imaginary friends to fill the void that is your gaping gash.

[Your Usual Sock]

This guy does a good blog of roasting NY Times wedding announcements. Love this one of an attorney in Florida Ric Feinberg. Anyone know the dude?
http://www.nytimesweddings.blogspot....ric-flair.html

[str8outavannuys]

I've got a Jeopardy audition in 7 weeks. I'm already good at trivia, my previous trivia-related national TV appearance notwithstanding. But I want to get really good. My one thought is to start TiVo-ing Jeopardy, since I'm guessing they reuse questions for the application test, and even without that it could still help. Anyone have suggestions on books to read? Trivia board games to play?

I'm not going to invest a ton of effort just to pass the audition process, but if I get on, I'm going to be willing to work very very hard to become a trivia machine. So ideas anyone???

[pony_trekker]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
I used to know someone who owned a Tickemaster franchise and while I used to get some of the best tickets available, I could never get the best tickets. She said this is because many many tickets are "held back" and are not offered for sale. The people who get these tickets are promoters, radio stations, businesses, etc.
How it works now is anyone's guess. Maybe these scalpers are greasing the ticket agents.

I bet they grease Delsner's hand and dick.

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by Your Usual Sock
This guy does a good blog of roasting NY Times wedding announcements. Love this one of an attorney in Florida Ric Feinberg. Anyone know the dude?
http://www.nytimesweddings.blogspot....ric-flair.html

My favorite quote from the Times:

In her zeal, she said, she failed to notice that the unusually boisterous audience was in formal wear and included her mother, Gloria Beauchamp, and Mr. Feinberg's father, Dr. Sidney Feinberg, who had brought along his Yorkie clad in a tiny tuxedo jacket.

[Bucco Bruce]

Originally posted by Your Usual Sock
This guy does a good blog of roasting NY Times wedding announcements. Love this one of an attorney in Florida Ric Feinberg. Anyone know the dude?
http://www.nytimesweddings.blogspot....ric-flair.html

No, although he is in my neck of the woods. Sadly, he sounds a lot like a guy I used to work for.

[lookingformarket]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys

I'm not going to invest a ton of effort just to pass the audition process, but if I get on, I'm going to be willing to work very very hard to become a trivia machine. So ideas anyone???

Familiarize yourself with the bible (there are cliff notes)
Look at a table of elements

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
I've got a Jeopardy audition in 7 weeks. I'm already good at trivia, my previous trivia-related national TV appearance notwithstanding. But I want to get really good. My one thought is to start TiVo-ing Jeopardy, since I'm guessing they reuse questions for the application test, and even without that it could still help. Anyone have suggestions on books to read? Trivia board games to play?

I'm not going to invest a ton of effort just to pass the audition process, but if I get on, I'm going to be willing to work very very hard to become a trivia machine. So ideas anyone???

I auditioned a couple of years ago at a local tryout. The questions are waaaaaay harder than the ones on the show, so all that show watching I did didn't really pay off.

I doubt there's really anything you can do to prepare. It'll either be your day or it won't.

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
I've got a Jeopardy audition in 7 weeks. I'm already good at trivia, my previous trivia-related national TV appearance notwithstanding. But I want to get really good. My one thought is to start TiVo-ing Jeopardy, since I'm guessing they reuse questions for the application test, and even without that it could still help. Anyone have suggestions on books to read? Trivia board games to play?

I'm not going to invest a ton of effort just to pass the audition process, but if I get on, I'm going to be willing to work very very hard to become a trivia machine. So ideas anyone???

Know all foods that start with the letter "Q".

[andViolins]

Adding:



To this freakshow is going to be way more entertaining than:



was to the OJ trial.

aV

[Mister_Ruysbroeck]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
whiff.

I don't think that word means anything anymore.

(had to post b/c of the re: line)

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
I've got a Jeopardy audition in 7 weeks. I'm already good at trivia, my previous trivia-related national TV appearance notwithstanding. But I want to get really good. My one thought is to start TiVo-ing Jeopardy, since I'm guessing they reuse questions for the application test, and even without that it could still help. Anyone have suggestions on books to read? Trivia board games to play?

I'm not going to invest a ton of effort just to pass the audition process, but if I get on, I'm going to be willing to work very very hard to become a trivia machine. So ideas anyone???

Make sure you can name three people who have never been in your kitchen.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
I auditioned a couple of years ago at a local tryout. The questions are waaaaaay harder than the ones on the show, so all that show watching I did didn't really pay off.

I doubt there's really anything you can do to prepare. It'll either be your day or it won't.

2.

Str8, There are 50 questions and you need to get 35 correct. They are all $1000-type difficulty, and you can't hit a run on 1 catagory- there are about 40 different catagories. I don't think you can really study for it.

I did a Detroit local test a few years ago, passed the test and never got called for the show.

For me 2 of the first 3 questions went to People Magazine level country music. Randy Travis and that other guy level knowledge. I didn't know that crap at all and had to guess. I was scared at that point, but then it got more general. I guess it might help to be familar with People celeb knowledge- maybe skim through some issues from the last year.

Here's the best advice- if you pass (about 10% of the test takers) you play a fake few questions. It doesn't matter if you get them correct, they're looking for how you would look on camera.

Advice- DO NOT TRY AND "STAND OUT"- if you get this far there is a pretty good chance you'll get on. I think I fucked up here.

You get up and do a short bio and then answer "What would you do with the money if you won?"

Half these idiots were saying "I'd quit my job and start a company." This was pissing me off because you win $40K tops- what kind of company were they going to start? (Hot dog stand?)

How the fuck were they going to quit their job?

When I got up I said "I will cure world hunger," you know, to show I'm smarter than the rest of that mess, stand out, etc.

Everyone laughed, and it was even on the local news. But most of the others got on the show and I didn't- I blame the loose cannon smart assed answer- I meant to sound smart, not smart assed.

PS I remember a thread a year ago where 4 or 5 posters here claimed they have been on- maybe you'll get PMs.

[pony_trekker]

Originally posted by str8outavannuys
So ideas anyone???

Offer to blow Alex Trebek.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski

Half these idiots were saying "I'd quit my job and start a company." This was pissing me off because you win $40K tops- what kind of company were they going to start? (Hot dog stand?)

Perhaps a deli or bagel shop. Or perhaps General Motors. Hank, have you no faith in American creativity?

You can start a small business with $30k. You'd probably have to keep your day job, but it's been done thousands of times. I'm pretty sure my mom opened a restaurant for about that amount.

Lawyers always will be too risk averse.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Perhaps a deli or bagel shop. Or perhaps General Motors. Hank, have you no faith in American creativity?

You can start a small business with $30k. You'd probably have to keep your day job, but it's been done thousands of times. I'm pretty sure my mom opened a restaurant for about that amount.

Lawyers always will be too risk averse.

The people tended to be professionals so I assumed they had an expected income level.

And at about that time I had started a firm with a few others. We didn't make anything for a long while. You have to be able to live through that time, plus invest in whatever you need for the company. If you have employees they will expect to be paid while you still are not. Starting a small law firm we spent 300K before we saw our first dime back.

I don't know when your mom started her restaurant and don't know if dad kept working, but 30K wouldn't get you too far today.