...but me:
1. What is Fort Worth?
2. What is the Mongol Empire?
You probably are tired of hearing me tell you these things, but I just can't help myself.
I didn't think we would be doing any Chrustmas shopping this year, but yesterday we went to a local department store and did some, plus we ordered a few things online last week that have now been delivered to our home by FedEx (Federal Express courier service, for readers not in the U.S.). We still need to buy gifts for some of our grandchildren, and then our shopping will be finished.
There will still be all the gift-wrapping to do, but Mrs. RWP likes to do that. She really does, and she is very good at it. If it depended on me, it might never get done.
We didn't put up a Christmas tree this year (second year in a row) and our nativity set is still sitting in its box on a shelf in the garage. I need to pull out the ladder and put in a new light bulb over the garage door. It's also time to replace the HVAC filter in the furnace in the attic.
Perhaps I should watch less Jeopardy and do a little more work around the house?
Don't answer that.
In case anyone cares, today is Beethoven's birthday.
Be careful on that ladder. You don't want any broken bones for Christmas.
ReplyDeleteI admit I know little about the mongol empire except for the evil Genghis Khan. I do like mongolian bbq. And the only Fort Worth I know is in Texas. So I wouldn't even get on Jeopardy. I might do better on Wheel of Fortune
Hope you have a wonderful Christmas.
Kathy, the category was Narco Polo fir the Mongol Empire question. The category was Texas Cities for the Fort Worth question and the clue said it began an as a military outpost and later became a “cow town”....what else could it have been? The contestants guessed Austin, Houston, and El Paso. They obviously don’t know beans about Texas Cities. I grew up there, so it helped.
ReplyDeleteI hope you have a wonderful Christmas also!
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Deletethose jeopardy questions confuse me even when I know the answer, I just can't getmy head around how youanswer with a question.
ReplyDeleteNext time you talk about jeopardy , i'll ask if the nativity scene is on display yet :)
kylie, the craziest (that is, the most wildly inaccurate) answer I’ve heard on Jeopardy! in a long time occurred recently when a contestant answered “Who are Henry VIII and Catherine the Great?” but the correct answer (which I knew) was “Who are William and Mary?” — and no, I still haven’t set up our nativity scene.
ReplyDelete"“Who are Henry VIII and Catherine the Great?”
DeleteEven I got that one right, William and Mary being the only people I could think of.
"I still haven’t set up our nativity scene."
Have I at long last won you to the side of Satan?
Snow, of course not. Dream on. It’s not going to happen!
DeleteYou have a furnace in the attic!? I've never heard of such a thing. Everyone I know has theirs in the basement.
ReplyDeleteJeannelle, in this part of the country where many houses are built on concrete slabs and don’t have basements, furnaces are put in attics.. If you were Jeannelle of Georgia instead of, well, you know, you would know that!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on your continued Jeopardy success. I have our tree and nativity set up but still need to do major house cleaning before Christmas. I also need to wrap all the gifts and do the baking and so forth. I look forward to January to rest.
ReplyDeleteYou be careful if you get on that ladder!
Merry Christmas to you and Mrs. RWP!
Bonnie, and a Merry Christmas to you and Tom as well!
DeleteIf I had a dollar for every time I knew an answer on Jeopardy! that none of the contestants knew, I would be a very rich man, which reminds me of the old saying that if “ifs” and “buts” were candy and nuts, we’d all have a merry Christmas!
I plan to ask a son or grandson to replace the light bulb and the HVAC filter as Mrs. RWP wants me to stay off ladders and out of attics (access to ours is by pull-down stairs in the garage).
Oh, and Happy Birthday to Beethoven! His musical contributions were great indeed.
ReplyDeleteBonnie,. hello again. On behalf of the whole van Beethoven family, thank you very much! I wondered whether anyone would care.
ReplyDeleteOde To Joy (by the birthday boy)should put anyone in a Christmas mood.
ReplyDeleteEmma, you made a little rhyme (Ode to JOY by the birthday BOY) and it made me smile. I must be in a Christmas mood. I haven’t thought “Bah, Humbug” even once this month.
DeleteI didn't know about the "Courier Service" part of the name.
ReplyDeleteSo, Alex's last week will start on January 4.
Snow, “Courier Service” is not part of FedEx’s name, I just added the words “courier service” (no capital letters) to explain to readers outside the U.S. what the company did. But now that I think about it, delivery service would probably have been a more accurate description. By the way, did you hear that United Parcel Service and Federal Express (FedEx) are planning to merge? The new name will be FedUps. (just kidding)
ReplyDelete"Snow, “Courier Service” is not part of FedEx’s name, I just added the words “courier service” (no capital letters)..."
DeleteYou just do these things to make me think I'm losing my mind, don't you,?
Snow, I most certainly do not. But I did tell you a corny joke to make you think I’m losing mine.
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