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Rex Kramer wrote:Heh heh heh . . . I figured; I just never miss an opportunity to tease a Michigander.
You misspelled "everyone".
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Rex Kramer wrote:Heh heh heh . . . I figured; I just never miss an opportunity to tease a Michigander.

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I can never get this straight. Is Dr. J a Michigander? Or a Michigoose?

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bpmod wrote:
Rex Kramer wrote:Heh heh heh . . . I figured; I just never miss an opportunity to tease a Michigander.

Rex
I can never get this straight. Is Dr. J a Michigander? Or a Michigoose?

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I (honestly) called myself a Michigosling as a child.
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bpmod wrote:
Rex Kramer wrote:Heh heh heh . . . I figured; I just never miss an opportunity to tease a Michigander.

Rex
I can never get this straight. Is Dr. J a Michigander? Or a Michigoose?

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In Yiddish we use the term "michigas" (sic). :)
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It's not often I get to see my name in a list with Stephen King. I'm honored. I've noticed he makes a fair amount of Jeopardy! allusions in his books.

I have been linked with William Bernhardt since he was a guest a couple of times at the writer's conference I help organize, the Cape Fear Crime Festival.

I'd like to point out that I have another published book--"Tree Huggers," as well as a mystery series "Sportsman's Bet" and "Trouble and Strife."
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bpmod wrote:
Rex Kramer wrote:Heh heh heh . . . I figured; I just never miss an opportunity to tease a Michigander.

Rex
I can never get this straight. Is Dr. J a Michigander? Or a Michigoose?

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Definitely a Michigoose. Been making that joke for years!
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Judy5cents wrote:It's not often I get to see my name in a list with Stephen King. I'm honored. I've noticed he makes a fair amount of Jeopardy! allusions in his books.

I have been linked with William Bernhardt since he was a guest a couple of times at the writer's conference I help organize, the Cape Fear Crime Festival.

I'd like to point out that I have another published book--"Tree Huggers," as well as a mystery series "Sportsman's Bet" and "Trouble and Strife."
Thanks for pointing that out, Judy! Now listed.

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Thanks for including me in the list. Being on Jeopardy! was probably the best thing I've ever done for my book sales.
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today's contestant Elissa Burr, author of Booker the Bald Cat and others
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Carpe Diem wrote:today's contestant Elissa Burr, author of Booker the Bald Cat and others
Thanks for the heads-up!

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(Oops, I should've said one of today's contestants.)
I've been meaning to ask, is there a thread with a list of books about Jeopardy! (at least in part) but not (to the best of my knowledge) by Jeopardy! contestants (such as Final Jeopardy: Man vs. Machine and the Quest to Know Everything by Stephen Baker, The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World by A.J. Jacobs and Olivia Bean, Trivia Queen by Donna Gephart)?
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Speaking of Olivia Bean, Trivia Queen, that book came out about a year after I was on the show and I came across it in a web search. I'd read other books by that author that I liked, and I knew I had to have it. That was when I finally used the Amazon gift card I'd been sitting on for months.
I've written to the author, and she wrote me back.
As for the book itself, it's a tad bit inaccurate, but it's a great read (at least for 12-year-old girls) and will always have a special place in my heart. I never thought someone would write a book about that aspect of my life.
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Carpe Diem wrote:I've been meaning to ask, is there a thread with a list of books about Jeopardy! (at least in part) but not (to the best of my knowledge) by Jeopardy! contestants
This search at WorldCat gives 65 hits, some of which are legitimately about Jeopardy! and not well known. It does include books about the show by contestants, as well as a few that are not about the quiz show, but just have the word "jeopardy" in the description.
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Updated to include Mark Lowenthal's "autobiography". Looks like a worthwhile read.

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Don't forget about Elise Dee Beraru, first 5x undefeated champion from season one, who wrote the romance novel "Remember my Love"!
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jeopfansincebirth wrote:Don't forget about Elise Dee Beraru, first 5x undefeated champion from season one, who wrote the romance novel "Remember my Love"!
Thanks for the heads-up, jfsb!

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jeopfansincebirth wrote:Don't forget about Elise Dee Beraru, first 5x undefeated champion from season one, who wrote the romance novel "Remember my Love"!
But was it inspired by her appearance on Love Connection during the 1988-89 season(no joke, she really did appear on LC)
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Mathew5000 wrote:Ronald Alan Lindsay, author of Future Bioethics: Overcoming Taboos, Myths, and Dogmas, had an article in Philosophy Now ten years ago, about appearing on Jeopardy! in Season 11. (His games are not in the Archive.)
Ron, who was a year behind me in high school, is a brilliant guy and was a formidable J! player. Wish I'd taped his games. Thanks for sharing this, Mathew!
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Browsing the Internet Archive of the old Sony boards reminded me of when Bob Harris plugged Leslie Frates's Spanish Word Games for Dummies.
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Mathew5000 wrote:Ronald Alan Lindsay, author of Future Bioethics: Overcoming Taboos, Myths, and Dogmas, had an article in Philosophy Now ten years ago, about appearing on Jeopardy! in Season 11. (His games are not in the Archive.)
And he's got a new book coming out later this year:

The Necessity of Secularism: Why God Can't Tell Us What to Do – according to Amazon, it comes out December 1, 2014.
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