DUDE.!
― snorgfaced germans (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 19 March 2010 20:02 (fourteen years ago) link
i wonder if trebek goes on 4-month peyote-fueled vision quests between tapings or something
― some dude, Friday, 19 March 2010 20:02 (fourteen years ago) link
"What is... the question, man?"
― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 March 2010 20:10 (fourteen years ago) link
I thought he had been laying low for a while.
― Ole Rastaquouère (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 19 March 2010 20:11 (fourteen years ago) link
i heard he is a right winger
― goole, Friday, 19 March 2010 20:12 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, I just read on Gawker that he has GOP fundraisers at his house
― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 March 2010 20:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Blame Canada
― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Friday, 19 March 2010 20:14 (fourteen years ago) link
He's also donated to Chuck Hagel.
― jam master (jaymc), Friday, 19 March 2010 20:16 (fourteen years ago) link
did you run him through the .xls before you visited the set?
― Mr. Que, Friday, 19 March 2010 20:17 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU2w72KAkQQ
― ☀☃ (am0n), Friday, 19 March 2010 20:28 (fourteen years ago) link
sajak's on the right too i think
― all-beef patty hearst (donna rouge), Friday, 19 March 2010 20:44 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah sajak is some kind of climate change denialist men's rights let's kill the arabs kind of dude
― goole, Friday, 19 March 2010 20:55 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― 69, Friday, 19 March 2010 21:08 (fourteen years ago) link
damn, awesome. congrats! I've been trying for three years myself!Anyway, you will be tivo'd.
― forksclovetofu, Friday, 19 March 2010 21:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow, this is fantastic. Start the countdown now...
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 19 March 2010 21:36 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― everybody on ilx u have dandruff (Pillbox), Friday, 19 March 2010 21:47 (fourteen years ago) link
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!
― everybody on ilx u have dandruff (Pillbox), Friday, 19 March 2010 21:54 (fourteen years ago) link
july 26: tv party tonight
― stannery row (m bison), Friday, 19 March 2010 21:59 (fourteen years ago) link
i had no idea so many ILXors had Jeopardic ambitions!
― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Friday, 19 March 2010 22:30 (fourteen years ago) link
It makes sense, though. As internet discussion forums go, there seems to be a high percentage of smrt ppl on ILX.
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Friday, 19 March 2010 22:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes, I'm sure lots of people here would do quite well on the show.
― jam master (jaymc), Friday, 19 March 2010 22:38 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Friday, 19 March 2010 22:39 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― everybody on ilx u have dandruff (Pillbox), Friday, 19 March 2010 22:45 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Friday, 19 March 2010 22:46 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― jam master (jaymc), Friday, 19 March 2010 22:55 (fourteen years ago) link
so you were in six or fewer episodes dot xls
― caek, Friday, 19 March 2010 22:58 (fourteen years ago) link
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."
― jam master (jaymc), Friday, 19 March 2010 22:59 (fourteen years ago) link
xp Or I'm the current champion and will have to fly back to tape more episodes later.
― jam master (jaymc), Friday, 19 March 2010 23:00 (fourteen years ago) link
this is craaaazy, wtg jaymc, i now know two ppl from chicago that have been on jeopardy within the last year O_O
― drink more beer and the doctor is a heghog (gbx), Friday, 19 March 2010 23:06 (fourteen years ago) link
I think a lot of us would throw up right before the taping.
― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 20 March 2010 00:43 (fourteen years ago) link
omg john this rules! congratulations!
― horseshoe, Saturday, 20 March 2010 01:12 (fourteen years ago) link
hey, congrats. my sister was on Millionaire but lost on the 9th or 10th ? so she only got 5 grand.
― I gave'em anything that popped into my cabeza. (los blue jeans), Saturday, 20 March 2010 01:53 (fourteen years ago) link
ha, i kept thinking this was MARCH 25 and was frantic that I had missed it
― forksclovetofu, Thursday, 8 April 2010 06:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Weird, because that was my birthday!
― jam master (jaymc), Thursday, 8 April 2010 13:01 (fourteen years ago) link
My daughter just told me that one of her professors is on the next day, the 27th!
― Nom Nom Nom Chomsky (WmC), Friday, 30 April 2010 20:42 (thirteen years ago) link
I always misread this as JAMC on JEOPARDY
which would be hilarious
― the sound of a norwegian guy being wrong (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 30 April 2010 20:45 (thirteen years ago) link
OMG.
― jaymc, Friday, 30 April 2010 20:58 (thirteen years ago) link
^won on the 26th and then kicked that prof's flabby behind
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Friday, 30 April 2010 21:00 (thirteen years ago) link
That prof had an annoying voice.
― jaymc, Friday, 30 April 2010 21:01 (thirteen years ago) link
was your final jeopardy answer
ANNOYING ---->
― goole, Friday, 30 April 2010 21:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Can't wait to see this bareknuckle throwdown!
― Nom Nom Nom Chomsky (WmC), Friday, 30 April 2010 21:09 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.muw.edu/llp/llpphotos/ncorrigan.jpg
Shit got heated iirc.
― jaymc, Friday, 30 April 2010 21:11 (thirteen years ago) link
O shit, you're giving up some classified info, amirite?!
― Nom Nom Nom Chomsky (WmC), Friday, 30 April 2010 21:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Can I see this on the onlines?
― ╓abies, Friday, 30 April 2010 21:15 (thirteen years ago) link
This very 2nd Trebeck is donning his ninja assasin suit and heading towards Jaymc's abode.
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Friday, 30 April 2010 21:19 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― jaymc, Friday, 30 April 2010 21:20 (thirteen years ago) link
A likely story, which you failed to phrase in the form of a question!
― Nom Nom Nom Chomsky (WmC), Friday, 30 April 2010 21:23 (thirteen years ago) link
WOW this is awesome jaymc
i am really really delighted by this
― nitzer Ed (s1ocki), Saturday, 1 May 2010 22:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Aw!
― jaymc, Saturday, 1 May 2010 23:40 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― iiiijjjj, Sunday, 2 May 2010 01:16 (thirteen years ago) link