Hey QoD Peeps!

[peacock2121]

I just read the rules. If you get any part of the QoD wrong (or don't answer any part) you get a big fat zero.

Just so ya know.

[TheCalvinator24]

That is correct.

I can't tell you how many time I spent 45 minutes to 2 hours working through a TR QoD, only to wind up with zero points because I got one part wrong.

It was frustrating, but it made me (and I believe all who played) better Googlers.

[Odyssey]

Good reminder. All or nothing.

[earendel]

OK, so my first foray into the QoD turns out to be for naught, as I failed to answer one part of the question. C'est la vie.

[MarleysGh0st]

That is correct.

I can't tell you how many time I spent 45 minutes to 2 hours working through a TR QoD, only to wind up with zero points because I got one part wrong.

It was frustrating, but it made me (and I believe all who played) better Googlers.

Or it made some of us not play at all.

[TheCalvinator24]

That is correct.

I can't tell you how many time I spent 45 minutes to 2 hours working through a TR QoD, only to wind up with zero points because I got one part wrong.

It was frustrating, but it made me (and I believe all who played) better Googlers.

Or it made some of us not play at all.

I can't make people play, but I am trying to keep my QoDs not so complicated. That way, even though they are all or nothing, there should be no reluctance to playing.

Partial credit is a scoring nightmare.

[peacock2121]

I like it.

[peacock2121]

I also have an opinion (surprise, surprise!)

Anyone who wants to get into the hotseat would be better off playing, even if just for knowledge and not for winning the game.

[TheCalvinator24]

I also have an opinion (surprise, surprise!)

Anyone who wants to get into the hotseat would be better off playing, even if just for knowledge and not for winning the game.

I also agree with that. There have been a number of QoD questions that later showed up on the show. As I mentioned last week, that specifically included Rod Martin's $500K question.

[Odyssey]

My thoughts exactly, and that's why I'm going to be a diehard player.

QoD points are nice and all, but I'd rather have the million.

I also have an opinion (surprise, surprise!)

Anyone who wants to get into the hotseat would be better off playing, even if just for knowledge and not for winning the game.

I also agree with that. There have been a number of QoD questions that later showed up on the show. As I mentioned last week, that specifically included Rod Martin's $500K question.

[silvercamaro]

I can't tell you how many time I spent 45 minutes to 2 hours working through a TR QoD, only to wind up with zero points because I got one part wrong.

Those were the days in which I developed a standard answer for all QoD questions:

Screw it.

[Odyssey]

Hey SC, is that picture really you?

[mrkelley23]

Hey SC, is that picture really you?

I'm pretty sure it is.

Not sure who the chick in the pants suit is, though....

[earendel]

I also have an opinion (surprise, surprise!)

Anyone who wants to get into the hotseat would be better off playing, even if just for knowledge and not for winning the game.

I also agree with that. There have been a number of QoD questions that later showed up on the show. As I mentioned last week, that specifically included Rod Martin's $500K question.

And my $125K question back in December 2000 - asked on the very day I taped, IIRC. I do read through the questions and answers even if I don't play, because I want to keep up with things. J! is still out there as a goal for me and the more I know the better off I'll be.

[silvercamaro]

Hey SC, is that picture really you?

Do I seem like the kind of person who hangs out with enormous tubers? I mean, a giant yam, maybe, or a husky rutabaga, but....

[Odyssey]

Maybe you were just passing by?
You're obviously the type of person that posts pictures of enormous tubers...so what's the connection?

Hey SC, is that picture really you?

Do I seem like the kind of person who hangs out with enormous tubers? I mean, a giant yam, maybe, or a husky rutabaga, but....

[earendel]

Hey SC, is that picture really you?

Do I seem like the kind of person who hangs out with enormous tubers? I mean, a giant yam, maybe, or a husky rutabaga, but....

Well, you hang around here with a bunch of goobers, so who knows?

[silvercamaro]

Those were the days in which I developed a standard answer for all QoD questions

In the event my flip answer should be misinterpreted, I was not suggesting that the current QoD is not a most excellent game, nor that the current QoD meister has issues similar to those once seemingly apparent within the game construction, etc., etc. Like Earendel, I read the questions and answers every day. I simply play silently.

[peacock2121]

I was around for some of those TR games. My head hurt just trying to figure out what was being asked most of the time.

These are different times.

I like it.

[TheCalvinator24]

Those were the days in which I developed a standard answer for all QoD questions

In the event my flip answer should be misinterpreted, I was not suggesting that the current QoD is not a most excellent game, nor that the current QoD meister has issues similar to those once seemingly apparent within the game construction, etc., etc. Like Earendel, I read the questions and answers every day. I simply play silently.

I did not take offense.

I don't think I'm trying to show how much I know when I run the QoD. In fact, I've had to research these questions myself.

I will, however, admit that so far, the questions have been directly influenced by recent events in my life. I watched schindler's List last week (for the first time), I played Poker at the Winstar casino on Saturday (and won $46), and my Macintosh bit the dust yesterday.

[silvercamaro]

Maybe you were just passing by?

Not only was I passing by, but I demanded that we stop. After all, that very spud was once featured in National Geographic!

If I were going to use somebody else's photo, I would have found somebody much taller with better hair.

[Odyssey]

Maybe you were just passing by?

Not only was I passing by, but I demanded that we stop. After all, that very spud was once featured in National Geographic!

If I were going to use somebody else's photo, I would have found somebody much taller with better hair.

Come on, you look very lovely and ultra-fashionable! Neat to see you! I sure wouldn't look that put together for a stop on the roadside.

[peacock2121]

Come on, you look very lovely and ultra-fashionable! Neat to see you! I sure wouldn't look that put together for a stop on the roadside.

I have spent hot and humid days with Uday. When I was dripping sweat and looking like and feeling like a wet washcloth, Uday was always sharp and put together.

As BDM puts it "She's a lady."

[silvercamaro]

I sure wouldn't look that put together for a stop on the roadside.

I was dressed rather more properly than I might normally have been for spud-seeing. We were driving back to my son's house, following his badge-pinning ceremony as a firefighter last spring. (This is the son known as Adventure Boy, or sometimes Fire Boy.)

[silvercamaro]

As BDM puts it "She's a lady."

I believe he used exactly the same words about Janet the Duck.