The Donkey of Fortune

So my wife and I finish watching something on the DVR (that's Donkey Video Recorder for those of you who aren't familiar with the term), and on TV is the end puzzle of Wheel of Fortune. I like watching these from time to time, see the person ask for the same letters, completely donk on the puzzle, and laugh at their general donkishness.

A number of years ago the show had to change their last puzzle format slightly. It seems that one of the brighter donkeys out there figured out that the letters RSTLNE are the most popular letters in our donkphabet. So, every time the final puzzle came up, the lemming donkeys would choose RSTLNE. So, they changed it. Now, they give the letters RSTLNE right away, then let the contestant pick 3 consonants and 1 vowel. Now the donkeys all pick CDMA. What's funny is the amount of thought that they put into picking the same letters.

So the puzzle comes up, and the featured donkey puts a lot of thought into picking CDMA. The puzzle category is thing, and it looks like this:

T _ _ E D _
_ A C _ E T

The contestant now has 10 seconds or so to answer the puzzle. About 2 seconds in you can literally see the light bulb go off above this donkeys head. She shouts out "Tweed Jacket!" and then when nothing happens she shouts out "Tweedy Jacket!" Nothing happens still, so she sits there for the last 5 seconds, and I swear, she must have said "Tweed Jacket" a good 5 more times.

The buzzer goes off, and the first words out of her mouth were "it isn't tweed jacket?"

Note to self: only drink liquids in a dark, confined room, and certainly no where near electronic components such as laptops.

Morphy