Voltaire

I became aware of the hard version a couple of months ago but, like I'd said recently, by then I was already making my own challenge of it based on ratios of 3s : 5s and 2s : 6s, which I am very close to getting. Also, as I mentioned then as well, the notion of what I call the "slide of death" which frightens me. There's been at least a half dozen times that I needed to put a tourniquet on when I had maybe four choices left for one spot and three guesses left. I like that I have a 100% win ratio. I can't keep a streak going because I miss days, but I can keep that going.

Eagles are a frustratng team. If you're good, they'll somehow find a way to beat you and if you're bad, they'll also somehow find a way to beat you. But they really are in the midst of a nice run of really good teams they've overcome with an enormous obstacle this week.

I should give Indy more credit, their losses have come against good teams and they have early wins against Baltimore and Houston. I'm going to go bump them to 16.

Tim has too much on his plate in this thread already to follow this tangent further, but I just want to say that A Fish Called Wanda was hilarious and that John Cleese and Michael Palin are two of the funniest human beings on this planet. I loved A Fish Called Wanda and pretty much everything involving John Cleese.

They deserved what they got for pulling the last Paw Patrol stuffed animal off the shelf.

Well that didn't go as planned.

It's disgraceful what liberals do to shame teams that feature natives. The Eastern Michigan Hurons and Washington Redskins both featured dignified native American mascots. Tribal High School teams across the country have embraced the Redskins logo for their own. "Huron" is more than a Lake and seeing them featured on the football helmet use to remind people of that before woke white libtards changed that over the objections of the Huron tribe. The Chippewas and Seminoles risk being erased entirely from thought and reduced to obscure cultural trivia were Central Michigan or Florida State to be forced by liberals to abandon them. Somehow, liberal bastion Illinois has been able to stick through with the Blackhawks and Illini.

I started with 'Dumpy' for the first time.

I'd been thinking of moving SF up to second. Had I done this the first five weeks, they'd have been #1 but when I started doing this they were on a three game skid and I think I had them around eight or so and never really got them back past the Ravens. Maybe part of my appreciation for Baltimore comes from being a shellshocked Lions fan. Were I to do :"Who do the Lions not want any party of", Baltimore would be enshrined at #1, gimme a crack at Philly or the 9ers. Plus their division, before Cleveland and Cincy lost their QBs, was just brutal and to be kings of the AFC North was particularly impressive.

Maybe you guys are right Dallas and Jax have the same record. Dallas has a points differential of +182, Jax is only +29. Dallas makes mince of average teams on the regular, Arizona being the anomaly. l I'll go edit it.

Wordle 892 3/6 🟩 🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 For the first time ever, I feel that I've cheated a little. Normally I come into this thread after I go there to solve the puzzle. Not very frequently and until today, what you guys guess hasn't influence me. Today, not so. Today, I came in here first and saw what happened to 5-Points and thought "Oh, Sh*t!" so I went in and picked some words that featured less frequently used letters and it paid off really well.

Your other points regrarding Sandman and Rittenhouse are totally off the mark too but this one is absolutely nuts. You go to a Lions game, and diehard fans paint their face silver and blue, the same regarding Packer fans with yellow and green. This kid's crime/transgression is that his favorite team's colors are red and black. There's no hidden political or social message to be found in red and black facepaint that goes any deeper than "I really like the Chiefs." Is there no end to this bottomless pit of whining?

Put a chick in it and make her gay and lame.

I dunno. The AFC wildcard teams looked like monsters a couple of weeks ago but the two best got snakebite and Jax is better than what's left. They 'd likely face the Steelers, Broncos, Houston, Bills or Browns at home. The Bills seemed likely out because they have to go through schedule hell just to make the playoffs, but with Cincy out and Cleveland vulnerable they're back in contention. The Bills would not be a fun first round matchup to whoever gets stuck with them. The Browns are at 7 wins but can they hang around without DeShawn? Indy is north of .500 and deserves a mention too. Jags are even with Buffalo and better than all of the rest.

At this point, the Browns and Jets are essentially the same team, maybe it's a mental block looking at that 7-4 and the 4-7 and separating them, or maybe it's courtesy to not drop the Browns that far that fast. The Browns and Bengals need a win to kind of judge where the bottom is. It's been two weeks now and I'm still not comfortable ranking them. The Browns floor is the Jets and the Jets at 4-7 may be too high themselves but that defense is too scary. The Bengals, I don't know.

Green Bay is probably closer to Pittsburgh than Pittsburgh is to the Lions. Really, you could take 10-13 and shuffle them up in any random order. i needed a team to plug in at 10.11. and 12 but it's actually ,more like a 4-way-tie at 13.

They're actually gonna do it.

Stop focking around, get your asses another FG, and go home with a W.

The choke is on in Chicago again, unfortunately.

Yes they can, golden opportunity to stettch the lead to two possessions blown.

Da Bears can't blow it can they? Hopefully they've solved Dobbs. I mean I like the guy's story, I just like Minnesota losing more.

Wordle 891 4/6 🟨🟨 🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Took s shot at three but still too many things.

OMG That's brutal.

She made it to college by the end of the story.

The sky's the limit man, they fired their offensive coordinator and actually outgained the opposition this week (Burrow-less Cincy). They're 10th because Cincy and Cleveland lost their QB, the bloom is off the rose in Seattle., I really don't have anybody else to shove in there, so the team that keeps hanging around collecting Ws gets it. Houston and Denver have been on the rise. I'd had Houston finally leapfrog them last week. Houston lost a tight one to Jax, while Pitt beating Cincy without Burrow isn't so great, so an argument could be had for keeping the Texans ahead.