Wheel Of Fortune contestant mentions “battle-axe” wife and “rotten grandson” in family intro
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Game-show contestant introductions are pretty run-of-the-mill, as those trying to win thousands of dollars typically mention wonderful wives, supportive husbands, 2.5 kids, maybe a dog or two. But contestant Blair Davis broke with the format on Wheel Of Fortune Monday night as he told the world about his family: “I’ve been trapped in a loveless marriage for the last 12 years to an old battle-axe named Kim. She cursed my life with three stepchildren… and I have one rotten grandson.”
To his credit, veteran host Pat Sajak is nonplussed by Davis’ unusual remarks, responding, “Yayyy!” and commenting, “No wonder you came here, you just want to get away from everybody.” But Sajak correctly deduced that Davis was being facetious; he’s really a devoted family man who was just trying to break up the generic game-show format. Maybe he’s a ClickHole fan?
Davis confirmed as much in an interview with his local news station, KUSI in San Diego. The Cardiff-By-The-Sea resident revealed that he’s been with battle-axe Kim for 15 years, married for 12; the three stepkids are the “best part of my life”; and grandson Noah “is the focus of the whole family.” In fact, it’s Noah who insists that Grandpa keep his long and bushy beard. As a longtime WOF fan, Davis just felt that if he ever made it on the show, he would shake things up a bit. Well, mission accomplished.
Davis wound up coming in second, which he says was “better than nothing,” but the main takeaway has been his quickly viral fame. He says he’s “received notifications from A to Z.” Also, a TV show “that shall remain nameless” asked him if he’d done any “beard endorsements,” which could be a way for Davis to stretch his 15 minutes past his WOF winnings.
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https://twitter.com/neonwario/status/358197481634410496?lang=en
It was supposed to show the tweet. Unfortunately computers suck ass
Well, I can’t directly upload a photo, apparently.
As I recall, lopping off everything after the question mark makes it work. YMMV.
Let’s see here … New try https://twitter.com/neonwario/status/358197481634410496Fucking Kinja
oops, sorry. (the device may matter). Also, yes, “Fucking Kinja”.
Do you have some kind of ad blocker? AV Club has some kind of setting that fucks up posting things in comments if you have an ad blocker.
Sure, fun’s fun, but I think I’ve met that grandkid, and he is, in fact, pretty rotten.
If he were a woman, say a certain blonde actress, everyone would be crucifying him rather than having a laugh.
Obscure (and probably inaccurate) pop culture reference is obscure (and probably inaccurate).
How dare Reese Witherspoon pretend she doesn’t like her spouse!
It’s that an Eric Andre deepcut? Have a star
I thought it was a me deep cut, but I feel comfortable accidentally stealing jokes from Eric Andre.
Obviously this man jokes because he has never met the dreaded Laramie
Doesn’t he know that you can’t joke about these things anymore? He should be locked away somewhere and those poor kids be sent to loving foster homes. /just kidding… I’ll be leaving now.
Read the headline and saw the photo and legitimately thought it was a cute Lord of the Rings/Dwarf thing at first…instead of a garbage human.
Human garbage?! You must not have watched the video or read the summary. That dude seems delightful.
Correct, I didn’t. He’s not a garbage human.
….now you’re just pandering for upvotes. Delete your account, start over please.
Pandering for upvotes? Seriously? Christ. There doesn’t seem to be a way to delete my account. But I’m more than happy to spend my time elsewhere. You people can be real dicks.
I was trying to be ironic…. i forgot the /s that you kids are tossing in there for clarity as y’all have forgotten how to josh about.
They prefer term “grouches.”
That’s the mirror you’re looking into. This guy was having some fun.
Did he mention that the only guy in the band who doesn’t have a beard is named Beard?
And the guy who wrote Legs doesn’t have any!
That would be hilarious if Legs intended to be wistful song by jealous man with no legs. “She got legs… and she know how to use them. Life just so unfair, man.”
That’s one nugget of Dad Trivia I will gladly take from my old man
https://quizzes.clickhole.com/which-one-of-my-garbage-sons-are-you-1825124556
Boomer Humor, hua? The ol’ “make fun of marriage and family” style. How rich! How humorous! How 1990’s! 😑
Not really my kind of humor, but if the wife’s okay with it i say go for it buddy, stretch those 15 minutes.
‘To his credit, veteran host Pat Sajak is nonplussed by Davis’ unusual remarks . . .’I don’t think that word means what you think it means.
That’s just because there’s such a lugubrious amount of words in the English language.
(Copied from Merriam-Webster)
Definition of nonplussed
1
: unsure about what to say, think, or do : perplexed
2
chiefly US
: not bothered, surprised, or impressed by something
I’m pretty sure the second came about from people constantly misusing the word.
“chiefly US”
There’s the magic of the variability of language and meaning…
…and then there’s the simple truth that if enough morons say a word means something opposite to its original definition, it will mean that thing.
Sort of like rain on your wedding day, only it’s also a condemnation of the American educational system.
REPLY THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN AN EDIT BUT KINJA:
This is not a condemnation of the writer by any means. As noted, this is simply one in a long series of words Americans en masse have now officically reversed the meaning of (see “inflammable”), and it’s more our collective faults for being so stubborn in our cultural insistence on the control of meaning than it is any particular individual’s.
Americans literally wrote the book on screwing up what nuanced words mean. Can we just call your language “American” and let the rest of us enjoy English, sprinkled with a dash* of metric system?
* yes yes, ‘1/8 of a teaspoon’, so’s yer mother
We are literally the worst country ever.
Just you wait, pretty soon penultimate will finally mean “more than ultimate”, as it always should have.
Off-topic, but these days the word nonplussed mostly makes me think of the episode of ‘Archer’ where they meet Ray’s brother Randy.Randy: Are you trying to sleep with my wife? Because we would be extremely amenable to that … you seem nonplussed.Archer: That’s because I wasn’t sure if you knew what the word “amenable” meant. But then you followed it up with “nonplussed”.
I’ve never heard it used in that context. Yet I’m also not surprised that, once again, America chooses not to acknowledge the actual meaning of words, and just makes some shit up it likes better.
#2 is how I’ve always understood the word. It seems like everyone else is acting all #1 about it.
That’s not what nonplussed means.
These are Norm Macdonald jokes.
To his credit, veteran host Pat Sajak is nonplussed by Davis’ unusual remarks…Sajak’s response does not indicate that he was perplexed, which is what “nonplussed” means.
Nonplussed is an auto-antonym. It has a second definition that is the opposite of the first. See also: sanction.
Nonplussed also means unbothered.
When I was a kid, one night at dinner my dad referred to the Mother Superior of the Catholic school I attended as “That battle axe,” and I laugher so hard I coughed spaghetti clean across the table. My brother just ducked out of the way in time. It was fucking hysterical.
Sajak feels like he’s only a BEAT away from saying, “please tell me you’re being facetious” after he first mentions it.