Author Topic: A GS puzzle. (Read 7124 times)

chad1m · « **Reply #30 on:** August 21, 2009, 05:20:43 PM »

I don't know anything about the organization, but the BoatU.S. Magazine disputes that claim.

A story continues to make the rounds, especially on the Internet, about one of the islands in the area taking the name "The Price Is Right Island" after a contestant won it on the Price Is Right television show back in 1964. Didn't happen.

"We've never heard of Price Is Right Island," notes Wendy LaLonde of Hutchinson's Boatworks (a BoatU.S. Cooperating Marina with fuel and slip discounts for Members in Alexandria Bay. Still, people taking one of the many tour boats out of Alexandria Bay or Clayton or Henderson Harbor will ask if Price Is Right is a destination.

BrandonFG · « **Reply #31 on:** August 21, 2009, 05:22:10 PM »

[quote name=\'DoorNumberFour\' post=\'223677\' date=\'Aug 21 2009, 05:15 PM\']Bill Cullen gave away an island in the Thousand Island chain.[/quote]
The stuff they put on Big Macs?

/Oh wait, that's supposed to be a secret

clemon79 · « **Reply #32 on:** August 21, 2009, 05:42:55 PM »

[quote name=\'DoorNumberFour\' post=\'223664\' date=\'Aug 21 2009, 01:10 PM\']I may have misled you. It is indeed the name of a LOCATION, but not necessarily a city.[/quote]
Yes, I know. That's when I stopped caring.

MikeK · « **Reply #33 on:** August 21, 2009, 05:44:17 PM »

[quote name=\'DoorNumberFour\' post=\'223677\' date=\'Aug 21 2009, 05:15 PM\']In 1964, as a bonus on "The Price Is Right", Bill Cullen gave away an island in the Thousand Island chain. To this day, it is named Price Is Right Island.[/quote]
You're sure that's not where all the Golden-Road outcasts reside with Dr. Moreau?

Matt Ottinger · « **Reply #34 on:** August 21, 2009, 09:44:21 PM »

[quote name=\'chad1m\' post=\'223678\' date=\'Aug 21 2009, 05:20 PM\']I don't know anything about the organization, but the BoatU.S. Magazine disputes that claim.[/quote]
Well, ain't that a kick in the head. My site is one of the ones spreading that claim. I've used so many different resources to put that site together that I couldn't immediately tell you where I found that particular fact, but I usually rely on better sources than those "Did you know???" lists. I'll go back and see what I can find out. Meanwhile, a prize like that must have been from the prime time show, and a bunch of those aired on GSN. Does anybody remember seeing it?

Jimmy Owen · « **Reply #35 on:** August 22, 2009, 04:40:59 AM »

I was kinda hoping there might be a Callmy Bluff somewhere.

Jay Temple · « **Reply #36 on:** August 23, 2009, 01:25:09 AM »

It's located on the Isle of Lucy. (I can't take credit for that; I just don't remember my source, except to say that it was a printed cartoon.)

Jimmy Owen · « **Reply #37 on:** August 23, 2009, 07:34:21 AM »

Would Treasure Isle also count?

mmb5 · « **Reply #38 on:** August 23, 2009, 06:05:22 PM »

Sad to say, the Price is Right Island is looking like a myth (Sorry, Matt).

Tried the USGS site and the Canadian equivalent, no listings of a "Price is Right" island or reasonable variants. I guess it could have been renamed.

Then tried some newspaper searches, came up nothing other than unsupported fun facts type listings. Looks like the Thousand Islands Tourism Board should not be taken at face value.

--Mike

clemon79 · « **Reply #39 on:** August 23, 2009, 07:15:24 PM »

[quote name=\'mmb5\' post=\'223876\' date=\'Aug 23 2009, 03:05 PM\']Looks like the Thousand Islands Tourism Board should not be taken at face value.[/quote]
See? You name ONE dressing after someplace and their heads get completely inflated.

NickS · « **Reply #40 on:** August 23, 2009, 10:10:08 PM »

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'223885\' date=\'Aug 23 2009, 06:15 PM\'][quote name=\'mmb5\' post=\'223876\' date=\'Aug 23 2009, 03:05 PM\']Looks like the Thousand Islands Tourism Board should not be taken at face value.[/quote]
See? You name ONE dressing after someplace and their heads get completely inflated.
[/quote]

Methinks the French were already ego-inflated before their dressing invention.

Mike Tennant · « **Reply #41 on:** August 24, 2009, 10:42:02 AM »

[quote name=\'Jay Temple\' post=\'223824\' date=\'Aug 23 2009, 01:25 AM\']It's located on the Isle of Lucy. (I can't take credit for that; I just don't remember my source, except to say that it was a printed cartoon.)[/quote]It's not a printed cartoon, but an episode of "Super Chicken" (one of the segments of George of the Jungle) had Super Chicken tracking down the evil wizard Merlin Brando, who lived on the Isle of Lucy. Of course, it's quite possible you saw the joke somewhere else.

MyronMMeyer · « **Reply #42 on:** August 24, 2009, 11:25:32 AM »

[quote name=\'Mike Tennant\' post=\'223965\' date=\'Aug 24 2009, 09:42 AM\'][quote name=\'Jay Temple\' post=\'223824\' date=\'Aug 23 2009, 01:25 AM\']It's located on the Isle of Lucy. (I can't take credit for that; I just don't remember my source, except to say that it was a printed cartoon.)[/quote]It's not a printed cartoon, but an episode of "Super Chicken" (one of the segments of George of the Jungle) had Super Chicken tracking down the evil wizard Merlin Brando, who lived on the Isle of Lucy. Of course, it's quite possible you saw the joke somewhere else.
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I'd bet a delicious cookie it was one of Little Billy's "Maps of the O-Pun Country" in Family Circus.

-M

Jay Temple · « **Reply #43 on:** August 25, 2009, 02:04:51 AM »

MMM is a winner, because it was definitely in Bil Keane's handwriting. The only question in my mind was whether it was an actual FC cartoon or just something Keane did on the side.

\Interesting thing I read about Bil Keane: He was friends with Charles Schulz, and when there was a TV special made of FC, he would not allow it to run opposite a Peanuts special.