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A little forum trivia
Justacommeman
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Another thread got me thinking. One guess per person. Guess only if this is the first time you are hearing this.
This current or former forum member was on the game show Jeopardy five times back in 1975
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
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And a little back story
Art Fleming was the host. The rules were different then.
One could buzz in before the announcer had stopped reading the answer. You could buzz in any time after the window with the answer opened.
One of the questions from one of the shows he was on under Mathematics was
The total number of sides on six isosceles triangles. Take a shot. No cheating
Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
Jonathan Goldsmith?
USAF (Ret) The purpose of Bourbon is to make you feel like you should feel WITHOUT Bourbon. Remembering RickO, a brother in arms.
Total guess...but I would say David Q Bowers...he was on a lot of tv and news shows like in the early 80's.
Coins are Neato!
"If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone...somewhere...is making a penny." - Steven Wright
What is eighteen?
EDIT: Who is Col. Jessup? (for the main question)
This isn't another guess...I just want to add that I have genuinely no idea if David was ever a member here lol!
Also the triangle question I forgot to answer...do the insides count? 36?
Coins are Neato!
"If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone...somewhere...is making a penny." - Steven Wright
Now you made me want to watch “I Lost on Jeopardy!”
Who is saintguru? what is 18?
"A dog breaks your heart only one time and that is when they pass on". Unknown
Great post @Justacommeman
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@ricko ?
The whole worlds off its rocker, buy Gold™.
BOOMIN!™
Wooooha! Did someone just say it's officially "TACO™" Tuesday????
Retiring at 55, what day is today?
I'll take a wild guess- BONGOBONGO
i like the saintguru guess and will make that mine, too.
EDIT - Who Is Saintguru?
An isosceles triangle is still just a three sided triangle so, 3 X 6 = 18
No idea on the forum member -
Whether you think you can or, think you can't, you're right.
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Any Triangle has 3 sides, so it has to be 18. As for the Forum Member, I'll guess Bear.
Bill Jones?
Art Fleming and David Strauss ("Mr. Trivia") used to have a radio show on KMOX 1120 AM St. Louis.
Strauss was amazing, basically a one-man early version of Google.
This show ran from the late 70s until the late 1990s. By then, the internet had rendered trivia experts obsolete.
Who is David Hall
No idea...I'll have to buy a vowel and choose curtain #3.
I have never been on Jeopardy... Have not even watched the program. I have played the game Trivia a few times, years ago. Have to do something when laid up with a broken calcaneus. Eighteen.... Cheers, RickO
Gotta believe that it's @ColonelJessup, no?
I miss his banter around here.
Dead Cat Waltz Exonumia
"Coin collecting for outcasts..."
Fred W.
"A car is a tool that takes you from one place to another. Everything beyond that is a payment for other people's perception of you."
Bill Jones?
Mr_Spud
M T S ?
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I would guess ColonelJessup as he seems a fount of random knowledge. But there are a lot of other good guesses as well. And most members I don't know much about them, much less knowing that they are the right approximate age and have a knack for trivia.
Excellent thread!
Indeed it was ColonelJessup. We were catching up and he dropped that on me. Rick is my favorite enigma and one sweetheart of a man.
Yes the answer to part two was 18
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
Isoceles is a red herring. Any six triangles have a total of eighteen sides.
Colonel Jessup was the closest thing the forum has had to a Renaissance man, hence why I guessed him. Sounds like he did well on the show.
The choice of isosoceles was merely to try to trip you into second guessing yourself.
What is how to say the same thing with three times as many words, Alex?
Now that I know it was ColonelJessup, I wish I had watched then.... When someone you know is involved in such an activity, it makes it much more interesting. One son of my friend and co worker of 40+ years was on Wheel of Fortune.... the only time I watched that show. He won good money and a Camaro....Cheers, RickO
For sure I should've known it was the Colonel. I truly miss his posts and the challenges he posed to my way of thinking on things, the searches in the dictionary to learn new words, and in general - the fascinating insights into how his mind processed and expressed what he was thinking.
I learned all my big words and little used words from the Colonel.
Pete