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#1 Post by MarleysGh0st » Wed Dec 03, 2008 10:33 am

I usually don't bother posting links to stories about the UK version of the show, but I saw this one from the Borehamwood & Elstree Times and I thought that Borehamwood was just a delightful sounding place for the Bored. 8)

http://www.borehamwoodtimes.co.uk/blog/ ... ignorance/

The article starts with a report of everyone missing a Fastest Finger question. They still have the FF in UK? <sigh>

The bulk of the article is a complaint about some ethnic pejoratives used by the warm-up guy (one of which I had to Google) and some other insensitve jokes by him and host Chris Tarrant. But in the interest of ontopicosity, this is the part that interested me:
Then about 20 minutes later, 81 per cent of the audience helped a bewilderingly cheerful woman lose £19,000 — apparently this was the highest ever wrong percentage in ‘Ask the Audience’.

This was despite the floor manager urging everyone at the start of the show not vote unless absolutely sure of the answer.
(Bolding in the above quote is mine.)

The warm-up guy specifically instructs the audience not to guess on the ATA. This is how it should be!
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#2 Post by WheresFanny » Wed Dec 03, 2008 10:49 am

Oh, Marley! You're so cute with your ontopicosity and all.
We, the HK Brigade, do hereby salute you, Marley, for your steadfast devotion to ontopicosity. Well done, sir!
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#3 Post by minimetoo26 » Wed Dec 03, 2008 10:52 am

WheresFanny wrote:Oh, Marley! You're so cute with your ontopicosity and all.

Uh-oh! Clem's supposed to be The Cute One! Now he's going to go kick Marley's ass, and it will be all your fault!
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#4 Post by peacock2121 » Wed Dec 03, 2008 10:54 am

minimetoo26 wrote:
WheresFanny wrote:Oh, Marley! You're so cute with your ontopicosity and all.

Uh-oh! Clem's supposed to be The Cute One! Now he's going to go kick Marley's ass, and it will be all your fault!
Wait!

I need to go get my popcorn and soda to watch this one.
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#5 Post by littlebeast13 » Wed Dec 03, 2008 10:55 am

minimetoo26 wrote:
WheresFanny wrote:Oh, Marley! You're so cute with your ontopicosity and all.

Uh-oh! Clem's supposed to be The Cute One! Now he's going to go kick Marley's ass, and it will be all your fault!

I don't think he can walk all the way up to Ithaca, and he hasn't gotten his game check yet, so a taxi ride's out of the picture.....

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#6 Post by peacock2121 » Wed Dec 03, 2008 10:56 am

littlebeast13 wrote:
minimetoo26 wrote:
WheresFanny wrote:Oh, Marley! You're so cute with your ontopicosity and all.

Uh-oh! Clem's supposed to be The Cute One! Now he's going to go kick Marley's ass, and it will be all your fault!

I don't think he can walk all the way up to Ithaca, and he hasn't gotten his game check yet, so a taxi ride's out of the picture.....

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#7 Post by minimetoo26 » Wed Dec 03, 2008 10:56 am

littlebeast13 wrote:
minimetoo26 wrote:
WheresFanny wrote:Oh, Marley! You're so cute with your ontopicosity and all.

Uh-oh! Clem's supposed to be The Cute One! Now he's going to go kick Marley's ass, and it will be all your fault!

I don't think he can walk all the way up to Ithaca, and he hasn't gotten his game check yet, so a taxi ride's out of the picture.....

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He'll lure Marley to the city with the promise of an audition and do the dirty deed there. He's sneaky like that...........
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#8 Post by littlebeast13 » Wed Dec 03, 2008 10:58 am

minimetoo26 wrote:
littlebeast13 wrote:
minimetoo26 wrote:
Uh-oh! Clem's supposed to be The Cute One! Now he's going to go kick Marley's ass, and it will be all your fault!

I don't think he can walk all the way up to Ithaca, and he hasn't gotten his game check yet, so a taxi ride's out of the picture.....

lb13

He'll lure Marley to the city with the promise of an audition and do the dirty deed there. He's sneaky like that...........

Marley! Whatever you do......... don't follow him to the ice skaping rink!!!!!!

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#9 Post by clem21 » Wed Dec 03, 2008 11:22 am

minimetoo26 wrote:
WheresFanny wrote:Oh, Marley! You're so cute with your ontopicosity and all.

Uh-oh! Clem's supposed to be The Cute One! Now he's going to go kick Marley's ass, and it will be all your fault!
I can't kick Marley's ass, he came to my taping so I like him.

Besides I realize Fanny is upset that I don't like her enough and thus is taking gratuitous shots at me. It's ok.
I'll give her time to get over it.
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#10 Post by WheresFanny » Wed Dec 03, 2008 11:25 am

What have you people done to the ONE ontopicositiousness thread of the day!

Marley is going to kick ass and take names!
We, the HK Brigade, do hereby salute you, Marley, for your steadfast devotion to ontopicosity. Well done, sir!
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#11 Post by minimetoo26 » Wed Dec 03, 2008 11:25 am

clem21 wrote:
minimetoo26 wrote:
WheresFanny wrote:Oh, Marley! You're so cute with your ontopicosity and all.

Uh-oh! Clem's supposed to be The Cute One! Now he's going to go kick Marley's ass, and it will be all your fault!
I can't kick Marley's ass, he came to my taping so I like him.

Besides I realize Fanny is upset that I don't like her enough and thus is taking gratuitous shots at me. It's ok.
I'll give her time to get over it.
I'm relieved! I had mental images of Marley with a bad case of Exploded Nose!
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#12 Post by WheresFanny » Wed Dec 03, 2008 11:26 am

clem21 wrote:
minimetoo26 wrote:
WheresFanny wrote:Oh, Marley! You're so cute with your ontopicosity and all.

Uh-oh! Clem's supposed to be The Cute One! Now he's going to go kick Marley's ass, and it will be all your fault!
I can't kick Marley's ass, he came to my taping so I like him.

Besides I realize Fanny is upset that I don't like her enough and thus is taking gratuitous shots at me. It's ok.
I'll give her time to get over it.
I'm a delicate flower and you've crushed my tender sensibilities. It will take more than time.....
We, the HK Brigade, do hereby salute you, Marley, for your steadfast devotion to ontopicosity. Well done, sir!
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#13 Post by minimetoo26 » Wed Dec 03, 2008 11:27 am

WheresFanny wrote:What have you people done to the ONE ontopicositiousness thread of the day!

Marley is going to kick ass and take names!
Nothing's sacred once we get on a roll.

I'll go practice my video poker now so I can kick its ass this weekend.

Later!
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#14 Post by minimetoo26 » Wed Dec 03, 2008 11:28 am

WheresFanny wrote:
clem21 wrote:
minimetoo26 wrote:
Uh-oh! Clem's supposed to be The Cute One! Now he's going to go kick Marley's ass, and it will be all your fault!
I can't kick Marley's ass, he came to my taping so I like him.

Besides I realize Fanny is upset that I don't like her enough and thus is taking gratuitous shots at me. It's ok.
I'll give her time to get over it.
I'm a delicate flower and you've crushed my tender sensibilities. It will take more than time.....
Delicate flowers! That's us all right!

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#15 Post by MarleysGh0st » Wed Dec 03, 2008 12:07 pm

clem21 wrote:
minimetoo26 wrote:
WheresFanny wrote:Oh, Marley! You're so cute with your ontopicosity and all.

Uh-oh! Clem's supposed to be The Cute One! Now he's going to go kick Marley's ass, and it will be all your fault!
I can't kick Marley's ass, he came to my taping so I like him.

Besides I realize Fanny is upset that I don't like her enough and thus is taking gratuitous shots at me. It's ok.
I'll give her time to get over it.
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#16 Post by Brit Canuck » Wed Dec 03, 2008 12:53 pm

MarleysGh0st wrote:I usually don't bother posting links to stories about the UK version of the show, but I saw this one from the Borehamwood & Elstree Times and I thought that Borehamwood was just a delightful sounding place for the Bored. 8)

http://www.borehamwoodtimes.co.uk/blog/ ... ignorance/

The article starts with a report of everyone missing a Fastest Finger question. They still have the FF in UK? <sigh>

The bulk of the article is a complaint about some ethnic pejoratives used by the warm-up guy (one of which I had to Google) and some other insensitive jokes by him and host Chris Tarrant. But in the interest of ontopicosity, this is the part that interested me:
Then about 20 minutes later, 81 per cent of the audience helped a bewilderingly cheerful woman lose £19,000 — apparently this was the highest ever wrong percentage in ‘Ask the Audience’.

This was despite the floor manager urging everyone at the start of the show not vote unless absolutely sure of the answer.
(Bolding in the above quote is mine.)

The warm-up guy specifically instructs the audience not to guess on the ATA. This is how it should be!
If 81% was the highest ever wrong percentage in ‘Ask the Audience’, America topped that record just yesterday (December 2nd, 2008).
BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Bob Wirges
Cape May, NJ

...

$16K (Grammy Winners):
Perhaps inspired by one of her musical idols, what is the title of the debut album by controversial pop singer Amy Winehouse?
A. Frank B. Ray
C. Ella D. Billie

ATA (22)
ATA
A-15% B-17% C-28% D-40%
Mere: This is not great (reads off #s) then says the 'majority' is Billie but it is not a great number, it's a number
Bob: I haven't the foggiest notion but your audiences always have been so good.
result
A. Frank (Bob answered D at :11)

Bob leaves with $1000
That's 85% of our Audience flunking (or "Dursting") that question, with the answer that got the lowest percentage of votes being the correct one.

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#17 Post by MarleysGh0st » Wed Dec 03, 2008 12:57 pm

Brit Canuck wrote: If 81% was the highest ever wrong percentage in ‘Ask the Audience’, America topped that record just yesterday (December 2nd, 2008).

...

That's 85% of our Audience flunking (or "Dursting") that question, with the answer that got the lowest percentage of votes being the correct one.
Yeah, that was a bad one. It's not clear from the blog entry if they're talking about 81% being the total for all wrong answers or if that was the vote for a single wrong choice, though.
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#18 Post by Bob Juch » Wed Dec 03, 2008 1:51 pm

MarleysGh0st wrote:
Brit Canuck wrote: If 81% was the highest ever wrong percentage in ‘Ask the Audience’, America topped that record just yesterday (December 2nd, 2008).

...

That's 85% of our Audience flunking (or "Dursting") that question, with the answer that got the lowest percentage of votes being the correct one.
Yeah, that was a bad one. It's not clear from the blog entry if they're talking about 81% being the total for all wrong answers or if that was the vote for a single wrong choice, though.
Actually it was. It was 81% for one wrong answer.
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#19 Post by TheConfessor » Wed Dec 03, 2008 1:54 pm

ATA was 88% "wrong" on my glowing spud question.

I wonder what the money tree is these days on UK WWTBAM. It must have changed, if the audience can be blamed for costing the contestant 19K.
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#20 Post by MarleysGh0st » Wed Dec 03, 2008 2:08 pm

TheConfessor wrote:ATA was 88% "wrong" on my glowing spud question.

I wonder what the money tree is these days on UK WWTBAM. It must have changed, if the audience can be blamed for costing the contestant 19K.
Wikipedia says they changed the stack to 12 questions, as of August 2007:
£500
£1,000
£2,000
£5,000
£10,000
£20,000
£50,000
£75,000
£150,000
£250,000
£500,000
£1 million


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#21 Post by Estonut » Thu Dec 04, 2008 4:10 am

Bob Juch wrote:
MarleysGh0st wrote:
Brit Canuck wrote: If 81% was the highest ever wrong percentage in ‘Ask the Audience’, America topped that record just yesterday (December 2nd, 2008).

...

That's 85% of our Audience flunking (or "Dursting") that question, with the answer that got the lowest percentage of votes being the correct one.
Yeah, that was a bad one. It's not clear from the blog entry if they're talking about 81% being the total for all wrong answers or if that was the vote for a single wrong choice, though.
Actually it was. It was 81% for one wrong answer.
Article author wrote:So 81 per cent of those who voted thought that the only time alcohol was allowed in the House of Commons was during the state opening of Parliament.

Did they not recall Kenneth Clarke sipping his whisky while cutting duty on alcohol in a Budget speech back in the Nineties, I wanted to shout?
If 81% thought "the only time alcohol was allowed in the House of Commons was during the state opening of Parliament", that must have been a single wrong answer, as that statement couldn't represent more than one answer.
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#22 Post by TheGlowingPotato » Thu Dec 04, 2008 4:21 am

TheConfessor wrote:ATA was 88% "wrong" on my glowing spud question.
Those bunch of dumbasses! I am going to kick that glowing tomato's ass....
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#23 Post by ulysses5019 » Thu Dec 04, 2008 4:32 am

TheGlowingPotato wrote:
TheConfessor wrote:ATA was 88% "wrong" on my glowing spud question.
Those bunch of dumbasses! I am going to kick that glowing tomato's ass....

Be careful of his cousin....the killer tomato!
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