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I successfully completed Round 1 for the umpteenth time. Umpteen was apparently the magic number. It resulted in my one and only Round 2.

TheCalvinator24 wrote:I successfully completed Round 1 for the umpteenth time. Umpteen was apparently the magic number. It resulted in my one and only Round 2.

Happy Round 2 Anniversary, Cal!

I forgot to observe my own Seventh Anniversary of my one and only Round 2, this weekend.

And the day after that, I decided to start haunting the Bored!

I'm right in the midst of my memorable 7th anniversary - Round 1 callback on October 29, 2000, Round 2 on November 8 (in which I went only 4 of 5 but still got the call and Todd_Rundgren, who went 5 for 5, didn't because he was in a "cell phone dead zone" at the time), my first taping on November 15, my second taping on December 4, and the airing of my two shows on December 7 and 10.

There is something wrong with me that I can not tell you the date that I got the call, the date that I sat in the green room or even the date that I taped.

I have to look at the vhs I have to tell you the date I aired.

peacock2121 wrote:There is something wrong with me that I can not tell you the date that I got the call, the date that I sat in the green room or even the date that I taped.

I have to look at the vhs I have to tell you the date I aired.

Some of us are just more obsessed. I'm also a committed "writer-downer" (I use pen and paper rather than blogging), so I have a long narrative of my quest to be on BAM (and continuing with my efforts to be on J!). Though nothing like Notebook Boy's level of detail for the Bored, it does have all the dates and stuff.

earendel wrote:

peacock2121 wrote:There is something wrong with me that I can not tell you the date that I got the call, the date that I sat in the green room or even the date that I taped.

I have to look at the vhs I have to tell you the date I aired.

Some of us are just more obsessed. I'm also a committed "writer-downer" (I use pen and paper rather than blogging), so I have a long narrative of my quest to be on BAM (and continuing with my efforts to be on J!). Though nothing like Notebook Boy's level of detail for the Bored, it does have all the dates and stuff.

Some of us are just good at remembering dates.

I tried to explain this to someone at work not too long ago, why I can remember the exact days that many memorable and unmemorable events occured on. The best I can come up with is I'm good at associating certain events with specific dates.... so much so that it's hard for me to think of an event without thinking of the date also.

They probably think I'm full of crap since most of the time I reference a date to something that is brought up, it's because I just happen to remember that the anniversary of that event is that very day, or close to it....

lb13

littlebeast13 wrote:
Some of us are just good at remembering dates.

I tried to explain this to someone at work not too long ago, why I can remember the exact days that many memorable and unmemorable events occured on. The best I can come up with is I'm good at associating certain events with specific dates.... so much so that it's hard for me to think of an event without thinking of the date also.

They probably think I'm full of crap since most of the time I reference a date to something that is brought up, it's because I just happen to remember that the anniversary of that event is that very day, or close to it....

lb13

We asked Rain Man what date he saw "Meet the Robinsons" when my husband found a well-washed movie ticket in the pocket of a pair of jeans. He was off by one day.

Eight months after the date.

Some people can do that. I can't remember what I did YESTERDAY....

minimetoo26 wrote:

littlebeast13 wrote:
Some of us are just good at remembering dates.

I tried to explain this to someone at work not too long ago, why I can remember the exact days that many memorable and unmemorable events occured on. The best I can come up with is I'm good at associating certain events with specific dates.... so much so that it's hard for me to think of an event without thinking of the date also.

They probably think I'm full of crap since most of the time I reference a date to something that is brought up, it's because I just happen to remember that the anniversary of that event is that very day, or close to it....

lb13

We asked Rain Man what date he saw "Meet the Robinsons" when my husband found a well-washed movie ticket in the pocket of a pair of jeans. He was off by one day.

Eight months after the date.

Some people can do that. I can't remember what I did YESTERDAY....

Let's face it, sweetie...we can't even remember what we had for breakfast this morngin...

minimetoo26 wrote:We asked Rain Man what date he saw "Meet the Robinsons" when my husband found a well-washed movie ticket in the pocket of a pair of jeans. He was off by one day.

Eight months after the date.

This is why I believe my date remembering abilities are some kind of association trick my brain does, since usually when I remember an event occuring on the wrong date, I have an impossible time getting that wrong date out of my head after I learn the correct date....

Even my subconciousness is hard-headed....

lb13

not_minime wrote:

minimetoo26 wrote:

littlebeast13 wrote:
Some of us are just good at remembering dates.

I tried to explain this to someone at work not too long ago, why I can remember the exact days that many memorable and unmemorable events occured on. The best I can come up with is I'm good at associating certain events with specific dates.... so much so that it's hard for me to think of an event without thinking of the date also.

They probably think I'm full of crap since most of the time I reference a date to something that is brought up, it's because I just happen to remember that the anniversary of that event is that very day, or close to it....

lb13

We asked Rain Man what date he saw "Meet the Robinsons" when my husband found a well-washed movie ticket in the pocket of a pair of jeans. He was off by one day.

Eight months after the date.

Some people can do that. I can't remember what I did YESTERDAY....

Let's face it, sweetie...we can't even remember what we had for breakfast this morngin...

Do you find this to be a laughing matter? Have you ever seen a classic case of termites in the brain?

not_minime wrote: Let's face it, sweetie...we can't even remember what we had for breakfast this morngin...

Speak for yourself! I had the Poop Cookie!


(I made gingerbread cookies, and that last little bit of dough that can't be rerolled and cut anymore is shaped into a blob and called the Poop Cookie. I ate that this morning when I refilled my coffee cup.)

HelpBrainTumorPatients wrote:

not_minime wrote:

minimetoo26 wrote:
We asked Rain Man what date he saw "Meet the Robinsons" when my husband found a well-washed movie ticket in the pocket of a pair of jeans. He was off by one day.

Eight months after the date.

Some people can do that. I can't remember what I did YESTERDAY....

Let's face it, sweetie...we can't even remember what we had for breakfast this morngin...

Do you find this to be a laughing matter? Have you ever seen a classic case of termites in the brain?

I've seen plenty of cases o'that, ma'am, and I'd say in your case, it's almost gone, but it wouldn't take much to treat an area so small.

Rexer26 wrote:

not_minime wrote: Let's face it, sweetie...we can't even remember what we had for breakfast this morngin...

Speak for yourself! I had the Poop Cookie!

And you think I've beat myself into the ground....

And 7 years ago today was the date I got the call-back.

Marley, thanks for the well wishes. However, my Round 2 Anniversary doesn't come until next week. Which is also the week of the 7th Anniversary of the callbacks from the First set of Auditions.

TheCalvinator24 wrote: Marley, thanks for the well wishes. However, my Round 2 Anniversary doesn't come until next week.

Gotcha. I wasn't reading closely enough.

TheCalvinator24 wrote: Which is also the week of the 7th Anniversary of the callbacks from the First set of Auditions.

And lest us commemorate that anniversary with wailing and gnashing of teeth, sackcloth and ashes...




Or did a BB get The Call from those first auditions?

MarleysGh0st wrote:And let us commemorate that anniversary with wailing and gnashing of teeth, sackcloth and ashes...




Or did a BB get The Call from those first auditions?

A few actually. littlebeast, for one.

TheCalvinator24 wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:And let us commemorate that anniversary with wailing and gnashing of teeth, sackcloth and ashes...




Or did a BB get The Call from those first auditions?

A few actually. littlebeast, for one.

Oh.

Well, since that only led to his traumas in Seat #9, he probably won't object to my commemorations.

From beast's History of the Bored, Part 1

Among those who got the long awaited call: macsdaddy, aussiegirl, attyLP, samcat, L_wellman, skypilate, dr_amp, John9826

TheCalvinator24 wrote:From beast's History of the Bored, Part 1

Among those who got the long awaited call: macsdaddy, aussiegirl, attyLP, samcat, L_wellman, skypilate, dr_amp, John9826

Oh, okay.

I'll just have my private commemorations for the beginning of auditions, which foreshadowed the death of the Phone Game.

littlebeast13 wrote: Some of us are just good at remembering dates.

One of my recurring fascinations about Bored BBs has been learning about everyone's different abilities and approaches to memory. I rarely remember dates for non-historical events, for example, and I'm more likely to remember historical dates from having read about them on a printed page than from having lived through the event. Similarly, I can remember poems and excerpts from books a thousand times better than I can remember song lyrics. Again, I think it's because the information came to me through print -- through my eyes -- rather than through my ears, by listening to singing.

I've never played Lyrically Speaking, and I'd be at the bottom of the results list if I tried. Conversely, I can identify tunes from short excerpts with far more success, even though the notes came through the same ears that heard the lyrics -- and once I know the tune, I frequently can supply the lyrics (or a reasonable facsimile thereof.) I look forward to the day when technology will permit a board version of Name That tune.

Anyway, I have no expertise about why all of our brains are wired so differently, but it's fun to watch.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

TheCalvinator24 wrote:From beast's History of the Bored, Part 1

Among those who got the long awaited call: macsdaddy, aussiegirl, attyLP, samcat, L_wellman, skypilate, dr_amp, John9826

Oh, okay.

I'll just have my private commemorations for the beginning of auditions, which foreshadowed the death of the Phone Game.

I'll lament with you, Marley.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

TheCalvinator24 wrote:From beast's History of the Bored, Part 1

Among those who got the long awaited call: macsdaddy, aussiegirl, attyLP, samcat, L_wellman, skypilate, dr_amp, John9826

Oh, okay.

I'll just have my private commemorations for the beginning of auditions, which foreshadowed the death of the Phone Game.

I'm surprised you have forgotten what occured that week since it was not long after you came to the Bored. There were many more BB's than I listed in my Bored history who got a callback that week... many more than in any other similar period in the Bored's history (Not to say there weren't also a lot who weren't called, but compared to normal, the success stories were far more numerous).

I believe it was determined there were somewhere between 700-800 passers from that set of auditions, and from them, 130 were going to be called that week. The odds were never better for those who were OTC (Since there were no postcards back then, I had to borrow the old term).

I believe somebody we know got $1,860,000 richer off of Audition Callback Week...

lb13

Meawhile, at the same time Cal was knocking out his fateful R1, somebody else was licking his wounds following a disastrous showing on his ROF turn.
Note to Self: Next time you get a shot at Fastest Finger, read the damn answers across. Not up-and-down. Across.




Oh.

That's right.

AlphaDummy wrote:Meawhile, at the same time Cal was knocking out his fateful R1, somebody else was licking his wounds following a disastrous showing on his ROF turn.
Note to Self: Next time you get a shot at Fastest Finger, read the damn answers across. Not up-and-down. Across.




Oh.

That's right.

Hugs to AD. Turn that frown upside down!

Just for you.

Actually, the whole experience really was fun in spite of that ending.

And a post-taping walk down Broadway helped to keep things in perspective. Seeing homeless people living in cardboard boxes over grates, and seeing winos passed out leaning back against whatever building was there - all in the shadow of Christmas lights - served to remind me that if the worst thing that would ever happen in my life would be for me to blow it on a game show...well, then, I would be truly blessed.