21 Comments

1. 1
   CHICA MONTEZ
   Posted August 26, 2004 at 10:20 pm

   I saw the Blunder too.
   All the BB5 houseguest are discussing it on the live feeds. I’m sure CBS knows. Please don’t campaign! Jesus says not to. If you don’t believe me ask Adria!!!!! lol!
   The cards fell exactly the way they were supposed to. MARVIN for HOH!!!!! I bet he’s gonna get that phone call too. America loves Marv. He’s on Fire !
   and so will Adria be when Jesus finds out she’s been lying on him.~

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   Jeff
   Posted August 26, 2004 at 11:06 pm

   I think they should have a re-do with Karen and Cowboy facing off. I would love to see crazy Karen in a position of power, she is working the under the radar angle too hard. She’d fall to pieces within hours.

   Campaign away, where can I send an angry protest email?

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   Rara Avis
   Posted August 26, 2004 at 11:56 pm

   The Chen-Bot malfunctioned! Personally, I’d like to see Karen win HOH just so I could watch her crumble under the pressure within a few hours.

   Oh, and Chica Montez – Abusing the exclamation mark doesn’t make it funny. And neither does re-using the same mediocre joke twice in one post. Mmkay?

   (Don’t mind me, reality TV scandals make me hostile.)

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   E.B.
   Posted August 27, 2004 at 12:13 am

   LMAO i die every time you say “chen-bot”! EVERYONE SAW IT! The question is… what is Big Brother going to do about it?

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   Jahim
   Posted August 27, 2004 at 3:35 am

   This is ridiculous.. I already made a feedback to CBS about this on their main site.. Even to the Marvin fans, one thing is, if he gets Karen on the block or whatever, do we really want the stigma of, well, she wouldn’t be there if the rules were fair.. just have the 3, Karen, Cowboy and Marvin go at it again for 60 seconds… fair enough to me it seems

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   Boo-Hiss
   Posted August 27, 2004 at 6:55 am

   This isn’t the first time, either. Julie has inaccurately judged many comps. But this is the first time is has been a critical error. Why have “rules” when Chen-Bot isn’t waiting for official verification from the non-existant judges?

   We may never get to see Karen faux-bawl over the enormous pressure of having to actually win something. And that would have been good tv.

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   CHICA MONTEZ
   Posted August 27, 2004 at 11:06 am

   The Comments are for the Big Brother 5 Blunder rara avis, not for your pet peeve with my abuse of the explanation point nor my reusing the same {mediocre}joke twice. Pretend for a moment that Middle Finger is Posted. Abuse That!

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   Nobody
   Posted August 27, 2004 at 12:26 pm

   I wonder if there was a rule where the ball could not hit the back of the putting green before going in the hole. Didn’t Karens hit the back and then bounce in the hole?

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   Rara Avis
   Posted August 27, 2004 at 2:31 pm

   I think the idea of Cowboy, Marvin, and Karen all putting for 60 seconds is the best route. Although Marvin should have been eliminated, so I wonder if they’ll just let Cowboy and Karen put without him.

   Chica, it seems you just used the forum to attack me. Isn’t that a tad hypocritcal? If you were semi-literate, you would realize that, as with this post, I did share my thoughts on the issue, not just say something mean about you. I’m not going to post anymore petty fighting, because as you said, the forums are for discussing BB5, not grammar skills or lack thereof.

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    madeyoulaugh
    Posted August 27, 2004 at 2:47 pm

    Ladies Ladies please…if you are going to bicker, at least save it for the Jell-O wrestling pit.

    -Madeyoulaugh

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    Chen-bot debugger
    Posted August 28, 2004 at 1:02 am

    Yeah, the Chen-bot failed to send someone off when they missed an HOH question the other week too. BB needs to hire more programmers for beta testing.

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    CHICA MONTEZ
    Posted August 28, 2004 at 3:02 pm

    I’D LIKE TO APOLOGIZE TO RARA AVIS.
    YOU ARE FAR TOO IMPORTANT FOR *ME* TO JOIN A FORUM JUST TO ATTACK YOU.~
    BY THE WAY, YOU WERE THE FIRST TO MAKE A DERAGATORY COMMENT, I MERELY RESPONDED.

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    Lisa
    Posted August 28, 2004 at 5:05 pm

    If any two people in the house deserved to be HOH it would be Karen and Cowboy because they have not had it yet. Should the two of them compete for HOH? Yes. Will they? Of course not and that is because CBS doesn’t want us to know they made a huge mistake. And by huge mistake I mean making Julie Chen the host of Big Brother.

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    Wil
    Posted August 28, 2004 at 7:23 pm

    It’s a judgement call. everybody knows you can’t dispute a judgement call. the replay is not clear anyway. Get over it.

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    Missy
    Posted August 29, 2004 at 12:06 am

    I am so glad that its not just me, you are not overreacting this year is nuts. CBS had to many cards in there hand and got confused. I beleive that Drew should have never got HOH. He answered a question wrong. CBS forgot that there were 14 house guest and the question about how many entered the housewere married. They did not include Natalie, she is married and Julie asked Diane the question herself. How many people entered the big brother house? 14. I can’t remember the exact details but they had to go up the step or down the step. Also come on as soon as I seen the HOH comp that week they should have just handed the key to Diane. She carries a tray for a living. Well good luck with CBS. But I just stopped watching so I missed the the last HOH. but I’m with you on the email campaign!

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    danny
    Posted August 29, 2004 at 4:14 am

    As a game show it does fall under certain gaming regulations set by the FCC, but like always there is a catch. Much like Jeff Probst, Julie Chen has a certain amount of power; during competitions she acts sort of as a referee. If she calls something, it’s sort of like the decision is final, even if it’s not. So, for now, we can hang our heads low knowing that Julie Chen or (Chen-bot) is the Big Brother god. Heck, lets do away with a jury and just let Julie Chen crown whoever she wants to be the winner.

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    gf13
    Posted August 29, 2004 at 1:36 pm

    yeah, it sucks but i kind of think that karen deserves to lose the hoh crown for being so passive about the situation. the balls went into the cup at the same time and julie declared the winner. the houseguests had no idea of knowing whose ball touched the bottom first. karen just accepted that marvin won. if karen had been declared the winner, you can’t tell me that marvin would not have challenged the decision then and there! karen just hung her head, cleared her ball, and walked away.

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    Nancy
    Posted August 29, 2004 at 8:06 pm

    I agree that Julie made a big mistake and has made others in the past. There should be more conrtol ton this then just her. This mistake is big because it will affect the out come of the game. I don’t believe Karen would want to be HOH, I don’t think she was really trying. If it would have come down to Karen and Cowboy he would have won.

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    mary lou hamm
    Posted August 31, 2004 at 6:48 am

    yes yes, mistakes are made when human or robots judge any competition, there is always room for error, i should know!

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    Lisa
    Posted August 31, 2004 at 8:18 am

    I just rewatched my DVR recording of the show and Marvin did, indeed, win fair and square.

    According to Julie’s rules, “the first houseguest to sink a putt and whose ball goes to the bottom of the tube wins HOH.” Your site is implying that meant the first to get both would be the winner. I don’t read into that sentence that way. I read that sentence as saying if the ball bounced back out of the hole you were not eligible to win.

    If it was stated “the first houseguest to sink a putt and whose ball goes to the bottom of the tube FIRST wins HOH” I would have been more inclined to believe Marvin to be undeserving.

    It’s all a matter of semantics, I guess. But I don’t see where anyone was cheated. Marvin’s ball clearly hit the hole first and it sank to the bottom.

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    robert
    Posted September 1, 2004 at 9:54 am

    is there a correlation maybe whether a camel toe has been shown and any bad calls or mistakes by our lovely Julie?

    JULIE CHEN FOR PRESIDENT 2008