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The first Golden Road was $90,000???? There WAS a double DSW? I had to run this by you to see if this was true or false.
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[quote name=\'JMFabiano\' date=\'Feb 12 2005, 09:31 PM\']http://board.deathvalleydriver.com/index.p...=0&#entry355235 (http://\"http://board.deathvalleydriver.com/index.php?showtopic=28229&st=0&#entry355235\")
The first Golden Road was $90,000???? There WAS a double DSW? I had to run this by you to see if this was true or false.
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We didn't see a $90K Golden Road until 2001 or 2002 IIRC. There has NEVER been a double DSW, and Bob jokes that the show would go bankrupt, and they'd all go their separate ways if a double DSW ever happened.
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[quote name=\'JMFabiano\' date=\'Feb 12 2005, 08:31 PM\']http://board.deathvalleydriver.com/index.p...=0&#entry355235 (http://\"http://board.deathvalleydriver.com/index.php?showtopic=28229&st=0&#entry355235\")
The first Golden Road was $90,000???? There WAS a double DSW? I had to run this by you to see if this was true or false.
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He also says that the first "Road to Gold" (which is the first sign these people have no idea what he's talking about) was only a few years ago. I know Golden Road premeired in 1975. And there has never been a Double DSW.
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People talking out of their asses on an Internet message board?
What a CURIOUS phenomenon.
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Um...wow.
Even for people who aren't obsessed with game shows, that is sad.
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The first Golden Roads weren't even $20,000 - I seem to recall that Bob always said back then, "At the end of the Golden Road, we always have a prize worth at least Ten Thousand Dollars in price!" (back in the days of $3000 cars). Even a Rolls-Royce wouldn't have been worth $90,000 back then.
As for double DSWs, I'm fairly certain there has never been a tie on the daytime version (I remember one in the old Dennis James syndicated version, but that's it).
-- Don
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[quote name=\'That Don Guy\' date=\'Feb 13 2005, 01:54 AM\']The first Golden Roads weren't even $20,000 - I seem to recall that Bob always said back then, "At the end of the Golden Road, we always have a prize worth at least Ten Thousand Dollars in price!" (back in the days of $3000 cars). Even a Rolls-Royce wouldn't have been worth $90,000 back then.
As for double DSWs, I'm fairly certain there has never been a tie on the daytime version (I remember one in the old Dennis James syndicated version, but that's it).
-- Don
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The showcase tie that happened on the James version was in the first season, which predated the DSW rule, even if the players were both less than $100 away. Did the 70s syndicated TPIRs ever have the Double SHowcase rule? The 1985-86 version didn't as I recall(Kennedy never mentioned it), but then no one was ever within DSW range bid-wise on that version.
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The first time Golden Road was played was on the premiere of the hour-long shows, correct? If so, the first car was a Lincoln Continental ($10K+)...nowhere near "$90,000" quoted.
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[quote name=\'catnap1972\' date=\'Feb 13 2005, 10:30 AM\']The first time Golden Road was played was on the premiere of the hour-long shows, correct? If so, the first car was a Lincoln Continental ($10K+)...nowhere near "$90,000" quoted.
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That episode is memorable to me, not for the boat won in Golden Road (oops, Lincoln Continental!), but for the other prize offered somewhere on the show - a refrigerator with built-in AM/FM radio and tape deck. It's the ONLY place I've seen one of those.
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[quote name=\'passwordplus\' date=\'Feb 13 2005, 04:16 PM\']Go figure, it's powered by INVISION(thank God we left them!)
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Go figure, we're ON Invision right now.
Look at the very bottom line of text when you view the board.
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[quote name=\'aaron sica\' date=\'Feb 13 2005, 10:13 AM\']a refrigerator with built-in AM/FM radio and tape deck. It's the ONLY place I've seen one of those.
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Wow. 8-track, or cassette?
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Feb 13 2005, 04:53 PM\'][quote name=\'aaron sica\' date=\'Feb 13 2005, 10:13 AM\']a refrigerator with built-in AM/FM radio and tape deck. It's the ONLY place I've seen one of those.
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Wow. 8-track, or cassette?
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I *think* it was cassettes. Unfortunately, I don't have the episode to confirm. :)
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Would somebody please explain to me why I thought I might accomplish something by posting in that thread?
Flamed by Jeremy Soria...Gawd...
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[quote name=\'aaron sica\' date=\'Feb 13 2005, 12:13 PM\']
That episode is memorable to me, not for the boat won in Golden Road (oops, Lincoln Continental!), but for the other prize offered somewhere on the show - a refrigerator with built-in AM/FM radio and tape deck. It's the ONLY place I've seen one of those.
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70s LMAD offered the fridge prize once or twice.
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[quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' date=\'Feb 13 2005, 07:36 PM\']Would somebody please explain to me why I thought I might accomplish something by posting in that thread?[/quote]
Flamed by Jeremy Soria...Gawd, indeed.
Next time you folks complain about the way WE do things, just remember THAT operation.
(Chris, make a note of this for when we decide to change our color scheme: Bright green and yellow -- maybe not the right choice.)
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"Richard Dawson" has the right idea.
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[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Feb 13 2005, 04:50 PM\'][quote name=\'aaron sica\' date=\'Feb 13 2005, 12:13 PM\']
That episode is memorable to me, not for the boat won in Golden Road (oops, Lincoln Continental!), but for the other prize offered somewhere on the show - a refrigerator with built-in AM/FM radio and tape deck. It's the ONLY place I've seen one of those.
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70s LMAD offered the fridge prize once or twice.
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Ah. Aaron must have been out having a life those days.
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[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' date=\'Feb 13 2005, 05:10 PM\'](Chris, make a note of this for when we decide to change our color scheme: Bright green and yellow -- maybe not the right choice.)
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I thought it looked good on the Match Game half of MGHSH...
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Feb 13 2005, 09:18 PM\']Ah. Aaron must have been out having a life those days.
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Aaron was most likely in his playpen. :) As far as the daytime version goes, it went off a little over 3 months before my 2nd birthday. :)
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Wow...I've been banned from that forum for two weeks. I guess the people there don't like reality.
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[quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' date=\'Feb 13 2005, 11:45 PM\']Wow...I've been banned from that forum for two weeks. I guess the people there don't like reality.
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What a waste of internet bandwidth.......
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[quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' date=\'Feb 14 2005, 12:45 AM\']Wow...I've been banned from that forum for two weeks. I guess the people there don't like reality.[/quote]
Petty behavior on an Internet message board? Now your crazy talk has gone too far.
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The first time Golden Road was played was on the premiere of the hour-long shows, correct?
No, it actually premiered on a half-hr ep earlier that yr, and unlike future playings, it was the 3rd game that day.
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")
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Chuck, can you back that up? I remember reading that claim on ATGS ages ago, and I've been puzzling over it for years.
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Chuck, can you back that up? I remember reading that claim on ATGS ages ago, and I've been puzzling over it for years.
I also saw it on either ATGS or here...haven't seen the ep in question, so to avoid looking like someone's ill-informed "bowling buddy", take it w/a grain of salt...it is possible, though.
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")
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[quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' date=\'Feb 13 2005, 06:36 PM\']Would somebody please explain to me why I thought I might accomplish something by posting in that thread?
Flamed by Jeremy Soria...Gawd...
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Hard for me to explain why you thought you would accomplish something there too....
Maybe it's because you went over there and started correcting everybody in a snarky, condescending tone in your post. To a bunch of wrestling fans, no less! It's amazing: Zach Horan can do it and not sound stuck-up. You try to do it and you end up looking like some holier-than-thou expert.
It's not a good idea to talk down to your audience. They really resent that.
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If I hadn't found the contents of the thread to be completely idiotic, I probably would have been a little less snarky about the whole thing.
And you do realize that you just essentially said that you and the board's other occupants are dumber than the rest of the population, don't you?
EDIT: And if I'm getting a different reaction than Zach, I must be doing something right.
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[quote name=\'Brakus\' date=\'Feb 16 2005, 06:44 PM\']Zach Horan can do it and not sound stuck-up.
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He can?
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[quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' date=\'Feb 16 2005, 08:50 PM\']If I hadn't found the contents of the thread to be completely idiotic, I probably would have been a little less snarky about the whole thing.
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But why participate in a thread or a board that's idiotic?
Why not just ignore them completely? (I don't mean use an ignore feature, just pretend they don't exist)
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[quote name=\'cmjb13\' date=\'Feb 17 2005, 12:22 PM\'][quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' date=\'Feb 16 2005, 08:50 PM\']If I hadn't found the contents of the thread to be completely idiotic, I probably would have been a little less snarky about the whole thing.
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But why participate in a thread or a board that's idiotic?
Why not just ignore them completely? (I don't mean use an ignore feature, just pretend they don't exist)[/quote]
If you're by nature a message-board kinda guy, I think it's very difficult to see outrageously wrong information on a board and not want to try and correct it. Steve didn't realize how idiotic they were until he corrected the information and caught hell for it.
Further, I think Steve agrees with you -- now -- and I doubt he has any more plans to bother with them any more. If they prefer to not know what they're talking about, who are we to try and educate them?
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Feb 16 2005, 10:10 PM\'][quote name=\'Brakus\' date=\'Feb 16 2005, 06:44 PM\']Zach Horan can do it and not sound stuck-up.
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He can?
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Read my mind.
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[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' date=\'Feb 17 2005, 11:36 AM\'][quote name=\'cmjb13\' date=\'Feb 17 2005, 12:22 PM\'][quote name=\'Steve Gavazzi\' date=\'Feb 16 2005, 08:50 PM\']If I hadn't found the contents of the thread to be completely idiotic, I probably would have been a little less snarky about the whole thing.
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But why participate in a thread or a board that's idiotic?
Why not just ignore them completely? (I don't mean use an ignore feature, just pretend they don't exist)[/quote]
If you're by nature a message-board kinda guy, I think it's very difficult to see outrageously wrong information on a board and not want to try and correct it. Steve didn't realize how idiotic they were until he corrected the information and caught hell for it.
Further, I think Steve agrees with you -- now -- and I doubt he has any more plans to bother with them any more. If they prefer to not know what they're talking about, who are we to try and educate them?
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Wonder if they're all Zach's bowling buddies. 'Cause I noticed they love to talk out of their asses.
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[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' date=\'Feb 17 2005, 12:36 PM\']Further, I think Steve agrees with you -- now -- and I doubt he has any more plans to bother with them any more. If they prefer to not know what they're talking about, who are we to try and educate them?
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Yeah. Much as I'd like to think it would be worthwhile, it probably wouldn't. (Besides, I signed up solely to post in that thread.)