Archive for January, 2002

Regional Variations of Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

Friday, January 18th, 2002

Italy: once a contestant reaches the halfway mark, topless women in glittery g-strings descent from the roof, along with an avalanche of balloons and streamers, in a musical spectacular.
Fiji: the ‘phone a friend’ lifeline is replaced with a ‘phone a host-coup’ lifeline.
Iraq: all questions are based around the subject of Our Great Imperial Leader. Additionally, […]

Everything is Funny One Day

Monday, January 14th, 2002

Everything is funny one day.
This is the only motto I live by that I can think of. Even the most horrendously ball-crushing moments of despair and embarrassment can be reflected upon in a year’s time and chuckled upon.
When Adam and I broke up just over a year ago, we concluded that we’d become different people. […]