WWTBAM Bored

...whenever I saw them in school...especially with my daughter, who was perfectly fine in math, but always struggled (and will always struggle) with reading. She'd constantly get tripped up on her math tests whenever they gave her complicated word problem. I'd get annoyed because a complicated word problem in math is actually testing TWO attributes...and if you can't do one (reading) well, you can't prove how well you can do what you're actually getting tested on.

So it is with this WWTBAM question. What...now in addition to having to be good at trivia, you have to be good at anagrams? And synonyms? Under the pressure of the studio lights and the game?

I hope they made this a reasonably high-value question.

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My converter box blanked out on this show, either because neighbor has system sending signals that scramble my equipment or maybe its just those space-alien rays after all, but I could do this one while reading it on board. And I'm a little dyslexic; with anagrams it really helps to *see*, not just hear them.

Seeing to read is hard on my small TV sceen, but in-studio screen is huge.

My first inclination, without even starting to unscramble, was to think that most Ford models start with F. Taurus and Mustang immediately jumped to mind but those were also obviously wrong. So I ignored that one and worked on the others. If the Blacklist had stumped me I would have went back to Fords.

But I tend to agree: anagrams on a time limit are intimidating to me. We have them on pub quiz occasionally and they scare me to death. There are so many possible combinations.

andrewjackson wrote:My first inclination, without even starting to unscramble, was to think that most Ford models start with F. Taurus and Mustang immediately jumped to mind but those were also obviously wrong. So I ignored that one and worked on the others. If the Blacklist had stumped me I would have went back to Fords.

But I tend to agree: anagrams on a time limit are intimidating to me. We have them on pub quiz occasionally and they scare me to death. There are so many possible combinations.

In the Jumble today, the second word was lasia. I had labored for years under the illusion that asail is a word. It tripped me up once, and from then on I immediately recognized alias.

I find Spader so disgusting that I can't watch shows he's on. He originally showed up on "The Practise", I believe, as a lawyer making sexual references to see who he could freak out, but when he wound up on "Boston Legal" as the same character on a regular basis, I gave up & couldn't watch the show. Helps me remember his name anyway.


I've read that Spader is sleazy & obnoxious in real life in much the same way as those characters arer.