“Losers in other words” I hear undead Alex Trebek say in my head to me describing any one of my hobbies or interests.
Any cocktail anecdotes seem like boasting if they’re out of context and there is not context for Jeopardy contestant burbs.
I once met Geraldo Rivera at a baggage carousel in Kabul shortly after 9/11. He asked my Afghan female interpreter if she wanted a picture with him and she politely said yes. I still have it somewhere, it’s Geraldo and an Afghan woman who has a “who the hell is this?” look on her face.
When I was a kid of about 12, I watched Jeopardy with my invalid (but still sharp of mind) grandmother. Art Fleming was the host.
Other than that, I got nuthin’.
I once found myself standing next Jose Feliciano while waiting for a connecting flight at JFK. I didn’t recognize him immediately because he wasn’t wearing his glasses, but I overheard him calling all his friends on his mobile to let them know he was back in town.
I thought of introducing myself, but I didn’t want to disturb him. I doubt he even knew I was there.
I was an 6-time Frisbee Golf Tournament Champion of my local club, once scoring 8 birdies in a row on the back 9.
Spice Weasel and her husband met during freshman orientation in college. They’ve been together 23 years and have a five year old math genius son.
Spice Weasel writes action romance and is a member of a writers group called the [silly name redacted.] We’re called International because we have two Canadians!
I don’t know. I’m pretty boring. The parts of my life that aren’t boring are not suitable for a game show.
(I hate these kinds of icebreakers. I never knew what to say.)
Here’s an old thread that asked this same question.
Ideally, we’d discuss something that leads into Warhammer 40,000, but that might be crossing a commercial line somewhere. I don’t want to waste my once-in-a-lifetime chance on America’s Greatest Quiz show to shill for Games Workshop.
Maybe that would come up on a subsequent day if I because a multi-day champion.
Instead, Ken could lead with asking about how I got to see Greg Kihn perform before he died. He told the audience that he was grateful to Weird Al Yankovic because by parodying Kihn’s song “Jeopardy” and including Kihn in the music video, Al made it possible for Kihn to meet famed television announcer Don Pardo in real life.
These are all true.
I coached a junior high school chess team even though I’m terrible at chess.
I spent a summer guiding rafts down a whitewater river in North Carolina.
I won my school’s Young Authors contest in 1970-something and got to meet either Judy Blume or Beverly Cleary, someone who was big in children’s lit at the time.
My grandmother had me and my cousin convinced that the two ghosts in her house were named Memphis and Chattanooga (and I didn’t realize until geography class in 5th grade that I was being played).
I once played Rock Band for 24 straight hours as a fundraiser.
I guess he was wearing contacts. 