This is the JEOPARDY thread (SPOILERS)

by Slyde on May 9, 2008 5:01 PM EDT Comment 74 comments

First of all, don't come into this thread if you want to watch Jeopardy tonight without knowing what happens. Seriously, people will be talking about andromache's match tonight in this thread, and if you want to watch it fresh, don't read on.

Here's a thread to discuss andromache's certain domination of tonight's Jeopardy match. If you don't know what I'm talking about, looky here. According to her bio, andromache is the one in the Michigan State sweatshirt. I'm disappointed that she didn't demand to wear a Red Reporter shirt. Or at least show off her Red Reporter tattoo. You all have one of those, right?

Anyway, check your local listings for when it's on. And even though it has already happened, it's new to you! And no matter what school you chose or didn't choose, tonight, we are all Spartans!

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i get it at 7:30

In the end, life and business are about human connections. And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake. And to me the choice is easy.

by chandrathan on May 9, 2008 5:10 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

It's on now here

I didn’t know Andromache was at Michigan State.

What’s the matter, couldn’t get into Michigan? ;-)

All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?

by BubbaFan on May 9, 2008 7:06 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Woot!

Congratulations, Tara!

All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?

by BubbaFan on May 9, 2008 7:28 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Thanks

YOU RUINED IT!!

Please Note: I may be totally full of shit.

by jch24 on May 9, 2008 7:44 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

you're not rooting for than?

In the end, life and business are about human connections. And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake. And to me the choice is easy.

by chandrathan on May 9, 2008 7:45 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Oh, shut your Felix Pie hole

All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?

by BubbaFan on May 9, 2008 7:47 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Am I the only one watching in real time?

It’s cool, ‘mache. I went with “Carpenter” on the daily double

"Karma - there it was. The meaning of life, straight from Carson Daly's lips to my morphine-laced ears." -Earl Hickey

by BLee2525 on May 9, 2008 7:45 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

It airs at different times in different markets

Hence the need for a spoiler thread.

All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?

by BubbaFan on May 9, 2008 7:50 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I thought it was 7:30 most places

I guess you got it at 7:00. though

"Karma - there it was. The meaning of life, straight from Carson Daly's lips to my morphine-laced ears." -Earl Hickey

by BLee2525 on May 9, 2008 7:52 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

come on, tara

“Idylls of the King.” Hell yes. That was my senior term paper book.

"Karma - there it was. The meaning of life, straight from Carson Daly's lips to my morphine-laced ears." -Earl Hickey

by BLee2525 on May 9, 2008 7:48 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I was pissed that jonathan beat me to stephen vincent benet

for the sweep.

Everybody's a jerk. You. Me. This jerk.

by andromache on May 9, 2008 7:56 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

What?

You missed the Dean Smith Center question??? MM will be so disappointed. :)

Please Note: I may be totally full of shit.

by jch24 on May 9, 2008 7:50 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

What happened?

I left with ten minutes to go beat traffic

'cause something is happening here, but you don't know what it is.

by Man Mountain on May 9, 2008 8:20 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Wedge = Inclined plane

They should give you that.

"Karma - there it was. The meaning of life, straight from Carson Daly's lips to my morphine-laced ears." -Earl Hickey

by BLee2525 on May 9, 2008 7:50 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I told you.

"Karma - there it was. The meaning of life, straight from Carson Daly's lips to my morphine-laced ears." -Earl Hickey

by BLee2525 on May 9, 2008 7:55 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Waiting on FJ

Nice MSU stripe, BTW. RESPECK.

Please Note: I may be totally full of shit.

by jch24 on May 9, 2008 7:51 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Man Mountain will be pissed

Dean Smith. Common.

"Karma - there it was. The meaning of life, straight from Carson Daly's lips to my morphine-laced ears." -Earl Hickey

by BLee2525 on May 9, 2008 7:52 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

OH SNAP

Great job kiddo!

REPRESENT BITCHES!!

Please Note: I may be totally full of shit.

by jch24 on May 9, 2008 7:55 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

HELL YES!!!!

"Karma - there it was. The meaning of life, straight from Carson Daly's lips to my morphine-laced ears." -Earl Hickey

by BLee2525 on May 9, 2008 7:56 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

WALK-OFF FINAL JEOPARDY ANSWER, BITCHES!!!!!!!

"Karma - there it was. The meaning of life, straight from Carson Daly's lips to my morphine-laced ears." -Earl Hickey

by BLee2525 on May 9, 2008 7:56 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

"What is Red Reporter's unique way of congratulating Andromache?"

Yum-o!

by Fat Vegas Alan on May 9, 2008 7:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

You don't wanna know

It involves a sno-cone, jumper cables, and yearling.

Please Note: I may be totally full of shit.

by jch24 on May 9, 2008 8:02 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

great job andro!

In the end, life and business are about human connections. And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake. And to me the choice is easy.

by chandrathan on May 9, 2008 7:57 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I forgot to mention

I love the fact that you beat some douchebag who goes by ‘tHan!! I hate people like that!! I mean “Topher Grace”? COMMON!!

Please Note: I may be totally full of shit.

by jch24 on May 9, 2008 7:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

So, when's your semifinal?

"Karma - there it was. The meaning of life, straight from Carson Daly's lips to my morphine-laced ears." -Earl Hickey

by BLee2525 on May 9, 2008 7:59 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

monday!

Everybody's a jerk. You. Me. This jerk.

by andromache on May 9, 2008 7:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

i just got home from work so i had to miss it

congratulations andromache! what was the final score?

If you don't get a good-night kiss, you get Kafka dreams.

by Charlie Scrabbles on May 9, 2008 8:01 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

So what was the Final Jeopardy

question?

by cesarhernandez on May 9, 2008 8:02 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

It was something like this:

Category was “Ancient Times”

Answer was: In Plutarch’s History, in the chapter on Romulus, he mentions this much later man who said “I love treason, but hate a traitor.”

"Karma - there it was. The meaning of life, straight from Carson Daly's lips to my morphine-laced ears." -Earl Hickey

by BLee2525 on May 9, 2008 8:05 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Game Analysis:

The game turned on 3 plays:

Poets & Poetry
Big Ten Stadiums
Julius Caesar

"Karma - there it was. The meaning of life, straight from Carson Daly's lips to my morphine-laced ears." -Earl Hickey

by BLee2525 on May 9, 2008 8:02 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

poetry master

So, I guess that Virgil question was pretty easy for you, then?

Thanks to the Bronze Age Pronunciation Guide and Wikipedia, I see you had an advantage. Congrats! Great job!

I was pretty confident they would accept ramp; in my professional opinion, it was entirely correct. Bummer Than got his money back, but you took care of that, anyhow.

Very nicely done! I’ll set the tivo for Monday… :)

by bbjones on May 10, 2008 12:10 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Plus Idol

tHan, I thought you’d sweep that category.

Awesome job, Andro!

by ken on May 10, 2008 11:58 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

yeah, i was robbed on that american idol categorry

In the end, life and business are about human connections. And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake. And to me the choice is easy.

by chandrathan on May 10, 2008 5:19 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Chicago

Okay, apparently it was on at 3:30 this afternoon here. That sucks.

by Brian B on May 9, 2008 8:03 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

i posted in the wrong thread

congrats! when’s the next round?

2008 NL Central Champs!

by Daedalus on May 9, 2008 8:03 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Well, if you read the rest of the thread....

Monday.

"Karma - there it was. The meaning of life, straight from Carson Daly's lips to my morphine-laced ears." -Earl Hickey

by BLee2525 on May 9, 2008 8:06 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Just watched it - I was out with the family for dinner

Kick ass! Remind me never to test you on poetry.

I won’t tell Alex, but I knew you were going to go on to the next round. I won’t say how, but I knew. That’s awesome that you won though.

BTW, I need to ask, did you not feel comfortable with 15k to get you to the next round? I would have no idea what to bet, but your bet seemed ballsy to me. Were you comfortable with the FJ category? I wouldn’t have been, but I guessed the right answer anyway. Sometimes it helps to not know many Romans. :)

"Hard being everybody’s hero, I suppose." - Buck O'Neil on Willie Mays

by Slyde on May 9, 2008 8:28 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Congrats!

Way to beat the snot out of Harvard and ‘than!

"Screw it. We've got bigger problems than a butter shortage."

by Ash on May 9, 2008 8:44 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

not coll ash

not cool

In the end, life and business are about human connections. And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake. And to me the choice is easy.

by chandrathan on May 10, 2008 5:20 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

BTW

How do you pronounce “Andromache?”

I’m going with An-DRAH-mah-key unless I’m told differently.

"Karma - there it was. The meaning of life, straight from Carson Daly's lips to my morphine-laced ears." -Earl Hickey

by BLee2525 on May 9, 2008 8:49 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

There’s never a Bronze Age pronuciation guide around when you need one.

Yum-o!

by Fat Vegas Alan on May 9, 2008 9:22 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Bronze Age huh?

i thought it was Dutch.

If you don't get a good-night kiss, you get Kafka dreams.

by Charlie Scrabbles on May 9, 2008 9:51 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

All this time I thought it was Native American

Eeyore has more fun than a Reds fan.

by Madville on May 9, 2008 10:19 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I was always thinking of...

...some sort of androgynous machine.

Yum-o!

by Fat Vegas Alan on May 9, 2008 10:52 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

...heey....

Everybody's a jerk. You. Me. This jerk.

by andromache on May 9, 2008 10:54 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Please don't be offended.

It was just what I came up with when I thought to myself, “I wonder what that means.” Once it was revealed last season that you were not the man we assumed you to be and then later you ‘fessed up to being an engineer, it all just sort of fell into place for me.

Of course, your crush on our boy in AAA didn’t seem to fit but I thought, “Well, Homer’s kinda feminine in a sinewy, mulletted kinda way.”

Yum-o!

by Fat Vegas Alan on May 9, 2008 11:15 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

An engineer!!!! Wow what kind of train do you drive?

Eeyore has more fun than a Reds fan.

by Madville on May 10, 2008 11:22 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs

I always assumed

she had an arts-and-crafts business to pay for school where she made paper-mache busts of Mark McGwire.

"Hard being everybody’s hero, I suppose." - Buck O'Neil on Willie Mays

by Slyde on May 9, 2008 11:15 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Except for that one time when she said..

“I can’t believe some people have to resort to making paper-mache busts of Mark McGwire in order to pay for school.” ~Andromache

That pretty much told me that she’d never do that.

Yum-o!

by Fat Vegas Alan on May 9, 2008 11:19 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

That's good, but it could have been done so much more convincingly

I can’t believe
Some people have to resort to making paper-mache busts of Mark McGwire in order to pay for school.

Everybody’s a jerk. You. Me. This jerk.

by andromache on July 12, 2007 8:31 PM EDT

"Hard being everybody’s hero, I suppose." - Buck O'Neil on Willie Mays

by Slyde on May 9, 2008 11:25 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Dammit! If only I knew how to harness my RR administrative powers.

Yum-o!

by Fat Vegas Alan on May 9, 2008 11:29 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

In the original Greek Ἀνδρομάχη

would have been pronounced An-drah-MAH-key because the last syllable, a Greek “eta” (η), is considered a long syllable and thus the syllable prior would receive the accent.

Most English poets who have used the name in verse, however, seem to conform to the pronunciation you provided, which I think is more mellifluous in a non-inflected language like English.

'cause something is happening here, but you don't know what it is.

by Man Mountain on May 10, 2008 11:43 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

In the Latin alphabet

Andromache begins with an I. Great job, Andro!

by Red Menace on May 10, 2008 2:04 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

awesome!!

congrats!!!!

Hope Springs Eternal! Go Reds

by Caleb on May 9, 2008 9:34 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I said "plane" at the same time you did

I was incredulous at the incorrect call.

I also said “Brutus” for the final answer. Ah well. This is why I can’t avenge my father’s loss on Jeopardy.

by Brendanukkah on May 9, 2008 11:17 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

My congratulations are implied, of course

You kick ass! Not quite as much as Iron Man (I got a total nerd boner), but almost. I’ll be watching Monday.

by Brendanukkah on May 9, 2008 11:17 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Hey, Nerd Boner.

Yum-o!

by Fat Vegas Alan on May 9, 2008 11:23 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I want to ask

but I kind of like not knowing how you find this shit.

"Hard being everybody’s hero, I suppose." - Buck O'Neil on Willie Mays

by Slyde on May 9, 2008 11:26 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Strangely enough, if you take a few liberties,

you can probably translate “Andromache” as “Iron Man”

'cause something is happening here, but you don't know what it is.

by Man Mountain on May 10, 2008 11:49 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

gripe:

Yeah, Iron Man had good special effects, and was otherwise cool.

But seriously, worst villain and female lead character development since daredevil.

Everybody's a jerk. You. Me. This jerk.

by andromache on May 10, 2008 11:52 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Someone was talking up Batman Begins

I’d throw that in the ring for worst female lead.

You’ve got a good point there, although I thought Jeff Bridges gave a great performance. And I’m pretty willing to buy the head of a weapons manufacturing company as a bad guy (Boo corporatism! Boo militarism!). And I’ll admit I gave Pepper Potts a free pass because Gwyneth Paltrow looked surprisingly good. The heels in the action sequence were pretty ludicrous, but I figured that was a reflection of the way Tony Stark preferred his women.

The one thing I was sort of hoping to see was the suit completely run out of power, and have Tony stuck in it. Like when he was on the roof, down to emergency power only, but was still able to sneak around. Something’s gotta be powering that suit’s movements, and it sure ain’t your muscles, Stark.

But Downey’s performance was bravura. The quality of this movie gave me a sliver of hope that “Watchmen” won’t be completely fucked.

Oh, and Elektra got her own spinoff movie, so be on the lookout for Pepper Potts: Girl Detective some time in 2010.

by Brendanukkah on May 10, 2008 12:01 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

My favorite Alan Moore film adaptations

1.
2.

and who can forget

'cause something is happening here, but you don't know what it is.

by Man Mountain on May 10, 2008 12:12 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I disagree.

In Batman, Katie Holmes screams some sense into Bruce Wayne at some point, in addition to having her OWN career, which requires her being pretty smart.

In Iron Man, girls are shown that the optimal characteristics are just to be perfectly loyal, obedient, NEVER question what the white man tells you to do, to look good in skirts, and let your bra peek out over your top.

It’s not so much Jeff Bridges character as the whole ten rings thing. It’s an islamic terrorist group! They hate everyone! They like killing people! Which people are of course going to buy, but it’s still ridiculously lazy on a writer’s part. I mean, they also skirted around the fact that the US Army isn’t always so averse to civilian casualties, but that’s understandable.

Everybody's a jerk. You. Me. This jerk.

by andromache on May 10, 2008 12:16 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Ten Rings

I didn’t have a huge problem with them, mostly because it’s more or less faithful to the Iron Man origin story, replacing the Vietnamese with Afghan-based paramilitary. Of course, with all this discussion of race going on, I probably should have been a little more sensitive to that.

by Brendanukkah on May 10, 2008 12:26 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I don't see the need for sensitivity in this instance

Race isn’t the same thing as ideology.

I suppose re-imagining the ten rings as Islamic militants might be “lazy” on the part of the writers, but it certainly can’t be considered an unlikely stretch, particularly in comic book terms.

One of the admittedly many things that made the adaptation of The Sum of All Fears seem silly was the swapping of Islamic terrorists for Austiran neo-nazis. I turned the whole affair into a humorless Bond film.

'cause something is happening here, but you don't know what it is.

by Man Mountain on May 10, 2008 1:32 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

If it's just an update of the comic book story

I’ll give it 90% of a pass then.

Everybody's a jerk. You. Me. This jerk.

by andromache on May 10, 2008 1:35 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I loved Batman Begins

but Katies Holmes performance was dreadful. The scene where she screams some sense into Bruce and the one where she answers her phone in lawyer-girl mode (“Who authorized that!!”) where the worst offenders. High points for attempting an empowered female character, but they didn’t pull it off. She just looks so cherubic and her voice is so thin that I can’t take her seriously. Someone else (Jennifer Connelly?) would have been much better.

by Red Menace on May 10, 2008 2:10 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

What about Maggie Gyllenhaal?

by Brendanukkah on May 10, 2008 4:26 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

What if...

..Batman Begins, Secretary, Adaptation and Donnie Darko were all kind or melded into one movie.

Yum-o!

by Fat Vegas Alan on May 10, 2008 4:30 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

i loved loved loved adaptation

In the end, life and business are about human connections. And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake. And to me the choice is easy.

by chandrathan on May 10, 2008 5:24 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

That could work

You’d need a charismatic young actor for the Joker. Maybe Brandon Lee or River Phoenix.

by Red Menace on May 10, 2008 5:06 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

im gonna have to see Batman Begins again here real soon

sadly, ive only seen it once, on opening weekend in the theatres. for all the Batman fanboying i do, its a little embarrassing. one of these days there gonna make “The Dark Knight Returns” with Harrison Ford as the Caped Crusader and im just gonna have to freak out.

If you don't get a good-night kiss, you get Kafka dreams.

by Charlie Scrabbles on May 10, 2008 6:33 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs