3 words

[xpmorgan]

Parson
Fucking
Weems

Comments

[srockhop]

Mason Locke Weems

[xpmorgan]

Parsnip Fucking Weasel
Parsley Fucking Weeds

[andysaunders]

You give me 30 minutes, I never come up with that.

[xpmorgan]

i knew Weems was the asscan who made up the cherry tree myth, but i didnt know he was a minister, so that Quote threw me way off.

[sr_orangepants]

Considering the amount of clues during the game that I took for rejects from a "Stupid Answers" category, that Final was fucking ridiculous.

[xpmorgan]

yeah it was tough.

when that was over, i turned to Doug and Conrad and said, "KC just got the Jeopardy equivalent of a Q stick."

[sr_orangepants]

"Q-stick?" I think that's being kind.

[frayed_yak]

Me no like result, but enjoyed watching very much....

[xpmorgan]

glad you enjoyed. tough break at the end.

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[loricae]

I grew up in Virginia, and I've visited the Weems-Botts museum in the Dumfries area, and I knew this SOB was responsible for the cherry tree myth because he was an opportunistic a-hole. But calling him a "biographer" seems a stretch. He flat-out made stuff up. (Also, I kept waiting for Alex to come back and give KC credit again for getting the name of that food show host right. She clearly knew it. That was petty.)

[xpmorgan]

give the spate of phony memoirs and bogus biographies in recent years, Parsnip Worms was obviously ahead of his time.

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[sophonax]

The only thing I could think of was "the guy who made up the stupid cherry tree story," but I couldn't remember his name and I didn't think writing down "who is cherry tree guy?" would get me credit.

They have pretty strict rules about giving credit for mispronunciations, and they have to apply them consistently. I was bummed, but not much I could do about that.