$25,000 PYRAMID 1st Time with Abby Dalton

[StukInBuf]

Anyone have Abby Dalton's appearance in "Body Language" with Tom Kennedy? I saw it only once on GSN a couple years back. Thanks.

[JayTemple]

Duke Ellington's journey. Done.

[MrAaronLadner]

Dick Clark is Alive, Dumbass!

[NDW85]

Too bad Dick Clark suffered that stroke in 2004. May god continue to bless him for a full recovery.

[sevllests]

Its a shame he's dead

[bainsey89]

I was thinking "a musical journey," too, but let's take it a step further.

In Password, there was no rule against singing a one-word clue to a familar tune. That was sometimes done. Would that ever be legal in Pyramid?

[jemerson722]

It was legal in the front game, I'm sure it was illegal in the Winner's Circle.

[PriceRight89]

It depends on the category. Jo Anne Worley sang "O Solo Mio" for Italian Songs and that was allowed.

[eci4r]

On the last one a journey

[mjhunt1]

Even better would be "Doris Day's journey."

[RedNekLvr22]

It always amazed me how contestant could be SO OK with basically putting $10,000 in the hands of the celebrity. I feel that's what your doing when you sit facing the board. At least if I was giving, I feel I could only blame myself for the lousy clues. Frankly, I would rather have fun challenging myself giving. But, who am I? All I can say is Keif Ferrandini is my hero. :) $122,450, and she always gave the clues.

[yandrsupreme]

@RedNekLvr22 I agree, I would only give the clues... I'm a VERY unperceptive person. I depends on how your mind works. I'm the last person to get the joke, so for me to receive, I'd surely lose.

[vanni9283]

I've got a good one for "Sentimental Things":

A "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" feeling!

[Loogaroo1]

BZZZZT. Prepositional phrase.

[vanni9283]

Hmmmm......It also depends on the way you give the clue. You could get buzzed for giving a clue the wrong way. (ex. saying "a baby who is quiet" instead of "a quiet baby").

[Loogaroo1]

True, but when you're quoting a song title like your clue is doing, you're either forced to mangle the song title (thus crippling the usefulness of the clue) or use the preposition.

"An Old High School Yearbook" and "A Family Heirloom" are the clues I thought of.

[vanni9283]

What do you mean by "mangling" the song title?

But regardless, Abby's clues were just absolutely brutal! She was thinking in terms of what one would say to another as opposed to giving a list of things related to the subject.

[Loogaroo1]

I mean, you'd have to say something other than the actual title, which would probably make it lose any sort of context you were hoping to get from the clue.

[Ivoryface86]

This episode was from the week of January 3-7, 1983, and this was a Tuesday episode of that week briansbro, which means that your episode was reran on GSN I think on August 9, 1998 at 3:00pm EST but I bet that this episode was first reran on January 23, 1998, so I believe briansbro, you appeared on a Tuesday episode of that week.

[gmwcfhg]

Perhaps old love letters might have been a good clue as well. (BTW, How old were you when you were on the Pyramid, if I'm not being too nosy?)

[objectivethirdparty]

I also can't stand how she's going, "Ohhhh" over and over and interrupting/not listening to Dick Clark when it's over.

[objectivethirdparty]

She did a terrible job of giving clues on the last one. Why she didn't think to refer to things from the past instead of emotional phrases is totally beyond me.

To all the egalitarians/feminists out there who say women in general aren't indecisive, watch the way this woman can't think of what to say on the last clue, as she sways back and forth, repeating herself, and by the way, this example is just one of billions.

She made absolutely no progress when giving the last clue.

[mjhunt1]

It is possible that women are on average a little more indecisive than men.

But, very few female celebrities would have been AS indecisive as Abby Dalton here.

Shelley Smith certainly would have been very decisive.

Abby Dalton was in general a below-average celebrity.

Though speaking of Kief, Abby won in the receiving chair with Kief.

[objectivethirdparty]

Women ARE less decisive than men, period---and today's status quo says you can portray men as stupid, klutzy, indecisive, lost, etc. but that any negative comment about women is somehow hatred speech.

Don't throw around your little examples; stand up against the unfair realities that I addressed, and don't ignore my other point about her rudeness. She was VERY rude and VERY annoying at the end, interrupting Clark and throwing around her, "Ohhhh..." and not listening. Terrible contestant.

[mjhunt1]

No one should make negative comments about either gender. Had someone written that men in general are mentally clumsy just because David Letterman was (check "pyramid what not to do 1"), I would respond in the same manner (naming Nathan Cook, Nipsey Russell, etc.).

Abby Dalton was below average, counting both genders. I do not use different standards for men and women.

[mjhunt1]

She should have said "a journey" as well as "a locket" and what Dick Clark suggested; I have heard "sentimental journey" before. 

These clues would not guarantee results though. The category is not easy.

[PriceRight89]

That may have been a tough category, but she definitely should have been buzzed for using all those descriptive phrases.

[objectivethirdparty]

Please see my comments to "mjhunt" about her overt rudeness and the double standards against men in our society.

Also, by the way, I've been a louder voice against the feminist movement for its inexcusable support for abortion, which is nothing more than a legalized Holocaust, attempted to be downplayed by the misleading term "choice."

Feminists are sickening people, and the double standards against men today are inexcusable and sorry. I'm glad more are getting angered and speaking up.

[mjhunt1]

I am actually male. The only "rudeness" was saying that Abby Dalton was a below-average player (an assertion hardly biased against men).

You have no right to attack women in general, since plenty of women are innocent (just as blacks cannot insult white people just because some whites enslaved blacks).

I do not allow chronically angry people in my life. I just abandon them.

[Sjsuman5000]

"Sentimental Things"  That one was a tough one!

[trent100100]

It would of been easier if 2 people who knew each other.

I think the perfect clue would of been a family bible.

Things that have keys - piano