
Sick in bed with a cold waxing nostalgic about game shows gone by. I sure do miss going to my grammy's house, having chicken noodle soup, and taking my most important medication- one game show per half hour as needed. Reality TV just doesn't compare.
Looking back I realize that I manged to juggle a healthy amount of playing outside with A LOT of TV game shows. Sick days, which I unfortunately had a lot of growing up, included at different times: Let's make a deal, The Joker's Wild, The Price is Right, Press Your Luck, Concentration, Double Dare, and later on Remote Control.
I love TPIR so much that I actually flew to LA for only 1.5 days in July 2006 to attend a taping of the show. Sadly my destiny was thwarted (by my unwholsome looking tattoos) and I never made it on stage. I did get to ask Bob a question (what kind of dog do you have?) then promptly forgot his answer in my excitement. I also scored an aisle seat so I got to Hi-Five all the lucky dogs as they ran down to contestants row. You can see me jumping up and down a few times during the show. I have a copy of it if anyone ever wants to see my game show glory days.
Concentration was my other favourite and in retrospect I can see why; it actually had an educational component. Contestants had to solve rebus puzzles, which are a type of word puzzle. They use pictures to represent words and pictograms for syllabic sounds, which are combined with letters to form codes. Here's one I made, a free beer goes to the first person who solves it:

6 comments:
Gotses it.
more bike riding less sick!
beer me?
I recommend: fresh ginger tea and those wellness formula horse pills. Feel well soon, hope we weren't too hard on ya.
damn, too slow. Then again, I was at work, rather than solving the puzzle... Although your "Indian" kinda looks like me with long hair and sneakers behind my head. Get well. I agree, ginger+cayenne+smashed clove garlic+honey+lemon juice. Drink mixture and get improve health. Or I do have a bottle of Chinese cough syrup here somewheres, it gives wicked dreams.
1. every time i read stu's response I read "goatse'd". ewww. lol. You shoulda written the answer silly goose.
2. Looks like I owe Gabe a beer when he's next in Vancity. Thx for the herbal suggestions and well wishes.
3. If the herbals don't work I might hit you up caelan for the sketchy hallucinogenic Chinese tussin.
aww, poor sickie girl.
i am almost smart, i made: "more bike raboriging less stick." (i don't know what happened with stick, but i tried to use the word aboriginal instead of indian...)
xoxo
yer freaking awesome ariane. of course you'd try to use aboriginal...that's the geography in ya.
Post a Comment