He is, -t!! The new pope is Other Chicago Bob!
Oh, Pacey! You blind idiot. Can't you see she doesn't love you?
Spike ,'Help'
Natter 78: I might need to watch some Buffy for inspiration
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
lisah - May 12, 2025 6:17:29 pm PDT #7176 of 7186
Punishingly Intricate
-t - May 12, 2025 8:41:48 pm PDT #7177 of 7186
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Love it!
meara - May 12, 2025 9:42:12 pm PDT #7178 of 7186
Omg love New Pope Other Chicago Bob!
Trivia team was v diminished tonight (just 3 of us) but we persevered and came in 4th but kicked ourselves for not getting the Connections round (garden, cheese, pong, bong, hall) even though we knew 3 and guessed a 4th. answer: words that go with beer
-t - May 13, 2025 9:15:29 am PDT #7179 of 7186
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Are those the clues or the answers? Not getting Connections is very frustrating - it either seems like it should have been obvious once you know the answer or it seems like no one could have gotten it, what were they thinking. I assume the connections round of trivia would be the same.
Laura - May 13, 2025 10:42:11 am PDT #7180 of 7186
Our wings are not tired.
Connections is often a struggle, but when not just a struggle, it is either quick and obvious to me, or utterly impossible. My longest streak was 10 in 233 games played. Granted, some streaks were broken when I was sick or traveling.
Trudy Booth - May 13, 2025 11:18:43 am PDT #7181 of 7186
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Lisah, that is terrifying. Glad she is on the mend.
Mom and I were supposed to head out to a friend's place in the Hamptons for what is likely her last Mothers Day. Alas, she's on a course of meds that are causing... purging... so a road trip was out of the question.
We opted for a picnic in the park. We ate fruit and pastries in the shadow of the GWB. The music was playing, the sun was shining, there was a group of old guys in a very heated dominoes match. It was lovely. Know that park sequence in In The Heights? Its basically a documentary.
Then I brought her home, got some roses, and gave her an Ancestry .com subscription as a present. It was a successfully pleasant day.
meara - May 13, 2025 11:20:25 am PDT #7182 of 7186
Those were the answers to various unrelated questions (ie “last name of the mascot whose full name is Charles Entertainment…” (cheese) and “name of the director of the first foreign language film to win best Oscar, in 2019” (Bong)) and then you’re supposed to figure out what they have in common and get points for figuring that out also. Sometimes if you can figure out what they have in common it helps—like we guessed “space invaders” for the video game but also thought of “pong” and if we’d realized the theme was “beer ___” we would’ve gone with pong!
Laura - May 13, 2025 11:40:07 am PDT #7183 of 7186
Our wings are not tired.
That sounds like a lovely day, Trudy.
I would surely suck at Trivia. I may come up with answers, but I rarely do so quickly.
Jessica - May 13, 2025 1:21:32 pm PDT #7184 of 7186
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Connections is my favorite NYT daily game. I dropped Wordle a while back but Connections is my jam.
Trudy Booth - May 13, 2025 1:27:42 pm PDT #7185 of 7186
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Are we discussing Andor anywhere? Mon Mothma and I need to have a little chat.