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Title: Will the Real Anderson Cooper ...
Post by: MrBuddwing on May 11, 2011, 12:29:04 AM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thecutline/20110510/ts_yblog_thecutline/anderson-cooper-tk

Cute little thing, isn't he?
Title: Will the Real Anderson Cooper ...
Post by: vtown7 on May 11, 2011, 06:17:31 AM
Apparently Kitty and Nipsey didn't realize he was the mole.

I suppose this episode is kicking around somewhere then?

R.
Title: Will the Real Anderson Cooper ...
Post by: chris319 on May 11, 2011, 06:22:08 AM
His blue eyes are fake!
Title: Will the Real Anderson Cooper ...
Post by: Fedya on May 11, 2011, 06:59:21 AM
I always want to call him Anderson Vanderbilt....
Title: Will the Real Anderson Cooper ...
Post by: mmb5 on May 11, 2011, 09:16:33 AM
"Bob Stewart's To Tell the Truth"?  Hmmm...
Title: Will the Real Anderson Cooper ...
Post by: SRIV94 on May 11, 2011, 10:46:33 AM
"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.
Title: Will the Real Anderson Cooper ...
Post by: Matt Ottinger on May 11, 2011, 11:56:24 AM
"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?
Title: Will the Real Anderson Cooper ...
Post by: Jimmy Owen on May 11, 2011, 12:44:59 PM


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?
Title: Will the Real Anderson Cooper ...
Post by: Joe Mello on May 11, 2011, 01:24:47 PM
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?
Title: Will the Real Anderson Cooper ...
Post by: chris319 on May 11, 2011, 02:12:13 PM
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.
Title: Will the Real Anderson Cooper ...
Post by: dale_grass on May 13, 2011, 12:37:12 AM
They could call him a compère.

What he does in the privacy of his home with other adorable journalists is none of our business.
Title: Will the Real Anderson Cooper ...
Post by: Steve Gavazzi on May 13, 2011, 02:13:00 AM
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.
Title: Will the Real Anderson Cooper ...
Post by: Brig Bother on May 13, 2011, 06:28:36 AM
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!
Title: Will the Real Anderson Cooper ...
Post by: Fedya on May 13, 2011, 07:09:16 AM
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Why not? Everyone buys our formats.

Maybe not Reg Grundy.  ;-)
Title: Will the Real Anderson Cooper ...
Post by: NickintheATL on May 14, 2011, 10:28:59 AM
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...")
Title: Will the Real Anderson Cooper ...
Post by: dale_grass on May 14, 2011, 01:57:52 PM
[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.
Title: Will the Real Anderson Cooper ...
Post by: trainman on May 14, 2011, 11:10:12 PM
[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.
Title: Will the Real Anderson Cooper ...
Post by: clemon79 on May 14, 2011, 11:35:34 PM
No, I'm really not.
They seem to be missing a "This user will never, ever, ever know the touch of a woman" badge.
Title: Will the Real Anderson Cooper ...
Post by: TLEberle on May 14, 2011, 11:52:07 PM
/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.
Title: Will the Real Anderson Cooper ...
Post by: CarbonCpy on May 15, 2011, 12:42:07 PM
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.