Can you accept "Doughnut" please. That's the fairly common way of spelling it.
Also, the Radioactive man catch phrase, was it not "Up and at them"? The idea being it would be said in the shortened form, 'Up and at 'em' and thus it would sound like, "Up and atom".
I have vague memories of an episode where Rainier Wolfcastle struggled with it and kept saying "Up and at them". Happy to be corrected if I'm wrong.
"In episode 2F09, when Itchy plays Scratchy's skeleton like a xylophone, he strikes the same rib in succession, yet he produces two clearly different tones. I mean, what are we to believe, that this is a magic xylophone, or something? Ha ha, boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder."
I'll second the request for the inclusion of doughnut. I had the first and last letters and was confused when it wasn't the answer. Took me a minute to think of "donut", (which I always imagine should be pronounced as 'doo nut' when I see it.) doughnut should be a perfectly cromulent, accepted answer to the question.
"You don't win friends with sal-ad! You don't win friends with sal-ad!" One of Bart's best lines ever. And the conga line with Homer. This memory makes my day
I highly suggest that if you aren't a big Simpsons fan that you don't reply to comments on Simpsons quizzes, as they are full of jokes from the show. That being said, noo-kyoo-luhr is a perfectly cromulent pronunciation.
Ha, I think I had forgotten what quiz I was commenting on :) I regularly teach Nuclear Science to teenage groups, and one of the first rules of the class is that if they say 'nucular' they will have to memorize the periodic table to pass the class. Only one kid has mispronounced it after that warning, because he already had it memorized, and he did it constantly. Micah, if you're out there, I still hate you.
Also, the Radioactive man catch phrase, was it not "Up and at them"? The idea being it would be said in the shortened form, 'Up and at 'em' and thus it would sound like, "Up and atom".
I have vague memories of an episode where Rainier Wolfcastle struggled with it and kept saying "Up and at them". Happy to be corrected if I'm wrong.
Rainier: Up and at them!
Coach: Up and atom!
Rainier: Up and at them!
Coach: [annoyed] Up and atom!
Rainier: [louder] Up and at them!
Coach: [covers his eyes] Better."
Nucular.
Quite possibly my favourite comment on any post ever!!!!