# Jeopardy: How did this guy's answer fly? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 4, 2013, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-how-did-this-guys-answer-fly/646109 "2013-01-04T22:59:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Satchmo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/satchmo/32/4223_2.png) [@Satchmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satchmo)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2013, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-how-did-this-guys-answer-fly/646109/41 "2013-01-08T18:45:43Z")
“Mac & Don’s rainbow room of the golden arches” around my house. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2013, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-how-did-this-guys-answer-fly/646109/42 "2013-01-08T19:23:08Z")
El Porko Loco ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2013, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-how-did-this-guys-answer-fly/646109/43 "2013-01-08T19:35:30Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Not just the recent “seven swans a-swimming” fiasco, but the “Buttinsky” idiocy, too. For those of us hopelessly out of the loop, what were those particular idiocies? ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2013, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-how-did-this-guys-answer-fly/646109/44 "2013-01-08T20:14:13Z")
> [@drastic\_quench](#): > > “Mickey D’s” > [@Kimballkid](#): > > Mac and Don’s Steak House. McGrub’s, Chez Mac, Chez Ronald… ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Ed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Just\_Ed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Ed)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2013, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-how-did-this-guys-answer-fly/646109/45 "2013-01-08T20:19:28Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > For those of us hopelessly out of the loop, what were those particular idiocies? Discussed here: [Did this Wheel of Fortune lady get hosed or not?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=676422) The thread is about a vernacular pronunciation of “swimming” and there is a link therein to a different occurrence where the pronunciation of “buttinksy” is curiously suspect. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2013, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-how-did-this-guys-answer-fly/646109/46 "2013-01-08T20:30:59Z")
> [@Just\_Ed](#): > > Discussed here: [Did this Wheel of Fortune lady get hosed or not?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=676422) The thread is about a vernacular pronunciation of “swimming” and there is a link therein to a different occurrence where the pronunciation of “buttinksy” is curiously suspect. Only link I see is one to a clip of people having problems saying “Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa.” ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2013, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-how-did-this-guys-answer-fly/646109/47 "2013-01-08T20:48:41Z")
> [@Just\_Ed](#): > > Discussed here: Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2013, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-how-did-this-guys-answer-fly/646109/48 "2013-01-08T21:31:34Z")
If I heard that aloud, I’d probably think somebody was trying to pronounce the Venetian rice-and-peas dish _risi e bisi_. ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2013, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-how-did-this-guys-answer-fly/646109/49 "2013-01-08T23:20:05Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Wow, haven’t seen that commercial in a long time. Reminds me of Numb by U2. > I don’t know if it’s something I watched or the rhyming thing, but all the related videos that popped up feature John CLEESE. Ahem. Clee-see. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-how-did-this-guys-answer-fly/646109/50 "2013-01-09T15:41:38Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Only link I see is one to a clip of people having problems saying “Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa.” Not sure if you skimmed over the OP and missed second page of that thread, but [“Swimming”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EpClUuumYy8) is in the OP’s link, and [“buttinsky”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=FhJM3SrR1pA#t=97s) is in post #53. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2013, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-how-did-this-guys-answer-fly/646109/51 "2013-01-09T16:33:15Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Not sure if you skimmed over the OP and missed second page of that thread, but > [“Swimming”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EpClUuumYy8) is in the OP’s link, and [“buttinsky”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=FhJM3SrR1pA#t=97s) is in post #53. Thanks. I had missed that there was a second page… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-how-did-this-guys-answer-fly/646109.md?page=2)