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Home My WebLink AboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1983-03-02, Page 19Page 6—Crossroads—March 2, 1983 FOR QLOSAL NEWS .,TPE, ... TRUENIAN Do you know What woman was Time Magazine's Man of the Year in 1952? If you do, chances are you're a pack rat for a lot of odds and ends of information, and you'd be a natural for the game that's sweeping the country. We were given the game Trivial Pursuit as a Christ- mas gift. I won't say much more about the, game itself. Suffice it to say that the rules are simple, and almost everyone can play. Because the questions are trivial, great scholarship is not like- ly to be of much advantage, and the pack rat is likely to beat the academician. What fascinates me about Trivial Pursuit is not so much the game itself, but its instant success and what that has meant to its young inventors in the current re- cession. In a way, like Monopoly, Trivial Pursuit is a product of economic disaster. At least I'm sure that's one of the reasons that at thirty dollars a copy, the game is selling. And it's not just selling well. It's gone crazy. Mr. Gameways Ark, a Toronto store which special- izes in this kind of thing, says it's the hottest selling game in history. Recently, some 3,000 pre -paid purchasers were on their lists, waiting for delivery. And the two young Mon- treal newspapermen who in- vented the game in 45 idle minutes a little over two years ago, Scott Abbott and Chris Haney, are going to be very, very rich. They've just sold the rights to Selcho and Writer,,,the distributors for Scrabble, for the largest game royalty in the history of the universe. They developed the game on peanuts. One of their early backers was a girl who works in Toronto for CTV. She knew one of the inven- tors, and they asked her to put a little money in it. Like most salaried people, she had no money, but she had nerve enough to say, "What the heck" and she borrowed $2,000 from the bank. For that she got 10 shares of a company in which 1,000 shares are outstanding. One newspaper analyst esti- mates that the shares are worth $4,000 apiece and are climbing rapidly. They may be worth twice that much or 10 times as much, depending on how you look at it. She too is going to be very, very rich. And I think that that is ab- solutely terrific. It gives us all hope, or ought to. It tells me that if 1 do see the brass ring, I ought to grab it, despite the people who groan on the sidelines and say you can't do it. And, by the way, Time's Man of the Year in 1952 was a young Queen, Queen Elizabeth II. That's not news but that too is reality. Electronic magazine with a twist Looking for laughs? Do your flippers fall off in the bathtub? Can Siamese trip- lets find happiness joined in holy wedlock? Does Bobby Clobber have a "problem"? For the answers to these questions and more, tune in to Super Comedy: The Air Farce Amazing Video En- quirer, Sunday, March 6 at 7:30 p.m. on CBC Television. The Air Farce is an eclec- tic collection of comedians. The troupe is now celebrat- ing their 10th anniversary to- gether slinging jokes at everything and everyone, ranging from Royalty to government bureaucrats, dumb hockey players, civil servants and everything in between. Nothing and no one can escape the on -target of the farceurs who. as well as being comedians and accom- plished actors, write their own topical material — parodies, gags and one- liners. The Mr Farce Amazing Video Enquirer is Air Farce Comedy at its finest. -An electronic gossip magazine show that sensationalizes the news -- any news — with little regard for the truth. 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