Jeopardy Regulars - the Tournament of Champions begins tonight

[malaise]

I'm looking forward to Jeopardy James

[Harker]

1. Word origins: fom the French "jeu parti"

for a divided or even game...

[CurtEastPoint]

2. I had forgotten that!

ANother favorite, a propos of nothing is dandelion. 'dent de lion' Lion's tooth.

[Harker]

3. My all-time favorite.

I still have fond memories of Art Fleming and the mechanical board.

[malaise]

4. I started watching Jeopardy with Art Fleming

Damn I'm old

[Harker]

5. Guess I am, too.

I sure do appreciate you here on DU.

Thanks for all the heavy lifting.

Remember Art saying, when he had one person applaud a joke, "thank you, Mother"?

[malaise]

6. Well I'll borrow from Art

Thank you Harker

[Harker]

7. Sure thing...

Art was beautiful!

[rurallib]

8. I started with Art also when I was a wee lad

Back in the 1980s (I think it was) I ran across Art Fleming doing a late Sunday night call in trivia show on KMOX radio in St. Louis.
It was hard for me to tune in where I live, but I was able to do it.

One night someone called in and answered a question about Chuck Berry. The guy then mused that he wondered what Berry was doing now. Art Fleming says "Chuck lives out in St. Charles. His number's in the book. Let's give him a call."

Two rings and Chuck Berry answers the phone. He and Fleming were old buddies. So there was a five minute or so conversation. I was tickled to have been tuned in at that time.

[malaise]

9. That must have been something special

Art was laid back and unpretentious.

[rurallib]

10. It was like I was a bit player in a TV show about two

stars from the 50s. I was the kid who got to hear a couple of my heroes talking decades later......

[malaise]

11. james is back tonight

[rurallib]

12. Saw that - really enjoyed him