Did you ever want to play questions?

Stravinksi!? Offenbach?? Who actually listens to them for fun? (My wife listens to this on radio, I had no idea.)

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Did you ever see Jeremy Paxman when he had to do the weather on Newsnight?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMAt8ZXqtbc

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Oh my word, wouldn’t my rear be handed to me? Even though my pub trivia team, the So Called Quizlamic State always hit first or second?

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While the show does make me feel dumb sometimes then they ask something about American culture and the wife and I are like umm duh, how did they not know that?

It’s a copy of an American programme, is that still on?

As far as getting your rear handed to you, isn’t that why you should aim for a broad range of subjects (and as many grad students as they’ll let you have?)

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Questions like, “what flower bloomed for a monarch in England in 1347 while his brother was dealing with tuberculosis” will be nailed by my wife, but why couldn’t I remember Stravinski!?

What other post modern popular Russian composer was there? (When one of the contestants mentioned Tchaikovsky I wanted to punch the screen)

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Isn’t it sad that shows like that just don’t last on American TV?

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Oh, ha, ha, ha, OtherMichael, aren’t you such a cut-up?

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Say, isn’t this bleeding across threads?

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But isn’t that how this sorta started?

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Um, I suppose so? Perhaps I should leave the questions to the experts?

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There are experts here?

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Isn’t this a universal now on the BBS? Shouldn’t it be? When will @Falcor start issuing donalds for off-topic remarks in threads, I wonder?

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Only an expert can handle the problem?

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But does that stop us from trying?

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Did it stop Laurie anderson?

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Isn’t she an amazing woman? Didn’t I show up early for work years and years ago so I could take a long lunch to get ‘Stories From The Nerve Bible’ signed? Then went to see her show that same evening?

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Might you perhaps enjoy this?

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Can we start a petition to get falcor to hand out Donalds for breaking the rules? Change.org perhaps?

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Wouldn’t he be more likely just to eat us for insolence if we tried that?

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