Millionaire (tangential)
A friend of mine once managed to get a spot on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. He asked me if I'd be one of his phone a friends. I said yes, naturally, hoping secretly that he might win a fortune with my assistance and that I might be granted a small fraction of it as a thank-you.

They film it the night before it's broadcast and beforehand we got a call from a member of the production team reminding us that, really, we ought to in by the phone, just in case. On the night in question my partner & I were sat in, just a little bit nervous, and the phone rings. It's mister production team again. Our friend has won fastest finger first, and is in the hotseat. He reminds us that if we're chose we get to speak to Chris Tarrant and that we should try and sound "a little bit excited" .. you bet!

We wait. Nothing happens.

Next morning we find out that he blew it and won the minimum amount. When we watch the show that evening we discover that he actually used his phone a friend on the question he screwed up. The question was something along the lines of ... "The French for what object is the term Love in tennis derived". He phones friend, friend gives him the wrong answer, wrong answer is delivered to Mr. Tarrant, game over.

I knew the right answer. It was "Egg". He never asked, and I never told him.
(MattDP (Squiggle), Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:11, 7 replies)

Better that
than be the friend who gave the wrong answer!
( M3rx likes the Asian ladies, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 16:54, closed)

How do they know you're not on the internet?
I wondered if the friends were in the studio somewhere -- otherwise how do they stop you googling the answer?
Admitedly you don't get long but I've managed to google quiz answers on the first try a good few times.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 17:25, closed)

^ this
I could google the answer while he was still asking the question
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 17:52, closed)

They do
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ1fJW44VzQ
(giddyup, Wed 24 Aug 2011, 5:16, closed)

wait, the french for love is oeuf?

( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 21:28, closed)

Yes, of course it is LOL etc.
yawn etc
oh, so funny etc
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Tue 23 Aug 2011, 21:33, closed)

Why do French people only have one egg for breakfast?
Because one egg is un oeuf...
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Tue 23 Aug 2011, 21:36, closed)