Brickbat: In Jeopardy
Producers of the TV show Jeopardy! have barred residents of Canada from taking the online test to qualify to appear on the show. Host Alex Trebek, who is himself Canadian, blamed the ban on the nation's online privacy laws and said producers are trying to figure out how to comply with them.
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I’ll take Unintended Consequences for 200, Alex.
I’ll take Swords for $400, Alex.
Anal Bum Covers for $400….so, not much of a one for the ladies, are you Trebek?
I’ll take ‘Vintage Canadian Woodchippers’ for $800, Alex.
‘I’ll take Statist Dupes for $400, Alex.’
‘Sorry, Alex is a Statist Dupe, you’ll be deducted $400 and go on with another category.’
‘For $200,name the country with that sends all it’s talent south of the border’
Build that Canadian Wall!
We did say you could keep Bieber but you guys just keep sending him back.
‘I’m sorry,the answer was Northumbria,Northumbria.’
I take umbria with that remark.
Fuck ’em. Take a look at the Canadians around here and ask yourself, “Do I want these people in the living rooms of millions of innocent Americans?” I sure don’t!
Fucking beady-eyed floppy-headed poutine-eaters.
You have something against hooker fed swine?
You tell those flannel wearing bastards OMWC.
“I lost on Jeopardy…Baby.. Oooooooo oh oooooo ooooo”
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“They offer online home-based w0rk.”
How can they do that, considering Canada’s current spam regulations?
Rufus’ dream of Jeopardy glory….dashed.
He can always cry in his maple syrup,the devils sweetener.
I’m not quick with the switch.
Or on the commenting, given how late you are.
Oh, this is rich, this is. We “can’t” let Canadians onto Jeopardy, but there are thousands of people swearing that they’ll move to Canada if Trump wins the election? What if they don’t want you crybabies flooding across the border, huh?
They can move to Quebec,I’ve heard they’ll fit right in.
What do you call a Canadian with an IQ greater than 100? An American…
So, what, does Jeopardy have to blur the names and faces of the contestants and distort their voices if their Canukistani?
*reads article*
Yeah, that law isn’t going to work. You can only punish those people you can catch, Canukistan, and the really obnoxious spam doesn’t have an accurate (or long lasting) return address.
I still prefer my version, it was funnier.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Was said by a man for whom ‘brevity’ was but a word.
I watched a production where Horatio was re-imagined as the tomboy chick best friend who pined in glorious silence, and Guildencranz and Rosenstern were hookers. It was surprisingly great.
grate?
I thought we were banned because Canadians kept referring to the ‘Double Double’ as the ‘Tim’s special’.
“Requests made by the Toronto Star to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission and Industry Canada were similarly fruitless.
No government department could say what the problem might be with the online test, or which department questions about the test should be directed to.”
Three departments? Jesus statist unproductive me. No kidding they didn’t get a call back – IT’S CANADA. We don’t do professional call backs in a timely fashion.
Shouldn’t that read; “In Jeapardy, eh.”
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