>>>>Now that you've brought it up, how on earth did that show ever manage to find an audience? Wasn't that on for 2 or 3 years? To borrow a phrase from Kevin, "Dumber than a bag of hammers."
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>>>I have 4 words for you - "Deal? or no deal?"
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>>Yeah, talk about stupid, not to mention, the world's most annoying host.
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>You have DOND over there too. I assumed it was only British, but America (the continent) seems to be buyiing more and more of ours. But you haven't got the most annoying host, unless it IS our anal sphincter-twisting Noel Edmunds over ther too.

You ain't seen nothin' until you've seen Howie Mandel as host (a Canadian I'm loath to admit). The only thing possibly worse, is to see him do his stand-up comedy routines.

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>>>And tonight "Friday Night Bingo" ( i swear to god )
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>>Seriously? Televised Bingo?
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>>There is a game called Shogi (Japanese Chess) that is or at least used to be televised in Japan. Apparently it had a big following too. A shogi game can take a day or two to play. I saw a picture of the set. The players were facing each other over the board, but both were looking down concentrating on the board. behind them (actually beside it you want to be technical about it) there was a long desk with three, count 'em, three commentators. Certainly looked exciting to me.
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>>I used to get a newsletter on shogi, and in one there was an add for a yearbook. It had all the year's stats and many of the games and tournaments, and, are you ready for this, (direct quote) "pictures of the players in action!" Man, I couldn't get out my chequebook fast enough.
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>>>Mark my words, this fall, for those who find all that Waaaaay too complicated we will see "Heads or tails?"
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>>Can I get a schedule?
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>>>And Arrested Development was canceled.
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>>>It is the reason I am never dismayed about low voter turnout.
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>>>>Now that you've brought it up, how on earth did that show ever manage to find an audience? Wasn't that on for 2 or 3 years? To borrow a phrase from Kevin, "Dumber than a bag of hammers."
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>>>>>They're saving that revelation for The Simple Life :o)
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>>>>>>>>>I don't particularly like to drink, but I would be willing to get drunk and drive if it would mean getting confined to Paris Hilton's West Hollywood home for 40 days. I might even take a swing at the judge if it would get the sentence extended to 20 years or so.
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>>>>>>>>>I really did not think there was a chance that even a political hack like Sheriff Lee Baca would do something this transparently stupid. Ranks right up there with the Clinton pardon of Mark Rich as symbolic of everything everyone suspects anyway.
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>>>>>>>>Hey, c'mon. Appears it was time well spent.
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>>>>>>>>Hilton's lawyer, Richard A. Hutton, said Monday after his client's first night in jail that she was doing well under the circumstances. "She's using this time to reflect on her life, to see what she can do to make the world better and hopefully, in my opinion, to change the attitudes that exist about her among many people," Hutton said after visiting his client.
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>>>>>>>>See? She's going to make the world better now. How many people are willing to do that (not counting Miss America contestants).
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>>>>>>>Yeah, she came out talking of how much it's changed her and made her a "stronger" person. Funny how celebs always come out of predicaments a "straaanger prrrrson"
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>>>>>>I'm a little surprised actually, that she didn't 'find God' during her interminable confinement.
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>>>>>>>Anyway, watch this space cos 1st I heard this am there's been some sort of appeal against this leniency.