Question of the day answers and ridiculous text conversations.
Q: Why must Jeopardy answers be in the form of a question?
A: They never tell the viewers at home this fact, but all the contestants are playing the answer a question with a question game amongst themselves. They really are lucky that they get the time to pause and think about what to say, unlike when it's played in a group and questions are rather rapid fire.
Q: How did the "birds and bees" metaphor come to be?
A: The original speech was given by an English person. By bird they meant female, but when the speaker had to think of an animal for males that also began with B (because alliteration is always necessary when explaining things to children), being English they fell short of creative genius and thus the term bee was used. The child who received the original speech was incredibly confused and suffered from a fear of being sexually harassed by animals for the rest of their life. This terrible story wouldn't have lived on if not for the child being brought to an institution to have their fear managed. Confidentiality laws weren't quite as strict then as they are now, so the story became the subject of much break room gossip between doctors and psychologists at the institution. The rest is history.
Q: Why is the elephant the symbol of the Republican Party?
A: Originally, they were going to use an eagle, and in some places they still do. However, if they had continued to use an eagle then it would have made what happened to your car that much funnier, and who knows how that would have gone? So instead, they used an elephant to remind people to remember what could have been (because why would an elephant ever choose to forget the hilariousity of the eagle?).
Q: How does an electric guitar work?
A: A mass sacrifice of electric Pokemon was made to the gods of rock (it was never clear if they meant the genre of music or the element) and the gods answered with the original electric guitar. These days cheap knockoffs are made using human technology.
Q: How did the Phillips screwdriver get its name?
A: The first man to make the cross-head screw design popular was named Henry F. Phillips. He was a priest in Portland, Oregon back when vampires started making themselves popular in that part of the United States. His friend John P. Thompson came up with the design to repel vampires from everyday objects that had screws in them. People were so clever back then.
Q: Orange?
A: Which came first: the color or the food? And will we ever create a word to rhyme with it?
Q: What's something going on in Oklahoma?
A: I know this isn't an answer necessarily, but I went looking for inspiration on Google about what's going on in Oklahoma and this is what I found: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/here-comes-judge Enjoy!
Presenting an absolutely ridiculous text conversation:
Me: Orange? Really?
Q: Yes, orange.
Me: Why orange?
Q: Why not?
Me: Yellow?
Q: Nope.
Me: Indigo?
Q: Not even close.
Me: Forget colors. Bacon. Done.
Q: Bacon? Really?!
Me: Yes! Not orange because bacon. That's my logic and I'm sticking to it!
Q: ... I'm not sure how I'm gonna rate that yet.
Me: I don't need your judgment. I'm a logician. I know these things.
A: They never tell the viewers at home this fact, but all the contestants are playing the answer a question with a question game amongst themselves. They really are lucky that they get the time to pause and think about what to say, unlike when it's played in a group and questions are rather rapid fire.
Q: How did the "birds and bees" metaphor come to be?
A: The original speech was given by an English person. By bird they meant female, but when the speaker had to think of an animal for males that also began with B (because alliteration is always necessary when explaining things to children), being English they fell short of creative genius and thus the term bee was used. The child who received the original speech was incredibly confused and suffered from a fear of being sexually harassed by animals for the rest of their life. This terrible story wouldn't have lived on if not for the child being brought to an institution to have their fear managed. Confidentiality laws weren't quite as strict then as they are now, so the story became the subject of much break room gossip between doctors and psychologists at the institution. The rest is history.
Q: Why is the elephant the symbol of the Republican Party?
A: Originally, they were going to use an eagle, and in some places they still do. However, if they had continued to use an eagle then it would have made what happened to your car that much funnier, and who knows how that would have gone? So instead, they used an elephant to remind people to remember what could have been (because why would an elephant ever choose to forget the hilariousity of the eagle?).
Q: How does an electric guitar work?
A: A mass sacrifice of electric Pokemon was made to the gods of rock (it was never clear if they meant the genre of music or the element) and the gods answered with the original electric guitar. These days cheap knockoffs are made using human technology.
Q: How did the Phillips screwdriver get its name?
A: The first man to make the cross-head screw design popular was named Henry F. Phillips. He was a priest in Portland, Oregon back when vampires started making themselves popular in that part of the United States. His friend John P. Thompson came up with the design to repel vampires from everyday objects that had screws in them. People were so clever back then.
Q: Orange?
A: Which came first: the color or the food? And will we ever create a word to rhyme with it?
Q: What's something going on in Oklahoma?
A: I know this isn't an answer necessarily, but I went looking for inspiration on Google about what's going on in Oklahoma and this is what I found: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/here-comes-judge Enjoy!
Presenting an absolutely ridiculous text conversation:
Me: Orange? Really?
Q: Yes, orange.
Me: Why orange?
Q: Why not?
Me: Yellow?
Q: Nope.
Me: Indigo?
Q: Not even close.
Me: Forget colors. Bacon. Done.
Q: Bacon? Really?!
Me: Yes! Not orange because bacon. That's my logic and I'm sticking to it!
Q: ... I'm not sure how I'm gonna rate that yet.
Me: I don't need your judgment. I'm a logician. I know these things.