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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: toetyper on November 03, 2008, 10:00:19 PM
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i was' giving the clues when this popss up
WHAT BARACK OBAMAS TIE MIGHT SAY
'here i am, im around the neck of this black guy runninbg for president
/i lold
//this might get me bannesd
///or a visit from the secret service
////oh crap
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[quote name=\'toetyper\' post=\'200972\' date=\'Nov 3 2008, 06:46 PM\']
/i lold[/quote]
Well, that makes one of us.
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'200975\' date=\'Nov 3 2008, 09:26 PM\']
[quote name=\'toetyper\' post=\'200972\' date=\'Nov 3 2008, 06:46 PM\']
/i lold[/quote]
Well, that makes one of us.
[/quote]
I agree with you completely...well, that is, until near the end...
[quote name=\'toetyper\' post=\'200972\' date=\'Nov 3 2008, 08:46 PM\']
///or a visit from the secret service
////oh crap
[/quote]
I don't know just why but that little bit of mock-self-realization nearly made me pee myself...and boy, did I need a laugh badly today!
Jake
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[quote name=\'toetyper\' post=\'200972\' date=\'Nov 3 2008, 08:46 PM\']WHAT BARACK OBAMAS TIE MIGHT SAY
'here i am, im around the neck of this black guy runninbg for president[/quote]
There's something disturbingly racist about this.
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[quote name=\'toetyper\' post=\'200972\' date=\'Nov 3 2008, 09:46 PM\']//this might get me bannesd[/quote]And deservedly so. You should have the book thrown at you.
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I'm not touching this thread with a 50-foot pole.
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Well, toetyper, you've officially crossed the line from ungrateful (considering your response to my attempt to help you) to troll.
Congratulations
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[quote name=\'J.R.\' post=\'200981\' date=\'Nov 3 2008, 08:31 PM\']There's something disturbingly racist about this.[/quote]
[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'200982\' date=\'Nov 3 2008, 08:33 PM\']And deservedly so. You should have the book thrown at you.[/quote]
Before anyone else gets their panties wadded, be really really honest: if you were on Donnymid *today*, in the Winnar's Circle, and you hadn't found a rusty butter knife to plunge through your temple yet, and Barack Obama's Friggin' Tie comes up in the $100 box (so help me God if anyone says "there weren't $100 boxes on Donnymid!" I will flood your mailbox with facepalms): is that not how you would word the clue? There might be people out there who are politically unaware (unlikely, but stay with me) and don't know who's the Dem and who's the GOP candidate, but *everyone* knows which one is the black guy.
Toetyper's a lot of things (funny is none of them), but I don't necessarily think he's a racist.
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He could have said "The 2008 Democratic Nominee for President" and been a lot less offensive.
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[quote name=\'PYLdude\' post=\'200987\' date=\'Nov 3 2008, 08:54 PM\']
He could have said "The 2008 Democratic Nominee for President" and been a lot less offensive.
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You did not read Chris's post.
Okay, I touched the thread with a 50-foot pole.
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As a black guy myself, I didn't find anything racist at all about toetyper's clue. For the exact reason Chris stated, that's exactly the clue practically verbatim I'd give in the Winner's Circle. I hate how people are so quick to throw the yellow flag out there as soon as something that might possibly maybe perhaps slightly conceivably be offensive to someone pops up. Let the offended parties speak up for themselves and stop trying to play PC cop.
/Not directed to anyone on this board here, just speaking in general
//Oh yeah, get your butts out and vote tomorrow
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[quote name=\'MTCesquire\' post=\'200989\' date=\'Nov 4 2008, 12:13 AM\']//Oh yeah, get your butts out and vote tomorrow [/quote]Definitely. I'm so excited about being able to vote in this election it's not even funny.
And this (http://\"http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y187/chad1m/Wheel.jpg\") is for toetyper. I made it last week.
/Note the "egghead" at the top.
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[quote name=\'Kevin Prather\' post=\'200988\' date=\'Nov 3 2008, 11:56 PM\']
[quote name=\'PYLdude\' post=\'200987\' date=\'Nov 3 2008, 08:54 PM\']
He could have said "The 2008 Democratic Nominee for President" and been a lot less offensive.
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You did not read Chris's post.
Okay, I touched the thread with a 50-foot pole.
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Yes, I did, actually.
Chris said no one would necessarily know the party candidates, but I believe if you add the year in it has to turn a light on somewhere, no?
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[quote name=\'PYLdude\' post=\'200991\' date=\'Nov 3 2008, 09:40 PM\']
Chris said no one would necessarily know the party candidates, but I believe if you add the year in it has to turn a light on somewhere, no?[/quote]
And you've wasted a few extra breaths, while I get there in one word (and note that the one person in this thread who might have a reason to BE offended, isn't) and have a couple of precious seconds when "Places You Might Put Susan Lucci's Suppositories" shows up in the top box for all the marbles.
/already voted
//absentee r0x0rs
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'200993\' date=\'Nov 4 2008, 12:46 AM\']
(and note that the one person in this thread who might have a reason to BE offended, isn't)[/quote]I think everyone has an equal right to be offended.
Sorry, but I have absolutely zero tolerance for crap like that.
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[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'200996\' date=\'Nov 3 2008, 10:34 PM\']
Sorry, but I have absolutely zero tolerance for crap like that.[/quote]
Believe me, Mark, nobody is surprised.
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[quote name=\'MTCesquire\' post=\'200989\' date=\'Nov 4 2008, 12:13 AM\']
As a black guy myself, I didn't find anything racist at all about toetyper's clue.
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Same here. It might not have made me lol'd, but I wouldn't jump on the racism bandwagon. Very poorly-worded context though........
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As the third "black guy" in this thread, I looked at the post last night and didn't think twice about it, although that was because I thought it to be a completely useless (it is toetyper) post more than anything. Never even considered any racial undertones, but to each his own......
Tyshaun
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I leave it to the people on this board who are black to take offense or not take offense. If they're not going to get ticked about it, I'm going to use their example of taking the high road.
That said, even toetyper admitted that the post was a bad idea, and made it anyway. Fortunately, if he's thinking of saying something dumb, he just has to think about sticking his foot in his mouth.
/ see, I can be quasi-tasteless too.
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[quote name=\'parliboy\' post=\'201007\' date=\'Nov 4 2008, 07:48 AM\']
That said, even toetyper admitted that the post was a bad idea, and made it anyway. Fortunately, if he's thinking of saying something dumb, he just has to think about sticking his foot in his mouth.
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Ewww.
What bothers me more is that he felt compelled to share this dream with us. Racial overtones be danged, but it just smacks of a PJTP moment, and the best idea might have been to just leave the thought in his head (or even better, get it out of his head and never think of it again).
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[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'200996\' date=\'Nov 3 2008, 10:34 PM\']I think everyone has an equal right to be offended.[/quote]I also have an "equal right" to have pizza and beer for my three squares a day, but it doesn't mean that's all I eat. The idea that you have the "right" to be offended is part of what's ruining America, as well as refusing to acknowledge the fact that a person's taking offense means that the receiver has the problem, not the giver, or anyone else.
Just because you take offense doesn't mean you're in the right or that anyone else has to placate you.
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I'll admit I overreacted, sorry for all the dramatics.
I still stand by calling toetyper's "gag" unfunny, though.
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I didn't lol, and I didn't get offended by the comments. I just wondered what you ate before you went to bed, though.
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Maybe other people didn't find this offensive (including, as was said, people you'd think would be offended), but I did.
And it's not fair.
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[quote name=\'PYLdude\' post=\'201023\' date=\'Nov 4 2008, 12:48 PM\']
Maybe other people didn't find this offensive (including, as was said, people you'd think would be offended), but I did.
And it's not fair.
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Oh, get over it.
I'm sorry, I don't see what's offensive about this. Is he NOT a black guy running for President?
Without saying his name, and in the current political climate, wouldn't that be a surefire way to get someone to identify Barack Obama?
I really think you are making a MUCH bigger deal about this than what is necessary. There are far better things to be so offended by.
/Like the fact that the post really contributed NOTHING to the board.
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[quote name=\'DoorNumberFour\' post=\'201025\' date=\'Nov 4 2008, 01:52 PM\']
[quote name=\'PYLdude\' post=\'201023\' date=\'Nov 4 2008, 12:48 PM\']
Maybe other people didn't find this offensive (including, as was said, people you'd think would be offended), but I did.
And it's not fair.
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Oh, get over it.
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All I'm saying is that I've been yelled at for a lot less in my time here.
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[quote name=\'Johnissoevil\' post=\'201020\' date=\'Nov 4 2008, 11:22 AM\']
I didn't lol, and I didn't get offended by the comments. I just wondered what you ate before you went to bed, though.
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I think the correct question is "What did he smoke before he went to bed..."
/ As a afro-american person...this is just bizarre. I'm not offended, just had a "dubya-tee-eff" moment.
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[quote name=\'Strikerz04\' post=\'201049\' date=\'Nov 4 2008, 05:47 PM\']
"dubya-tee-eff"
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I think I might start using that.
Well done, Strikerz.
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'200986\' date=\'Nov 3 2008, 11:46 PM\']
(so help me God if anyone says "there weren't $100 boxes on Donnymid!" I will flood your mailbox with facepalms)
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Can I have the facepalms so I don't have to watch Donnymid ever again? =D
/this thread's worth an eyeroll and an addition to the ignore list, but that's about it
//if that's the best you can come up with to make an on-topic political comment on election day, just stop
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If I'm in the Winnar's Circle, I personally am using the clue provided. It's a direct, specific, insta-general knowledge clue in a pressure situation. You would probably eventually get it with "democratic senator", but might just waste a couple of seconds, definitely needed for the top box of "What The Rockefeller Center Ice Rink Might Say".
Not really racist, but alas.
/I had a dream that bears were attacking in the downtown of my fairly-large city
//See, bizarre dream with no tangable GS-ness.
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[quote name=\'tpirfan28\' post=\'201054\' date=\'Nov 4 2008, 10:39 PM\']
/I had a dream that bears were attacking in the downtown of my fairly-large city
//See, bizarre dream with no tangable GS-ness.
[/quote]
I had a dream last night that I ran into Sandy Frank at a Sci-Fi/Horror convention.
/Now to find a humorous link between Science-Fiction and "Face The Music".
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[quote name=\'tpirfan28\' post=\'201054\' date=\'Nov 4 2008, 09:39 PM\']
You would probably eventually get it with "democratic senator", but might just waste a couple of seconds, definitely needed for the top box of "What The Rockefeller Center Ice Rink Might Say".
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"I'm frozen and I'm where couples go in New York City during Christmas?"
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[quote name=\'tpirfan28\' post=\'201054\' date=\'Nov 4 2008, 08:39 PM\']
/I had a dream that bears were attacking in the downtown of my fairly-large city
[/quote]
Leave Brian Urlacher out of this.
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[quote name=\'toetyper\' post=\'200972\' date=\'Nov 3 2008, 09:46 PM\']
'here i am, im around the neck of this black guy runninbg for president
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Fixed.
/Still bad context
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[quote name=\'tpirfan28\' post=\'201054\' date=\'Nov 4 2008, 08:39 PM\']
/I had a dream that bears were attacking in the downtown of my fairly-large city
//See, bizarre dream with no tangable GS-ness.
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"BEAR CITY...BEAR BEAR CITY...BEAR CITY...BEAR BEAR CITY..."
Where are Fred Willard's narrations when you need them? :)
Jake
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[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'201062\' date=\'Nov 4 2008, 10:20 PM\']
[quote name=\'toetyper\' post=\'200972\' date=\'Nov 3 2008, 09:46 PM\']
'here i am, im around the neck of this black guy runninbg for president-elect
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Fixed.
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I'll see your fix and raise you.
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[quote name=\'rigsby\' post=\'201067\' date=\'Nov 5 2008, 01:00 AM\']
[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'201062\' date=\'Nov 4 2008, 10:20 PM\']
[quote name=\'toetyper\' post=\'200972\' date=\'Nov 3 2008, 09:46 PM\']
'here i am, im around the neck of this black guy runninbg for president-elect
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Fixed.
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I'll see your fix and raise you.
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Semantics? No, not here...
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It would be a nightmare to be on the Donnymid, replete with all those annoying sound effects and
cheap payouts. End of subject.
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[quote name=\'TroubadourNando\' post=\'201057\' date=\'Nov 4 2008, 08:59 PM\'] [quote name=\'tpirfan28\' post=\'201054\' date=\'Nov 4 2008, 09:39 PM\']
You would probably eventually get it with "democratic senator", but might just waste a couple of seconds, definitely needed for the top box of "What The Rockefeller Center Ice Rink Might Say".
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"I'm frozen and I'm where couples go in New York City during Christmas?" [/quote]
What the Cryos Sperm Bank might say?
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[quote name=\'TimK2003\' post=\'201056\' date=\'Nov 4 2008, 09:54 PM\']
[quote name=\'tpirfan28\' post=\'201054\' date=\'Nov 4 2008, 10:39 PM\']
/I had a dream that bears were attacking in the downtown of my fairly-large city
//See, bizarre dream with no tangable GS-ness.
[/quote]
I had a dream last night that I ran into Sandy Frank at a Sci-Fi/Horror convention.
/Now to find a humorous link between Science-Fiction and "Face The Music".
[/quote]
Lisa Donovan Vs. Gaos?
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[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'201137\' date=\'Nov 6 2008, 06:10 AM\']
Lisa Donovan Vs. Gaos?[/quote]
http://img344.imageshack.us/img344/9655/dabears7ug.jpg (http://\"http://img344.imageshack.us/img344/9655/dabears7ug.jpg\")
"I gotta go with Donovan."
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[quote name=\'parliboy\' post=\'201136\' date=\'Nov 5 2008, 11:36 PM\']
[quote name=\'TroubadourNando\' post=\'201057\' date=\'Nov 4 2008, 08:59 PM\'] [quote name=\'tpirfan28\' post=\'201054\' date=\'Nov 4 2008, 09:39 PM\']
You would probably eventually get it with "democratic senator", but might just waste a couple of seconds, definitely needed for the top box of "What The Rockefeller Center Ice Rink Might Say".
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"I'm frozen and I'm where couples go in New York City during Christmas?" [/quote]
What the Cryos Sperm Bank might say?
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Made me laugh.
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[quote name=\'Kevin Prather\' post=\'201144\' date=\'Nov 6 2008, 04:12 PM\']
[quote name=\'parliboy\' post=\'201136\' date=\'Nov 5 2008, 11:36 PM\']
[quote name=\'TroubadourNando\' post=\'201057\' date=\'Nov 4 2008, 08:59 PM\'] [quote name=\'tpirfan28\' post=\'201054\' date=\'Nov 4 2008, 09:39 PM\']
You would probably eventually get it with "democratic senator", but might just waste a couple of seconds, definitely needed for the top box of "What The Rockefeller Center Ice Rink Might Say".
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"I'm frozen and I'm where couples go in New York City during Christmas?" [/quote]
What the Cryos Sperm Bank might say?
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Made me laugh.
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It took me a second to not type something with "ice" in it.
The statue of Prometheus isn't something I think your common Pyramid contestant would know so that's out...
"People skate on me during Christmas in New York" maybe?