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bondguy007 · #26 Post by **bondguy007** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 10:20 am

sunflower wrote:
bondguy007 wrote:
MarleysGh0st wrote: 12.5%
Did I mention I never passed algebra! (Yet...still in college) Thanks Marley. I did the old 40 divided by 8 is 5 thing.
Why would you divide 40 by 8...when the only two numbers you were given were 40 and 5??? I hope there's no math on the test!

You ever have one of those days when everything seems to go wrong mathematically?

dodgersteve182 · #27 Post by **dodgersteve182** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 10:25 am

"You ever have one of those days when everything seems to go wrong mathematically?"

Never! In the investment field we live on 1/8's! As in 0.125 or 12 1/2%!

On a good day, I can even do Prime Numbers in my head through all the 3 digit numbers. IMHO it's time that stopped using the PN test when they evaluate "savants". I am no Savant, I am Human!

bondguy007 · #28 Post by **bondguy007** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 10:29 am

dodgersteve182 wrote:"You ever have one of those days when everything seems to go wrong mathematically?"

Never! In the investment field we live on 1/8's! As in 0.125 or 12 1/2%!
On a good day, I can even do Prime Numbers in my head through all the 3 digit numbers. IMHO it's time that stopped using the PN test when they evaluate "savants". I am no Savant, I am Human!

Okay...Moving right along folks, coming up in this hour of the Jerry Lewis Telethon we have Maureen McGovern and Twiggy the Water Squirrel....So stay right where you are!

ulysses5019 · #29 Post by **ulysses5019** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 10:36 am

bondguy007 wrote:
dodgersteve182 wrote:"You ever have one of those days when everything seems to go wrong mathematically?"

Never! In the investment field we live on 1/8's! As in 0.125 or 12 1/2%!
On a good day, I can even do Prime Numbers in my head through all the 3 digit numbers. IMHO it's time that stopped using the PN test when they evaluate "savants". I am no Savant, I am Human!
Okay...Moving right along folks, coming up in this hour of the Jerry Lewis Telethon we have Maureen McGovern and Twiggy the Water Squirrel....So stay right where you are!

Hmmmm, water squirrel? Does she have a boyfriend?

Evil Squirrel · #30 Post by **Evil Squirrel** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 11:12 am

ulysses5019 wrote:
bondguy007 wrote:
dodgersteve182 wrote:"You ever have one of those days when everything seems to go wrong mathematically?"

Never! In the investment field we live on 1/8's! As in 0.125 or 12 1/2%!
On a good day, I can even do Prime Numbers in my head through all the 3 digit numbers. IMHO it's time that stopped using the PN test when they evaluate "savants". I am no Savant, I am Human!
Okay...Moving right along folks, coming up in this hour of the Jerry Lewis Telethon we have Maureen McGovern and Twiggy the Water Squirrel....So stay right where you are!

Hmmmm, water squirrel? Does she have a boyfriend?

What's it to you, monkey face?

MarleysGh0st · #31 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 11:14 am

dodgersteve182 wrote: You be the Judge. Tell me I am not a "famous name"!

Not famous enough.

Whether you put our quotes in spoilers or not!

MarleysGh0st · #32 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 11:17 am

bondguy007 wrote:
sunflower wrote:
bondguy007 wrote: Did I mention I never passed algebra! (Yet...still in college) Thanks Marley. I did the old 40 divided by 8 is 5 thing.
Why would you divide 40 by 8...when the only two numbers you were given were 40 and 5??? I hope there's no math on the test!
You ever have one of those days when everything seems to go wrong mathematically?

Have you thought about trying out for 5th Grader? Jeff Foxworthy would love mathematical reasoning like that!

#33 Post by **littlebeast13** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 11:18 am

MarleysGh0st wrote:
bondguy007 wrote:
sunflower wrote: Why would you divide 40 by 8...when the only two numbers you were given were 40 and 5??? I hope there's no math on the test!
You ever have one of those days when everything seems to go wrong mathematically?
Have you thought about trying out for 5th Grader? Jeff Foxworthy would love mathematical reasoning like that!

Wow! Marley's doing pyramidtude!!!

lb13

bondguy007 · #34 Post by **bondguy007** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 11:23 am

MarleysGh0st wrote:
Have you thought about trying out for 5th Grader? Jeff Foxworthy would love mathematical reasoning like that!

I'll admit it....I am NOT smarter than a fifth grader!

MarleysGh0st · #35 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 11:55 am

bondguy007 wrote:
MarleysGh0st wrote:
Have you thought about trying out for 5th Grader? Jeff Foxworthy would love mathematical reasoning like that!
I'll admit it....I am NOT smarter than a fifth grader!

They don't accept any contestants who are!

TheConfessor · #36 Post by **TheConfessor** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 1:38 pm

MarleysGh0st wrote:
bondguy007 wrote:
MarleysGh0st wrote:
Have you thought about trying out for 5th Grader? Jeff Foxworthy would love mathematical reasoning like that!
I'll admit it....I am NOT smarter than a fifth grader!
They don't accept any contestants who are!

Except Ken Jennings.

MarleysGh0st · #37 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 1:45 pm

TheConfessor wrote:
MarleysGh0st wrote:
bondguy007 wrote: I'll admit it....I am NOT smarter than a fifth grader!
They don't accept any contestants who are!
Except Ken Jennings.

Well, we'll see.

If the assumption is correct that he's playing for charity, will he gamble their money on the $1 million question, sight unseen, or will he walk with $500K, thereby invoking the requisite "I am not smarter" confession?

But celebrities are always a special case, when tallking about casting standards.

Here's Fanny! · #38 Post by **Here's Fanny!** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 1:52 pm

dodgersteve182 wrote:Juliea says,
Spoiler
I might try again but I don't know because my biggest hook is now gone. There were people there whose names I had never heard of before - trying to pass for famous
I'm sure you have an extra "hook" in you somewhere? For the record, these meanies on the bored said my name "wasn't famous enough". So how famous is famous? What are some of the other unheard of names that were there at M* that you never heard of ? Christopher Plummer? Dick Van Dyke? Blake Edwards? Captain Von Trapp? LOL! Just teasing...you sound like a young Mary Poppins.

You be the Judge. Tell me I am not a "famous name"!
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm664574464/nm0931736

You are a famous name. But not that one. Was I you, I'd go for the Doctor Death angle. Although I don't know if that is name recognition enough outside of the hoi polloi.

The fame of the person has to be of inverse proportions to the commonness of the name.

Example:

Michael Jackson = famous enough to overcome common name.

Jack Jones = not famous enough to overcome common name.

Elvis Peacock = name uncommon enough to overcome lower fame level.

juliea344 · #39 Post by **juliea344** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 2:35 pm

MarleysGh0st wrote:That passing percentage--5 passers out of 40--sounds pretty typical

Forgot to mention the 5 that passed were MAWGs. Is that a-typical? Or is it typical to pass but then be screened out?

dodgersteve182 wrote: What are some of the other unheard of names that were there at M* that you never heard of ?

Gordon Kelly and Don Pompeii

MarleysGh0st · #40 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 2:39 pm

juliea344 wrote:
MarleysGh0st wrote:That passing percentage--5 passers out of 40--sounds pretty typical
Forgot to mention the 5 that passed were MAWGs. Is that a-typical? Or is it typical to pass but then be screened out?

You trying to goad me into another rant?

Yes, MAWGs are big trivia fans and tend to pass the test in high numbers. Then we're discriminated against so that the show can be filled with the "appropriate" number of actors and young people.

sunflower · #41 Post by **sunflower** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 8:10 pm

MarleysGh0st wrote:
juliea344 wrote:
MarleysGh0st wrote:That passing percentage--5 passers out of 40--sounds pretty typical
Forgot to mention the 5 that passed were MAWGs. Is that a-typical? Or is it typical to pass but then be screened out?
You trying to goad me into another rant?

Yes, MAWGs are big trivia fans and tend to pass the test in high numbers. Then we're discriminated against so that the show can be filled with the "appropriate" number of actors and young people.

As someone defending "young people", I have to say that I'm 99% sure that I only got 2 wrong on my test...and I finished my test in about 3 minutes flat. So it's not like I didn't deserve to be there. You do too and I'm sorry they haven't picked you, but I deserved to be picked and I didn't get on just because I'm young or whatever.

I usually let this stuff slide by but I felt the need to say something today because contrary to popular belief, someone can be young AND smart. I graduated in the top of my class, I got very high SAT scores and I'm in MENSA and I won't apologize for being young or deemed "tv worthy" by producers.

juliea344 · #42 Post by **juliea344** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 8:16 pm

I'm young, female and I have the perfect "famous name". I feel I was discriminated against by being given a hard test!

ulysses5019 · #43 Post by **ulysses5019** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 8:21 pm

sunflower wrote:
MarleysGh0st wrote:
juliea344 wrote: Forgot to mention the 5 that passed were MAWGs. Is that a-typical? Or is it typical to pass but then be screened out?
You trying to goad me into another rant?

Yes, MAWGs are big trivia fans and tend to pass the test in high numbers. Then we're discriminated against so that the show can be filled with the "appropriate" number of actors and young people.
As someone defending "young people", I have to say that I'm 99% sure that I only got 2 wrong on my test...and I finished my test in about 3 minutes flat. So it's not like I didn't deserve to be there. You do too and I'm sorry they haven't picked you, but I deserved to be picked and I didn't get on just because I'm young or whatever.

I usually let this stuff slide by but I felt the need to say something today because contrary to popular belief, someone can be young AND smart. I graduated in the top of my class, I got very high SAT scores and I'm in MENSA and I won't apologize for being young or deemed "tv worthy" by producers.

Someone's feeling chippy tonight.

silvercamaro · #44 Post by **silvercamaro** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 9:04 pm

sunflower wrote:
I usually let this stuff slide by but I felt the need to say something today because contrary to popular belief, someone can be young AND smart. I graduated in the top of my class, I got very high SAT scores and I'm in MENSA and I won't apologize for being young or deemed "tv worthy" by producers.

Atta girl -- at any age!

sunflower · #45 Post by **sunflower** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 9:14 pm

ulysses5019 wrote:Someone's feeling chippy tonight.

It's probably because of my hat...too bad it doesn't come in a tiara...

kayrharris · #46 Post by **kayrharris** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 9:17 pm

All it needs is a little bling...a few rhinestones and glitter and you're all set.

sunflower · #47 Post by **sunflower** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 9:19 pm

Does anyone have a BeDazzler I can borrow???

Do they still sell those???

juliea344 · #48 Post by **juliea344** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 9:20 pm

So, not that I'm obsessed with this or anything. I mean it's not like I thought I had actually studied all 8 pages of the transcript posts but just realized I forgot to finish page 8 and just found the Obama book question right there - on page 8 that I didn't actually finish. And, chances are, had I finished said page 8 that I probably would have passed the *$&%ing test

Anyway, if I were obsessed with taking the test again, how late in the season do you suppose is too late to go? It says you can audition for famous names during a taping as well but I have no clue when famous names week is. I'm thinking I can make a birthday trip out of it for hubby and I at the end of September. Too late?

sunflower · #49 Post by **sunflower** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 9:26 pm

juliea344 wrote:So, not that I'm obsessed with this or anything. I mean it's not like I thought I had actually studied all 8 pages of the transcript posts but just realized I forgot to finish page 8 and just found the Obama book question right there - on page 8 that I didn't actually finish. And, chances are, had I finished said page 8 that I probably would have passed the *$&%ing test

Anyway, if I were obsessed with taking the test again, how late in the season do you suppose is too late to go? It says you can audition for famous names during a taping as well but I have no clue when famous names week is. I'm thinking I can make a birthday trip out of it for hubby and I at the end of September. Too late?

I don't know if they'll publish when famous names weeks is going to tape. It might be one of those things that when they finally get enough people, they'll just do it. They tape a week in a day so it's pretty flexible that way. Maybe someone else here has more insight into when that week might be taping?

But even if you miss famous names I say go for it for a regular episode!! I personally think it might be slightly easier to get on later in the season when some of the excitement settles. I have no scientific proof of that though. I auditioned 9/12, got the call 9/14 and taped in October. If it's like last season, taping is through the beginning of November so Septemer isn't too late for regular shows, but it might be for famous names week.

kayrharris · #50 Post by **kayrharris** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 9:33 pm

sunflower wrote:Does anyone have a BeDazzler I can borrow???

Do they still sell those???

I'm pretty sure Bixby has one, but she's sorta on a leave of absence right now. We'll round one up if we have to. We're very resourceful around here.