The Valentines I never knew…

[duche55]

To those of us who knew the pain
Of Valentines that never came
And those whose names were never called
When choosing sides for basketball.

Heard on the Australian version of The Chase TV quiz show:

Compère: “In the first line of a Janis Ian song, she learned the truth at what age?”
Young male contestant: “Fifty?”

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And an even more poignant

Comments

[spikesgirl58]

I love this song and by the way, you have crazy game shows down there! :P

[duche55]

Me too, and yes, we do! I try to make a note when there’s a particularly inane answer given. For instance: “Tunnel 57 was a famous escape tunnel under which wall?” “Hadrian’s Wall?” 😳

[spikesgirl58]

We had such fun watching them. Theya re so different from ours.

[duche55]

Unfortunately, Australia has a habit of taking perfectly good UK game shows and making awful Australian versions of them. The Chase is probably an exception as the Aussie version isn’t too bad. But they did an Aussie version of Pointless, which didn’t work, and now they’re doing a terrible Aussie version of my favourite UK game show, Would I Lie To You? 😭 When will they learn to leave well alone?