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‘Millionaire’ Contestant Makes Worst Use Of Lifelines Ever

Idaho resident Kathy Evans brought humiliation to her friends and family Tuesday when she set a new standard for stupidity with her appearance on the popular TV show, ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.’

It seems that Evans, a 32-year-old wife and mother of two, got stuck on the first question, and proceeded to make what fans of the show are dubbing ‘the absolute worst use of lifelines ever.’

After being introduced to the show’s host Meredith Vieira, Evans assured her that she was ready to play, whereupon she was posed with an extremely easy $100 question. The question was: ‘Which of the following is the largest?’

A) A Peanut

B) An Elephant

C) The Moon

D) Hey, who you calling large?

Immediately Mrs. Evans was struck with an all consuming panic as she realized that this was a question to which she did not readily know the answer.

‘Hmm, oh boy, that’s a toughie,’ said Evans, as Vieira did her level best to hide her disbelief and disgust. ‘I mean, I’m sure I’ve heard of some of these things before, but I have no idea how large they would be.’

Evans made the decision to use the first of her three lifelines, the 50/50. Answers A and D were removed, leaving her to decide which was bigger, an elephant or the moon. However, faced with an incredibly easy question, Evans still remained unsure.

‘Oh! It removed the two I was leaning towards!’ exclaimed Evans. ‘Darn. I think I better phone a friend.’

Using the second of her two lifelines on the first question, Mrs. Evans asked to be connected with her friend Betsy, who is an office assistant.

‘Hi Betsy! How are you? This is Kathy! I’m on TV!’ said Evans, wasting the first seven seconds of her call. ‘Ok, I got an important question. Which of the following is the largest? B, an elephant, or C, the moon. 15 seconds hun.’

Betsy quickly replied that the answer was C, the moon. Evans proceeded to argue with her friend for the remaining ten seconds.

‘Come on Betsy, are you sure?’ said Evans. ‘How sure are you? Duh, that can’t be it.’

To everyone’s astonishment, the moronic Evans declined to take her friend’s advice and pick ‘The Moon.’

‘I just don’t know if I can trust Betsy. She’s not all that bright. So I think I’d like to ask the audience,’ said Evans.

Asked to vote on the correct answer, the audience returned 98% in favor of answer C, ‘The Moon.’

Having used up all her lifelines, Evans then made the dumbest choice of her life.

‘Wow, seems like everybody is against what I’m thinking,’ said the too-stupid-to-live Evans. ‘But you know, sometimes you just got to go with your gut. So, let’s see… For which is larger, an elephant or the moon, I’m going to have to go with B, an elephant. Final answer.’

Evans sat before the dumbfounded audience, the only one waiting with bated breath, and was told that she was wrong, and that the answer was in fact, C, ‘The Moon.’

Ok.

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No comment on this one.

Ahem.

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Some guy bought a new fridge for his house.

To get rid of his old fridge, he put it in his front yard and hung a sign on it saying: ‘Free to good home. You want it, you take it.’

For three days the fridge sat there without even one person looking twice at it. He eventually decided that people were too un-trusting of this deal.

It looked too good to be true, so he changed the sign to read: ‘Fridge for sale $50.’

The next day someone stole it!

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I couldn’t find my luggage at the airport baggage area. So I went to the lost luggage office and told the woman there that my bags never showed up.

She smiled and told me not to worry because she was a trained professional and I was in good hands.

‘Now,’ she asked me, ‘Has your plane arrived yet?’…

(I work with professionals like this.)

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    • Edger on May 13, 2009 at 05:12
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    It’s designed to cut through a seat belt if she gets trapped.

    She keeps it in the trunk.

  1. ((youtube wu67yo-3jfw))

  2. Is a tattoo real, like a curb or a battleship, or are we all suffering in Safeway?

    Damn.

  3. A few good laughs are always welcome after a couple of stressful days at work.

    Back atcha (and this is true):

    I had a roommate in NYC who worked for one of the companies where you can call in and book theater tickets.  The greatest line from a caller that I can remember:

    “Are the seats facing the stage?”

  4. http://www.prisonplanet.com/no

    Last night was another of those nights frought with Apocalyptic visions, personal and worldwide.  There is that policy Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.  It applies to me for seeing the future.

  5. eat shit and bark at the moon than “yell louder” at an elephant.

    Then they wonder why no one takes them seriously. ;-7

  6. Thanks Edger

    • kj on May 13, 2009 at 15:38

    i have always wanted to say this, as in:  

    “You’re late to work!”

    “I know!  I know!

    Doesn’t that just suck porcupine quills?”   😀

    hahahahahaha (said the bozo) (and yes, i’m going to be late for work.)

    • RiaD on May 13, 2009 at 15:44

    you’re pulling my leg???

    is there really someone that ignorant ?

    geezaflyinspagmonsters!!

  7. As a leading authority on stupid, even I know this one ain’t true:

    Snopes.com

    Claim:  Game show contestant cannot correctly determine which is larger: an elephant or the moon

    Status:  False

    (snip)

    Of course, the “evidence” provided with the story in the form of a screenshot is a bit of digital trickery.  It’s an altered version of a frame showing Fiona Wheeler, a contestant on the UK version of the show, attempting to answer a slightly more difficult question:

    Even though the moon is only 6000 years old and is made of green cheese, it’s still obviously bigger than an elephant.

  8. And here I thought I was dumb for catching up on some programming skills. Jesus.

  9. Anything I say would be “sexist” and “male cha… cho…”… oh hell…

    She’s good for ONE thing… period!

    • geomoo on May 14, 2009 at 06:16

    Comments strangely out of sync.  That’s some funny stuff, Edger.

  10. that makes up the hard core Republican base. They love Caribou Barbie, she can see Russians from her door and knows thae moon is bigger then an elephant. They ought to have a TV quiz show for the pols in Congress. They say things just as stupid on tv and most of the pundits whose brains are not much bigger then peanuts, themselves look dumb and let it slide. Something about the TV just draws them like flies. Glenn Beck’s audience must be something to behold in this area.

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