He was Art Fleming, anybody here watch the show back in the late 60's/early 70's?
shareThat's when it was really hard. Now some of the answers (especially in Final Jeopardy) are so easy that you don't even have to think about them.
share> anybody here watch the show back in the late 60's/early 70's?
Yeah, I did. There are a few full episodes on YouTube. I watched one after Trebek's death. The dollar amounts were tiny compared to today, and I had forgotten that the contestants were sat at desks instead of standing at podiums.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2D8fAp3zTA
Makes me feel ancient to admit it. But yes, I remember Art Fleming.
share> Makes me feel ancient to admit it.
Oh, I get it. The price of being able to remember Project Apollo, the Vietnam War, the Beatles, Johnny Carson with dark hair, The Ed Sullivan Show, et cetera is gray hair, numerous aches and pains, and a Metamucil addiction.
I hope you're just joking or else you are in waaay worse shape than I am. lol It is just something that comes with age. When teen-agers have no idea who Ozzy Osbourne is or they ask,"What IS a 45?" or " What's a touchtone phone?", I feel old. It doesn't bother me. And I have never taken Metamucil.
shareI'm in my late fifties, but the gray hair simply runs in the family. One of my uncles had all white hair by the time he was thirty-five.
The worst ache is from a broken back, twenty years ago. I get some pain from that just about every day, but it's low grade -- mostly I just ignore it. As long as I get a full night's sleep it's nothing more than an annoyance. I also have a knee I busted up in a whitewater canoeing accident while in college. Most days that's OK, it doesn't give me any trouble, but once a year or so the knee flares up and I have to wear a knee brace for a couple of days and take it easy on that leg.
Metamucil is great stuff. One teaspoon dissolved in a glass of water every day. It's something to do while I'm waiting for the morning coffee to brew. It makes my crap perfect. Not too soft, so it sticks to itself rather than the insides of my butt cheeks. Not too hard, so I don't give myself a hernia pushing it out. Taking a dump shouldn't be a big deal -- just a firm shove, a quick wipe, and I'm done. I started using it a few years ago when, after a logjam, I decided that being constipated just wasn't fun anymore.
I have a very vague memory of it. It seems like he hosted "Concentration" as well. (as Alex Trebek also did in the 1980s, I recently discovered thanks to the Buzzr Network)
Not sure about Art Fleming.
I remember him as a little bland so the show was never one of my big favorites. I liked other "smart" game shows better, such as
Split-Second
Celebrity Sweepstakes
Concentration
Hollywood Squares with Peter Marshall