>Peter, you're right that people in the US tend to whoop and cheer more readily than a European audience- except possibly at a football match. ;-) But it's all in fun. They're having a great time and it's sort of an expected part of that particular show. If you go along to be in the audience, you're expecting a highly-charged episode of screaming, jumping up and down, whooping. Without all that spectacle, it's just somebody opening case after case and hoping for a windfall. The cases, of course, are held by babes. ;-) So it's mindless pap dished up for people who sit vacantly in front of the TV all day (or when they're jetlagged at night ;-) )
or can't find a vein with the razor ...
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
