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Tishala
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08-01-2000
| Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 10:25 am
Trumped: The Donald in a dizzying fall 'Apprentice' debut finishes fourth in timeslot link During last week’s round of sniping with fellow “Apprentice” host Martha Stewart, Donald Trump called his version of “The Apprentice” TV’s No. 1 show. When Trump is wrong, he is wrong in a big way. The show isn’t even No. 1 in its new Monday timeslot. Last night’s season premiere was No. 4. The premiere of season five of NBC’s “Apprentice” averaged a 4.0 overnight rating during the 9 p.m. hour among viewers 18-49 last night, finishing behind ABC’s “The Bachelor,” CBS’s sitcoms and Fox’s “24.” karma, baby
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 11:01 am
I was wondering this morning why Las Vegas was moved to Friday nights (although it's not quite the TV Siberia it used to be) and Trump was moved to Mondays. Is NBC and/or Trump tired of trying to compete against Survivor? Whatever the reason, it just kinda makes me curious. I've not yet watched last night's show. I've found that each season I become less invested in this show. I used to love to watch it, but it DOES seem to be more of the same. Sometimes more of one thing than another, but still, the same. And yes, I, too, have wondered why people who are already so successful in their own right would even want to be an apprentice to Trump. Well, I wondered, and then I realized there is this little thing called being an attention w****, and that I'm sure these people want to be famous on TV and not just rich like they already are. Which kinda sorta does leave a bad taste in my mouth. I'd love to see this show taken back to the basics, and a bunch of REAL apprentii (LOL) gathered. You know, young, not yet successful, willing to learn something new. Not just feed your egos casting. (Or character casting, as has been the case for many seasons now.)
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 11:38 am
Is this going to be on Monday nights permanently? (or at least til this season is over?)
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 11:39 am
Mods, why can't we make more threads? Like ones for each show and a general questions one?
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 11:46 am
Wait a minute! You mean I can get my Mensa card just by sending in my ACT score? And some money, most likely? How about if the score is 40 years old, LOL? I feel kinda guilty about watching this show, but it is like a train wreck, I can't seem to not watch. Stereotype casting? Nah. Well, unless they include one obligatory oh so smart fat guy who talks too much and he gets chosen last and everybody hates him because he is fat and whiny, and he never gets any credit for anything he does. Oh! Never mind. I am glad Fruitbat is watching too. I can't wait for when she keeps us all on our toes by changing up the names of the characters like she always does. 
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Buggles
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09-07-2002
| Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 12:51 pm
Count me in as a 'baddie' who also still enjoys the show Agreed, most of this bunch are probably mensa material, it does seem rather silly to single the one guy out. So we have the 'Harvard grad' the 'Columbia grad' the 'Chicago grad' the 'Wash U grad' the '4.0 Cornell grad' and the mensa guy. Summer's firing imho was totally justified. Its the ultimate stupidity to stick your neck out like that in a boardroom situation. How can Trump believe that she will protect the interests of his company when she doesn't even know how - or care - to protect her own? Trump could simply never entrust anything to her. End of story.
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Jasper
Member
09-14-2000
| Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 2:33 pm
I thought Tarek looked like Orlando as well. But his behaviour took away anything from his looks imo. The veiled threat to Lee for speaking his mind! I loved Lenny's last comment went Donald told Tarek he just hung on by his teeth, Lenny said not for long. I also didn't think much of Donald's continuing to call Lenny "the Russian" and referring to the blimp as being sent to Siberia, did he think he was being funny? If Donald was really going to stand by everything he spouts he should have gotten rid of Tarek as well. He had no good reason for bringing in either Lee or Lenny. And I beleive Summer did tell him that the timing during the dinner hour would not be good. Was she supposed to call every restaurant by herself? who was the other chick sitting in the room with her? That said she should have just sat back and kept her mouth shut like Lenny told her to. The schoolyard antics with Allie towards Brent seem to be the norm when a group of people get together who think they are "popular", picking on the far kid. She even went so far as to repeat Brent's ideas to another along with making a face and rolling her eyes, Harvard Business School must be proud.
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Ketchuplover
Member
08-30-2000
| Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 3:03 pm
What was the task if I may ask?
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Jasper
Member
09-14-2000
| Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 3:06 pm
Sam's Club (I guess Staples is out) - to bring in new memberships or upgrades. Each team got to advertise on a blimp as well.
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Kady
Member
07-30-2000
| Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 3:40 pm
my son and i watch. it is one of a few things we like to watch together. i was in sam's today and a guy was trying to sell me an upgrade to my card. i was disappointed that i wasn't offered a massage or a "gift" bag. i may have bought it if prizes were involved.
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Babyjaxmom
Member
10-20-2002
| Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 3:50 pm
Did anyone else think that Tarek looks like Orlando Bloom? YES! I told DH, "I hope he doesn't fire Tarek, cause he looks like Orlando Bloom." DH: "Who's Orlando Bloom?" Summer deserved to get fired for going on TV with such hideous hair. She looked like she had a haystack on her head! Buy some deep conditioner, girlfriend! And learn to keep your mouth shut.
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Mewz
Member
08-16-2005
| Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 4:00 pm
juju2: it doesn't matter if your ACT or SAT scores are 40 years old... and if you send them in during the month of April, they will evaluate your "prior evidence" for FREE. Check out www.us.mensa.org
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 4:10 pm
Every time I see the word, "mensa," I figure I wouldn't want to belong to it because it sounds too much like...you know...well, I'm guessing their meetings are held about every 28 days or so.
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Jodied75
Member
08-26-2004
| Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 5:00 pm
Huked, that is hilarious! 
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 5:10 pm
I have to reach up high just to get back out of the gutter...
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Ocean_islands
Member
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 7:37 pm
Forget Mensa. It's a society of wannabes. They use their scores to prove they are 'great' or something.
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Webchiq
Member
07-11-2005
| Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 8:31 pm
Enjoyed the show. I actually enjoy watching the business dynamics more than the candidates. I love the challenges and get lots of good ideas from both the great outcomes and the horrible outcomes. My gut feeling is that the girl doing yoga, Andrea, who owns 4 businesses is going to be who I'm betting on in the end. We hardly saw her last night.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 8:35 pm
FWIW, being a Mensa member does NOT mean you are better than everyone else. Tarek deserved the put downs he got from Trump. And the "warning" that was actually a threat to Lee... I was recruited, for years and years, by Mensa. I refused to join. An IQ is not a measure of how good a person you are, nor whether you are "smart." Tarek's leadership skills, or lack thereof, is proof that all the smarts in the world does not a winner make. I actually felt bad for Summer... she was an instant scapegoat the second she opened her mouth in the first BR. Although I suspect she was gonna be a target even before that. However, she really deserved to go. She could not explain herself. I understand how you do not make sales calls to a restaurant during the busiest time of day. But she never explained that, she never explained that to Tarek, and she just looked mostly inept in the second BR. I felt sorry for her, and even sorrier when it was quite clear Trump was gonna ask Tarek and then she had to open her mouth. As Red on That 70's Show says, ""! Oh yeah. I can speak about IQs. I'm not gonna tell you mine. But I can guarantee you that IQ ain't gonna get you nowheres if'n youse ain't got no common smarts to back 'em up wit'. Y'know? <snicker> Mensa. Bleah!
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Curlyq
Member
07-10-2002
| Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 9:21 pm
Hey now, Babyjaxmom, it's called curly hair, and some of us find it beautiful. Seriously, I had total curl envy over Summer's hair, and wish my own curls could look that fabulous. It was interesting listening to Trump's interview on Regis when he talked about a female candidate he thought would be great TV but turned out not to be. He must've meant Summer. He also referred to another that I think was the chubby lawyer. I have a feeling he'll eventually make a clown of himself and be fired. His ideas were pretty lame, and I wasn't sure he came up with the idea of the massages. He said hair and the woman next to him said "or massages" and he repeated after her, and that's when the PM made a point of crediting the woman. I got the impression Summer was about to speak up about the bashing of the gift bags. When Trump was trying to shut her up, she tried to tell him she'd rather be kept or fired based on the truth (meaning she wanted to set something straight--maybe the bags were her idea?). It just disgusts me that Trump habitually fires people for the wrong reasons, usually for displaying integrity which he and some others seem to consider a weakness. It's just like the guy who gave up his exemption because he knew he had out-performed everyone and didn't deserve to be fired anyway. Loads of integrity and character, but branded as stupid for not hiding behind his exemption. If Trump wanted to fire Summer, he should've done it because she couldn't account for her time and not as the result of some emotional hissy fit. When she shook her head leaving as he called her stupid I was half expecting her to flip him off. The ratings thing blows me away. I figured his ratings wouldn't be so great, but to lose to everyone else is pretty bad. Who will be blamed this time? He actually said in an interview that he had a weak lead-in in previous seasons and looked forward to the new slot. Didn't he used to come on after Friends and Will & Grace? I'm with Eeyoreslament about Tareck. I said to myself as I was watching him last night that he looked like Will Kirby.
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Buggles
Member
09-07-2002
| Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 10:04 pm
Costa, out of curiosity, how did mensa go about trying to recruit you lol? I've got an ACT, SAT, LSAT, and IQ test that would qualify me but no one's ever come knocking on my door who needs mensa anyway when we have tvch 
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Babyjaxmom
Member
10-20-2002
| Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 10:52 pm
Curlyq, I also have curly hair, but I thought Summer's looked really dry and stiff--like she used to much hairspray to keep the front from moving. The back looked pretty good, but the front was just awful. Too much hair draped around her face. It was distracting.
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Chewpito
Member
01-04-2004
| Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 11:17 pm
I enjoyed the show, But I recorded it and watched it earlyer this evening. Mondays is not good at all..I love king of queens,how I met your mother,two and a half men, then of course 24, I only have one vcr, and what can you do?? It seems like its all at once or nothing at all. Why is that? Im guilty of clicking back and forth to deal-no deal...Just so I could yell "DEAL"!!!!... any way, it was an ok show, just not a good night.
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Faerygdds
Member
08-29-2000
| Wednesday, March 01, 2006 - 1:05 am
I don't know about Costa, but I was part of a group in grade school for "gifted" students (their term, not mine). The basis for getting into that program was IQ scores taken in the 3rd grade. They came knocking on my door (mailbox and phone actually) from the time I turned 18 until I ran them off. I finally told them that I felt paying their "registration fee" to "prove" what I already knew was not only arrogant, but idiocy! I then added that IQ was nothing more than a potentiometer and anyone who felt the need to flaunt their "number" was compensating for something else! They never called again! 
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Wednesday, March 01, 2006 - 1:48 am
I think my IQ is really high, either that or it's my weight (I forget which number is which)
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Ocean_islands
Member
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, March 01, 2006 - 5:07 am
It just means that some acquaintances or friends who were members of Mensa wanted the person to join. I don't have any problem with Mensa except when they go around proclaiming that they are members. That, and that they are obsessed with meaningless puzzle games. By the way, as long as we are on this subject, I emailed Marilyn Vos Savant (world's smartest person) with a question a couple of months ago, which was to ask her why so-called 'intelligent' people are so obsessed with meaningless counting, logic, or derivation puzzles such as she publishes in her column in Parade magazine. I thought they might have better things to do with their time, like curing cancer for instance if they are so smart. Well, she emailed me back and told me it was a requirement of the publisher that she include those puzzles in her column. So she didn't exactly answer my question, but there you have it.
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