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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: MrBuddwing on May 11, 2011, 12:29:04 AM
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thecutline/20110510/ts_yblog_thecutline/anderson-cooper-tk
Cute little thing, isn't he?
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Apparently Kitty and Nipsey didn't realize he was the mole.
I suppose this episode is kicking around somewhere then?
R.
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His blue eyes are fake!
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I always want to call him Anderson Vanderbilt....
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"Bob Stewart's To Tell the Truth"? Hmmm...
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"Bob Stewart's To Tell the Truth"? Hmmm...
Well, he did create it. I think he's up to that point in his speech right now.
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"Bob Stewart's To Tell the Truth"? Hmmm...
Why not? I was impressed he referred to it that way. What amused me was that CNN's global mindset it so ingrained in him at this point that he felt it necessary to call it a classic "American game show"
Speaking of which, does anybody know (or have theories about) why Wikipedia adopts the British terminology to refer to the 'presenter' and the 'narrator' of game shows, regardless of their country of origin?
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Speaking of which, does anybody know (or have theories about) why Wikipedia adopts the British terminology to refer to the 'presenter' and the 'narrator' of game shows, regardless of their country of origin?
Americaphobic?
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Speaking of which, does anybody know (or have theories about) why Wikipedia adopts the British terminology to refer to the 'presenter' and the 'narrator' of game shows, regardless of their country of origin?
People think that British tv and terminology is better than ours? Maybe they think it makes them looked learned and/or worldy? Random pick from an atlas?
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does anybody know (or have theories about) why Wikipedia adopts the British terminology to refer to the 'presenter' and the 'narrator' of game shows, regardless of their country of origin?
They could call him a compère.
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They could call him a compère.
What he does in the privacy of his home with other adorable journalists is none of our business.
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Speaking of which, does anybody know (or have theories about) why Wikipedia adopts the British terminology to refer to the 'presenter' and the 'narrator' of game shows, regardless of their country of origin?
Because Wikipedia is freakin' goofy.
Seriously, though, I think Nick Mooneyhan tried to fix that once and didn't really get anywhere.
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Speaking of which, does anybody know (or have theories about) why Wikipedia adopts the British terminology to refer to the 'presenter' and the 'narrator' of game shows, regardless of their country of origin?
Why not? Everyone buys our formats. OH-HO!
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Why not? Everyone buys our formats.
Maybe not Reg Grundy. ;-)
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Speaking of which, does anybody know (or have theories about) why Wikipedia adopts the British terminology to refer to the 'presenter' and the 'narrator' of game shows, regardless of their country of origin?
Because Wikipedia is freakin' goofy.
Seriously, though, I think Nick Mooneyhan tried to fix that once and didn't really get anywhere.
Glad to be reminded of why I don't edit Wikipedia anymore. It's not worth it.
/Especially with Benfield and his crazy date preferences (http://"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Benfield#About_Redundancies...")
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[quote name="Dan's Wikipedia page (not to be used as a source)"] "4-3-1978" is ambiguous as it can mean April 3 and March 4[/quote]
It was nice of Dan to emphasize the incorrect word in his sentence. He even used the word ambiguous, cueing an 'or' situation.
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[quote name="Dan's Wikipedia page (some assembly required)"]My Affiliations
...You may be surprised.[/quote]
No, I'm really not.
I'm an admin on LyricWiki (http://lyrics.wikia.com/), which fulfills all my wiki-editing desires, and has much less drama than Wikipedia.
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No, I'm really not.
They seem to be missing a "This user will never, ever, ever know the touch of a woman" badge.
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/Especially with Benfield and his crazy date preferences (http://"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Benfield#About_Redundancies...")
Wow is that some anality there.
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They seem to be missing a "This user will never, ever, ever know the touch of a woman" badge.
Usually anything from this category (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Userboxes/Anime_and_manga) is pretty much understood as that.