Who Is Trebeck's Mom

[barnabas_truman]

After class today I was walking back to my car downtown when it started raining, so I ducked into Wok 'N Roll to have some potstickers mmm yummy potstickers and get started on my algebra homework. The TV in the restaurant was tuned to Jeapordy so I watched that between problems. I was quite surprised to find that one of the categories was "The Onion." Yep, all the questions were about headlines from The Onion's book Our Dumb Century. I had forgotten a couple of the names, but I certainly recognized all of the headlines cited. Another of the categories was Egyptian mythology, and one of the questions was about the god of the dead, and the contestants--and these are long-standing Jeapordy champions here, not just new challengers--didn't recognize him as Osiris, even though Trebeck showed a picture of him. One of the contestants even guessed Thoth, despite the fact that the god pictured clearly did not have an ibis head. Jeez.

So I drove home and talked with Yev about the Automat from Dark City and the new uber-vending-machine "Shop 2000," and then we found out that there really WAS a chain of Automat restaurants in New York in the early 1900s, and they weren't dark and eerie like the one in Dark City but were instead upbeat and art-deco and friendly and AWESOME and it really sucks that the parent company closed them all down and turned them into Burger Kings. Meh. I want to go to an Automat now.

Also I finished my algebra homework. Y'all can be proud of me now 'cos I'm actually finishing my homework the night before it's due instead of just rushing through a few problems the hour before it's due.


-=-Barnabas