Well, thanks, but don't be! I just wanted to make sure that anyone who read it knew what was really going on. I enjoy the AVClub, I'd hate to think that the commenters whose stuff I like think of me as some sort of awful person.

No problem. I can see how people who didn't know what was going on might have taken it the wrong way.

Seth, thanks very much. I noticed (and greatly appreciated) your comment yesterday. I didn't want to mention that aspect of things, because of course you never want to be "that guy" but, well, when I was growing up I had enough people try to beat me up because of my name and what I look like that the racial undertone…

Thanks for the kind words. No offense taken, I'm sure it looked very different when you couldn't see the whole thing. And I love Jeopardy too! I really was just doing it for fun, I had no expectations of winning anything. I'm just sad that, well, my proudest/happiest moment of the Jeopardy experience stemmed from the…

Thanks to you too. It was a blast, and I'm just sorry that more people didn't get the feeling I was getting - which was that the whole experience was just _so much fun_.

Thanks!

For what it's worth, tapping Cindy on the shoulder was a product of the fact that we were joking around with each other during the commercial breaks. I had told her after the first one that I saw all five games the day before and in several the person in 3rd had come back to win. When she did, in fact, come storming…