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Re: Richard Dawson
Posted By: LaZorra, on host 209.135.4.147
Date: Tuesday, September 17, 2002, at 15:38:51
In Reply To: Re: Richard Dawson posted by Howard on Sunday, September 15, 2002, at 18:05:17:

> > > The category was something like "Ways in which humans are different than monkeys"
> > >
> > > The last answer.... Opposable thumbs.
> >
> > My favorite Family Feud story goes like this:
> >
> > Dawson: "Name a question like 'how old are you?' that--"
> >
> > Contestant on Family #2: *buzzing in* "Eighteen."
> >
> > Dawson: (turning to the board) "Eighteen!"
> >
> > *BUZZ!*
> >
> > Right in here there is chit-chat with the contestant that gave the wrong answer -- in all fairness, Dawson hadn't yet finished the question -- and the contestant said something about being 18, or being nearly 18, or whatever. Anyway, Dawson turns to the contestant for Family #1, an older woman, and reads the question to her.
> >
> > Dawson: "Name a question like 'how old are you?' that many people will answer with a lie."
> >
> > Contestant on Family #1: "Fifty."
> >
> > Dawson: (blinks; doesn't even go through the motions of seeing if that answer's on the board) "Now I'm going to have to give them [Family #2] another chance." (turns to the *next* family member on Family #2) "Name a question like 'how old are you?' that many people will answer with a lie."
> >
> > Next contestant on Family #2: "Thirty-nine."
>
> Maybe they don't pick their contestants based on intelligence.
>
> You have to remember that Dawson was in a prison camp in Germany for a long time, during which nobody kissed him.
> Howard

Well, as I remember, he made a couple of passes at the Fire Chief of Hammelburg's secretary...

La"has watched too many Hogan's Heroes"Zorra

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