Learned League

Learned League really makes you realize you don't know what other people know. I thought Flannery O'Connor was a gimme but wrestled with mimosa; I got them both but I really wasn't sure about mimosa. And like 90% of people got that right!

Yes, defense is a mug’s game. I thought everyone would get the game show except me, hah. Also thought Fatima might be easy but was hoping more people would fall into the Leila trap.

Think people who are really into it maybe have a better idea of what is a “Pavlov” or things like that.

an all-expenses paid cruise FOR TWO

idk, it's not like showcase showdowns suggested you go on cruises or live on a camping trailer by yourself? feel like there was a general assumption that all game show contestants were married

if the newlywed game adjusted its prizes according to whether it thought the winners would better appreciate a BC cruise or camper, then okay i had no idea

Yeah, it wasn’t quite enough to hang one’s hat on. There is a thing about looking for those kind of clues or ins, but this one was a little too, um, subtle.

I put Canadian Jeopardy

Lol

Now I remember that for the ML question about “Blue Moon” we spent a little time discussing the wording of such a hint which ended up being “The Marcels stood alone atop the Billboard charts.” I suggested changing it to “The Marcels were seen standing alone,” which sounding more like the lyric, but somebody thought that would be a gimmie. The get rate was 30%

Like some hints are just “passing” as clues, kind of mugging and grimacing but not really quite acknowledging they are actual hints.

lol i'd have gotten 'blue moon' if the clue had been 'clapton solo ripoff' but i have literally never heard of the marcels

anyway the obvious answer is that you should do (absurdly difficult) one-days by yourself

How did you know that was my plan?

https://i1.yuki.la/6/56/e9ef6569a7e6e710c466d4ef59817f00c35c26c2b38e0c94816aec97bc16b566.gif

Never noticed or knew about that solo ripoff. Anyway the lead smith on that quiz was much younger than everyone else and was really conscientious about controlling the difficulty, starting it off with a 50% get rate in the beginning and then slowly tightening the screws.

Desktop still uses Lingots, looks like.

oh HI DERE thread! Llama since 2010 myself, ready for B Meridian tomorrow; my flag will not take ironing. I don't too often take part in 1DS and MLs, but had fun both with 60s music and stuff-or-else til off-season. Good luck in the upcoming!

Doing all right; without doing the analysis, it feels like I've been a bit lucky in facing other Europeans on the most US-centric days. I guess A/B yo-yo may be approximately my true level atm.

Yeah, I am currently at the top of the B/C yo-yo myself.

pretty annoyed with myself for going with "corsair" over "corvette" yesterday. it was one of those things where corsair popped into my head and i thought "that sounds right" and then didn't put any more thought into it. fortunately i got lucky with a total guess on the beijing man question.

i did exactly the same thing with corsair/corvette

Corvid Corsair Corvette
Baby, you're much too...oh never mind

D'oh! "Atom" is from Greek, not Latin, of course.

three days ago i was in first place. now i'm tenth : /

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOCCvN8YDuc

Do any of you have Premium memberships, if not Commissioner's Circle?

I chose to pay for Premier the last time, but haven't really used any of the perks.

My very very favorites are the ones where I truly don't know the answer but manage to reason my way to "the only thing it could be," like "ilium"

Also, I mean, HOW was "glory hole" not the MCW

I chose to pay for Premier the last time, but haven't really used any of the perks.

― anatol_merklich, Thursday, December 3, 2020 10:02 AM (twenty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

The perks have never seemed compelling enough to justify the extra cost. Private rundles are theoretically intriguing, but I don't know that many people in LL beyond you guys, and everyone would have to be a Premium member to participate.

I usually pay for Commissioner's Circle, although I'm premier currently because I had a huge emergency expense right before it was time to renew - it's worth a lot more than $30 a year to me and I don't mind paying extra if I can afford to. Also I kinda like the player tracker, even if I don't really use an of the other premium features.

why do i always have my 5/6 days when the other person forfeits

They can feel it coming

A new vibration

I haven't gotten a forfeit win since my rookie season, and the rest things are going, I wouldn't mind a couple.

Really annoyed that I turned a win into a tie by zeroing the Butler question, which my opponent missed even though he got the Le Guin question right from two seasons ago.

dolly parton talking about her favorite book is the only reason i got the butler q

I heard someone else say that as well

years of being too online have ruined me for novels but you should really read octavia buter maura

This midseason classic: I got 8 right, which was enough to rep for C Sakura (nice!), and was in 69th percentile (nice nice!).

I yeah, I never paid attention to how it worked, I repped as well.

Sigh at the 6 match winless streak I'm working on.

Finally got a win yesterday, though it was against a poor guy who's had 15 (now 16) losses this season, none of which were forfeits.

you're welcome

Haha, but...

Can you guys guess what my wrong answer was for the James Brown question was?

was it say it loud (i'm black and i'm proud)? bc that was my wrong answer that kept me from a 9(6). obviously i didn't read the question closely enough.

No, not quite.

"Please Please Please." Figure the parenthesized part was "(Please Don't Go)"

i also went with i'm black

Somehow my opponent today -- in a C rundle -- has a QPct of 81.8%. See yall in the relegation zone!

*waves hand*

The key part of the James Brown question was "first-person sentence." So it had to start with "I."

I missed it, too, because I just couldn't think of any titles that fit the bill. Kicked myself when I saw the answer.

yes, that's what i missed by not reading closely enough. also i'm black and i'm proud would have been later than 1965.