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July 16, 2006
The new white whale
So lately I've spent an unfair amount of time playing online Family Feud. In fact, it's become an addiction, which would not be abated until I actually won a game.
It's extremely frustrating to play, because sometimes you will give a perfectly valid answer, but it will recognize it as something different and give you a big fat zero. For example, one of the questions was, "Name something a husband would hide from his wife." I said, quite succintly, "an affair." To my chagrin, I got a big, stinking ZERO. But then the number one answer was revealed, to be "affair". I was like, come on! So you see, when the computer doesn't always recognize your responses, it can be hard to win.
Additionally, it is also hard to win because "100 Americans" sometimes give really stupid answers. One question was, "name a complaint people have about the beach." The number one answer? Sand! Sand? What do you want, concrete? Or, "name a sport that lets you call time out." Two people said soccer, despite the fact, there are no timeouts whatsoever in soccer.
Anyway, I was playing recently and got on a total roll. In fact, so much so that I *won*. I was victorious! I tried to do a screen grab to record my feat, but, I didn't figure out how to do it before the thing telling me I had won disappeared. So here's a picture of somebody else's victory. You will just have to take my word for it.
Posted by oz115 at July 16, 2006 11:12 AM