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CygnusX1 wrote:How NOT to be a millionaire...
NEW YORK - Idaho resident Kathy Evans brought humiliation to her
friends and family when she set a new standard for stupidity with her
appearance on the popular TV show, "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire."
It seems that Evans, a 32-year-old wife and mother of two, got stuck on
the first question, and proceeded to make what fans of the show are
dubbing "the absolute worst use of lifelines ever."
After being introduced to the show's host Meredith Vieira, Evans assured
her that she was ready to play, whereupon she was posed with an
extremely easy $100 question. The question was:
"Which of the following is the largest?"
A) A Peanut
B) An Elephant
C) The Moon
D) Hey, who you calling large?
Immediately, Mrs. Evans was struck with an all consuming panic - as she
realized that this was a question to which she did not readily know the
answer.
"Hmm, oh boy, that's a toughie," said Evans, as Vieira did her level best
to hide her disbelief and. "I mean, I'm sure I've heard of some of
these things before, but I have no idea how large they would be."
Evans made the decision to use the first of her three lifelines, the 50/50.
Answers A and D were removed, leaving her to decide which was bigger,
an elephant or the moon. However, faced with an incredibly easy
question, Evans still remained unsure.
"Oh! It removed the two I was leaning towards!" exclaimed Evans. "Darn.
I think I better phone a friend."
Using the second of her two lifelines on the first question, Mrs. Evans
asked to be connected with her friend Betsy, who is an office assistant.
"Hi Betsy! How are you? This is Kathy! I'm on TV!" said Evans, wasting the
first seven seconds of her call. "Ok, I got an important question. Which of
the following is the largest? B, an elephant, or C, the moon. 15 seconds
hun."
Betsy quickly replied that the answer was C, the moon. Evans proceeded
to argue with her friend for the remaining ten seconds.
"Come on Betsy, are you sure?" said Evans. "How sure are you? Puh, that
can't be it."
To everyone's astonishment, the moronic Evans declined to take her
friend's advice and pick 'The Moon.'
"I just don't know if I can trust Betsy. She's not all that bright. So I think
I'd like to ask the audience," said Evans.
Asked to vote on the correct answer, the audience returned 98% in favor
of answer C, 'The Moon.' Having used up all her lifelines, Evans then
made the dumbest choice of her life.
"Wow, seems like everybody is against what I'm thinking," said the too-
stupid-to-live Evans. "But you know, sometimes you just got to go with
your gut. So, let's see. For which is larger, an elephant or the moon, I'm
going to have to go with B, an elephant. Final answer."
Evans sat before the dumbfounded audience, the only one waiting with
bated breath, and was told that she was wrong, and that the answer was
in fact, C, 'The Moon.'
Thanks for playing Kathy.
We have some lovely parting gifts for you.
http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/gameshows/millionaire.asp
GO AHEAD GET ME STARTEDCygnusX1 wrote:Sweet.
I'd better SNOPES this next article I was gonna post about Obama's
(Forgive me Father - rest her soul)
"apparent" Communism-worshipping mother..
When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men & women stand as a vanguard against abuse.
Uh oh....did somebody push a button?Me wrote:GO AHEAD GET ME STARTEDCygnusX1 wrote:Sweet.
I'd better SNOPES this next article I was gonna post about Obama's
(Forgive me Father - rest her soul)
"apparent" Communism-worshipping mother..
***looks around***
where do we start? Right now I'm trying to verify stuff before I put my foot in my mouth again....
what's got ya stoked there chief?
Don't start none...won't be none.
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I think it might be possible, but we all seem to like to just chat away and whatever topic we are on has a tendency to evolve because one post may be on topic to the title of the thread, and the following post will be on topic to the post above, but not really to the thread because it deals with a particular part of the post and starts a sort of rabbit trail and....
Onward and Upward!
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Um, because it's a thought-with-a-theory-and-it's-certainly-ponderable?Big Blue Owl wrote:Why don't we take that political garbage over to the political garbage section?
I digress. I'm not posting about Barry's mom, so it's all good.
It's old news anyway.
As you were. ***about-faces and exits without extreme prejudice***
Don't start none...won't be none.
It might help if I knew what thread I was in when I got around to the posting part. There's nothing on the posting page to tell you what thread you are posting to and I go into so many they all run together. That's my fault, not the boards, but it might help.
Maybe.
I think.
Perhaps?
*sigh*
That's my fault, not the boards, but it might help.Maybe.
I think.
Perhaps?
*sigh*
Onward and Upward!