Learned League

the baconator was one of those answers where i realized 'everyone is going to know this except me'

Not me, I was startled that so many people knew the name of a random sandwich, but I live in an area where there's not a ton of Wendy's, maybe it has more penetration elsewhere.

BTW I also strongly endorse the "never say anything no matter how vague and seemingly innocuous about today's questions" policy

"baconator" was a late night talk show punchline for awhile

Realistically there was no way we would be expected to know the names of KISS solo albums so I assumed it had to be some sort of trick.

See I just put the only thing I could think of but didn't think there was a meaningful probability of being right

I went with Live Frehley which I assume would be followed up by ...Or Die Hardley

lol

i answered “the demon”

i am not that knowledgeable about kiss but decades of skimming through used records was all i needed to get that one

I’m old enough to remember when it came out and seem to recall valuable candy store record section real estate being taken up to display all four.

Really convinced myself a Dalmatian was a toy breed

I guessed Friesland (which I misspelled as "Frisland"), thinking of a Bichon Frise. Too far west, and "frise" is apparently just French for "curly."

Totally feel for Dalmatian as well.

tried to pretend borzhoi was something it wasn't

Remote coworker has a pom that he showed off on Slack to much adulation, so the breed definitely came to me quickly, but I wasn't sure about deriving the region so just entered the breed and got credit.

tongue kiss is not the name of a 1979 kiss member solo album

and that bright, shiny burrowing flop monster is a caterpillar, not a worm.

who knew.

I wouldn't worry too much about not getting the Kiss question right, a certain Rock Star didn't get it either, I just saw on the Message Board.

a certain Rock Star

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jaymc pointed that out. That's what her flag is.

https://www.learnedleague.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=12886&p=190265#p190265

DO U SEE?

I don't know about the etiquette about talking about other players, but said player is high-profile enough in a couple different ways that you can connect the dots relatively easily.

I don't know the etiquette totally either so don't want to talk too readily, but that link is only visible with a login so hopefully I am showing showing some discretion.

lol, that's awesome

Think the finals first reveal happens now

Oh no, 10PM PDT.

Ken Jennings in the top ten of round one I think

i'm in 58th, seven points ahead of some rutter guy

not surprised so many people got 11/12 right on round 1, it was definitely the easiest of the four - i'm very curious to see what happens in round 2 (to say nothing of round 3, which was a fucking nightmare)

I am in 110th place, in honor of Bobby Womack. I too have an embarrassing performance in R3 to reckon with, assuming that I qualify.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOg_8hCC4u4
Learned League Championship is a helluva tester

to say nothing of round 3, which was a fucking nightmare)
So I have heard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjwzTSOwUC0
Thorsten wont let contestants go free

I've never finished higher than 7th (in an A rundle), so I've never really paid much attention to the championship.

Wonder how many more participants will show up on this thread today..

Wow, good work.

I'm not sure how to feel about how much of my high score was due to my knowledge of pro wrestling and crappy comic strips, but there we are. My reckoning is coming in Round 3 (spoiler alert)

now i wanna know the crappy comic strip questions

"Most comic strip characters never age. Notable exceptions include those in Frank King's Gasoline Alley, Gary Trudeau's Doonesbury, and the Patterson family in what strip written and drawn by Lynn Johnston from 1979 to 2008?"

ah, that would've been my moment to shine too.

boxcar!

lol, i still have a boxcar coffee mug somewhere

The other guy rode his boxcar all the way to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0ajzQ2fRLM

Would've been 50/50 for me on the strips question because I can never remember if it's For Better Or Worse or For Better Or For Worse (I think it's the former).

It's "For Better of For Worse", and "For Better or Worse" wasn't accepted which probably accounts for a lot of the low get rate.

Have you heard this one before? A LLama walks into a bar, the bartender says "Why the low get rate?"

made the cut!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8josOPbNb8

So you made it past "I Can't Drive 255"? Congrats!

Are you guys all so good you won A rundles? Isn't that who's in this final?

You only have to make top 3, which is good because I only barely snuck in at 3rd place in 1 of the 4 seasons.

ahhh i get the rock star ref now. v cool