I was in the middle of writing a longer post but I had to save it and post this up before I forget (or more accurately… Before I plunge a pencil into my ear to *make* myself forget!) So I have Wheel of Fortune on TV, muted. It’s only on because it comes on directly after Jeopardy, which I was actually watching. When I glance up at the screen, this is what’s already on the board: S??L ??? IN?? T?? S?NS?T. The category is Phrase. Now, I’m not trying to brag or anything, but I figured it out pretty quick. These allegedly literate people on TV have taken so long to get to this point that they are into the “Lightning Round” mode already, where you don’t even get to spin the wheel anymore, they just let you take turns naming a letter and taking a guess. D…(no guess) R…(no guess) M…(no guess) They are just not getting it. Finally they blind-luck it up to: SAIL O?? INTO THE SUNSET before this one guy comes up with, “Is it ‘Sail Our Into the Sunset,’ Pat?” I fucking thought he had gotten it right and there was just an error in the subtitles! (I have it set so that subtitles come up on my TV when it’s muted) NOPE! He could not even come up with the grammatically correct (but idiomatically wrong) “Sail OUT into the sunset!!” Finally, the next lady up chose “F” and put them all out of their misery, but I think maybe I saw Pat Sajak die a little inside while all this was happening. Sweet. Fucking. CHRIST! (Oh… Also, and on a related note, when the hell did they just start “giving” people the RSNTLE in the final round and letting them choose an additional 4 letters before solving the puzzle? That is even worse bullshit than when they quit making people “buy” stuff out of cheesy showcases with their winnings and started just letting them keep the money!)