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Wil Wheaton playing for EFF
Quintin Stone (and every other Slashdot reader on the planet) writes: "Wil Wheaton is among the many Star Trek actors on tonight's Weakest Link, except that the charity he's playing for is the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Though so far he's been doing well." CD: I don't want to give away the ending, many people have yet to see the show.
He lost, levar burton won
Had to do it.
aren't you married?
:)
naughty wil, coming on to roxann like that...
But ya she IS hot
fp
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That doesn't surprise me all that much, didn't Levar Burton win Celebrity Jeopardy awhile ago too?
Ask Slashdot my ass! That's not a question.
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CT must be on nasty drugs again
va linux is the weakest link. Goodbye.
Jeez, jealous much?
mod this up, i was going to write the same thing. This aint news, this is history (for those living in EST). I'm sure this was in the submittion queue prior to 8 pm EST, they could have posted it before then to actually make this article relevant.
My friend went on the Australian version, and it turned out that all the bitchy comments were scripted by writers at the end of every round. It took the whole day to shoot one episode, due to the writers attempting to come up with a decent line or two every time the presenter had to speak...
Ok, how the fuck does this qualify for "ask slashdot". Ask implies a question. WHY THE FUCK IS THIS "ASK SLASHDOT"??!!
I know this is offtopic, but I'm tired of reading this crap.
You, sir, need to find a way to separate the actor from the character. Isn't it clear at this point that Wes != Wil?
Bye bye, karma.
If you can't stand the show, what the hell do you care?
Those ozzies must be fucktards. Groucho Marx (bet your life) made up his material on the spot, and managed to be funny without resorting to causticness only associated with pent-up and sexually fustrated butch lesbians.
This is posted as an Ask Slashdot, however there isn't even a question mark in the submission. How self serving can you get?
P.S. Fuck you, if I ever meet you I WILL KICK YOUR ASS!!
by the time I pour hot grits down my pants, he won't even be dead any more
An afternoon nostalgia
Television show
You spoke in silhouette
(but they couldn't name you)
Though the panel were very polite to you
Oh, but I remembered you
Friday nights, 1969
ATV - you murdered every line
Too old to be a child star
Too young to take leads
Four seasons passed
And they AXED you
Nervous juvenile
(WON'T SMILE!)
What became of you ?
Did that swift eclipse
Torture you ?
A star at eighteen
And then - suddenly gone
Down to a few lines
In the back page
Of a faded annual
Oh, but I remembered you
I remembered you
I believe it's the same for the British and American versions too; some kind of licensing arrangement like the Brits did with Who Wants to be a Millionare.
But you are right on one point. Any half decent stand-up comedian whould be able to do a much better job without having to break for a writer's meeting.
Shit, I don't know how people could read that and not mod it "Funny".
--sdem
Maybe the moderators are 200 year old black men who remember the cruelty of slavery at the hands of their white oppressors.
of course you like him.
"hey, anybody who likes the way li'l boys feel can't be all that bad!"
I guess you like Michael Jackson and Jn Katz, too.
No, you're a loser, because you're insulting a person you don't know, just to mock an email he sent. Plus, you can't even spell "congratulate" correctly, indicating what a superlative loser you are.
just because a bunch of sweaty men like to shower together and slap each other on the ass doesn't mean...
well, maybe it does.
Shut up, Wesley!
-Jean Luc Picard
Levar is a girl, dude.
This is the best analysis of the episode I've seen so far in the discussion...
beautiful.. classic karma whore. Most mods would see that and go, "Hey! That's obviously -1, offtopic! He's just trying to disguise it by portraying the entire world as one giant anti-Sklyarov conspiracy!" However, he was smart enough to include a link to yahoo news, distracting the mods with its shiny green hyperlinkness, and making them reach for the +1, informative.
What the hell do you care what the hell he cares?
Yeah, I hate those greedy fucks that donate to bullshit charities for abused & neglected children and troubled families.
Fucking a. EEF and geeks like you should run the god damned country. Then we'd really see a change.
The news portion of this article was that Wil was playing for the EFF. (See the title of the posting.) This information was not available until show time.
Go fsck yerself,troll.
The thing that is stupid about Weakest Link is that people are penalized for not knowing EVERY single question. I mean, how retarded is that? In every game show I've ever seen there has always been a way to defer one or two questions on subjects you don't know. Jeopardy you get to pick the category. Millionaire you get the lifelines.
Weakest Link is stupid because it is completely random luck. You either get asked what color is clover or who invented the little plastic thing that holds the ends of your shoelaces together. This forces people to become paranoid and bank at ridiculously low levels. Most people barely let the pot hit $5000 before yelling "BANK!"
Here's how it should work:
Answering the question right adds a link and increases the pot. Answer the question wrong and the pot disappears completely. Say "BANK" (or "PASS" or whatever) and the pot gets banked and resets to zero and play moves onto the next person.
That way, the bank has a real chance to grow. So it costs more money, boo hoo hoo. Millionaire gives away more in a single night than Weakest Link does in a week. It is just plain anti-climatic to see someone fight his way through this whole Darwinian process only to walk away with the paltry sum of $30,000 and change.
- JoeShmoe
-- I wonder which will go down in history as the bigger failure: the War on Drugs or the War on Filesharing
yet another person who does not have the brain capacity necessary to identify a joke or the definition of sexual harrassment. And now we know why reality TV is raking it in...because fiction requiring some sort of imagination and creativity is a position with a vacancy sign on it. Either writers are getting dumber and lazier or the audience is getting too dense to fathom fiction... *sigh*
ehe clever! how long did that take you to come up with?
Scott
Yah well their 200 year old oppressors are long gone and dead and things aren't like that anymore.
So get over it already.