Transcript 01/26/2009 Gordon Schnaper (BB: gsabc)

[ghostjmf]

This is now officially the 3rd time I've tried to post this; the machine ate the previous 2.

1K: 1st time I'd heard of this airline, but "pawsengers" gives it away.

10K: I knew this because my Mom was a JAG fan (so was I by the end of it, but it kind of petered out instead of having any finale I could find & I couldn't even get "which girlfriend our hero ends up with" off of internet sites) & is an NCIS fan; I watched Quantum Leap religiously, but its the only one of Bellisario's shows that did have that hold on me; however I do like them. Even though, because my TV-watching schedule is so full of more-serious shows (like Mercy & Grey's Anatomy she asks self? OK, I'll watch the more-frivolous medical shows before the more-frivolous crime shows) I don't watch them except with my Mom.

gsabc took so long to answer that I began to fear, but for no reason it turned out.

Pauley Pirrette looked especially human in a non-show hairstyle (ponytail rather than trademark pigtails) & what looked like little or no makeup; I liked her as celeb.

12.5K: I couldn't picture the olive branch, but the torch & tree mega-said "dime" to me.

25K: I did not know this one. The clue telling you Boysen was the hybridizer, not a fruit clue, was useful. I was focussing on drupulets, that word Kurt Vonnegut did a turn on in Cat's Cradle that I now think of whenever I see one of those berries composed of them. The little berries making up the berry of the name. I was thinking that the hybrid ingredients should have the same form; dunno if that's strictly true, but drupulet fruit should be more closely related, & therefore more likely to hybridize with each other successfully, than non-drupulet fruit, right? Cranberries & blueberries are non-drupulet. Also, I can't taste any blueberry in boysenberry, but boy(senberry) that idea could mislead.

I was trying to picture loganberries, & think they're drupulets. Trying to picture elderberries & think they're not, but I'm just not sure.

After the fact, here are some images:

http://www.google.com/search?client=fir ... gle+Search

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&c ... CDEQsAQwAw


Loganberries are drupulets; elderberries, not.

I would have double dipped on these 2, guessing loganberries 1st.

I don't know why I wouldn't have asked the audience except "not being a trusting soul" in general; the audience on my ROF show got a fairly-high-amount plant-relatives Q right that I was not sure of; perhaps they all watched the same food channel show recently. Perhaps they really all did know more about eggplants than I did.

I don't at all fault gsabc for asking them, but when he then double-dipped (yay!) but went for their favorite answer, blueberries, 1st, I was scared as to what he would do for his 2nd choice. Fortunately, he was "right on 2".

I will now read how & why, maybe.

if this actually posts at long last.

[gsabc]

... I will now read how & why, maybe.

if this actually posts at long last.

Already did that yesterday, in the "The Quest is Complete - part 1" thread. Part 2, coming up.

[Bob Juch]

Loganberries are drupulets; elderberries, not.

I would have double dipped on these 2, guessing loganberries 1st.

Why since you knew it couldn't be anything besides Loganberries?

[bigpapi]

Gordon, it was a pleasure to watch you today. After the absolute debacle of last week's shows, I wondered how much longer this show can last with the pathetic contestants they seem to be so hung up on.

It took a Jipter to pull this show out of the doldrums!!!!

Can't wait to see you tomorrow.

Ellen

Thanks.

- One of last week's pathetic contestants.

[ghostjmf]

I had said:

I was trying to picture loganberries, & think they're drupulets. Trying to picture elderberries & think they're not, but I'm just not sure.

And then I said I would double dip to be sure, picking loganberries 1st.

So BobJ says:

Why since you knew it couldn't be anything besides Loganberries?

Because, see above, I wasn't entirely sure.

Only after I Googled a picture of elderberries, which I included in my post, was I entirely sure they matched the picture I sort-of had in my mind. (Well, in reality I was entirely sure when the show gave the answer, but we're playing "let's play along pretend" here.) And they don't let you Google, not even (sniff) by proxy any more, from the Hot Seat.

[wintergreen48]

My greatest find was a one ounce U.S. gold piece! I still have it.

Where'd you find that?

Was it one of the modern American Eagles that are minted for bullion buyers or an old coin that actually used to circulate?

It was one of the new collectible American Eagles in a plastic case. I found it one the floor of my bar. No one ever claimed it.

Were you on the floor of the bar? Or just the coin?

[tlynn78]

First time on the bored in a while, Gordon, so I missed out on the more timely congrats, but it sounds like you had a great go at it. So glad you got your chance. Have to admit to being a big JD Robb fan, (not so much the NR stuff) with Born in Death in my car's cd player as I type. But I will frown ferociously at it when I get in my car tomorrow, in your honor. Have fun at Disney!

t.