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#26 Post by slam » Fri Apr 25, 2008 6:52 am

Congratulations, silvercamaro. Have a lot of fun at the audition. If you haven't been to one before you'll quickly see that the J! people take a very different attitude toward auditions than the WWTBAM people do. The J! people do their best to make it an enjoyable process for all who participate. The WWTBAM people view it as a form of casting cattle call and treat it as such.

Nothing is inherently wrong with either approach. It's just that participants will generally enjoy a J! audition more than a WWTBAM one.

And, with a little bit of luck, maybe you'll end up behind a podium.
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#27 Post by nitrah55 » Fri Apr 25, 2008 7:19 am

Go out there and kick some buzzer!
I am about 25% sure of this.
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#28 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Fri Apr 25, 2008 7:23 am

I think SC should start checking airfares to LA and local storm warnings, after of course worrying excessively over what to wear to the audition.
Suitguy is not bitter.

feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive

The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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#29 Post by a1mamacat » Fri Apr 25, 2008 7:30 am

A wonderful piece of news.

Perhaps Annie and Lizbit could have a doggiesitter come to be with them instead?
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#30 Post by kusch » Fri Apr 25, 2008 7:30 am

Congrats SC!!!! I know you will WOW em. :lol:
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#31 Post by Catfish » Fri Apr 25, 2008 7:42 am

WooooooooooooooooooHoooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You will wow them.

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#32 Post by Evil Squirrel » Fri Apr 25, 2008 9:15 am

a1mamacat wrote:A wonderful piece of news.

Perhaps Annie and Lizbit could have a doggiesitter come to be with them instead?

Me and my buddies would be happy to do some dogsitting for Ms. Camaro so she can go to the audition. We'll have a grand old time.... BWAHAHAHA!!!!
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#33 Post by etaoin22 » Fri Apr 25, 2008 9:16 am

You will impress, and you will be chosen, and that will no doubt be just the start.
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#34 Post by earendel » Fri Apr 25, 2008 9:23 am

silvercamaro wrote:I got an e-mail invitation to the in-person Jeopardy! audition in Dallas on May 22 as a follow-up to January's on-line test. I am thrilled, I am delighted, and I can fit a trip to Dallas into my schedule, yes, indeed.

Now, I must get Annie to grow skin faster so they will let her and Lizbit stay at the boarding kennel overnight. Once I explain the situation, I'm sure she will cooperate fully.
WOOHOO!!!! Glad to hear this; everyone will be rooting for you to wow them at the audition, and you will.
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#35 Post by christie1111 » Fri Apr 25, 2008 9:33 am

I just saw this!

Fantastic!

Go get 'em Judy!
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#36 Post by AnnieCamaro » Fri Apr 25, 2008 9:34 am

Evil Squirrel wrote:
Me and my buddies would be happy to do some dogsitting for Ms. Camaro so she can go to the audition. We'll have a grand old time.... BWAHAHAHA!!!!
You, Mr. Evil, are a badbadbad squirrel! Go put some more duct tape in your nest and sit on it, sticky side up.

Now, don't be bothering us any more, because I will be very busy teaching Important Stuff to my mom.

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#37 Post by peacock2121 » Fri Apr 25, 2008 10:02 am

AnnieCamaro wrote:
Evil Squirrel wrote:
Me and my buddies would be happy to do some dogsitting for Ms. Camaro so she can go to the audition. We'll have a grand old time.... BWAHAHAHA!!!!
You, Mr. Evil, are a badbadbad squirrel! Go put some more duct tape in your nest and sit on it, sticky side up.

Now, don't be bothering us any more, because I will be very busy teaching Important Stuff to my mom.

/:x\
and growing new skin.
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#38 Post by Peter5858 » Fri Apr 25, 2008 11:14 am

Good news!

Good luck with this. Stay away from telephone poles on the way to Dallas.
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#39 Post by plasticene » Fri Apr 25, 2008 11:38 am

Great news! I have every confidence they will want to get you on the show posthaste, but you're guaranteed to have fun in any case.
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#40 Post by geoffil » Fri Apr 25, 2008 1:34 pm

Great news! Have fun and enjoy the big D.
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#41 Post by fuzzywuzzy » Fri Apr 25, 2008 2:11 pm

silvercamaro wrote:I got an e-mail invitation to the in-person Jeopardy! audition in Dallas on May 22 as a follow-up to January's on-line test. I am thrilled, I am delighted, and I can fit a trip to Dallas into my schedule, yes, indeed.
I am doing my Happy WOO HOO dance for ya SC! :lol:

Best of Luck to you!

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#42 Post by Autumn2 » Fri Apr 25, 2008 4:03 pm

good luck to you!!!!!!! :D
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#43 Post by goongas » Fri Apr 25, 2008 4:09 pm

Good luck on the audition!
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#44 Post by VAdame » Fri Apr 25, 2008 7:54 pm

Yay, break a leg!

Somebody on the TWoP bored got an invite for Chicago June 4. Anybody heard from DC or Cleveland yet??
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#45 Post by AlphaDummy » Fri Apr 25, 2008 8:09 pm

Peter5858 wrote:Good news!

Good luck with this. Stay away from telephone poles on the way to Dallas.
Two words: Mass Transit. :P

You will do fine. Just thought I'd tell you, in case you didn't know...
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#46 Post by Ritterskoop » Sat Apr 26, 2008 12:34 am

silvercamaro wrote:I got an e-mail invitation to the in-person Jeopardy! audition in Dallas on May 22 as a follow-up to January's on-line test. I am thrilled, I am delighted, and I can fit a trip to Dallas into my schedule, yes, indeed.

Now, I must get Annie to grow skin faster so they will let her and Lizbit stay at the boarding kennel overnight. Once I explain the situation, I'm sure she will cooperate fully.
I just got to wondering if Annie can go to Dallas with you........
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#47 Post by silvercamaro » Sat Apr 26, 2008 2:09 am

Ritterskoop wrote:
I just got to wondering if Annie can go to Dallas with you........
Hah. Don't you know what would happen? She would convince them to let her take the test, since she was there. She'd ace it, and then she would charm them with her smiling, big brown eyes and enchant them with stories of the times she cheated death and found romantic reasons to live through the attentions of handsome mastiffs and pit bulls met by chance in out-of-the-way veterinary clinics. Casting my application aside, they would pick Annie to be on the show, yet I would have to drive her to California.

She'd make her appearance -- and she'd make television game show history and a special place in Alex Trebek's heart in the process -- but without a thumb, she'd prove to be slow on the buzzer. One more sad story in Jeopardy! history....

* * *

Besides all that, of course, it's difficult to find a hotel that will accept a big dog. Cheered by the sight of a previously unseen sliver of new pink skin on Annie's back, I already have made a hotel reservation for myself. If she cannot be accepted for an overnight stay by the boarding facility, the vet may take her as a medical patient for "observation" during the same period. Alternatively, I am compiling a short list of trustworthy folks who -- through payment, friendship or blackmail -- might rearrange 28 hours of their lives on the dogs' behalf.
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#48 Post by MarleysGh0st » Sat Apr 26, 2008 5:42 am

silvercamaro wrote:
Ritterskoop wrote:
I just got to wondering if Annie can go to Dallas with you........
Hah. Don't you know what would happen? She would convince them to let her take the test, since she was there. She'd ace it, and then she would charm them with her smiling, big brown eyes and enchant them with stories of the times she cheated death and found romantic reasons to live through the attentions of handsome mastiffs and pit bulls met by chance in out-of-the-way veterinary clinics. Casting my application aside, they would pick Annie to be on the show, yet I would have to drive her to California.

She'd make her appearance -- and she'd make television game show history and a special place in Alex Trebek's heart in the process -- but without a thumb, she'd prove to be slow on the buzzer. One more sad story in Jeopardy! history....
<sigh>

One more sad chapter in canine history, chalked up to the lack of an opposable thumb. First it was the doorknob, now the Jeopardy! buzzer...
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#49 Post by Beebs52 » Sat Apr 26, 2008 9:34 am

Whoo double triple hOOOOOO!!!
Well, then
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#50 Post by T_Bone0806 » Sat Apr 26, 2008 9:35 am

Wow! I'm glad I opened this thread! I passed right by it yesterday (only seeing "Jeopardy" and not being that interested in what happened on J! the night before), then this morning I saw your name and thought "well, let's see what my pal Silver has to say"..good thing I did, or else youda thought I didn't care about this tremendous news.

You will ace whatever they throw at you, be it testing your intellect or testing your personality, and I will soon be firing up my dvd recorder to record your magnificent winning streak!

Hooray for you!!! I am rooting for you with all of my rooting powers!
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