Learned League

I got 7 right in Irish Rock and still ended up below the 50th %ile -- I'm kind of surprised the the Corrs question played relatively easy, as I had to dig really hard to remember their name.

I did better on the Bermanisms one though.

I had a hard time figuring out which questions to money in Irish Rock. Intellectually, I knew that I should money My Bloody Valentine (because indie) -- and if it were regular LL, I likely would've assigned it a 3 unless my opponent seemed particularly strong in popular music. But in the context of that 1DS, it just felt like a straight-ahead gimme. (By contrast, Bob Geldof *feels* more obscure to me, a name only old music nerds know. Ah well.)

Yeah. It seemed like it had that, um, classic problem of being pretty easy to answer, hard to money.

The commish does not observe the holiday? Probably for the best

I'm glad for it!

I did surprisingly well in Gluten-free, though I absolutely left points on the table there, and thought that Q12 (which I got correct and moneyed) would play harder.

Enjoying the Opera ML, Mystery Themes not so much.

same today

I finally got the theme on MD3, but yeah, this ML is proving kind of unpopular.

That's how I feel too even though I'm getting crushed in the Opera ML and doing fine in Mystery Themes.

Meaning you are enjoying Opera more?

Also don’t think you are doing as badly as you say

90th %ile in the Thorsten Sandiego 1DS!

Yes, I've been enjoying opera and not enjoying Mystery Themes.

I'm dead middle of the pack on Opera, which is about as I expected. I've been learning a lot though so it's been fun.

Here to highly recommend You Probably Think This Song Is About You, which I playtested.

There's a Cephalopod 1D too, which I'm sure a few players here would enjoy.

yeah, i played that and the silver age comic one today with better luck than usual

i got in the top 10% for the roger corman one-day

I didn't do very well on the first two days of Mystery Themes, but have been on a roll since then.

I haven't been paying much attention to the recent One-Days, apart from Irish Rock and US Campaign Finance.

Ran into a certain crossword editor who lives down the block at the cheese shop yesterday and found out he was a LLama as well. Noticed he had a Prince tattoo on his arm and today saw that his LL flag was a picture of Prince!

I ran into him at the cheese shop, which is three blocks away and in which he does not live.

I would

Live in a cheese shop? Are you a mouse, silby?

I would totally live in a cheese shop too.

not a furry I just think it's probably cold in there and there's lots of cheese

90% on cephalopods but only 68% on silver age comics, who even am i

Ha, that’s the way the LLAma fur, um breaks? Parts?

So there is a 1DS today about music, not about Biz Markie, no further comment.

I'm actually in second place in Mystery Themes, which is, placement-wise, the best I've ever done. I need to at least tie in the last match to go to the championship, though.

I was in 2nd for a long time but then dropped to 3rd in Opera, which spared me having to compete in the final.

Heh, the results for Our Band Could Be Your Life were as expected.

I see that I tied with our very own govern yourself accordingly. Looks like there were a lot of 12/12s on that own, so it came down to moneying even more than usual.

It took me a second to remember who that was but yeah. Two other ILX0rs also went 12/12 but they didn’t do that much better than me at 11/12 because of moneying.

yeah i got 12/12 and ended up at #175!

Yes, I was referring to you and mookie, who also went 12/12 and placed just about equidistant from you and me.

lol i made the finals of the mystery theme?! what the hell i thought i was getting my ass kicked.

Oh yeah, that's interesting.

lol I choked on the last MD of Mystery Themes and fell to third place.

Lots of us signed up for 1970s Film 2, but looks like only Leee and I are in The Microbial World, in which I am getting crushed.

Yeah I was a little burned out on LL so didn't sign up for either of those minileagues. I did do the LL championship the other day, which was fun but which I can't talk about for another month or so.

Yiddish 1DS lots of fun.

Excellent! Thanks for the tip, hadn’t noticed

Enjoyed it even though I didn’t do particularly well. I guess you did a tiny bit better

Greg did quite a bit better

I felt like a real shmendrick for missing that last one.

me too, what a shandeh

Just a bissel maybe.

I did pretty well in the Lit in Translation, even though I entered McWhorter's instead of McSweeney's.

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Had one of those days when I forgot to submit yesterday

I wonder if the reason the Guns ODS only had 477 participants is because guns.

Microbial World my favorite minileague in a while, very good range of difficulty, creative cluing, loved the highlighting of the work of woman scientists