Blatantly Unprepared Gameshow Contestants
If you can’t swim, don’t go on Survivor. If you’re afraid of spiders, stay off of Fear Factor. If you’re an idiot, don’t fake your way onto Jeopardy. You’re just embarrassing yourself and taking the opportunity away from more worthy contestants. My old university roommate could list to-the-penny prices of Rice-a-Roni for the years 1982 through to 1999 (adjusted to 1999 dollars) then add up the total and know exactly how far it was above or below the price of a Sunbeam four-slice toaster. But he never got his shot at Price is Right glory because some Hawaiian-shirt wearing dude who can’t guess the price of a Chevy Malibu within $10,000 keeps getting the order to ‘come on down.’ Oh the humanity.
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You have no idea how much I agree. I was a (prepared) Jeopardy contestant once, and one of the guys on our taping day (a local they called in when someone else cancelled) was dumber than dishwater. He was a serial game show contestant, though not very good at any of them, pricing or trivia. Sigh.
My cousin's Jeopardy appearance aired a couple weeks ago!!! But he's no idiot- he made it to a very respectable 4 days (and $55K) on the show...
Why don't u change ur name from the last angry young man to the water cooler everyman. this is not shit to be angry about. this is shit!
Saw this and thought of you,,,
I used to have a Labrador retriever & I was buying a large bag of Purina at Wal-Mart and was in line to check out. A woman behind me asked if I had a dog(?)... (here's your sign)...On impulse, I told her that no, I was starting The Purina Diet again, although I probably shouldn't because I'd ended up in the hospital last time, but that I'd lost 50 pounds before I awakened in an intensive care ward with tubes coming out of most my orifices and IVs in both arms.
I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet and that the way that it works is to load your pants pockets with Purina nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry & that the food is nutritionally complete so I was going to try it again. I have to mention here that practically everyone in the line was by now enthralled with my story, particularly a guy who was behind her.
Horrified, she asked if I had been poisoned by the food and that is why I ended up in the hospital. I told her no; I'd been sitting in the street licking my balls and a car hit me.
I thought the checkout guy was going to die on the spot.
You know, The Game show world dose not pick people that would be good at it. (they would give out more in prizes if they did)
They pick people who would "look good" on camera or have a lot of energy
I will never be seen on any game show ever because I am invisible as it were, the black hole of this seemingly important energy.
-Fire Pixie
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