Re: OT Jeopardy Winner 12/15/2022

[Bob La Londe <none@none.com99>]

On 12/16/2022 2:59 PM, ABLE1 wrote:
> On 12/16/2022 4:44 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
>> On 12/16/2022 1:40 PM, ABLE1 wrote:
>>> On 12/16/2022 3:25 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
>>>> On 12/15/2022 6:07 PM, ABLE1 wrote:
>>>>> Hey Bob,
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you know or are you related to a "Ray La Londe"???
>>>>>
>>>>> Well either way he is now the Jeopardy Champion as of tonight!!
>>>>>
>>>>> He won #32,600.   Maybe more on the way.
>>>>>
>>>>> Just I would share the news!!
>>>>>
>>>>> Les
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If I wasn't before I am now.  LOL.
>>>>
>>>> Nah! I don't actually know all that many La Londes.  Less than a
>>>> hundred probably. We've been in country since the 1680s, but most
>>>> are in the north country with a few in the deep south.  Cajuns and
>>>> Canuks. Mostly Canuks.  Far less of us are Damn Yankees.
>>>>
>>>> I don't have any immediate relationship I am aware of.  No, I'm not
>>>> directly related to that Canadian boxer either.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Now if you asked if I was related to that Bob La Londe who was a
>>>> research mechanic at NASA's Lewis Research Center who retired in the
>>>> early 1980s.  Yes.  That was my Grammpa.  If you asked if I was
>>>> related to the Paul La Londe who held several patents for R&D work
>>>> with Donn Products (USG NOW) including the ceiling tile grid latch
>>>> most of us have cursed at one time or another.   Yes.  He was my
>>>> uncle.  If you asked if I was related to the grocery and hardware
>>>> store owner from Dateland.  (2 miles north of Dateland actually.)
>>>> Yep.  That's my dad.  If you asked if I am related to that kid named
>>>> Rob La Londe who is a licensed pharmacy tech, crazy smart gamer
>>>> (with paid creds as a gamer), and mad higher math skills.  Yep.
>>>> That's my son.  If you asked if I am related to that hack shade tree
>>>> button pushing wannabee not a real machinist. That's me.
>>>>
>>>> Sorry.  I do not know who Ray is.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> LOL thanks for the Family Tree!!
>>>
>>> Depending on how long this "Ray La Londe" can maintain his
>>> championship on Jeopardy it might be a good thought to check the DNA
>>> just to know.;-)
>>>
>>> Last week the Champion walked out with more than $850,000.00
>>>
>>> Les
>>>
>>
>>
>> It was probably more like $400,000 and many of the prizes wouldn't be
>> claimable if he couldn't independently pay the taxes on them first.
>>
>> I've day dreamed about winning the lottery so I only have to do jobs
>> that really interest me.  I've done the research.  LOL.
>>
>>
>
> On Jeopardy it is only ca$h.  No prizes!!  And yes, the actual take-home
> is always less than what is posted. It is the taxes! That will get you.
>
> But, forgetting the taxes, the WHAT IS LEFT!! Is not to be cried about!!
>
> I gave up on the Lottery before the Flood of 1972!!
> They always say "You gotta to play to win"
> What they don't say is, You gotta to play to lose!!
>

Ultimately you play to have fun.  (I don't buy lottery tickets but my
wife does once in a while.)  I used to enjoy playing low limit 7 card
stud in Vegas.  Even if I was losing I had fun.  Sometimes I won and a
few times I pulled crazy movie level bluffs and won (and lost).  Then
everybody switched to high pressure, high speed aggressive play Texas
Holdem.  It wasn't fun for me.  I could hold my own unless there were
more than two or three good players at the table, but it was not fun.
It was hard work in your face game play.

I figure one day I'll come home and find my wife gone with a couple bags
missing.  I'll know we finally won the lottery.  I'll call her of
course.  I hope I catch her before she gets to far out to sea on her
round the world cruise, so she can tell me where my half is stashed.



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Bob La Londe
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