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Title: Hoosier Millionaire to be redesigned...
Post by: brianhenke on August 10, 2005, 12:07:59 AM
Lottery Post article (http://\"http://www.lotterypost.com/news-117870.htm\")

   Looks like HM is going to get another format change - and for now has averted cancellation.

   Brian

   Indianapolis is the capital of Michigan?
Title: Hoosier Millionaire to be redesigned...
Post by: $100kPyramidfan on August 10, 2005, 12:14:52 AM
[quote name=\'brianhenke\' date=\'Aug 10 2005, 12:07 AM\']Lottery Post article (http://\"http://www.lotterypost.com/news-117870.htm\")

   Looks like HM is going to get another format change - and for now has averted cancellation.

   Brian

   Indianapolis is the capital of Michigan?
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I haven't seen Hoosier Millionaire since I left Indianapolis about four and a half years ago. I did know there's a new version of it before I left but I didn't get a chance to see it. How's the show now, besides the whole cancellation thing?
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Post by: BrandonFG on August 10, 2005, 12:26:08 AM
[quote name=\'brianhenke\' date=\'Aug 9 2005, 11:07 PM\']Lottery Post article (http://\"http://www.lotterypost.com/news-117870.htm\")

   Looks like HM is going to get another format change - and for now has averted cancellation.
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Can you avert doing summaries?
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Post by: catkins522 on August 10, 2005, 01:05:08 AM
Everyone, say it with me...

WE WANT MARK!  WE WANT MARK!  WE WANT MARK!...
WE WANT BARBARA!  WE WANT BARBARA!  WE WANT BARBARA!...

Charles
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Post by: tyshaun1 on August 10, 2005, 01:06:42 AM
[quote name=\'catkins522\' date=\'Aug 10 2005, 01:05 AM\']Everyone, say it with me...

WE WANT MARK!  WE WANT MARK!  WE WANT MARK!...
WE WANT BARBARA!  WE WANT BARBARA!  WE WANT BARBARA!...

Charles
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WE WANT you to tell us what the hell you are talking about.

Tyshaun
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Post by: $100kPyramidfan on August 10, 2005, 01:27:47 AM
Tyshaun...

Although I don't remember the show that much like I said earlier, I do remember that the Mark that catskin522 is talking about is Mark Patrick, former WISH-TV 8 Indy sportscaster and the first host of Hoosier Millionaire. Barbara (although I don't remember her last name) was a co-host.  I rememner that she also worked at a local Indy furniture store. Doesn't Cody Stark (who was the weatherman of WXIN 59's morning show) host it now? That's what I heard.
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Post by: catkins522 on August 10, 2005, 01:42:16 AM
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WE WANT you to tell us what the h*** you are talking about.

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First, watch you language!  There are kids on the page.

Mark Patrick and Barbara Hobbes(sp?) were the ORIGINAL hosts on HM.  However, in 2003 or 4, Tribune bought the show and fired both.  The new hosts sucked and why the rating are down.

Clear?

Charles
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Post by: BrandonFG on August 10, 2005, 02:54:58 AM
[quote name=\'catkins522\' date=\'Aug 10 2005, 12:42 AM\'][quote name=\'tyshaun1\' date=\'Aug 10 2005, 12:06 AM\']
WE WANT you to tell us what the h*** you are talking about.

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First, watch you language!  There are kids on the page.
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Oh bullshit.

How about you let the mods do their job? I've read much worse language on this forum, and if that didn't cause a problem, I doubt saying "hell" would cause any damage. :-P
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Post by: catkins522 on August 10, 2005, 03:27:52 AM
[quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'Aug 10 2005, 01:54 AM\']How about you let the mods do their job? I've read much worse language on this forum, and if that didn't cause a problem, I doubt saying "hell" would cause any damage. :-P
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Ok...you have asked for it....you c*ck s*cking m*therf*cker sh*tbrain a**hole c*nt.

If you don't care or don't watch the d*mn lottery show, then  move on!

Charles
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Post by: catkins522 on August 10, 2005, 03:35:36 AM
Also, fostergray82, please read rule #5...

5. Distasteful Posts

Posts deemed to be offensive, in generally bad taste or inflammatory in nature, will subject the author to disciplinary action. Posting messages which are harrassing, insulting, belittling or derisive to other board member(s), or which incite personal attacks against other board member(s), will be considered grounds for disciplinary action. A pattern of excessive and gratuitous use of foul language shall constitute grounds for disciplinary action.

Charles
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Post by: BrandonFG on August 10, 2005, 04:01:30 AM
[quote name=\'catkins522\' date=\'Aug 10 2005, 02:27 AM\'][quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'Aug 10 2005, 01:54 AM\']How about you let the mods do their job? I've read much worse language on this forum, and if that didn't cause a problem, I doubt saying "hell" would cause any damage. :-P
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Ok...you have asked for it....you c*ck s*cking m*therf*cker sh*tbrain a**hole c*nt.

If you don't care or don't watch the d*mn lottery show, then  move on!
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And if you don't like my posts, then move on!

I'm done with it. BTW, all that stuff you bleeped out is also a violation of the rules.
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Post by: clemon79 on August 10, 2005, 04:46:44 AM
[quote name=\'catkins522\' date=\'Aug 10 2005, 12:27 AM\']Ok...you have asked for it....you <tapestry of actual half-censored obscenity deleted>
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Thank you for playing. Enjoy your copy of the home game on the way out.
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If you don't care or don't watch the d*mn lottery show, then  move on!
Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have found an unprecedented SECOND person who gives a good goddamn about the Indiana lottery show.
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Post by: zachhoran on August 10, 2005, 07:56:31 AM
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Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have found an unprecedented SECOND person who gives a good goddamn about the Indiana lottery show.
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Doesn't Mike Brandenburg do some spoilers about it too? That makes three. Hardly enough people on here who care about the show enough to do a spoiler for it, even WOF still has five or six fans from Invision:)
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Post by: ChrisLambert! on August 10, 2005, 08:49:15 AM
If I get chosen to play on the live show Monday night at the Indiana State Fair, I'll suddenly care a lot more.

If not, I'm not gonna sit through the taping. :)
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Post by: chris319 on August 10, 2005, 10:23:53 AM
That's enough bickering, children.

It would be a rather sorry state of affairs to be thrown in the I.B. over a thread about the Indiana State Lottery, with all due respect to Lambert.
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Post by: $100kPyramidfan on August 10, 2005, 12:30:16 PM
I care about the show now. I guess because since I had to move away from Indy and I really didn't see the show much when I was there, and when I did, I barely remember it. Now that I can't see the show anymore, for some reason I miss it. I did hear that the new host is Cody Stark (former local Indy weatherman). Is that true?
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Post by: catkins522 on August 10, 2005, 02:29:18 PM
[quote name=\'$100kPyramidfan\' date=\'Aug 10 2005, 11:30 AM\']I did hear that the new host is Cody Stark (former local Indy watherman). Is that true?
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Yes, Cody Stark and Catt Sadler was the new host until Cody left the show to go to California.  Now, it's Tony Lamont.  Paula Ingram is filling in because Catt is having her maternity leave.

Charles
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Post by: $100kPyramidfan on August 10, 2005, 04:49:01 PM
Thanks, Charles..

Tony Lamont? I remember that guy! He did those furniture commercials up there.
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Post by: PYLdude on August 11, 2005, 12:38:36 AM
[quote name=\'catkins522\' date=\'Aug 10 2005, 03:27 AM\']Ok...you have asked for it....<unneccessary name-calling which is now in fostergray82's sig for all to see>
If you don't care or don't watch the d*mn lottery show, then  move on!

Charles
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<Meatwad>Only adults like us are allowed to say damn, bitch, ass and hell. So get your hellin' dammin' ass back in that bitchin' damn room, dammit! (Sorry, but it was just too easy to do.)

My question is how are lottery shows even really game shows in the end? More importantly, why are some of them even still on TV? I understand in places like California and Indiana (at least what Brian and Chuckles will have us believe), they're draws. But we had one in the New York area (and for the entire state of New York) for a year and change (I'm sure Zach knows how long it ran, and I'm more sure I could give a Chartier), and I just was wondering after a while why this show was on in the first place? The show, of course, was NY Wired, and as far as I can recall no one who won a spot on the show played (the store owner who sold them the ticket did), and if I'm also not mistaken, the potential for prizes wasn't very good (split among however many people were there).

Call me stupid, call me crazy, but I just can't understand why any state lottery would do something like that.
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Post by: NickS on August 11, 2005, 07:56:26 AM
(Massive overquoting deleted. -DZ)

[quote name=\'PYLdude\' date=\'Aug 10 2005, 11:38 PM\']My question is how are lottery shows even really game shows in the end?
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This one can be termed as a game because, well, it's an actual competition with players going head to head.

Same thing with Illinois' earlier incarnation of a lottery game, and Illinois Instant Riches was a game as well.
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Post by: Speedy G on August 11, 2005, 03:38:18 PM
[quote name=\'PYLdude\' date=\'Aug 11 2005, 12:38 AM\']Call me stupid, call me crazy, but I just can't understand why any state lottery would do something like that.
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"For just ONE dollar, YOU could be HERE in our studio with the chance to win THOUSANDS of dollars in cash and prizes!"

Pretty darn good way to get people playing, assuming that they see normal people on TV winning, and not the owner of the local Kwik-E-Mart.  [Bob Barker] That's duuuuuuumb. [/BB]
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Post by: SRIV94 on August 11, 2005, 03:47:07 PM
[quote name=\'TeppanYaki\' date=\'Aug 11 2005, 06:56 AM\']This one can be termed as a game because, well, it's an actual competition with players going head to head.

Same thing with Illinois' earlier incarnation of a lottery game, and Illinois Instant Riches was a game as well.
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Fine and dandy, but could you ease up on the quoting there?  What you said did not need PYLDude's entire text block to embellish.  This was a recording.

Doug -- and the countdown to 1400 continues
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Post by: Dbacksfan12 on August 11, 2005, 03:52:45 PM
[quote name=\'catkins522\' date=\'Aug 10 2005, 12:42 AM\']First, watch you language!  There are kids on the page. [/quote]
Yeah, and...?  Last time I checked, this board wasn't "G" rated.  If the kiddies need something refraning from profanity, they can use the message boards at theromperroom.com.

And good grief...how many people besides me would like to see the whole damn thing zapped?
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Post by: Don Howard on August 11, 2005, 04:10:40 PM
[quote name=\'Modor\' date=\'Aug 11 2005, 02:52 PM\']how many people besides me would like to see the whole damn thing zapped?
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Not zipped, but taken another route if we could.
I'll begin. Are there/were there any lottery games where a champion could return every week as long as he or she remained the champion?
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Post by: Dbacksfan12 on August 11, 2005, 04:57:17 PM
[quote name=\'Don Howard\' date=\'Aug 11 2005, 03:10 PM\']Are there/were there any lottery games where a champion could return every week as long as he or she remained the champion?
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When Illinois Instant Riches used the "Pot of Gold" bonus round, if the person in the "King of the Hill" spot won (by succesfully booby-trapping a space twice, I believe), they got to come back for another week.
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Post by: beatlefreak84 on August 12, 2005, 12:09:58 AM
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When Illinois Instant Riches used the "Pot of Gold" bonus round, if the person in the "King of the Hill" spot won (by succesfully booby-trapping a space twice, I believe), they got to come back for another week.

Yep; you're right.  They did have a limit of six wins, and the only reason I remembered that was, first off, I couldn't believe they even had a limit, and, second, I was interested in seeing how they picked the person to be the "champion" for the next show (IIRC, it was just a random drawing, but can anybody confirm/correct that?).

But, as far as redesigning "Hoosier" goes, didn't the last "redesign" bomb so bad that they went back to the original format?  I guess they haven't learned from their mistakes...:)

Oh, and I've always liked the show, save for the last "redesign."  Mark Patrick was a much better host than either Cody or Tony, and I'm not particularly fond of the new tournament format as opposed to the million dollars potentially being won on each show like the "days of old."  But, it's still watchable; I just wish some of the contestants would actually show some excitement at winning (a few weeks ago, someone who got $9,000 in a single pick didn't even crack a smile, clap, nothing.  And yet that team who won $50 on "Sexwars" were ecstatic!).

Anthony