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AG and I were just watching Jeopardy (rough day for me on it, but Final Jeopardy came to me right at the end). I only bring this up because one of the contestants was from the Football Fail day, and AG asked what it was so I showed her. She was laughing so hard it looked like she was crying.
My complete lack of pop culture knowledge certainly doesn't help.
Five times I have gotten the final Jeopardy! question based on the category alone. The first time the category was The Periodic Table. The second time it was Text Books. I considered that one to be a relatively easy. How many we’ll-known text books can you think of?
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Correct. We used to watch Jeopardy! at my local. A guy I know from there did it twice in one week.
True story: A regular who was really smart tried out for the show 5 times before making it to the contestant pool. He subsequently stopped showing up. One evening, while Jeopardy! was on, I was talking to a customer about him when the bartender started freaking out and told me took at the TV. The guy was on the show. He was leading going into final jeopardy but ended up last after missing a pretty easy question. He later died of kidney cancer.
True story: A regular who was really smart tried out for the show 5 times before making it to the contestant pool. He subsequently stopped showing up. One evening, while Jeopardy! was on, I was talking to a customer about him when the bartender started freaking out and told me took at the TV. The guy was on the show. He was leading going into final jeopardy but ended up last after missing a pretty easy question. He later died of kidney cancer.
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Text Books must have been Gray's Anatomy. What was The Periodic Table?
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Correct. We used to watch Jeopardy! at my local. A guy I know from there did it twice in one week.
True story: A regular who was really smart tried out for the show 5 times before making it to the contestant pool. He subsequently stopped showing up. One evening, while Jeopardy! was on, I was talking to a customer about him when the bartender started freaking out and told me took at the TV. The guy was on the show. He was leading going into final jeopardy but ended up last after missing a pretty easy question. He later died of kidney cancer.
True story: A regular who was really smart tried out for the show 5 times before making it to the contestant pool. He subsequently stopped showing up. One evening, while Jeopardy! was on, I was talking to a customer about him when the bartender started freaking out and told me took at the TV. The guy was on the show. He was leading going into final jeopardy but ended up last after missing a pretty easy question. He later died of kidney cancer.
There's an ex-offensive-lineman named Ross Tucker who's built himself a bit of a podcast empire. One of his favorite stories was one summer early on working for his parents' propane company and walking into a customer's house and seeing the kid playing Madden. He told the kid to go to the Buffalo Bills and pull up number *whatever* The kid did, looked up, looked down, looked up, and called "Mooooooom! The guy from the propane is on the game!".
He has not died of kidney cancer, nor anything else.
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For example, mowing--should be simple, right?
Yesterday I did the tough effort phases (push mowing, weedeating) first and got roasted by the pre-winter sun. I don't care what the thermometer says, 10 a.m. - 1p.m. is the hottest part of the day. There were clouds overhead but weirdly none of them ever seemed to cover the sun.
So when I get on the tractor, then it decides to cloud over. Half way through a thunderstorm hits. It has to rain sometime, so that's fine. But being a rational person, I want to finish all the mowing in one session. I went under cover for a quick snooze while I waited for the storm to pass.
Wake up 45 minutes later and the storm entered a zombie phase. There continued to be rumbles of thunder, annoying light rain, even as there were substantial patches of blue sky not far from overhead. It literally rained another 15-20 minutes after the sun came out.
tl;dr yesterday the weather conspired to make Velo Vol's mowing difficult.
Yesterday I did the tough effort phases (push mowing, weedeating) first and got roasted by the pre-winter sun. I don't care what the thermometer says, 10 a.m. - 1p.m. is the hottest part of the day. There were clouds overhead but weirdly none of them ever seemed to cover the sun.
So when I get on the tractor, then it decides to cloud over. Half way through a thunderstorm hits. It has to rain sometime, so that's fine. But being a rational person, I want to finish all the mowing in one session. I went under cover for a quick snooze while I waited for the storm to pass.
Wake up 45 minutes later and the storm entered a zombie phase. There continued to be rumbles of thunder, annoying light rain, even as there were substantial patches of blue sky not far from overhead. It literally rained another 15-20 minutes after the sun came out.
tl;dr yesterday the weather conspired to make Velo Vol's mowing difficult.