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Originally Posted by getbak
I would be in favour of shortening the AK time as the draft moves along. I would shorten it initially to 12 hours just because it makes the math easier: If the last in-turn pick was at 4:30pm, you know the next AKing will be at 4:30am, and the next at 4:30pm, and so on.
I would keep it at that point until the holidays are over (January 5, let's say), then shorten it even more to 6 hours. At this point, you really can't complain if someone picks a show that you wanted because if you wanted it badly enough, you would have already picked it. But, I don't know, 6 hours might be too short.
6 hours would be too short. I'd hate to be the one picking at say 4 in the morning.
I could go for 12 hours though.
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Maybe instead of PMing your next pick just to GirlySports (who has her own life as well), we should also PM it to the person who picks after you in the draft since that's really the only person you're holding up. That way, if the person after you is waiting to pick, they can post your pick, then their own. If they're not waiting, you're absence isn't holding anyone else up.
I like that idea! Give this man a red square! Oops we don't do that anymore
I'll be in Hawaii from the 13th to the 21 of January and could PM a couple of picks to HD that i knew he would be picking
If someone makes a pick at midnight how the heck can you make a pick by 6am? Since you suggested it getbak, you know you will be the first victim
Oh, I know. That's as close to a guarantee as possible.
There were a few times in the movie draft where I would have been AKed by a 6 hour rule, and probably here too. Personally, I wouldn't have a problem with midnight-6, but 10am-4pm during the work day would be tough.
I do think that 6 hours would probably be too short. 10-12 hours is probably the shortest you'd want to go, and I'd prefer 12 just to make the math easier. I watch tv so I don't have to think.
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Team TV Guide calls to the podium a true classic of the small screen - a show that is still watched all over the world in syndication today - from the pre-1980's category, I Love Lucy.
I Love Lucy was the most-watched show in the United States in four of its six seasons, and was the first to end its run at the top of the ratings (to be matched only by The Andy Griffith Show and Seinfeld), although it did not have a formal series finale episode. I Love Lucy is still syndicated in dozens of languages across the world.
The show won five Emmy Awards and received numerous nominations. In 2002, it was ranked second on TV Guide's top-50 greatest shows, behind Seinfeld and ahead of The Honeymooners[1]. In 2007, it was placed on Time magazine's unranked list of the 100 best TV shows.[2] The same year, the Washington Post named it the second best TV rerun, attesting to its longevity and sustained popularity.[3]
8 rounds in, that has to be considered a steal Jerzee Girl. Well done!
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^^Well, it all comes down to preference. I don't hate I Love Lucy, but wasn't ever really a fan, after seeing some episodes. Not meaning to bag on that choice or anything, but like I said preference.
I'm not feeling too hot today, so I'll fill in more someday.
Also, IMDB places it under the Crime Mystery Drama genres.
Anyone who has seen this series knows it's about a Coroner/Medical Examiner, so just try to argue with me!
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Eberle said, "It was one of the more special ones I've had. You don't score your first NHL goal too many times."
Paul Benedict, The Jefferson's Mr. Bentley, deat at 70.
__________________ I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love." - John Steinbeck
In the eighth round the Infomercial Kings are happy to select in the Sitcom Category, Two and a Half Men.
I was not a fan of the this show when it first came out but I started watching it a couple of seasons in and loved it.
The Harper brothers Charlie and Alan are almost opposites but form a great team. After years they had little in common except their dislike for their mundane, maternally cold but domineering mother Evelyn, Allan, a compulsively neat chiropractor and control-freak, is thrown out by his manipulative wife Judith who nevertheless gets him to pay for everything and do most jobs in the house. Charlie, a freelance jingle composer in a luxurious beach-house and irresistible Casanova who rarely gets up before brunch around noon, puts him up 'temporarily' with his son Jake, a lazy fat school kid who shuttles between his parents. This starts off the sitcom around their conflicting lifestyles, such as how to raise the boy (who now has an efficient, caring dad for the boring stuff while having a ball with his fun-loving sugar uncle who teaches him boyish things), be moralistic or have fun, a stickler or popular, what's a 'white' lie... Other fairly regular characters include Charlie's fat cleaning lady Bertha and his rich, obsessively infatuated neighbor-girl Rose who often sneaks in.
Women are like cupcakes
Trivia
A great deal of the humor on the show comes from the real-life experiences of creator, Chuck Lorre. In a now-famous "Entertainment Weekly" interview, Holland Taylor said that Lorre was using the memories of his own less-than-great relationship with his mother for the story lines involving Evelyn, Charlie and Alan. It is a common misconception that the show is based on Sheen's life as it was reported in many tabloids shortly after pilot was aired. Charlie Sheen also said that it was "no accident...that Chuck finally decided to do a show about men. I'll leave it at that."
In all but two episodes, the title of the episode is a quote from the show. The exceptions are the pilot and another episode where the quote in question was part of a deleted scene. (See: List of Two and a Half Men episodes)
The show is also filmed on the '70s sitcom "Laverne and Shirley" set, after the Laverne and Shirley characters moved to California. The only major changes in the set are a small hallway at the base of the stairs and the kitchen is slightly larger.
According to the Season One DVD commentary, Lorre had to overcome network executives in order to cast Cryer as Alan. Lorre explained that while Cryer auditioned well for the character, the network was reluctant to sign him.
Oh man, another sitcom off the top of my list. Should've known picking Solitary this early would be my downfall.
Great pick btw. I love the show. Very funny.
__________________ I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love." - John Steinbeck
For my next pick, Frozen TV Dinner is very happy to select, in the Education/Information category, the children's tv classic, Sesame Street.
Debuting in November of 1969, Sesame Street was created as a way to give poor, inner-city preschoolers an educational foundation that they typically didn't receive in the home. This lack of foundation often left them behind their middle-class, suburban counterparts when they started school. By combining education with entertainment, Sesame Street was designed to be a show that would appeal to viewers of all ages, encouraging parents and older siblings to watch the show alongside the preschool target audience.
Sesame Street has been exported to air in more than 120 countries, with local versions (including Canada's Sesame Park) being produced in 25 nations. The show has received more than 100 Emmy awards (more than any other television series). A 1996 survey found that 95% of American preschoolers have watched the show by the time they are three years old.
As a child of the 70s, this is the intro I remember watching...
To this day, I cannot count to 12 without singing this tune...
Throughout the years, Sesame Street has frequently had guest appearances by musical acts doing educational parodies of their own songs (such as Trooper's "Raise a Little Hell" becoming "Raise the Letter L").
Here's Feist, doing 1-2-3-4...
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Awesome pick getbak - the grand dame of children's programming that really treated children as intelligent people capable of learning while entertained. The Biography special on Sesame Street was awesome - especially when you see how much effort goes into planning every minute that hits the air.
Great pick getbak. Can I be three again? Good times.
__________________ I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love." - John Steinbeck
__________________ I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love." - John Steinbeck
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