Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-i Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:Pucc-I:ag5 From: ag5@pucc-i (Henry C. Mensch) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: game show contestants Message-ID: <567@pucc-i> Date: Thu, 4-Oct-84 02:15:04 EDT Article-I.D.: pucc-i.567 Posted: Thu Oct 4 02:15:04 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Oct-84 05:52:40 EDT References: <873@ihuxe.UUCP> Organization: Boredom Central Lines: 24 <<. . . I lost on Jeopardy, baby! >> They're not screened for intelligence; if they were, game shows would be boring (who wants the contestants to get all the questions right?). Just think: isn't it fun to watch Jane Doe lose the car, the house, and the movie contract with Columbia Pictures because she didn't know on what side of the Mississippi Illinois could be found on? If they were screened for intelligence, they'd be asking tougher, more obscure questions that wouldn't appeal to the general public. What annoys me to no end is when you have some bubblehead mauling the emcee because she won ("I WON!!!!!" for five minutes straight, through the commercial, and back again.) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Henry C. Mensch | Purdue University Computing Center {decvax|ucbvax|sequent|icalqa|inuxc|uiucdcs|ihnp4}!pur-ee!pucc-i!ag5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- " . . You'd better smile when they watch you, smile like you're in control. . ." -- *Smile*, Was (Not Was)