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Fedya

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« Reply #195 on: April 03, 2013, 09:32:37 AM »
And the phone\'s usually obsolete about six months in

You mean it can no longer make and receive calls? ;-)
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« Reply #196 on: April 03, 2013, 11:09:17 AM »
Yes, but only with a 2-year contract. ;-)

Not hardly. A prepaid phone will run you about $25. Is it a high-quality Windows Phone 8 device? No. Does it successfully make phone calls? Absolutely.
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« Reply #197 on: April 03, 2013, 03:30:46 PM »

Anyone notice how Jim Perry is very formal in the WBMG? He\'s always saying \"That was your one mistake, you cannot make another...\" Why cannot? Why not can\'t? To quote the late, great Mitch Hedberg, \"We need to embrace the contraction..\"

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« Reply #198 on: April 03, 2013, 03:50:26 PM »
Why cannot? Why not can\'t?

 

Because that\'s how Jim Perry talked, without using lazy English?


 


Because oftentimes the contraction is forgone to express the urgency of a situation, which is something a quality host might want to do to build drama?


 


To quote the late, great Mitch Hedberg, \"We need to embrace the contraction..\"

 


Are we really looking to Mitch Hedberg as an authority on diction?


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« Reply #199 on: April 03, 2013, 04:02:03 PM »
Anyone notice how Jim Perry is very formal in the WBMG? He\'s always saying \"That was your one mistake, you cannot make another...\" Why cannot? Why not can\'t? To quote the late, great Mitch Hedberg, \"We need to embrace the contraction..\"

If I\'m playing for $5,000 (or more), I\'m not really worried about formalities, but off the top of my head, Jim\'s probably explaining just how important this Mulligan is, again, considering $5,000 is on the line, and esp. since the top 3 contestants come back Friday, no?


 


The contestant misunderstands and thinks Jim said \"You can make another...\", and then screws up again and doesn\'t come back Friday. Potential fustercluck, all because the host embraced the contraction.


 


/I realize political correctness and frivolous lawsuits weren\'t invented until the mid-90s, but still...


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« Reply #200 on: April 03, 2013, 04:18:21 PM »
Anyone notice how Jim Perry is very formal in the WBMG? He\'s always saying \"That was your one mistake, you cannot make another...\" Why cannot? Why not can\'t? To quote the late, great Mitch Hedberg, \"We need to embrace the contraction..\"

 


I always find him to be strident with his diction, so it might be a good idea to not use the contraction. At least you know you can\'t gunk it up from here on out, even without time on the clock (and especially since the last thing on my mind is formalities in grammar, I need to look at what I should do to win the $5,000.


 


 


 


 


/and I for one, appreciate the Hedberg reference.

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« Reply #201 on: April 03, 2013, 04:40:27 PM »
Is this where we\'ve come: we\'re now dissecting whether a fellow uses a contraction or not in his speech?

Oy vey.
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« Reply #202 on: April 03, 2013, 05:46:29 PM »
If I\'m playing for $5,000 (or more), I\'m not really worried about formalities, but off the top of my head, Jim\'s probably explaining just how important this Mulligan is, again, considering $5,000 is on the line, and esp. since the top 3 contestants come back Friday, no?

 


The contestant misunderstands and thinks Jim said \"You can make another...\", and then screws up again and doesn\'t come back Friday. Potential fustercluck, all because the host embraced the contraction.


 


/I realize political correctness and frivolous lawsuits weren\'t invented until the mid-90s, but still...


 


 


I thought they determined the finalists by whichever 3 got the highest maingame scores, not total winnings.

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« Reply #203 on: April 03, 2013, 06:07:17 PM »
Anyone notice how Jim Perry is very formal in the WBMG? He\'s always saying \"That was your one mistake, you cannot make another...\" Why cannot? Why not can\'t? To quote the late, great Mitch Hedberg, \"We need to embrace the contraction..\"

 


He did this on Card Sharks too: \"You did not win the question, you cannot change it...\"

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« Reply #204 on: April 03, 2013, 06:07:23 PM »
So? Do you want a host who slurs words and/or forgets stuff explaining your one shot at a $5,000 payoff?
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« Reply #205 on: April 03, 2013, 06:08:31 PM »
So? Do you want a host who slurs words and/or forgets stuff explaining your one shot at a $5,000 payoff?

 


Thus the reason why Kookie never made it past the pilot stage.....

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« Reply #206 on: April 03, 2013, 06:40:05 PM »
If I\'m playing for $5,000 (or more), I\'m not really worried about formalities, but off the top of my head, Jim\'s probably explaining just how important this Mulligan is, again, considering $5,000 is on the line, and esp. since the top 3 contestants come back Friday, no?

 


The contestant misunderstands and thinks Jim said \"You can make another...\", and then screws up again and doesn\'t come back Friday. Potential fustercluck, all because the host embraced the contraction.


 


/I realize political correctness and frivolous lawsuits weren\'t invented until the mid-90s, but still...



 


 


I thought they determined the finalists by whichever 3 got the highest maingame scores, not total winnings.


By what I saw yesterday, they DID decide by maingame winnings, since Jim mentions that the winning player\'s score puts him in the top 3 as of that point

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« Reply #207 on: April 03, 2013, 07:12:11 PM »
I thought they determined the finalists by whichever 3 got the highest maingame scores, not total winnings.

Ah gotcha. I stand corrected. :-)


 


/Other point stands about losing $5K

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« Reply #208 on: April 03, 2013, 07:28:44 PM »
On the same entry, they mention that this season and the one syndicated season were all that were seen on USA.  I could have sworn I saw the Winner\'s Board there too, unless I am forgetting that it was adopted near the end of the syndie? 

The syndicated version did switch over during its brief run (I have the last episode before they changed over...if I ever find it, you can find it on the usual video sharing site)


 


And didn\'t they transition formats by awarding the champion whatever prize they were building towards?

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« Reply #209 on: April 03, 2013, 11:42:50 PM »

On the same entry, they mention that this season and the one syndicated season were all that were seen on USA.  I could have sworn I saw the Winner\'s Board there too, unless I am forgetting that it was adopted near the end of the syndie? 

The syndicated version did switch over during its brief run (I have the last episode before they changed over...if I ever find it, you can find it on the usual video sharing site)



 


And didn\'t they transition formats by awarding the champion whatever prize they were building towards?


 


I asked this same question awhile ago and don\'t remember if I ever got an answer...or at least something along those lines.


 


And the syndicated series lasted a year and a half, not a year. January \'85-September \'86.

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