{"id":33251,"date":"2024-11-15T15:04:47","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T21:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=33251"},"modified":"2024-11-15T11:29:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T17:29:42","slug":"in-preparing-for-a-trivia-night-i-confused-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/15\/in-preparing-for-a-trivia-night-i-confused-myself\/","title":{"rendered":"In Preparing For A Trivia Night, I Confused Myself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So on my way to market today, I heard &#8220;You Keep Me Hanging On&#8221; on the radio, the local robostation that places the greatest hits of 80s, 90s, and whatever from its home computer office in a shack somewhere in Iowa or something, and I tried to remember who sang it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kim Wilde,&#8221; I thought.  &#8220;No, wait, Kim Wilde did &#8216;Bette Davis Eyes&#8217;.  <em>Who was it?<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a warm up for my self-doubting dithering that has become a hallmark of my Trivia Night answers.  The moment where I confused myself and changed my answer from &#8220;Unchained Melody&#8221; to &#8220;Unchained Medley&#8221; and tried to convince my team to change the team answer in the exaggerated earnestness of the truly, pathetically mistaken and prepared to be only a little smug when we got it wrong and to have lost by only a point thwarted by the sound-minded team members, and we ended up winning by a couple of points&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it is Kim Wilde who sang &#8220;You Keep Me Hanging On&#8221; forty years ago:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I_3gLp6k7ZE?si=tw74oDeolFE2Uz4z\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And you probably already know it was Kim <em>Carnes<\/em> who sang &#8220;Bette Davis Eyes&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EPOIS5taqA8?si=TG5S0iKsObta2Is2\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Which is why the North Side Mind Flayers would like to contact you to replace me.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s neither here nor there.<\/p>\n<p>What is important, forty years later: Kim Wilde or Kim Carnes?<\/p>\n<p>Ah, gentle reader, as you might know&#8211;as my analyst would, should I ever get an analyst to pick an answer from all the things which I conceive could be wrong with me from my earliest days&#8211;I do not favor blondes with long faces probably because they remind me of my sainted mother.  So I&#8217;ll have to go Kim Wilde here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So on my way to market today, I heard &#8220;You Keep Me Hanging On&#8221; on the radio, the local robostation that places the greatest hits of 80s, 90s, and whatever from its home computer office in a shack somewhere in Iowa or something, and I tried to remember who sang it. &#8220;Kim Wilde,&#8221; I thought. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33251"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33254,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33251\/revisions\/33254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}