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Things You've Learned From Game Shows..
Fedya:
I learned the (possibly apocryphal) story of the naming of the Queen Mary from an episode of Hit Man.
From PYL I learned what flokati is.
mrchips:
How to measure time in the absence of a watch or clock.
colonial:
Thanks to "Pyramid," I learned how to spell and pronounce "hors d'oeuvres," as well as an introduction to three-digit addition (even at a very young age, I wanted to be quicker than Dick Clark adding up the boxes in the Winner's Circle).
WOF taught me multiplication, and I got a crash course in counting by hundreds the "Jack Barry way" on TJW.
SOTC was good when it came to subtraction, particularly with Instant Bargains.
When she was 4-5, my daughter started getting comfortable with the concept of taking letters and putting them into words after showing her a few episodes of "Countdown" on YT (she was in what my family called her "British stage," where she watched UK kids shows on YT and spoke in British colloquialisms -- "Ready, steady, go … let's take the lift, etc.".)
JD
Chuck Sutton:
I learned from Battlestars,. Sex is actually good treatment for a headache.
BrandonFG:
A random thing I do just came to me...I learned it from Davidson's Hollywood Squares.
Supposedly pulling your upper eyelid over the lower one, then blowing through the nose is a good way to get a speck out of your eye. Nearly 30 years later, I still use that trick.
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