Tuesday, June 19, 2012

clearly, i watched too much tv as a child

Last week I went to an intimate baby shower for one of my college friends, put on by a crew that includes Angel07 and pp.

Because I've never had a baby or helped raise one in any significant way, I wasn't going to dominate any baby-related questions in the Jeopardy-style game (I knew the first answer but forgot to state it in the form of a question, so I started my team off with negative points--we ended up losing with a score of -1600 to some +500).

However, there was one game that I felt pretty confident about: "Famous TV Families," wherein players had to list all the children in a given fictional family from television.

I finished first and got them all correct--including a bonus point for oops-baby-ratings-boost Chrissy Seaver from Growing Pains.* 

I'm not sure if I should be proud of this or ashamed that I have all this useless knowledge at the ready but can't seem to remember a single thing about Calculus.




*When Jon and I saw The Avengers in the theater, I recognized the girl who played Chrissy (all grown up) and yelled out in the theater, "That's Chrissy Seaver!"

3 comments:

  1. I'm always ashamed of how much 80s TV trivia I know when Gregg knows absolutely NOTHING but can explain complex math problems. All those brain cells! Ah!

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  2. one of these days, this kind of random knowledge is going to be the key to saving humanity.
    fingers crossed!

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  3. How could you forget Calculus? He is such a famous professor, weaving in and out in the adventures of Tintin :-D

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