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The key to a good TV game show is creating a concept that allows viewers to play along from their couches, and “Million Dollar Money Drop” does just that.

A good host helps, too, and Kevin Pollak is at the helm of “Million Dollar Money Drop.” He knows when to step in with a joke to move the contest along.The concept here is fairly simple: Two people play as a team. At the start, they’re handed $1 million to lose. Really.

Over the course of the show, they’ll face a series of multiple-choice questions. Each time, they must bet a chunk of the money on their answers. What’s left over at the end, they keep. But having anything left, of course, is easier said than done.

After going over this list of “Products You Shouldn’t Buy During The Holidays,” I can’t help but wonder what is left out there that is okay to buy!?!

Marketers and retailers want you to think that now is the time to spend, because you won’t find better deals at any other time of the year. While that may be true for some products, you’re best off waiting to buy several big-ticket items.

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Christmas card O’ the day – From Sir. Mike Mitchell.

If you’re planning to dash out for only one quick look – it is December, after all – choose this moment: 03:17 am EST (17 minutes past midnight PST). That’s when the Moon will be in deepest shadow, displaying the most fantastic shades of coppery red.

This isn’t a microscopic photograph of a bacterial culture! It’s actually of rolling, hummocky dunes near the north pole of Mars. Taken with the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s powerful HIRISE camera, the normally grey basaltic sand of the dunes is covered with pinkish dust literally made of rust – iron oxide.

Whatever you think about using grating words, at the end of the day it’s actually better not to say whatever, if you know what I mean.

For the second consecutive year “whatever’ topped a Marist poll as the most annoying word or phrase in the English language. Nearly 39 percent of 1,020 Americans questioned in the survey deemed it the most irritating word, followed by “like” with 28 percent and the phrase “you know what I mean’ at 15 percent.