I’m with you there!
I prefer this:
This 1976 bestseller shares its title with the first section of a poem from 6.5 centuries before.
What is
A much better book.
Shhh! There’s no shorts of prickly, self-proclaimed Directors of Global Strategic Analysis Operations MS, GU on this board.
The TV show gets a lot of buzz, and it would be reasonable to think that a book might enjoy a new bestselling run when a TV show based on it becomes popular. I see that the TV show started in 2017, though, not 2013. Plus, I knew that there’s no Handmaid’s Tale in The Canterbury Tales.
More than one person here said the same of Ken Jennings’ last day.
I am very much looking forward to the Tournament of Champions this year and watching all of this season’s mega-champions competing against each other.
The current winner, I can’t really explain why, but I think he just looks like a weatherman.
I like how he’s quirk-free.
Not completely. I’ve seen his face go through some acrobatic contortions trying to think of an answer when even no one else is buzzing in.
I think Eric looks like Seth Meyers, or perhaps his brother Josh.
He has his quirks, like the first pumps in the air, but they’re manageable and appropriate.
I know this post is off topic, but I want to plug Howie Mandel’s new game show on Netflix. It’s called “Bullsh*t: The Game Show.” There are 10 episodes available, and it’s a hoot. Here is a simplified explanation.
There is one primary contestant and three secondary contestants. The primary answers a series of multiple-choice questions for increasing amounts of money. They are privately notified whether their answer is correct. Then they say which answer they chose and why it is correct.
Each secondary then says whether they believe the primary. If the primary was right, they get the money. If at least one secondary believed them, they also get the money. If all three secondaries call “BS,” the primary is out. I will leave out the rules about how much money they get.
Howie and the contestants all enjoy the numerous opportunities to say the name of the show (like junior high students).
Did Mandel do that show (from memory) featuring rows of participants with silver briefcases? I never watched it long enough to figure out the premise.
That would be “Deal or No Deal” and yes, he did. There was only one contestant on that show; the briefcases were held by models who opened them gradually over the course of the game.
The show was Deal or No Deal, and it was hosted by Mandel. The premise only took about a minute. Unfortunately, that one minute was stretched out over a one-hour show.
I hated Deal or No Deal. I sometimes watch a game show late at night called Funny You Should Ask. Contestants listen to celebrities tell them whether a trivia question is true or false. Lots of jokes! Louie Anderson was on it. RIP, Louie.
Jeopardy was pre-empted yesterday for me because of the hearings. I had to watch it on Youtube. I sure hope Mayim’s run is almost over. She is just too fakey cheery for me.
I don’t like when she talks with the contestants. I always feel like she isn’t really listening to their story, and just replies in a perfunctory manner before going on. Other hosts appear to be having an actual conversation with them.
Very true,
Agreed. Alex was like that too a lot of times.
Yes, another way in which Mayim is a lousy host. Alex all too often said “good for you” and just moved on, but at least some of the time there was a little interesting back-and-forth. Mayim takes the awkwardness to a whole new level.
It sometimes seemed to me that Trabek could be more abrupt if a contestant had a really interesting anecdote, only to dote on a player with dull one. Probably not true, just seemed that way.
Alex also had a tendency to make the contestant’s stories about him, if he could. For example, I told a story about the time that I visited Germany, and went through Checkpoint Charlie into East Berlin. He started talking about the time that he went through Checkpoint Charlie into East Berlin, and what he did when he got there.
YES. One of the many things we hated about him was how he’d start a contestant’s “interview” with 30 seconds about how he (Alex) collects doorknobs, then segue to “our first contestant also has a doorknob collection. Tell us about it.”
And Trebek never passed up an opportunityy to one-up a contestant. “I also visited Istanbul, many times; Did you see the high-class world famous Istanbul Cafe?” The pitiful contestant would answer “No” and Trebek magnanimously tell them “You should do that sometime.”