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Offline silverice878

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Re: Wacky/Oddball prizes offered over the years
« Reply #30 on: November 09, 2017, 11:33:14 PM »
Quote from: TinoStar11 on November 09, 2017, 02:06:25 PM
Also , during a Wedding Shower Show in 2013 , when they offered a trip for 20 people ( plus the Couple that was playing ) to Aruba worth over $47K.

Don't remember that one. I do remember that $33K Mexico trip they offered on a similar special (maybe that same year?)
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Re: Wacky/Oddball prizes offered over the years
« Reply #31 on: November 09, 2017, 11:36:09 PM »
Quote from: JayC on November 09, 2017, 04:31:08 PM
Awe, I always thought that was cute. I forget the name of the brand but sometime in the later Barker years they offered overly expensive weird looking furniture that was really oddball. I remember one piece they offered was a sofa that was made up of different circular shaped cushions and it was like $4,000.

highbrowfurniture.com? I still remember that baseball-glove shaped chair that went for like $999.
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Re: Wacky/Oddball prizes offered over the years
« Reply #32 on: November 10, 2017, 01:03:04 AM »
The encyclopedia of TV Game Shows, Flokati Rugs, collections of stuffed animals, Lobster Tennis Ball Servers, and my personal favorite confusing and amusing prize category:  hovercrafts and other various amphibious vehicles.   
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Re: Wacky/Oddball prizes offered over the years
« Reply #33 on: November 10, 2017, 01:03:57 AM »
Silverice, would you please try to copy multiple quotes in one post?
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Re: Wacky/Oddball prizes offered over the years
« Reply #34 on: November 10, 2017, 11:29:50 AM »
Quote from: silverice878 on November 09, 2017, 11:36:09 PM
highbrowfurniture.com? I still remember that baseball-glove shaped chair that went for like $999.
I think that might be it. I remember the baseball glove and I think they also offered a chair that looked like a pair of lips and maybe one that looked like a high heeled shoe.
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Re: Wacky/Oddball prizes offered over the years
« Reply #35 on: November 10, 2017, 02:24:44 PM »
I remember the lips sofa. I also remember that $4893 dinette set they had. Johnston Casuals had some zany colors in their furniture as well. I don't remember the high heel, though.
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Re: Wacky/Oddball prizes offered over the years
« Reply #36 on: November 13, 2017, 02:27:42 AM »
If there's any sort of prize offered on the show that made me do this...

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it was around 1995 where this dude was playing Any Number for a car, but instead of that (or the piggy bank), he wound up winning hundreds of dollars worth of...BARBIE DOLLS!!! (facepalm)
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Re: Wacky/Oddball prizes offered over the years
« Reply #37 on: November 14, 2017, 02:24:02 AM »
Quote from: silverice878 on November 09, 2017, 11:33:14 PM
Don't remember that one. I do remember that $33K Mexico trip they offered on a similar special (maybe that same year?)

It was the next year (2014)
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Re: Wacky/Oddball prizes offered over the years
« Reply #38 on: November 14, 2017, 08:32:41 PM »
Quote from: whowouldeverhurtawhammy on November 13, 2017, 02:27:42 AM
If there's any sort of prize offered on the show that made me do this...

 :headbang:

it was around 1995 where this dude was playing Any Number for a car, but instead of that (or the piggy bank), he wound up winning hundreds of dollars worth of...BARBIE DOLLS!!! (facepalm)

There are quite a few hardcore doll collectors out there--yes, some of them are even men--who would be interested in such a prize. Sell it to one of them.
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Re: Wacky/Oddball prizes offered over the years
« Reply #39 on: November 15, 2017, 01:01:17 AM »
Electric Scooter that was offered as a bonus prize in Bonus Game in 3/3/05.
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Re: Wacky/Oddball prizes offered over the years
« Reply #40 on: November 15, 2017, 02:16:36 AM »
Quote from: Roadgeek Adam on November 10, 2017, 01:03:57 AM
would you please try to copy multiple quotes in one post?

Is it possible to do that in this forum without cutting-and-pasting?
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Re: Wacky/Oddball prizes offered over the years
« Reply #41 on: November 15, 2017, 07:01:09 AM »
Quote from: Roadgeek Adam on November 10, 2017, 01:03:57 AM
Silverice, would you please try to copy multiple quotes in one post?
Quote from: COINBOYNYC on November 15, 2017, 02:16:36 AM
Is it possible to do that in this forum without cutting-and-pasting?

Yes.  If you click "Quote" on the first post you want to respond to, and when it brings up the box for you to type in, you can scroll down and for any other post you want to put in your response, you can click the "Insert Quote" button associated with it and that post will be "quoted" just above the one you started with. 
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Re: Wacky/Oddball prizes offered over the years
« Reply #42 on: November 15, 2017, 07:50:15 AM »
Quote from: whowouldeverhurtawhammy on November 13, 2017, 02:27:42 AM
If there's any sort of prize offered on the show that made me do this...

 :headbang:

it was around 1995 where this dude was playing Any Number for a car, but instead of that (or the piggy bank), he wound up winning hundreds of dollars worth of...BARBIE DOLLS!!! (facepalm)

November of 1993. Bob had quite the discussion with his friends in the audience during the showcase showdown when he learned that they were going to share the Barbie dolls among them. They were all members of a fraternity if I remember correctly.
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Re: Wacky/Oddball prizes offered over the years
« Reply #43 on: November 16, 2017, 12:33:23 AM »
Quote from: Roadgeek Adam on November 10, 2017, 01:03:57 AM
would you please try to copy multiple quotes in one post?
Quote from: COINBOYNYC on November 15, 2017, 02:16:36 AM
Is it possible to do that in this forum without cutting-and-pasting?
Quote from: Casey on November 15, 2017, 07:01:09 AM
Yes.  If you click "Quote" on the first post you want to respond to, and when it brings up the box for you to type in, you can scroll down and for any other post you want to put in your response, you can click the "Insert Quote" button associated with it and that post will be "quoted" just above the one you started with. 

Well, whaddya know!  It works!  Except that when all three quotes I wanted were here, the first one ("would you please try to copy multiple quotes in one post") was at the bottom of the sequence instead of top, so I had to cut-and-paste it to move it to its proper place.  But that beats the way I used to do it - open a new window to "reply with quote" for each quote, then copy and c-and-p all the quotes into one reply.

And now back to the topic at hand: wacky/oddball prizes offered over the years...
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Re: Wacky/Oddball prizes offered over the years
« Reply #44 on: November 16, 2017, 12:41:20 PM »
What about that combination stereo/sofa that was offered a bunch in the mid-to-late 70s?
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