Re: Jeopardy really gets it wrong tonight.
Author: Shortline Sammie
Date: 12-28-2016 - 11:51
Shortline Sammie Wrote:
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> Dr Zarkoff Wrote:
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> > >the Jeopardy folks got their definitions for
> > those questions from (possibly) British
> > terminology.
> >
> > Must be what happened because their term for
> > "switch", in the wider generic sense, is
> "points".
> > It's kind of like my British-influenced
> electric
> > teakettle: to turn it off, you have to push the
> > switch up.
>
> Doc...are you sure you don't have to "turnout" up?
> Too much coffee this morning!
>
> Sammie
Make that "push the turnout up".
Sammie