Game of Sporcle Captivates Much of Class

Several members of Anthropology 3 have corroborated reports that a game of "Sporcle" secured the attention of at least two rows of students. The player in question was Richard Jamison '12, who was seated in the center of the 7th row. Jamison's location offered several students behind him passable sightlines to his computer activity early on in the class.

According to these students, Jamison had exhausted much of the first half-hour browsing through news headlines. "Yeah, he spent a solid chunk of time on ESPN and The NY Times, but it didn't look like he was really reading anything. Just scrolling through the home pages. But hey, anything is more interesting than aboriginal art," revealed Sarah Wilkes '13. "Then he switched to Facebook. It's a 2A. You can only look at news for so long before letting your guard down."

"He kept going back to this one girl in our class's profile who I'm actually pretty good friends with," explained Tyler Bennington '14. "It was actually pretty weird though cause I don't think they know each other outside of class. They're not Facebook friends, so he was really just scrolling through her profile pictures. Kid's definitely a little off."

Jamison's eventual switch to Sporcle.com fully caught the interest of his classmates. Reports indicate that Jamison opened three Sporcles, started each, but quickly gave up after struggling to fill in any answers. However, Jamison was encouraged by the title of his eventual choice, "Famous Movie Duos."

Although students could not verbally aid Jamison, they remained frustratingly captivated by his efforts. "For awhile, he only had Will Ferrell and Jon Heder, and then Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson. I'm glad he stopped watching movies after 2007," remarked Bennington.

After two of the allotted three minutes, Jamison had only filled out six of the twenty responses. "You have no idea how badly I wanted to scream out 'Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio!' Unfortunately, I could only just watch him struggle," explained Wilkes.

Stumped by the myriad of unanswered spaces, Jamison turned to Google. "I don't know what the point was, but he actually googled 'famous movie duos.' It got him some answers, like Travolta and Newton-John, but by the time he could enter any in, it was too late," lamented Wilkes. The clock ran out with a combined sigh of disappointment and relief from rows 8 and 9.

Professor Edmunds shared their disappointment. "If you're going to distract 15 of my students, the least you can do is get Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. God, I love Good Will Hunting."

-Teddy Barnaby '14