Thursday evening, 9 p.m.

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The library called today to tell me my Calculus for Dummies book was in, so's I can try helping the kid with her homework. While there, I scored yet another of its Random Clearfield Library Gems™ that I'd never heard of before checking it out- this one, which we just finished, is a Canadian movie which actually admitted to being set in Toronto (complete with Timmy Ho's coffee cups and an oddly-placed box of Krispy Kremes), a 2003 comic thriller titled Foolproof. The stars include Ryan Reynolds, who Emily recognised as the soon-to-be Green Lantern; David Suchet, who I recognised as the long-time portrayer of Poirot; and Kristin Booth, who nobody knew from nuthin but who was strong and funny and just perfect as the only significant woman in the cast.

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One of the questions on this week's Wait Wait revealed that Andrew Lloyd-Webber is working on a sequel to POTO, set, in all places, at Coney Island in Brooklyn. Oh, the filk, it bleeds!

Yo, dat's awl I ask of yoo....

Tink of me, tink of me fawndly....

Da Phantommmm of da Cyclonnnne is dere, inside dese minds....

I'd buy tickets to the show, but chances are 50 years from now, the owners of the Mets will just memorialize the thing in their new stadium anyway, so what's the point?


Btw, the celebrity guest at Wait Wait's Boston show last weekend was Ashley Judd, who's now a B-School grad student at Hahvahd. Peter mentioned "blue books" at one point; do you current students even know what those are, or is everything just typed into laptops now?

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Scandals for 1000, Alex!

So the one night I actually watch Jeopardy! in a year or so because a blogging Friend was on it?

One of her opponents got DQ'd after the fact for violating eligibility ruulz!

On Monday’s edition of Jeopardy! contestant Jeff Kirby didn’t do so well.  He ended with a score of $300 but collected the third place prize of $1,000.  Interestingly, though, he previously appeared.  Jeff Kirby was on the show on December 8, 1999, and came in third place then as well where he won a digital camera.  He had no explanation and there was no error on his previous show.  He just ended up on the show again and did just about as well on his second appearance.  So what happened?

Apparently he essentially tricked the producers and casting directors and ended up passing the written test (again) and the auditions (again) to stand at the podium for a second time.  We now at least know they didn’t search for former contestant’s names up until this point.  Jeff Kirby just auditioned for Jeopardy! in 2009 and left off that little bit of information about him being on the show previously.  Either that or he had repressed memories from his first appearance and just decided to block it out.  He wore the same freaking tie in his second appearance!

Unfortunately, since he finished third, it didn't, as they say, affect the outcome of the competition. Still, it's gotta be even cooler to have a little bit of larceny attached to your one lifetime appearance on the program, even if it wasn't of your own doing.

For the record, I've passed the initial test at least once (on this as well as WWTBAM), but my Face For Radio has always kept me out of actual auditions.

Comments

[thanatos-kalos.livejournal.com]

My main concern for the POtO set in Coney Island is the fact that, if it's done here, there will be British people attemptign NYC accents. Now, they tend to default to a NYC Jewish accent when attempting any American accent, so they might actually be okay, but if the coney island hotdogs aren't kosher somebody's gonna have a conniption...

And I remember blue books... *shudders*