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Vatman Wrote:The new who wants to be a millionare spinoff by FOX has actually gotten Jeff Foxworthy to host it. Basicly its the same thing as who wants to be a millionare but instead of questions conserning old movies and different ways to call forks, the show (as the title implies) askes you a series of questions that one would learn in elementary school. Instead of lifelines they have 5th graders answering the same questions and you can choose whether or not you want to use their answer if you get it wrong.

All in all its fun to watch for a few minutes...Jeff Foxworthy begins to look depressed after the first five minutes of the show, probably over the sheer idiocy of the PHD level contestants participating...but cannot answer simple questions. Example: A woman answered the question, "what is the closest star to the earth?" inncorret......

The thing I dont understand is where does it fit in with this websites ideology....does it show that people dont remember the stuff they learn in school or would this community better support the idea that even people who have gone through the education proccess cant answer basic questions due to the system. (of course there is always the possibliity fox just finds particularly stupid contestants =p)

Heh, funny you bring this up, I was just watching that show. It seemed pretty lame.
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That show would probably annoy me as much as the half-witted dimshits in my school do.
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I heard of that show. I'm not watching it at all. It's as boring as the fuckin Lifetime channel.
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i don't know what the closest star to the earth is either...
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I watched this yesterday out of morbid fascination.

"When you mix equal amounts of red and yellow paint, what color do you get?"

The tech support woman took a really long time on it.

My sister pretty much threw the same rant you did.
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i don't think they're idiots. it's just that they forget some things... honestly, mixing colors and such isn't that indicative of intelligence, it just means they might be better in other things
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i know it's a star, i just didn't know it was the closest one to the earth
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if there was a closer one we'd all be dead, or at least really burned. think Tatooine. plus our orbits would be totally fucked up. and the nights would be a hell of a lot shorter.
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I never knew any of this crap when I was a 5th grader. hell, I was still having trouble trying to maintain my sanity.
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ehhh I was a big nerd...that got D's....still wondering how that happened
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Vatman Wrote:ehhh I was a big nerd...that got D's....still wondering how that happened

I'm a huge nerd, and I fail Math like crazy, mostly because I suck at memorizing crap. Well, crap I don't care anything about anyway.
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i never got D's in elemtentary school, but it's hard to remember now what i did get... quite a few C's (which means I can run for president some day), a lot of B's, and a few A's... depended on how much I cared for the class
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Vatman Wrote:well im still pretty much sliding by on D's...and the strangest thing is I seem to be the smartest person in the class...I know that seems realy like arrogent and conseded, but if you were to actually look at my classes...even the honors classes I take....its insane!

Trust me, getting good grades and being smart are two different things.

I new this one smug jerk who got A's on everything, but when you actually talked to him, he was about as smart as a camel.
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Cosbydaf Wrote:Trust me, getting good grades and being smart are two different things.

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The garbage show is on right now!
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Vatman Wrote:is it....damn ...Jeff Foxworthy realy is doing it for the money.

I agree.

Wow, there's been like 4 questions so far, and the contestant has relied on the kid's answer every time.

THIS MORON HAS $25,000 AND HE HASN'T EVEN ANSWERED A SINGLE PHUCKING QUESTION! Good lord.
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