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Is this true, Wheel of Fortune has given away 247 BILLION dollars in its 27 years? no f'n way (it was a facebook tactoid post

Posted by zeitgeist Sep 15 '10, 14:50

247 million I could believe but no f'n way

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Zimbabwe dollars, yeah sure. -- nm - Loyola Sep 15, 14:56
Pfft Pocket Change -- nm - Meg Whitman Sep 15, 14:56
It's probably more like 247 million. If you figure they give away on average about $50,000 per show and do about 150 shows a year, that would be in - pmb Sep 15, 14:55 7
- but there is no way they were giving away that much in the 70's when it premiered. -- nm - Beaker Sep 15, 14:56 5
  - I know that, but there were also daytime and night time versions of the show back then. It's possible that they've also taken whatever was given away - pmb Sep 15, 14:58
  - even in to the 80s when you still bought your prizes. - Reagen Sep 15, 14:57 3
    - I loved that part of the game. When you'd see the people looking around thinking "I really don't want any of this crap. Can't I just have the cash?" -- nm - pmb Sep 15, 14:59 2
      - "I'll take the pack of gum, and the rest on a gift certificate. ... What?" -- nm - Reagen Sep 15, 15:06
      - "Four hundred dollars for a matching set of towels? Oh eff you, Sajak." (nm) - musubi Sep 15, 15:00
- even that seems high. -- nm - Reagen Sep 15, 14:56
no, it doesn't give out close to 50 million in prizes per episode. -- nm - Reagen Sep 15, 14:53
Makes no sense. That's 25k every day, 365 days a year, for 27 years -- nm - Guigue Sep 15, 14:52 13
- I think that's 25,000 years. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Sep 15, 14:54 2
  - 27,000. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Sep 15, 14:55 1
    - 27,001! -- nm - Beaker Sep 15, 14:55
- its way more than that. -- nm - TFox Sep 15, 14:54
- Mmm no, it's 25,000,000 every day -- nm - Guigue Sep 15, 14:53 8
  - (There have been about 5000 episodes) -- nm - Reagen Sep 15, 14:54 7
    - just think how much money has been lost buying vowels -- nm - crash davis Sep 15, 14:55 6
      - "It's a four letter word that starts with L and ends in K. Did you really need to be spotted the Os?" -- nm - Reagen Sep 15, 14:57 5
        
        "'lark', mothereffer. dang." -- nm - TFox Sep 15, 15:04 4
        
        "Lark out? ... the fuck does that mean?" -- nm - Reagen Sep 15, 15:12 2
        
        "it was just 'lark _ut'. that shit could be anything!" -- nm - TFox Sep 15, 15:17 1
        
        "Three loins in the fountain!" -- nm - Reagen Sep 15, 15:20
        
        lick me -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 15, 15:06
that's hard to believe. their prizes aren't that big. -- nm - loosilu at work Sep 15, 14:51

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