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yendiOkay, it's bad enough that today's Jeopardy had a clue for the Mac that was something along the lines of, "This computer, which shipped in 1984, came bundled with MacWrite and MacDraw."*
But the final Jeopardy featured a clue so easy that I guessed it from the fucking category (and the clue itself** confirmed it): 1950s Poem.
But wait. It gets worse.
Only one of the three players got it. The other two didn't fucking guess. At all. I mean, if, by some chance, you haven't read Howl (and why would you be on Jeopardy if you haven't?), you've surely heard of it, right? And given that category, why not guess? But two out of the three players apparently knew no 1950s poetry, or even any poems from roughly that era. Or possibly the entire 20th Century.
Gah. I know. There's a lot of pressure, etc. But still, I most definitely wasn't watching the best minds of my generation this afternoon.
*And worse, they accepted "Apple" as an answer.
** "starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the . . . streets at dawn looking for an angry fix" -- yes, they omitted a word there
But the final Jeopardy featured a clue so easy that I guessed it from the fucking category (and the clue itself** confirmed it): 1950s Poem.
But wait. It gets worse.
Only one of the three players got it. The other two didn't fucking guess. At all. I mean, if, by some chance, you haven't read Howl (and why would you be on Jeopardy if you haven't?), you've surely heard of it, right? And given that category, why not guess? But two out of the three players apparently knew no 1950s poetry, or even any poems from roughly that era. Or possibly the entire 20th Century.
Gah. I know. There's a lot of pressure, etc. But still, I most definitely wasn't watching the best minds of my generation this afternoon.
*And worse, they accepted "Apple" as an answer.
** "starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the . . . streets at dawn looking for an angry fix" -- yes, they omitted a word there
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Date: 2006-09-15 12:03 pm (UTC)(As to the "what is Howl?" questions - I'm going to assume those are posters under the age of 21......?!)