Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Error on previous post

HAHA turns out the millionaire post was a fake !!

here's the post i made 

here's the
post tt says it's fake

Origins:   One typical humorous use that has followed the advent of digital editing software is the alteration or fabrication of screenshots from TV game shows to make it appear that
contestants have missed ridiculously easy questions, provided absurdly inappropriate responses, or scrawled untelevisibly obscene answers. The e-mailed item reproduced above represents an example of the first such category, detailing the saga of a contestant on the popular Who Wants to Be a Millionaire game show purportedly stumped by a question asking her to choose the largest object from a set including a peanut, an elephant, the moon, and a tennis ball. Having used up all three of her lifelines — first eliminating "peanut" and "tennis ball" as possible correct answers, then asking a friend and polling the audience to choose between the remaining choices of an elephant and the moon — one Kathy Evans of Idaho supposedly decided to ignore all common sense and advice and opt for "elephant" as the correct answer.

Of course, the "evidence" provided with the story in the form of a screenshot is a bit of digital trickery. It's an altered version of a frame showing Fiona Wheeler, a contestant on the UK version of the show, attempting to answer a slightly more difficult question:


(Ms. Wheeler actually did quite well on the program, earning £32,000 for her efforts.)

Thanks to vincent for checking it out for me!

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