View Full Version : The Spence on Wheel Of Fortune!
rhyno
24-06-2004, 09:16 PM
For those of you who haven't been listening to triple J recently, Adam Spencer is currently on wheel of fortune and is probably sending their ratings sky high.
At the beginning of the year he set himself the challenge to get on the show and give the presenter a run for his money, and he is doing just that. The words that he chooses for the letters are great (b for binomial, n for nicety, etc) and he is incredibly smart and often gets the anwers within a couple of letters (Spence:"can i solve it?" Presenter:"Are you sure, there's still PLENTY of oportunity to score" Spence:"no thanks, i think i'll solve it" Presenter:"sure?" Spence"yeah i'd really like to solve it now.)and he picks the prizes with great care (i'll take the pots cos i am crap in the kitchen).
He won again this arvo so i suggest you switch to channel 7 at 5:00 tommorow evening for some hearty entertainment. Its normally simulcast on JJJ with comentary from Chris and Craig too.
nathan
24-06-2004, 10:20 PM
Yeah, iv been watching its great stuff, funny as to, he is farkin dam smart, he as deffinately been cleaing up, i hope he lasts a few more days. :) "I'll have a T for TripleJ"
He's hilarious on the show! The stimulcast commentry with action replays makes it even better too. I can usually guess most WoF words relatively easily, and I'm sure a bloke with the brain power of Spencer would be able to do really well on the game. I'm guessing they film the shows at least a few days in advance, and he's doing really well to not blab his success on the breakfast show before WoF is aired, and that'd take alot to keep quiet about it.
haha yeah. I was gonna start a thread on it but didn't get round to it. Its been absolute gold. Ive actually been taping the episodes. I really do think he could last for ages. I was hoping for a bit more "stick" from him though, he's been quite well behaved so far. I can really see him winning the car. It will be absolute gold.
Also, he may be in some sort of contract as far as revealing the outcome of his shows.
There was this one kiler guess, he had litterally 3 different letters (like 4 or 5 in total), and he guessed the phrase "The calm before the storm".
He is a fucken smartass.
Easily beats Wil's cameo on ch7's morningn news show with the koshinator.
edit: it was 2 letters, 5 in total.
is he on it as an actual normal contestant
or is some celebrity week thing?
Just a normal, random contestant.
Although I bet ratings have tripled now that there's TripleJ listeners switching over to the show just to see Adam play... they really need the youth demographic too!
i cant help but think the WoF crew are going to try and work against him. ie put some phrases up their that are (strangely) familiar to another contestents etc...
however in the meantime Go the Spence!
Does anyone know if there are laws or something of somesort that say that those gamehows must allow anyone to participate, and not let anyone be treated unfairly. (Ie discrimination)
Does anyone know if there are laws or something of somesort that say that those gamehows must allow anyone to participate, and not let anyone be treated unfairly. (Ie discrimination)
i'm sure there is, especially with all the watch dogs and regulating bodies that keep an eye on things these days.
however i know with shows like Who wants to be a millionaire they get to know a lot about their contestants and can therefor, when the money figure starts getting up there, ask question that they know the contestant is not likely to know much about.
Sorry - its getting a bit late for me to be coherent, i think i'm sober enough for bed now. plus the shows over in that tracer thread :(, Good night
Superman
25-06-2004, 07:27 AM
recently my mum was on Who wants to be a millionarre
she had to tell them about all of our family members and there age and everything but shoe size.
she didnt get into the hotseat.
but with the contract thing- the whole audience and all of the contestents have to keep quiet. because it took about three weeks for mums episode to be shown on TV after they filmed
Byatch
25-06-2004, 09:40 AM
with guessing
"the calm before the storm" last night, he had:
"T__ ____ ______ T__ ___R_"
or something like that.
i'm also watching it to she the stink in the audience getting all reved up.
classique
ahh but the real question would be why are you watching wheel of fortune in the first place. :P
though listening to JJJ is justifible :?
(insert sarcastic smartass note)
Gonzo
25-06-2004, 11:53 AM
Yeah i heard with wheel of fortune they tape all the episodes for the week in one go.
today is his last day
How do you know?
inside info...i could tell you but then i would have to kill you :wink:
ahh well. Obviously a conspiracy.
I mean they're far too conservative to allow a person, who can solve a puzzle at the following stage, to continue on to a reign of domination.
http://www.farkin.net/forums/album_pic.php?pic_id=8767 :shock:
he said on the radio this morning that as of monday you can call me 'former carry over champion'
floody
25-06-2004, 04:09 PM
Well some chick who looked like she just knocked off from K-Mart won it tonight... Spencer went bankrupt in round 2 when he was about to take the lead ... And I must say the queations were stupidly easy too, one solution was "Amusement Park", another "Australia's Longest Running Game Show"... the viewer questions were harder for f#cks sake.
I thought the easy questions might have had the "Jeremy Mcgrath Effect" - that is they made all the tracks easier one season to help the others catch up, of course McGrath won more races than ever... But it didn't happen that way.
parallax
25-06-2004, 04:10 PM
recently my mum was on Who wants to be a millionarre
My old Religion teacher made it onto Millionaire aswell. He gets to the 32K question and decides he'd ring a friend. That friend was Mr Chester, a science teacher at my school.
"I can guarantee that if anyone knows anything about thsi kind of stuff, it's Keith. He was once offered a job by NASA"
So Eddie rings him up and rattles of the question. Before even hearing the options, he yells "STAR! It's a STAR!" (the question was space related)
So my religion give this big smile, says thanks mate, "I'll buy you a whole heap of beers tomorrow" yadda yadda.
Locks it in.
BUM BOW!!
Tha answer was in fact 'Galaxy'.
Next day at school - A whoel shit load of Star related puns, and the word "Star" being yelled out across the schoolyard.
Just after recess we had year meetings. We're all sitting there while Mr Chester gives us a big spiel about how he can laugh at himself etc and how he made a mistake. And because he was our year co-ordinator, he continued on about other rudimentary shit. Then somones mobile phone went off. Everyone was looking around and then one of the students yelled out: "Who phoned a friend?"
Ahhhh - they were to days.
</boring story>
parallax
25-06-2004, 04:36 PM
NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! The spence is gone.
And did Nathan say "fuck" ?? I'm sure I heard it there just after they told reminded him on winning the drum kit.
N for Number Theory.
At least he went out in style. That last solve was a nice one IMO
it would have been funny if he made a comment
about the prize he won
spence had a choice between a dishwasher and FUBU clothing
unfortunately no whitty comment about the clothing :(
just went for the dishwasher
wombat
25-06-2004, 06:38 PM
Yeah i heard with wheel of fortune they tape all the episodes for the week in one go.
They film five episodes (one week) each day. I went down to be in the audience last year when one of my friend's went on. It was actually a lot of fun, we made a shitload of noise (and got told to shut up a few times), and generally caused a ruckus. For the record, John Deekes, is hilarious, you wouldn't guess it, but the guy is a cack in real life.
rhyno
25-06-2004, 10:31 PM
i loved his last ditch effort to piss of the presenter.....E for Euler pronounced Oiler. its a maths theorem and the presenter had no idea what was going on.
i loved his last ditch effort to piss of the presenter.....E for Euler pronounced Oiler. its a maths theorem and the presenter had no idea what was going on.
huh? I thought it was pronounced 'yooler'
and thats how he said it I think.
anyways...
tu plang
25-06-2004, 10:45 PM
seems like i stumbled on this thread a little too late :(
who taped them and wants to stream it onto their computer and post it up somewhere :)
seems like i stumbled on this thread a little too late :(
who taped them and wants to stream it onto their computer and post it up somewhere :)
Well I taped them...
send me $10 and your sister and I'l mail you the tape :D
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