Would you rather lose an arm and a leg, or be fat?

https://twitter.com/undeadscribe/status/1325328752256147457

The best part of the presidential election is that Fox News finally showed it's true colors.

https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1325919252910546944

Something something controlled opposition something something.

More on Alex Trebek:

https://www.wqad.com/article/news/nation-world/trebek-brought-consensus-class-to-a-nation-in-need-of-both/507-41c643db-73aa-4673-8d23-ddf8c7aa58d2

Excerpt:

...He usually was savvy enough to be in on the joke.
In a famous exchange during the original run of the show's greatest champion, Ken Jennings, Trebek delivered a clue:
“This term for a long-handled gardening tool can also mean an immoral pleasure seeker.”
Jennings responded, “What is a hoe?”
As the audience began to titter, Trebek told Jennings, “Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. They teach you that in school in Utah, huh?”
Trebek immediately snapped back into the show's rhythm, as he always did, as another contestant gave the correct response, “What is a rake?"

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And here are two ideas I wish I could have gotten Trebek to use (I suppose he didn't accept random suggestions, the better to keep the clues secret):

Algonquin Table Trivia: "Dorothy Parker left her life savings to this Nobel Peace Prize winner."

Archaeology: "The Celts did not build Stonehenge. But about 1,000 years earlier, these people did."

1) Who Be Gahndi?

2) Wuzzit the Lakers?

Re #1...um, no. Dorothy Parker was notorious for being a suicidal alcoholic, but she outlived Gandhi by almost two decades and died of a heart attack at age 73, in 1967.

You may have googled already, but if not...

1. Who was MLK?

2. Who were the Beakers?

(So-called because when they died, they were buried with drinking vessels.)

According to one source, Stonehenge was never properly completed, but it was unofficially "finished" circa 2,500 BCE, and the Celts may have arrived in Britain circa 1,200 BCE. Or...maybe earlier.

And, about Parker...IIRC, since she was smart enough to know that MLK probably wouldn't outlive her by many years, she said that in that case, the money should go to the NAACP, and her ashes are now buried at the NAACP headquarters in Baltimore.

And they're thinking of moving her ashes (this July article has far more info than that):

https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-dorothy-parker-grave-20200712-rirzjyfeozda7pubup3ybjbh4u-story.html

In today's dollars, the money she left would be well over $300,000.

And I can't understand why the normally trustworthy website, Find a Grave, claims she's buried in the Bronx!