Oh yeah, the Canucks lost sometime a couple of weeks back.
It suffices to say that I have never predicted such precise details of a series and its games with such accuracy in my life. That the team proved right each of my negative prophecies (to within a minute's accuracy) perhaps hurt more than anything else.
Anyway.
Vancouver 2010... Olympics and Stanley Cup. You read it here first.
Labels: Hockey
No. You’re not.
I’m sure I shouldn’t place the blame solely on him, but I'm suddenly in a pretty sour mood.
The episode is not yet over as I am typing this, but I already know that today's contestant gets to the $1,000,000 question. Why? This is the only way they can get people like me (who watch the show for research and journalism purposes) not simply to flip to the next channel after five seconds. In fact, they reveal this important information very early in the show.
Worse yet, the guy that's on is supposedly a graduate of Yale University. This seems strange to me. Firstly, why on Earth would a corporation that takes itself seriously (though it is FOX) want to give away $1,000,000 for no reason? Surely the show doesn't get enough viewers to offset the cost. Secondly, if this guy really did graduate from Yale, he is either extremely intelligent (probably in the top tenth of a percentage of the population or so) or filthy rich... so tell me again why he is on this show instead of me, not that I would embarrass myself either (and that's what the show is about, isn't it?).
And what makes them think they can drag this on for two full hours? And networks want the NHL to abolish Stanley Cup Playoff overtime?
Anyway, what am I doing working for half of my waking hours for the next four months for a small fraction of what I could make in twenty minutes on that show?
Well, the show's over now and FOX got what they wanted: people tuned in to watch, they only had to give away $25,000 to this guy who ate up most of their air time, and they got an alleged Yale graduate to lie to millions of people on television, saying that he isn't as smart as ten-year-old kids.
Everybody wins, especially you because you read this.
Labels: Brainstorm
