FUN: Another quiz show booboo

Monday, December 27, 2010

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1341509/Million-Dollar-Drop-couple-lost-800-000-correct-answer-second-chance.html

Couple who lost $800,000 on Million Dollar Drop with correct answer will get a second chance after Fox admits mistake
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 12:43 AM on 26th December 2010

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On Monday, Gabe Okoye and Brittany Mayt lost $800,000 on the Fox game show Million Dollar Drop.

When asked which was sold first and offered the options Macintosh computer, Sony Walkman or Post-it notes, the couple – mostly driven by Mr Okoye – decided on Post-Its.

To their horror, they were told it was the wrong answer – but it later turned out that it was the game show that was in error.

After their plight became the subject of an Internet uproar – and a minor public relations disaster for Fox – the network has decided that it will give the couple a second chance.

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I bet there are a lot of MBA students, who will know that. Post-It Notes are always used as an example of a “laboratory failure” (i.e., adhesive that doesn’t adhere well) being made into a successful product. “How not to make a lightbulb” isn’t necessarily bad.

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RANT: I guess I don’t understand the “tablecloth” mentality

Monday, December 27, 2010

EMAIL FROM LUDDITE FORWARDING SOME SILLY SPAM

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“I just hope, for their sake, that each husband goes home with the right table cloth!”

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MY RESPONSE:

There are many things in this world that I just don’t understand. This is one of them. But as an American, I’m sure glad we get to compete with them. The phrase “half my brain tied behind me” comes to mind. When these societies “tie down their women”, it’s truly half their intellectual capital, half their energy, and half their “good ideas” going to waste. I’m not able to get inside a woman’s head, but why would you cooperate. Reminds me of the anti-war quote in CHURCH (*). Yeah, I know everything reminds me of something I wrote. fjohn

(*) “Yes, when we get out of here. We’re going to have to fix that. You know we control something that can get it done. Not the ballot box, but the other box. (A giant sucking sound as pure Miss Marie used that very rude idiom.) We can end war.” — character “Marie” being anti-war in CHURCH 10●19●62 Volume 1 Page 262

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This is a very nice souvenir photograph of 24 newly wedded couples in Enfield, near London.           

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