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mrkelley23
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by mrkelley23 » Fri Jun 06, 2008 6:12 am
Daily Double
Do not respond to this message unless you’ve already played today’s Jeopardy! Game elsewhere. Before you reveal the spoiler, please state whether you are playing for none, one quarter, one half, or all of your points. The category is the same, Famous Addresses, and please don’t forget to phrase your response in the form of a question.
280 Main Street, Amherst, Massachusetts
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. -- Richard Feynman
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wintergreen48
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by wintergreen48 » Fri Jun 06, 2008 6:28 am
I shall do one-half of my points, such as they are.
280 Main Street, Amherst, Massachusetts
Who was Emily Dickinson?
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Evil Squirrel
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by Evil Squirrel » Fri Jun 06, 2008 6:33 am
I'll try 1/4
mrkelley23 wrote:Daily Double
Do not respond to this message unless you’ve already played today’s Jeopardy! Game elsewhere. Before you reveal the spoiler, please state whether you are playing for none, one quarter, one half, or all of your points. The category is the same, Famous Addresses, and please don’t forget to phrase your response in the form of a question.
280 Main Street, Amherst, Massachusetts - No idea.... Who is John F. Kennedy?
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by jarnon » Fri Jun 06, 2008 6:48 am
Half my points.
Who is Dickinson?
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by NellyLunatic1980 » Fri Jun 06, 2008 7:02 am
Half once again
WAG here, since it's only person I can think of, real or fictional, who was from Amherst... Who was Emily Dickinson?
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by fantine33 » Fri Jun 06, 2008 7:17 am
I'm assuming that I have 32 points so I'll go for 25 and, if Einstein is right, he's gravy. Ha!
280 Main Street, Amherst, Massachusetts
Ha, looks like everybody will either get this right or everybody will either get it wrong.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
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MarleysGh0st
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by MarleysGh0st » Fri Jun 06, 2008 7:18 am
As I said in the previous thread, I'm wgering half of my points.
280 Main Street, Amherst, Massachusetts
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Oh, crap!
Who is, uhhh, Emily Dickinson?
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by VAdame » Fri Jun 06, 2008 7:30 am
Half my points.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
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by mellytu74 » Fri Jun 06, 2008 8:00 am
I will be all my points.
280 Main Street, Amherst, Massachusetts
WHO IS EMILY DICKINSON?
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megaaddict
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by megaaddict » Fri Jun 06, 2008 8:06 am
280 Main Street, Amherst, Massachusetts
Who is Mrs. Dalrimple?
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by andrewjackson » Fri Jun 06, 2008 8:23 am
I'll play for half my points.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
No matter where you go, there you are.
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by mcd1400de » Fri Jun 06, 2008 8:25 am
Bet 'em all, what the hell!
mrkelley23 wrote:Daily Double
Do not respond to this message unless you’ve already played today’s Jeopardy! Game elsewhere. Before you reveal the spoiler, please state whether you are playing for none, one quarter, one half, or all of your points. The category is the same, Famous Addresses, and please don’t forget to phrase your response in the form of a question.
280 Main Street, Amherst, Massachusetts
Who is Emily Dickinson?
Bazinga!
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by AnnieCamaro » Fri Jun 06, 2008 9:33 am
I will bet one-fourth of my points. My mom won't let me gamble for anything except points.
mrkelley23 wrote:Daily Double
280 Main Street, Amherst, Massachusetts
Who is Miss Emily Dickinson?Sou iu koto de.
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tlynn78
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by tlynn78 » Fri Jun 06, 2008 10:12 am
For half my points.
Who is Emilie Dickinson
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To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. -Thomas Paine
You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality. -Ayn Rand
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. -Voltaire
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Catfish
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by Catfish » Fri Jun 06, 2008 1:28 pm
I think clicking on Quote will reveal the clue, so I'm wagering in a separate message:
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by Catfish » Fri Jun 06, 2008 1:29 pm
280 Main Street, Amherst, Massachusetts
Who is Emily Dickinson?
Catfish
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tanstaafl2
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by tanstaafl2 » Fri Jun 06, 2008 2:44 pm
mrkelley23 wrote:Daily Double
Do not respond to this message unless you’ve already played today’s Jeopardy! Game elsewhere. Before you reveal the spoiler, please state whether you are playing for none, one quarter, one half, or all of your points. The category is the same, Famous Addresses, and please don’t forget to phrase your response in the form of a question.
Not much to risk so might as well risk it all.
280 Main Street, Amherst, Massachusetts
Nothing fictional comes to mind and when I think of Amherst the first name that comes to mind is:
Who is Emily Dickinson?
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
~Mark Twain
Some people are like a Slinky. They are not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you shove them down the stairs...
~tanstaafl2
Nullum Gratuitum Prandium
Ne Illegitimi Carborundum
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by kroxquo » Fri Jun 06, 2008 3:36 pm
Betting half my total
mrkelley23 wrote:Daily Double
Do not respond to this message unless you’ve already played today’s Jeopardy! Game elsewhere. Before you reveal the spoiler, please state whether you are playing for none, one quarter, one half, or all of your points. The category is the same, Famous Addresses, and please don’t forget to phrase your response in the form of a question.
280 Main Street, Amherst, Massachusetts
Who is Emily Dickinson?
You live and learn. Or at least you live. - Douglas Adams
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sunflower
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by sunflower » Fri Jun 06, 2008 3:43 pm
I don't have a lot of points so I'll go for all of them...
NO IDEA...
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T_Bone0806
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by T_Bone0806 » Fri Jun 06, 2008 8:34 pm
I'm gonna pass. Zero pt. wager.
"#$%&@*&"-Donald F. Duck
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by T_Bone0806 » Fri Jun 06, 2008 8:34 pm
Glad I didn't risk anything. No clue..
"#$%&@*&"-Donald F. Duck
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by KillerTomato » Fri Jun 06, 2008 9:28 pm
mrkelley23 wrote:Daily Double
Do not respond to this message unless you’ve already played today’s Jeopardy! Game elsewhere. Before you reveal the spoiler, please state whether you are playing for none, one quarter, one half, or all of your points. The category is the same, Famous Addresses, and please don’t forget to phrase your response in the form of a question.
280 Main Street, Amherst, Massachusetts
As I mentioned in the game thread, I'm going for broke.
Well, I only know one person from Amhert...
Who was Miss Emily Dickinson?
There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust while the infamous sit at banquets.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll
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by JBillyGirl » Sun Jun 08, 2008 6:33 pm
280 Main Street, Amherst, Massachusetts -- I shoulda bet the farm! Who is Emily Dickinson?
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