“What is your wish, Mrs. Bumgartner?”

“Why Jack, I wish I could have a hole in the ceiling so the heat could go upstairs to my ten children’s bedroom at night.”

“Well, Mrs. Bumgartner, I wish you all the luck in the world in today’s contest. And just for coming onstage, here are three cartons of Old Gold cigarettes!”

Spoiler alert: the Queen for a Day who won asked for a wheelchair bed for her brother in Tennessee who was accidentally shot in the back four times, mistaken identity thing, you know - happens more than you’d think in Tennessee.


You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
R. Buckminster Fuller