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- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!dg-rtp!spam!cochran
- From: cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy)
- Subject: Keep the penguin or choose door #3
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.225107.6477@dg-rtp.dg.com>
- Sender: usenet@dg-rtp.dg.com (Usenet Administration)
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 92 22:51:07 GMT
- Distribution: alt.peeves
- Organization: A Suffusion of Yellow
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- Peeve: Game shows. Somebody *must* watch these, or they wouldn't
- proliferate the airwaves so much. The only semi-decent one on the
- air is "Jeopardy", and Alex Trebek is such a smarmy, pseudo-
- intellectual that he makes the show unwatchable.
-
- I was visiting friends over the holidays and some game show was on the box
- featuring college kids going at it hammer-and-tong (I use "going at it" in
- terms of competing, not what college kids *claim* to be doing so much of).
- The first question that I heard was "What does a cartographer produce?".
- This received 4 dull, blank stares until the buzzer sounded and the emcee
- gave the answer. The next question was "What color are smurfs?". Four
- voices sang out "blue!" in unison.
-
- Peeve: That someone who is actually admitted to a college in this country
- doesn't know what cartography is, but instantaneously knows about
- smurf melanin attributes. When smurfs sunburn, do they turn
- purple?
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- |Dave Cochran, Data General Corporation, RTP, NC |
- |cochran@dg-rtp.dg.com |
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- |"Reality is nothing but a collective hunch." |
- | --Lily Tomlin |
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