Pleased to meet you. Won’t you guess my name.
Who are The Rolling Stones?

Somewhere down in the Black Mountain Hills of Dakota, there lived a young boy named…
Who are The Beatles?

I’ve seen sunny days that I thought would never end.
Who is James Taylor?

Jeopardy.  I really like that show.  Alex Trebek and all.

But it is the act of shouting out of the answers in the form of a question… right at the TV… while I’m eating dinner, or doing dishes… or working on a connect-the-dot puzzle.  It makes no difference.

Who is Diane Ross and The Supremes?
Who is Perry Como?

HA!  All five.  I killed the category!

Oh, the thrill of it all.

Okay, let’s face it. I’m pathetic. But that is beside the point.  I like the show, I just can’t understand why they named it Jeopardy.

Jeopardy is pretty much defined as a danger of loss, or being in harm’s way, or…  in risk of failure.  I guess maybe if you get the answer wrong… in the form of a question, of course ….  you are in jeopardy of losing money?

But you start out with zero dollars.  And they don’t make you pay any money back if you get a negative score…. so what’s the jeopardy?

Nope.  I would have named it “Bass-ackwards”….  or “Rewsna”  or something like that.  Maybe “Your Intellectual Snobbery is showing right through your shirt.”  But not “Jeopardy.”

Now I’ve been in Jeopardy quite a few times in my life.  Year’s ago…. I didn’t give it much thought at all.  I would simply forge ahead.  Leap first.  Look later.  Most of the time, this turned out to be completely ineffective.

I think the older we get… the more experience we have gained.  And as a result… we are a bit wiser than we were in our invincible youth.  At least…  I hope so.

These days, if I find myself in jeopardy, I find it best to slow myself down.  Perhaps, I consult a loved one for advice. Or meditate / pray.  Or even… on occasion… I have a dream with some obscure reference… and my big brother has to point it out to me.  Nonetheless…. the results are much better as a whole.

On the other hand, if I find myself in Jeopardy… I shout out… at the top of my lungs… “WM for $200 Alex.”

What is Wigwam?
What is Warm?
What is Webcam?
What is Worm?
What is Wisdom?

And there, my friends…. you have it.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
— Albert Einstein

The only source of knowledge is experience.
— Albert Einstein