Was there ever a time when Alex Trebek and "Jeopardy" (my wife's favorite TV show) weren't around? I worked for a long time on "Jeopardy" gags and finally came up with this one, which I thought was pretty good. I spent a lot of time wording the caption "just right", and even tried to make the character look reasonably like Mr. Trebek.
However, my opinion of the worthiness of the gag wasn't shared by the cartoon editors — the cartoon was soundly rejected everywhere, until the Florida Bar News finally took it on. I'm still disappointed that it didn't get a bigger audience.
Actually, this is something the stock-evalulators do on a pretty regular basis these days, isn't it? Maybe in 1980 it was not so common.
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