Soon to be a kept man
From: Ted
To: Slim
Date: March 28, 2006, 8:11 pm
I did really badly on the on-line Jeopardy! test tonight. I feel so old. How could I not remember who was on the $1 coin before Sacajawea? Susan something. B Anthony? Too late now. I still probably passed, but I feel I'll do terrible if I make it on the air.
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From: Slim
To: Ted
Date: March 28, 2006, 8:28 pm
Susan B. Anthony, suffragette!
Even if you did get on the show, any money you'd win would be dwarfed by my massive law firm salary.
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So Slim's better-looking than me, smarter than me, went to a better law school than me, and is about to make more money than me. And cooks for me, since she won't let me near a stove after deciding she didn't like my grandmother's tomato-paste-based spaghetti sauce recipe. And was born in the waning days of the Carter administration to boot, as compared to me and the previous Democratic president. Not sure how I lucked into this, but I'm sure not complaining.
If, as is rumored, one needs 35 right to pass the Jeopardy! test, I passed; I'm confident I got somewhere in the low 40s. If Wikipedia is good at one thing, it's obsessively encyclopedic articles about noncontroversial television shows.
I previously passed the Jeopardy! test in 1999 or so, but was disqualified because of my then-employer's relationship to Sony. Another time, Ruth dragged me along so she could try out for the Fox game show Greed, and I ended up being the one who wowed the producers, and was invited to be on the show—except the show was cancelled two days before my taping. The producers went on to create The Weakest Link, and called me at home to be on the pilot week's episodes, but I was again disqualified, this time because of my employer's relationship to NBC. (The hazards of working on the Avenue of the Stars.)
To: Slim
Date: March 28, 2006, 8:11 pm
I did really badly on the on-line Jeopardy! test tonight. I feel so old. How could I not remember who was on the $1 coin before Sacajawea? Susan something. B Anthony? Too late now. I still probably passed, but I feel I'll do terrible if I make it on the air.
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From: Slim
To: Ted
Date: March 28, 2006, 8:28 pm
Susan B. Anthony, suffragette!
Even if you did get on the show, any money you'd win would be dwarfed by my massive law firm salary.
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So Slim's better-looking than me, smarter than me, went to a better law school than me, and is about to make more money than me. And cooks for me, since she won't let me near a stove after deciding she didn't like my grandmother's tomato-paste-based spaghetti sauce recipe. And was born in the waning days of the Carter administration to boot, as compared to me and the previous Democratic president. Not sure how I lucked into this, but I'm sure not complaining.
If, as is rumored, one needs 35 right to pass the Jeopardy! test, I passed; I'm confident I got somewhere in the low 40s. If Wikipedia is good at one thing, it's obsessively encyclopedic articles about noncontroversial television shows.
I previously passed the Jeopardy! test in 1999 or so, but was disqualified because of my then-employer's relationship to Sony. Another time, Ruth dragged me along so she could try out for the Fox game show Greed, and I ended up being the one who wowed the producers, and was invited to be on the show—except the show was cancelled two days before my taping. The producers went on to create The Weakest Link, and called me at home to be on the pilot week's episodes, but I was again disqualified, this time because of my employer's relationship to NBC. (The hazards of working on the Avenue of the Stars.)