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Matt Ottinger

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« Reply #105 on: July 15, 2009, 11:35:29 AM »
[quote name=\'Mr. Armadillo\' post=\'220233\' date=\'Jul 15 2009, 10:23 AM\']What's the difference between a hard Q and a difficult Q?[/quote]
I'm not sure anyone was making that distinction, and anyone who did would just be assigning their own arbitrary distinction between two words that are, for all practical purposes, synonymous.
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« Reply #106 on: July 15, 2009, 11:59:48 AM »
[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'220235\' date=\'Jul 15 2009, 11:35 AM\'][quote name=\'Mr. Armadillo\' post=\'220233\' date=\'Jul 15 2009, 10:23 AM\']What's the difference between a hard Q and a difficult Q?[/quote]
I'm not sure anyone was making that distinction, and anyone who did would just be assigning their own arbitrary distinction between two words that are, for all practical purposes, synonymous.
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Oops, meant one easy and one difficult.
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Matt Ottinger

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« Reply #107 on: July 15, 2009, 12:37:19 PM »
[quote name=\'mmb5\' post=\'220237\' date=\'Jul 15 2009, 11:59 AM\'][quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'220235\' date=\'Jul 15 2009, 11:35 AM\'][quote name=\'Mr. Armadillo\' post=\'220233\' date=\'Jul 15 2009, 10:23 AM\']What's the difference between a hard Q and a difficult Q?[/quote]
I'm not sure anyone was making that distinction, and anyone who did would just be assigning their own arbitrary distinction between two words that are, for all practical purposes, synonymous.
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Oops, meant one easy and one difficult.
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And an "oops" from me too, for not catching Mike's slip and not understanding what the fuss was about.
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« Reply #108 on: July 15, 2009, 05:39:23 PM »
[quote name=\'mmb5\' post=\'220229\' date=\'Jul 15 2009, 08:00 AM\']Now that it's over, one of my biff questions was put these Jenny Craig spokespeople in order of pitching: Kirstie Alley, Queen Latifah, Valerie Bertinelli and one other I can't remember.  To me, the funnier way to do that question would be to rank them in pounds regained.[/quote]

** Phylicia Rashad was the other name... missed that one too!

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« Reply #109 on: July 15, 2009, 09:16:09 PM »
[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'220231\' date=\'Jul 15 2009, 06:52 AM\']How does putting things in order quickly predict how good of a contestant one will be on the actual show?[/quote] It doesn't. It took you nearly ten years to figure that out?

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« Reply #110 on: July 16, 2009, 01:49:05 AM »
Gave it a shot, and made it to question four.  Once I heard "Arrange the following music tempos...", I knew I was on my way to Screwsville.
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« Reply #111 on: July 16, 2009, 11:28:27 AM »
Two days ago, I made it to number 5 and was hoping for an easy (easy for me) question...nope, it was books and when they were published.  I can't remember now what they were, but I knew it had to be a guess from me.  I guessed wrong.  And I also used Chad's suggestion.  It helped tremendously with remembering what the four choices were.
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Mr. Armadillo

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« Reply #112 on: July 16, 2009, 02:43:09 PM »
Well, my one attempt at this failed at #2...mistakenly assumed that The Weather Channel has been around forever.  Of course, I didn't do any better on the two channels that debuted after I was born (the question was to put cable TV channels in order of launch), and it's not like I ever watched any of the channels in question anyway, so I was pretty much doomed to fail on that one.  

/Guess I'll have to do better at the Price contestant search on Sunday
//By which I mean 'not blow too much money at the casino they're holding it at'

mmb5

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« Reply #113 on: July 16, 2009, 10:36:13 PM »
I assume those who were expecting a call today didn't get one.
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« Reply #114 on: July 17, 2009, 07:30:28 AM »
[quote name=\'mmb5\' post=\'220323\' date=\'Jul 16 2009, 06:36 PM\']I assume those who were expecting a call today didn't get one.[/quote]
Count me out. There maybe the Pyramid...

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GiraffeBoy

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« Reply #115 on: July 19, 2009, 04:10:29 PM »
I'm officially 0 for 10.  Got to a Question 4 once, and tried to fabrics in order of their invention.  Screwed up when I put microfiber first, before rayon, spandex, and polyester.

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