WWTBAM Bored

Hello Everyone

I was on the facebook the other day and I got a friend request.I could not believe it was from my good friend Stretch. All I can say is wow, she informed me about the group here and I just wanted to say hi and wish all is well.

I lost contact for many reasons, as some may remember I was hurt in an accident after the first Jipterfest in NY. Diagnosed with Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy and went into a battle for survival. Long story short 17 surgeries and 3 years of chemo later I am in remission. Took 5 years butI also now walk with out a cane and have gained my weight back.

So much has happened in the past few years. I still coach hockey and just took the mid atlantic american team to a third place finish in the Euro Cup. I took a position with the Virginia Wings a pro team and worked with athletes from all over the world. USA Hockey elevated and promoted me to my Level 5 Master status.

I am still at the newspaper but am ready for a change so when I made it to remission I decided to finish everything I ever started. Pleased to annouce that I went back to college 2 years ago (Colorado Tech) starting from scratch I have earned my AA in Business (with Higest Honors) I am 11 months from my BA in marketing and was selected for the accelerated program to earn my MBA 23 month from now. 4.0 GPA, picked up some grants and scholarships for acedemics, would you expect anything else from an origonal jipter. School is 4 nights a week and homework and papers are due 2 nights a week. I distain the group project assignments.... I still have my shirt from NYC.

I wanted to give a shout out to my friends, silvercamaro,melly,astro,Uly, KT and anyother I may have missed.

Thanks Cindy for the reach out. I hope everyone is doing well.

Chuck

Wow, welcome back!

lb13

I had dinner with Frank Tangredi and Melly in NYC last week and we were talking about long lost Jipters and you were one of them!


It's very good to see you again. Thanks for checking in and I am glad things seem to be going the right direction now. Good luck!

Yay! The prodigal son returns. And congrats on everything!

ADMAN!!! Welcome back!! It's great to hear from you again.

Sounds like good news on all fronts. Glad to hear about every part of it. Stick around and join our fun. It's just like it always was, only more so.

All the best,
Gordon

My Liege!

It is an honor to welcome our king home after his trials of so many years.

I have always had one question.

Why can't we remember the other 6 King Admans (Admen?)

Your loyal servant

Eyegor

What a memoir you can write now.

Welcome back, even though I think you may have been gone before I first showed up at either place.

Welcome back, Adman. I'm delighted to hear that everything is going well for you after such an incredibly awful bad patch.

Stay well, stay happy, stay successful, and stay in touch!

Wow!

Considering the timing of our dinner the other night - this is truly amazing!!

So glad to see your smiling face, Your Excellency!

Hey Melly,

I was wondering why my ears were ringing, how is Frank. Oh and I forgot to metion to my old pal Mr. Corrbett....Lets Go Mets.

HA I havent changed only time has....


I tell you all since Stretch contacted me I started to reminiss about all the fun we had together. I feel like Napoleon on his return to Paris.... I just hope that KT does not have me banished to some far away island. He had to come up with some sort of decree.

This is so cool to be able to joke around again.



King

Your Honor (although I don't know why I am calling you this),



Welcome to The Bored. Stick around and visit with your old friends and meet new ones.

I'm not a Jipter, although I think I know most all of them. I have been over in the GC for awhile, although I mostly have been on this side of the gate due to the ease and frequency of posting.

Sounds like you have been through more than your share of problems. It is about time life cuts you a break and only good stuff happens for the rest.

Don't be a stranger. Or at least not any stranger than the rest of the people on this Bored!

admanvii wrote:I tell you all since Stretch contacted me I started to reminiss about all the fun we had together. I feel like Napoleon on his return to Paris.... I just hope that KT does not have me banished to some far away island. He had to come up with some sort of decree.

This is so cool to be able to joke around again.



King

ADMAN!!!!

Dude, I have zero powers around here to banish anyone. And even if I did, it certainly wouldn't be you! I might make you stand in the corner for 15 minutes or so, for keeping us waiting so long, but that's as far as it would go.

Welcome back, and glad to hear you're healthy! Oh, and stick around a while....the more things change, the more they stay the same. The names may have at least shuffled around, if not changed, but we're still the same insane, funny, and/or smart folks we always were.

Welcome back adman!

Glad to hear the good news about school, etc! I was at that dinner with Melly, Queen Cleo, and Kay.

John (Snaxx)



.

Adman! Welcome back

RSD -- yuck! Glad you're on the mend & things are going better. Stick around!

Mary (Mitzi B, VAdame)

Well, good thing you didn't grow during all of this! I would have been devastated if you had become taller than me or Fanny! Welcome back! Though from the sounds of things, it doesn't seem like you were far away in the hearts/minds of people here.

Welcome back! And just in time for Beast's extended rankings. I believe you've broken a tie for 241st place. --Bob

christie1111 wrote:Your Honor (although I don't know why I am calling you this),



Welcome to The Bored. Stick around and visit with your old friends and meet new ones.

I'm not a Jipter, although I think I know most all of them. I have been over in the GC for awhile, although I mostly have been on this side of the gate due to the ease and frequency of posting.

Sounds like you have been through more than your share of problems. It is about time life cuts you a break and only good stuff happens for the rest.

Don't be a stranger. Or at least not any stranger than the rest of the people on this Bored!

Welcome back... can I be a new friend?

I tend to be a bit nosey as I try to fill in the huge gaps of my bored knowledge, so if you (or anyone else would like to chime in as well) like to share a bit of your bio for us, I would appreciate it - e.g. any appearences on any shows, former BB'er, what brought you to the bored in the first place, etc.

BTW, exactly what is a 'Jipter'? Is that a reference to the other show in Trebekistan? Is there a BOM equivilent to Trebrekistan?

Thanks and it is always nice to get a new victim for my puns and someone else I can tourture with my 'unique' spelling abilities.

---Jay (If you know how many years ago Sargent Shriver replaced Thomas Eagleton on the Democratic Veep ticket - then that number is the same number of days to go to my scheduled air date)

frogman042 wrote:

christie1111 wrote:Your Honor (although I don't know why I am calling you this),



Welcome to The Bored. Stick around and visit with your old friends and meet new ones.

I'm not a Jipter, although I think I know most all of them. I have been over in the GC for awhile, although I mostly have been on this side of the gate due to the ease and frequency of posting.

Sounds like you have been through more than your share of problems. It is about time life cuts you a break and only good stuff happens for the rest.

Don't be a stranger. Or at least not any stranger than the rest of the people on this Bored!

Welcome back... can I be a new friend?

I tend to be a bit nosey as I try to fill in the huge gaps of my bored knowledge, so if you (or anyone else would like to chime in as well) like to share a bit of your bio for us, I would appreciate it - e.g. any appearences on any shows, former BB'er, what brought you to the bored in the first place, etc.

BTW, exactly what is a 'Jipter'? Is that a reference to the other show in Trebekistan? Is there a BOM equivilent to Trebrekistan?

Thanks and it is always nice to get a new victim for my puns and someone else I can tourture with my 'unique' spelling abilities.

---Jay (If you know how many years ago Sargent Shriver replaced Thomas Eagleton on the Democratic Veep ticket - then that number is the same number of days to go to my scheduled air date)

Is the etymology of "Jipter" located somewhere on this bored? I know a definition filtered through my acid flashbacked brain.

To answer your question froggie a little over 10 years ago ABC TV had a website that crashed...so the made a specific site for WWTBAM. On the site there was contestant rules, Play with the broadcast and a message board. Synergymike won his 64k and people exchanged info.

Looking at the member list of this site the there are about 6 people from the real early days. Eyegor (still a moderator) Gordon (how did it work out at Galudet) etc.....In the beginning there were about 30 or so of us but we grew in numbers.

Thinks got a bit hairy on the message boards and people who tried to communicate with each other civily were facing many who were just plain old jerks....I said that nicely....racism and other topics grew and ABC also became a problem etc

So eygor and the others formed a new messge board on Yahoo and controlled who could enter. From there some good friendships started to develop, we learned about each other and introduced ourselves to each member. I remember when Judy KT,Johnnysnaxx, Uly,Stretch,Smokie and so many others came in. One of the great debates was what is a more identifyable odor coffee, tuna or chocolate....lol sorry man I had to say it.


We all had nicknames mine moved from adman to king because I qualified for the the show so many times and did not get an invite I became the king of getting Gypped.

Anyway there were others who faced the same situation and someone once changthe text to Jipted and a new word was sprung. Everytime you qualified or got a screwed up question you got jipted. Hence we titled the group the "Jipters" Over the years we all became very good friends, grew in numbers and a group of Jipters made the show.

Not knowing people personally some of the Jipters decided to contact ABC for tickets and we held a convention in NYC where we got to meet each have a few drinks etc... It was awesome as people traveled from from coast to coast, north to south and Alaska (Stretch) there were quite a few of us. Growing up in NYC I drove in from Virgina and gave Smokie and Stretch a ride around Manhattan. We all met at a bar and had a blast and then moved the party to the "Wellman" hotel. It is where I got to see what a Killer Tomato looks like (lol) or a silvercamaro..etc.... We all got T shirts which I still have today and on the back there were certain final answers.
TOP 10 REASONS TO BE A JIPTER:
1 Jipters have the fastest fingers going
2 We were jipted and that's our FINAL ANSWER
3 Jipters get to shout "WOO HOO!"
4 He meant "STAMEN"!
5 It's not about IF, but WHEN we get on the show
6 Jipters actually know what WWTBAM stands for
7 Jipters get to find out if the Hot Seat is AC or DC
8 Jipters love to walk like an Ejiptian
9 Jipters get to eat blackbird pie while riding an Alpine llama named Martina
10 Jipters want to hear Regis say "Uranus"

We even made the New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.h ... A9669C8B63

There was a second Jipters convention in I think Vegas but thats when all the crap happened to me so I cant comment on that.

What you got here is a group of people who over time got to know each other kinda like a cyber family. Intellegant conversation and some great inside humor...now that I am back expect a back log....Bottom line is that as you see many of us have known each other for years.

I found the NY Times article where KT became an national icon:

admanvii wrote:Anyway there were others who faced the same situation and someone once changthe text to Jipted and a new word was sprung. Everytime you qualified or got a screwed up question you got jipted. Hence we titled the group the "Jipters" Over the years we all became very good friends, grew in numbers and a group of Jipters made the show.

Thread: Prohibition Guy - Got JIPTED!!

JanetKrause (1 msg) 8:56 AM, Mar 6
The EDWARD guy really got ripped off on that question...I felt so bad for him
...he was zipping along and then BAM!! That stunk!!

mikeyratf (70 msgs) 9:01 AM, Mar 6
How did he get ripped off on that one? That was pretty simple to me, I was
surprised he missed it. Give me softballs like that any day, and keep those
opera questions in the tank!

MVLease (1021 msgs) 9:03 AM, Mar 6
<<The>>

How was he ripped off? He gave an incorrect answer; that's part of the game.
True, the audience led him astray, but that's the problem with using that lifeline
for anything but pop-culture or NY-specific questions. I knew that Prohibition went
into effect shortly after WW I, and that the Mafia came into prominence during the
20's and early 30's as a result (at least in part) of their illegal distribution of
alcohol, and that the repeal of Prohibition came about at least partly because of
the boost that was giving to organized crime. So, I was pretty sure that 14 years
was the right answer.

danielh41 (630 msgs) 9:06 AM, Mar 6
When the question came up, I knew that the amendment which started Prohibition was
passed in 1919, and that the repeal was ratified in 1933. With that knowledge, I
thought that was a fairly easy question. Of course, if you don't have that knowledge,
I would imagine it to be a difficult call between 8 and 14 years with the audience
favoring 8.....




SynergyMike (142 msgs) 3:05 PM, Mar 6
First of all, he did NOT get "jipted."

Second of all, what the heck is "jipted???"

I mean, I know what you were trying to say, but "JIPTED"?!?!?!??

-Mike



mlmullins (93 msgs) 3:12 PM, Mar 6
I think I got jipted when I was walking in Times Square. I didn't like it one bit.


scruffyclaus (525 msgs) 3:22 PM, Mar 6
OK, I admit it, sometimes, in the safety and privacy of my own home, I secretly enjoy
being jipted. I hope this doesn't make me bad.


mlmullins (93 msgs) 3:36 PM, Mar 6
Scruffy-

Do you like to get jipted solo or with others? And do you use any 'devices'
and/or heavy machinery?

I am trying to find a way to get jipted that is pleasurable to me.
I feel like I'm missing out on the whole jipted bandwagon...


RebelYellOleMiss (209 msgs)
I have never been jipted, either in secret or in public, and would like the
opportunity to be jipted. Quite possibly, I am being discriminated against,
even though the process by which one gets jipted is random.


kevin29 (550 msgs) 3:41 PM, Mar 6
if you've never been jipted, rebel, how do you know it's so great? maybe
it's not all everyone says it is...maybe you're one of the lucky ones!!


RebelYellOleMiss (209 msgs) 3:48 PM, Mar 6
Good point, kev... but I figure that if everyone is talking about it, then i outta
try it...


Posted by: jmcachran (1276 Msgs) 3:56PM PST, Mar 6, 2000
I hate to say it but I had to get help for my jipt addiction. I am much better now,
but this whole discussion has been hard for me.


Posted by: RebelYellOleMiss (209 Msgs) 4:00PM PST, Mar 6, 2000
I'm truly sorry... I feel your pain... perhaps we should offer you some type of
restitution for making you relive those horrible memories of when you were addicted
to jipt.. or is it being jipt??



Posted by: scruffyclaus (525 Msgs) 4:06PM PST, Mar 6, 2000
To all of you who have not yet had the opportunity to experience jipting in its
purest form, you have my sympathies. Clearly, there exists the possibility for
misuse or, sadly, mishandling of the process that may result in unfortunate fallout.

Once you learn to transcend the physical, however, and become truly one with jipt,
it is all good, baby.


Thread changes to "Beating a Joke to Death"
Posted by: PhatTuesday01 (10 Msgs) 4:12PM PST, Mar 6, 2000
Apparently being jipted impairs one's judgement such that he doesn't know when to
stop telling the same joke.


Posted by: JohnDoe4738 (104 Msgs) 4:14PM PST, Mar 6, 2000
<<Apparently>>

Like I said before, I never repeat myself!



Posted by: RebelYellOleMiss (209 Msgs) 4:17PM PST, Mar 6, 2000
I believe that it's only because you've never been jipted that you feel this way.


Posted by: scruffyclaus (525 Msgs) 4:17PM PST, Mar 6, 2000
There once was a jipt from Nantucket...


Posted by: JohnDoe4738 (104 Msgs) 4:26PM PST, Mar 6, 2000
If it weren't for the jipt thread, there would have been only 3 or 4 posts in the
last 50 minutes.

I, for one, would have certainly felt jipt if this thread hadn't been here.



Posted by: scruffyclaus (525 Msgs) 4:36PM PST, Mar 6, 2000
<<there>>

Clearly, with the word out, board members are off researching our mystical rite.
More power to them...




Posted by: JohnDoe4738 (104 Msgs) 4:38PM PST, Mar 6, 2000
Wasn't it Mae West that said, "I never met a man I didn't jipt?



Posted by: SynergyMike (142 Msgs) 5:25PM PST, Mar 6, 2000
No, I believe that was Will Rogers.

-Mike




Posted by: scruffyclaus (525 Msgs) 5:28PM PST, Mar 6, 2000
>> No, I believe that was Will Rogers.

>> -Mike

Hey, don't we know you from somewhere? All this jipting makes me forget things.


Posted by: bbking52 (1295 Msgs) 7:36PM PST, Mar 6, 2000
Being severly handicapped with a cruddy laptop that has a touchpad, limited
"next message" ability and random refresh I must contribute to this thread,
although tardily. I am queen of the jipted rose leas, notorious boom boom dancers
from long ago. You ignorant young'uns don't know nothin' about being jipted.
Add strawberry jello and coolwhip along with a touch of celery and you have
Thanksgiving dinner.



Posted by: ButterflyRDH (11 Msgs) 11:54PM PST, Mar 6, 2000
No, it wasn't Mae West, it was Jack Benny!



Posted by: rawmatls (80 Msgs) 9:53AM PST, Mar 7, 2000
Having been away from the boards for most of 24 hours, I am shocked, SHOCKED, and
appalled at the loose and depraved manner in which you people have chosen to write
to each other. Please, one and all, exercise some decency... for all future posts,
the proper presentation is j***ed. I trust I will need to say no more on this matter.



Posted by: ostrom808 (77 Msgs) 10:11AM PST, Mar 7, 2000
Imagine what Regis would say while I get j***ed in the hot seat . . .


Posted by: rawmatls (80 Msgs) 10:19AM PST, Mar 7, 2000
>> Imagine what Regis would say while I get j***ed in the hot seat . . . <<

Imagine the excitement if it's Regis who has j***ed you.


Posted by: ostrom808 (77 Msgs) 10:23AM PST, Mar 7, 2000
Where do I sign up? Do I have to make past two rounds for this too?



Posted by: andreaquinn (11 Msgs) 10:27AM PST, Mar 7, 2000
If the proper presentation of jipted is j***ted (close enough)...what's the proper
presentation of gypped?




Posted by: scruffyclaus (525 Msgs) 10:37AM PST, Mar 7, 2000
I once jipted with gypsum. I prefer kudzu.


Posted by: BigMikeP (132 Msgs) 10:42AM PST, Mar 7, 2000
The first step to recovery is ADMITTING youv'e been Jipted




Posted by: RebelYellOleMiss (209 Msgs) 10:42AM PST, Mar 7, 2000
I'd have to agree with you on jipting with kudzu rather than gypsum.

Who is generally thought of as having said the famous quote "It is better to have
jipt and lost than to have never jipt at all?"


"Wasn't that a recent swing song?"
Posted by: rockhardnj (76 Msgs) 10:47AM PST, Mar 7, 2000
Jipt Jive and wail


"Re: Beating a jipt to death"
Posted by: bbking52 (1295 Msgs) 11:02AM PST, Mar 7, 2000
g*p***


Posted by: bbking52 (1295 Msgs) 11:03AM PST, Mar 7, 2000
Dichondra is even better.


Posted by: 14byrnsie (60 Msgs) 2:11PM PST, Mar 7, 2000
You can tell the phone lines are closed.

admanvii wrote:To answer your question froggie a little over 10 years ago ABC TV had a website that crashed...so the made a specific site for WWTBAM. On the site there was contestant rules, Play with the broadcast and a message board. Synergymike won his 64k and people exchanged info.

Looking at the member list of this site the there are about 6 people from the real early days. Eyegor (still a moderator) Gordon (how did it work out at Galudet) etc.....In the beginning there were about 30 or so of us but we grew in numbers.

Thinks got a bit hairy on the message boards and people who tried to communicate with each other civily were facing many who were just plain old jerks....I said that nicely....racism and other topics grew and ABC also became a problem etc

So eygor and the others formed a new messge board on Yahoo and controlled who could enter. From there some good friendships started to develop, we learned about each other and introduced ourselves to each member. I remember when Judy KT,Johnnysnaxx, Uly,Stretch,Smokie and so many others came in. One of the great debates was what is a more identifyable odor coffee, tuna or chocolate....lol sorry man I had to say it.


We all had nicknames mine moved from adman to king because I qualified for the the show so many times and did not get an invite I became the king of getting Gypped.

Anyway there were others who faced the same situation and someone once changthe text to Jipted and a new word was sprung. Everytime you qualified or got a screwed up question you got jipted. Hence we titled the group the "Jipters" Over the years we all became very good friends, grew in numbers and a group of Jipters made the show.

Not knowing people personally some of the Jipters decided to contact ABC for tickets and we held a convention in NYC where we got to meet each have a few drinks etc... It was awesome as people traveled from from coast to coast, north to south and Alaska (Stretch) there were quite a few of us. Growing up in NYC I drove in from Virgina and gave Smokie and Stretch a ride around Manhattan. We all met at a bar and had a blast and then moved the party to the "Wellman" hotel. It is where I got to see what a Killer Tomato looks like (lol) or a silvercamaro..etc.... We all got T shirts which I still have today and on the back there were certain final answers.
TOP 10 REASONS TO BE A JIPTER:
1 Jipters have the fastest fingers going
2 We were jipted and that's our FINAL ANSWER
3 Jipters get to shout "WOO HOO!"
4 He meant "STAMEN"!
5 It's not about IF, but WHEN we get on the show
6 Jipters actually know what WWTBAM stands for
7 Jipters get to find out if the Hot Seat is AC or DC
8 Jipters love to walk like an Ejiptian
9 Jipters get to eat blackbird pie while riding an Alpine llama named Martina
10 Jipters want to hear Regis say "Uranus"

We even made the New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.h ... A9669C8B63

There was a second Jipters convention in I think Vegas but thats when all the crap happened to me so I cant comment on that.

What you got here is a group of people who over time got to know each other kinda like a cyber family. Intellegant conversation and some great inside humor...now that I am back expect a back log....Bottom line is that as you see many of us have known each other for years.

I found the NY Times article where KT became an national icon:

To add one bit of clarification to adman's explanation of the term Jipter, it should be known that one of the unusual parts of this group's past is the split, and I'd almost dare say at times schism, that occured when that alternative message board was formed waaaaaaaaaay back in April of 2000 due to the horrific moderation of the ABC/Go Bored. I came to the Bored the following month, and was one of the founding members of what Eyegor dubbed to the "The New Class", the posters who came to populate and become the regulars of the ABC Bored in the absense of the old regulars who fled to the new Bored (Dubbed the GC, or Gated Community).

For the next several years, all of the people in this group could be divided into three categories. Those who stayed mainly on the ABC Bored (And the ensuing ABC Local Boreds that we inhabited after the official Bored was toastified), those who stayed primarily in the GC, and those who were active at both sites. I was in the first group, so I know little about what went on with my cousins on the other side of the tracks, but I'm one of the foremost experts on our 8... hell, almost 9 year history on the ABC/Go side. Jipter was more of a term to describe the denizens of the GC, whereas the Go Boreders took to the term Bored Buddy.

Either way, through time, we have managed to come back together to posting in one place through the slow death of activity in the GC, especially since the founding of this Bored after our last refuge in ABC's universe was torched last October. The story of this group is almost as fascinating as the people who make it up.....

lb13

frogman042 wrote: BTW, exactly what is a 'Jipter'?

Adman didn't quite answer this, so I will. And if I get the history wrong, I'm sure another of the long-time BBs will correct me. The memory ain't what it used to be.

Back in Prime Time Millionaire (PTBAM) days, ABC had its own message board for the show. Someone posted a message about a question that they thought the writers had gotten wrong and the contestant had gotten right. The subject was something like "The contestant got jipted!" IIRC, the question was correct and the writer was told so quickly. One of us, I think it was mcd1400de, took the word "jipted" and ran with it, and in a fairly short time we became "Jipters".

The term has lasted through all the permutations of the Bored and at least two "conventions", one in NYC and one in Vegas (I think), basically a gathering of about 20 or so from the group. I have t-shirts that were created for the occasions from both, though I didn't manage to attend them. It was a password for a user group for a football prediction contest. It (or maybe it was "jiptian") was the password for playing ETV as a group (ETV was a way to play along with the contestants during PTBAM).

The so-called Gated Community, or GC, was created in Yahoo! Groups when the censors monitoring the ABC message boards got carried away and started removing legitimate posts, rather than those of the cretins who tended to come in with profanity-laced or just plain insulting-to-the-intelligence language. The creator of the board was MVL, AKA Count Ducky or just The Big Kahuna. He posts infrequently now due to some personal circumstances and is missed. But we were the Jipters there.

I have not looked, but is there a full Bored history posted in the reference folder? lb, do you have such a thing stashed in your notebooks?

gsabc wrote:I have not looked, but is there a full Bored history posted in the reference folder? lb, do you have such a thing stashed in your notebooks?

Unfortunately, I quit creating my little Bored history monthly summaries back in September 2002. I have on past occasions tried to put together some kind of all-encompassing timeline, but have never got around to it, and probably never will....

I probably know more of what went on on the Bored in 2000-01 than I do in the last 6 years combined.....

lb13

The term has lasted through all the permutations of the Bored and at least two "conventions", one in NYC and one in Vegas (I think), basically a gathering of about 20 or so from the group. I have t-shirts that were created for the occasions from both, though I didn't manage to attend them. It was a password for a user group for a football prediction contest. It (or maybe it was "jiptian") was the password for playing ETV as a group (ETV was a way to play along with the contestants during PTBAM).

I was always partial to "e-jiptian".

littlebeast13 wrote:

admanvii wrote:Anyway there were others who faced the same situation and someone once changthe text to Jipted and a new word was sprung. Everytime you qualified or got a screwed up question you got jipted. Hence we titled the group the "Jipters" Over the years we all became very good friends, grew in numbers and a group of Jipters made the show.

Thread: Prohibition Guy - Got JIPTED!!

JanetKrause (1 msg) 8:56 AM, Mar 6
The EDWARD guy really got ripped off on that question...I felt so bad for him
...he was zipping along and then BAM!! That stunk!!

mikeyratf (70 msgs) 9:01 AM, Mar 6
How did he get ripped off on that one? That was pretty simple to me, I was
surprised he missed it. Give me softballs like that any day, and keep those
opera questions in the tank!

MVLease (1021 msgs) 9:03 AM, Mar 6
<<The>>

How was he ripped off? He gave an incorrect answer; that's part of the game.
True, the audience led him astray, but that's the problem with using that lifeline
for anything but pop-culture or NY-specific questions. I knew that Prohibition went
into effect shortly after WW I, and that the Mafia came into prominence during the
20's and early 30's as a result (at least in part) of their illegal distribution of
alcohol, and that the repeal of Prohibition came about at least partly because of
the boost that was giving to organized crime. So, I was pretty sure that 14 years
was the right answer.

danielh41 (630 msgs) 9:06 AM, Mar 6
When the question came up, I knew that the amendment which started Prohibition was
passed in 1919, and that the repeal was ratified in 1933. With that knowledge, I
thought that was a fairly easy question. Of course, if you don't have that knowledge,
I would imagine it to be a difficult call between 8 and 14 years with the audience
favoring 8.....




SynergyMike (142 msgs) 3:05 PM, Mar 6
First of all, he did NOT get "jipted."

Second of all, what the heck is "jipted???"

I mean, I know what you were trying to say, but "JIPTED"?!?!?!??

-Mike



mlmullins (93 msgs) 3:12 PM, Mar 6
I think I got jipted when I was walking in Times Square. I didn't like it one bit.


scruffyclaus (525 msgs) 3:22 PM, Mar 6
OK, I admit it, sometimes, in the safety and privacy of my own home, I secretly enjoy
being jipted. I hope this doesn't make me bad.


mlmullins (93 msgs) 3:36 PM, Mar 6
Scruffy-

Do you like to get jipted solo or with others? And do you use any 'devices'
and/or heavy machinery?

I am trying to find a way to get jipted that is pleasurable to me.
I feel like I'm missing out on the whole jipted bandwagon...


RebelYellOleMiss (209 msgs)
I have never been jipted, either in secret or in public, and would like the
opportunity to be jipted. Quite possibly, I am being discriminated against,
even though the process by which one gets jipted is random.


kevin29 (550 msgs) 3:41 PM, Mar 6
if you've never been jipted, rebel, how do you know it's so great? maybe
it's not all everyone says it is...maybe you're one of the lucky ones!!


RebelYellOleMiss (209 msgs) 3:48 PM, Mar 6
Good point, kev... but I figure that if everyone is talking about it, then i outta
try it...


Posted by: jmcachran (1276 Msgs) 3:56PM PST, Mar 6, 2000
I hate to say it but I had to get help for my jipt addiction. I am much better now,
but this whole discussion has been hard for me.


Posted by: RebelYellOleMiss (209 Msgs) 4:00PM PST, Mar 6, 2000
I'm truly sorry... I feel your pain... perhaps we should offer you some type of
restitution for making you relive those horrible memories of when you were addicted
to jipt.. or is it being jipt??



Posted by: scruffyclaus (525 Msgs) 4:06PM PST, Mar 6, 2000
To all of you who have not yet had the opportunity to experience jipting in its
purest form, you have my sympathies. Clearly, there exists the possibility for
misuse or, sadly, mishandling of the process that may result in unfortunate fallout.

Once you learn to transcend the physical, however, and become truly one with jipt,
it is all good, baby.


Thread changes to "Beating a Joke to Death"
Posted by: PhatTuesday01 (10 Msgs) 4:12PM PST, Mar 6, 2000
Apparently being jipted impairs one's judgement such that he doesn't know when to
stop telling the same joke.


Posted by: JohnDoe4738 (104 Msgs) 4:14PM PST, Mar 6, 2000
<<Apparently>>

Like I said before, I never repeat myself!



Posted by: RebelYellOleMiss (209 Msgs) 4:17PM PST, Mar 6, 2000
I believe that it's only because you've never been jipted that you feel this way.


Posted by: scruffyclaus (525 Msgs) 4:17PM PST, Mar 6, 2000
There once was a jipt from Nantucket...


Posted by: JohnDoe4738 (104 Msgs) 4:26PM PST, Mar 6, 2000
If it weren't for the jipt thread, there would have been only 3 or 4 posts in the
last 50 minutes.

I, for one, would have certainly felt jipt if this thread hadn't been here.



Posted by: scruffyclaus (525 Msgs) 4:36PM PST, Mar 6, 2000
<<there>>

Clearly, with the word out, board members are off researching our mystical rite.
More power to them...




Posted by: JohnDoe4738 (104 Msgs) 4:38PM PST, Mar 6, 2000
Wasn't it Mae West that said, "I never met a man I didn't jipt?



Posted by: SynergyMike (142 Msgs) 5:25PM PST, Mar 6, 2000
No, I believe that was Will Rogers.

-Mike




Posted by: scruffyclaus (525 Msgs) 5:28PM PST, Mar 6, 2000
>> No, I believe that was Will Rogers.

>> -Mike

Hey, don't we know you from somewhere? All this jipting makes me forget things.


Posted by: bbking52 (1295 Msgs) 7:36PM PST, Mar 6, 2000
Being severly handicapped with a cruddy laptop that has a touchpad, limited
"next message" ability and random refresh I must contribute to this thread,
although tardily. I am queen of the jipted rose leas, notorious boom boom dancers
from long ago. You ignorant young'uns don't know nothin' about being jipted.
Add strawberry jello and coolwhip along with a touch of celery and you have
Thanksgiving dinner.



Posted by: ButterflyRDH (11 Msgs) 11:54PM PST, Mar 6, 2000
No, it wasn't Mae West, it was Jack Benny!



Posted by: rawmatls (80 Msgs) 9:53AM PST, Mar 7, 2000
Having been away from the boards for most of 24 hours, I am shocked, SHOCKED, and
appalled at the loose and depraved manner in which you people have chosen to write
to each other. Please, one and all, exercise some decency... for all future posts,
the proper presentation is j***ed. I trust I will need to say no more on this matter.



Posted by: ostrom808 (77 Msgs) 10:11AM PST, Mar 7, 2000
Imagine what Regis would say while I get j***ed in the hot seat . . .


Posted by: rawmatls (80 Msgs) 10:19AM PST, Mar 7, 2000
>> Imagine what Regis would say while I get j***ed in the hot seat . . . <<

Imagine the excitement if it's Regis who has j***ed you.


Posted by: ostrom808 (77 Msgs) 10:23AM PST, Mar 7, 2000
Where do I sign up? Do I have to make past two rounds for this too?



Posted by: andreaquinn (11 Msgs) 10:27AM PST, Mar 7, 2000
If the proper presentation of jipted is j***ted (close enough)...what's the proper
presentation of gypped?




Posted by: scruffyclaus (525 Msgs) 10:37AM PST, Mar 7, 2000
I once jipted with gypsum. I prefer kudzu.


Posted by: BigMikeP (132 Msgs) 10:42AM PST, Mar 7, 2000
The first step to recovery is ADMITTING youv'e been Jipted




Posted by: RebelYellOleMiss (209 Msgs) 10:42AM PST, Mar 7, 2000
I'd have to agree with you on jipting with kudzu rather than gypsum.

Who is generally thought of as having said the famous quote "It is better to have
jipt and lost than to have never jipt at all?"


"Wasn't that a recent swing song?"
Posted by: rockhardnj (76 Msgs) 10:47AM PST, Mar 7, 2000
Jipt Jive and wail


"Re: Beating a jipt to death"
Posted by: bbking52 (1295 Msgs) 11:02AM PST, Mar 7, 2000
g*p***


Posted by: bbking52 (1295 Msgs) 11:03AM PST, Mar 7, 2000
Dichondra is even better.


Posted by: 14byrnsie (60 Msgs) 2:11PM PST, Mar 7, 2000
You can tell the phone lines are closed.

Where are the avatars?