The Answer is:
THE SCHOOL DOES NOT NEED A “REGIME CHANGE”
That was what Bart was writing on the blackboard on tonight’s Simpsons.
On Saturday night my roommates and I played Trivial Pursuit. We used Erin’s brand-new copy of the Trivial Pursuit 20th Anniversary Edition. All the questions were about things, people and events occurring between 1972 and 2002. Weird. (I’m used to playing with my parents’ copy of TP, circa 1985, which has lots of questions about Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Mork and Mindy, etc.)
What was even weirder was that even though we only went through perhaps 8% of all the cards during the course of our game, the following people, places, and things turned up more than once in questions or answers:
Belarus
Alaska and moose in the same question/answer (twice)
John Updike
Josie and the Pussycats
Harry Potter references (eight times)
Millie, the Bush family dog
Nicholas Cage
Oprah
Laos
When I was a kid my mom once picked up a new copy of Trivial Pursuit that was on sale at Wal-Mart. We discovered upon playing it that the reason it was on sale was that it was the Canadian edition. So the questions were all about obscure Canadian prime ministers, the demographics of Alberta, and American TV. There was a short time, when we’d started playing but hadn’t figured out our mistake, when we all just felt really dumb. Cultural dyslexia.
That was what Bart was writing on the blackboard on tonight’s Simpsons.
On Saturday night my roommates and I played Trivial Pursuit. We used Erin’s brand-new copy of the Trivial Pursuit 20th Anniversary Edition. All the questions were about things, people and events occurring between 1972 and 2002. Weird. (I’m used to playing with my parents’ copy of TP, circa 1985, which has lots of questions about Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Mork and Mindy, etc.)
What was even weirder was that even though we only went through perhaps 8% of all the cards during the course of our game, the following people, places, and things turned up more than once in questions or answers:
Belarus
Alaska and moose in the same question/answer (twice)
John Updike
Josie and the Pussycats
Harry Potter references (eight times)
Millie, the Bush family dog
Nicholas Cage
Oprah
Laos
When I was a kid my mom once picked up a new copy of Trivial Pursuit that was on sale at Wal-Mart. We discovered upon playing it that the reason it was on sale was that it was the Canadian edition. So the questions were all about obscure Canadian prime ministers, the demographics of Alberta, and American TV. There was a short time, when we’d started playing but hadn’t figured out our mistake, when we all just felt really dumb. Cultural dyslexia.
posted by Waage on Monday, February 03, 2003
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