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Trinitty
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posted 15 April 2002 12:11 PM      Profile for Trinitty     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
http://makeashorterlink.com/?T691230B

I can't figure out who is being degraded more, the guy, or the 15 "bachelorettes" that he personally selected to "get to know better".

I saw an ad for it and thought it was a joke....

What do you all think?


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clersal
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posted 15 April 2002 12:25 PM      Profile for clersal     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Probably for real which is even more discaouraging.
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QuikSilver
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posted 15 April 2002 01:09 PM      Profile for QuikSilver     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
One vote for the guy looking more pathetic.

The ghastly, new brand of reality television, "The Glutton Bowl", "Fear Factor", "The Chamber" and all, is surely a sign of the apocolypse.


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MJ
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posted 15 April 2002 02:29 PM      Profile for MJ     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I thought you were making up the name "Glutton Bowl", and then I googled it...

quote:
Gastronomic Gold!

February 21, 2002
Tonight, the biggest and fastest "gastronomic athletes" from around the world are lining up for the most outrageous, gut-busting fest to hit the small screen -- "The Glutton Bowl: The World's Greatest Eating Competition."

In the first round, contestants will be judged on how fast they can down huge quantities of food --- bowls of mayonnaise, beef tongue, sticks of butter, and other edibles. Winners in each round earn a spot in the finals, which, as expected, is an all-out gorge-fest. The competition ends when only one pro glutton is left standing.



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Timebandit
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posted 15 April 2002 02:55 PM      Profile for Timebandit     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Isn't this just a more drawn-out version of Fox's "Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire"? It's in about as much good taste... Which would be NONE!!!!!!

Why is it we never see a show about 25 men pursuing one woman? Way to play up the competitive female thing. Ugh!


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Victor Von Mediaboy
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posted 15 April 2002 03:03 PM      Profile for Victor Von Mediaboy   Author's Homepage        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Why is it we never see a show about 25 men pursuing one woman?


Move to L.A. and develop it yourself.


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bittersweet
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posted 15 April 2002 07:17 PM      Profile for bittersweet     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
These pursuit shows used to be so discrete, even coy. Remember "The Dating Game"? Now it's just lock 'n load.
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Timebandit
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posted 15 April 2002 07:37 PM      Profile for Timebandit     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Move to L.A. and develop it yourself.

Thanks, but no. Not my style. I deal only in good ideas....


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melora
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posted 22 April 2002 04:12 PM      Profile for melora        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
The whole idea makes my skin crawl. These women are young enough to write the whole thing off as a youthful indiscretion, but I hope they burn with shame before they blur into their deserved obscurity.

Or perhaps there will be some celebrity sprinkled on the passed-over ("former finalist in The Bachelor!"). Or maybe one will kill herself, or shoot another contestant, or reveal herself as married already, or really gay, or having an child out of wedlock. Cynic that I am, I'm counting on the producers to have built that in.

M


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Rapunzel
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posted 22 April 2002 04:21 PM      Profile for Rapunzel     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
If there is a god, the winning batchorette will have a penis.
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Michelle
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posted 22 April 2002 06:24 PM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Now THAT will be funny. I wonder what they do to insure that this couldn't happen? Strip search the contestants...hee hee

quote:
I can't figure out who is being degraded more, the guy, or the 15 "bachelorettes" that he personally selected to "get to know better".

I'll give you a hint. It ain't the guy.

[ April 22, 2002: Message edited by: Michelle ]


From: I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell. | Registered: May 2001  |  IP: Logged
Timebandit
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posted 22 April 2002 06:56 PM      Profile for Timebandit     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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Now THAT will be funny. I wonder what they do to insure that this couldn't happen? Strip search the contestants...hee hee

Maybe they could borrow the "pierced chair" from the Vatican.... You know, after Pope Joan, they had to keep checking... (or is that a myth? I've always wondered...)

And yeah, it's definitely not the guy being degraded. Although it's amazing how willing people are to be degraded these days.


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Michelle
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posted 05 May 2002 11:23 AM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
A second shot at public ridicule

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Step right up, ladies, for a chance to join the harem, er, cast of The Bachelor II

This is a hilarious commentary article. He does a spoof of the application form for bachelorette-wannabes.


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