Those places are spelled like ton, though - Washington, Newton, Lexington, Burlington, Hopkinton, Milton, Dighton, Charlton, Clinton, Princeton, Barrington, etc. The "town" spelling is actually rare.

I think I blocked it out for 30 years until I rediscovered it while browsing Sesame Street videos on YouTube a couple years ago. Childhood awe/terror came back immediately.

National Review is the best-known American conservative magazine and has been for sixty years. That might actually lower rather than decrease its credibility in the eyes of many here, but treating it as an obscure fly-by-night operation because of a briefly-appearing pop-up ad is ridiculous.

Jim Nabors died? Wikipedia has him as still alive.

Yeah, from the tone of reactions (even Dunham's own!) you would think that National Review had obtained a leaked advance copy, not commented on a story that had been publicly available for weeks.

I think Gene often has the best one-liners despite sometimes being annoying overall.

Actually the fourth time in a row if you count the last two episodes of last season.

I don't know what to make of it - I have three thoughts.

I overlooked the user name, but just from the first sentence (and gratuitous exclamation point) I immediately knew who must have written the above comment.

There is no way that that Jefferson quotation is real.

Anything is possible, but that was quite an unexpected namedrop. Has he ever claimed it before?

2014 Love puts on a high-energy show and does go somewhat beyond the hits. (That means that he includes album tracks recorded between 1962 and 1966, not that he does any of the seventies catalogue, but it still counts for something.)

"and not any Abrahamic ones, because that'd be too controversial"

It was better to begin with a violent reaction and then work backwards. I tried out "coup" and a couple others before I hit on "backlash" and realized (much to my surprise, as this seemed like a hopeless clue at first) that I had found the right answer.

I kind of assume Don Pardo has landed the permanent gig announcing entrances into Heaven.

The play and the prom were presumably put on that date by school authorities who neither knew nor cared that it was Alexander's birthday, so I actually don't find the premise too implausible, except that of course the birthday party doesn't have to be on the actual date of the birthday.

Alex practically forced Terri to say what magazine she works for, which is odd - I think there have been other times when contestants indicated that they could not mention their employer by name. I think there was even an author once who said she could not mention the title of her book! What arcane Jeopardy! rule…

If I recall correctly, they never claimed that Seville was the capital of Moorish Spain; they (accurately) said it was the capital of the modern-day region of Andalusia. But if you both remember it otherwise, maybe I am wrong - we will have to wait until J-Archive has posted the game to know for sure.

I went and read the original article and I actually liked that better, but I hope the author knows the theory has nothing to do with the actual intentions of the creators of these movies.

This was so stupid that I gave up on it halfway through.