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'I Did My Best,' Says Student Who Flubbed 'Wheel of Fortune' [messed up 3 different puzzles]
ABC News.yahoo.com video ^ | April 14, 2014

Posted on 04/14/2014 1:29:36 PM PDT by grundle

video at link:

http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/did-best-says-student-flubbed-wheel-fortune-113115717--abc-news-tv.html?vp=1

(Excerpt) Read more at gma.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: chitchat; dumbingdown; education
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There's a video at the link.

I don't blame this guy - I blame our poor education system instead.

This guy is proof that it's way too easy to get into college. He didn't even know how to pronounce "Achilles." We need to have fewer people in college, not more.

It's also pathetic that the host of the news program, as well as 75% of the audience, thinks that the rules should be waived so this guy can be declared a winner.

That being said, I do praise him for being a good sport about it.

1 posted on 04/14/2014 1:29:36 PM PDT by grundle
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To: grundle

The Pro Golf tour shows that performance under pressure is difficult for many. Human Nature.


2 posted on 04/14/2014 1:30:50 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: grundle

I challenged Pat Sajak to use “Fort Michilimackinac”. LOL


3 posted on 04/14/2014 1:32:11 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: cripplecreek

Do you have a link to the video clip....? ;-)


4 posted on 04/14/2014 1:34:14 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

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


5 posted on 04/14/2014 1:36:15 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: grundle

And he won, by the way, so he must have been doing something right.


6 posted on 04/14/2014 1:36:59 PM PDT by babble-on
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To: grundle

And he won, by the way, so he must have been doing something right.


7 posted on 04/14/2014 1:36:59 PM PDT by babble-on
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To: grundle
This guy is proof that it's way too easy to get into college.

With a quota system in place, people like Julian Batts, get a free ride into universities. Here's information about the racist Hudson & Holland Scholars Program at Indiana University that allows for the unqualified, including Batts, to take up space at educational institutions, denying opportunities for those with actual merit.

8 posted on 04/14/2014 1:37:23 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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To: grundle

He did better than most special ed students would have.


9 posted on 04/14/2014 1:38:18 PM PDT by Beagle8U (Unions are an Affirmative Action program for Slackers! .)
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To: grundle

I saw this the other night and I think he got cheated.


10 posted on 04/14/2014 1:39:48 PM PDT by x1stcav ("The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.")
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To: cripplecreek
Nice try.

I want to see the clip of YOU!

11 posted on 04/14/2014 1:42:49 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: grundle

I’m sure the folks back at Indiana U. were thrilled that he was wearing their sweatshirt.


12 posted on 04/14/2014 1:43:24 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Paladin2

I’ve never been on the show. I talk to Pat Sajak on twitter pretty regularly.


13 posted on 04/14/2014 1:44:50 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: grundle

>> don’t blame this guy - I blame our poor education system instead.

This guy is proof that it’s way too easy to get into college. <<

In college and can’t pronounce “Achilles?”

You left out “too easy for SOME PEOPLE to get into college.”

EEO college recruits are like EEO hires — the thumb on the scale hurts the candidate, the institution and society.

Would YOU want a doctor who didn’t really pass his boards but instead was given + points for skin color? Same for lawyer?

Obviously I saw that episode and used it as an example of what “diversity” programs produce. In this case this guy was embarrassed in front of MILLIONS of people.


14 posted on 04/14/2014 1:45:59 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Fight Tapinophobia in all its forms! Do not submit to arduus privilege.)
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To: grundle

Give him a break! He was using the Ebonic pronunciation........


15 posted on 04/14/2014 1:46:25 PM PDT by Red Badger (LIberal is an oxymoron......................)
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To: grundle

Obviously, he had never heard the name pronounced before. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it can be amusing.

I once had a young fellow call me, trying to sell season tickets to the symphony. I asked him what were some of the pieces or composers on the program for the season. He made a valiant attempt at pronouncing (phonetically): Choppin’, Beat Hoven, and Back. Sadly, many young folks have never heard the music or been exposed to culture outside their neighborhood.


16 posted on 04/14/2014 1:47:37 PM PDT by DeFault User
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>>I challenged Pat Sajak to use “Fort Michilimackinac”. LOL<<

My prior post notwithstanding, let’s see who he does with Duquesne Incline or the Monongahela River.

Or Port Hueneme....

But none of these are “Achilles” which I learned about in GRADE SCHOOL.


17 posted on 04/14/2014 1:50:03 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Fight Tapinophobia in all its forms! Do not submit to arduus privilege.)
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To: mfreddy

It’s a game show! Give the guy a break! Feel sorry for the U that was on his chest!


19 posted on 04/14/2014 1:55:48 PM PDT by DocJhn
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To: freedumb2003
...let’s see who he does with Duquesne Incline or the Monongahela River.

Or, for that matter, North Versailles Township.

20 posted on 04/14/2014 1:57:44 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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