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From: kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry)
Subject: Wow, I feel old... and intelligent.
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Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 18:40:47 GMT
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I'm watching "Click", a game-show with sixteen-year-old contestants
who answer questions in the categories "Web Site", "Home Page",
and "Hard Drive" (barf).  And these people are the MOST CLUELESS PEOPLE
I'VE EVER ENCOUNTERED, even for high-school students.

EVERY question is answered "I don't know!" (or, rarely, incorrectly.)

They flashed a photo of Johnny Carson and asked, "Who is this famous
talk-show host?" and got "Don't know!"

They asked what secret agent likes dry martinis, shaken, not stirred,
and got "I don't know!"

They gave a multiple-choice question as to what raisins are made from
and got "Corn!"

They showed a picture of Rambo and asked who Stallone played
in "First Blood" and got "I don't know!"

They asked "Which never-elected President has the same name as the
same car company that makes the Explorer?" and got "Carter!"

The bozos even pick the "joke" multiple-choice answers:  They asked
"Which of these is a fungus:  a tomato, a mushroom, or Howard Stern?"
and the twit said "Howard Stern!"

Now, I can see that the questions are geared towards the assumption
that high-school students won't know anything about science or math
or history, so most questions are about TV stars, but these people
were clueless about that too.  (And note that when they ask a question
about ancient history, like who Gerald Ford was, they give a really
obvious clue like "THE SAME COMPANY THAT MAKES THE FORD BRAND FORD
EXPLORER" to ensure that they can't possibly be so stupid as to miss.)

The only correct answer I remember was when they were asked "Which
American president said December 7, 1941 was a day that would live
in infamy?" and accepted "Roosevelt" as the correct answer.
Apparently even their researchers haven't uncovered Teddy Roosevelt.
Oh, yeah, and they identified a photo of "Homer Simpson's boss on
'The Simpsons'" on only the second try.

And... it's hosted by Ryan Seacrest.  The guy whose sole claim to fame
is that when he guest-hosted "Talk Soup" they kept captioning his name
as "Ryan SeaQuest".

					-- K.

					Even more amazingly, the show came
					on my TV while I was trying to
					make screendumps of the "seaQuest"
					video game.  Truth is always stranger
					than fiction, just as game-show
					contestants are always dumber than you.