Cindy Conaway's "Don't Bet Like a Girl"
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 10:20 am
Here's a nice piece from Cindy Conaway on her experience as a J! contestant. The article begins on page 52.
Try this updated link.
Try this updated link.
A message board for fans of the Jeopardy! television show. MinnesotaMyron is our JBoardie of the Month!
https://jboard.tv/
Probably going to have to be OP. I couldn't find anything Googling (and I wield some fairly decent Google-fu). Plus, the link directs to gmail.MinnesotaMyron wrote:Anyone get this link to work?
At the site I tried a couple of the UTOC elite 18 who I know, teach. The comments were all over the place.Vanya wrote:Well, this page is pretty funny, if it's the same person.
Speaking from my own experiences with the site, it tends to attract those who feel most strongly about the professor. So you end up with the students who are either angry about the class for both real and perceived offenses, or those who loved the course and/or the professor and want to gush about it/him/her online. In any event, it's the outliers who tend to log their comments there.MarkBarrett wrote:At the site I tried a couple of the UTOC elite 18 who I know, teach. The comments were all over the place.Vanya wrote:Well, this page is pretty funny, if it's the same person.
It's funny.Austin Powers wrote:I'm just terrified that, if I ever appeared on the show, I'd have someone mining the internet for negative comments about me. Not sure what that accomplishes.
"Counter"? Do we insist this? I don't remember any of us insisting this. Not even SotH/TRD objects to calling them "lecterns". I feel misrepresented.as I stood behind the middle counter (contestants insist that they are neither podiums, because you don’t stand on them, nor lecterns, because they do not hold books)
The whole line looked clumsy, actually. I was looking for a "discuss" after "books."I stood behind the middle counter (contestants insist that they are neither podiums, because you don’t stand on them, nor lecterns, because they do not hold books)
She must have read my posts. It's what I have insisted all along. Although I called it a desk. Maybe counter is better.Rex Kramer wrote:"Counter"? Do we insist this? I don't remember any of us insisting this. Not even SotH/TRD objects to calling them "lecterns". I feel misrepresented.as I stood behind the middle counter (contestants insist that they are neither podiums, because you don’t stand on them, nor lecterns, because they do not hold books)
Presumably this was forced into the article by an uninformed editor.
Rex
Desk would certainly apply to the old Art Fleming contestant places. I just called them podiums (podia?) and never gave it much thought.Vanya wrote:She must have read my posts. It's what I have insisted all along. Although I called it a desk. Maybe counter is better.Rex Kramer wrote:"Counter"? Do we insist this? I don't remember any of us insisting this. Not even SotH/TRD objects to calling them "lecterns". I feel misrepresented.as I stood behind the middle counter (contestants insist that they are neither podiums, because you don’t stand on them, nor lecterns, because they do not hold books)
Presumably this was forced into the article by an uninformed editor.
Rex