09
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I've never been to NYC but I was thinking Wall St.; my thought process was that since they brought up "native americans" that a wall used to actually exist on Wall street to defend the colonizers from the indigenous persons (https://www.history.com/topics/us-states/wall-street-timeline). It didn't make sense for it to be 33mi but it seems that it's a surprise for Broadway to be that long.
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Jul 21, 2022 20:16
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Darth Brooks posted:Until that clue I thought Sleepy Hollow was fictional. I knew it was real, but I had no idea where it actually was aside from a vague "somewhere upstate". Given that, I'm surprised my guess of Palisades was really close; just on the opposite side of the river.
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Jul 21, 2022 20:30
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How can Sleepy Hollow be real if New York isn't real??
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Jul 21, 2022 20:38
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Sleepy Hollow is fictional/bullshit. The town in question was North Tarrytown for centuries, but in the 1990s they officially changed the name to Sleepy Hollow in hopes of attracting tourist money.
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Jul 21, 2022 22:05
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Jul 22, 2022 03:11
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CPColin posted:How can Sleepy Hollow be real if New York isn't real?? Wait until you hear about birds
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Jul 22, 2022 03:44
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^^^ noThe Mighty Moltres posted:There’s a NEW York?! It was once New Amsterdam, if that helps. Don't ask me why they changed it.
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Jul 22, 2022 03:52
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CPColin posted:^^^ no I guess they just liked it better that way.
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Jul 22, 2022 04:08
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Parakeet vs. Phone posted:I guess they just liked it better that way. That's nobody's business but New York's
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CPColin posted:^^^ no Istanbul was once Constantinople.
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Jul 22, 2022 13:35
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Duckman2008 posted:Istanbul was once Constantinople. And before that, it was Byzantium! (I sing this to Mr. Hookshot literally all the time)
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Jul 22, 2022 15:01
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Last night I dreamed that I was at a J! audition (in person, and I knew I wasn't eligible to be on) so I'm calling it here: they're going to announce the permanent host today, and that dream was me being on the same wavelength as the people at Sony.
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Jul 22, 2022 15:49
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Duckman2008 posted:Istanbul was once Constantinople. Yeah, but if you have a date in Constantinople, she'll be waiting in Istanbul.
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Jul 23, 2022 00:32
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Me, casually reading over the Orville thread as Ken reads the answer for Final Jeopardy: You can call me Al My roommate: No it's not. Me after Ken reads the answer for a triple stumper: 
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Iron Crowned posted:Me, casually reading over the Orville thread as Ken reads the answer for Final Jeopardy: You can call me Al Considering it's the only solo Paul Simon song I know, I'm feeling quite smug right now.
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