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    When I was 6, I had a wonderful birthday party, with a cake with circus figures, and about 30 other kids, and all kinds of gifts like walkie-talkies and a bicycle.

    About a week after that, I was dying……

    I wasn’t too healthy to begin with, anyway-one of those skinny kids with a constantly running nose and asthma; I was anemic, had scarring on my lungs, and I’d get tonsil infections if you looked at me cross-eyed, but the mumps were going around that summer, and I got the mumps, which turned into some form of meningitis, and I spent the whole summer in bed, reading and drinking milkshakes-which were basically the only thing I could keep down.

    In fact, I spent huge parts-seems like the whole year-of second grade in bed, or shuffling around our apartment in the city, being tutored personally by my teacher, who’d come to the apartment with books and assignments, and watching daytime T.V. All of this actually led to my getting somewhat ahead of my peer group in school, and later skipping a couple of grades, and I’d always liked to be ahead of the curve, anyway-I’d been taught to read at three because I was tired of my mom’s sing-song way of reading aloud, and asked so I could do it myself.

    Daytime T.V., though-I watched a lot of Jeopardy-every day. The answers were only worth $10-$50 in the first round, and double that in the second then, and the host was a man named Art Fleming-Alex Trebec was in college in Canada, or working with Peter Jennings.-and I’ve wanted to be on Jeopardy ever since.

    Since then I’ve gotten well, of course. Since then, in no particular order, I’ve also earned several degrees, played in a band and studied Judo in Japan, dated a stripper, taught middle and high school when I should have still been in high school myself ,almost summitted Everest (in 1996, a bad year on that mountain….) made love in the back seat of my very own Rolls Royce, sailed the Caribbean and South Pacific, collected and raced cars, raced motorcycles, operated a nuclear power plant, learned to clear rooms and defuse bombs, fallen in love with three truly outstanding women, (and been fortunate enough to have two of them love me back) been married, had kids, been widowed and remarried-gone into Uzbekistan and helped to bring 1500 lbs. of weapons grade uranium into the U.S., boxed in the Golden Gloves (and nearly had my head handed to me), scuba dived on wrecks, and…well, I think I’ve done a lot for someone who wasn’t supposed to make it to 11.

    I expect I’ll do more, but Iwon’t be winning on Jeopardy. After 39 years, though, I was finally on it, and you can see me choke big time on this coming Monday…..I guess I’ll kick myself forever for not liking for Robert Frost-my grandmother, who was a Wind River Shoshone and taught me all kinds of hand signs, is probably spinning in her grave; I had to be a little evasive about my job, not wear my pinstripe suit -because Alex wears pinstripes, and well, it’s his show! Since the show was in the morning, I finished up early, and had a really good day at the beach.

    I had lots of fun, though….
    Aaron J. Cuffee


    As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
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    Are you kidding about owning a nuclear plant and rolls royce etc?

    Hmmm I don't normally watch jepordy but mabey I will this time.
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    Tell me about the stripper.......
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    Anyone going to put it onto DVD and mail it to my home address?

    Now to see Aaron on TV choking would be a sight to behold.

    At least you had fun bud.

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    Tell me about the weapons grade uranium, mwuahahaha!

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    Quote Originally Posted by JasonW
    Tell me about the weapons grade uranium, mwuahahaha!
    I've posted about it here before:Operation Sapphire....(just in case you think it's all lies...bwahaha, and all that.)

    ..and it was Kazakstan...I've, er....never been to Uzbekistan!

    ...and yes,Jason, please post with your full name-go to the user CP and enter it in your signature...
    Quote Originally Posted by Shitoryu Dude
    Tell me about the stripper.......
    What-I was 19, she was 25. I bounced in the place where she worked.
    She looked like Jane Kennedy, but with green eyes and a better bod.
    It ended about as badly as you'd expect, but definitely was fun for a while.
    Aaron J. Cuffee


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    I don't venture into the Member's Lounge much these days, but I called in today and after a quick browse I find that all the best threads have Aaron's presence. I already make a point of reading the ones he starts, but it's like he is going around in front of me adding to the threads that catch my eye. Two steps ahead all the time, this is getting spooky...
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    For now, I'm just waiting for the smack of the Bo against a hard wooden floor....

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    Hey Aaron,
    Tell us more about what it was like dating a stripper...
    I'm hoping someone in my neighborhood tapes your "Jeopardy!" appearance so I can watch it... I haven't had a working television in two years.
    Cady Goldfield

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cady Goldfield
    Hey Aaron,
    Tell us more about what it was like dating a stripper...
    I'm hoping someone in my neighborhood tapes your "Jeopardy!" appearance so I can watch it... I haven't had a working television in two years.

    .....1) it's a good thing I've never been a "jealous" person.
    2) It's a good thing I've always been somewhat emotionally stable;most strippers are not at all.......

    Funny thing-they asked about watching JEOPARDY to practice, and I had to tell them I hadn't watched the program in more than a decade......
    Aaron J. Cuffee


    As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
    - H.L. Mencken

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    Quote Originally Posted by elder999
    Funny thing-they asked about watching JEOPARDY to practice, and I had to tell them I hadn't watched the program in more than a decade......
    And what was their reaction?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Will Northcote
    And what was their reaction?
    They intermittantly disabled his buzzer, and stacked the questions against him.
    Yours in Budo,
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian Owens
    They intermittantly disabled his buzzer, and stacked the questions against him.
    Damn them , it is enough to make me a communist.

    I was a socialist once. Painful it was. Had to get it lanced by the doctor.

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    Hey Aaron (do you go by Aaron, or by your middle name?),

    I Tivo'd it and watched it late last night. You rocked right up until the end.

    I have always been amused at how Trebek tries to make conversation with the contestants. Is he as awkward at small talk in person as he appears on TV?

    Great job, sorry you didn't win!
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    because you never know how soon it will be too late."

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    Aaron:

    I thought you did really well. It certainly was a close match until the last question. Although . . . your female competitor seemed to pick up more of those boxing questions than you did!

    BTW, do you prefer "Jeff" as per your Jeopardy signature? Or was that like "bottling protons" --> a little something to throw off the bad guys?

    Poetry . . . who wudda thunk it?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sapporo Ichiban
    Aaron:

    I thought you did really well. It certainly was a close match until the last question. Although . . . your female competitor seemed to pick up more of those boxing questions than you did!

    BTW, do you prefer "Jeff" as per your Jeopardy signature? Or was that like "bottling protons" --> a little something to throw off the bad guys?

    Poetry . . . who wudda thunk it?

    Well, yeah, I guess the cat's out of the bag on that one-I've been using my middle name all my life, but legally I'm "Aaron J. Cuffee."

    And a bottle of hydrogen gas is, essentially, a bottle of protons....and we do put ultra-cold neutrons in a magnetic bottle (or rather used to, I'm doing something else now.)

    And I'm sosmething of a poet-even well known in certain circles-I'm taking more than a little heat for that, but Robert Frost was a windbag.
    Aaron J. Cuffee


    As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
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