How I Mind-Punked My Way To Failure On ABC's WIPEOUT Last Night

Friday, June 24, 2011 - 08:30 in Health & Medicine

I hope you didn't see my first-to-worst performance in last night's hotties vs. nerds edition of ABC's WIPEOUT. If you did, you know what happened: after winning the round of 24 by almost a minute and then winning the round of 12 by the equivalent of a furlong, I got stuck in the round of six trying one element over and over -- the wrong way -- as people I had beaten in the first two rounds passed and eventually eliminated me.Nuts--'twas a very good shot at $50k that my family of four surviving on my writer's salary could've used.read more

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