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- skored, on 10/12/2007, -5/+116If you watch it - your automatic answer has to be "NO!"
- Flon, on 10/12/2007, -17/+95George Bush beware
- jer2eydevil88, on 10/12/2007, -5/+41If this ends up being good it'll get canceled... oh I'm sorry I mean Foxxed...
I still miss Firefly. - ThinkBox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+30Im guessing this will be like Jaywalking - the tv show.
- Ignignokt01, on 10/12/2007, -11/+41This is just going to try and make people look stupid by having geography quizzes and state-quizzes, the kind of things 5th graders actually study, but won't ever really use. I consider myself a pretty intelligent and well-rounded individual, but I'm not afraid to admit that If somebody gave me a blank map of all the states, I couldn't name every one.
- PalmerEldritch, on 10/12/2007, -2/+31@gfixler. If you are going to correct someone's grammar, please do it with correct grammar yourself.
"This is gonna be good; really good."
Semi-colons are used to separate clauses that could otherwise be two separate sentences. 'Really good.' is not a proper sentence, so a semi-colon is not appropriate.
"I know some fifth graders who would have correctly used an adverb, and punctuation denoting a pause in their post description."
Much like the as the semi-colon, a comma with a coordinating conjunction (", and") is used to separate clauses. The comma should not be there.
Just sayin'. - Dustyb, on 10/12/2007, -7/+32...if they advertise on the O'reilly Factor...
ZINGER! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25I gave up TV years ago. I replaced it with an entire world filled with wonderful things that you'd never be able to experience sitting in front of a TV.
Ah, internet. WHat would I do without you? - pintomp3, on 10/12/2007, -5/+27he should fair well, since his "no child left behind" and faith-based initiatives are making 5th graders dumber.
- RamanujanRedux, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21He'd probably 'FARE' just as well as you.
- AmishRefugee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19they should have no trouble finding contestants.
- griz, on 10/12/2007, -8/+24"George Bush beware"
I am sick of people ragging on GW. Give the guy a break, I am sure there is at least ONE Fifth Grader out there that he is smarter than. - devindotcom, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17it almost makes you want to turn off the TV!!
.......almost! - aadnk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16@broomett: Why do you think FireFly (or another other good show that was cancelled by Fox) had a rather bad rating? It's because they constantly changed the schedule - even to the point of not showing certain episodes or having them shown in order. They never gave the show a real chance.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12they should make a ARE YOU SMARTER THAN PARIS HILTON?
that way, everyone would be a winner : ) - otomo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Thud:
A preposition is something you should never end a sentence with.
....or, with which you should never end a sentence....
Bzzzzt, wrong. Old wives tale. If we spoke Latin this would be a good rule to follow. But since we speak a Germanic dialect, trying to shoehorn Latin grammar into it doesn't work well.
http://dictionary.reference.com/help/faq/language/g30.html
http://www.ojohaven.com/fun/broken.rules.html
http://www.columbiaseminary.edu/coffeetalk/050.html
Which would you ask? Where is he from? OR From where is he?
And Churchill said it best about pedants who think they know english grammar, This is the sort of English up with which I will not put. - vhold, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Are you smart enough to know the difference between smarts and rote memorization?
If you attribute any meaning to this show, then the answer is no. - jer2eydevil88, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11In 5th grade we learned how to play Magic the gathering and our teacher let us take our shoes off if we wanted... I recall retaining nothing else of importance from that year...
- Wonderkind, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10My teacher was Alan T. Black, and he called us his thundering herd of turtles.
That's all I remember. - venuspcs, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11This is sad, I am 35 years old and I can name all 50 states with or without a blank US Map, and I live in Spain.
- Akaji, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10"Fox won a competition with other networks to buy the idea from Mark Burnett, executive producer of "Survivor," perhaps because Liguori - not too modestly - said he was the only chief network television executive to answer all six questions from the show correctly."
And you people say Fox execs are idiots. They're at least as smart as fifth graders! - sharpe27, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10@jer2
Don't you mean "Plutoed" - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8One more reason for people to write "typical ***** American" in their YouTube comments.
- AndrewDB, on 01/10/2008, -1/+8Why oh why do I get the picture that they'd hold a mirror up to her and she'd get frustrated saying the other person is cheating?
- Daddaluma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7So we're calling game shows reality shows these days?
- Anteros, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6knowledge != intelligence
- ThinkBox, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9@ch28kid
Yeah, ya know that TV in your house that doens't change channels.. yeah, most people call that a WINDOW. There is actually a world out there beyond tv.
You dont have to just sit on your ass and watch something if you don't like it. - speedy11309, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11i wonder how bush would do......
- sjbdallas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Has anyone seen Idiocracy? It just came out on DVD and I rented it over the weekend. The movie itself has only a few funny moments but the concept was very interesting as it involved the dumbing down of america because all the ignorant people keep having kids while the smarter people put off having kids because of their careers or similar issues then end up having only 1 or none. Eventually, a huge majority of people (after like 500 years) are all idiots who have piles of garbage everywhere, can't grow any crops because they don't know how, and watch ridiculous TV shows all the time.
That was a long way of saying that everytime I something about another reality show, or that 34 million people tuned in to American Idol to watch retards make fools of themselves, I realize that the premise of that movie wasn't too far off target. - juneau, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Hmm, didn't Howard Stern do this exact bit years ago? Around 2001 or so. Yeah yeah, press here to digg me down: ----------->
- AndrewDB, on 01/10/2008, -8/+111836.. was 13 days long.
Providence.. and it was founded in 1636.
Benjamin Harrison.. Born August 20, 1833 died March 13, 1901.
History major for the win. :) - ShinjiTheGale, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I call shenanigans on question #1, there is no way that Dickens is 5th grade material
- armbar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Stop digging otomo down; it IS an old wives' tale that you can't end a sentence with a preposition. It's perfectly legitimate usage.
- arduenn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I wonder whether the makers of the show realise that knowing tons of stuff is not necessarily similar to being smart.
- drmangrum, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3While the idea is interesting, they are only going to allow prescreened adults and children to compete. So you have some dumbass adult who can barely tie their shoes facing some kind of genius 10 year old.
- providmike2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Anyone seen the movie Magnolia? If so- remember that little part of the plot called "What Do Kids Know":
"What Do Kids Know?" (WDKK), where a team of three kids play against adults and every time the show is on, there is a new team of adults and the kids remain "
Fox is real smart with them reality tv idears! - vertinox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@"well-rounded individual, but I'm not afraid to admit that If somebody gave me a blank map of all the states, I couldn't name every one."
Well I certainly hope you aren't in the job of shipping and handling then. - AngryBacon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3The problem with this, since its 5th grade, many of these quiz questions will be fact memorization that is forgotten after the quiz.
Can anyone, off the top of their heads, tell me what year the Alamo took place?
Capital of Rhode Island?
23rd President? - david76, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I sure hope the first contestants are the hosts of Fox & Friends.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Crap, I couldn't tell you those things when I was in school.
- sjbdallas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Dude, people from other countries aren't smarter. They just SOUND smarter because they have those fancy accents.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@ gfixler
And I know some fifth graders that would know better than to give grammar advice while ignoring the fact that "gonna" isn't a word at all. - griz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ok, lets see what your scores are...
http://www.funtrivia.com/playquiz/quiz2769232e9a8.html
7 out of 10 for me. Damn, now I have to go back to 5th grade. - g30ph, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Howard Stern's Homeless game is infinitely more funny, and Jay Leno renamed it Jaywalking. Where else are you going to see Tori Spelling's wit compared to a homeless guy? "Whats the capital of New York?" Spelling, "New Jersey?"
- domusvita, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1SPOILER!! no I'm not
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There has never been a reality television show. That ***** would be way too boring, inconsistent, and senseless. I'll bet the original intent was genuine enough, but after one day of shooting, they realized it had no direction. "Tell Tim his wife just ***** his dad, and he's going into counseling." That should bring Bubble Yum back to the table.
- JAPPO312, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What's wrong with 24, Prisonbreak, The Simpsons, Family Guy, and Futurama?
FOX is a great TV station (excluding their news). But I'm Canadian, so I don't give a ***** about American news. - brianboyko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1When Fox puts out shows like this you're wondering why they didn't want exposure for Mike Judge's "Idiocracy?"
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you've ever watched any of those "man on the street" interviews, the 5th graders will probably walk all over
2/3's of the adults. They will show some of these moron "adults" pictures of famous (no celebrity types) and
they don't have a clue....but, show them a picture of a celeb, and they can tell you what they had for dinner.
One of the reasons this country is going to hell in a handbasket, is because the population isn't involved in
what's going on around them, with the exception of the useless celeb news.
People are too wrapped up in what is/isn't going on in hollywierd to care about what is really important. - firebrandmedia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Me fail english? That's unpossible.
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