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Originally Posted by SneakySnake
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Where did the $64 question originate? and for extra points...
What has it got to do with an ex- PP from OZ?
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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
Hey! I just looked it up! That's pretty cool! I never realized there was so much history behind that name, as well as the origins of several other phrases!
Great question, Sneaky!
Stitchawl
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I'm catching up and still back on this one. I give up and will look it up. For those of you with a little curiosity....
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The $64,000 Question had its roots in the CBS radio quiz show, Take It or Leave It, .. On September 10, 1950, Take It or Leave It changed its title to The $64 Question.... On both Take It or Leave It and The $64 Question, contestants were asked questions devised by the series' writer-researcher Edith Oliver. She attempted to make each question slightly more difficult than the preceding one. After answering a question correctly, the contestant had the choice to "take" the prize for that question or "leave it" in favor of a chance at the next question. The first question was worth one dollar, and the value doubled for each successive question, up to the seventh and final question worth $64. During the 1940s, "That's the $64 question" became a common catchphrase for a particularly difficult question or problem. In addition to the common phrase "Take it or leave it", the show also popularized another phrase, widely spoken in the 1940s as a taunt but now mostly forgotten (except in Warner Bros. cartoons). Chanted in unison by the entire audience when someone chose to risk their winnings by going for the $64 prize, it was vocalized with a rising inflection: "You'll be sorrr-REEEE!"
from wikipedia
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Originally Posted by Shayne Parkinson
Okay, try this:
A cushy job made up of function plus healing. [8 letters]
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So the job is something that is determined by figuring out how to get something from function + healing?
cushy job is easy, not too much effort job?
healing - therapist? function - doing - physical?
so, physical therapist is cushy job?