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07-07-2003, 10:08 PM
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Good grief, could NBC milk this more than FOX did with Joe Millionaire?
I'd pick Erin just because she's so much more classier and mature than Paige, but that's just me.
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07-07-2003, 10:54 PM
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OMG! What a wild twist! Never saw it coming!
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07-07-2003, 11:38 PM
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my girls rock Balenciaga & smoke mad marijuana - M.O.B.
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07-08-2003, 03:30 AM
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I only watched the last two episodes. Firstly, good gad Paige was way to young to be there. She looked 17 for goodness sakes and acted like it too. I'm only 24 and she looked too young for me even. It was sad that she got her hopes up and ultimately came crashing down.
I do like the added twist at the end. What a slick way of getting a second series out before everyone knew how the system was working, ala Joe Millionaire. They can't do that show again since everyone already knows the premise.
My predictions for the end, she chooses a guy, he takes the money, Erin goes home empty handed. But could there be one last twist in this show?
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07-08-2003, 03:32 AM
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Crazy broad.. 
Must have been in her contract that she sign on for a second show. |
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07-08-2003, 07:28 PM
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Actually, they first advertised the 2nd season about 3 weeks ago, when nobody was posting in this thread. I thought I was the only one still watching.
Does it bother anyone else that the show keeps throwing out lies like "one of you will be a millionaire" or "receive a check for $1 million", when the truth is that the money was to be paid out over 40 years? Yep, that's only $25,000 a year.
If somebody gave you $25,000 (or more like $15-20k after taxes), would you suddenly consider yourself a millionaire?
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07-08-2003, 10:55 PM
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You can take a lump sum present value of the $1 million prize. The sticking point would be the interest rate to figure out such a lump sum value using those formulas from my Engineering Economy class from years ago...
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07-09-2003, 01:50 AM
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I can't believe you guys are actually watching this shite!
Reality TV must go away... NOW!!
Dan
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07-09-2003, 10:31 AM
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Dan, thanks for the thread fart. Please refrain from doing so in the future.
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07-09-2003, 01:42 PM
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> You can take a lump sum present value of the $1 million prize.
Which obviously is way less than a million. Did the show even offer the option?
If I did the formula right in Excel, it's worth about $429k with a rate of 5%. I have no idea what rate they'd actually use. The higher the rate, the less the lump sum.
Is the word shit supposed to be politer with an e on the end?
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07-09-2003, 04:42 PM
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It's in the small print at the end of the show (the cash-out option), but again, it's all dependent on the interest rate. It's sort of like the same "all cash" option when you win a lottery in some states (or power-ball states).
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