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Posted on 07/06/2022 1:33:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Incorrect answers are fairly common on Jeopardy!, but viewers couldn’t get over a couple whoppers from Tuesday’s show. In fact, the opening round category “A Number Between 1 and 100” drove much of the fanbase to Twitter, where they commented on the shockingly incorrect response.
“Your standard phonograph record until the 1950s, or the age Diana Ross turned in 2022,” was the first clue to cause trouble. Contestant Jake Marvin wagered all his winnings on the Daily Double clue, but he may have lost more than money when he incorrectly guessed 90.
The 78-year-old singer has a very passionate fanbase, and they did not appreciate her being labeled a nonagenarian. During a Final Jeopardy! round in March, two contestants separately guessed that Diana Ross was 95 years old and fans were outraged. Unfortunately for Marvin, the Diana devotees have not forgotten that recent perceived transgression.
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“..had a record player way back when that had a 16 speed”
Yep, early 60s we had a pretty nice Zenith console radio & record player, it also had the 16 speed setting. It had a 78 speed setting also. There was a flip down door, the turntable sitting back inside the console. 78 records wouldn’t fit through the opening to the turntable, inspite of the 78 speed setting.
What host is that? I haven't watched since you know when.
Motown was/is great!
another nasty lib
White guy was supposed to be the host and the leftists went into a rage over it demanding a non-straight, white male host.
78.26 rpm to be more exact. I learned something today:
Earliest speeds of rotation varied widely, but by 1910 most records were recorded at about 78 to 80 rpm. In 1925, 78.26 rpm was chosen as a standard for motorized phonographs, because it was suitable for most existing records, and was easily achieved using a standard 3600-rpm motor and 46-tooth gear (78.26 = 3600/46). Thus these records became known as 78s (or “seventy-eights”). This term did not come into use until after World War II when a need developed to distinguish the 78 from other newer disc record formats.
https://web.library.yale.edu/cataloging/music/historyof78rpms
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Mayim Bialuk is the smartest host that show has had, and she is still settling into the role, and is doing a really good job IMHO.
Ken Jennings is unwatchable. He’s smug and annoying.
I heard 16 rpm was for transcription discs
Talking recordings
Speeds of tapes were almost always multiple related.
30 and 15 inches per second
Then 7 1/2, 3 3/4, 1 7/8 (cassette tape)
I think VCR VHS was weirdly 1 5/16 ips
I have to admit that I was in love with her also. But about 30 years ago I received a job to photograph Diana Ross. I was hired by a company that asked me to photograph other entertainers which I did too. I’m not gonna mention the entertainers or the company but part of the Diana Ross thing. I was not allowed to speak to her. I had to do all the conversing through her English security company. It left a really bad taste in my mouth about Diana Ross even till this very moment. She played the diva role to the hilt.
Yikes! What my photo showed was Diana above the b**bs and the tent. I guess I could still kiss Diana on the lips.
What was needed was one that played records backwards, so that you could make out the hidden messages. “Paul is dead”; “Smoke pot”; “Get a job.”
“Look, the contestant was a young man. I bet he had never heard of 78 rpm records.”
Record players had 78 and 16 rpm settings but I never saw a record that wasn’t 45 or 33.
“I had a record player way back when that had a 16 speed - never knew why it was on there.”
It was fun to play the records real slow.
And people could learn guitar parts easier playing the record slow.
But I assume there had been releases at 16 at one time.
I can imagine how these self-obsessed women feel after they age to fat, bags-under-the-eyes, messes. With Diana Ross’s case, as a photographer myself, I imagine her photos as well-cropped, photoshopped adjustments to hide her flaws—fake images by the fake industry.
Obama's first lady without makeup and soft lens filters:
My dear Aunt Ruth taught me two very important things when I was a teenager.
1 - When a woman asks you to guess her age the correct answer is always “26”.
2- When a woman asks you if her clothes make her look fat the answer is always “No”. If she tells to not to lie, go ahead and lie.
Following this advice will save you a lot of trouble.
From hard experience, I would agree.
When I was a teen, I bought a phonograph record of Danny Davis and the Nashville Brass. Went home and put it on the record player and was blown away by their playing. I had never heard anything like it. I thought, “These guys are the greatest ever!”
I played that album all the way thru before I realized I was playing a 33 1/3 album on 78 rpm…🤪
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