Sunday snippets

At about.com Carrie Grosvenor has some fun with Regis Philbin's not-so-possible appearance on Dancing With the Stars. She wonders about other game show hosts who might compete, and ends up wishing for Pat and Vanna. Carrie doesn't mention him, but of course John O'Hurley of Family Feud sort of "won" the first season on DWTS, though there was a lot of ratings-stoking controversy about the "victory." John can cut a very dashing figure on the dance floor.

My wife is former teacher, so I better note the winner of Jeopardy's first-ever teacher's tournament: Charles Temple, an English teacher at Ocracoke School from Ocracoke, N.C. I love that name "Ocracoke." Looks like a combination vegetable and soft drink. Wikipedia (usual caveats) tells me the town, at the south end of an island off the North Carolina coast, is mostly a tourist trap and the reputed place of pirate Blackbeard's death. Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum for Mr. Temple's win.

ABC has rescheduled the debut of 101 Ways to Leave a Game Show. The forcible-ejection epic will now begin June 21 at 9:00PM. The network will give it a special Wipeout lead-in to help (they hope) with The Nielsen Company.

Stock market analysts are not known as big game show fans. But the folks at Morningstar couldn't resist a nod towards The Price is Right. They "came on down" and talked about whether some recent corporate acquisitions were overpriced. They think Microsoft overpaid for Skype, for instance. Speaking of TPiR, I hope Bob Barker doesn't show up at our house and start complaining about how we treat our Labrador Retriever. Every time I look up, the guy is whining about some animal somewhere.

Housekeeping note: I started a new feature in the sidebar, faux tweets. Now and then I'll put up 140 characters or less, and keep the last ten on view. I also posted a picture of our dog because I felt like it.