Author Topic: You Don't Say 1960s Question (Read 3672 times)

carlisle96 · « **on:** April 30, 2013, 02:12:57 PM »

Forgive me if this was covered before, but I\'ve always wondered how the contestants on You Don\'t Say saw the answers? It looks like they pull out a blank card covering the categories from box that looks like a napkin dispenser. Does anyone know exactly how it worked?

clemon79 · « **Reply #1 on:** April 30, 2013, 03:19:27 PM »

Does anyone know exactly how it worked?

They, um, pulled a card out of a box.

carlisle96 · « **Reply #2 on:** April 30, 2013, 04:44:15 PM »

so does this mean it\'s my turn to get smart-mouth replies? Now I know I really belong to this group.

TLEberle · « **Reply #3 on:** April 30, 2013, 04:46:21 PM »

That\'s a really ungrateful way to thank someone who took time out of his day to answer your question.

PYLdude · « **Reply #4 on:** April 30, 2013, 06:07:16 PM »

That\'s a really ungrateful way to thank someone who took time out of his day to answer your question.

I wouldn\'t thank him either...as I said, not everything needs the Lemon Touch. This was one of those times.

(in other words, response could\'ve been a little more tactful and not out and out disdainful. As in \"that\'s how they did it, how you saw it, that easily.\")

clemon79 · « **Reply #5 on:** April 30, 2013, 06:20:03 PM »

Yeah, I\'ll go ahead and take Chris Palmer\'s advice regarding tact under advisement, right after I get done with Professor Horan\'s Humility 101...

PYLdude · « **Reply #6 on:** April 30, 2013, 06:35:08 PM »

And throw in \"dismissing the critic because you don\'t like him\"...almost a Triple Play.

Kevin Prather · « **Reply #7 on:** April 30, 2013, 06:53:25 PM »

Popcorn anyone?

clemon79 · « **Reply #8 on:** April 30, 2013, 06:59:12 PM »

Popcorn anyone?

Not at all. I know when I\'ve been bettered.

TLEberle · « **Reply #9 on:** April 30, 2013, 07:07:30 PM »

But knowing when you\'ve been buttered, that\'s another thing entirely. And it costs extra too.

BrandonFG · « **Reply #10 on:** April 30, 2013, 07:30:16 PM »

so does this mean it\'s my turn to get smart-mouth replies? Now I know I really belong to this group.

Before the gratuitous shitstorm derails this thread, I\'ll step in to say that I don\'t believe Chris was trying to be a smartass. Looking at the pics on Adam Nedeff\'s site, I think it really was that simple. I doubt You Don\'t Say used a mechanical setup like on Password.

Looking at an episode on Youtube, it indeed looks like a pull-card system, kinda like a fancier version of the card boxes used in Trivial Pursuit.

carlisle96 · « **Reply #11 on:** April 30, 2013, 07:39:03 PM »

so does this mean it\'s my turn to get smart-mouth replies? Now I know I really belong to this group.

Before the gratuitous shitstorm derails this thread, I\'ll step in to say that I don\'t believe Chris was trying to be a smartass. Looking at the pics on Adam Nedeff\'s site, I think it really was that simple. I doubt You Don\'t Say used a mechanical setup like on Password.

Looking at an episode on Youtube, it indeed looks like a pull-card system, kinda like a fancier version of the card boxes used in Trivial Pursuit.

Thanks for a sensible response. The reason I asked is becasue the contestants appear to look into the box and not at the card they pull out, so I was just wondering exactly why it was set up this way.

PYLdude · « **Reply #12 on:** April 30, 2013, 08:14:14 PM »

If that be the case upon the new evidence...withdrawn.