Re: Dropping Canadians from NBC Blue Network News was only the first step...

[Jim OConnell]

Ask her if Gene Rayburn's giant yellow teeth were as frightening in real life as they were on TV.

 

... though I have to say, all these years later, I could still watch Brett Somers and Charles Nelson Reilly drunkenly banter for hours on end and not tire of it.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Ward
Sent: Feb 21, 2016 9:50 PM
To: wnndl@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Dropping Canadians from NBC Blue Network News was only the first step...

I have a dear friend who was on the U.S. "Match Game '78" as a young woman...and she was a Canadian citizen living in Los Angeles at the time. (She only recently earned her U.S. citizenship.)

On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 8:42 PM, Jim OConnell <hunthu...@earthlink.net> wrote:

I tried out for the Canadian version of "Match Game" about three years ago, but was disqualified for being American, so I guess it goes both ways.

-----Original Message-----
>From: danny burstein <dan...@panix.com>
>Sent: Feb 21, 2016 5:50 PM
>To: wnn <wnndl@googlegroups.com>
>Subject: Dropping Canadians from NBC Blue Network News was only the first step...
>
>[NPR]
>
>Canadians Left With Questions After Being Barred From 'Jeopardy!'
>
>A decision to bar Canadian citizens from being future contestants on TV's
>Jeopardy quiz show is causing a range of reactions in Canada, particularly
>among those who note that show host Alex Trebek has dual citizenship in
>the U.S. and Canada.
>
>Media outlets in Canada recently noted that their country is singled out
>in Jeopardy's eligibility guidelines:
>
>     "At this time we are precluded from accepting registration information
>from Canadian residents. We are currently evaluating this matter."
>   =======
>rest:
>http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/02/21/467569135/canadians-left-with-questions-after-being-barred-from-jeopardy
>_____________________________________________________
>Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
>                    dan...@panix.com
>[to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]

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