quote from RingoCollins:
>>Do I hear a game show freak here? All you that remember What's My Line?, I've Got A Secret, and [the worst of all] Beat the Clock
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Oh, wax me nostalgic, Ringo! We grew up watching those shows, especially the prime-time ones like I've Got a Secret, What's My Line and - of course - To Tell the Truth. Those would be no more missed than such things as Gunsmoke, Bonanza and The Lawrence Welk Show (double-puke, except on the one show where the organ guy played "Quentin's Theme"). And how can anyone forget that daytime classic: Queen for a Day. Some maudlin housewife competing with other maudlin housewives, telling tragic stories of their house being blown away in the Great Storm of '63, while the ill and elderly in-laws moved in and to top it off, the dog got pregnant. So everyone in the audience decided who had the saddest tale to tell, and in return she got to wear the crown, ermine cape, sit on a throne, and take home an electric skillet. Couldn't you see Elizabeth appearing on it? "I thought I murdered my husband and had him buried in the cellar for the past 18 years and never left the house, only to find it wasn't true, while my brother and his emotionally disturbed son moved in and my sister-in-law who's a supernatural creature tried to fry my nephew and then an ancestor returned from the dead turning everyone into a blood bank." She'd STILL lose to Mrs. Macfarlan from Des Moines who missed going to her weekly girls' bridge party when the clutch on her car burned out.
Gerard