Thursday, December 09, 2004

Stupid Americans and balloons

My aunt watches game shows (almost) every night after dinner. Usually Jeopardy, Who Wants to be a Millionaire, and Family Feud. So the other day (last night I think) they were playing the "Fast Money" round on Family Feud. Basically, you have to answer 5 questions, and based on a survey of 100 people (this is the key), however many people gave the same answer as you, that's how many points you get. For example, "Name a female in a fairy tale." There are 2 people, and you need a combined total of 200 points to win. Let's recap what happened....

Here's the questions: (I forget #3)
1) name something people have on their skin
2) name a female in a fairy tale
3)
4) name a sport in which athletes are paid the most
5) name someone who sets you up on blind dates

The first person goes. She's not very good, and gets a total of 53 or something. (Her answer to #1 was "clothes") Question #5 she gets 25 points (i.e. 25 people answered the same as her on Ques. 5) . The second person goes. He is asked the EXACT SAME questions. He answers them, and they start going through the results. After question #4, they have a combined total of 123 points. He needs 77 points on Question #5 to win. The host (Richard Karn, Al Borland on Home Improvement) is like, "Let's see if 77 people answered the same as you..." I was like WHAT?! How stupid is the American public?! (Don't answer that, it'll take about 50 years to answer) Anyone with basic math skills and common sense can see that he already lost. If 25 people answered the same as the first person, then there are only 75 people left. Man, we live in a society that is getting fatter and dumber everyday....not everyone, mind you, just the fat and/or dumb people.

Also, if you don't believe me about what they did to my car on my birthday, check out the pics and video here: http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=exodusLA.

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