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We've done threads on dream prizes, props, etc. However, to my recollection, we have not done a list of prizes that you personally wouldn't want.
So, what prize would you be absolutely mortified to win? Please limit your selections to around 4 (lest someone become Zach II and give a complete list of prizes, and what shows they were on).
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I cringe whenever TPiR offers a motorhome, a boat, or a spa as a prize. Aside from the fact that I'd have no use for any of those prizes, I live in a townhouse.....where would I store them?
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One of those spa/jacuzzis that TPiR gives away. I also live in a townhouse.
"When I was little, if we wanted a Jacuzzi, we had to fart in the tub!"
-Eddie Murphy, "Trading Places" (paraphrased)
I have 3 more...I'll be back :-P
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[quote name=\'Steve_Bier\' date=\'Jan 24 2006, 07:22 AM\']I cringe whenever TPiR offers a motorhome, a boat, or a spa as a prize. Aside from the fact that I'd have no use for any of those prizes, I live in a townhouse.....where would I store them?
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I have the same problem. Add to that a fireplace, gazebo & popcorn machine.
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I would have to say the infamous GEM car...essentially a glorified golf cart! I always laughed when people would be shouting for the GEM car on Whammy! during its first season...:) And I completely agree with the spa and gazebo people as well; I live in an apartment, so I would have absolutely no place to store it!
The other one (one they seem to like to give away in Most Expensive on TPIR) is that retro gas pump replica of some sort. What in the world would you do with that? Unless it actually does pump gas, I see no need for it...:)
Anthony
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[quote name=\'Steve_Bier\' date=\'Jan 24 2006, 07:22 AM\']I cringe whenever TPiR offers a motorhome, a boat, or a spa as a prize. Aside from the fact that I'd have no use for any of those prizes, I live in a townhouse.....where would I store them?
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Bob Boden's house.
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The Price is Right presents..."The Table of Gold"/"The Crystal Table"!
Horrible--what middle-American contestant has a use for $3,500 (1975 dollars) worth of gold/crystal dinnerware, flatware and stemware?
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[quote name=\'beatlefreak84\' date=\'Jan 24 2006, 08:59 AM\']
The other one (one they seem to like to give away in Most Expensive on TPIR) is that retro gas pump replica of some sort. What in the world would you do with that? Unless it actually does pump gas, I see no need for it...:)
Anthony
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A similarly-styled gas pump replica was actually considered a Zonk on LMAD84 once.
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I got two...
1) If you go with the spa and jacuzzi as baddies, I say the swimming pools have gotta be up there as well. If you don't live in a house with a backyard, where might you put it- on the roof? (scary thought just now- a game of Most Expensive with all three being offered as prizes...jibblies.)
2) If I was playing any of the car games with the Aveo as a prize, I'd wanna throw it back. Now, I'm not knocking the people who like it or have it, but those things are ugly.
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From the final NBC edition of High Rollers:
A $10,000 fishbowl.
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The wall throw that was in WoF in '86......Who in their right mind would choose to buy THAT?!? ;)
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How about the ugly-ass impractical Game Carpeting offered on TPiR during the 70's?
Doug
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[quote name=\'TalkingHeadsFan\' date=\'Jan 24 2006, 11:43 AM\']How about the ugly-ass impractical Game Carpeting offered on TPiR during the 70's?
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Aww, man , I ALWAYS wanted that when I was a kid....that stuff was cool!
Now if I try to redo the living room with that stuff, my wife will leave me.
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Let us not forget the fabled WOF ceramic dalmatian.
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I read somewhere that the prize contestants refuse most often is trips. Back when J! fell into the rut of having a vacation for second place and something easily sellable for third, my betting strategy for third place in a situation where 1st - 2nd > 3rd was to bet everything and take a dive.
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[quote name=\'Jay Temple\' date=\'Jan 24 2006, 08:52 AM\']I read somewhere that the prize contestants refuse most often is trips.
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But that could just be because it's the only prize contestants can't sell. ;)
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Hmm, the snowboards, snowmobiles, chandeliers, and a year's supplies of flowers by FTD that TPIR has offered at one time or another. Who really needs that many flowers?
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Who really wants that much Turtle Wax? I dunno about y'all, but for me a year's supply is one bottle. :)
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[quote name=\'wheelloon\' date=\'Jan 24 2006, 12:42 PM\']Who really needs that many flowers?
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Someone who wants to get some....home cooking.
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<Pat Sajak>
LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLuggature!
LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLuggature!
That's actually a great prize... </PS>
Oh... wait...
R.
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Who goes on a GS hoping to win a hovercraft, which was offered in the debut playing of TPiR's short-lived Gallery Game?
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")
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That Games People Play carpeting (it's absolutely Jorges!) was on *every* damn game show back then. The schlockmeisters must've been given a ton of that to give out.
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[quote name=\'Mike Tennant\' date=\'Jan 24 2006, 11:50 AM\']Let us not forget the fabled WOF ceramic dalmatian.
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Actually, my parents proudly display one in their front yard. They are really into fire truck-related stuff, including two actual fire trucks.
Now, if I could only get one of those answering machines given away on Talkabout...
--Mike
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TPIR gift, i have seen a few times during the early 80s as a prize on Range Game....A Hot Dog Cart
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Two words: Flokati rug!
Jonathan Allen
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[quote name=\'Argo\' date=\'Jan 24 2006, 01:39 PM\']TPIR gift, i have seen a few times during the early 80s as a prize on Range Game....A Hot Dog Cart
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One man's trash, I guess. I think having my own hot-dog cart would be a blast. Haven't you noticed that the best hot dogs in the WORLD come off of carts?
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Also, from TPiR...Season Tixs for the Dodgers, Lakers, and Kings. Last year, if I won, the nearest professional rink or arena is 6-8 hours away.
Charles
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jan 24 2006, 04:45 PM\'][quote name=\'Argo\' date=\'Jan 24 2006, 01:39 PM\']TPIR gift, i have seen a few times during the early 80s as a prize on Range Game....A Hot Dog Cart
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One man's trash, I guess. I think having my own hot-dog cart would be a blast. Haven't you noticed that the best hot dogs in the WORLD come off of carts?
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I wouldn't mind having one of these either...I guess I just love the taste of a hot dog, slathered with relish, mustard....
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[quote name=\'Modor\' date=\'Jan 24 2006, 05:00 PM\'][quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jan 24 2006, 04:45 PM\'][quote name=\'Argo\' date=\'Jan 24 2006, 01:39 PM\']TPIR gift, i have seen a few times during the early 80s as a prize on Range Game....A Hot Dog Cart
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One man's trash, I guess. I think having my own hot-dog cart would be a blast. Haven't you noticed that the best hot dogs in the WORLD come off of carts?
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I wouldn't mind having one of these either...I guess I just love the taste of a hot dog, slathered with relish, mustard....
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TPIR in the 70's had a bed with shaped like a bird cage complete with a trapeeze.
But enough about Bob's dressing room.
-Jason
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Bible Baffle you could win tv tables with a praying hands design on them . The big prize was a trip to Christian theme in the Wisconson Dells.
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[quote name=\'JasonA1\' date=\'Jan 24 2006, 02:17 PM\']But enough about Bob's dressing room.
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"I tawt I taw a puddy!"
"Um, isn't that a "puddy tat", Bob?"
"Shut up and get naked."
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I've got a good one. How about a TPIR snowmobile?
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Along with the gazebo and the storage building that shows up as an IUFB, I'd want to pass on the carousel horse that shows up from time to time...
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[quote name=\'catkins522\' date=\'Jan 24 2006, 02:54 PM\']Also, from TPiR...Season Tixs for the Dodgers, Lakers, and Kings. Last year, if I won, the nearest professional rink or arena is 6-8 hours away.
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I actually think that's one of the awesomest (if there is such a word) prizes offered on the show! Oh, well.
I agree with whoever said those awful electric car... things. I've always thought they look like large, technicolor, plastic frogs. Those are the absolute worst.
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[quote name=\'beatlefreak84\' date=\'Jan 24 2006, 08:59 AM\']The other one (one they seem to like to give away in Most Expensive on TPIR) is that retro gas pump replica of some sort. What in the world would you do with that? Unless it actually does pump gas, I see no need for it...:)
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The replica gas pump would be most logical to fall under the "game room/furniture" category. What would I do with a replica gas pump? If I didn't have room in the house, my second choice would be to put it outside by the garage and route my garden hose through it. Imagine passers-by doing double-takes when they *think* they see somebody watering their lawn with 93 octane.
Anyhoo, back to topic. For TPIR prizes -- Musical instruments: Banjos, Drum sets (exception: guitars), the tennis ball serving machines, the outdoor greenhouses and, back in the days when 8-track tapes there hip, the "pop-up" stereo consoles (similar to the defective "pop-up" bar that is always seen on the TPIR Blooper reels).
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A Portrait or Artwork. just useless.
As for the Gas Pump, unless it had a drink of any kind in it. Then I'll take.
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[quote name=\'TimK2003\' date=\'Jan 24 2006, 07:42 PM\']For TPIR prizes -- Musical instruments: Banjos, Drum sets (exception: guitars)
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Agreed. Most of the musical instruments they give away -- guitars included -- are pieces of crap. If someone can play the instrument they're giving away, odds are they already have a better one at home.
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[quote name=\'TimK2003\' date=\'Jan 24 2006, 07:42 PM\']If I didn't have room in the house, my second choice would be to put it outside by the garage and route my garden hose through it. Imagine passers-by doing double-takes when they *think* they see somebody watering their lawn with 93 octane.
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Even better, put up a sign saying you're selling gas for 79 cents a gallon. :)
Hey, what about that silly lucite piano that was on Wheel in '89?
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As far as worst prizes go, I'll start cheap & work my way up:
A $583 floor screen-Good grief! What would I want that for outside of a decorative touch?
A $599 cat climbing tree-I don't have a cat so that takes care of that.
A $1,560 gallery clock-Eeek! I've got enough clocks, watches & other things that tell time for me. I don't need that. No way!
Finally, any GEM car on a game show. Unless I play golf(wich I don't), I'll pass on thatr.
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[quote name=\'HairMetalLives\' date=\'Jan 24 2006, 06:38 PM\']I actually think that's one of the awesomest (if there is such a word) prizes offered on the show! Oh, well.
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Except, sir, you live in Washington. What good do season tickets to four LA-based teams do you in Washington?
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jan 25 2006, 05:18 AM\'][quote name=\'HairMetalLives\' date=\'Jan 24 2006, 06:38 PM\']I actually think that's one of the awesomest (if there is such a word) prizes offered on the show! Oh, well.
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Except, sir, you live in Washington. What good do season tickets to four LA-based teams do you in Washington?
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ebay?
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[quote name=\'catkins522\' date=\'Jan 24 2006, 04:54 PM\']Also, from TPiR...Season Tixs for the Dodgers, Lakers, and Kings. Last year, if I won, the nearest professional rink or arena is 6-8 hours away.
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IIRC, those appeared as "Race Game" prizes with the Rams as the fourth team (of course that's when they were in LA. Did you really expect the show to fly them to St. Louis?)
God, I will now quit acting like Horan.
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[quote name=\'sshuffield70\' date=\'Jan 25 2006, 10:26 AM\'][quote name=\'catkins522\' date=\'Jan 24 2006, 04:54 PM\']Also, from TPiR...Season Tixs for the Dodgers, Lakers, and Kings. Last year, if I won, the nearest professional rink or arena is 6-8 hours away.
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IIRC, those appeared as "Race Game" prizes with the Rams as the fourth team (of course that's when they were in LA. Did you really expect the show to fly them to St. Louis?)
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ISTR Danger Price and Take Two having those season tickets as well. Anyone remember if Poker Game, the other four prize game at the time(late 70s-early 80s) had such prizes? Season tickets to the Dodgers have appeared as a prize in the Showcase as recently as a couple years ago(trips to Dodger Fantasy Baseball Camp in Florida seems to have replaced the season tickets)
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[quote name=\'cmjb13\' date=\'Jan 25 2006, 03:44 AM\']ebay?
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But if you're gonna try that excuse, you can EBay virtually any prize, and I can certainly think of easier prizes to sell than tickets to see the Lakers host the freakin' Charlotte Bobcats.
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All from WOF 88:
A new add-on sunroom (or whatever the heck it was)
A log cabin (I think it was actually a build-your-own set)
A $100,000 Annuity (Which still wouldn't have matured fully)
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Man, if you don't want, what, $5K a year? I'll gladly take it.
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[quote name=\'PYLdude\' date=\'Jan 24 2006, 09:52 AM\']I got two...
1) If you go with the spa and jacuzzi as baddies, I say the swimming pools have gotta be up there as well. If you don't live in a house with a backyard, where might you put it- on the roof? (scary thought just now- a game of Most Expensive with all three being offered as prizes...jibblies.)
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Add a sailboat and we can play Danger Price instead :)
(my tub's too small for a sailboat)
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[quote name=\'saussage\' date=\'Jan 25 2006, 08:27 PM\'](my tub's too small for a sailboat)
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If you have to explain the joke...
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jan 25 2006, 09:37 PM\']If you have to explain the joke...
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Was it an explanation, or an additional smartassery? It seemed like the latter to me, but I am lacking sleep.
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Unless someone already posted this prize in this thread-- how about a year's supply of M&Ms?! I saw that prize on Whammy! several times during its first season, and I can't understand why ANYONE could come up with a prize like that. :p
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[quote name=\'gshowguy\' date=\'Jan 26 2006, 07:28 PM\']Unless someone already posted this prize in this thread-- how about a year's supply of M&Ms?! I saw that prize on Whammy! several times during its first season, and I can't understand why ANYONE could come up with a prize like that. :p
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Some prize shlockmeister (Is that the right word?) probably got a call from someone at M&Ms, and they made a deal. That's usually how it goes. Much as my taste buds like the idea, I don't think that would be a healthy prize.
/but then again, who would want a monthly Salad-Gram?
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[quote name=\'gshowguy\' date=\'Jan 26 2006, 09:28 PM\']Unless someone already posted this prize in this thread-- how about a year's supply of M&Ms?! I saw that prize on Whammy! several times during its first season, and I can't understand why ANYONE could come up with a prize like that. :p
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A year's supply of green M&Ms, perhaps? (Mars won't package them that way, although I did once work with a woman who received a jar of green M&Ms from a persistent failed suitor.)
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[quote name=\'calliaume\' date=\'Jan 26 2006, 08:04 PM\']A year's supply of green M&Ms, perhaps? (Mars won't package them that way, although I did once work with a woman who received a jar of green M&Ms from a persistent failed suitor.)
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Maybe not retail, but it's a simple matter to get them in any color you want if you are willing to pay:
http://shop2.mms.com/21colors/index.asp (http://\"http://shop2.mms.com/21colors/index.asp\")
I also remember them being available in colors of your choice at the candy store at the Seattle FAO Schwarz, when it was still open.
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[quote name=\'calliaume\' date=\'Jan 27 2006, 12:04 AM\']A year's supply of green M&Ms, perhaps? (Mars won't package them that way, although I did once work with a woman who received a jar of green M&Ms from a persistent failed suitor.)
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No, but M&Ms can be bought at certain places by color. For example, when I went to 30 Rock, there was an M&M display in the NBC Studio Store. Not only do they sell the normal colors separately (you have to bag your own), but they also have colors that aren't in the normal array, like gray and purple.
ObGameShows: "Let's Bowl" used to have really bad prizes, but that was part of the charm, I guess. For example, in their local Minneapolis TV days, they often gave away gift certificates to Old Country Buffet and merchandise from a defunct radio station as prizes.
I just watched a few of those local ones for the first time. Funny stuff. Slow and clunky and not as polished as the Comedy Central version (which was sadly underrated and underwatched), but the building block were still there.
"Dried strips of animal flesh? That's for me!"
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jan 26 2006, 11:10 PM\']I also remember them being available in colors of your choice at the candy store at the Seattle FAO Schwarz, when it was still open.
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Mr. Bulky stores had this too...I believe the stand was called "Colorworks".
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[quote name=\'Modor\' date=\'Jan 26 2006, 09:00 PM\']Mr. Bulky stores had this too...I believe the stand was called "Colorworks".
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That's exactly what it was. Used to be what that part of the M&M site was called, too.
What the hell kind of name for a store is Mr. Bulky? :)
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jan 26 2006, 08:10 PM\'][quote name=\'calliaume\' date=\'Jan 26 2006, 08:04 PM\']A year's supply of green M&Ms, perhaps?[/quote]Maybe not retail, but it's a simple matter to get them in any color you want if you are willing to pay:http://shop2.mms.com/21colors/index.asp (http://\"http://shop2.mms.com/21colors/index.asp\") I also remember them being available in colors of your choice at the candy store at the Seattle FAO Schwarz, when it was still open.[/quote]As far as retail sales go, there's always M&M's World (http://\"http://www.vegas.com/attractions/on_the_strip/mandmworld.html?f=m0at&t=stripat\") on the Strip in Las Vegas, right next to the World of Coca-Cola. <announcer voice> The Showcase Mall, your #1 place for diabetes on the Strip!</av> ((8=D))
Esoteric Eric... thanks to the Page O'Clips, I saw a fairly bad prize on Jimmy's clip of Blank Check(EDIT: now replaced on his website); a trip to Vegas (train from LA and back, two-night stay), valued at $160 (yikes)
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[quote name=\'Esoteric Eric\' date=\'Jan 26 2006, 09:54 PM\']...thanks to the Page O'Clips, I saw a fairly bad prize on Jimmy's clip of Blank Check(EDIT: now replaced on his website); a trip to Vegas (train from LA and back, two-night stay), valued at $160 (yikes)
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Well, I'd take that prize, especially if I could go back in time to do it, since the Vegas-to-Barstow portion of the train trip is no longer part of the Amtrak system and therefore now counts as "rare mileage" for railfans.
The L.A.-to-Vegas fare was fairly cheap (you gotta give people some reason to take a six-and-a-half-hour train ride instead of a four-hour drive or a 45-minute flight), but I'm betting the 2-night stay was not in one of Vegas's finer hotels.
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[quote name=\'trainman\' date=\'Jan 26 2006, 11:33 PM\']but I'm betting the 2-night stay was not in one of Vegas's finer hotels.
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"Two nights at the luxurious Westward Ho!" :)
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jan 27 2006, 01:45 AM\'][quote name=\'trainman\' date=\'Jan 26 2006, 11:33 PM\']but I'm betting the 2-night stay was not in one of Vegas's finer hotels.
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"Two nights at the luxurious Westward Ho!" :)
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Called thus because of its clientele--for those who couldn't wait to get to the Mustang Ranch. :)
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Let's see... prizes I would be mortified to win... here's my list:
1. A Mongolian lamb throw rug worth $1500
2. A set of bone china worth $640
3. A Navajo etching worth $269
Oh wait...
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I'm suprised that the PYL and Whammy! fans didn't mention the two cheapest prizes on the show:
-$189 Jog 'N Tramp
-$120 Humidor
As for the non-PYL and W! prizes:
-High Rollers: African Mask
-High Rollers: Musical Dolls
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[quote name=\'PYLclark86\' date=\'Jan 28 2006, 04:32 PM\']I'm suprised that the PYL and Whammy! fans didn't mention the two cheapest prizes on the show:
-$189 Jog 'N Tramp
-$120 Humidor
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I consider it a sign of great hope that most of them didn't remember.
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jan 28 2006, 09:53 PM\']I consider it a sign of great hope that most of them didn't remember.
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...although that Jog 'N Tramp sounds like it might go well with that hotel in Vegas. <ducks>
--Sam :-)
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[quote name=\'SamJ93\' date=\'Jan 28 2006, 08:06 PM\']...although that Jog 'N Tramp sounds like it might go well with that hotel in Vegas. <ducks>
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Well, that explains why it was so cheap...