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I'm looking forward to Jeopardy James
Harker
(14,012 posts)for a divided or even game...
CurtEastPoint
(18,639 posts)ANother favorite, a propos of nothing is dandelion. 'dent de lion' Lion's tooth.
Harker
(14,012 posts)I still have fond memories of Art Fleming and the mechanical board.
malaise
(268,918 posts)Damn I'm old
Harker
(14,012 posts)I sure do appreciate you here on DU.
Thanks for all the heavy lifting.
Remember Art saying, when he had one person applaud a joke, "thank you, Mother"?
malaise
(268,918 posts)Thank you Harker
Harker
(14,012 posts)Art was beautiful!
rurallib
(62,406 posts)Back in the 1980s (I think it was) I ran across Art Fleming doing a late Sunday night call in trivia show on KMOX radio in St. Louis.
It was hard for me to tune in where I live, but I was able to do it.
One night someone called in and answered a question about Chuck Berry. The guy then mused that he wondered what Berry was doing now. Art Fleming says "Chuck lives out in St. Charles. His number's in the book. Let's give him a call."
Two rings and Chuck Berry answers the phone. He and Fleming were old buddies. So there was a five minute or so conversation. I was tickled to have been tuned in at that time.
malaise
(268,918 posts)Art was laid back and unpretentious.
rurallib
(62,406 posts)stars from the 50s. I was the kid who got to hear a couple of my heroes talking decades later......