Monday, October 23, 2006
A post that will be irrelevant to 90% of my (American) readers
Mike and I have a habit of watching University Challenge. We don't know why we do it. It's one of those unspoken rules. Sometimes I think we organise dinner around it.For those of you who don't know what this is, it's where a bunch of toffs who think S Club 7 counts as modern music, attempt to answer non-sensical questions with about 80 clauses. It is supposedly aimed at university level. I wouldn't know, because I belong in pre-school.
"Mel Blanc was the voice of Woody Woodpecker, Bugs Bunny, and who?"
I clap my hands. "Ooh, Gibson, Gibson," I say at the television.
Mike stares at me. "What?"
"Mel Gibson."
The time is running out on the question. I squeal as the presenter opens his mouth. Mike, meanwhile puts his head into his hands. "They are looking for a CARTOON CHARACTER," he says.
The answer was Daffy Duck. Turns out Mel Blanc was not a request to fill in said blank.
What does one learn?
That having an English degree does not enable you to recite places where Jane Austen's more minor (read: boring) characters lived and name the kind of rosebush (or something) that grew near there.
That having a law degree does not enable you to identify Acts established in the 1600s.
That the only two answers I got right were "Portrait of a Lady" and "Girls Aloud."
That Mike, when asked by me what "cosh" was, replied, as if swatting a fly away, "a hyperbolic cosine darling."
by billygean.co.uk at 11:06 PM |
6 Comments:
Be glad. In the U.S., they wouldn't dare put up a Jane Austen question because no one would know who she is. Because we are big fat idiots over here.
I would probably have been with you in your answer gill - and then Mike would have despaired at both of us! But then what's new!
Me: He's Irish
Tired Mam: No. I'm sure he's Scottish.
Me: Christ. No. Listen to him. James Nesbitt is Irish.
TM: No he's not. He's Scottish. Like Rab C NESBITT.
She sits back with a look of triumph.
Me: What?
I have lost in the game of The Most Illogical Person Wins.
Lol tired dad, my own personal post? :)
yes tiggermum but we get them back by being xfactor queens. Ahem.
Suebob, really?!
BG
I must disagree with Suebob -- although maybe that's because I'm out on the Left Coast. ;) I think most people know who Austen is, but not all may have read her. As an English major, I'll admit that I don't care for her myself...sorry!
Not sure where Suebob actually is, so my apologies if she's in the same area.
Hurrah!
I watched that one too.. no idea why, it was "just on"
The question I got was the music one which was from the film Dirty Dancing...
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