DC Tom Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 15 minutes ago, row_33 said: everything on TV has always been scripted, they can't afford to risk nothing happening, the usual result without it scripted one writer's mother back in the day wouldn't talk to him for a year when he told her he wrote every word that Kitty Carlisle's pretended was witty ad hoc stuff on What's My Line way way back, and nothing has changed since then I've seen them live. They're prepared, but it's not scripted. And when they tape the TV show, they're pulling about 90 minutes of material for three shows out of a 3-hour performance. They can risk nothing happening, because it's not live - they throw out a lot, and they have a director and censor providing constraints. It's not scripted, it truly is ad-libbed...but the context of the ad-libbing is much narrower than people realize. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian Bills Fan Posted February 23, 2018 Author Share Posted February 23, 2018 TIL Cap’n Crunch once gave a free prize whistle that blew a 2600 Hz tone - so if you dialed a long distance phone number and blew the whistle, it gave you free long distance calls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
row_33 Posted February 23, 2018 Share Posted February 23, 2018 2 hours ago, Canadian Bills Fan said: TIL Cap’n Crunch once gave a free prize whistle that blew a 2600 Hz tone - so if you dialed a long distance phone number and blew the whistle, it gave you free long distance calls. c'mon... that's like the kid who filled out a Popsicle Pete contest wrapper with a fake name and address in 1958 and 10 years later the FBI and Draft Board were at the house looking for him for Nam... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Jack Posted February 23, 2018 Share Posted February 23, 2018 20 hours ago, DC Tom said: I've seen them live. They're prepared, but it's not scripted. And when they tape the TV show, they're pulling about 90 minutes of material for three shows out of a 3-hour performance. They can risk nothing happening, because it's not live - they throw out a lot, and they have a director and censor providing constraints. It's not scripted, it truly is ad-libbed...but the context of the ad-libbing is much narrower than people realize. Like how Saturday Night Live does a two hour rehearsal before the show with a different audience, to see what jokes/skits work and what doesn't, for the later live show that night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saxum Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 On 2/23/2018 at 8:52 AM, Canadian Bills Fan said: TIL Cap’n Crunch once gave a free prize whistle that blew a 2600 Hz tone - so if you dialed a long distance phone number and blew the whistle, it gave you free long distance calls. In college they were going pay phone (remember those items?) to pay phone replacing plates and raising the rates on phones at same time. I figured out how plate was connected, removed new one and placed it on old phone putting the old phone plate on new one. I had a cheap pay phone as long as I was in college. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
row_33 Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 22 hours ago, Just Jack said: Like how Saturday Night Live does a two hour rehearsal before the show with a different audience, to see what jokes/skits work and what doesn't, for the later live show that night. They edit and remove goofs for the west coast and reruns Ms Jones frequently biffs her lines on the live shows even after years on SNL and they edit for her Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 TIL there's a Dr Gay Hitler in Ohio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian Bills Fan Posted February 26, 2018 Author Share Posted February 26, 2018 TIL The Cult Awareness Network (CAN), once a leading anti-cult hotline, is now owned by the Church of Scientology. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian Bills Fan Posted February 27, 2018 Author Share Posted February 27, 2018 TIL: In Canada it is illegal to pretend to practice witchcraft. However, completely legal to practice witchcraft. Oh Canada! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
row_33 Posted February 27, 2018 Share Posted February 27, 2018 33 minutes ago, Canadian Bills Fan said: TIL: In Canada it is illegal to pretend to practice witchcraft. However, completely legal to practice witchcraft. Oh Canada! that would be fraud, and you'd be ticking off a lot of people who you don't want to tick off if exposed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian Bills Fan Posted February 28, 2018 Author Share Posted February 28, 2018 TIL in 2012, a man sued PepsiCo arguing that he had found a dead mouse in his Mt. Dew. Thus, PepsiCo had to prove and found that a mouse would "have dissolved into a "jelly-like" substance after 30 days" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian Bills Fan Posted March 1, 2018 Author Share Posted March 1, 2018 TIL the Challenger crew, most if not all, were probably alive until impact with the ocean. A lead NASA investigator said of the commanding pilot, "Scob fought for any and every edge to survive. He flew that ship without wings all the way down." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
row_33 Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 43 minutes ago, Canadian Bills Fan said: TIL the Challenger crew, most if not all, were probably alive until impact with the ocean. A lead NASA investigator said of the commanding pilot, "Scob fought for any and every edge to survive. He flew that ship without wings all the way down." okay.... alive as in not dead yet but totally along for the ride... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian Bills Fan Posted March 2, 2018 Author Share Posted March 2, 2018 TIL in 1967 a man appeared on Jeopardy! intending to win just enough money to buy an engagement ring. He won that amount halfway through and kept his mouth shut from there on. To prevent a recurrence, the rules were changed shortly thereafter, allowing only the winner to keep all his/her winnings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
row_33 Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 last night's champ botched the final jeopardy wager resulting in a tie sudden death question is the way they resolve it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian Bills Fan Posted March 5, 2018 Author Share Posted March 5, 2018 TIL Nintendo will not allow the creator of Super Mario to bike to work because they consider his safety to be too important Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlimShady'sSpaceForce Posted March 5, 2018 Share Posted March 5, 2018 6 hours ago, Canadian Bills Fan said: TIL Nintendo will not allow the creator of Super Mario to bike to work because they consider his safety to be too important Sounds like a raise is in order or a car/driver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadian Bills Fan Posted March 6, 2018 Author Share Posted March 6, 2018 TIL that if you own a Rolls Royce, you can send your chauffeur to the Rolls Royce headquarters in Goodwood, England to be trained to drive a Rolls Royce under the "White Glove" driver training program TIL an endangered parrot in New Zealand would only mate with people's heads, so they made an ejaculation helmet for people to wear, the parrot to **** and the helmet to collect the rare semen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
row_33 Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 Come spew emit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augie Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 59 minutes ago, Canadian Bills Fan said: TIL an endangered parrot in New Zealand would only mate with people's heads, so they made an ejaculation helmet for people to wear, the parrot to **** and the helmet to collect the rare semen. Umm, how exactly did they learn that??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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