July 25th, 2010 / 2:54 pm
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Wheel of Fortune

The answer isn’t “Asshole,” as the letter “s” would have lighted up in the primary round of letters — yet that is what we see, what we hear. Language lives in the eye and ear before it enters the brain, except for Vanna White’s, who stares ahead with a straight botoxed face wondering why all the snickers? I don’t know what the correct answer is, keep on seeing A S S H O L E, like think about anything but elephants and what do you think?  The elephant in the room is at once both erroneous and implicit, its verity beyond its actuality. The contestant (let’s call her Cphog) no doubt is thinking what we’re thinking, the expletive that doesn’t exist but might as well. Say goodbye to that 25K or SUV honey, you’re linguistically fuckd, missing vowels or not.

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35 Comments

  1. Merzmensch

      It is not always a “key…”.

  2. Paul

      keyhole?

  3. Paul

      foxhole?

  4. mark

      it’s pothole. And the contestant is a friend of mine.

  5. Jimmy Chen

      can’t be pothole. she picked ‘p’ already and it ain’t lit up

  6. ryan

      I say its foxhole too

  7. Jimmy Chen

      no, then the ‘o’ in fox wudda been lit

  8. Paul

      dammit . . . i don’t know how to play this game. i don’t watch television.

  9. Paul

      what about airhole?

  10. Muzzy

      Pinhole

  11. Lily

      Are the rules to this game that hard to follow? The word does not contain: R S T L N E C P H O G, unless it is already lit up on the board.

  12. Ed

      Apparently, yes…

      it’s mudhole

  13. Fjord Maddox Fjord

      In no way related — a bit of found poetry for the titans of hypertext

      1.A BLUE HAT, 1.СИНЯЯ ШЛЯПА.
      2.A GREEN HAT? 2.ЗЕЛЕНАЯ ШЛЯПА?
      3.NO. 3.НЕТ.
      4.IT IS BLUE. 4.ОНА – СИНЯЯ.
      5.THIS BUS. 5.ЭТОТ АВТОБУС.
      6.IS IT RED? 6.ОН – КРАСНЫЙ?
      7.NO. 7.НЕТ.
      8.IT IS GREEN. 8.ОН – ЗЕЛЕНЫЙ.
      9.THAT BUS. 9.ТОТ АВТОБУС.
      1O.GREEN,TOO? 1О.ЗЕЛЕНЫЙ ТОЖЕ?
      11.IT IS NOT. 11.ОН НЕ ЕСТЬ.
      12.NOT GREEN. 12.НЕ ЗЕЛЕНЫЙ.
      13.IT IS BLUE. 13.ОН – СИНИЙ.

      (Dig the Houseman allusion, that’s how you can tell it’s real poesy^H^Htry)

  14. King Kong Bundy

      Bumhole?

  15. Merzmensch

      It is not always a “key…”.

  16. Paul Cunningham

      keyhole?

  17. Paul Cunningham

      foxhole?

  18. mark

      it’s pothole. And the contestant is a friend of mine.

  19. Jimmy Chen

      can’t be pothole. she picked ‘p’ already and it ain’t lit up

  20. ryan

      I say its foxhole too

  21. Jimmy Chen

      no, then the ‘o’ in fox wudda been lit

  22. Paul Cunningham

      dammit . . . i don’t know how to play this game. i don’t watch television.

  23. Paul Cunningham

      what about airhole?

  24. Muzzy

      Pinhole

  25. lily hoang

      Are the rules to this game that hard to follow? The word does not contain: R S T L N E C P H O G, unless it is already lit up on the board.

  26. drew kalbach

      i wish someone would linguistically fuck me tenderly

  27. Ed

      Apparently, yes…

      it’s mudhole

  28. Fjord Maddox Fjord

      In no way related — a bit of found poetry for the titans of hypertext

      1.A BLUE HAT, 1.СИНЯЯ ШЛЯПА.
      2.A GREEN HAT? 2.ЗЕЛЕНАЯ ШЛЯПА?
      3.NO. 3.НЕТ.
      4.IT IS BLUE. 4.ОНА – СИНЯЯ.
      5.THIS BUS. 5.ЭТОТ АВТОБУС.
      6.IS IT RED? 6.ОН – КРАСНЫЙ?
      7.NO. 7.НЕТ.
      8.IT IS GREEN. 8.ОН – ЗЕЛЕНЫЙ.
      9.THAT BUS. 9.ТОТ АВТОБУС.
      1O.GREEN,TOO? 1О.ЗЕЛЕНЫЙ ТОЖЕ?
      11.IT IS NOT. 11.ОН НЕ ЕСТЬ.
      12.NOT GREEN. 12.НЕ ЗЕЛЕНЫЙ.
      13.IT IS BLUE. 13.ОН – СИНИЙ.

      (Dig the Houseman allusion, that’s how you can tell it’s real poesy^H^Htry)

  29. King Kong Bundy

      Bumhole?

  30. drew kalbach

      i wish someone would linguistically fuck me tenderly

  31. zusya17

      utah… olé!

  32. carlos bugatti

      paul, you are a moron – see that has two o’s and one couldn’t be lit without the other

  33. carlos bugatti

      paul, you are a moron – see that has two o’s and one couldn’t be lit without the other

  34. Reynard Seifert

      r.l. stine

  35. Reynard Seifert

      r.l. stine