The Swamp

DSafetyGuy wrote: ↑Fri Aug 20, 2021 8:37 pm Comment at Defector that was too good not to share:

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Pruitt wrote: ↑Mon Oct 11, 2021 7:11 pm Epic battle tonight.

L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 11, 2021 7:56 pm

Pruitt wrote: ↑Mon Oct 11, 2021 7:11 pm Epic battle tonight.

Shit yeah it was. I knew that FJ more from a Best Picture from the 60s than any other reason.

L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 12, 2021 6:57 pm Watching tonight’s game:

Her: That guy looks just like…

Me: John C. Reilly.

Her: No!

Me: The guy from Step Brothers?

Her: Yeah, that’s it!

L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 03, 2021 10:56 am The current champ is on a heck of a run. She's like the fourth player this season (around 2 months so far) who have put runs of 6 or more.

Schneider, an engineering manager who lives in Oakland, Calif., is also the first transgender contestant in “Jeopardy!” history to make the Tournament of Champions, where the top players from each season compete. During an episode last week, she wore a transgender flag pin and explained on Twitter that she specifically wore it around Thanksgiving because she wanted to show support for the “disproportionately high number of trans people” who are estranged or cut off from their families.

Running “Jeopardy!” makes you think a lot about time. Partly because you have none: it is less a television program than a universe. And partly because one is constantly mentally switching between JPT (“Jeopardy!” Production Time), where we’re currently making shows which air in February ’22, and JAT (“Jeopardy!” Air Time), where we’re now just three days into our first-ever Professors Tournament, which has briefly interrupted the staggering run of 13 consecutive games won by our reigning champion, #4 all time, Amy Schneider (more on her below). There is also JFT (“Jeopardy!” Future Time), which we spend more time thinking about than anything else. Where do we take this magical franchise from here? How do we modernize and make “Jeopardy!” more accessible to all of our potential fans and viewers while preserving everything that is and has been so perfect about the show throughout its storied history?

DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Fri Dec 03, 2021 12:53 pm

L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 03, 2021 10:56 am The current champ is on a heck of a run. She's like the fourth player this season (around 2 months so far) who have put runs of 6 or more.

She's also a reader/commenter over at The Defector (can't remember her username).

There was a story about her in the Washington Post yesterday:

Amy Schneider has made ‘Jeopardy!’ history — and helped the show find calm after chaos

Schneider, an engineering manager who lives in Oakland, Calif., is also the first transgender contestant in “Jeopardy!” history to make the Tournament of Champions, where the top players from each season compete. During an episode last week, she wore a transgender flag pin and explained on Twitter that she specifically wore it around Thanksgiving because she wanted to show support for the “disproportionately high number of trans people” who are estranged or cut off from their families.

A_B wrote: ↑Fri Dec 17, 2021 1:17 pm
She wrote an article for Defector today

https://defector.com/how-i-got-smart/

[+] spoiler

Stunning end of the reign. That was a relatively simple question as well.

L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 27, 2022 8:55 pm It’s probably happened before, but all three contestants yesterday (4/26) were part of the LGBT community. Mattea is openly gay, and her two opponents, the dude with the pink hair and the woman who had a passing resemblance to Ariana DeBose, were referred to with the “they” pronoun. It genuinely makes me pleased to see people living their truth.

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Thu May 05, 2022 7:19 pmMattea!

A_B wrote: ↑Thu May 05, 2022 8:25 pm

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Thu May 05, 2022 7:19 pmMattea!

World peace!

“random website” wrote:A contestant on Monday night's episode of Jeopardy! had an answer that was so wrong it went viral on social media.

Mazin Omer selected the $400 question in the category "Knight After Knight" during the opening round. He was asked to identify which star was knighted in their birth name, Sir Maurice Mickelwhite.

This question should've been an easy one because Jeopardy! showed a picture of the star that Omer needed to identity. The right answer to this question was English actor Michael Caine.

In a stunning turn of events, Omer answered the question with: "Who is Mick Jagger?"

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Fri Dec 30, 2022 11:05 am Yesterday's leader going into FJ, Emily, was an amazing watch. Lots of good faces and apparent troubles with her buzzer. Also, the current champ is pretty great.

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Fri Jan 20, 2023 3:59 pm Whoa! He's miles better than Mayim, sure. He's surpassed the GOAT? And this opinion comes from a Canadian?