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When I was in high school, I took part in KPTV's La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries High Five Academic Challenge which, if you don't know, was a kick ass cool kid club.
We had a team of 9 or 10, and conveniently knew each other very well as we were also members of the Science Olympics and Marching Band together. We practiced after school using real buzzers as our coach, the AP History teacher read clues aloud.
One of the most precious princess times when I felt on top of the world was when the question was, "Dorothy Parker is famous for saying, 'Men don't make passes at girl's who...this?'" and "Oh my god, I know. It's 'wear glasses'!" Thank god I was one of 3 girls; the only one with glasses. The only one, also, to not be romantically involved in a really embarrassing nerdlationship where they incessantly kissed with lots of tongue at drama rehearsals or in the back of the band bus where they store the tubas. I was always really embarrassed for those people.
Anyway, when you're on the High Five team you get to be on the tv. The show is hosted by a faun named Wayne Faligowski
He is a wonderful man-goat who had a vision of a show that focused on the good kids. High Five's motto is, "Kids working on teams, not gangs."
Wayne, a former newsman and mythical beast is a gentle creature. His vision for High Five also includes scores of old people from homes who are bussed in to cheer on the high school teams.
(High Five is filmed at the local Fox affiliate and I remember vividly our shining KKK prince of Portland, Lars Larson was on his way out as we were going in. He is a small, impish man, fyi.)
It was so delightfully weird and awesome.
I was going to be paid a small ante to give Wayne a High Five, so I gave him a High/Low Five on the way out. I felt like a goof though because I started thinking about every Joe FunnyMan who probably do it all the time.
Ok so the reason I even bring this up is because we were losing our game for a while, and then we started winning again and the last question was, "This classic actor played a man who turned into a fish, a deputy, and a member of The Apple Dumping Gang..." And it was precious Don Knotts, who is a dead, rotting corpse. RIP
So we won the game and our prize was passes to Bulwinkle's Family Fun Center in Wilsonville.
We had a team of 9 or 10, and conveniently knew each other very well as we were also members of the Science Olympics and Marching Band together. We practiced after school using real buzzers as our coach, the AP History teacher read clues aloud.
One of the most precious princess times when I felt on top of the world was when the question was, "Dorothy Parker is famous for saying, 'Men don't make passes at girl's who...this?'" and "Oh my god, I know. It's 'wear glasses'!" Thank god I was one of 3 girls; the only one with glasses. The only one, also, to not be romantically involved in a really embarrassing nerdlationship where they incessantly kissed with lots of tongue at drama rehearsals or in the back of the band bus where they store the tubas. I was always really embarrassed for those people.
Anyway, when you're on the High Five team you get to be on the tv. The show is hosted by a faun named Wayne Faligowski
He is a wonderful man-goat who had a vision of a show that focused on the good kids. High Five's motto is, "Kids working on teams, not gangs."
Wayne, a former newsman and mythical beast is a gentle creature. His vision for High Five also includes scores of old people from homes who are bussed in to cheer on the high school teams.
(High Five is filmed at the local Fox affiliate and I remember vividly our shining KKK prince of Portland, Lars Larson was on his way out as we were going in. He is a small, impish man, fyi.)
It was so delightfully weird and awesome.
I was going to be paid a small ante to give Wayne a High Five, so I gave him a High/Low Five on the way out. I felt like a goof though because I started thinking about every Joe FunnyMan who probably do it all the time.
Ok so the reason I even bring this up is because we were losing our game for a while, and then we started winning again and the last question was, "This classic actor played a man who turned into a fish, a deputy, and a member of The Apple Dumping Gang..." And it was precious Don Knotts, who is a dead, rotting corpse. RIP
So we won the game and our prize was passes to Bulwinkle's Family Fun Center in Wilsonville.