Wheel Of Idiot
>> Saturday, December 20, 2008
It's a well known fact that game shows are a hotbed of idiot activity, and the mecca of game show idiots has to be Wheel of Fortune. We've always joked that half the contestants on Wheel of Fortune would get the answers wrong even if the words were completely spelled out for them. Well, guess what happens in this video?
That's right, the brilliant Wheel of Fortune contestant in this video spells the word out completely, but then manages to find a way to still lose the money. At least she won herself today's Biggest Idiot On The Internet award as a consolation prize.
Like this video? Then you'll love this idiot on the Maury Povich show.
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8 comments:
Can you use the word "Fail" in an English-sounding sentence?
video doesn't load. only black screen.
firefox 3.0.5.
flash 10,0,12,36
Strange, seems to be working for me on that browser. Here's a link to the original video for you:
http://www.stupidvideos.com/video/just_plain_stupid/Wheel_of_Loser/?hs444=pv_embed_220404#220404
And that, boys and girls, is what happens when you waste a perfectly good education on someone who refuses to use it. Pris-te-nelly? My first grader could have read that word correctly.
That's only 20 years old.
You're really cutting edge here.
Pristinely is not a word. It sounds like it should be one but it's not.
Pristine is a sort of word that can only describe nouns. The car is pristine. The house is pristine. When you put "ly" on the end of a word (to make it an adverb), you are doing that so that you can use it to describe a verb.
The problem is that there is no verb that can be described as being pristine - only physical objects can be pristine.
You can clean quickly, slowly, completely, or begrudgingly... but it doesn't mean anything to say that someone is cleaning pristinely. How can someone's cleaning skills be in perfect brand new condition?
Therefore, the biggest idiot on the Internet is the one who assumed that if they saw the word on "Wheel of Fortune" then it must be real.
Merriam Webster seems to think that "pristinely" is a word and I'd say they are more of an expert than "anonymous". Why can't "pristine" describe a verb? What if someone were to say "The antique car was pristinely restored"?
Pristine is a special word. It means, "in perfect condition". Consider this sentence:
I slowly repaired the engine and the car is now fast.
See how fast describes the car? See how slowly describes my ACTION of repairing the engine?
So in your example, are you using "pristinely" to describe the final condition of the antique car? Or are you using it to describe the ACTION of restoring the car?
You must be using it to describe the action partly because you put "ly" on the end but also because of where you put the word in your sentence.
It's clear that someone can restore something slowly or quickly... but how can they restore something pristinely? What would that mean? Every movement of their arm was in perfect condition as they did the work?
To restore something slowly means that the job of restoring it was done slowly... not that the final product was slow. So if you say that you restored something pristinely, you are describing the job, not the final antique car.
You can say that you restored the antique car to pristine condition because pristine is modifying a noun, condition. But an action can't be pristine.
As for me being anonymous, I'll tell you my name if you like but you've never heard of me so I'd still be pretty much anonymous.
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