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TV ClubHouse: Archive: What news events do the houseguests not know about?: Archive through September 14, 2003

Rainwoman

Friday, September 12, 2003 - 07:42 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I was hoping that they would have done a luxury competition that allowed the houseguests to find out about the news outside of the house. Remember Bunky and Will won that competition, and they got to read about the news? A TRUE or FALSE competition would have been cool again, for them to catch up on what they missed.

They talked about how much Kobe Bryant "loved" his wife, and how great of a guy he was, and I would have loved to see the looks on their faces when they found out what he is accused of now.

The same goes for them finding out about Saddam's sons being killed, and all the other things that they don't know about, like who is dead or alive now.


Can you guys name news events that have happened since they've been locked up for so long that they don't know about?

Crazydog

Friday, September 12, 2003 - 07:48 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Well, the biggest one would probably be the Great Northeastern Blackout

The thousands of deaths in Europe due to the heat wave

Crazydog

Friday, September 12, 2003 - 07:49 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Arnold Schwarzenegger is running for governor of California

For baseball fans, it is September and both the Chicago Cubs and the Chicago White Sox are very much in the hunt for a playoff spot. That hasn't happened since 1908.

Duncan

Friday, September 12, 2003 - 07:59 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Johnny Cash, John Ritter, Charles Bronson, Bob Hope.

Woodpecke®

Friday, September 12, 2003 - 08:02 am EditMoveDeleteIP
The Detroit Tigers have won 37 games all season. 37-108. (This is hardly important, earth shattering news, but as a fan of the team it's more than annoying).

Earthmother

Friday, September 12, 2003 - 08:06 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Crazydog, everyone is running for governor of California..lol

Theowl

Friday, September 12, 2003 - 08:34 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Yes WoodPecker, but the Detroit Lions WON!! They only won 2 games last season, right?

Crazydog

Friday, September 12, 2003 - 08:39 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I would think the biggest deaths this summer were Katharine Hepburn and Gregory Peck. Or were those before they entered the house?

Justshirley

Friday, September 12, 2003 - 08:47 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Didn't Erika and Robert both comment that they knew or had met Gregory Hines? He died while they were in the house, as well.

Ophiliasgrandma

Friday, September 12, 2003 - 09:14 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Do the sequestered group know about current events?

Woodpecke®

Friday, September 12, 2003 - 09:22 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks, Owl. You really know how to hurt a guy. Ha!

Ryn

Friday, September 12, 2003 - 09:26 am EditMoveDeleteIP
To be honest - I don't think many of the sequestered guests care about current events..... :)

Jun and Ali have both been out of the house now - Jun twice - so they may have heard about some stuff.

Bastable

Friday, September 12, 2003 - 09:41 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I don't think the HGs will necessarily know about Katharine Hepburn unless they were told in the pre-show sequestering period.

You'd have to be careful with a current events quiz. So many deaths! It could shock them and scare them pretty badly if they hear all of this hard-to-believe stuff at one time!

Kalekona

Friday, September 12, 2003 - 10:22 am EditMoveDeleteIP
i wonder with erika and robert talking so much about John Ritter and threes company would any of them even believe his death.. i can see in a true or false comp.. all of them saying this is false and thinking it was put there only because of the 80's triva between erika and robert..

Gina8642

Friday, September 12, 2003 - 11:11 am EditMoveDeleteIP
-Usay & Qusay killed

-Kobe Bryant charged with Rape

-Various large bombings in Iraq

-Eastern N. Am. blackout

-John Ritter & Jonny Cash's deaths

-Arnie confirms he's running (although, this had a pretty good likelyhood before the entered - I don't think this will be much of a shock)

-Gregory Hines died

-Bob Hope died

(Way too many deaths!)

-Capture of some pretty big names in Al Queda

Yes - the tigers have lost too many games. Remember '87? They went 35-5 at the start. This year it took them all summer to achieve that many wins. LOL I don't think any of these HGs care about the Tigers however.

Spear

Friday, September 12, 2003 - 12:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I think it would be in bad taste to do a "True or False News" contest that has them guessing if someone has died. Other topics (blackout, CA governor's race) are fine.

Woodpecke®

Friday, September 12, 2003 - 01:24 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I think dead people questions are acceptable. We all are going to succumb eventually, and if I actually watch next year's BB5, I think death would provide me with the solitude and peacefulness I'm missing in this life.

Justshirley

Friday, September 12, 2003 - 03:48 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
BB1 did a whole "Is this celebrity dead or alive" competition. Eddie got really mad at Will Mega because he thought he was intentionally giving wrong answers.

I wish CBS still had the BB1 site up. You can still access the first Survivor. Arnie must have made them take it down in his continuing efforts to pretend it never existed.

Spear

Friday, September 12, 2003 - 04:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The BB1 competition was different since it was a test of their (trivia) knowledge Playing a game where you guess if someone has just died is like playing Dead Pool. (Yeah, yeah -- I know many people think that's just fine, too.)

Eeyoreslament

Sunday, September 14, 2003 - 04:45 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I heard that there was a website that you could go to, and you type in the original web address you were looking for, and the DATE you are looking for, and it pulls up PAST screen caps of the websites. I'm going to search around for it. I think it may be on my school library website. I'll post if I ever find it, so we can see the BB1 site again.

On a footnote, it makes me sad to say I am STILL watching these houseguests, when they have made it apparent from their actions, that the only headlines that would even grab their attention would be Arnie for governor, and Kobe cheating. (sigh...)

Seamonkey

Sunday, September 14, 2003 - 05:08 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Actually, Ryn, Alison did ask the Mime if we are still at war ..

Rob would be interested that JLo and Ben scheduled a wedding without him being available and then cancelled it, probably so that he would be able to come.

Shelb724

Sunday, September 14, 2003 - 06:00 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Good one, Seamonkey :). i agree, the event would not be the same without him :). ps--thank you SO MUCH to all the live posters. omg, you make BB so much better. especially when they take off one of the episodes like they did last week!!!!! but i have been following the mime and the HOH competitions, etc, and you have made them so much better.

Curtisahahahaha

Sunday, September 14, 2003 - 06:10 am EditMoveDeleteIP
The war is going to cost us $87 BILLION MORE than first reports.

Monalisahi

Sunday, September 14, 2003 - 06:16 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Here's a headline I would love to see the Final 3 read:

Viewers tune out Final 3 and CBS cancels BB4

Scribe

Sunday, September 14, 2003 - 06:19 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Seamonkey got mine - without the humor though (smile)!

If interested in current events then the resignation of Abbas and the Israelis decision to (a) expell or (b) kill Arafat - but then they probably aren't interested -

the possibility of an Eastcoast class 5 Hurricaine hit by Isabel -

Tony Bryant connection to the Skakel / Moxley case -

If Eastcoasters, the return of Vinnie Testaverde and why -

Letterman and Connon O'brien's impending fatherhood (I think this one regarding Letterman would really surprise the group) -

Murder of Geoghan in prison - and on and on -