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C'mon sugar momma!

haha. I need me a sugar momma.

3rd day and I'd still hit it.

You're a commited fella! aren't ya?? lmfao lmfao

7+ years and I'd still hit hit... every chance I get...

How'd she do? I know it's already aired in the Huntsville, AL market at 12:30. Unfortunately, it doesn't air until 6:30 in Birmingham. When my parents had cable, they would get the 12:30 and 6:30 tapings of the same show. Some people didn't know that and whenever they were watching the 6:30 show with me, I'd impress them with how much I knew. :shhh:

My wife doesn't even impress me three days in a row!

Sorry Laura, I thought you won it today.

Silly Las Vegas limo driver

Did she lose? I was hoping to record tomorrow's showing with her on it.

Yup. I lost. It hurts.

During the actual taping, there was a LONG pause before he pulled out "Pulp Fiction". I thought for all the world that he was out of time, out $6K, and I was home free with a runaway. But that's not how it worked out -- and there's no Instant Replay judge on Jeopardy.

And I still came away with a nice chunk of cash.

So... that's all, folks!

Congrats on your success.

Thank you. :-)

Congrats... Since y'all are a baseball school, feel free to give us a small donation to build an on campus stadium.

D*mn*d cheaters

At $55,202, Lauramac will soon be immortalized in the Jeopardy.com "Hall of Fame" in the 'winners greater than 50K page...

http://www.jeopardy.com/showguide_50kwinners.php

Congrats, sweetie! (You won twice as many games as the Rice football team in less than a third as many chances).

YOU WAS ROBBED!

Hey, congrats on a nice run. Great life experience, minor amount of celebrity (on this board, anyway), and a little pocket change to boot.

I feel the reason for your loss was your final jeopardy bet. I don't think I would have bet any better. Trying to figure out the proper bet on a question that could be about anything is tough.

For the answer to the question, I was thinking of something like "Mississippi mud" and couldn't think of anything Lincoln said with that reference.

I truthfully tried to keep up with the answers. I feel I kept up (although I missed more questions), but you answered them much more quickly.

What a cool experience you had. I was very excited that I knew someone on jeopardy (even though I have never met you, etc...). It still was a cool feeling turning to my wife and saying, "I know her. She makes sure the posters don't get out of line on the C-USA board where I post." My wife, of course, followed by saying, "You mean, when you are "working"?"

She made the right bet for someone in the lead; The person behind her made the right bet for someone in 2nd place. It'd be silly to lose on a line from lincoln that was '4 score and 7 years ago' because both of you get it right but the person in 2nd bet more than you and passes you. You bet to stay ahead in that case.

It was a case when #2 was ~80% of #1. There are some jeopardy strategist who theorize that you don't have to make a shutout bet if the 2nd place person is about 2/3rd your score, but that's assuming that the 2nd place person will bet to stay ahead of the 3rd place person, which many people don't do.

l-mac played well, and ran into a string of bad luck/tough questions near the end. that's why it's a game, and it's easy to play armchair quarterback now.

lol

I don't think it was anything deliberate -- just an honest timekeeper mistake or something. But yeah, it stunk! If not for that, I'd have ended up with more than 2x the nearest opponent, and wouldn't have had to bet a cent on that lame-o Final Jeopardy thing.

:outraged:



;-)

I agree. Afternoon Jeopardy from the coach is an easy job. It doesn't pay well, but the job is pretty easy.

Congrats Laura, well deserved by one of the more entertaining posters on this entire board. Congrats and enjoy the winnings.

I would just embarass myself on Jeopardy. Wouldn't know a dadgum thing

The wagering of second-place people on Jeopardy has been driving me crazy for as long as I have watched the show...

In the case of today, you had...

Lauramac at $20,600
2nd Place - $16,400
3rd Place - $4,600

So, playing in the position of the 2nd place player I am thinking the following...

"Laura is going to bet at least $1 more than needed if I were to double my score. So, Laura will bet $12,201 (Eveyone in America watching the score knows exactly what her bet is going to be). If she is right, there's no way I can win. If she gets it wrong, Laura will be at $8,399. If third place gets it right, at most she can double to $9,200 - so in my mind, the correct wager for second place at $16,400 should be $7,199. If I'm wrong, I'm still at $9,201 = greater than the other players and I'm the Jeopardy champion (if Laura misses). If I'm right, I maximized my payout that day."

Again, if Laura gets the question right, there's nothing you can do in second place. That Jeff had the right "strategy", but I still think he bet the wrong amount.


Congratulations on your success, Laura!! I know know where to get all my future math and ballet questions answered!

Lost on a Mississippi question?!

Just kidding! I didn't know it either.....

Congrats

Yeah, how did you not know about KKK Robert Byrd? Our whole freaking state is named for him.

Congrats again, I think I'm going to try out for "I got a C in Physics Jeopardy"

Wow. Then he's almost as big a dumbass as whoever decided that such an obvious frigging clue belonged in a Daily Double. You could have shown a chimp that one and it would have said, "Pulp Fiction, duh," within three seconds.

You got hosed, Laura.

Most of the questions he got were in the SPORTS category

Yeah, Turd Ferguson on Celebrity Jeopardy might even have been able to pull that one out. lol

Anyway, he was kicking butt on the history questions -- I figured he'd go ahead & bet something on Final Jeopardy. Oh well.

qbu - I was *thinking* Robert Byrd, but out-thought myself on it. There were some questions where I could've answered; but there were a lot more where I thought I might know it, but it turned out I didn't, and was glad I kept my mouth shut! ;-)

SouthGA - yeah, the BS flag has been thrown on that question! lol I was in a roomful of librarians (including some history majors), and OwlJacket's friend at his lab who is a very devoutly proud Mississippi native was watching, and my Dad who has read about a bazillion Civil War books was watching, and not a one of them knew it either. :outraged:

Seriously, I don't want to be too much of a poor sport. But bitching *is* kinda fun. lol

Thanks for the props, y'all!

Well, there also was that one time when Karen had control of the board and they turned it over to you for getting a question wrong; they certainly aren't perfect.

Congrats on your success at Jeopardy.

You need to have Jeopardy Champion in your signature.

I love playing arm chair Jeopardy but I know that if I'm up there on TV. I'd be going um au ummm and I'd probably be the last one ringing in on everything.

I bet you and Owl Jacket have got a killer ntn rating.

It's bugging me now too! So, I "have" to bet enough to cover 2x the next opponent's score. -BUT- he counts on me getting it wrong... so why not just guard against that? In other words, why not bet to cover whatever *he* would bet to count on me getting it wrong?

In other words, what if I'd counted on him *assuming* I would bet $12,201 & get it wrong?

Then, he should bet to cover $20,600 - $12,201 = $8399. So, he wants $8400.

This means he'd bet $8000. So if he gets it *right*, he's at $24,400.

In order to guard against this new amount -- assuming he makes the "rational" bet against me, & doesn't worry about guarding against 3rd -- I need to cover $24,400. So, I need $24,401, leading to a revised bet of $3801.

Crap, if only I'd done that! Then I'd have been left with $16,799, and he'd have had to get it right to beat me.

Of course, I don't remember the scores going into Final on the other two games, so I don't know if that strategy would've changed the Monday or Tuesday outcome.

Anyway, I'm sure that people on the Jeopardy message boards have hashed all this out ad nauseam. But I'd rather talk with y'all.

Wanna know something funny? We lost at bar trivia last night. lol We play at this place in town every week. The theme was even "Bowl Games" last night (not all the questions were about bowl games -- but there was a theme reference in every question or answer. For example:

Q: Sir Allen SUGAR is the boss on what UK reality show?
A: The Apprentice.

Q: What's the birthstone for May?
A: EMERALD

You know, Sugar Bowl, Emerald Bowl.)

We do generally do alright at trivia, though!

I found myself ardently hoping you'd go that route, for some reason, though either way is justifiable.

Anyways, I'm an off-and-on viewer of Jeopardy!, fervently following it when I'm "on," and you were the kind of player I'd have found myself rooting for even without the C-USAbbs connection. ;-)

But then, I still feel crushed whenever I watch Ken's final "regular season" game on the TiVo...

Both 2nd place contestants bet to cover you, but not by huge sums of money. In short, it would not have changed the outcome of the game.

For more on Shore's Conjecture, see: http://www.j-archive.com/help.php#shoresconjecture

The problem is, 2nd place players are too unpredictable. I've seen people play this way and win because of it; I've also seen people lose because of it.

EDIT: Also, because the opponents are allowed to watch previous games, they can tune for that in case they notice it.

Man that Owl Jacket is one lucky fellow. My wife doesn't like playing bar trivia but she does like football so I guess I'm good to go there.

Yeah, I think we talked about that before I went on, & I must've decided it would suck worse to have someone sneak ahead of me than to get beaten because I went for it.

Losing either way still sucks. But I can't really be too disappointed in myself for going balls-to-the-wall. (Figuratively, of course!)

Only thing is, I knew Jeff had studied up and was raring to go. If I would ever have gone for the "rational 2nd place opponent" thing (i.e. guard against him guarding against me) he's the one where I should've done it.

But now I'm starting to feel like Vizzini in the iocane powder scene in Princess Bride. lol

Aw, thanks!

I'm still saying, though -- folks in Memphis are going to be disappointed when I show up at the LB in my Rice sweatshirt and not-so-much makeup. lol

I'll just assume you're right because my ADD kicked in at (There are some jeopardy strategist who theorize.....).

Congrats on the win Lmac!!!!

In this case, they were right. It's my fault cause I taught lauramac how to bet poorly.

Sorry honey...

Man, I thought we were losers! ;-)

It's OK. I figured he'd bet big. I also figured Final Jeopardy wouldn't be a total crap question.

D'oh, and d'oh! :outraged:

[EDIT] pasted quote in

Who ever said we're not?

FWIW, what was Final Jeopardy?

The starchy grain of this plant, used as a staple food throughout the world.

Not cool. lmfao

Anyway, I don't remember the way it was worded -- it was kind of convoluted -- and I just don't want to watch that tape again today. :outraged: SouthGA or someone else might be able to help...

From the official Jeopardy! forum:

I don't know about you, but when I saw the category for Final Jeopardy, I would have had to make the exact same wager you did... I pretty much know my Civil War/Lincoln trivia, but I didn't have an answer for that question. So I would have suffered your same fate on that show...

Personally, I'm disappointed you post on a C-USA football board and went 0-fer in the Football category. You need to hang around me more and we'll get you caught up on this whole football thing...

Repeat after me.... GO HERD!

Ummm.... she's a Rice fan. She'd have been all over the baseball or words that rhyme with "Ping!" category...

Heck, Rice is such a baseball school, the President's wife is named Ping.