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.
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".
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!!!
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.
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.
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??
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.
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