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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: MikeK on December 08, 2011, 07:03:30 PM
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http://www.cbs.com/shows/the_price_is_right/this_just_in/64011/
Celebrities play each of the 6 pricing games with the contestants. No, I do not like it.
In other news, 3500 posts. Yay.
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I had the opportunity to watch one of the games on Neil Patrick Harris's show. At some point, he...
...helps a contestant win $10,000 in ½ Off...
...and perhaps not shockingly, he appeared to be having a good time and doing well. Part of his gameplay in his reasoning is using math in deciding real prices vs. fake prices, so it's fun to see someone with a brain that functions on stage playing. I'll be at least interested to see that one, knowing what a fan he is.
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You know, if they're just helping the contestants out, but there's still contestants, I really don't see the harm in it.
And it's going to have the desired effect: without question I will set the Tivo for Snoop To The Dizzle and NPH.
/with any luck Jenny Mac will have the chance to win her charity some free immunizations
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You know, if they're just helping the contestants out, but there's still contestants, I really don't see the harm in it.
My beef is if the contestant wants to zig, the celebrity says "zag", the contestant goes with the celebrity, out come the losing horns, and possibly the celebrity turns into Rosie O'Donnell and says "I'll get that for you." I'm not saying it will happen, but I think the celebrity having zero influence on the contestant's decision is best. The contestant is there for fun and to win. The celebrity should be window dressing.
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My beef is if the contestant wants to zig, the celebrity says "zag", the contestant goes with the celebrity, out come the losing horns, and possibly the celebrity turns into Rosie O'Donnell and says "I'll get that for you." I'm not saying it will happen, but I think the celebrity having zero influence on the contestant's decision is best. The contestant is there for fun and to win. The celebrity should be window dressing.
Yeah, no, I think we're getting into "taking the show too seriously" territory here. The solution to the Rosie O'Donnell problem is to not book Rosie O'Donnell. The solution to the zig-zag problem is to remind the audience before the show that no matter what, the decision is ultimately theirs. (The solution to the Snoop Dogg problem is to make sure he's baked enough to think clearly. Shouldn't be a problem. :))
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(The solution to the Snoop Dogg problem is to make sure he's baked enough to think clearly. Shouldn't be a problem. :))
Is it bad that I lol'd?
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Celebrity Price Is Right...for real (http://"http://userdata.acd.net/ottinger/cullen/tvseries/tpir2.jpg").
(What I wouldn't give...)
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I have a video from Shokus that has Arthur Treacher playing. I remember watching an episode with Yul Brenner playing in his King of Siam costume from "The King and I."
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Celebrity Price Is Right...for real (http://"http://userdata.acd.net/ottinger/cullen/tvseries/tpir2.jpg").
(What I wouldn't give...)
Ever since I first saw an episode of the original, I loved it. I would love to see if this would work on TV today.
Didn't the original Price have a celebrity playing in one of the spots for a home player at some point?
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Didn't the original Price have a celebrity playing in one of the spots for a home player at some point?
They did. I don't remember if it was every day or just the Friday show.
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Didn't the original Price have a celebrity playing in one of the spots for a home player at some point?
They did. I don't remember if it was every day or just the Friday show.
When the show moved to ABC they had a celebrity play for various members of the studio audience every day in both the daytime and nighttime version. I'm pretty sure the picture I linked was from a special celebrity show on the NBC version.
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(The solution to the Snoop Dogg problem is to make sure he's baked enough to think clearly. Shouldn't be a problem. :))
Is it bad that I lol'd?
I did too- I could just imagine how that would play out.
(I don't have a TiVo or a DVR...does that make me old-fashioned?)
/with any luck Jenny Mac will have the chance to win her charity some free immunizations
Ba-zing.
/Seriously, the research on that was fraudulent
//The doctor was even defrocked
///Really, time to stop believing that
////SERIOUSLY
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Celebrity Millionaire
Celebrity Whew!
Celebrity Beat the Clock
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Celebrity Millionaire
Celebrity Whew!
Celebrity Beat the Clock
One week does not a disastrous change make. Now, if it goes BEYOND that, sure. But I doubt that.
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The solution to the zig-zag problem is to remind the audience before the show that no matter what, the decision is ultimately theirs.
Sure, but that's been the case for about fifty-plus years now. The audience has their say, the contestant is the final arbiter of their own destiny. There were many a time when Bob would go on about how the contestant would have won but for listening to the crowd.
From my perspective, this is quite a lot better than having a celebrity pop out from behind a prize or a game prop to show up and take up some game time by plugging whatever their show, book, movie or cause might be.
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I did too- I could just imagine how that would play out.
Same way it plays out whenever he does one of the late-night shows...he comes out, his face is slowly dripping off like that dude at the end of Raiders Of The Lost Ark in slo-mo, and he does just fine. The dude is genuinely *better* when he's wrecked.
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I did too- I could just imagine how that would play out.
Same way it plays out whenever he does one of the late-night shows...he comes out, his face is slowly dripping off like that dude at the end of Raiders Of The Lost Ark in slo-mo, and he does just fine. The dude is genuinely *better* when he's wrecked.
For some reason I just had a vision of that...creepy yet funny at the same time.
(And you're spot on too. That's the even crazier thing.)
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(And you're spot on too. That's the even crazier thing.)
For sarious. If I'm ever honored to be sitting across from him in the Winner's Circle on Pyramizzle, I want him to have smoked a bowl first. :)
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I could swear this was done before in the early 80's with daytime stars (Doug Davidson comes to mind) playing with the contestants.
Of course, I could be mistaken...
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While I'm not full flung into the idea, I have to admit that the phrase "Snoop Dogg on 'The Price is Right'" is going to raise more than a few eyebrows. I don't think it is going to be some national event that everyone at home during 11am (or 10) will definitely watch, but I do think that there will certainly be some piqued interest from folk who normally don't take the time to watch.
/I'm unsure whether to call this brilliance or a hot mess.
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While I'm not full flung into the idea, I have to admit that the phrase "Snoop Dogg on 'The Price is Right'" is going to raise more than a few eyebrows.
This guy can't wait to see it. (http://"http://media1.break.com/dnet/media/content/priceright420.jpg")
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CONTESTANT: I was GOING to pick $1,675 as the price of the La-Z-Boy and I would have won, but Snoop Dogg told me to pick $1,690 and I lost.
S&P REP: Sure you were.
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I could swear this was done before in the early 80's with daytime stars (Doug Davidson comes to mind) playing with the contestants.
Of course, I could be mistaken...
Something similar to that did occur during the 1983 "Soap Stars Week." However at the time it went something more like this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiEzinkSdtI&lc
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CONTESTANT: I was GOING to pick $1,675 as the price of the La-Z-Boy and I would have won, but Snoop Dogg told me to pick $1,690 and I lost.
S&P REP: Sure you were.
Don't see what the point is here. How many times has a contestant taken bad advice from an audience member and lost?
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CONTESTANT: I was GOING to pick $1,675 as the price of the La-Z-Boy and I would have won, but Snoop Dogg told me to pick $1,690 and I lost.
S&P REP: Sure you were.
Don't see what the point is here. How many times has a contestant taken bad advice from an audience member and lost?
Except you're not unwittingly paired with a random, shouting audience member.
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Except you're not unwittingly paired with a random, shouting audience member.
Personally, I'd much rather have NPH or a baked Snoop giving me the pricing advice over the usual members from Phi Sigma Boink in the audience (Even McCarthy, vaccine nonsense taken into account, is still less stupid than entire segments of the current production team in-studio audience at Price)
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With luxury items, wouldn't you trust a celeb with the benjamins to buy said items than some college student who can't afford to pay rent?
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baked Snoop
Incidentally, also new on the dessert menu at Friendly's.
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baked Snoop
Incidentally, also new on the dessert menu at Friendly's.
which could explain why they are in Chapter 11...
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baked Snoop
Incidentally, also new on the dessert menu at Friendly's.
Does not approve. (http://"http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b4/CharlieBrown.jpg")
which could explain why they are in Chapter 11...
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baked Snoop
Incidentally, also new on the dessert menu at Friendly's.
which could explain why they are in Chapter 11...
No fair. Toledo still has a Friendly's, but Michigan lost all of ours in the mid 90s. (Two of them are still empty, too.)
Ohio and Indiana are also hogging Waffle House, Chick-Fil-A and Taco John's and not letting us have any.
/and Dillard's
//and, until this year, Books-a-Million
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The original TPIR with Bill Cullen had celebrities playing the game.
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The original TPIR with Bill Cullen had celebrities playing the game.
Mentioned three days and 24 posts ago. (http://"http://gameshow.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=22595&view=findpost&p=273737")
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No fair. Toledo still has a Friendly's, but Michigan lost all of ours in the mid 90s. (Two of them are still empty, too.)
Ohio and Indiana are also hogging Waffle House, Chick-Fil-A and Taco John's and not letting us have any.
/and Dillard's
//and, until this year, Books-a-Million
Toledo's Friendly's closed this year. There still is one in Maumee.
And there's a Chick-Fil-A in Pontiac.
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And there's a Chick-Fil-A in Pontiac.
It's on a college campus though. I meant ones that non-college students can eat at.
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Ohio and Indiana are also hogging Waffle House, Chick-Fil-A and Taco John's and not letting us have any.
To the best of my knowledge, there are 2 Waffle Houses and zero Taco John's in Cleveland. Chick-Fil-A has grown from 2 mall locations to about 15 locations in the last 3 or so years. We're hardly hogging them up. And do you really want a Waffle House?
ETA: A search on Taco John's site says there is one location in Ohio, in Athens, and that's more like Appalachia than Ohio, so it doesn't count. (Oh, hi Ohio U. alums and Don Howard.)
//and, until this year, Books-a-Million
I think there is one B-a-M in the Cleveland area, and I haven't been to that part of town in probably 15 years. Not hogging them up at all.
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We just got a Books-A-Million in North Jersey when they took over a Borders Express store that closed. Not bad, but not terribly impressed either.
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Ohio and Indiana are also hogging Waffle House, Chick-Fil-A and Taco John's and not letting us have any.
To the best of my knowledge, there are 2 Waffle Houses and zero Taco John's in Cleveland. Chick-Fil-A has grown from 2 mall locations to about 15 locations in the last 3 or so years. We're hardly hogging them up. And do you really want a Waffle House?
ETA: A search on Taco John's site says there is one location in Ohio, in Athens, and that's more like Appalachia than Ohio, so it doesn't count. (Oh, hi Ohio U. alums and Don Howard.)
//and, until this year, Books-a-Million
I think there is one B-a-M in the Cleveland area, and I haven't been to that part of town in probably 15 years. Not hogging them up at all.
Okay, that was kind of confusingly phrased. I know there are Waffle Houses and Chick-Fil-As as far north as Toledo, so I'm surprised they never made the next step into at least Detroit.
B-A-M and Taco John's aren't exactly prevalent in Ohio, but Indiana has several of both. I know B-A-M is at least as far north as Muncie, and there's a recently converted ex-Waldenbooks in Defiance, Ohio. I find it strange that B-A-M operates both superstores like Barnes & Noble and tiny, mall-based Waldenbooks-type stores.
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ETA: A search on Taco John's site says there is one location in Ohio, in Athens, and that's more like Appalachia than Ohio, so it doesn't count. (Oh, hi Ohio U. alums and Don Howard.)
I love Taco John's. I live about 45 minutes from Ohio's only Taco John's and stop by occasionally when I go hit up Athens to buy Ski soda. Was just there about a month ago and it was pretty good for fast-food Mexican fare.
We're considered to be in Appalachia (pretty much) where I live but I consider myself the exception to the definition of an "Appalachian Resident", so to speak :)
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And there's a Chick-Fil-A in Pontiac.
It's on a college campus though. I meant ones that non-college students can eat at.
I can assure you that they don't make you show your college ID in order to eat there.
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And there's a Chick-Fil-A in Pontiac.
It's on a college campus though. I meant ones that non-college students can eat at.
I can assure you that they don't make you show your college ID in order to eat there.
Shhhhh. Don't confuse the lad.
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And there's a Chick-Fil-A in Pontiac.
It's on a college campus though. I meant ones that non-college students can eat at.
I can assure you that they don't make you show your college ID in order to eat there.
Shhhhh. Don't confuse the lad.
You see those masts in the distance? That ship has sailed.
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I find that the franchises are slow to come to Michigan. My theory is that no one "passes through" Michigan to get to other states. If you're in Michigan, it's because you're going to Michigan (or for a select few, Canada)
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And there's a Chick-Fil-A in Pontiac.
It's on a college campus though. I meant ones that non-college students can eat at.
I can assure you that they don't make you show your college ID in order to eat there.
Shhhhh. Don't confuse the lad.
You see those masts in the distance? That ship has sailed.
You misunderestimate me. My implication was that yes, I know you don't have to have a college ID to eat at a college food court, but it's also pretty pointless to go all the way to a college just to get my Chick-Fil-A fix. I live far enough away from metro Detroit that I might as well just go to the extra hour to Toledo if I want some.
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What you said was:
[quote name='Twentington']It's on a college campus though. I meant ones that non-college students can eat at.[/quote]
And then what you said was:
[quote name='Twentington']My implication was that yes, I know you don't have to have a college ID to eat at a college food court, but it's also pretty pointless to go all the way to a college just to get my Chick-Fil-A fix. [/quote]
And I for one sure don't see how anything in the first message implied anything you're suggesting it did in the second. Also, the phrase "to go all the way to a college" makes no sense. If you live close to it, then it's nearby. If you don't, then it's further away. The fact that it's a college has nothing to do with how far away it is. It also makes no sense to me whatsoever that you would drive an extra hour just to specifically avoid a location that happened to be on a college campus. It's exactly the same food.
I apologize to occasional readers who probably find a lot of this awfully petty, but golly this kind of stuff out of you just drives me nuts.
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You misunderestimate me. My implication was that yes, I know you don't have to have a college ID to eat at a college food court, but it's also pretty pointless to go all the way to a college just to get my Chick-Fil-A fix.
Where I live, there's three Chik-Fil-As in the city. One's a good 15 minute drive to the other side of town; the other two are on much (or somewhat) closer college campuses. When I have a craving, I'm going to the campus. No one's ever asked me for an ID*, and it's not pointless at all (esp. when gas is still $3 a gallon). I doubt that even the most anal college administrator is looking for proof that you attend school there.
*Granted, I now work for one college, but I've still never been carded there or at the other one.
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I doubt that even the most anal college administrator is looking for proof that you attend school there.
Our University Pavilion finds itself as a resting ground for a homeless man or two once in a while. I think being a non-student paying customer is just fine.
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I apologize to occasional readers who probably find a lot of this awfully petty, but golly this kind of stuff out of you just drives me nuts.
Well, pretty much everything *else* out of him drives the rest of us nuts, so that seems pretty even.
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I doubt that even the most anal college administrator is looking for proof that you attend school there.
Even this statement suggests that you're getting away with something by eating on a college campus, and when it comes from a respected poster, I just have to ask. Do people really feel that eating at on on-campus site is somehow reserved exclusively for students? That it's in some way "wrong" to step foot on a campus without a reason except to take advantage of the yummy goodness of their food court? That line of thought just totally never occurred to me.
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I doubt that even the most anal college administrator is looking for proof that you attend school there.
Even this statement suggests that you're getting away with something by eating on a college campus, and when it comes from a respected poster, I just have to ask. Do people really feel that eating at on on-campus site is somehow reserved exclusively for students? That it's in some way "wrong" to step foot on a campus without a reason except to take advantage of the yummy goodness of their food court? That line of thought just totally never occurred to me.
For a big sprawling place like State or Michigan that's probably less of a concern. In Saginaw, there are a couple of higher learning institutions, that are like mini-cities where you need parking permits, etc. At the SVSU library, I would often be asked "Are you a student here?" After a while I came up with, "No, just a taxpayer."
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We just got a Books a Million in North Canton, Ohio-In a place called "The Strip" (sort of an outdoor mall) North of the Belden Village shopping area between Canton and Akron, replacing a Borders..You have to have a "Card" costing twenty bucks a year to use their "free" wifi..Overall, not as nice as Borders was..2 Chick-fil-a locations, inside Belden Village Mall and a freestanding location a few miles away..Never heard of Taco John's before this thread..Sounds decent, though I wouldnt drive to Athens, about 100 miles south of here, to try it..
I've eaten at Subway, which is practically on Cleveland State's Campus, never been asked for College Id,,Most College Fast food places I know of serve the general public as well..
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Never heard of Taco John's before this thread..Sounds decent, though I wouldnt drive to Athens, about 100 miles south of here, to try it..
We have our share of Taco John's out here, but Taco Time is the outright favorite in town. Down side is, like Chick Fil-A, Closed Sundays.
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I'm not Brandon but I'll add that I would be less inclined to visit a college campus for the sole purpose of eating. Just seems to far outside the norm but jmo
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I've eaten at Subway, which is practically on Cleveland State's Campus, never been asked for College Id,,Most College Fast food places I know of serve the general public as well..
The key word is "practically". Unless CSU added a Subway since I graduated from there 6 years ago, the Subway of which you speak is not on CSU property.
Now I'm hungry. Thanks guys. >:-/
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I doubt that even the most anal college administrator is looking for proof that you attend school there.
Even this statement suggests that you're getting away with something by eating on a college campus, and when it comes from a respected poster, I just have to ask. Do people really feel that eating at on on-campus site is somehow reserved exclusively for students? That it's in some way "wrong" to step foot on a campus without a reason except to take advantage of the yummy goodness of their food court? That line of thought just totally never occurred to me.
No...not at all what I was trying to imply. I was making the point that it doesn't at all matter whether you attend the school or not. If you want good eats just go there already.
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If there's a restaurant on the campus that's really good, and it's local, then I can see going there for food. (Aside: Mmmmm, Uncle Sam's) However, going out of your way for campus food is a tad strange. I would think that a non-student would generally want to avoid school food, given the option.
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If there's a restaurant on the campus that's really good, and it's local, then I can see going there for food. (Aside: Mmmmm, Uncle Sam's) However, going out of your way for campus food is a tad strange. I would think that a non-student would generally want to avoid school food, given the option.
Weirdly, that's not at all the case at Michigan State. For whatever reason, the school has dedicated itself in a HUGE way to improving the culinary operations in their residence halls. So much so that it's not uncommon at all for non-student adults to dine in what once would have been called a 'school cafeteria'. More here. (http://"http://eatatstate.com/")
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If you want good eats
"Beg pardon?" (http://"http://bit.ly/uCj6Vj")
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Weirdly, that's not at all the case at Michigan State. For whatever reason, the school has dedicated itself in a HUGE way to improving the culinary operations in their residence halls. So much so that it's not uncommon at all for non-student adults to dine in what once would have been called a 'school cafeteria'. More here. (http://"http://eatatstate.com/")
SJSU was interesting in that for most residential students, if you didn't eat at the Dining Commons, you could take your ID / meal card to the Student Union or the Pub and get cash credit towards whatever you wanted to eat there. So, worst case, you could always get a couple slices of pizza or a two-piece fried-chicken meal for the same swipe of the meal card that admitted you to the DC.
As such, I always thought the DC's food was reasonably good. 'Cept on Sundays, the Student Union and Pub were closed, so the DC knew they had a captive audience, and that was when they tried to serve up the fish that tasted like the underside of a pier and such.
/the technology radio show I worked on on Sunday nights meant I usually missed Sunday dinner at the DC
//Chili Dog Sunday at Das Wienerschnitzel was my savior in more ways than one
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The one thing that I will say is that I've found that some of the chains at college campuses are either more expensive or don't offer their cheapest items, such as their dollar menus.
I could see how it would be strange for non-students to come eat there, but I always just assumed they were visitors.
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I've eaten at Subway, which is practically on Cleveland State's Campus, never been asked for College Id,,Most College Fast food places I know of serve the general public as well..
The key word is "practically". Unless CSU added a Subway since I graduated from there 6 years ago, the Subway of which you speak is not on CSU property.
Now I'm hungry. Thanks guys. >:-/
I know it isnt. why I said "Practically"..There were a lot of Students in there the last time I ate there..More accurately, It's just before The Cleveland State Buildings begin..
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SJSU was interesting in that for most residential students, if you didn't eat at the Dining Commons, you could take your ID / meal card to the Student Union or the Pub and get cash credit towards whatever you wanted to eat there. So, worst case, you could always get a couple slices of pizza or a two-piece fried-chicken meal for the same swipe of the meal card that admitted you to the DC.
I happen to know that's the case at Northwestern now, and they've always seemed a bit behind the curve on such things, so I assume it's the case at pretty much every university in These Modern Times.
'Cept on Sundays, the Student Union and Pub were closed, so the DC knew they had a captive audience, and that was when they tried to serve up the fish that tasted like the underside of a pier and such.
Back in my day, the dining halls at Northwestern only served one meal on Sundays -- brunch. So dinner for those of us in the dorms always came from one of the many fine restaurants in the area, by which I mean half the time I had Papa John's delivered, and the other half I walked to the McDonald's on Orrington Avenue (thumbing my nose at the closest eatery to the south end of campus, The Worst Burger King in the World). But now the dining halls serve Sunday dinner, so I assume most of the fast-food places in downtown Evanston have closed.
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SJSU was interesting in that for most residential students, if you didn't eat at the Dining Commons, you could take your ID / meal card to the Student Union or the Pub and get cash credit towards whatever you wanted to eat there. So, worst case, you could always get a couple slices of pizza or a two-piece fried-chicken meal for the same swipe of the meal card that admitted you to the DC.
I happen to know that's the case at Northwestern now, and they've always seemed a bit behind the curve on such things, so I assume it's the case at pretty much every university in These Modern Times.
That's also how it was when I was in school a decade ago. I can't remember if it happened every single time, but the school occasionally loaded everyone's student ID with $50 at the start of the semester. Otherwise, you'd add your own money whenever you wanted, and could use it at the student center, or at the library.
The college where I work offers the same option to students, and apparently faculty/staff as well (I keep forgetting to look into that). I believe your card may also be used at a few off-campus restaurants and businesses. When I was in school, there were rumors that my alma mater would do the same thing, but that never came to fruition. I'm thinking it's changed since I graduated.
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the school occasionally loaded everyone's student ID with $50 at the start of the semester.
Lord, I wish. As I write this, I'm sitting at my on-campus job, starving and out of Hoot Loot (our campus currency, since our mascot is an owl).
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Lord, I wish. As I write this, I'm sitting at my on-campus job, starving and out of Hoot Loot (our campus currency, since our mascot is an owl).
What's the exchange rate of Hoot Loot per Itchy & Scratchy dollar?
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Lord, I wish. As I write this, I'm sitting at my on-campus job, starving and out of Hoot Loot (our campus currency, since our mascot is an owl).
What's the exchange rate of Hoot Loot per Itchy & Scratchy dollar?
Doesn't even matter. (http://"http://tagn.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/simpsons_i-and-s_money.jpg")
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the school occasionally loaded everyone's student ID with $50 at the start of the semester.
Lord, I wish. As I write this, I'm sitting at my on-campus job, starving and out of Hoot Loot (our campus currency, since our mascot is an owl).
Rice? Temple? Florida Atlantic? Other?
(OT: is it just me or is the FAU logo creepy?)
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I'm going to go with Southern Connecticut.
MSU tarting up their cuisine (hopefully not literally) makes sense. Make it attractive enough and you get people you ordinarily wouldn't.
Spending money to make money. What a novel idea.
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I'm going to go with Southern Connecticut.
Yep, Southern CT State.