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robinswrong.com - February 2007

February 2007...

Robin said during her news that the ABC special, To Iraq and Back: Bob Woodruff Reports, is on tonight.

Once again, Robin doesn't know what day it is. The Bob Woodruff special was on last night.  (2.28.07) -DznyFan


 

During the Lloyd Lindsay Young slow adult quiz today, Bababooey asked him to convert 100 mph into knots. Young answered 87. Gary said the correct answer was 74.

Robin agreed with Gary and chastised Young for his allegedly wrong answer. Actually, Young was correct and Bababooey and Robin were wrong. 100 mph corresponds to 86.89 knots:

One would think that Captain Quivers would know the conversion factor between knots and mph. If Mr. Young is a "slow adult" as alleged by the gang, how should we characterize Robin and Gary!?  (2.28.07) -The Amazed Listener
 

While talking with Lloyd Lindsay Young today, Howard decided to give him a quiz to find out if he was a slow adult.  The first question: what is 30% of $48.00. 

Young gave the answer of 14.  Howard asked Professor Robin if Young was right and she said he was close. Artie then started trying to do the math and Robin blurted out, it's 16!! 

No, Robin, that would be 1/3 of 48. Thirty percent of 48 is 14.4.  (2.28.07) -Makinehead
 


 



Today, Gary and Artie were discussing religious horror stories from their youth. Howard said he was glad that James Cameron found Jesus' bones so that we could get rid of all the nonsense; he surprisingly even suggested everyone "be Jewish."

As always, Robin had to butt in, saying "You don't have to fast during Rosh Hashanah or whatever."

Of course, the Jewish day of fasting is actually Yom Kippur. One would expect the great Princess Ophelia to have basic knowledge of the original western religion.  (2.28.07) -(Kosher) Steakfor2for1

6:02 AM - Howard starts the show talking about the stock market drop and said it was caused by the market in China dropping first.

Robin then interrupts and says Japan. Howard tried to correct her, but Robin said the Japanese market took a plunge and then the American markets as well.

Howard then said Robin was probably right because she reads the newspaper more thoroughly then he does.

6:06 AM - Robin says, "You're right, it was China yesterday".  (2.28.07) -submachine

During the news Robin once again said that Al Gore won an Academy Award yesterday, then corrected herself and said Sunday. 

The award for Best Documentary went to Davis Guggenheim, not Al Gore.

Same topic. Different day. Still wrong.  (2.27.07) -Ben. E


 

Robin said during the news that because of Lisa Nowak, NASA has changed it's rules if someone goes "wacky" in space. The real story is that NASA has always had written procedures to be followed if an astronaut displays behavior that could threaten themselves or others.

The procedures have just recently been released to the AP because of the Nowak case. Howard should release the procedures to be followed when Robin goes "wacky" during the show.  (2.27.07) -Shut Uppa You Face

After the commercials and before It's Just Wrong, Fred played the Bon Jovi version of "Here Comes the Sun".

When Howard asked what song was playing, Robin chimed in "Little Darlin'". Fred corrected her by saying it was "Here Comes the Sun".

Robin responded, well there's a Little Darlin' ya dada da (sic)...  Yes, ya dada da you didn't know the title Robin. (2.27.07) -Zip Your Piehole

 

Howard and the gang were talking about the Pacman Jones story today. Gary said he and Artie agreed that if Ray Lewis (Baltimore Ravens LB) had sucked he would be in jail right now for the trouble he had gotten into.

Ray Lewis was a murder suspect in 2000. Robin said that Lewis "was on trial" and "he was cleared".

Lewis actually never stood trial and took a plea bargain admitting to a lesser charge, hardly "cleared".  (2.27.07) -Hugh Blowmont

Bintell Powell was on the show today talking about cultural difference between light and dark skinned black people. He claimed that he read in the paper that Chris Rock is a couple with India.Arie.

Gary asked, isn't Chris married? And then Robin yelled out, Chris is MARRIED!!!

According to TMZ.com, Chris Rock filed for divorce four months ago. And the report Powell referred to was about Chris Tucker, not Chris Rock.  (2.27.07) -Patrick

This morning Howard was talking about the show "Street Smarts" and how it was stolen from him. First, Robin said that the show "never went anywhere", but Howard corrected her and said it was on for awhile (from 2000-2005 according to IMDB) and that they were making money with it. Which of course Robin replied with, "I know."

But then she added that the show was no "panacea".

Dictionary.com defines panacea as 1. a remedy for all disease or ills; cure-all. 2. an answer or solution for all problems or difficulties:
I'm not sure how the word panacea applies to a game show, but then again you have to consider the source that the word came from.  (2.27.07) -DA

Starting the show today Howard was proclaiming how happy he was that they had found the remains of Jesus and now everyone was a Jew. Robin said everyone wouldn't be Jewish and Artie said you have to go with the next big one (religion). And Robin replied, we must all be Muslims.

Artie then asked, what religion has the most people in the world, is it Muslims?  Robin Quivers, the resident expert on all things (now including religion) replied, "Ya" twice.

A quick search of the internet to double check her claim...Survey says! Christianity. Oh, wrong again Robin.  (2.27.07) -Richard Dawsome

I've received a lot of email about the Robin Quivers page on Wikipedia. While I do link to a number of Wikipedia articles, I don't know about the whole inner workings of that site.

Those who have contacted me complain that they have tried to add Robinswrong.com as part of her history, but it keeps getting removed.  Like I said, I don't know how the whole site thing works there or how/why things are taken down. 

If there are any Wikipeida people out there that can help inform me so I can pass along the information to people that are trying to keep Robin's page updated, please feel free to contact me.  Thanks.  (2.26.07) -Robinswrong

During the news Robin said that Britney Spears first marriage to Jason Alexander lasted 33 hours.

Correct answer: 55 hours.  (2.26.07) - Soozee


 


Today Robin said that Al Gore won an academy award for his film, "An Inconvenient Truth."

The real inconvenient truth is that Gore didn't win. Although he had a large part in the film and even though he was on stage last night, he was not nominated so could not have won an award.

The director Davis Guggenheim (best documentary) and Melissa Etheridge (best song) were actually the people who received the awards for the film.  (2.26.07) -Bryan/Robinswrong
 

During the news today, Robin talked about James Cameron's claim that he has found the coffin of Jesus.  Robin said the Cameron does extensive research and that he found the Titanic.

This news might come as a surprise to Robert Ballard, the person who did find the Titanic. 

Has Robin ever thought about doing extensive research before her news?  (2.26.07) -QuietQuivers


 

Robin talked during her first news story of the day about the heroic efforts of a cruise ship passenger and former marine, after he and others were dropped off on an island.

The stop actually took place in Limon, Costa Rica. It is the capital city on the eastern coast of Costa Rica and not an island.  (2.26.07) -Scrappy
 


When it comes to the topic of Anna Nicole Smith, Robin really has got to stop talking.  She didn't know the last name of the baby. She thought Howard K. Stern went back to the Bahamas via a boat. She said the inheritance battle was with the first husband. And today she said Anna died without a will.

One of the major points of debate about this case has been the will and whether Howard K. Stern not only was the executor, but was the person that wrote it. 

Here is one more wrong to add to the Smith list, Anna did "essentially" have a will.  (2.26.07) -QuietQuivers/Robinswrong
 

During the interview with Sirius President and CEO, Mel Karmazin, Robin got it wrong again.

Howard and Mel were discussing whether or not they thought any congressmen would try to take up the Sirius/XM merger as a crusade and try to block it (for whatever reason). At which time Robin blurted out “it is an election year!”

As we all know (except Robin) this is entirely false. Federal elections only occur on even years with one last year (2006) and the next one in 2008.  (2.26.07) -Mike



Today Howard mentioned how program manager Tim Sabien is always talking about Chubby Checker.  Gary said that Chubby had given his new CD to Tim while they were at the gym.

Howard asked when they would ever play any Chubby Checker music because he only had two hits in the 60's, The Twist and Let's Twist Again.  Robin then interrupted and said Howard forgot another, The Peppermint Twist.

Just back from vacation and already wrong:  The Peppermint Twist was done by Joey Dee and the Starlighters.  (2.26.07) -Robinswrong



While discussing the Oscars Robin said that Ellen DeGeneres could not look feminine. Robin said that Ellen recently posed for a magazine (W magazine) and didn’t even look comfortable or feminine wearing a dress.

Ellen did not wear a dress in the recent issue of W magazine, in fact that was the only reason Ellen agreed to do the photo shoot was if they did not try to make her wear one. Someone must be sending Robin photoshopped images of Ellen in dresses.  (2.26.07) -Shellie







The show started this morning and Robin couldn't wait to get back on track. The wrong track that is.  When Howard said that Mel Karmazin was going to be on the show today Robin said it was going to be his second appearance.

She was close, but as usual, she was wrong.

When Mel was on later in the show he said it was the third time he had been on Howard's show in their 25 year history together.  (2.26.07) -dforbes/Robinswrong

Robinswrong.com turns one year old today.

In 2006 the site got only about 17,000 visits.  So far in 2007, there have been over 300,000 visits to Robinswrong.com thanks to the publicity from Howard Stern, HowardTV and Howard 100 News. 

I'd like to thank everyone that has emailed and submitted something for the site.  A lot of the items wouldn't be here if it weren't for you that take the time to send them to me.  I hope the visits and participation continues for many more years.  Thanks again.  (2.15.07) -Robinswrong

The news started today with a Robin themed Monkee's parody of the song I'm a Believer.  She then said she was listening to some broadcast the other day and heard Peter Tork is 68. 

Howard corrected her and said Tork's age was 65.  Robin, always worried about getting the facts correct replied, well 60-something...  (2.15.07) -rosanna

 

Robin lost the Mike Walker game again today. That now makes her record 1-7 in 2007 and 4 wins out of the last 32 games, a winning percentage of 12.5%.

Amazingly, Robin the newswoman, picked the story that Angelina Jolie had referred to her biological child as a "blob" as the fake item. That story has been widely reported in the media.

Play the Mike Walker Game here. (2.15.07) -The Amazed Listener

Howard played a clip from a news show talking about his engagement this morning. One of the hosts said Howard probably wishes he was in BOSTON since Scarlett Johansson was making an appearance. Howard tried to comment as the clip ended but Robin interrupted (with her favorite sentence) and asked why would Howard want to be in CHICAGO to see Scarlett Johansson when he just got engaged??

Tomato, to-mah-to, Boston, Chi-ca-go...let's call the whole thing off. (2.15.07) -Redskinsphan/Robinswrong

 



Today Howard and the gang started off the show talking about his engagement to Beth. Howard said how he believed engagement was just that and should not lead to immediate wedding plans. Robin then interrupted and said that if you look in the etiquette books an engagement isn't supposed to last more then a year.

Well, Emily Post's Wedding Etiquette doesn't exactly agree with marriage counselor Quivers as it says there is no prescribed length of time for an engagement. How does a woman who was just screaming this week about not caring if she ever gets married claim to know what etiquette books have to say about an engagement??? (2.15.07) -The Amazed Listener

One item during Robin's news has been submitted to Robinswrong.com a number of times today.  In the story involving the daughter of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia being arrested for DUI, Robin said Scalia's daughter was driving an Ecoline van. 

As most have stated in email, Robin should have said Econoline. However, in her defense some news reports (such as this one) have reported the vehicle as an Ecoline.

I guess you could call this my Valentine's Day gift to Robin.  (2.14.07) -Robinswrong

During the update for Howard 100 News, Shuli said they would be reporting on a story about a woman who also has the name Robin Quivers. Robin interrupted and said the other woman's name isn't Robin Quivers. For some reason, Robin has been stating the past two days that she is the only person in America with her name.  A quick check of Zabasearch reveals otherwise.  (2.14.07) -Black Tits


 

Bobby Trendy was on the show today and talked about Anna Nicole Smith having her baby in the Bahamas. Robin said that it was odd for Anna to risk not having her baby be an America citizen because she was born in the Bahamas.

Of course whenever Robin speaks of citizenship issues she is usually wrong (June 13, 2006) and is once again this time. If she would simply read this short section on Wikipedia, it could really help her when this topic comes up in the future. 

Robin Quivers--nurse, lieutenant, news reporter, but not a lawyer.  (2.14.07) -BrownMounds

Robin talked during her news today about the mall shooting in Salt Lake City where an 18 year old killed five people and wounded four others. According to Robin, the gunman shot himself, but reading the first few sentences of every other news account that one can find, the gunman was killed by police.  (2.13.07) -Dog in Massachusetts

 

 




Today the gang discussed Howard K. Stern and The Insider's coverage of him. Robin said The Insider was invited on Howard K. Stern's trip home on a boat. Actually, it was a plane.

Gary chimed in on the speaker box saying it was a plane while Robin insisted it was a boat. When they played The Insider clip, Pat O'Brien can be clearly heard saying they rode with Howard K. Stern on a private plane.  (2.13.07) -A

Here is some video of Howard K. Stern on his flying boat.


This morning, Robin opined that Ivana Trump had, in the past, been "Trumping it," in other words, using the Trump name in promotion of businesses using that name, but that those activities have gone away of late. A check of Ivana's business adviser's website reveals otherwise; that, in fact, Ivana continues to actively promote her Trump name in connection with proposed business ventures. The former Mrs. Trump is surely not using her maiden name Zelnickova to promote anything!  (2.13.07) -The Amazed Listener


Once again, Robin claimed that the last name of Anna Nicole Smith's baby is "Marshall." As reported yesterday by LanceJams & Robinswrong, in response to Robin reporting the last name as "Marshall," the baby's last name is "Stern". The sign of a competent newsperson is the ability to learn from their mistakes. Apparently, this is a trait Robin has yet to learn!  (2.13.07) -The Amazed Listener

 



A lot of people have emailed and asked that I keep track of how many times Robin says, "I was going to say" during each show.  I have finally found a counter that is able to keep track of Robin's favorite sentence.  (2.12.07) -Robinswrong

During the news today, Robin incorrectly reported the story about the man who proposed to his girlfriend on a commercial during Veronica Mars. In her story, Robin claimed it was the man's favorite TV show, leading Artie to ridicule him for being even more gay. In truth, it's the girlfriend's favorite show. (2.12.07) -Phaedrus/BG

 

Once again, Robin doesn't seem to be paying attention to the show. Howard was discussing his Friday evening chess match and said he started at nine and it ended past midnight. As he tried to continue the story, Robin interrupted and asked how long the game lasted.

There was a slight pause before Howard said again he played for three hours. Our girl Robin really needs to improve her listening skills or try following along with the show every now and then.  (2.12.07) -I Hate Know It Alls

 

During the news Howard took a call from someone who said how much he loved seeing Artie's belly on Howard TV. Robin then told Artie, you are looking very Jake Elwood.

I'm not sure, but believe Robin has created a new Blues Brother by taking the main characters (Jake and Elwood Blues) and combining their names.  (2.12.07) -E.Nuscher



This morning Howard was complaining about all the press Howard K. Stern is getting and asked if his name wouldn't stop being in the press at some point. Robin jumped in and said that they first have to figure out the paternity case. If Howard K. Stern wins that, there will be a fight to work out the inheritance of Anna Nicole's first husband.

Anna Nicole's first husband was Billy Wayne Smith, a cook she met while working at Jim's Krispy Fried Chicken. They married on April 4th, 1985. The inheritance case involves the estate of her second husband, J. Howard Marshall.  (2.12.07) -CrazyRay

Starting the show today, Howard and the gang discussed the death of Anna Nicole Smith. Howard said one rumor he heard was that Smith had been impregnated by the sperm of the dead billionaire J. Howard Marshall. Robin then screeched emphatically that Smith gave the baby the last name Marshall, not Stern.

Close Robin, but way off.  The full name of Smith's baby: Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern.  (2.12.07) -LanceJams/Robinswrong


Robin Quivers returned to her losing ways once again today as she failed while playing the gossip game.

Robin now has a 1-5 record in 2007 and 4 wins out of the last 31 games, a winning percentage of 12.9%.  Play the gossip game here. (2.8.07) -Robinswrong




Nancy Sinatra was on the show today and Howard played several clips of singers, asking Nancy whether they were her father or impersonators.

Admittedly, Nancy gave the wrong answer a few times but the most amazing incident was when Howard began playing a clip and after only a few notes Robin blurted out, not Frank! Of course, it was Frank and Robin was wrong once again.  (2.8.07) -The Amazed Listener

 

Howard Stern and Nancy Sinatra had a discussion about her spread in Playboy today. Howard claimed Frank hated the spread and offered to pay her not to do it. Nancy denied it and said her father actually asked her to hold out for more money.

Five minutes and several topics later, Robin chimed in and asked Nancy what her dad thought of her doing Playboy.

Does Robin even pay attention to the show? Maybe she's busy with all of her fact checking...  (2.8.07) -I Hate Know It Alls

 

Today the gang was discussing American Idol runner-up Katherine McPhee. Robin commented how McPhee dumped her boyfriend, Nick Cokas, after the show. Wrong, McPhee is still with her boyfriend from her American Idol days.

Then Robin said if someone banged her, maybe she could sing. Apparently, the public disagrees with the Great Quivers. How many copies of "If It Makes You Happy" did you sell, Robin?? (2.8.07) -The Amazed Listener

 

Today on the news Robin talked about Lisa Nowak who has been charged with attempted murder. Robin mentioned that Nowak has been placed on a 30 day leave of absence and taken off of flight status because she is sitting behind bars.

Either Nowak escaped from jail or made bail because she has already returned home to Texas.  (2.7.07) -JS


 

 

While debating who the most talented Baldwin Brother was, Robin supported Artie's choice of Stephen Baldwin as the second most talented because he starred in the film The Unusual Suspects

I didn't know that Stephen had starred in a film about the history of dance music.  I thought  he was in the crime drama The Usual Suspects.(2.7.07) -Bandego/Robinswrong



 


During the news Robin talked about a deal with Amazon and Tivo that will allow people to download movies.  She then asked Howard if had hooked up his Tivo to his computer.  Howard said he now can access his Tivo from his laptop and Robin proclaimed he had something called Wango.

The correct answer would be Slingbox. The words Wango (whatever that is) and Slingbox are so similar, it is easy to see how Robin could have gotten them confused.  (2.7.07) -Robinswrong

Today while discussing Bob Levy's difficulty in pronouncing certain words, Bob was asked if he was ever diagnosed in school. Artie made a humorous jab at Bob, saying that he was diagnosed with dumb dumb disease. Robin then chimed and said that Chris Rock used to say whatever happened to stupid?

Actually, Chris Rock used to ask, whatever happened to crazy? What ever happened to stupid, Robin? I think we know the answer to that.  (2.7.07) -Ryguy

During the news Robin said she looked up Fred Williamson's filmography and they don't list Boss N-----.  I'm not sure where she looked, but she certainly didn't check IMDB, Yahoo, Timeout, New York Times, Answers.com, Hollywood.com or any of the other well known filmography sites. (2.6.07) -slappy magoo

 

 

Robin said today that when Shawn Hornbeck went on Oprah he got a lot of publicity, even though they hadn't finished with all the charges against Michael Devlin, the man accused of killing him.

In other news, Devlin was charged with 69 counts of forcible sodomy, 0 counts of murder and Shawn Hornbeck is with his family trying to recover from being kidnapped.  (2.6.07) -Robinswrong


Today Robin reported the story of a love triangle in the space program that resulted in Lisa Nowak being arrested. Apparently, Nowak is accused of attempting to kidnap Colleen Shipman because of her affection for astronaut William Oefelein.

Robin described Oefelein and Nowak as having flown together on a shuttle mission. Nowak was on STS-121 which launched in July of 2006. Oefelein was on the shuttle that just launched in December  The two did train together, but were never on the same flight.  (2.6.07) -Becca M/The Amazed Listener

 

Today while the gang was discussing whether Artie could or could not shoot a gun, due to his past felony conviction, Robin piped in and said, well, what about the statute of limitations. Artie started to correct her, but decided it just wasn’t worth it.

The statute of limitations applies to people who have not been tried and convicted of a crime. It has nothing to do with people who have already been convicted.  (2.6.07) -Brad D/Scott


Robin reported that Jeanne Kane was killed on Staten Island, apparently by her abusive husband. She went on to say that Jeanne and her sisters, the Kane Triplets, appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show in the 70's. They were indeed on the Ed Sullivan Show, but according to IMDB, they were on in 1960, 1963 and 1967.   (2.5.07)  -Chris H



Today Robin reported a story about a recent coffee taste test that declared McDonald's the winner. 

She first said the test was done by the Daily News, then said no, it was the New York Post.  Actually, it was conducted by Consumer Reports magazine and reported in the Post. (2.5.07) -FrankB

 

 


When discussing Rick Rubin in the news today, Howard and Artie were naming artists that Rubin produced in the past.

Robin then mentioned Metallica. Rubin has never produced any Metallica album. He's working with them now, but has never done any producing on anything they've released. Slayer would have been the right answer, but she wouldn't know the difference.  (2.5.07) -DaBlackE



 

During the Super Bowl recap today, Artie was talking about the different bets on the game. One such bet was the over/under of total rushing for Rex Grossman being -1 yard. Artie then said Grossman clearly wasn't a Super Bowl quarterback. Robin screeched, thank god they kept the ball out of his hands most of the time!

Rex Grossman plays quarterback, he takes the direct snap from the center therefore the ball is in his hands on every offensive play!  (2.5.07) -Travis L

 

 

Robin said that Tony Dungy's son (James) committed suicide by driving his car into the water. This seems impossible because James Dungy was found unresponsive in his apartment in Lutz, Florida on December 22, 2005 by his girlfriend. He was then taken to the University Community Hospital where he was pronounced dead.  (2.5.07) -Mabstoaguy


 


At the beginning of today's show, the gang was discussing the fact that both coaches in yesterday's Super Bowl were African-American. Howard went into character as Mama Lookaboobooday and talked about the origin of Lovie Smith's name. The question arose as to whether he was named after "Lovey" Howell from Gilligan's Island.

Robin wondered if that was "what" he was named after. I would hope this is not too technical for those wordsmiths that believe Robin never speaks "ungrammatically correct". Shouldn't Robin have said "whom"?  (2.05.07) -The Amazed Listener

While talking again this morning if Howard was going to get married or not, the topic of rings and diamonds was discussed.  Robin said the value of a ring all depends on color, cut, clarity and quality.  Three out of four isn't bad.  The one Robin left out was carat, quality is not one of the four C's of diamonds.  (2.1.07) -Chris the Printer

 

 



Who says robinswrong.com doesn't give credit where credit is due? Robin won the Mike Walker Game for the first time in 2007! But, a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then as well.

Robin now has a 1-4 record in 2007 and 4 wins out of the last 30 games, a winning percentage of 13.33%.  Play the gossip game here. (2.1.07) -The Amazed Listener

 

When talking about the show "Three Wishes" Robin said it was from when reality TV first started and they were looking for any ideas. Well she was a few years off. Three Wishes aired in 2005. I have to check out this *NEW* form of TV known as Reality TV.  (2.1.07)  -Steve B



 

 
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