I'm not sure why but the Ballad of the Green Beret has been rattling in my head all day... which got me thinking about the following...
According to the song, 100 men will test today, but only three win the green beret. According to numbers I've seen thrown about, 30,000 people audition for Millionaire each season but only around 300 make it the hot seat - so is it 3 times harder to be on Millionaire then to be a Green Beret?
With that in mind, I've updated the song:
Fielding questions, from on high
Fearless contestants who answer or cry
'Final Answer' is what they say
The Hot Seater's, who get to play
Hidden mics upon their chest
These are folks who PA's liked best
One hundred WE's will test today
But only one will get to stay
Trained to answer in nothing flat
Trained to use lifelines, just like that
Studying trivia by night and day
Hoping to find how much a million weighs
Back at home a nervious PAF waits
Their forelorn contestant has met their fate
They have crashed for the bored's oppressed
Leaving the PA's with this last request
Put that mic on Marley's chest
Make him one of Millionaire's best
He'll be a contestant, they'll quiz one day
Have him win the mill' that day.
How elite are the Green Berets anyway
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Re: How elite are the Green Berets anyway
frogman042 wrote:I'm not sure why but the Ballad of the Green Beret has been rattling in my head all day... which got me thinking about the following...
According to the song, 100 men will test today, but only three win the green beret. According to numbers I've seen thrown about, 30,000 people audition for Millionaire each season but only around 300 make it the hot seat - so is it 3 times harder to be on Millionaire then to be a Green Beret?
With that in mind, I've updated the song:
Fielding questions, from on high
Fearless contestants who answer or cry
'Final Answer' is what they say
The Hot Seater's, who get to play
Hidden mics upon their chest
These are folks who PA's liked best
One hundred WE's will test today
But only one will get to stay
Trained to answer in nothing flat
Trained to use lifelines, just like that
Studying trivia by night and day
Hoping to find how much a million weighs
Back at home a nervious PAF waits
Their forelorn contestant has met their fate
They have crashed for the bored's oppressed
Leaving the PA's with this last request
Put that mic on Marley's chest
Make him one of Millionaire's best
He'll be a contestant, they'll quiz one day
Have him win the mill' that day.
so now the rest of us have the same pleasure?I'm not sure why but the Ballad of the Green Beret has been rattling in my head all day..
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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