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Could I see the "subaltern" TU from Round 15? Something in there is sticking in my mind, but I'm not sure what..

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In Satantango, Irimias is waiting, not Irimia.

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the bus to the hotel was 15 minutes, in response the lady in front of me said "Holy Toledo!"
I choked on some cornbread, and she checked to see if I was ok.
Thank you.

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I'm making cornbread!
I did that too Wang

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I Predict! that I will bring some baked goods w/ me. I'm thinking muffins - brown bread, with some little golden raisins in them. Is anyone else bringing food?

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I have to condition for a trail crew job, so you better believe Quizbowl crunches are back.

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I predict that people will continue to not get my Mr. Show reference

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To get real, I think I have gotten much better at neg control, so perhaps I won't repeat some of my more bizarre statlines..

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Hello, It's that time of year for a Nats prediction thread. I warn you though, NO SILLY BUSINESS or you will lose your rights . That's right, I want SERIOUS , LOGICAL , RA tio AL predictions! There is no mystery, do NOT pass GO, do NOT collect $200. I Accept! I Accept! I Accept! I Accept! I Accept!

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How "difficulty" works in quizbowl is very different from how it is supposed to work. I think people think of difficulty like a pyramid - where as difficulty goes up, questions are gettable by less and less of those playing. How that works in practice is that the difficulty of questions is...

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I think a Spring tournament that tries to have a more "NAQT" distro should be a regular part of the schedule (I'm thinking of that one that Will did a few years ago and FICHTE [but don't be like FICHTE]).

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To everyone having/hosting/attending a Seder tonight: What food are y'all cooking? I'm making some tsimmes, two different harosets, and some brussel sprouts. How do y'all incorporate Quizbowl into your seders? What Haggadahs are you using? I like the Love and Justice in times of war Haggadah, but th...

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vinteuil wrote:
Muriel Axon wrote:Paul Kirk-Davidoff is quite good, though it seems like his specialties are things like African and Middle Eastern film, which don't come up too often.
"Shockingly," Isaac is also excellent at many similar areas of film, as well as more generally.

Paul's better! Paul's very good.

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"Empirical econ"? Jacob, Das Kapital gets tossed up all the time!

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For the Physical Impossibility etc TU, halfway through it was clear it was what it was referring to, but I stayed away from buzzing because I wasn't sure if I remembered the name of the piece completely correctly and just got negged out of buzzing entirely. Maybe if there was a "description ac...

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Everyone's hands are bloody - there's no corporation out there that won't have some tie to death, decay, etc. that's how accumulation works these days..

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Anonymous voices agree! with! Charlie!

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The beard thing is real, though. I'm not gonna go on and say trimming it is easy or whatever - it takes some practice and skill before you start to get what you want. But it makes your beard look much much better. I used to keep it long to get that "woodsy" look in the summers, but I've re...

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Matt Weiner was right! The quizbowl leftist - Russia alliance is real!

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rylltraka wrote:Ryan Rosenberg you swine "Germfree Adolescent" is far superior to "Oh Bondage Up Yours"

Agreed.
For me though, the one song that stays with me from them is "Identity," only because I mutter it under my breath whenever we talk about identity in an anthro class.

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I was looking at qbwiki last night and came across the story of Nathan Freeburg.
High neg rate, MW thinks he's a "bad player," strange way of dressing, Ashkenazi, real knowledge, somewhat itinerant, tastemaker in alcoholic beverages
Are we long lost siblings?

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Thanks to electronic scoresheets regs is still in prelims at 430! Thanks technology!

- quizbowl's pre-eminent anti-revisionary luddite

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I didn't see enough movies this year, but I did see Faces Places, and it made me smile more than anything I've seen in a bit.

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John, I really enjoyed this post. From the brief conversations we've had at various tournaments, I know this is something you have been thinking about for a while. Your points about the Religion/Myth line are well put, and very relevant. It's a shame that this thread seems to mostly be classic forum...

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This summer, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith gave one of the better concerts I've been to. So composed and careful, sounds like a whole ecosystem. She has a new album out, The Kid , and it's super good. The Botanist is MY kind of metal. Post-black. A nicer version of Wolves in the Throne Room. Carla Dal Forno...

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Our target difficulty is similar to recent incarnations. We encourage teams to submit quality and adventurous questions: Chicago Open is the ground to ask about difficult and interesting topics, but it is not the place to fill your packets with 13-line tossups and/or insanely hard topics that punis...

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I didn't read the set and didn't play, so I'm coming at this from a position of ignorance (like usual). That being said, I think Ike's audio file was lovely. I haven't always enjoyed Ike's questions, or hard questions in general, but I think Ike explained his decisions in a beautiful way and I hope ...

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I think the Book of Isaiah TU could be better by switching the placement of some of the clues. The clues about Chapter 53 ("man of sorrows", "pierced for our transgression", etc.) may arguably be easier than the clues about Servant Songs and "spears into pruning hooks and t...

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I'd personally prefer There Will Be Stock Clues over playing both Super ACRONYM and Tricon, for the following reasons: 1) It is decidedly a novelty event. Full-distribution trash tournaments happen every year, but I don't think there's been a food tournament before 2) It's tossups-only, so we shoul...

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Will, I think you messed up your search for citations somehow for Death Without Weeping . Scheper-Hughes is probably the second-most famous Medical Anthropologist out there behind Farmer and Death w/o Weeping is very important. When I looked it up on Google Scholar it had 3451! citations. But yeah, ...

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Great tournament! Loads of fun! Congrats to Maryland.

For Field Commander Kirk-Davidoff and the whole YSAC family, thank you! The Cracker Barrel is now closed.

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Had a cold, cold Greek beer with several Chicago and Yale people. Called "Alfa." David Allan Coe said Jack Daniels was "The only friend that's never done me wrong," but I'll throw Alfa in there too. Learned about Georgian food, too, an the philosophical origins of Swamp Thing, th...

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heterodyne wrote:yale student adopts rural patois as schtick, is Cool and Good, more at 11

My schlemihlhood is the only shtick known in my suburban patois.

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Your post was insufficiently cracker barrel-y. Weeeel, I've got a day to do you one. Had that chemically induced glee last night, made a sponge for some sourdough challah. King sleep had me in his court though, so I woke up beyond breakfast. Rush to the garden, boss man has me weeding all through l...

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Hang down your head Tom Dooley it is not time for this thread to die! Having "celebrated" and been "celebrated," hosting a Seder, a socialist meeting, eating my sauerkraut, life goes on. I have a "nosegay" in my shirt pocket right now and I'm smelling like success. Ques...

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Whoever wrote the TU on the left hand did a great job.

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Y'all are talking about numbers and all that. Maybe around an "e-barrel 2.0" but around the cracker barrel the only number that matters is tha number of eyes and ears you have. I've got a hangering for qualitative reports and home fried wit, and my throat is parched!

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Played like mud in the prelims played like gold in the playoffs but it wasn't enough. Disappointment I tell Andrew Hart he's a man of many talents. He sez he's good at throwing things. That's a talent for sure. Michigan vs northwestern. Looks like a FUN final. Dan Puma sez I "Look like I'm foll...

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First half was a little rough, I think. Could have done better, but I've learned not to focus on the could have. Went for a run in the scrubby bush around here. Went into a burned over field. Full focus. Back on it. Me and Rob had a talk. We're DSA comrades, don't take his attacks on my posing too s...

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But what's this? A premature banana! "Yeah, my banana timing is off," he admits.

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Bananas are intermediate sugars, sez Adam. Adam has 2 bananas, one for 930, one for 11, he says.

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Cilantro or Giordanos the debate rages as we walk on the river road. Meanwhile me and youseff agree Cracker Barrel have mediocre biscuits and somewhere in Tennessee Vanderbilt is boarding a long Greyhound, with many miles to go.

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Ran into nyu. They called me Jesus. I said I'm no false prophet. They said I'm just the messiah. I have to disagree but Jacob sez I'm the naqt messiah.

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Who will watch my home place , I wonder, as I think of being away from my sourdough starter for a weekend? I'll be standing by this cracker barrel the whole weekend, ready for conversatin' and sharing the dee-stinct observations that come. why are you like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ksm12...

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Who will watch my home place, I wonder, as I think of being away from my sourdough starter for a weekend?

I'll be standing by this cracker barrel the whole weekend, ready for conversatin' and sharing the dee-stinct observations that come.

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Auks Ran Ova wrote:
The Stately Rhododendron wrote:What do you folks say?
"What the hell are you talking about?"

Y'all know if this had been published by The Baffler Rob would have shared it without a question.

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Aww, Horseapples! Nationals are coming up, so let's stand by the ol' cracker barrel and ask each other "what's the frequency, Kenneth?" I swear, we've got a real chance this year. I may be an ol' country boozer, but John Barleycorn can' take away all of my grey matter. Stephen's been doing...

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I was being a jerk, my bad. I meant no disrespect with "trivia," for me, that term applies to all quizbowl questions (and there's nothing wrong with that!)

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