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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

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To: grundle

He might be able to pronounce it just fine but not when he’s looking at it. I’ve got a few words like that, something about the spelling make my mouth say “that can’t be how that’s pronounced”. “Mignon” is like that, I love filet mignon but if I order it I have to make sure to not look at the menu seeing the word confuses me, could say it all day without looking at it, just don’t look at it. And that’s without a bunch of TV camera looking at me and thousands of dollars on the line.


21 posted on 04/14/2014 2:00:19 PM PDT by discostu (Call it collect, call it direct, call it TODAY!)
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To: babble-on

The others got clobbered by the wheel. His only “something right” was that he got to go again after the wheel clobbered ... sort of like being the next fence post.


22 posted on 04/14/2014 2:00:22 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (If His Arrogance knows where his BC is, why did he have to hire someone to Photoshop a new one?)
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To: DocJhn

I was directing my post to the person that said he got screwed. He didn’t, and he screwed up 3 times to the tune of 72k.


23 posted on 04/14/2014 2:02:38 PM PDT by mfreddy
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To: mfreddy

That and a shot at million bucks in the bonus round. I liked the irony of the girl next to him just smiling and cashing in, all the while wearing that Texas A&M sweatshirt.


24 posted on 04/14/2014 2:05:57 PM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: grundle

Sucks to be stupid. Now he has clearly demonstrated to the world how he got into college.


25 posted on 04/14/2014 2:06:12 PM PDT by petercooper ("I was for letting people keep their health insurance, before I wasn't". --- Barack Obama)
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To: cripplecreek

My wife is a former winner - 27 years ago. She really wishes she could go back on, she’s a LOT better now, and she was darn good then.


26 posted on 04/14/2014 2:08:28 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: re_nortex

>>Or, for that matter, North Versailles Township.

How is that pronounced? If you’re talking Versailles, KY, the local pronunciation is ver-SAILS.


27 posted on 04/14/2014 2:10:56 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: DeFault User
Obviously, he had never heard the name pronounced before. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it can be amusing.

I don't watch the show and don't have any sense of the flexibility on pronunciation, but offing a kid on a mispronunciation strikes me as cheesy.

Yes, I'm ok on Achilles and "all them dead Greeks," but I could easily butcher a French or Spanish name, let alone an African or Asian one. There are a lot of words/names I know by sight but might mispronounce. "Beyonce," for example, or "Eminem," which I always want to pronounce as "enema." Some of the names out there now are pretty outlandish.

This brings us back to Cultural Literacy 101. Kids aren't going to know what they aren't taught, and the canon ain't what it used to be.

28 posted on 04/14/2014 2:20:31 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: FreedomPoster
Since Western Pennsylvania may as well be Kentucky, in many ways, it too is pronounced ver-SAILS. I've been long gone from my birthplace, but when I get back to Pittsburgh on occasion, it reminds me much more of a bigger Kingsport, TN than it does of Philadelphia. And that goes for the speech patterns, which are heavily influenced by the Appalachian dialect.
29 posted on 04/14/2014 2:21:02 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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To: re_nortex

That is easy. In KY we say Ver-sails. Everybody knows that. If you want a hard one try Louisville. Louie-ville. Looaville. And many others.


30 posted on 04/14/2014 2:25:15 PM PDT by Foundahardheadedwoman (God don't have a statute of limitations)
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To: x1stcav
I saw this the other night and I think he got cheated.

I'm assuming you forgot the "/s" after your comment.

31 posted on 04/14/2014 2:33:25 PM PDT by mupcat
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To: Paladin2

How do you screw up on Wheel of Fortune?Mistake Vanna for a guy??


32 posted on 04/14/2014 2:35:24 PM PDT by bandleader
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To: bandleader

As one who does not do well under pressure, I can commiserate.


33 posted on 04/14/2014 2:36:36 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: DeFault User

Great post 16!


34 posted on 04/14/2014 2:41:39 PM PDT by grundle
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>>Sucks to be stupid. Now he has clearly demonstrated to the world how he got into college.<<

That is unfair. He seemed bright, just uneducated.

He did indeed demonstrate to the world how Affirmative Action hurts the recipient as much as the institution and society.

I 100% guarantee I will not have a Black nor Hispanic doctor or lawyer. I will choose an ex-pat, who I know had to COMPETE for entry and passage, first.

That isn’t racism, it is recognizing the harm AFA does.


35 posted on 04/14/2014 2:42:51 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Fight Tapinophobia in all its forms! Do not submit to arduus privilege.)
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To: cripplecreek

I have a friend that was with Sajak when

they were both on AFVN radio.

They used to talk..said Pat was and still

is a nice guy.


36 posted on 04/14/2014 2:47:28 PM PDT by Harold Shea
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To: Harold Shea
Pat in his youth. Top row 3rd from the right.

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37 posted on 04/14/2014 2:51:51 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: re_nortex
Whatta bout the battle of Fort Necessity?

"Mingo Creek Church was used by the Mingo Creek Society (1794), as a nerve center for protest against the whiskey excise tax!"?

38 posted on 04/14/2014 2:55:25 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: re_nortex

U need to red up ur posts...


39 posted on 04/14/2014 2:57:57 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: FreedomPoster

Put her back on and split the proceeds....


40 posted on 04/14/2014 2:59:16 PM PDT by Paladin2
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