Okay, so there’s this dumb online quiz making the round of blogs, all about how much of a ‘bubble’ you live in. Far as I can tell from reading the questions elsewhere it’s really about admitting how much of a redneck you are*, but it’s dressed up prettier than that.
Obviously I’m going to skew weird on any such thing but I thought it might be amusing blogbait, right? So I started, and I didn’t even get through the first question.
1. Have you ever lived for at least a year in an American neighborhood in which the majority of your 50 nearest neighbors did not have college degrees?
Okay, simple enough.
“YES”
And then there was a follow-up question…
How many years?
And I X’ed out of the page hurriedly. This isn’t a quiz, it’s a survey. I don’t do surveys. Who wants to know? How long till the helicopters arrive? Where’s my camo netting?
😳 Yeah, okay, maybe I skew just a little weird for a PBS quiz.
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* “12. Do you know who Jimmie Johnson is?” Seriously? Yeah. I know who Mikhail Baryshnikov is, too, and I even know how to spell it. Shitheads.
The answer to that question is true to 90-95% of all neighborhoods in any country. And why is Jimmie Johnson’s name spelled with an ‘ie’ instead of a ‘y’? ‘ie’ denotes a girl with a boy’s name. Is there something about him we don’t know? Or that his mama couldn’t spell? Or his mama was into cutesy names?
Re #12: no. Although, Jimmy John’s makes some good sandwiches ‘n subs. Probably not the same guy.
Snooty PBS Answer: If his mama were honest she’d have named him Billie Roy Jimmie Bob in honor of all his possible fathers.