JAYMC on Jeopardy! TODAY! (SPOILERS Y'ALL)

first, congrats JMC. this is totally totally awesome. we'll be watching out here in SF!

back in like '02 i awaited the call from Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? after making it all that way. the call never came. so i'll live vicariously through you on this one.

― andrew m., Friday, March 19, 2010 6:22 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

^^ me too! when i interviewed, they asked me about music and, for whatever reason, i was effusive that day about the velvet underground's third album. UH yeah, no callback.

damn, awesome. congrats! I've been trying for three years myself!
Anyway, you will be tivo'd.

Wow, this is fantastic. Start the countdown now...

congrats JAYMC! I applaud your good fortune & at the same time can't help but be a little jealous b/c I came very very close to being on lolcollege jeopardy when I was in lolcollege.

Yeah, it's tricky. You have to wait until these lights around the game board light up before you can buzz in, and if you buzz in beforehand, you're locked out for a split second. Truth be told, I mostly ignored the lights and just buzzed in a beat after Alex finished the clue.

While in the tryout process, I got to the point of competing using the buzzers & found them totally frustrating. I tend to be very impulsive when I am nervous & kept constantly getting locked out. I now understand (& sympathize with) the contestants who are repeatedly clicking the buzzer, to no avail. They clicked in too early & got locked out!

july 26: tv party tonight

i had no idea so many ILXors had Jeopardic ambitions!

It makes sense, though. As internet discussion forums go, there seems to be a high percentage of smrt ppl on ILX.

Yes, I'm sure lots of people here would do quite well on the show.

well sure, but i'm reasonably smart and i have no ambition to be on jeopardy. (no jokes about my intelligence pls). just sayin that not every smart person wants to be on a quiz show.

I don't watch the show religiously, tho I have at various points in the past. I often wondered why there weren't more academics on the show, profs & such, who would likely have a fairly competitive edge w/ a good base of general knowledge. Is it just that many academics don't want sully their integrity by appearing on a game show (pretty silly imo) or are they not allowed to compete b/c they would have too much of an edge?

either that or they don't want the pressure/are afraid that they'll muff it under pressure? people have all kinds of reasons, i would guess.

They're definitely allowed to compete. One of the other contestants there on taping day (six episodes were taped on the day I was there) was an English professor.

so you were in six or fewer episodes dot xls

And yeah, I think you're right, Amanda. Weirdly, it's only in retrospect that I realize what a crazy thing it was to do. A co-worker who's really smart and well-read said to me yesterday, "I could never do that. You must have a lot of courage."

xp Or I'm the current champion and will have to fly back to tape more episodes later.

this is craaaazy, wtg jaymc, i now know two ppl from chicago that have been on jeopardy within the last year O_O

I think a lot of us would throw up right before the taping.

omg john this rules! congratulations!

hey, congrats. my sister was on Millionaire but lost on the 9th or 10th ? so she only got 5 grand.

ha, i kept thinking this was MARCH 25 and was frantic that I had missed it

Weird, because that was my birthday!

My daughter just told me that one of her professors is on the next day, the 27th!

I always misread this as JAMC on JEOPARDY

which would be hilarious

OMG.

^won on the 26th and then kicked that prof's flabby behind

That prof had an annoying voice.

was your final jeopardy answer

ANNOYING ---->

Can't wait to see this bareknuckle throwdown!

http://www.muw.edu/llp/llpphotos/ncorrigan.jpg

Shit got heated iirc.

O shit, you're giving up some classified info, amirite?!

Can I see this on the onlines?

This very 2nd Trebeck is donning his ninja assasin suit and heading towards Jaymc's abode.

xp Nah. I mean, I know who it is b/c there were six episodes taped that day. I can't say if we were in the same episode or not, though.

A likely story, which you failed to phrase in the form of a question!

WOW this is awesome jaymc

i am really really delighted by this

Aw!

so rad, congratulations! hopefully the current air-date champ BUDDY isn't (wasn't) still champ when you are (were) on. i do not care for this man. he's texan and missed a daily double about the barbed wire museum. plus, he's named BUDDY.

jaymc won?!? CONGRATULATIONS! that's awesome.

congrats jaymc. psyched to see this.

Hey hey didn't say I won or lost.

congratulations for being a 5-time winner on jeopardy, can't wait to see you in the tournament of champions

wow, never in my wildest dreams did i think that i'd live to see ken jennings' streak broken... amazing work. kudos.

i'm reporting jaymc to jeopardy's producers for revealing the fact that he won

they have an .xls for people who do that

do they give you the winnings via check or burlap-bags stuffed with bills?

If you lose hardcore, you don't actually owe them the amount of "negative dollars" you scored, right?

whoa... good point.

I heard Trebeck is a lush who drinks on the job....did you smell any booze on his breath?

http://paxarcana.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/alex_trebek.jpg

Miss this 'stache so hard.