As Pat Sajak, host of Wheel of Fortune, aptly notes, “It’s a weird game, and you just never know.” Translated: “You are a dope-huffing pot head stoner Reed student and you’ve just embarrassed your entire college and town on national TV.”

In his defense… okay, there’s no defense.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=bcdWMaYWzGg

Bang bang, choo-choo train, let me see you shake that thang. Wm. Steven Humphrey is the editor-in-chief of the Portland Mercury and has held the job since 2000. (So don’t get any funny ideas.)

12 replies on “Reed College Students: Good at Huffing Bongs… Not So Good at Spelling”

  1. I was backstage watching this on a monitor when it happened. I was joking with a co-worker, and said, “He’s gonna say ‘magic hand,'” when he actually did just that.

    For a minute, I was wondering if he’d heard me.

  5. Well, there are worse things. At least he won’t grow up to have to be the editor at a third-rate weekly paper in a second-tier city.

  6. A Beefheart fan just doesn’t stand a chance with a puzzle like that. He said “Magic Band” twice — obviously the “right” answer, but it just wouldn’t take.

  7. The pothead comment is mean, and really uncalled for. C’mon. Give the kid a break– people choke all the time.

  8. That “dope-huffing pothead stoner” (pretty redundant, I’m sure you could have come up with some other inaccurate superlatives to improve your Reed stereotype -although, in your defense, you’re writing for the Mercury, so it’s not like I should’ve expected any better) somehow managed to win about as much money as the average person makes in a year before making one stupid mistake. I’m sure you have the right to criticize, though, as only the most intelligent people spend their days writing blurbs about YouTube videos for a mediocre weekly’s website.

  11. He eventually got wand, I didn’t hear a timer go off, seemed like it was within ten seconds… I’m not exactly clear on why he lost.

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