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Big Brother Rigged?
CBS Television | 8/26/04 | Me

Posted on 08/26/2004 8:34:35 PM PDT by Julliardsux

In tonight's head of household competition ("HOH"), the contestants were required to putt a golf ball up a ramp and into a hole. Once it went into the hole, it went down a tube.

Before the contest, the hostess made clear that the rule was that the first person who's ball reached the bottom of that tube won. Marvin hit his ball and it went into the hole; however, it bounced around a bit. At exactly the same time, Karen hit her ball in the hole; it rolled directly into the center of the cup after hitting the back of the putting surface.

Immediately the hostess declared Marvin the winner and he ended up winning the HOH competition overall. However, my wife and I both noticed that Karen's ball reached the bottom of the tube before Marvin's, because Marvin's spun around in the cup, whereas Karen's went right down.

Upon repeated review on TiVo, MARVIN'S BALL NEVER WENT TO THE BOTTOM OF THE TUBE. Karen's did, and therefore Marvin should not be head of household.

I think CBS knows this: The hostess sounded confused and halting when she was talking right after the competition - the way someone sounds when there are people screaming in her earpiece that something is wrong.


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Anyone else see this, or see anyone talking about it.
1 posted on 08/26/2004 8:34:35 PM PDT by Julliardsux
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To: Julliardsux

Sorry, I was busy not giving a rat's @ss about it.


2 posted on 08/26/2004 8:35:57 PM PDT by TheBigB (Sure wish -I- had one'a them anti-shrew barrels...)
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To: TheBigB

Well, it is all my wife and I have.


3 posted on 08/26/2004 8:36:32 PM PDT by Julliardsux
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To: Julliardsux

I do not care because Marvin is the only person I can stand outside of Nikoma. And he already told her she is safe because she had the "balls" to put the twins then her brother up.


4 posted on 08/26/2004 8:37:19 PM PDT by Paul8148
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To: Julliardsux

I watched it, but didn't notice the timing of Karen's ball. If i were to guess, I would say that it was a mistake and not an attempt to influence the game. Julie most likely called it for Marvin before she realized that the other ball landed first...

(god it feels strange to talk about Big Brother on FR...)


5 posted on 08/26/2004 8:38:17 PM PDT by Middle Aged White Male
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To: Julliardsux

6 posted on 08/26/2004 8:38:29 PM PDT by Hazzardgate
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To: Hazzardgate

Lockbox


7 posted on 08/26/2004 8:39:25 PM PDT by Julliardsux
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To: Julliardsux
I've always wondered who watches crap like this.

Never suspected some of them might be FReepers.

8 posted on 08/26/2004 8:44:30 PM PDT by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
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To: Hazzardgate

At least with Albacore and Central Bull Shit station you know what you are tuned into . As for Julliard ... It's just another school .


9 posted on 08/26/2004 8:45:15 PM PDT by Ben Bolt ( " The Spenders " ..)
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To: Hank Rearden

That's right. I do watch it. Though I think Amazing Race is better. I am not ashamed, though maybe I should be. I can tell by the underwhelming response to this post that no one here watches it. What kind of "crap" do you watch, Hank Rearden, when you're not making steel?


10 posted on 08/26/2004 8:47:58 PM PDT by Julliardsux
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To: Hank Rearden

Never suspected some of them might be FReepers.

It's that big tent gig Hank .


11 posted on 08/26/2004 8:48:37 PM PDT by Ben Bolt ( " The Spenders " ..)
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To: dorben
As for Ju[i]lliard ... It's just another school

What are you saying?

12 posted on 08/26/2004 8:51:38 PM PDT by Julliardsux
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To: Julliardsux

What are you saying?

I'm saying that you are bullshitting yourself and the public at largesse . Consider this your free bump .


13 posted on 08/26/2004 9:03:38 PM PDT by Ben Bolt ( " The Spenders " ..)
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To: Julliardsux

I blame Karl Rove.


14 posted on 08/26/2004 9:03:57 PM PDT by ScottFromSpokane (Re-elect President Bush: http://spokanegop.org/bush.html)
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To: dorben

Profound. But, I fear I am not bullshitting myself at all. I really must thank you, though, for lowering yourself enough to give me a "free bump."


15 posted on 08/26/2004 9:06:47 PM PDT by Julliardsux
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To: Julliardsux

I didn't watch it...I was on the phone with local talk radio trying to help win the election. But my fiance watches it and saw what you saw. Her take was not that it was rigged but that the hostessette is apparently a worthless incompetent. I don't know who it is, but my impression from her is that the hostessette is a reporter/talking head/can only read the telepromter incompetent who got the job because she is sleeping with a CBS bigwig.


16 posted on 08/26/2004 9:10:24 PM PDT by blanknoone (Republicans need to acknowledge that campaign finance reform failed and start setting up 527s.)
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To: Julliardsux

Profound. But, I fear I am not bullshitting myself at all. I really must thank you, though, for lowering yourself enough to give me a "free bump."

Now we might be getting down to the marrow . What was your expectation fron CBS ?


17 posted on 08/26/2004 9:14:02 PM PDT by Ben Bolt ( " The Spenders " ..)
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To: blanknoone

I get that impression as well.

As for winning the election, I live in Manhattan and am an attorney at a firm (pretty much the only conservative at the firm), so I've given up trying to win the election. Just gonna vote early and hard and pray for PA and OH. Good luck in your efforts.


18 posted on 08/26/2004 9:14:43 PM PDT by Julliardsux
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To: dorben

Oh, I most definitely prefer the bone.

I expected CBS to be at least a little better. After all, they have Andy Rooney and Bold and the Beautiful.


19 posted on 08/26/2004 9:18:33 PM PDT by Julliardsux
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To: Julliardsux

Thank God Marvin won HOH. He'll be doing me a favor if he puts up Diane and Karen. Don't care which one goes, as long as it's one of them! My favorites are Drew and Marvin. I used to like Nik until she became a hyocrite: carrying on about Adria's broken 'pinky swear' promise and then proceeds to break her promise with Cowboy by nominating him.


20 posted on 08/26/2004 9:23:28 PM PDT by dougherty (I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. - Michelangelo])
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