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[bk]

Welcome seven GUESTS.  We're talkin' about prizes.

And now - Dino at the piano.

[Dan (the Man)]

I'm aghast!

I'm agape!

I'm agog!

...I have just
Ate a grape
And a frog.

[Ron Pulliam]

DR RonP, re: big brother 6

Maggie is indeed evil.  But i still think she controls the other maggots.  She (maggie) asked april if she knew that the promise of voting for a member of the Friendship to win was for the FINALS also. She is securing that April knows she has to vote for Ivette vs Janelle.

I think that April might be able to think for herself if it is Maggie vs Janelle.  Although I still think she would vote for Maggie.  But if it is Ivette vs Janelle and if Maggie is in the sequester with April. I think Maggie will continue to bully her.  Makes me want to scream.

I hope she doesn't win either Part 1 or Part 2 of the HOH comp.

I don't think for a minute that April would ever vote for Ivette.  The pact is broken.  Maggie is grasping.

When Maggie won the veto a week ago and told April she wanted to use it...and that she did not want to be standing beside her in the finals...I think April finally realized that Maggie's only interest in the "pact" was in how it could benefit HER.

Maggie can say she loves April, but April sure doesn't benefit from it.

For the pact to have been adhered to, Ivette would have had to decline using the veto.  By using it, she voted against April.  It's not even semantics...just the facts.

The pact is dead.  Long live anarchy among the fiendsheep.

[Jennifer]

I have also won the football SuperBowl pool. But i watched!

Oh and I once won a baseball contest, but that was based on skill (you had to write an essay).

My sister won us a trip to London with theatre tickets. So that was good.

[Ron Pulliam]

...I have just
Ate a grape
And a frog.

Ahh!  Then you must be François, in disguise!

[vixmom]

WOW.  What a lot of winners we have here!

I won a doll in a raffle in the movies when I went to see Yellow Submarine

I won $100 on an instant lottery scratchoff game, and I nearly fainted... Lord knows how I would react if I won a big one!

I won the half time pot in a football pool at work and deserved it as much as DR FJL did!! I also had failed to see the game and had  no idea I had won until the $$ was being counted out to me.

I won a regents Scholarship Award in high school which gave me  (if I remember correctly) $250 a semester for college semester

I won tickets in a call in radio contest to a Willie (Willy?)  Nelson concert back in the late 70's

 
That's all I can think of.
 

[Jennifer]

I don't think for a minute that April would ever vote for Ivette.  The pact is broken.  Maggie is grasping.

When Maggie won the veto a week ago and told April she wanted to use it...and that she did not want to be standing beside her in the finals...I think April finally realized that Maggie's only interest in the "pact" was in how it could benefit HER.

Maggie can say she loves April, but April sure doesn't benefit from it.

I'm not convinced that April would not vote for Ivette.  I think she is leaning towards Janelle.  But if april has nothing to lose and is trying to tell it like it is, why did she promise maggie last night that she would vote for the friendship over janelle and keep their friendship pact.

And i still believe that april thinks maggie loves her. It would have been funnier to see maggie dump april and keep ivette.

[vixmom]

...I have just
Ate a grape
And a frog.

 I used to have a little sign in my office (years and years ago) that read

"Eat a live toad first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day"

[vixmom]

Have you ever had frog a la peche?

[vixmom]

or peche a la Frog?

[Dan (the Man)]

I have won...

A cake
A $500 Savings Bond (still not matured!)
A 13" color TV
Tickets for Pippin at the Valley Forge Music Fair
A Campbell Soup Sweatshirt
The Buddy OCR CD
Various lotteries in amounts from $1 to $100
A rechargeable power drill
Two Unseemly Trivia Contests

All told, I'm one lucky guy...

[Dan (the Man)]

Ahh!  Then you must be François, in disguise!

Hmmm...that would be the second set-up line I wouldn't touch today.

[Dan (the Man)]

or peche a la Frog?

Neither of which is really not much to write home about, eh?

[vixmom]

Neither of which is really not much to write home about, eh?

Would you like some pond water?

[bk]

When I was eight I won a jar of bubbles (what ARE those called - you know, when you blow bubbles) in a drawing at the Picfair Theater.  I won a set of lobby cards from Cruising (!) at some memorabilia show.  I won last year's Derby bet at the Pogues.

[vixmom]

When I was eight I won a jar of bubbles (what ARE those called - you know, when you blow bubbles) in a drawing at the Picfair Theater.  

Bubbles!

[vixmom]

I'm forever blowing bubbles......

[vixmom]

Pretty bubbles in the air.

[vixmom]

They fly so high
Nearly reach the sky,
Then like my dreams
They fade and die.

[vixmom]

Fortune's always hiding;
I've looked everywhere.
I'm forever blowing bubbles,
Pretty bubbles in the air.





Gosh!  Where did that come from?  I have no idea why I know that or where its from.........

[MBarnum]

I won a Cassette stereo at a Christmas Party

I won $70 at the Horse races.

I won a sparkling prize

I might win more things if I would just enter more contests.

[Matthew]

I've won a sparkling prize here, I've won a portable phone at the church Christmas Party - that's all.

[DERBRUCER]

I can't remember winning any prizes (except Anthony :-)

That doesn't mean the phone calls will stop. I voted for people who DIDN'T call me.

You are waging a losing battle.  The "smart money" has learned that aggressive phoning is one of the keys to election victories. If you want to use your vote as a protest against the phoners, you must NOT vote. The phone lists are usually strategized by folks like me and we usually only list likely (based on voting history) voters.

In the better GOTV (Get Out The Vote) operations I have run, I send runners to the polls every two hours and have them check off the names of the folks who have voted; then, I generate phone lists for the missing voters so our phoners can call them and remind them to vote (I even list the address of their polling place so the phoners can help them out!) - and, yes, it does help!

der Brucer

[Jrand73]

DR MBARNUM if you can win a contest without entering then you are really lucky!

[MBarnum]

Finally, I have been able to get my favorite radio station on my radio here in my cubicle. I had to place my radio in a very precarious position, but by golly I can now get 920 AM (which plays Music of Your Life) and that makes my day a happy one.

[Matthew]

It's a really drab day here in the SF Bay Area, one of those "feeling like doing nothing" days when you have TONS of stuff to do.  Very hard to be motivated.

[DERBRUCER]

...but what an excellent suggestion about voting for the ones who didn't call!  

But then you are most likely voting on the losing side!
If you really care about who represents you, but you want to avoid those pesky phone calls, volunteer to work on your favorite's campaign - if you're one the phoners you wont be home to answer

der ever-helpful Brucer

[Matthew]

I could sit here and futz around at the computer and listen to bk's music, the guy haines CD's and stuff like that and be rather contented today.

[Jennifer]

For DR RonP or any other cooking experts.

You were mentioning grilling pans a couple of weeks ago. Do you actually have one? And if so is it square or round?  And do you have the recipe you were talking about for steaks?

[Cillaliz]

Hi all,
I'm actually pretty lucky when it comes to winning things.  

I won a trip to San Diego (from Phoenix) in a contest where you had to sing different words to Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" from KSLX It was one of those contests in a bar -

I won $1000 raffle from the local Rotary and only bought one ticket. I actually heard the drawing live on the radio and before it was announced I  kept repeating my name over and over....when they said it I almost drove off the road!

Once a guy bought me a square in a super bowl pool for $10 and I won $600.  

I won an NCAA basletball pool where I put in $5 and won $535

Let's see, lots of little stuff, drawings that sort of thing. Tons of movie passes from trivia contests on the radio.

I did win most improved in a bowling league once, but when you're really bad, it isn't hard to be the most improved!

There are a lot more little things, but those are the highlights