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#51 Post by silvercamaro » Thu Aug 07, 2008 9:56 pm

juliea344 wrote: 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?
My advice would be to take the test at the earliest possible opportunity, simply to give yourself the greatest number of tapings for which you could be selected. Since the taping schedule seems to end earlier this year than in previous seasons, it's hard to tell when the last "practical" date might be. (I always assume that if you're the most wonderful contestant they've ever seen, they will move entire planets around to get you on the show ASAP, but none of us can count on that.) In theory, you could get a happy card on the last possible day of auditions and be held over in the pool until next season, but that provides too great a chance that they might forget how wonderful you are by next July.

Don't worry about Famous Name week. If they're still casting for that when you get there, fine. If not, though, the regular shows will give a greater number of opportunities to reach the Hot Seat.
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#52 Post by juliea344 » Thu Aug 07, 2008 9:57 pm

kayrharris wrote:
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.

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#53 Post by juliea344 » Thu Aug 07, 2008 10:01 pm

silvercamaro wrote:
juliea344 wrote: 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?
My advice would be to take the test at the earliest possible opportunity, simply to give yourself the greatest number of tapings for which you could be selected. Since the taping schedule seems to end earlier this year than in previous seasons, it's hard to tell when the last "practical" date might be. (I always assume that if you're the most wonderful contestant they've ever seen, they will move entire planets around to get you on the show ASAP, but none of us can count on that.) In theory, you could get a happy card on the last possible day of auditions and be held over in the pool until next season, but that provides too great a chance that they might forget how wonderful you are by next July.

Don't worry about Famous Name week. If they're still casting for that when you get there, fine. If not, though, the regular shows will give a greater number of opportunities to reach the Hot Seat.
Thanks silver. Hubby's birthday is 9/24 so I'm thinking maybe that weekend or the weekend before. This time we can both give it a shot. He'll be "the reluctant auditioner" :wink:

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#54 Post by sunflower » Thu Aug 07, 2008 10:02 pm

juliea344 wrote:
kayrharris wrote:
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.

:D
Tana from the Apprentice sells them!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtLrG7ONYho
OMG I totally forgot about her!! How cute are the dogs with the bedazzled collars??? "Don't be dull...be dazzling!" And I'll be dazzling and chippy! 8)

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#55 Post by sunflower » Thu Aug 07, 2008 10:07 pm

juliea344 wrote:Thanks silver. Hubby's birthday is 9/24 so I'm thinking maybe that weekend or the weekend before. This time we can both give it a shot. He'll be "the reluctant auditioner" :wink:
It's such a nice time of year to be in the city too. The park is right there, and it's not too hot to be outside. That will be fun!

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#56 Post by dodgersteve182 » Thu Aug 07, 2008 11:23 pm

juliea344 wrote:I'm young, female and I have the perfect "famous name". I feel I was discriminated against by being given a hard test! :D
Here I thought you were Julie Andrews, not Paris Hilton! :lol:

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#57 Post by dodgersteve182 » Thu Aug 07, 2008 11:25 pm

juliea344 wrote:
silvercamaro wrote:
juliea344 wrote: 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?
My advice would be to take the test at the earliest possible opportunity, simply to give yourself the greatest number of tapings for which you could be selected. Since the taping schedule seems to end earlier this year than in previous seasons, it's hard to tell when the last "practical" date might be. (I always assume that if you're the most wonderful contestant they've ever seen, they will move entire planets around to get you on the show ASAP, but none of us can count on that.) In theory, you could get a happy card on the last possible day of auditions and be held over in the pool until next season, but that provides too great a chance that they might forget how wonderful you are by next July.

Don't worry about Famous Name week. If they're still casting for that when you get there, fine. If not, though, the regular shows will give a greater number of opportunities to reach the Hot Seat.
Thanks silver. Hubby's birthday is 9/24 so I'm thinking maybe that weekend or the weekend before. This time we can both give it a shot. He'll be "the reluctant auditioner" :wink:
Don't make hub audition if he isn't into it! He may just pass the test and be put in the Hot Seat! The AP's have always been a big sucker for someone who was kidnapped, tortured and otherwise coerced into auditioning! :x

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#58 Post by MarleysGh0st » Fri Aug 08, 2008 4:53 am

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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? :twisted:

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. :roll:
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.
With respect, sunflower, I didn't say someone couldn't be young and smart. I was responding to an observation Julie made (from a limited sample set) at her audition. With any non-subjective selection process (either according to test scores or by truly random drawings from a hat), the population in the Hot Seat would resemble the population that passes the test. But TPTB will not tolerate that outcome.

If you're a strong contestant and a good talk show guest, good for you. Some of the Hot Seaters we see are the latter but not the former.

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#59 Post by Here's Fanny! » Fri Aug 08, 2008 5:49 am

I used to be young and smart. Now I'm old and stupid.
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.
I didn't graduate anywhere in my class, I don't have any SAT scores and I am not in Mensa.

Maybe I wasn't young and smart, after all. Ha!
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#60 Post by Bob Juch » Fri Aug 08, 2008 5:57 am

Here's Fanny! wrote:I used to be young and smart. Now I'm old and stupid.
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.
I didn't graduate anywhere in my class, I don't have any SAT scores and I am not in Mensa.

Maybe I wasn't young and smart, after all. Ha!
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#61 Post by Here's Fanny! » Fri Aug 08, 2008 6:03 am

Bob Juch wrote:
Here's Fanny! wrote:I used to be young and smart. Now I'm old and stupid.
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.
I didn't graduate anywhere in my class, I don't have any SAT scores and I am not in Mensa.

Maybe I wasn't young and smart, after all. Ha!
You don't have any chance of getting on AYSTa5G.
Since I'm not auditioning, that's a pretty safe bet.

Unless Jeff Foxworthy shows up on my front porch with a couple of little KIAs and some zucchini.
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#62 Post by sunflower » Fri Aug 08, 2008 6:28 am

Here's Fanny! wrote:I used to be young and smart. Now I'm old and stupid.
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.
I didn't graduate anywhere in my class, I don't have any SAT scores and I am not in Mensa.

Maybe I wasn't young and smart, after all. Ha!
But you know how to wheel and deal at Bed Bath and Beyond...you have street smarts!!! :)

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#63 Post by dodgersteve182 » Fri Aug 08, 2008 8:07 am

MarleysGh0st wrote:
sunflower wrote:
MarleysGh0st wrote: You trying to goad me into another rant? :twisted:

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. :roll:
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.
With respect, sunflower, I didn't say someone couldn't be young and smart. I was responding to an observation Julie made (from a limited sample set) at her audition. With any non-subjective selection process (either according to test scores or by truly random drawings from a hat), the population in the Hot Seat would resemble the population that passes the test. But TPTB will not tolerate that outcome.

If you're a strong contestant and a good talk show guest, good for you. Some of the Hot Seaters we see are the latter but not the former.
Marley has recreated the "age old" ageism debate. I guess I slipped through the cracks being a possible strong contestant and former "talk show host". :?

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