Transcript 10/20/2009 Michael Salerno

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Michael Salerno
Weehawken, NJ
Attorney

Topic Tree:

Honest Abe
Down Under
Out in Space
South America
‘60s Music
Psychology
(NASA)
(Shoes)
(Finance)
(The Middle East)
(Fraud)
(Fishing)
(Superheroes)
(Breakfast Cereals)
(Raw Materials)


$25K (Psychology):
In Jungian psychology, a patient who is considered a "puer aeternus" has trouble with what?
A. Controlling anger B. Growing up
C. Sleeping Alone D. Telling the truth

Carol, Garden City, NY
Sean, Roslindale, MA
Trina(?) NJ (lousy recording quality)

PAF

Sean says B, Growing up and when asked he is 100% sure

Spoiler

B. Growing up :18

$50K (‘60s Music):
A hit for the band The McCoys, what 1960s tune is the official rock song of the state of Ohio?
A. Sugar, Sugar B. Wild Thing
C. Hang On Sloopy D. Do Wah Diddy Diddy

Spoiler

Out of lifelines, Michael guessed B, Wild Thing.

C. Hang On Sloopy (wrong guess at :05)

Miss: $25,000

Commercial break

[earendel]

Michael Salerno
Weehawken, NJ
Attorney

$25K (Psychology):
In Jungian psychology, a patient who is considered a "puer aeternus" has trouble with what?
A. Controlling anger B. Growing up
C. Sleeping Alone D. Telling the truth

Carol, Garden City, NY
Sean, Roslindale, MA
Trina(?) NJ (lousy recording quality)

PAF

Sean says B, Growing up and when asked he is 100% sure

Spoiler

B. Growing up :18

Do you suppose Sean Googled this? He came up with the answer pretty quickly and with a 100% confidence level. As for me, "aeternus" means "eternal", so it doesn't seem likely to be anything other than B.

$50K (‘60s Music):
A hit for the band The McCoys, what 1960s tune is the official rock song of the state of Ohio?
A. Sugar, Sugar B. Wild Thing
C. Hang On Sloopy D. Do Wah Diddy Diddy

Spoiler

Out of lifelines, Michael guessed B, Wild Thing.

C. Hang On Sloopy (wrong guess at :05)

The $25K question was a WWOQ, but this one is almost a gimme. A was by The Archies, B was by The Troggs and D was Manfred Mann.

[MarleysGh0st]

$50K (‘60s Music):
A hit for the band The McCoys, what 1960s tune is the official rock song of the state of Ohio?
A. Sugar, Sugar B. Wild Thing
C. Hang On Sloopy D. Do Wah Diddy Diddy

Spoiler

Out of lifelines, Michael guessed B, Wild Thing.

C. Hang On Sloopy (wrong guess at :05)

The $25K question was a WWOQ, but this one is almost a gimme. A was by The Archies, B was by The Troggs and D was Manfred Mann.

Oh, yeah. A gimme. Right!

[earendel]

$50K (‘60s Music):
A hit for the band The McCoys, what 1960s tune is the official rock song of the state of Ohio?
A. Sugar, Sugar B. Wild Thing
C. Hang On Sloopy D. Do Wah Diddy Diddy

Spoiler

Out of lifelines, Michael guessed B, Wild Thing.

C. Hang On Sloopy (wrong guess at :05)

The $25K question was a WWOQ, but this one is almost a gimme. A was by The Archies, B was by The Troggs and D was Manfred Mann.

Oh, yeah. A gimme. Right!

They were all songs that were released before my musical tastes fossilized, so I consider it a gimme. Besides, it's another example of Decades Synchronicity, since "The Real McCoys" came up in a question either yesterday or the day before.

[NellyLunatic1980]

$25K (Psychology):
In Jungian psychology, a patient who is considered a "puer aeternus" has trouble with what?
A. Controlling anger B. Growing up
C. Sleeping Alone D. Telling the truth

I've never heard of this psychological term, but my years of learning Latin in ministry came in handy for this question. "Puer" means "child", and this is the derivation of the word "puerile". And "aeternus" not only means, but looks like, "eternity".

$50K (‘60s Music):
A hit for the band The McCoys, what 1960s tune is the official rock song of the state of Ohio?
A. Sugar, Sugar B. Wild Thing
C. Hang On Sloopy D. Do Wah Diddy Diddy

I can eliminate A (the Archies) and B (the Troggs). I couldn't think of Manfred Mann for D within 45 seconds, so I would've burned Double Dip and locked in C.

(You'd think that after all of the years that I've been playing LS, I would've had the correct answer even before Meredith finished the question. But I brain-farted.)

[doitneatly]

$25K (Psychology):
In Jungian psychology, a patient who is considered a "puer aeternus" has trouble with what?
A. Controlling anger B. Growing up
C. Sleeping Alone D. Telling the truth


$50K (‘60s Music):
A hit for the band The McCoys, what 1960s tune is the official rock song of the state of Ohio?
A. Sugar, Sugar B. Wild Thing
C. Hang On Sloopy D. Do Wah Diddy Diddy

Studying Latin at Ohio State has me well equipped for these. This native Buckeye didn't know that it was actually the Official Rock Song, but "sloopy" was certainly a staple of TBDBITL(*), played whenever the football team wasn't winning... so it would've felt like a safe guess for me.

And google tells me that The McCoys were actually an Ohio-based band, hence the designation.



(*)College sports fans may get excited about OSU football, but the savvy people realize that the marching band is the MUCH bigger deal. Largest brass-and-percussion band in the world, with over 200 members, cutthroat tryouts for EVERY member every year, etc.

If by some quirk of fate anyone happens to get the chance to see the band perform their hallmark "script ohio" in person, don't pass it up. I'm really NOT a marching band fan, but it gave me shivers everytime.

Here's a youtube video for any who are curious. (note the incautious cameraman at 2:54, ouch!)

[doitneatly]

Michael Salerno
Weehawken, NJ
Attorney

$25K (Psychology):
In Jungian psychology, a patient who is considered a "puer aeternus" has trouble with what?
A. Controlling anger B. Growing up
C. Sleeping Alone D. Telling the truth

Carol, Garden City, NY
Sean, Roslindale, MA
Trina(?) NJ (lousy recording quality)

PAF

Sean says B, Growing up and when asked he is 100% sure

Spoiler

B. Growing up :18

Do you suppose Sean Googled this? He came up with the answer pretty quickly and with a 100% confidence level. As for me, "aeternus" means "eternal", so it doesn't seem likely to be anything other than B.

It sounded like a classic, practiced GPAF to me. Michael distilled the question to the key words, spelled them carefully, long pause on the other end, and eventual 100% certainty. But to me, the dead giveaway came right after that long pause...

"what were the choices again?"

As someone who practiced it a lot, I can tell you that the initial reading of choices is typically ignored as your googler is at that point intent on quickly and accurately turning your words into typing, and then waiting for the results to arrive.

<sigh>Yes I realize my great fondness for dissecting these moments is a moot moot point. I'll admit to a perverse interest in what a PAF-less show will look like, but I fear my long term interest will wither quickly without my favorite part.

edited to correct a typo

[MarleysGh0st]

Michael Salerno
Weehawken, NJ
Attorney

$25K (Psychology):
In Jungian psychology, a patient who is considered a "puer aeternus" has trouble with what?
A. Controlling anger B. Growing up
C. Sleeping Alone D. Telling the truth

Carol, Garden City, NY
Sean, Roslindale, MA
Trina(?) NJ (lousy recording quality)

PAF

Sean says B, Growing up and when asked he is 100% sure

Spoiler

B. Growing up :18

Do you suppose Sean Googled this? He came up with the answer pretty quickly and with a 100% confidence level. As for me, "aeternus" means "eternal", so it doesn't seem likely to be anything other than B.

It sounded like a classic, practiced GPAF to me. Michael distilled the question to the key words, spelled them carefully, long pause on the other end, and eventual 100% certainty. But to me, the dead giveaway came right after that long pause...

"what were the choices again?"

As someone who practiced it a lot, I can tell you that the initial reading of choices is typically ignored as your googler is at that point intent on quickly and accurately turning your words into typing, and then waiting for the results to arrive.

<sigh>Yes I realize my great fondness for dissecting these moments is a moot moot point. I'll admit to a perverse interest in what a PAF-less show will look like, but I fear my long term interest will wither quickly without my favorite part.

edited to correct a typo

You're probably right about the Google PAFing, but on this particular quesiton, anyone who didn't spell "puer aeternus" would be asking for trouble, while the PAF tried puzzling out "poor what?"

Besides not working under the pressure of a clock, an expert has another advantage in being able to read the question!

[silvercamaro]

Besides not working under the pressure of a clock, an expert has another advantage in being able to read the question!

This is the biggest disadvantage to being a PAF. In reading the question from the transcript, I immediately thought of "puer" and "puella" -- boy and girl -- from Latin I (the first lesson of Latin I, at that,) and deduced the meaning without any need for Google. I was taught that the word for boy was pronounced pooERR. If I were on the phone and heard something that sounded like "poor," I might not have come up with any answer until or unless it were spelled out.

[ten96lt]

$50K (‘60s Music):
A hit for the band The McCoys, what 1960s tune is the official rock song of the state of Ohio?
A. Sugar, Sugar B. Wild Thing
C. Hang On Sloopy D. Do Wah Diddy Diddy

Spoiler

Out of lifelines, Michael guessed B, Wild Thing.

C. Hang On Sloopy (wrong guess at :05)

The $25K question was a WWOQ, but this one is almost a gimme. A was by The Archies, B was by The Troggs and D was Manfred Mann.

Oh, yeah. A gimme. Right!

Those songs aren't gimmes since they were released in ancient time. Back then I heard people had to walk 15 miles through the snow uphill both ways to get to school and back.

[ghostjmf]

25K: I said "what huh", paused the screen, & squinted. Since its a very small screen to begin with, & BAM is not broadcasting in letterbox for some weird reason, so that my converter box, set on "normal" aka "letterbox" because I had forgotten to change it from whatever I was watching last, created on the tape a smaller "old aspect ratio TV" picture inside a letterboxed window, this was some good squinting. But as soon as I could actually see the spelling, I knew from the Latin what it had to be. I have never heard this term pronounced before, nor have I seen it in print before, either. No Jungian me.

50K: Only a gimmee if clock panic doesn't set in.