[quote name=\'toetyper\' post=\'245624\' date=\'Aug 9 2010, 06:58 AM\']'nuff said[/quote]This is perhaps the "best part" of his stance. That he doesn't bother to actually defend his position, but dismisses all other arguments with "nuff said."
[quote name=\'wdm1219inpenna\' post=\'245637\' date=\'Aug 9 2010, 12:34 PM\']Another can of worms, another Pandora's box I have opened. Calgon, take us away!!![/quote]Well, what did you expect? There's only so far you can take a thread of "list things that fit topic X" before people start talking about it. The whole exercise gives off an air of "Look! I'm contributing!"
[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'245638\' date=\'Aug 9 2010, 01:07 PM\']Perhaps it's to offer contestants the chance to win more money, but I really don't need ACADEMY AWARD WINNING ACTRESS SANDRA BULLOCK when SANDRA BULLOCK will merely do.[/quote]A shorter puzzle will probably take longer because you have more people guessing wrong letters and letting the turn move along. A longer puzzle 1) allows more money to build up in the banks because 2) there are more letters on the board and 3) is shorter because you have fewer wrong guesses because of 2. If I'm a contestant, I want the longer puzzles because of the money and the chance to keep my turn that much longer, but as a viewer it borders on tedious as the contestants grope to fill in the adjectives that are paired with the actor or actress in the puzzle.
I think it's fair to say that the show has expanded in all these ways because of the attention span of its viewers.
I will sit through an awful lot. One of the things I will not do is sit through an advertisement that has been camouflaged as content. Do not come back from a break and tell me that the Jackpot Round is brought to me by Hot Pockets, because I will watch something else.