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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 28 2008, 06:24 PM (243 Views) | |
| Luke's Dad | Apr 28 2008, 06:24 PM Post #1 |
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Emperor Pengin
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So, the family sits down to watch the Star Wars version of Deal or No Deal. I tell M&M's that if I was on that show, the briefcase I would pick would be 4, since it's a Star Wars episode, and Episode IV was A New Hope. I also told her the one briefcase I would leave to the end would be 5, as Episode V was The Empire Strikes Back. As it turned out, those two briefcases contained 750k and the million, respectively. If I had been on the show tonight, we would have won at least 900k, maybe 1.1 million because it was a winner take all episode. Now, M&M's is giving me dirty looks, and occasionally yelling that if I would ever try out for these damn shows like she's asked me to do... Then she just quiets down and gives me dirty looks. So, how do I get out of this? :lol: |
| The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it. | |
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| Red Rice | Apr 28 2008, 06:34 PM Post #2 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Obviously, try out for one of these damn shows. |
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Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool. I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss! - Cecil Lewis | |
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| pianojerome | Apr 28 2008, 06:53 PM Post #3 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Oh, and you better win it, too. That would be a completely different argument, if you got on the show and lost. |
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| M&M's | Apr 28 2008, 07:19 PM Post #4 |
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Fulla-Carp
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We would be freaking millionaires by now. AHHHHHH!!!! Seriously, LD usually guesses pretty good on these shows so he should definitly try out. I mean we would be freaking millionaires right now. AHHHHHHH!
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| My child shows GOOD CHARACTERIZATION in an ongoing game of D&D | |
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| Kincaid | Apr 28 2008, 09:09 PM Post #5 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Only total goofballs are selected for that show. That is why I do not watch any longer. I can't live vicariously knowing that someone as average as me would never be selected as a candidate. |
| Kincaid - disgusted Republican Partisan since 2006. | |
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| DivaDeb | Apr 28 2008, 09:25 PM Post #6 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Hey, I have a friend who's a successful attorney in NYC, has a fine and noteworthy family, has had many fine accomplishments, as do his children...and his favorite claim to fame is none of that, but the fact that he won $53,801 during the eighth season of Jeopardy. Do it! |
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| Mikhailoh | Apr 29 2008, 02:46 AM Post #7 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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I'd do Jeopardy or Millionaire. But not the others. LD - things are OK. If you got on the show and missed it - it is on thing to guess in your living room, quite another in the glare and hubub of the studio - you'd be doomed. She could, and probably would, lord it over you forever. That way lies madness. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| JBryan | Apr 29 2008, 04:08 AM Post #8 |
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I am the grey one
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I have been told by several family members that they would like to use me as a lifeline if they ever get on Millionaire. I have told them to expect to be put on hold. |
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"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it". Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody. Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore. From The Lion in Winter. | |
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| QuirtEvans | Apr 29 2008, 04:19 AM Post #9 |
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I Owe It All To John D'Oh
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Let me get this straight. You're married, and you're asking:
You don't. You never do. It doesn't matter what the subject is, it doesn't matter whether you're trying to say 1+1=2 and she's disagreeing. You're not going to win. And even if you win, you lose. I'm surprised I have to tell you this. |
| It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010. | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Apr 29 2008, 05:09 AM Post #10 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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They say if you're married, you have a choice. You can be right, or you can be happy. Can't have both. |
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