Transcript 9/18/09: Fred Roberts (guillotine06) (carryover)

[Jeemie]

I'm still a newbie here. Please excuse the water trickling down my ears. What do WGAS and WWOQ stand ford?

Who Gives A Shit and Wicked Weed Out Question

Actually, the second was originally named Wacky Weed Out Question. It referred to any question that seemed greatly over-valued (usually seemed to crop up at the $8,000 level)- a question that wouldn't be your ordinary piece of trivia that could be learned or casually picked up. A "you either were paying attention when it happened, or you'll never learn it"-type question.

But some people prefer Wicked.

Poster's preference, I guess.

[MarleysGh0st]

I'm still a newbie here. Please excuse the water trickling down my ears. What do WGAS and WWOQ stand ford?

Who Gives A Shit and Wicked Weed Out Question

Actually, the second was originally named Wacky Weed Out Question. It referred to any question that seemed greatly over-valued (usually seemed to crop up at the $8,000 level)- a question that wouldn't be your ordinary piece of trivia that could be learned or casually picked up. A "you either were paying attention when it happened, or you'll never learn it"-type question.

But some people prefer Wicked.

Poster's preference, I guess.

Do you have evidence that Wacky was the original name? I'll accept a reading from our Bored Historian's notebooks.

[Jeemie]

Who Gives A Shit and Wicked Weed Out Question

Actually, the second was originally named Wacky Weed Out Question. It referred to any question that seemed greatly over-valued (usually seemed to crop up at the $8,000 level)- a question that wouldn't be your ordinary piece of trivia that could be learned or casually picked up. A "you either were paying attention when it happened, or you'll never learn it"-type question.

But some people prefer Wicked.

Poster's preference, I guess.

Do you have evidence that Wacky was the original name? I'll accept a reading from our Bored Historian's notebooks.

No evidence- I myself had forgotten what WWOQ stood for, and asked about it a couple of weeks ago.

But when someone told me the first "W" stood for "Wacky", that set off a vague recollection in my mind of when the term was first used.

[supportivemom]

Fred, I just loved watching you. I am praying that you stay in the top ten!