If you would enjoy an exciting evening of television viewing culminating with the overwhelming urge to slit your wrists, I invite you to view Wheel of Fortune with Mrs. Smoot.
Yeah, I have complained about her word puzzle abilities before, but I figure it's an important issue, plenty worthy of continual whining. We had Wheel on while we were eating dinner the other night, and Mrs. Smoot was draining all of the fun out of it, as per normal.
The fun part of watching the show, of course, is playing along with the contestants to see who can guess the hidden phrases first. This is enjoyable, except that Pat Sajak isn't going to send me to Japan or give me money for guessing anything correctly. It doesn't matter anyway, because Mrs. Smoot would win everything anyway.
Pat had just revealed a new puzzle the other night, and someone guessed the letter "S," and there was just one of them on the board. Mrs. Smoot glanced over at the screen for about 1/1,000th of a second and said, "Chocolate-Covered Cherries." And of course that's what it was. I wouldn't have come up with that answer if the category had been "types of cherries, covered in chocolate."
So watching Wheel of Fortune is a pretty bland experience around here. A puzzle appears, Mrs. Smoot announces what the answer is, and we wait 5-10 minutes for the contestants to flounder around until one of them gets the right answer.
At least when we watch Jeopardy! there is the occasional answer she doesn't know. But now Mrs. Smoot has gone back to college and she's filling her brain with all of those answers. So night TV viewing is only going to get worse for me.
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The Jeopardy answer is "15%". what is the correct question?
What is: "What percent of respondents to a 1978 survey admit to biting their toenails?" What do I win, Alex?
No, no prize now -- that only the $200 clue under the category "Hurl My Lunch" -- you have $200, go again.
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