Post by MSBNYY on Aug 31, 2011 6:27:35 GMT -5
I made a promise that I would post some thoughts on Heckle House about this contest.
Knuckles and Gandhi tend to feud a lot on these message boards. I don't read all of it, but you don't have to. Their feud is so spread out that you can get the gist without scouring 39.com.
I missed the beginnings of this challenge, and wouldn't know where to find it, but apparently Knuckles got so tired of Gandhi insulting his intelligence that he challenged Gandhi to an IQ test.
Naturally that wasn't enough, so Knuckles made the stakes very high. $5000 high.
That's not a misprint.
Clearly a bet that big would be monumental. Has there ever been a bet so big in the bleachers?
Reading Knuckles' and Gandhi's posts, it's clear that Knuckles would be the underdog, which is why Gandhi accepted the challenge and pushed it.
Let's put this in perspective:
In one corner--the champion of all that is good. He is a Giants fan. A proud American. A Republican. A hero.
In the other corner--the message board equivalent to the Iron Sheik or Nikolai Volkoff. He is a Jets fan. He is a democrat, and his countrymen hid bin Laden. Knuckles says he is a terrorist.
Good versus evil.
The test was supposed to be yesterday. Gandhi was ready, willing and able. He had the cash on hand at the football draft. I had an IQ test ready for both men to take, and with the internet handy, it would have been graded on the spot.
But there was a problem. Knuckles, the man who made the challenge, chickened out.
Not sure the thinking. Why make a challenge like that? He set himself up to punk out.
I'm disappointed. Sorely disappointed.
My guess is that should Knuckles regain the bravado that caused him to challenge Gandhi in the first place, Gandhi would still oblige. Yet sadly, I don't think it will ever happen.
Ever wonder what would happen in a battle of good versus evil, where good quit? Here you go.
Knuckles and Gandhi tend to feud a lot on these message boards. I don't read all of it, but you don't have to. Their feud is so spread out that you can get the gist without scouring 39.com.
I missed the beginnings of this challenge, and wouldn't know where to find it, but apparently Knuckles got so tired of Gandhi insulting his intelligence that he challenged Gandhi to an IQ test.
Naturally that wasn't enough, so Knuckles made the stakes very high. $5000 high.
That's not a misprint.
Clearly a bet that big would be monumental. Has there ever been a bet so big in the bleachers?
Reading Knuckles' and Gandhi's posts, it's clear that Knuckles would be the underdog, which is why Gandhi accepted the challenge and pushed it.
Let's put this in perspective:
In one corner--the champion of all that is good. He is a Giants fan. A proud American. A Republican. A hero.
In the other corner--the message board equivalent to the Iron Sheik or Nikolai Volkoff. He is a Jets fan. He is a democrat, and his countrymen hid bin Laden. Knuckles says he is a terrorist.
Good versus evil.
The test was supposed to be yesterday. Gandhi was ready, willing and able. He had the cash on hand at the football draft. I had an IQ test ready for both men to take, and with the internet handy, it would have been graded on the spot.
But there was a problem. Knuckles, the man who made the challenge, chickened out.
Not sure the thinking. Why make a challenge like that? He set himself up to punk out.
I'm disappointed. Sorely disappointed.
My guess is that should Knuckles regain the bravado that caused him to challenge Gandhi in the first place, Gandhi would still oblige. Yet sadly, I don't think it will ever happen.
Ever wonder what would happen in a battle of good versus evil, where good quit? Here you go.