Talented People
I do admit that picking on people that decide to call in to participate in silly radio programs is not very sportive. By definition they won’t be the best and the brightest, so making fun of it isn’t nice.
But still.
I got to hear about 1-2 minutes of some radio show. I didn’t listen long enough to actually figure out what’s their point or what the show is about. All I know is that they have callers which are apparently competing with each other for, or about, something. Also, since I managed to catch a glimpse (can I say glimpse when it’s radio? What’s the proper alternative?) of this show in the past, I know they like to ask the callers to describe things in a reverse order as part (all?) of their challenges.
When I tuned in they asked a participant to briefly describe the plot of Back to the Future, in reverse. The participant responded by an inspiring "eh… back from the future?… hmm… I… err…" . Either she didn’t have a clue what they were talking about, or, as the host of the show told her on the air, she was wasted after drinking too much alcohol.
The second participant was asked to describe making a salad, in reverse. While paying more attention, the poor guy couldn’t get his mind around the fact that he was required to describe the process in reverse. His reply: "A tomato, to cut. A cucumber, to cut. To mix". After finishing to giggle, the host kindly said that it’s not that bad on the salad part (possibly the host never ate a salad in his life? To me the salad part sounds wholly inadequate as well), but totally wrong on the reverse part.
At about this stage I decided it’s not really for me and switched channel. Depressing to know that people with this high caliber of intelligence are wandering around and feeling proud enough in themselves to go live on air.
January 19th, 2005 at 1:13 EET | Categories: Miscellaneous |
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