Getting Older

I know I've mentioned on multiple occasions that we watch Jeopardy!

It is humbling on multiple levels. 

I swear, I used to know more answers questions, but now they sometimes reach for such specific outliers that 710 and I just look at each other and shrug.

I'm sorry but I don't know words in Sanskrit that aren't yoga ones. Apparently a number of contestants the other night had zero problem in this field. 

At some point I just yell out the most incorrect and inappropriate answers and I'd probably do it if I ever got on the show just to see how deep in debt I could go. 

Mind you - there isn't a week where Marie Curie isn't an answer. And the question writers seem to looooooove Hagia Sophia it comes up so often. 

Conversely, I hate it when the questions are such lobs they practically give you the answer. And on many occasions, the contestant doesn't answer in the form of a question and they let it go.  <------ old man rant. 

The other humbling area are the commercials. 

While we are currently in mid-term season, right now there are a lot of those. But if you carve those out everything else is just driven to old folks...................like us. 

There are more prescription ads than one can shake a sitck at (see.....an old people's term). But there is also Gold Bond Powder. Consumer Cellular - for the old folks who want to be able to look at picturef of their grandchildren........I shit you not. Any number of "risk free life insurance plans that will never ask you your preexisting conditions.....(uh huh). 

Locally we get a lot of bath fitters too. Safety rails and such. 

I swear we age just watching a show.   I mean, technically we do......just not exponentially. 

Then 710 sent me this yesterday. 

MEDIAN. 

.....and we're bringing that median down!

OUCH!

And sorry Sony, but isn't any audience a younger one?????

But that explains the younger audience seeking. Jeopardy! is rolling out (or has?) a sports edition on ESPN and a pop culture one with Colin Jost as the host. I've seen none of these. 

Decades ago VH1 used to have a music one - which for me was great. I found it all too easy. Again with the lobs. It's like Celebrity Jeopardy!.  Other than Mo Rocca and Rachel Dratch I knew none of the "celebs". I guess it's like Dancing with the "Stars". 

Still, time waits for no man. Nor do advertisers. 

The sports version can have Doug Flutie hawking his testosterone pills. Pop Culture one can sell I dunno - Proszac?   Clearasil? 

Clearly with my old man ranting, I'm watching the correct version. 

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