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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.

Awwwww.

Thanks, frogman!

Littlebeast archives things like this, you know....

This is one of the good one, too.

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.

I'm not sure why but the Ballad of the Green Beret has been rattling in my head all day..

so now the rest of us have the same pleasure?

mrkelley23 wrote:Littlebeast archives things like this, you know....

This is one of the good one, too.

Next Friday marks the fifth anniversary of the start of my run of Flashback Fridays. Maybe a retrospective of all of the best of Bored parodies may be in the offing that day.....

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