Author Topic: Outlook: That's The Question (Read 32046 times)

chad1m · « **Reply #60 on:** October 09, 2006, 06:51:04 AM »

::rimshot::

HYHYBT · « **Reply #61 on:** October 11, 2006, 03:06:12 PM »

Who knew?

Ian Wallis · « **Reply #62 on:** October 11, 2006, 04:05:49 PM »

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Who knew?

No...that's a song by Pink!

PartingGift · « **Reply #63 on:** October 18, 2006, 09:54:59 AM »

On yesterday's show, Froot Loops was spelled as Fruit Loops.

clemon79 · « **Reply #64 on:** October 18, 2006, 10:08:30 AM »

[quote name=\'PartingGift\' post=\'134841\' date=\'Oct 18 2006, 06:54 AM\']
On yesterday's show, Froot Loops was spelled as Fruit Loops.
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In their (minimal) defense, this is one I can see them missing...in fact, this is one I can see them missing intentionally.

Joe Mello · « **Reply #65 on:** October 18, 2006, 05:35:06 PM »

They seem to have gotten a little better. Aside from the Fruit Loops stuff, the only real issues are splitting up theoretically compound words (eg westernmost)

booboo · « **Reply #66 on:** October 18, 2006, 06:37:45 PM »

is it just me or does it seem like they deliberately pick the stupidest people out of those that apply to be on the show because the scores have been absolutely pathetic, and considering how easy the bonus round is, you wouldn't expect ANYBODY to lose, and certainly not EVERYBODY!

i can see this show lasting if only because of how funny it can get,

Joe Mello · « **Reply #67 on:** October 19, 2006, 02:10:25 AM »

You obviously haven't seen the several people who rack up 100+ points, or the one girl that got a question with nothing but N's. (Granted, the answer was Eli Whitney, but still...)

aaron sica · « **Reply #68 on:** November 06, 2006, 02:24:24 PM »

Saw this on the GSN board.........This one REALLY takes the cake for problems with "That's the Question".

WHAT WEB BROWSER IS LIKE SCREAMING FOR JOY?

Answer is Yahoo.

itiparanoid13 · « **Reply #69 on:** November 06, 2006, 04:18:36 PM »

Out of all the errors the show has had, IMO, this is the least of them. I think the "Hydrogyn" one takes the cake so far.

Matt Ottinger · « **Reply #70 on:** November 06, 2006, 05:45:37 PM »

On our school newscasts, we have a weekly feature where we display all of the names of students who have birthdays coming up over the next seven days. One of my students compiles it, but since it's obviously an easy place for a typo to happen, I double check the spellings.

The list that went out today had every student's name spelled correctly...but in my narrow focus on the students' names, I failed to catch that my student had misspelled "Thursday".

aaron sica · « **Reply #71 on:** November 06, 2006, 06:42:57 PM »

[quote name=\'itiparanoid13\' post=\'137154\' date=\'Nov 6 2006, 04:18 PM\']
Out of all the errors the show has had, IMO, this is the least of them. I think the "Hydrogyn" one takes the cake so far.
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Maybe it's just because I'm a major computer geek, but if I was on the show and lost because of that question, I would be absolutely livid. Firefox, IE, Opera, Safari....They're all web browsers. Yahoo! can be a messenger, or used for mail, or personal ads, but it is NOT a browser.

clemon79 · « **Reply #72 on:** November 06, 2006, 06:49:03 PM »

[quote name=\'aaron sica\' post=\'137166\' date=\'Nov 6 2006, 03:42 PM\']
Maybe it's just because I'm a major computer geek,
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I don't even think you have to be a major computer geek to recognize that that question is 100% factually incorrect, just like the Donkey Kong / Mario Brothers question was. That isn't nerdy only-a-real-geek-would-know-that stuff, it's just plain WRONG.

I don't agree with Alex's suggestion (yeah, big shock, I know) that this wasn't a major deal. Misspelling a word is bad, yes. Plain straight-up being FACTUALLY WRONG is something else.

itiparanoid13 · « **Reply #73 on:** November 06, 2006, 07:39:48 PM »

No, you misunderstood me. I think it's still a big deal in terms that they shouldn't be making them, but I feel the misspelling of absolutely simple words like "hydrogyn" is a bit more significant than this. A person with the IQ of a jellybean could spell hydrogen the computer, because it would be underlined in red that it was misspelled. I don't know why disagreeing with me is "no big shock". Tthat seemed like a needless jab at me when I've done nothing whatsoever to you, but whatever.

clemon79 · « **Reply #74 on:** November 06, 2006, 08:08:51 PM »

[quote name=\'itiparanoid13\' post=\'137172\' date=\'Nov 6 2006, 04:39 PM\']
No, you misunderstood me. I think it's still a big deal in terms that they shouldn't be making them, but I feel the misspelling of absolutely simple words like "hydrogyn" is a bit more significant than this.
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No, I understand you fine. I just don't agree. Factual errors trump misspellings every day of the week.

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A person with the IQ of a jellybean could spell hydrogen the computer, because it would be underlined in red that it was misspelled.

You're making a lot of assumptions about the software with which they use to assemble these questions. Like, that it has a spell checker, that's it's turned on if it is, and that it underlines misspelled words.

Author Topic: Outlook: That's The Question (Read 32046 times)

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