Path: local-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 May 2024 03:21:48 +0000 From: BTR1701 Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Amazon upfront news stories References: <20240517223211.00007ee5@example.com> <20240518231248.0000285c@example.com> User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Date: Sat, 18 May 2024 20:31:30 -0700 Message-ID: Lines: 65 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-d6HW257Kj6e13j9hnf7ALtO73e8+EVU7tZeqnNkYQ+PK/QfOAuR925Z8LszpGyGsr81oHR7/lf63C1W!yfk7KSVXYpf4zoWn409NQFOHr6iF4WG33JfvD7rrBwDx6aXVisesPscoxgSHHKIIhSA4RntYezav!fXq6IBZDsoaubRchnHNni/arKt1HWrXOncQnOhaIYWowcQ== X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 4388 In article <20240518231248.0000285c@example.com>, Rhino wrote: > On Sat, 18 May 2024 16:19:09 -0700 > The Horny Goat wrote: > > > On Fri, 17 May 2024 22:32:11 -0400, Rhino > > wrote: > > > > >Sounds about right. Just watch winners on the new show trying to > > >pretend that they are as intelligent as Ken Jennings or whoever just > > >because they know celebrity culture but be unable to tell you what > > >century WWII was fought in.... > > > > Ha ha ha - I've had people tell me I should try out for Jeopardy (I > > did extremely well in the old Reach For the Top high school show more > > years ago than I care to admit) and DID take the online Jeopardy > > screening test - I gather I answered nearly all questions right but > > fell back on the US history questions though got a fair number of > > those right as well but not enough to get the second screening. > > > > At least I didn't make any egregious blunders like naming William > > Jennings Bryan as Woodrow Wilson's running mate! (which was one of the > > options on the multiple choice test). I happened to get that one right > > mostly by eliminating 2 of the 4 choices and correctly on the > > last two options. Somebody named Marshall who I'd never heard of who > > was NOT the Supreme Court justice by that name... > > Three or four years ago, I saw a video where a woman did man-in-the- > street type questions of university students in Pennsylvania. She was a > Holocaust educator and asked them very basic questions about WWII. The > answers she got were gut-wrenchingly appalling. Here's some examples: > > Q: When was World War II? > A. (Long pause). I'm not sure. I want to say three centuries ago.... > > Q: Who was Hitler? > A. Uhhh. The President of Amsterdam? > > Q:. Who was Winston Churchill? > A. Uhhh. An American general? [That's the only one they got partially > right since Churchill's mother was American and he had briefly served > as a brigadier general in WW I after falling on his sword over the > Gallipoli fiasco. But of course they missed the key fact that he was the > British Prime Minister for most of the war.] > > Q: Can you name any of the concentration camps created by the Nazis? > A: No. > > There were a bunch more, all of which were just as poorly answered. > > None of this, by the way, is meant to disparage Americans in > particular. I've heard similar things about Brits and Canadians. > > I didn't know whether to laugh or cry when David Menzies of Rebel News > walked around the Ryerson campus in Toronto and asked female students > there to sign a petition to repeal women's suffrage. Lots of students > signed happily, apparently under the illusion that the petition wanted > to end women's SUFFERING, as opposed to taking away their right to > vote. They didn't realize that the words had very different meanings. > > NONE of the people I've mentioned in this post could ever hope to > qualify for Jeopardy and you can take that to the bank! Can I get "Morons Unqualified to be on This Show" for $400, please, Alex?