Rembrandt season!opusthepenguin wrote: ↑Wed Feb 27, 2019 2:51 amDutch season!
Dutch season!
BANG!
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Rembrandt season!opusthepenguin wrote: ↑Wed Feb 27, 2019 2:51 amDutch season!
That's 51 days more than I want to work at his age .This Is Kirk! wrote: ↑Wed Feb 27, 2019 11:29 amYeah, it must be nice! See also Alex Trebek. He must have one of the world's greatest jobs. I wonder how many total days he needs to show up at the studio. Somewhere around 50?Fleeboy wrote: ↑Wed Feb 27, 2019 10:55 am Barring an unforeseen collapse by Team Ken, we're looking at yet another title match involving J!'s resident multi-millionaires. Must be nice to get a call from TPTB every few years to the effect of, "hey, can you come back to Culver City so we can hand you another small fortune?"
Hero!chmmr wrote: ↑Wed Feb 27, 2019 6:21 amMatt is planning to stage a Russian coup in the future. Nobody can know.seaborgium wrote: ↑Wed Feb 27, 2019 2:56 am I heard that Matt shut down Alex in the interview segment, which had to be edited out. Like, "I'm not answering that. Ask me another question." He stood his ground about something he didn't prefer to discuss (I understand it was Alex just going off the cuff and asking him something about plans for the future, which I guess he isn't interested in putting on national TV) until Alex had to relent. Which is kind of badass.
True, but I think I'd be willing to keep working that schedule if I was making the kind of money Alex is!twelvefootboy wrote: ↑Wed Feb 27, 2019 2:07 pmThat's 51 days more than I want to work at his age .This Is Kirk! wrote: ↑Wed Feb 27, 2019 11:29 amYeah, it must be nice! See also Alex Trebek. He must have one of the world's greatest jobs. I wonder how many total days he needs to show up at the studio. Somewhere around 50?Fleeboy wrote: ↑Wed Feb 27, 2019 10:55 am Barring an unforeseen collapse by Team Ken, we're looking at yet another title match involving J!'s resident multi-millionaires. Must be nice to get a call from TPTB every few years to the effect of, "hey, can you come back to Culver City so we can hand you another small fortune?"
Preach! And I agree. At a minimum it's time to double the amounts for second and third.My only problem with the distribution of wealth is the way the show stiffs second and third place contestants 10 times a week.
it is a paltry sum for sure...after taxes the non winners basically lose money when you include expensestwelvefootboy wrote: ↑Wed Feb 27, 2019 2:07 pmThat's 51 days more than I want to work at his age .This Is Kirk! wrote: ↑Wed Feb 27, 2019 11:29 amYeah, it must be nice! See also Alex Trebek. He must have one of the world's greatest jobs. I wonder how many total days he needs to show up at the studio. Somewhere around 50?Fleeboy wrote: ↑Wed Feb 27, 2019 10:55 am Barring an unforeseen collapse by Team Ken, we're looking at yet another title match involving J!'s resident multi-millionaires. Must be nice to get a call from TPTB every few years to the effect of, "hey, can you come back to Culver City so we can hand you another small fortune?"
My only problem with the distribution of wealth is the way the show stiffs second and third place contestants 10 times a week. It's a reasonable meritocracy otherwise, and like our dysfunctional economy, the deck is stacked for the top 0.1%.
Like Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, and Nicklaus, Palmer, and Trevino before them, we will see more of them, not less.
TPTB - PAY YOUR CONTESTANT'S EXPENSES DAMMIT!!!
Or you've just known him as Rembrandt and never knew that there was more to his name.BigDaddyMatty wrote: ↑Wed Feb 27, 2019 7:53 pm Great performance by Matt. Surprising FJ! miss by Julia. I love FJ!'s like this one, where you end up learning something that was hiding in plain sight all your life. Let's see...Northern European artists known almost exclusively by their first names...well, there's Rembrandt van Rijn. Oh, hey! van Rijn. As in, the Rhine. Well, whaddya know.
230 episodes a season / 5 episodes a day = 46 daysThis Is Kirk! wrote: ↑Wed Feb 27, 2019 11:29 amYeah, it must be nice! See also Alex Trebek. He must have one of the world's greatest jobs. I wonder how many total days he needs to show up at the studio. Somewhere around 50?Fleeboy wrote: ↑Wed Feb 27, 2019 10:55 am Barring an unforeseen collapse by Team Ken, we're looking at yet another title match involving J!'s resident multi-millionaires. Must be nice to get a call from TPTB every few years to the effect of, "hey, can you come back to Culver City so we can hand you another small fortune?"
Yeah, I figured throw in a couple more for doing promos, recording the questions for the test, etc.teapot37 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 27, 2019 10:06 pm230 episodes a season / 5 episodes a day = 46 daysThis Is Kirk! wrote: ↑Wed Feb 27, 2019 11:29 amYeah, it must be nice! See also Alex Trebek. He must have one of the world's greatest jobs. I wonder how many total days he needs to show up at the studio. Somewhere around 50?Fleeboy wrote: ↑Wed Feb 27, 2019 10:55 am Barring an unforeseen collapse by Team Ken, we're looking at yet another title match involving J!'s resident multi-millionaires. Must be nice to get a call from TPTB every few years to the effect of, "hey, can you come back to Culver City so we can hand you another small fortune?"
(That obviously doesn't count his work as an executive producer, only as a host.)
Just because it was commonplace doesn't make it right.floridagator wrote: ↑Wed Feb 27, 2019 11:10 pmNo misogyny. From about the 20th of January in 1998 when the story broke until after her interview with Barbara Walters in the spring of 1999, there was no hour of late night TV without at least one Monica joke. It got richer and more detailed after the Starr report came out.
Clinton and Lewinsky reaped what they sowed.
I'm curious to know what you think they "sowed," exactly? Two adults had a consensual relationship. On first look, Bill was answerable to Hillary and no one else for it, and Monica wasn't answerable to anyone at all. If anyone is wrong in a manner that extends beyond preexisting personal commitments it's Bill because of the power dynamic, but that's it. Certainly there was no wrongdoing on Monica's part, and to insult her for being the innocent party in inappropriate behavior by her boss if not for exercising her sexual autonomy and independence as she's entitled to, is, yes, misogyny.floridagator wrote: ↑Wed Feb 27, 2019 11:10 pmNo misogyny. From about the 20th of January in 1998 when the story broke until after her interview with Barbara Walters in the spring of 1999, there was no hour of late night TV without at least one Monica joke. It got richer and more detailed after the Starr report came out.
Clinton and Lewinsky reaped what they sowed.
And to her everlasting credit, she knows it. Remember how all over the place she was for a while in the 80's? On magazine covers from Ladies' Home Journal to Playboy, one of People's 25 Most Intriguing People of 1986, on bus sides and billboards as all America wondered "what will Vanna wear tonight?". Through it all, she kept her day job and head on straight. When she told an infotainment anchor "all this recognition just for turning letters; I don't understand it", I remember sensing that she truly honestly felt that way. And lo these many years later, still a fixture in all our lives.
Why not delete Floridagator entirely? Cut off the nonsense at the sourceopusthepenguin wrote: ↑Thu Feb 28, 2019 1:29 am Can a moderator please delete the political nonsense from this thread and then delete this post as well? Thank you.
Nor does it make it appropriate here. That's enough. Anything after this post on the topic will be deleted.Volante wrote: ↑Wed Feb 27, 2019 11:30 pmJust because it was commonplace doesn't make it right.floridagator wrote: ↑Wed Feb 27, 2019 11:10 pmNo misogyny. From about the 20th of January in 1998 when the story broke until after her interview with Barbara Walters in the spring of 1999, there was no hour of late night TV without at least one Monica joke. It got richer and more detailed after the Starr report came out.
Clinton and Lewinsky reaped what they sowed.
But can you imagine the crushing anxiety, going to bed every night wondering if the next day will be the one the show producers finally realize your job is completely unnecessary?