NYT Connections - some more tenuous than others

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Didn't overthink it today, found that easier than the last few days. Funny how we all see it differently.

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I was wondering if there was a connections thread to gripe about the days when it's just too US specific! Reasonably ok today, just one purple that wasn't what I thought.

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First time I've managed it with no mistakes in ages!

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Annoyingly I could see all the themes but that purple one wad too brand specific 😂

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Much easier today I thought - took the right choice on the blues .

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Got there with one life left 😳

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Can??

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Purple was infuriating

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I thought that one was quite easy! I got "can" because none of the other options fit and I vaguely recalled it being used that way on TV or something.

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That one took quite a lot of thought but once I got purple it all fell into place.

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It's always blue that gets me.

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I thought the same @JaneJeffer

I had to google to check that one- I wasn’t sure if I had seen it before or imagined it.

This seems to be the only pattern I ever get! Connections
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Pajama's threw me, is that an American thing?!

I've heard the pyjamas expression before. But didn't know Can

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I knew can because I read a lot of Stephen King- his awful misogynist male characters use it to denigrate women and he uses it as shorthand for telling the reader that this character is a shitbag.

Never heard of can in that context

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It's very American.