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Kickstart
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Sun Mar 11, 2007 2:34 am |
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Man, I honestly hope, for the future of humanity as a whole that she was just out for a giggle or something. I mean, 10 seconds of fame etc...
Does anyone have a link to the video?
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NEW YORK - Idaho resident Kathy Evans brought humiliation to her friends and family Tuesday when she set a new standard for stupidity with her appearance on the popular TV show, "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire."
It seems that Evans, a 32-year-old wife and mother of two, got stuck on the first question, and proceeded to make what fans of the show are dubbing "the absolute worst use of lifelines ever."
After being introduced to the show's host Meredith Vieira, Evans assured her that she was ready to play, whereupon she was posed with an extremely easy $100 question. The question was:
"Which of the following is the largest?"
A) A Peanut
B) An Elephant
C) The Moon
D) A Kettle?
Immediately Mrs. Evans was struck with an all consuming panic as she realized that this was a question to which she did not readily know the answer.
"Hmm, oh boy, that's a toughie," said Evans, as Vieira did her level best to hide her disbelief and disgust. "I mean, I'm sure I've heard of some of these things before, but I have no idea how large they would be."
Evans made the decision to use the first of her three lifelines, the 50/50. Answers A and D were removed, leaving her to decide which was bigger, an elephant or the moon. However, faced with an incredibly easy question, Evans still remained unsure.
"Oh! It removed the two I was leaning towards!" exclaimed Evans. "Darn. I think I better phone a friend."
Using the second of her two lifelines on the first question, Mrs. Evans asked to be connected with her friend Betsy, who is an office assistant.
"Hi Betsy! How are you? This is Kathy! I'm on TV!" said Evans, wasting the first seven seconds of her call. "Ok, I got an important question. Which of the following is the largest? B, an elephant, or C, the moon. 15 seconds hun."
Betsy quickly replied that the answer was C, the moon. Evans proceeded to argue with her friend for the remaining ten seconds.
"Come on Betsy, are you sure?" said Evans. "How sure are you? Puh, that can't be it."
To everyone's astonishment, the moronic Evans declined to take her friend's advice and pick 'The Moon.'
"I just don't know if I can trust Betsy. She's not all that bright. So I think I'd like to ask the audience," said Evans.
Asked to vote on the correct answer, the audience returned 98% in favor of answer C, 'The Moon.' Having used up all her lifelines, Evans then made the dumbest choice of her life.
"Wow, seems like everybody is against what I'm thinking," said the too-stupid-to-live Evans. "But you know, sometimes you just got to go with your gut. So, let's see. For which is larger, an elephant or the moon, I'm going to have to go with B, an elephant. Final answer."
Evans sat before the dumbfounded audience, the only one waiting with bated breath, and was told that she was wrong, and that the answer was in fact, C, 'The Moon.'
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SlayerFaith
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Sun Mar 11, 2007 2:42 am |
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Its a joke:
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/current-issue.html#one
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Kickstart
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Sun Mar 11, 2007 2:47 am |
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Thankyou SF, I had started searching as your reply came in.. from the site you sent I quote:
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/current-issue.html#one wrote: |
However, the incident described never happened. The article originates from BSNews.org, a satirical website that features fake news items on a variety of subjects. Within their original context, it should be clear to even gullible readers that the articles are satirical in nature and are not intended to be taken seriously. Even the name of the site (BS News) should alert astute visitors to its true nature. Moreover, the site includes the following disclaimer on its "About" page: |
I had checked Snopes.com but I didn't see it - I guess they are a bit behind the times now. |
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Sun Mar 11, 2007 3:23 am |
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She looks very familiar, i think she`s been on some sort of reality show in England, and became famous for 15 minutes for something really stupid, |
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Sun Mar 11, 2007 9:16 am |
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<br>What's all the fuss about?
Everybody knows an elephant is bigger than the Moon. You just ask that nice Tom Hanks from Apollo 13. He covered it (the Moon) with his thumb, so he should know. Unless he's got the mother of all thumbs of course. |
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Sun Mar 11, 2007 10:29 am |
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Actually Snopes does have an entry for it:
http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/gameshows/millionaire.asp |
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Sun Mar 11, 2007 10:32 am |
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So its not the peanut then? |
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Sun Mar 11, 2007 8:45 pm |
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SamSpudz wrote: |
She looks very familiar, i think she`s been on some sort of reality show in England, and became famous for 15 minutes for something really stupid, |
Nothing stupid noted. She won 32,000
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The photograph included with the message is a doctored adaptation of a legitimate screenshot from the UK version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire". The real question asked for another name for the "trachea" and had nothing to do with elephants or the moon. And the contestant's name is Fiona Wheeler, not "Kathy Evans" as claimed in the message. What's more, far from being stupid, Fiona answered the question correctly and won �32,000. |
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Sun Mar 11, 2007 8:52 pm |
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^^ I was referring to whatever show she was on previous to WWTBAM, but i can`t remember what it was, that episode of millionaire must have been some reality tv star special, either that or she just looks very much like the one i`m thinking about, |
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Sun Mar 11, 2007 9:06 pm |
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What?! Elephants are NOT larger than the moon? I just failed my physics exam |
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Sun Mar 11, 2007 9:09 pm |
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After (not before), WWTBAM
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Fiona Wheeler, famous for her wish to bathe in a bath of chocolate (something she later did do in a subsequent photo shoot) |
No wonder they took the piss out of her |
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^^^^ She looks awfully familiar to me too. Wife Swap maybe? |
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^^Thats exactly what i was thinking, but i can`t find anything about her at the WS site, and you know yourself, it`s the most obnoxious ones on WS that are the most memorable!! Did you hear Lizzy Bardsley faces jail over beating up a 14 year old boy?... What a star |
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Jokes aside, the original question has to appear on any new anti-terror forms from now on. |
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Mon Mar 12, 2007 11:53 am |
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<br>I think it's a trick question, as they don't specify what type of kettle it is.
Obviously elephants eat peanuts, so the nuts are out. |
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Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:19 pm |
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Or even which moon, there are some titchy tiny ones around. I think. |
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Mon Mar 12, 2007 6:12 pm |
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but then the moons would still be larger than elephants...
And when they say "The moon", it would refer to "The moon" that orbits the earth... |
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SP, I don't know about any of that now... See Pluto has been demoted from planet to something else. Maybe "the" moon is next. They might even call it "elephant"...
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You have to cook it first
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Ingredients
1 Elephant
10 Warthog
100 kilogram tomatoes
half ton potatoes
2 bags onions
100 kilogram salt
1 wheelbarrow onions (heaped)
10 liter vinegar
20 liter chutney
4 Guineafowl
Method
Hunt the elephant, warthog and guineafowl. Hang guineafowl to ripen. Cut elephant into edible chunks, (will take about a month). Boil the warthog with other ingredients (except guineafowl) till nice and juicy. Now boil elephant chunks over high flames till tender. (will take about 4 weeks) and add everything together. Boil for another 5 to 7 days.
Produces about 3,500 helpings.
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Lotta
That is a lot better than my answer!
With all of that food, lets partay! |
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I realize how stupid I am when I try to act serious
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1 wheelbarrow onions (heaped) |
LMAO.
Can I substitute shallots for the onions, as Morrisons have a 2 tons for the price of 1 ton offer on at present?
We also have a glut of 1000, 000 bootiful Norfolk turkeys here at the moment. Do you have any good recipes to use them up? Sadly, freezing them isn't an option, as the local Birds Eye frozen food factory closed down a couple of months ago and my chest freezer is full. |
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