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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
HAVE YOU NEVER WATCHED THAT SHOW??? Oh my gosh.....I could not answer a lot of the questions. Especially on the math. They just use different terms.....I did okay on the english tho. I loved the show......  [/COLOR] |
Nope ... I've never watched it. I wasn't even aware it was a tv show. I should add "game shows" to the "Shows I Never Watch" list.
I was on my math team in high school ... we actually went to math competitions. Can't you just guess how popular I was back then?? I've got four astrophyicists in the family ... so dinner conversations at our house ran to string theory and particle physics. I majored in biochemistry, did graduate work in health sciences and medicine ... wandered over to law school for a few years. I've been all over the damn planet, so my geography is fairly sound. I've been reading since I was two ... and love history ... got that covered.
I may not be as smart as some fifth graders ... but I can pretty much answer any questions that might be posed to one of them. The truth is ... most of the adults who play that game and are frustrated with it forget the fact that, they probably knew that stuff ... a long time ago. It's just that they dumped the trivial crap they couldn't use to earn a living or raise children. I mean really .... "what's the average life span of a human hair" ???? Duh ... ok, so I know that, but that doesn't make me "smart" ... it makes me Cliff Clavern.
It's really sort of sad .... I don't have a good dumping mechanism. It's just all rattling around in there ... popping up now and then for no good reason. Why do I know the French word for "gray"?? I don't speak French ... but, I know the word is "gris." Why am I generally not stumped by trick questions ... "what is the closest star to the Earth?" It's not Proxima Centauri ... it's the SUN ... oh gee ... really .. you don't say!!
Generally, once something is in my head ... it's just stuck there. Here's a great example ... a friend invited me over to show me a video game he was playing. One of the puzzles the player had to solve had to do with temperatures. So, he brings up the first question which was ......
"What is the flash point of paper?"
OK ..... everyone?? Farenheit 451.
My friend was just plain floored. How could I possibly know something as obscure as that!!?? And, I'm trying to explain that any Bradbury fan knows the stupid flash point of stupid freaking paper!!
I got off topic again ... didn't I??
