English people are charmingly stupid - proof

[Bloomfield]

Our beer puts us out in front.

... which is still about fifty trillion million dozen miles behind the Germans and the Belgians. (And that is not even counting the demerits for the mint sauce.)

[Scott McCallister]

Jimmy "J.J." "Dy-No-Mite" Walker used to do a bit about some of the lame answers you could see on Family Feude. Punctuated by the guessers family clapping and saying "good answer, good answer" no matted how stupid the person was

"Name a fruit you can squeeze" Buzz!

"Walnuts!"

"Good answer, Good answer"


"Name a color of m&m" Buzz!
(this was back before all the new colors)

"White"

"Good answer, Good answer"

I actually saw this one:

"Name something you collect"
Buzz!
"Oooh you should have waited til I read the whole question, but what is your answer?"

"Stamps!"

"Good answer, Good answer"

"Survey says?" BUUZZZZZ! zero

"Ok, now let me finish the question..."

"Name something you collect, on the beach"

[Will O'B]

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TROUT ice cream!! He blended up raw trout to a puree, mixed in milk and sugar, and dumped it in the soft-serve machine. I still cannot believe the judges ate it. (Oh, and there was a bit of decorative fried trout skin sticking out of the ice cream as a garnish.)

Reminds me of the amazing Bass-A-Matic from Dan Akroyd and the early Saturday Night Live clan. It was a hoot.

Will O'Ban

[michael_coleman]

mmmmmm, jacket potato with curry and chips with cheese, just what the doctor ordered when the pub is closing and you have a few extra quid on the way home...what is it about drinking beer that makes me more hungry?

I love the boost bars in ice cream...

[Darwin]

The following are ACTUAL answers given by contestants on "The Family Fortunes" in the UK.

I'm afraid it's not just you Brits. It seems to me that "Family Feud" over
here in the states used to get some pretty inane responses to questions
as well.

Saw one just the other day:

"Name an animal whose name starts with the leter 'r'."
"Rhododendron."

[amar]

rather hairy, isn't it?

i've shaved since.

Headline:

Amar likes good clean craic.

how true, how true.

[emmline]

Our beer puts us out in front.

... which is still about fifty trillion million dozen miles behind the Germans and the Belgians. (And that is not even counting the demerits for the mint sauce.)

Plus, there's nothing like a gang of drunk Germans marching around the drinking establishment in what appears to be the Alpine equivalent of a conga line, singing "trink, trink, bruderlein trink..."

(at least I think that's what they were saying...the memory could be faulty)

[amar]

Our beer puts us out in front.

... which is still about fifty trillion million dozen miles behind the Germans and the Belgians. (And that is not even counting the demerits for the mint sauce.)

Plus, there's nothing like a gang of drunk Germans marching around the drinking establishment in what appears to be the Alpine equivalent of a conga line, singing "trink, trink, bruderlein trink..."

(at least I think that's what they were saying...the memory could be faulty)

that's one of my and bloomfield's favorite songs!

[Bloomfield]

... which is still about fifty trillion million dozen miles behind the Germans and the Belgians. (And that is not even counting the demerits for the mint sauce.)

Plus, there's nothing like a gang of drunk Germans marching around the drinking establishment in what appears to be the Alpine equivalent of a conga line, singing "trink, trink, bruderlein trink..."

(at least I think that's what they were saying...the memory could be faulty)

that's one of my and bloomfield's favorite songs!

Personally I like the song Wenn der Busen meiner Frau voller Wein wär/wollt' ich ein kleines Knäblein sein.... They just don't make music like they used to anymore. :roll:

[amar]

Plus, there's nothing like a gang of drunk Germans marching around the drinking establishment in what appears to be the Alpine equivalent of a conga line, singing "trink, trink, bruderlein trink..."

(at least I think that's what they were saying...the memory could be faulty)

that's one of my and bloomfield's favorite songs!

Personally I like the song Wenn der Busen meiner Frau voller Wein wär/wollt' ich ein kleines Knäblein sein.... They just don't make music like they used to anymore. :roll:

[TomB]

[quote="BloomfieldPersonally I like the song Wenn der Busen meiner Frau voller Wein wär/wollt' ich ein kleines Knäblein sein.... They just don't make music like they used to anymore. :roll:

[/quote]

Bloomfield / Amar: Any chance of a translation?

Tom

[amar]

[quote="BloomfieldPersonally I like the song Wenn der Busen meiner Frau voller Wein wär/wollt' ich ein kleines Knäblein sein.... They just don't make music like they used to anymore. :roll:

Bloomfield / Amar: Any chance of a translation?

Tom[/quote]

If the my wife's breast was full of wine, oh how would i wish to be little boy..

[TomB]

[quote="BloomfieldPersonally I like the song Wenn der Busen meiner Frau voller Wein wär/wollt' ich ein kleines Knäblein sein.... They just don't make music like they used to anymore. :roll:

Bloomfield / Amar: Any chance of a translation?

Tom

If the my wife's breast was full of wine, oh how would i wish to be little boy..[/quote]

Thanks. Very funny. Tom

[Steven]

What did the Japanese chef make for his dessert?

*drum roll please*

TROUT ice cream!!

There's a place in Bar Harbor called Ben and Bill's Chocolate Emporium. They are famous for their Lobster ice cream. Here's a bit about it:

http://www.captaind.com/newsmakerbenandbill.html

When my wife and I were in Okinawa, Japan in November, we saw lots of different flavors of ice cream, but no seafood flavors. Our favorite was sweet potato. Of course, the sweet potatoes there are very different from here -- they're bright purple! Fun to look at as well as tasty! My wife also liked the green tea flavor.


Steven

[Chuck_Clark]

Name a bird with a long neck - Naomi Campbell

This strikes me as perfectly intelligent and reasonable.

Me, too. Of course, the 'torch' response also made sense to me if yuou consider that some people still call a flashlight a 'torch'.

I've been watching a lot of the "...Millionaire" program lately. I'm pretty much convinced that the contestants are doing it for a noble reason (money) but that the popularoty of quiz shows stems from an unhealthy desire on the part of the rest us to feel superior to the boobs actually missing (or needing help with) questions a four-year-old would be embarassed to miss.