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Title: Rerun of $25,000 Pyramid Adjusted For Inflation
Post by: ITSBRY on December 01, 2005, 10:11:18 PM

I love the Onion...thought this was kinda cute. Really bad photoshop job though.

http://www.theonion.com/content/files/imag...e_thumbnail.jpg (http://\"http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/Rerun-Of-C.frontpage_thumbnail.jpg\")

ITSBRY
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Title: Rerun of $25,000 Pyramid Adjusted For Inflation
Post by: Kevin Prather on December 01, 2005, 10:13:33 PM

Somehow, I think "$25,000 Pyramid" just has a better ring to it.

Title: Rerun of $25,000 Pyramid Adjusted For Inflation
Post by: BrandonFG on December 01, 2005, 10:19:00 PM

It's a JOKE, Zach. Laugh, don't correct it.

Heh...they used the "Anthing with a collar" typo. :-P

Title: Rerun of $25,000 Pyramid Adjusted For Inflation
Post by: GS Warehouse on December 02, 2005, 12:34:47 AM

[quote name=\'ITSBRY\' date=\'Dec 1 2005, 10:11 PM\']http://www.theonion.com/content/files/imag...e_thumbnail.jpg (http://\"http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/Rerun-Of-C.frontpage_thumbnail.jpg\")

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"Welcome to The Fifty-Three-Thousand-Seven-Hundred-Fifteen-Dollar-Eighty-Nine-Cent Pyramid.  Let's meet...what, already?  Well, that's all the time we have for today.  We'll see you next time.  Dick Clark (salutes), so long!"

But wouldn't they have to change the title of the show every day? :-)

Title: Rerun of $25,000 Pyramid Adjusted For Inflation
Post by: aaron sica on December 02, 2005, 09:27:52 AM

[quote name=\'GS Warehouse\' date=\'Dec 2 2005, 12:34 AM\'][quote name=\'ITSBRY\' date=\'Dec 1 2005, 10:11 PM\']http://www.theonion.com/content/files/imag...e_thumbnail.jpg (http://\"http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/Rerun-Of-C.frontpage_thumbnail.jpg\")

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"Welcome to The Fifty-Three-Thousand-Seven-Hundred-Fifteen-Dollar-Eighty-Nine-Cent Pyramid.  Let's meet...what, already?  Well, that's all the time we have for today.  We'll see you next time.  Dick Clark (salutes), so long!"

But wouldn't they have to change the title of the show every day? :-)

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Or better yet, the title of the show would be changing on its own while Dick would be talking. :)

Title: Rerun of $25,000 Pyramid Adjusted For Inflation
Post by: SRIV94 on December 02, 2005, 11:56:56 AM

This could work.

So long as it's sponsored by Comcast.  :)

Doug

Title: Rerun of $25,000 Pyramid Adjusted For Inflation
Post by: uncamark on December 02, 2005, 12:07:30 PM

[quote name=\'GS Warehouse\' date=\'Dec 1 2005, 11:34 PM\'][quote name=\'ITSBRY\' date=\'Dec 1 2005, 10:11 PM\']http://www.theonion.com/content/files/imag...e_thumbnail.jpg (http://\"http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/Rerun-Of-C.frontpage_thumbnail.jpg\")

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"Welcome to The Fifty-Three-Thousand-Seven-Hundred-Fifteen-Dollar-Eighty-Nine-Cent Pyramid.  Let's meet...what, already?  Well, that's all the time we have for today.  We'll see you next time.  Dick Clark (salutes), so long!"

But wouldn't they have to change the title of the show every day? :-)

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Title: Rerun of $25,000 Pyramid Adjusted For Inflation
Post by: Gus on December 02, 2005, 02:28:49 PM

Actually, I think they meant to put $50715.89, which is what the Inflation Calculator at http://westegg.com/inflation/ (http://\"http://westegg.com/inflation/\") returns when you convert $25,000 from 1982 to 2005.

Couldn't they just round it off to the $50,000 Pyramid? ;-)

Title: Rerun of $25,000 Pyramid Adjusted For Inflation
Post by: Kevin Prather on December 02, 2005, 09:24:02 PM

Holy good God WHOOOSH!

Title: Rerun of $25,000 Pyramid Adjusted For Inflation
Post by: Robert Hutchinson on December 03, 2005, 01:51:08 AM

Um, analyzing the joke too much, maybe, but not WHOOSH. He's pointing out that they screwed up their "exact" figure, and making a reference to the $50K Pyramid.

Title: Rerun of $25,000 Pyramid Adjusted For Inflation
Post by: Kevin Prather on December 03, 2005, 03:57:03 PM

No. Whooosh. It's okay if the figure isn't exact. The whole point of this type of humor, and what makes it funny, is EXAGGERATION.

Title: Rerun of $25,000 Pyramid Adjusted For Inflation
Post by: PYLdude on December 03, 2005, 04:17:17 PM

[quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Dec 3 2005, 04:57 PM\']No. Whooosh. It's okay if the figure isn't exact. The whole point of this type of humor, and what makes it funny, is EXAGGERATION.

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NO, it's an overanalysis. No WHOOSH necessary in this case, IMO.

Title: Rerun of $25,000 Pyramid Adjusted For Inflation
Post by: Kevin Prather on December 03, 2005, 04:27:19 PM

This is silly. Why are we arguing over something so petty? And we wonder why we have problems...

I shall drop it.

Title: Rerun of $25,000 Pyramid Adjusted For Inflation
Post by: Gus on December 03, 2005, 09:18:18 PM

For the record, I know exectly what their point was, and where the humor is dervied, and I knew I was gonna get WHOOSHed by someone for mentioning such an inane fact.
I was really just pointing out their presumed source for the figure, and the fact that a realistic inflation-adjusted game show prize value would be $50,000, not implying that the photo was intended to be realistic in any fashion.

Title: Rerun of $25,000 Pyramid Adjusted For Inflation
Post by: Robert Hutchinson on December 04, 2005, 04:40:26 AM

The only reason I ever stick my foot in the door for things like this is usually some piddling, barely related point--in this case, upholding the definition of "whooosh".

A nitpick that has no bearing on a joke's humor is still a nitpick, and not a missing of the joke.

Title: Rerun of $25,000 Pyramid Adjusted For Inflation
Post by: Dbacksfan12 on December 04, 2005, 05:18:55 AM

[quote name=\'Gus\' date=\'Dec 3 2005, 09:18 PM\']I knew I was gonna get WHOOSHed by someone for mentioning such an inane fact.
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Gus; as a friend; if you know the fact is inane; reconsider posting it next time.

Title: Rerun of $25,000 Pyramid Adjusted For Inflation
Post by: saussage on December 04, 2005, 05:40:47 PM

[quote name=\'ITSBRY\' date=\'Dec 1 2005, 10:11 PM\']I love the Onion...thought this was kinda cute. Really bad photoshop job though.

http://www.theonion.com/content/files/imag...e_thumbnail.jpg (http://\"http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/Rerun-Of-C.frontpage_thumbnail.jpg\")

ITSBRY
itsbry@juno.com

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... and made the effort to have the cents in there for the sake of accuracy. Cute :)