Beauty and the Geek

Now here’s a “reality” TV show worth watching, even if it is only to make yourself feel smarter by comparison (or, in my case, console myself that I’m not the only dateless, desperate, never-been-kissed person on the planet). I managed to catch the first episode of this season late one night last week:

Host: which is closer to the Earth, the moon or the sun?

Beauty #1: the sun

Beauty #2: aren’t they the same distance?

Beauty #3: they’re the same thing

H: how many stripes on the US flag?

B: 52

H: who won the civil war?

B: us

H: who is us?

B: The United States of America, we won every war

H: Tell me a word that rhymes with orange.

B: Morange.

H: what’s morange?

B: [laughing] more orange

H: What are the first five words of the Gettysburg address?

B: I don’t know

H: who gave it?

B: I don’t know

H: Where was it given?

B: [shaking head] I don’t know

H: in the equation E=MC², what does the e stand for?

B #3: let me tell you right now, math and I do not get along

Geek: when was D Day?

Beauty: [shrugs]

Geek: 1942

Beauty: No, that was when Columbus sailed the ocean blue!

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JAG