I can only assume he’s related to Porsha Williams on some branch of the family tree. Anyway. This happened on Wheel of Fortune tonight, and the pride of Indiana still somehow managed to win. Welcome to the great collegiate minds of our future folks. These people were hand selected for their intellect.
The funniest part is he didn’t react. No shaking of the head,like”damn I can’t believe I missed that” just a stupid vacuous look. WOW. His parents must be proud as you know their friends and family were ALL watching. But at least he won back some of that tuition money.
I’m still laughing and sighing at that boy. I thought he looked a little embarrassed but was trying to hold it together .
Porsha’s family tree doesn’t have branches. Her group will probably “favorite” this tweet!!!
How the hell did he win? How bad were his fellow contestants that he was able to come in first? Unbelievable, and a little depressing.
If you are assuming that he is related to Porsha on some branch of the family tree, that tree must be a palm!
And another thing, what was the last word he guessed because I couldn’t make it out. He lost out on a car with that one I believe.
Awww haha poor kid! Pat handled that like a true professional!! I woulda lmao!
Wow, poor fella. So cute, so stupid.
Dumbest.Queen.Ever.
Oh my god. * tries to look for Underground Railroad door *
TT, GIRL, this was classic!!
All he needed was a 30 inch weave and he could pass for Porsha’s stunt double.
I think you mean Porsha’s Siamese cat
Being an older college student I’m not surprised. Some of my younger classmates at SFSU say some of the dumbest crap! I often wonder exactly what they did in high school and how on earth they graduated.
actually I think it’s DUMB that his answer wasn’t accepted. He got EVERY letter and just mispronounced Achilles. It’s a WORD game, not a pronunciation game.
Yes but you have to be able to pronounce words. And read. If he had said that guess with only a few letters it would have been incorrect and no one would think anything of it. His later “Spur of the moment Dicespin” etc is the same issue. He doesn’t know the word he is trying to say. You have to know words to win a word game. He was very good at spinning though!
On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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These are adults on a national game. They need to do better than looking, squinting and trying to sound it out for thousands of dollars. Ebonic and phonetic pronunciations won’t do.
Like I said on twitter I’m hoping he has not seen Troy, read the Illiad in high school or taken any course with mythology because then he would have not naan excuse. A part of the body is named after him for God sake. I feel so sorry for him lol.
TT you deserve the septar and crown as you blogged this before any of the national shows picked it up and ran with it. Toasting your keen eye for good conversation
If the puzzle had been “WHY DO YOU ASK ?” and he had read it as “Why do you axe ?” would he have been wrong ?
Yes, of course.
On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Why of course ? The mispronunciation of ask has been considered acceptable as have words like “conversate”. Wouldn’t there be radicals who would be screaming ethnic discrimination ?
Using axe for ask is not acceptable in literate circles. It may be acceptable down on the corner when you are scoring some crack, but it is not proper English. Wheel of Fortune is a word game where one has to be able to read and pronounce words. It’s a simple concept.
And sure the NAACP and Al and Jesse and Jonathan would march the Hollywood studios crying discrimination. However, WoF normally only casts people with a basic grasp of the English language. This kid just apparently never took a course in mythology.
On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Yes because those are two different words
No one around me could say “axe” instead of “ask”. I would wonder why they would want to kill me.