Pet Intellectual Peeves
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- MarkBarrett
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Re: Pet Intellectual Peeves
Stephen King the author has the "ph" and is not Steven.
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Even Stephen Spielberg knows that.MarkBarrett wrote: ↑Sat Aug 05, 2017 1:31 pm Stephen King the author has the "ph" and is not Steven.
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*Ephenopusthepenguin wrote: ↑Sat Aug 05, 2017 4:13 pmEven Stephen Spielberg knows that.MarkBarrett wrote: ↑Sat Aug 05, 2017 1:31 pm Stephen King the author has the "ph" and is not Steven.
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Saw the Michael Moore show on Broadway last night, The Terms of my Surrender. He does this quiz show bit where he brings up a self-avowed smart American and a dumb Canadian to prove that, well, the dumbest Canadian is smarter than the smartest American. Yeah. I was in the mezzanine so I didn't volunteer. Anyway, he asks the Canadian how many US states there are. 50. Then he asks the American how many Canadian provinces & territories. I don't think she even had a guess. Then Michael Moore says the answer is 14. So for the next few minutes I kept counting them off in my head and could only come up with 10 provinces and 3 territories. So what gives? Is Newfoundland & Labrador sometimes counted as 2? Or did I miscount?
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No, you got it right. There may have been a dumb American onstage, but it wasn't necessarily the audience volunteer.morbeedo wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2017 1:12 pm Saw the Michael Moore show on Broadway last night, The Terms of my Surrender. He does this quiz show bit where he brings up a self-avowed smart American and a dumb Canadian to prove that, well, the dumbest Canadian is smarter than the smartest American. Yeah. I was in the mezzanine so I didn't volunteer. Anyway, he asks the Canadian how many US states there are. 50. Then he asks the American how many Canadian provinces & territories. I don't think she even had a guess. Then Michael Moore says the answer is 14. So for the next few minutes I kept counting them off in my head and could only come up with 10 provinces and 3 territories. So what gives? Is Newfoundland & Labrador sometimes counted as 2? Or did I miscount?
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With the NFL season starting I thought I'd mention a time some of my buddies were making predictions as to which two teams would be in the next Super Bowl. One of the predictions was for a Cowboys-Packers Super Bowl, while another one predicted Patriots-Steelers.
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Even I know better, and I haven’t watched a game in almost twenty yearsGoodStrategy wrote: ↑Sat Sep 07, 2019 10:43 am With the NFL season starting I thought I'd mention a time some of my buddies were making predictions as to which two teams would be in the next Super Bowl. One of the predictions was for a Cowboys-Packers Super Bowl, while another one predicted Patriots-Steelers.
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