Transcript 12/10/09 - Todd Phipps (carryover)

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Todd Phipps
Bellevue, NE
Lt. Colonel, US Air Force

Todd has 21 years of service in the Air Force.

Todd's daughter knows he's a fan of the movie, "Top Gun," so her advice for him is a line from that movie, "You can't think up there. If you think, you're dead!" By that, she means, "You know the answers. Just do it."

Question Topics:
* Napoleon
* Theatre
* Famous Firsts
* Le Tour de France
* 1963
* Great Professors
* New Mexico
* Medical Terminology
* '80s Movies
* (Richard Nixon)
* (French Customs)
* (Slogans)
* (Around the House)
* (Memoirs)
* (Words & Phrases)

Todd still has two lifelines left, the PAF and the ATE, with today's expert,
comedian Chuck Knight.

$10,000 * '80s Movies
Which of these movies shares its title with a 1958 song by The Crests?

A: Sixteen Candles B: Pretty in Pink
C: St. Elmo's Fire D: The Breakfast Club

Answer

A: Sixteen Candles ( 20 )

$12,500 * Medical Terminology
Although logorrhea is a serious medical condition, the term is also used to describe someone who has what problem?

A: Walks very slowly B: Talks too much
C: Smells badly D: Is frequently late

With 17 seconds left, Todd decides to Phone A Friend.

Todd's PAF team are Holli, Cedar Park, TX; Wally, Cherokee, IA; and Becky, Lincoln, NE.

Todd calls his sister-in-law, Holli. He begins by spelling logorrhea, before reading the question and answers.

Holli: Okay.

Todd: Logorrhea.

Holli: Give me the four, again.

Todd: Walks slowly, talks too much, smells badly, is frequently late. Three seconds!

Holli: [garbled] Talks too much.

Meredith: I believe she said talks too much?

Todd: Yeah, that's what I got.

Answer

B: Talks too much ( 12 )

$15,000 * New Mexico
In 2009, the New Mexico Tourism Department launched a Web site with maps and tours highlighting what Wild West figure?

A: Billy the Kid B: Daniel Boone
C: Wyatt Earp D: Davy Crockett

Answer

A: Billy the Kid ( 11 )

$25,000 * Great Professors
Made into an inspirational book and popular YouTube video, "The Last Lecture" was given by Randy Pausch, a professor at what university?

A: Univ. of Washington B: Carnegie Mellon
C: Vanderbilt D: UCLA

Todd has no clue on this one. With 20? seconds left, he decides to Ask The Expert.

Chuck is familiar with "The Last Lecture" and Randy, but he's not sure. He vaguely remembers Carnegie Mellon.

Chuck: That's from a memory of watching the Oprah Winfrey Show, so I can't put very much confidence in that.

Answer

B: Carnegie Mellon ( 13 )

-- Commercial Break --

Todd's daughter, Lauren, is in the audience.

$50,000 * 1963
The speechmaker immediately before Martin Luther King Jr. at the 1963 March on Washington, Joachim Prinz was a what?

A: Catholic priest B: Mullah
C: Rabbi D: Buddhist monk

Todd: I don't really have any idea, but it's a free guess. I'm going to say

Spoiler

Catholic priest, A,

final answer.

Answer

C: Rabbi ( 24 )

Todd leaves with $25,000.

[NellyLunatic1980]

$15,000 * New Mexico
In 2009, the New Mexico Tourism Department launched a Web site with maps and tours highlighting what Wild West figure?

A: Billy the Kid B: Daniel Boone
C: Wyatt Earp D: Davy Crockett

For sure, it's not Daniel Boone or Davy Crockett. DD on the other two.

$25,000 * Great Professors
Made into an inspirational book and popular YouTube video, "The Last Lecture" was given by Randy Pausch, a professor at what university?

A: Univ. of Washington B: Carnegie Mellon
C: Vanderbilt D: UCLA

I know the name, but I don't remember the university at which he taught. ATA.

[Estonut]

$15,000 * New Mexico
In 2009, the New Mexico Tourism Department launched a Web site with maps and tours highlighting what Wild West figure?

A: Billy the Kid B: Daniel Boone
C: Wyatt Earp D: Davy Crockett

For sure, it's not Daniel Boone or Davy Crockett. DD on the other two.

I don't believe Tombstone, AZ would be willing to share Wyatt Earp without a fight or, perhaps, a Gunfight at OK Corral...

[TheConfessor]

$12,500 * Medical Terminology
Although logorrhea is a serious medical condition, the term is also used to describe someone who has what problem?

A: Walks very slowly B: Talks too much
C: Smells badly D: Is frequently late

I wonder if the writers understood the difference between smelling bad and smelling badly. I suspect they meant the former, but we'll never know. Smelling badly would be called "anosmia."

[tanstaafl2]

$12,500 * Medical Terminology
Although logorrhea is a serious medical condition, the term is also used to describe someone who has what problem?

A: Walks very slowly B: Talks too much
C: Smells badly D: Is frequently late

I wonder if the writers understood the difference between smelling bad and smelling badly. I suspect they meant the former, but we'll never know. Smelling badly would be called "anosmia."

Does seem a rather poorly worded answer. Although that may well be what they intended as they are trying to describe someone who has a defective sense of smell rather than someone who hasn't showered in a while!

Might sound better as "decreased sense of smell" which is also known as "hyposmia". Anosmia might be better defined as "smells not at all" although anosmia is used sometimes to describe both a decreased sense of smell and a complete loss of the sense of smell.

Or maybe they meant phantosmia! I would think having an olfactory hallucination would be smelling badly.

[Bob Juch]

$12,500 * Medical Terminology
Although logorrhea is a serious medical condition, the term is also used to describe someone who has what problem?

A: Walks very slowly B: Talks too much
C: Smells badly D: Is frequently late

I wonder if the writers understood the difference between smelling bad and smelling badly. I suspect they meant the former, but we'll never know. Smelling badly would be called "anosmia."

I expect they meant "smells bad". People screw that up all the time, usually with "I feel badly."

[ghostjmf]

15K: Know it isn't Boone or Crockett, pretty sure it isn't Earp, as he died in AZ. Am distracted by Kit Carson showing up as a pretty major character in Willa Cather's "Death Comes for the Archbishop". But Carson isn't a choice. Go with Billy, hold breath.

25K: About 98% sure its Carnegie Mellon, but ATA anyway.

50K: No blinking idea. Pretty sure, back then, it wouldn't have been a mullah or a Buddhist monk; could double dip, but still have PAF, so use it.

[ulysses5019]

15K: Know it isn't Boone or Crockett, pretty sure it isn't Earp, as he died in AZ. Am distracted by Kit Carson showing up as a pretty major character in Willa Cather's "Death Comes for the Archbishop". But Carson isn't a choice. Go with Billy, hold breath.

25K: About 98% sure its Carnegie Mellon, but ATA anyway.

50K: No blinking idea. Pretty sure, back then, it wouldn't have been a mullah or a Buddhist monk; could double dip, but still have PAF, so use it.

I think Wyatt Earp died a peaceful death here in Los Angeles and is buried up near San Francisco.

[Bob Juch]

15K: Know it isn't Boone or Crockett, pretty sure it isn't Earp, as he died in AZ. Am distracted by Kit Carson showing up as a pretty major character in Willa Cather's "Death Comes for the Archbishop". But Carson isn't a choice. Go with Billy, hold breath.

25K: About 98% sure its Carnegie Mellon, but ATA anyway.

50K: No blinking idea. Pretty sure, back then, it wouldn't have been a mullah or a Buddhist monk; could double dip, but still have PAF, so use it.

I think Wyatt Earp died a peaceful death here in Los Angeles and is buried up near San Francisco.

You are correct, sir.

[Estonut]

15K: Know it isn't Boone or Crockett, pretty sure it isn't Earp, as he died in AZ. Am distracted by Kit Carson showing up as a pretty major character in Willa Cather's "Death Comes for the Archbishop". But Carson isn't a choice. Go with Billy, hold breath.

25K: About 98% sure its Carnegie Mellon, but ATA anyway.

50K: No blinking idea. Pretty sure, back then, it wouldn't have been a mullah or a Buddhist monk; could double dip, but still have PAF, so use it.

I think Wyatt Earp died a peaceful death here in Los Angeles and is buried up near San Francisco.

Not sure where he's buried, but he definitely died in L.A. While here, he had some influence on a young Marion Morrison.

[ghostjmf]

Well, then I would have made the right choice for one of the wrong reasons. Except I thought BTK died in NM; I don't think he was born there. And in that I'm influenced by Steve Tilson's song "Slip Jigs and Reels", which has him an Irish immigrant, & which may have been wholly made up for all I know.

[Bob Juch]

Well, then I would have made the right choice for one of the wrong reasons. Except I thought BTK died in NM; I don't think he was born there. And in that I'm influenced by Steve Tilson's song "Slip Jigs and Reels", which has him an Irish immigrant, & which may have been wholly made up for all I know.

BTK was born in NYC and moved to New Mexico when he was 14 or so.

[Phil Ken Sebbin]

Well, then I would have made the right choice for one of the wrong reasons. Except I thought BTK died in NM; I don't think he was born there. And in that I'm influenced by Steve Tilson's song "Slip Jigs and Reels", which has him an Irish immigrant, & which may have been wholly made up for all I know.

BTK was born in NYC and moved to New Mexico when he was 14 or so.

And once shot a man for snoring to loud.
Thanks, Time-Life Books!!

[tanstaafl2]

Well, then I would have made the right choice for one of the wrong reasons. Except I thought BTK died in NM; I don't think he was born there. And in that I'm influenced by Steve Tilson's song "Slip Jigs and Reels", which has him an Irish immigrant, & which may have been wholly made up for all I know.

BTK was born in NYC and moved to New Mexico when he was 14 or so.

And once shot a man for snoring to loud.
Thanks, Time-Life Books!!

Although born an American originally in NYC William "Billy the Kid" McCarty was the son of Irish immigrants.

We can be a testy lot, especially if we have had too many Jose Cuervo cookies...

[ghostjmf]

Technically, the song has BTK's Mom "sewing into his pocket a 10-shilling note". Before she sent him off into the world to make his fortune. So to speak. And does everybody know where she came from?

[ulysses5019]

BTK was born in NYC and moved to New Mexico when he was 14 or so.

And once shot a man for snoring to loud.
Thanks, Time-Life Books!!

Although born an American originally in NYC William "Billy the Kid" McCarty was the son of Irish immigrants.

We can be a testy lot, especially if we have had too many Jose Cuervo cookies...

....or not enough.

[ghostjmf]

The power of song, or how I was mislead (if indeed I was mislead)

Definitely has him an immigrant, & who would argue with this???!

ARTIST: Steve Tilston
TITLE: Slip Jigs and Reels
Lyrics and Chords

[Capo 2]


He was barely a man in his grandfather's coat
Sewn into the lining, a ten-shilling note
Goodbye to the family, goodbye to the shore
Till I taste good fortune, you'll see me no more

/ D A D G / D G A D / : / DDA DDG DDA DDG /

The boat on the ocean tossed like a cork
Then one fine morning they sighted New York
And he stood on the gangplank and breathed in the air
"Hello land of plenty, I've come for my share"

{Refrain}
And he did like the ladies, the rise and the fall
Of their ankles and dresses, down on the dance floor
And rolling the dice and spinning the wheels
But he took most delight in the slip jigs and reels

/ DDA DDG DDA DDG / / DDA DDG D G - - - / 1st /

There's talk a pistol and some say a knife
But all are agreed there was somebody's wife
Some kind of commotion, a terrible fight
He left a man dead and ran into the night

A train to St. Louis, just one jump ahead
He slept one eye open, a six-gun in bed
And he dreamt of the mountains and green fields of home
While crossing the plains where the buffalo roam

{Refrain}

Oh, bad reputation's a hard thing to bear
Mothers pour scorn and young children they stare
But he found consolation in flash company
Your life ain't so bad with a girl on your knee

Oh, they called him the Kid, and by twenty-one
All that he knew was the power of the gun
And by twenty-three, he'd shot five men down
Who got in his way as he rambled around

{Refrain}

There's bones in the desert and buzzards that fly
In the highest of circles, just wishing he'd die
But in matters of cruelty, it must be said
A landlord will pick your bones before you're dead

It was wild mescaleros, I heard people say
In the deadliest ambush near old Santa Fe
And a young buck was taken dressed in a coat
And inside the lining, a ten-shilling note

[tanstaafl2]

The power of song, or how I was mislead (if indeed I was mislead)

Definitely has him an immigrant, & who would argue with this???!

ARTIST: Steve Tilston
TITLE: Slip Jigs and Reels
Lyrics and Chords

[Capo 2]


He was barely a man in his grandfather's coat
Sewn into the lining, a ten-shilling note
Goodbye to the family, goodbye to the shore
Till I taste good fortune, you'll see me no more

/ D A D G / D G A D / : / DDA DDG DDA DDG /

The boat on the ocean tossed like a cork
Then one fine morning they sighted New York
And he stood on the gangplank and breathed in the air
"Hello land of plenty, I've come for my share"

{Refrain}
And he did like the ladies, the rise and the fall
Of their ankles and dresses, down on the dance floor
And rolling the dice and spinning the wheels
But he took most delight in the slip jigs and reels

/ DDA DDG DDA DDG / / DDA DDG D G - - - / 1st /

There's talk a pistol and some say a knife
But all are agreed there was somebody's wife
Some kind of commotion, a terrible fight
He left a man dead and ran into the night

A train to St. Louis, just one jump ahead
He slept one eye open, a six-gun in bed
And he dreamt of the mountains and green fields of home
While crossing the plains where the buffalo roam

{Refrain}

Oh, bad reputation's a hard thing to bear
Mothers pour scorn and young children they stare
But he found consolation in flash company
Your life ain't so bad with a girl on your knee

Oh, they called him the Kid, and by twenty-one
All that he knew was the power of the gun
And by twenty-three, he'd shot five men down
Who got in his way as he rambled around

{Refrain}

There's bones in the desert and buzzards that fly
In the highest of circles, just wishing he'd die
But in matters of cruelty, it must be said
A landlord will pick your bones before you're dead

It was wild mescaleros, I heard people say
In the deadliest ambush near old Santa Fe
And a young buck was taken dressed in a coat
And inside the lining, a ten-shilling note

Almost everything about the lore of Billy the Kid was exaggerated or completely fictionalized. While he most likely was responsible for killing several others it is unlikely he killed 21 people, though he may have been part of different groups at different times that were involved in a variety of killings, especially as part of the Lincoln County War. He probably didn't kill someone jsut because they snored but that is certainly part of the legend today. The song is not likely any different in being more fiction than fact.

[TheConfessor]

Well, then I would have made the right choice for one of the wrong reasons. Except I thought BTK died in NM; I don't think he was born there. And in that I'm influenced by Steve Tilson's song "Slip Jigs and Reels", which has him an Irish immigrant, & which may have been wholly made up for all I know.

BTK was born in NYC and moved to New Mexico when he was 14 or so.

And once shot a man for snoring to loud.
Thanks, Time-Life Books!!

The legend about shooting a man for snoring that was used to sell Time-Life books was not about Billy The Kid. The commercials attributed it to John Wesley Hardin.

[tanstaafl2]

BTK was born in NYC and moved to New Mexico when he was 14 or so.

And once shot a man for snoring to loud.
Thanks, Time-Life Books!!

The legend about shooting a man for snoring that was used to sell Time-Life books was not about Billy The Kid. The commercials attributed it to John Wesley Hardin.

Well, there you go. Billy the Kid was just an innocent misunderstood kid I tell ya!

[Phil Ken Sebbin]

BTK was born in NYC and moved to New Mexico when he was 14 or so.

And once shot a man for snoring to loud.
Thanks, Time-Life Books!!

The legend about shooting a man for snoring that was used to sell Time-Life books was not about Billy The Kid. The commercials attributed it to John Wesley Hardin.

There you go ruining my good story with your "facts." BTK makes it more interesting, like Regis on SyndiBAM.

[frogman042]

And once shot a man for snoring to loud.
Thanks, Time-Life Books!!

The legend about shooting a man for snoring that was used to sell Time-Life books was not about Billy The Kid. The commercials attributed it to John Wesley Hardin.

There you go ruining my good story with your "facts." BTK makes it more interesting, like Regis on SyndiBAM.

Well, I once shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die.

But after pulling the trigger, my chewing gum ran out of flavor and he died while I was trying to find another stick of gum, so I missed it. Guess I should have been chewing Extra....

[Bob Juch]

The legend about shooting a man for snoring that was used to sell Time-Life books was not about Billy The Kid. The commercials attributed it to John Wesley Hardin.

There you go ruining my good story with your "facts." BTK makes it more interesting, like Regis on SyndiBAM.

Well, I once shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die.

But after pulling the trigger, my chewing gum ran out of flavor and he died while I was trying to find another stick of gum, so I missed it. Guess I should have been chewing Extra....

If you shot a man in Reno, why were you in a California prison?

[silvercamaro]

There you go ruining my good story with your "facts." BTK makes it more interesting, like Regis on SyndiBAM.

Well, I once shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die.

But after pulling the trigger, my chewing gum ran out of flavor and he died while I was trying to find another stick of gum, so I missed it. Guess I should have been chewing Extra....

If you shot a man in Reno, why were you in a California prison?

He wanted to go back east.

[NellyLunatic1980]

Well, I once shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die.

But after pulling the trigger, my chewing gum ran out of flavor and he died while I was trying to find another stick of gum, so I missed it. Guess I should have been chewing Extra....

If you shot a man in Reno, why were you in a California prison?

He wanted to go back east.

You should've saved for the transcripts for today's episode.