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Need Some Help With Pyramid-Type Parody
Thad Dixon:
[quote name=\'GS Warehouse\' date=\'Nov 18 2003, 11:23 PM\'][quote name=\'The Ol' Guy\' date=\'Nov 18 2003, 11:22 PM\'] Door hinge? [/quote]
[BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ]
That's two words![/quote]
So? We're talking about Pyramid, not Password. Unless there's another joke of some sort in here that I don't get.
Jay Temple:
[quote name=\'uncamark\' date=\'Nov 19 2003, 11:36 AM\'] Back when GS-L was more active, when I tried to use Variety headline-ese in a post and caled a "Pyramid" variant "$100G Pyramid" (as in 100 grand), somebody pointed out that in actual numerical abbreviations (like "K," "M," "B") "G" would be an obscenely huge number. [/quote]
If I remember my metric abbreviations correctly, $100G is how much Dr. Evil demanded on two separate occasions.
The Ol' Guy:
This thread's too much fun to stay out of...
Thanks for the laughs with the Dick Clark stories. And uncamark, that "Ben Hur extras" is neat. It takes me back to Maxine Fabe's book where she intimated that if the prize budget was heavily dented early in the week, it seemed that the original Pyramid producers picked very difficult top box categories to protect themselves for the rest of the week - not impossible, but close enough.
..and warehouse pal - you asked for WORDS that rhymed with orange, hence, door hinge. Now if it read "SINGLE words that rhyme with orange...." :-)
Ah- my prunes are stewed. Later -
mmb5:
These are the categories I use for placeholders for Mike's Game Show Round:
$50-THINGS ON A CHECKER BOARD
$100-PRESIDENTS NAMED BUCHANNAN
$150-SOUNDS EXACTLY LIKE "FOUR"
$200-MEDIOCRE FOODS
$250-THINGS ON NEPTUNE
$300-7 DIGIT PRIME NUMBERS
They're not as much as laugh out loud funny, they're just very, very hard.
--Mike
clemon79:
[quote name=\'mmb5\' date=\'Nov 19 2003, 07:13 PM\'] $50-THINGS ON A CHECKER BOARD
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This one isn't so bad, although it certainly isn't a $50 box, either: "The red squares, the black squares, the kings, the red pieces, the black pieces..."
--- Quote ---$200-MEDIOCRE FOODS
--- End quote ---
This one tickles the hell out of me. :)
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