wallace-l: Will's Students -- Johnson

[Steve Robinson]

> I share the repugnance for game shows. Emily has turned herself
> into a database. This could be useful to her in some
> aspects of real life (outside of playing Jeopardy) but no viewer
> will confuse it with intellectual activity. Well, some will, of 
> course, but they are beyond the pale.
> 
Sorry, but I resemble that remark.  I live for Jeapardy.  I don't watch 
any other game shows, and I consider "Wheel" to be downright plebian.  
But Jeps?  At my house, we time dinner to start with that opening theme 
song--dah dah dah dah dah dah dah, etc.  We get seconds during the 
commercials.  I can't digest right without know how final jeps turns 
out.  "No viewer will confuse it with intellectual activity"?  Where else 
on TV can someone be a star, a hero, and win big bucks too, for knowing who 
Mary Queen of Scots succeeded?  For knowing the mating habits of a 
finch?  For being able to place Yorick, or Iago, or Thisbee?  
Where else in the world, in fact, outside of academe?  

I may be addicted, but I am within the pale.

Steve Robinson