Today's "Jeopardy!" champ was Jim Bowen, an archivist from Michigan! Colleague of yours?

Sure it wasn't our general manager?

I don't know, Eddie. Is that guy AN ARCHIVIST FROM MICHIGAN?!?!?

Whew. Tough one there, Frank.

I'm confident Eddie can provide me with an answer.

For all I know, Trader Jim might have been checking the Jeopardy audience for some good prospects for the Nationals...

That's not really an answer to my question.

If Jim Bowden got drunk enough, he could have wound up at a taping of Jeopardy. I rest my case!

It would seem so, although I've never met him.

I didn't see Jeopardy tonight. My parents told me about this, though. They said that Jim Bowen was from Dearborn. That suggests that he's an archivist for the Ford Motor Company. He probably either works in the official company archives or in the archives of the Henry Ford Museum.

Ford does employ a number of archivists, and I've met a few of them. I don't know Mr. Bowen, however.

The Jeopardy guys name is B O W E N....

The spelling is similar enough for me to play a word game. Do you take everything that Linda posts as literally as you did mine?

I really wanted to try to answer the question before Bob Garrett, just to build upon the irritation factor. I clicked in just a little too late.

Jay is banned.

But I didn't . . . but . . .

Aw, man.

Thanks. I didn't honestly think you would. I'm sure "Archivist" is a common enough job to have but as soon as I heard him introduced that way, I turned to my wife and said "Hey! I know an archivist from Michigan!"

It's the little things like that, that make my life complete.

You burnt out husk of a man, you.

It's all too true.

It's actually a relatively small field in some ways. I'm on the board of the Michigan Archival Association, so I do have some contact with other Michigan archivists. It's quite possible that I would know Jim Bowen. I don't, though, so I guess it's really a moot point.

I'm ready to review this thread.

Frank, I thought your initial question was irrelevant and boring. Who cares, I thought. But then you made it personal, and revealed a flaw in your personality that made it real.

Bob, I thought you were dismissive and elitist, subtly suggesting that this Mr. Bowen is beneath you in the pecking order of archivists. It is as if your signature pic applied to him. You ended by calling Frank's whole question moot. That part I liked.

Edward, you were a distraction, constantly diverting attention away from Frank's question with other ideas that didn't make sense and weren't spelled right to be on point. I liked that. It was the best part of the thread.

All in all, a worthless thread. Very IMWAN.

Any thread where Jay Matthews gets banned twice is, by its very nature, a very IMWAN thread.

Twice? But I haven't been . . . .

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