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J.R.

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« Reply #15 on: March 07, 2012, 04:15:00 PM »
I'm going to kill the thread by not attempting a joke ;D
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« Reply #16 on: March 07, 2012, 04:55:12 PM »
I'm going to kill the thread by not attempting a joke ;D
Geez, now I totally understand Palmer's complaint against you.

Seriously, guys, if Mr. Holland Lacking an Opus isn't modded...why?
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« Reply #17 on: March 07, 2012, 06:08:09 PM »
Quote from: PYLdude link=topic=22922.msg279182#msg279182 date=OMG he really said that
Seriously, guys, if Mr. Holland Lacking an Opus isn't modded...why?
You could cut the irony with a knife.
« Last Edit: March 07, 2012, 06:08:48 PM by Kevin Prather »

Matt Ottinger

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« Reply #18 on: March 07, 2012, 06:16:48 PM »
Seriously, guys, if Mr. Holland Lacking an Opus isn't modded...why?
For what?  For not being as funny as he thinks he is?  We'd have three members.
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« Reply #19 on: March 07, 2012, 06:22:25 PM »
Some of you guys take the Interwebs much too seriously.  And your opinions as well.

Humor is funny like that.

That Don Guy

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« Reply #20 on: March 07, 2012, 08:43:40 PM »
Then, of course, you get the other end of the spectrum, and players receiving the wrong prizes.  I have heard stories of players winning vacations on game shows and getting a fleabag room or having lots of bad incidents befall them, or receiving broken and/or damaged prizes in the mail.  But the strangest was in a story about game show winners in the Inquirer (so take it with several salt mines) that said that a contestant was once paid out his winnings in cold cuts because the production company ran out of money.
At least they got the prizes - there was a mid-1990s syndicated game show called Sports Snapshot that had players compete for sports memorabilia, and viewers could call in to purchase some as well; it turned out that quite a few contestants never got their prizes.

As for "prizes not exactly as announced," how about the "$75,000 treasury bond" which turned out to be the total amount of the payments over 30(?) years plus the par value, which was about half that?  (It's sort of like giving somebody $25,000 and saying that they won $50,000 if they put it in the bank and collected interest.  Of course, nowadays it could take quite a long time to double your money in a bank account...)

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« Reply #21 on: March 07, 2012, 09:14:28 PM »
As for "prizes not exactly as announced," how about the "$75,000 treasury bond" which turned out to be the total amount of the payments over 30(?) years plus the par value, which was about half that?
Um, that is in fact the exact definition of a treasury bond. So how about no.
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« Reply #22 on: March 07, 2012, 09:22:26 PM »
What show offered a $75,000 treasury bond?
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« Reply #23 on: March 07, 2012, 09:58:03 PM »
What show offered a $75,000 treasury bond?
I think Wheel might have done it in the bonus game at one point.
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J.R.

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« Reply #24 on: March 07, 2012, 10:13:01 PM »
I think Wheel might have done it in the bonus game at one point.
Wasn't that a staple of the early 90s? I saw a lot of annuities and bonds on offer when GSN ran the 94-95 season.
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« Reply #25 on: March 07, 2012, 10:15:09 PM »
What show offered a $75,000 treasury bond?
I think Wheel might have done it in the bonus game at one point.

I have several episodes of Wheel from the early 90s where they offered annuities, and I was going to guess (but have no proof) that they also offered treasury bonds as well during that period.

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« Reply #26 on: March 07, 2012, 11:06:13 PM »
I'm going to kill the thread by not attempting a joke ;D

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« Reply #27 on: March 07, 2012, 11:11:54 PM »
Quote from: PYLdude link=topic=22922.msg279182#msg279182 date=OMG he really said that
Seriously, guys, if Mr. Holland Lacking an Opus isn't modded...why?
You could cut the irony with a knife.

Oh sure, when in doubt take potshots at me, it always works.

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« Reply #28 on: March 07, 2012, 11:15:45 PM »
Oh sure, when in doubt take potshots at me, it always works.
No doubt, I assure you.

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« Reply #29 on: March 07, 2012, 11:16:52 PM »
Oh sure, when in doubt take potshots at me, it always works.
No doubt, I assure you.

Not getting any less old either.

Seriously, I get you hate me. Doesn't mean I don't have rights to opinions, does it?
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