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    Stupid or WHAT!

    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) Hey, who you calling large?

    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.'

    Made me laugh anyway
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    Re: Stupid or WHAT!

    Surely that can't be true?!?!

    Have saved it to read when i have myself done something extremely dumb

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    Re: Stupid or WHAT!

    Well doesn't an elephant look larger?

    The attached photo is a photoshop job of a British contestant though – I recognise her.
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    Re: Stupid or WHAT!

    Quote Originally Posted by ducasi View Post
    Well doesn't an elephant look larger?

    The attached photo is a photoshop job of a British contestant though – I recognise her.
    I copied the above from an email from a friend, so can't be sure of the validitiy of it!
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    Re: Stupid or WHAT!

    Quote Originally Posted by Lory View Post
    I copied the above from an email from a friend, so can't be sure of the validitiy of it!
    Ahh... have a look at Snopes!

    http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/gameshows/millionaire.asp

    (They say it's false!)

    BTW... the woman Duncan recognises is Fiona Wheeler.

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    What if she had actually found a clever way to ensure she would win 1 million, i.e. if she managed to persuade 1000 people to make a 1000 dollars bet daring her to use all 3 jokers and answer wrong to the first question of the game? I know I'd probably pay to see that on TV...

    That's about the only way I would buy that story really...

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    I liked this guy. Though, he was a bit of a smug git!

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    Re: Stupid or WHAT!

    Quote Originally Posted by TheTramp View Post
    I liked this guy. Though, he was a bit of a smug git!
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    Re: Stupid or WHAT!

    14th February - United Kingdom - Forumite Lory amused MartinHarper today, when she set a new standard for gullibility with her post on the infamous and oddly psychotic website "Ceroc Scotland Forum".

    "Wow, seems like everybody else would spot this as an obviously fake story" said Lory. "But you know, sometimes you just got to go with your gut. So, let's see. For the random trash I got in my inbox, I'm going to have to go with B, 'it's worth posting'. Final answer."

    Lory waited before the dumbfounded forumites, the only one waiting with bated breath, and was told that she was wrong, and that the answer was in fact C, 'it's untrue and unfunny'.

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    Re: Stupid or WHAT!

    Quote Originally Posted by ducasi View Post
    If you were about to win a million, wouldn't you be?
    Hell yes. I didn't say that it was bad. Found it quite amusing actually

    The way he used his last lifeline to call his father to say that he didn't need help and was about to win a million.

    Though, I'd have found it far more amusing if he'd then been wrong!!

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    Re: Stupid or WHAT!

    Quote Originally Posted by Lou View Post
    Ahh... have a look at Snopes!

    http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/gameshows/millionaire.asp

    (They say it's false!)

    BTW... the woman Duncan recognises is Fiona Wheeler.
    At the french one - one theory is that the audience deliberately got it wrong

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    Re: Stupid or WHAT!


    how did she even qualify to get on the show? - if its a true clip that is....

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    Re: Stupid or WHAT!

    this qualifies my statement that Americans are the stupidest people on the planet.

    In America a 15 year old had taken pictures of herself in compromising positions and then was convicted for being in possession of child porn!!!! I'm sorry but who gets off on photos of themselves!!!!

    That and there was a 29 year old who posed as a 12 year old boy...come on people!!

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    Re: Stupid or WHAT!

    Quote Originally Posted by Clueless View Post
    I'm sorry but who gets off on photos of themselves!!!!
    For those who haven't been on this planet long...

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    Re: Stupid or WHAT!

    oh dear - gullibility is alive and well on this forum

    I was a bit shocked actually, apparently they are removing "gullible" from the Oxford English Dictionary as it is rarely used in the UK. I understand it'll still be in the American versions.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadful Scathe View Post
    oh dear - gullibility is alive and well on this forum

    I was a bit shocked actually, apparently they are removing "gullible" from the Oxford English Dictionary as it is rarely used in the UK. I understand it'll still be in the American versions.
    Presumably it isn't used in the UK because it applies to pretty neearly everybody, therefore the word is no longer useful in distinguishing one person from another...

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