Learned League

Okay, seems like you two did make it to the final.

Lot of talk about diversity issues in this ML.

Are you talking about the '70s Film ML? I haven't been paying much attention to the message board lately, since I've been busy with life stuff, but it does feel like there've been a lot of Qs about white dudes, including the whole day tributes to Nicholson and Scorsese.

Yes

Don't forget to submit your 1DS proposals before month end!

I'm torn between proposing trip hop or RPDR.

doing so bad so far

I haven't checked on you, but I am not doing so great myself.

I already submitted both 1DS proposals. I compulsively do it early, otherwise I fret over it too much.

I'm doing super medium this season.

I get it. I submitted this morning to get it over with as well.

I didn’t want to worry about the description for too long.

Greg, it's OK to submit more than one proposal?

Oh duh should've read the instrux:

Proposals are limited to two per player.

This after I submitted two last year lol.

Hey, so I eked out a tie yesterday, 3(3)-3(3). Don’t know if this result has a cute nickname or not.

Quad trips

Oh!

Just looking back and I see I got an email last year from TAI on November 3rd about that round of 1DSs.

(just made that up btw)

Yeah,so I figured.

Anyone else get stuck on GAPDY yesterday?

Ha, no, but I see that was a challenging question for those unfamiliar with the nuances of Billboard charts/radio formats. (I went with Foo Fighters but considered RHCP, Chili Peppers, Green Day, and Weezer.)

(Er, strike "Chili Peppers.")

i said nickelback like a dumbass!!!

Not a huge fan of a question that amounts to 'name a rock band big in the 00s and hope you are right', though, in fairness, I was 99% sure that Linkin Park and Foo Fighters would be on the list.

Agreed it wasn't the best question.

It apparently derived from a Chris Molanphy article in Pitchfork, which referred to "a Modern Rock penthouse with a lock that, seemingly, only five American bands had the keys for: Foo Fighters, Green Day, Linkin Park, Incubus, and, yes, the Chili Peppers. During the six-year period from 2003 through 2008, this five-band oligopoly controlled the No. 1 spot 152 out of 313 weeks-- a preposterous 49% of the time."

This was later cited in the Wikipedia article on the chart.

Although the implication is that these five bands spent more time at #1 than any others, Chris doesn't state that outright. ("Seemingly" is doing a lot of work in that sentence.) Then again, why include Incubus (11 weeks at #1) instead of NIN (17 weeks) or Weezer (16 weeks)? I'm guessing it's because he goes on to talk about NIN and Weezer in the next paragraph.

i was shockingly old when i realized that ‘airegin’ was nigeria backwards

it had never occurred to me and i had to go through a list of rollins songs in my head

I think I realized it when someone told me or I heard it on the radio a fewer years back. So yeah, shockingly old too.

well, at least i didn't finish dead last in the championship. yikes

I started out Round 1 in 64th place due to atrociously bad moneying which, sadly, is a theme that will continue throughout the rounds.

Though, thinking to myself: "Hmm, Thorsten might ask a question about Bridgerton, maybe I should learn the rudiments of it" about an hour before my scheduled match is my proudest moment in trivia history.

h8 u

love you for ken stabler tho

how do the championships work anyway? they used to be like watched by a judge irl or something right?

two straight 6/6s, feels good because my first foray into rundle a was not going so well

The championship is done with someone watching you over a Zoom call.

I ended up finishing 79th, fine enough though disappointing given that I finished 40th last year. The difference was mostly terrible moneying.

In much more pedestrian developments, my defense has been atrocious this season.

And an embarrassing RTFQ fail because I answered Italian Neo-realism for the film question yestreday.

hey, the other day, i said nimbus instead of nimbostratus like an idiot

tbf asking people to be aware that "nimbostratus" is one of the cloud kinds seems like a tall order!

it's been like 20 years since I really read up on cloud kinds

as a child

I thought it was "nimbus" and felt pretty good about my answer. Apparently that's just a more generic term for a rain cloud.

TFW you submit a 1D proposal and then see that it's basically already been done.

Wait did that happen? Sorry

The proposal I just sent in wasn't for anything I mentioned ITT, but basically this is the one that scooped me: https://learnedleague.com/oneday.php?notstartrek

Ah.

I had worries about that kind of thing myself, whether I checked carefully enough

fastball right down the middle for forks today

how so?

pottery

oh, heh. yeah, i was amused by that one. Bombed most of the rest though. 3 a day may not save me from relegation in c, though that feels dead average!

I also got 3 right yesterday but it resulted in an extremely rare instance of winning with 3 correct answers in an A Rundle.