On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 23:00:17 GMT, "Brian Smith"
<dcg_brian@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> offered us these thoughts:
><Chaldean> wrote in message
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>> On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 02:51:53 -0700, "alooo" <uh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> offered us
>> these thoughts:
>>
>>>There's been a lot of discussion comparing the GP question with last
>>>season's teacup question and I think I'm seeing a pattern here so let
me
>>>ask
>>>something: is there anybody here who takes issues with the validity of
one
>>>of those answers but not the other?
>>
>> I believe you already know, I found the teacup question fine, but feel
>> the GP question is, at the very kindest, a cheap shot.
>
>Even if you found the teacup question fine it still sucks that the DR
helped
>Jen out on that question. She's essentially admitted that was the case
and
>it kept her in the game a lot longer than she deserved to be. Without
help
>she more than likely would have put down a much larger number and Dustin
>probably would have won or whom ever had the next lowest amount written
>down.
>
>I will give BB credit for at least telling us the correct answer based on
>their definition of the teacup. After that competition and a lot of
>disbelief, Joe went and took water from the pool and the bottom of the
>teacup did indeed hold 9 gallons.
>
>Brian
Helping out a *single* contestant with a question is a whole other
matter than whether or not the question itself is legitimate. I can
think of no conditions under which such assistance could be kosher.
The evidence for or against such contest-tampering apparently is not
very definitive. If it was, there would be no controversy about the
matter -- as there is year in and year out. <s>
But the fact that BB's answer to its teacup question was right doesn't
surprise me in the least -- with or without non-kosher tampering. When
something can be established as a fact, or not, with the evidence
easily going out to the world at large, would anyone dumb enough to
give out a wrong answer last long enough at CBS to get that answer
live to Julie? And could I put it in a more clumsy way? <s>
--
Bob
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