Thursday, July 28, 2011

I'll take "Something Sounds Fishy" for $200 Alex

So by now I'm sure you've heard about the heroic efforts of Alex Trebek chasing down a burgler.



So, in true Jeopardy fashion, I'll put it this way.



And the answer is.......

"Because famous people do stupid things."


My question is......

"Why do I have a nagging suspicion that a "celebrity" who claims that he was awoken in the middle of the night by a FEMALE burgler in a hotel room and first put on his underwear before he chased her down in the hallway could actually have hired that female for an evening away from his wife?"

Does anyone else find the story a bit odd?  And Alex is the one that said in an interview that he put on his underwear before running after her.  I'm sure there are a lot of men that sleep in the nude, but how many burglers that break into an occupied room in the middle of the night are female?  I wouldn't place any bets his story is exactly accurate.

12 comments:

CnC said...

hmmm good point.

Z said...

Hi, Rita, and thanks for coming by geeeZ.
I have to admit I hadn't heard about this so I Googled it and Alex's wife was with him..!! So, maybe it's true?
you've got a super blog here and I'm glad to get to know it.

Rita said...

Thanks Z. I was wondering about the wife thing because that would throw off my suspicion.

And if you want one of my best stories, read this one.

http://ihavearighttospeaktoo.blogspot.com/2009/06/letters.html

Z said...

that is a terrific, moving story, Rita....is it someone you know?

Rita said...

You could say that Z. It's my husband.

Z said...

well, that's what I thought!
I scanned it very carefully, getting all the major points; did you mention that and I didn't see it? Sorry!
Hey, he's good looking, too! :-)
Seriously, that's a heck of a story; a REAL TRUE AMERICAN HERO.
And, of course, I really tip my hat to the women who stayed home and worried; no emails, no way to get in touch immediately. I can't imagine having gone through that.

Rita said...

No, I didn't put that in the post. And he was divorced from his first wife during his basic training. I wasn't around for that, there's 10 years difference between us, I was still only 10 when he served. But I was "the wife" he was married to when he got the listing of the medals and I KNEW that he had never mentioned the Bronze Star when I opened the letter saying that he had earned it years before.

I met him when he was 40 and yeah, he was (and is) good looking even 20 some odd years later.

Rita said...

Looks like you might be right Z. I've read a couple of reports that Alex's wife was in the room with him. Ooops, my bad.

THINGS YOU'D NEVER GUESS ABOUT ME said...

Rita, if Casey Anthony can be found "not innocent, but not guilty either", I've given up on common sense.

Alex was..uh..being modest in his pursuit, and...uh...the woman thought he had drowned and broke into his room to perform mouth to mouth...yeah...that'll work.

THINGS YOU'D NEVER GUESS ABOUT ME said...

I forgot why I came here in the first place!! Go back to my blog. The explanation is in the comment section.

THINGS YOU'D NEVER GUESS ABOUT ME said...

Of course I remember you. When my blog got hacked I couldn't get back in and I lost all the blogs I followed. I was so glad when you showed up at my place so I could get back here.

Didn't know you lived in Fishers though. For some reason, my neighbor (he's a genius)says that people sending posts to another person, it "jumps" from tower to tower. I always thought things went STRAIGHT to where you were sending it, but "no".

And according to the map, you're not even CLOSE to Greenwood, but that's where it's hopping from.

I've also had it hop to Canada before hitting Louisville, Ky. Ain't the internet fascinating.

Rita said...

Actually Fishers is as far from me as Greenwood is, but the IP address shows me there anyway. Must be the location where the internet provider goes through.

And even though I'm pretty technical, I don't understand and don't want to understand how all that stuff works.

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