Jeopardy Watson

On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 22:57:07 -0500, Nancy Young wrote:


It's kinda of joke in the technical employment circles that you can
spot a long-time IBM'er a mile away. They have a world all their own.
Having worked with and under some present and former IBM'ers, this is
most certainly true. The management were always the outcasts in the
80's/90's Silicon Valley and beyond.

-sw
 
On 2/14/2011 6:45 PM, Sqwertz wrote:

I won $300. There was a tie for second place. The champion won her 4th
time in a row.

In those days you kept the money and got an expensive encyclopedia
just for appearing. I was the only one to get the final jeopardy answer.
It was in NYC with Art Fleming and it paid very little. They actually
pulled up the cards by hand. Mrs. Miller (of Tonight Show fame) was in
the audience and there were also hundreds of nuns. It was freezing cold
and every time they broke taping for a commercial, they told us how many
million people were watching.



It was a really scary experience and I don't want to do it again.
Besides, I was a lot better looking in those days. :-)


--
Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.
 
On 2/14/2011 9:57 PM, Nancy Young wrote:


I did notice that they all weren't wearing blue shirts. Blue shirts used
to be the dress code at IBM. We have family who worked in Poughkeepsie.


--
Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.
 
On Feb 14, 8:41?pm, Janet Wilder wrote:

As I understand it, the second place candidate gets $2,000 these days,
while the third one gets $1000. So seemingly it has barely kept up
with inflation.
 
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The question is "What is Pommes Anna?"

Although Chef Adolphe Duglere is usually credited for creating this, not
Escoffier.

Dunno about an alternate title. Maybe something along the lines of "la
cocotte a Pommes Anna". Cocotte is French for a prostitute, a hen, a
special copper pan to make Pommes Anna, or a small baking bowl to make,
for example, baked custard or Oeufs en Cocotte. Go figure.
 
Janet Wilder wrote:



You're right about the shirts. They seem to have settled on
white, if I'm remembering correctly. Maybe it was dress down
day. Heh.

nancy
 
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