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Welcome to ITBest of the Week, a look at what I deem to be the most important events of the last week. It’s like if an e-mail newsletter and Buzzfeed (who follows me on Twitter) had a baby at Rex Hospital.
Broughton Teacher Crushes Jeopardy!
It Snowed Again
Dinosaur at Dix Park
ITBlake Not Pleased Over Award Show
Raleigh Makes the Cut for Amazon’s HQ2
Best Dogs of ITB of the Week
Don’t eat Tide Pods
Broughton Teacher Crushes Jeopardy!
Lee Quinn, a Raleigh resident and teacher at Broughton, has been on Jeopardy! since Wednesday night.
Video clue : Egregious Eyebrow Activity for $1600.
Tune in Wednesday to #Jeopardy for more of my facial expression shenanigans. pic.twitter.com/Drw1oPaDBs
— Lee Quinn (@leejquinn) January 15, 2018
Jeopardy! is off to a good start. They said @leejquinn was from Raleigh and not Raleigh-Durham.
— William Needham Finley IV (@WNFIV) January 18, 2018
really had no idea that I was bopping my head that much during the Final #Jeopardy music…
— Lee Quinn (@leejquinn) January 18, 2018
Lee went in to Final Jeopardy with a commanding lead and won $22,400 on his first appearance. He returned to defend his title on Thursday night.
Lee wins! And spells “Triscuit” correctly! His two day total stands at $42,800. He’ll be back on tomorrow. #skocaps
— William Needham Finley IV (@WNFIV) January 19, 2018
He’ll be defending his title again on Friday night at 7:00 pm on ABC11.
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It Snowed Again
This week saw yet another forecast calling for snow. As always, I checked with Seaboard Wine to get their wine forecast.
The forecast resulted in mass hysteria in the Cameron Village Harris Teeter.
@WNFIV Live from Harris Teeter pic.twitter.com/QzreDoD9aU
— societies step child (@RALRECORD) January 17, 2018
With the forecast in hand it was time to see if Wake County Public Schools would be closed. They like to be coy about their school closing announcements, which drives a lot of parents insane. Fortunately, I’m a journalist and know how to get answers. They replied within minutes of me Tweeting at them.
There has been a lot of talk about the weather dome lately, so Bonner cleared things up.
The dome has been de-democracised. Shoulda/coulda/woulda. Me and @WNFIV call all the shots now.
— Bonner Gaylord (@BonnerGaylord) January 16, 2018
Blame the voters of Raleigh for not re-electing @BonnerGaylord. No Bonner = no Dome.
— Chris Hayes (@chayes_nc) January 16, 2018
Absolute dome power corrupts absolutely. I'm accountable to nobody, so @WNFIV and I will use our dome as we damn well please https://t.co/XKVJhaAG87
— Bonner Gaylord (@BonnerGaylord) January 16, 2018
With that settled, Bonner and I began doing meteorology.
Still can't decide whether to make it snow or not… Decisions, decisions. pic.twitter.com/W5y1gSTqbg
— Bonner Gaylord (@BonnerGaylord) January 17, 2018
Around 9:00 am on Wednesday morning it was decided to let snow fall upon the citizens of Raleigh.
Ok @WNFIV… Cry Havoc! And let slip the dogs of war. pic.twitter.com/U6XwPVHuJR
— Bonner Gaylord (@BonnerGaylord) January 17, 2018
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Dinosaur Spotted in Dix Park
If you build it, they will come. Take note, Raleigh.
ITBlake Was NOT Happy That He Couldn’t Attend an Awards Show
I was nominated for “Best Twitter Personality” by WRAL.
Unfortunately, ITBlake wasn’t old enough to attend the awards show. He was not happy.
WRAL cleared things up.
Sorry, ITBlake! Not our call. We are planning another awards later this year, and if you’d like to come cover it, we’d be happy to have you! I’ll let your boss know when we have more details nailed down.
— Laura Blake (@laurablakenc) January 18, 2018
I took this to mean that WRAL is offering ITBlake exclusive coverage of the next award show, plus a possible Intern of the Year award. We’ll be launching our own “ITBest Awards” later this year. Read the full story here.
Development Beat News
City Market wants to add outdoor dining in a parking lot behind Big Ed’s. There’s also a 50+ tennis court facility being planned for somewhere OTB. Full story.
City Market wants to add outdoor dining in the parking lot behind Big Ed's, and more news in this week's Development Beat from @JPBRaleigh82 https://t.co/DQoDC8m43x pic.twitter.com/paXvI9gg0U
— ITB Insider™ (@ITBInsider) January 18, 2018
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Raleigh Makes the Cut for Amazon’s HQ2
Raleigh is one of the 20 finalists for Amazon’s HQ2. (Charlotte didn’t make the cut.) ITBlake deserves all the credit for this. #TriangleDelivers https://t.co/SNK2ol3VDT pic.twitter.com/67kNA20l5N
— William Needham Finley IV (@WNFIV) January 18, 2018
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Dogs of ITB of the Week
People Are Eating Tide Pods
For some reason, people are actually eating Tide Pods. We’ll keep an eye on this as it develops. In the meantime, don’t eat Tide Pods.
