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webber
duck can rock
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Tue Jan 31, 2026 9:19 pm
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Hey Nick your criticism of Deal or No Deal is only valid if people are risk neutral, whereas the vast majority of people are risk-averse (they will prefer a sure $50,000 over a 50/50 shot at $100,000 or nothing), especially when it comes to large amounts of money.
Your article made me Thomas Haden Church though! |
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Jim
Awesome. Awesome to the max.
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Tue Jan 31, 2026 9:33 pm
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Nick and Bill made me laugh, while Emily damn-near made me cry. Good stuff.
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Kirbyoto
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Tue Jan 31, 2026 10:03 pm
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"You know, I never had to ride a bus before."
"Oh, I get it. One of those fancy pants money kids, eh? No need for buses when you got stay-at-home mommy to drive you to Lil' Yuppie private school since daddy stockbroker pays all the bills, huh? Never taught you the words for 'lower income public transportation' while you were sitting cross-legged on the floor flipping through your Learn Latin Like Lightning flash cards in between play breaks building working ethanol combustion engines with Erector Set pieces, eh? Don't see many buses go by when your gated community is surrounded by eight foot stone walls and watch towers posted every 50 feet to keep the Mexicans out, is that it? But then daddy pushed his luck a little too far on 4000 shares of Compuglobochem Inc. and had to sell the house to keep the loan sharks mommy didn't know he was dealing with from driving nails into his teeth and then got busted on embezzlement and insider trading charges and now daddy's drinking sparkling spring water and playing tennis in white collar prison so mommy has to relocate to Shithole, USA because it's all she can afford and you're forced to slum it with us proles on our rickety antediluvian autocarriages while mommy gets her ass slapped by fat, sweaty bags of flannel at a truckstop diner, is that how it is??"
"No, I mean my old school was within walking distance."
"Oh. It's over there." |
I have no words, Bill. No words. So instead I want to empathically send you my feelings of how awesome this is.
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Nick
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Tue Jan 31, 2026 10:39 pm
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| Hey Nick your criticism of Deal or No Deal is only valid if people are risk neutral, whereas the vast majority of people are risk-averse (they will prefer a sure $50,000 over a 50/50 shot at $100,000 or nothing), especially when it comes to large amounts of money. |
For a risk averse person you could then draw another line, maybe not the even money I would employ. The person should be prepared enough to have a ratio in their head that when the money is not favorable towards that ratio they gamble.
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| Your article made me Thomas Haden Church though! |
| Jim wrote: |
| Nick and Bill made me laugh, while Emily damn-near made me cry. Good stuff. |
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Jim
Awesome. Awesome to the max.
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Tue Jan 31, 2026 10:48 pm
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| If Bob Barker stole $700 worth of automatic firearms and killed every band on Billboard's Hot 100 chart the public wouldn't mind as long as he said “Time forrrrr Plinkoooo!!!” afterwards. |
That is fucking hilarious. Fo reals.
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Kayleigh
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Tue Jan 31, 2026 10:54 pm
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Emily, that article was short and bittersweet and absolutely amazing. It made me full out cry, which is some sort of compliment I swear.
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webber
duck can rock
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Tue Jan 31, 2026 11:15 pm
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| For a risk averse person you could then draw another line, maybe not the even money I would employ. The person should be prepared enough to have a ratio in their head that when the money is not favorable towards that ratio they gamble. |
Well, interestingly (for me), Deal or No Deal is turning out to be very popular with economists, because of the things it can teach us about human behaviour. For example, you can compare the responses of people on the street when you give them a hypothetical situation, and compare that to outcomes that actually happen on Deal or No Deal, to see how being on television skews people's behaviour. Are men more affected by this than women? Young vs old? You could also compare the risk aversion of different nations (Deal or No Deal is also in Australia and Holland that I know of). How exciting!! |
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Daniel
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Tue Jan 31, 2026 11:40 pm
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So, I liked Nick's article a lot because it made me laugh, and because Howie Mandel looks like a d-bag. Bill's article made me laugh because Bill is a funny son of a bitch and becau-
I liked Emily's article the most.
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Greg
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Wed Feb 01, 2026 1:53 am
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Best Week Ever. n.
1. A television show on VH1 that attempt to be funny but end up shitting their pants, not unlike Talk Soup or that show that replaced Talk Soup.
2. The week of Jan. 31st, 2006 on the website Progressive Boink.
Good job, everyone!
EEEEEEEVERYOONE!!+
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endlessmike
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Wed Feb 01, 2026 3:34 am
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3 fantastic pieces of writing.
emily's work completes me, and bill and nick's show me the money
my feedback posting net is stuck in a time warp for now |
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Mike
The king of pop
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ROAR
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Bismark
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Wed Feb 01, 2026 3:34 pm
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Kudos all around, but Em's article was pretty damn amazing. The first part is every damn day of my life.
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mreow
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| Emily's article is wonderful. Never stop writing please. |
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Poseph
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Wed Feb 01, 2026 8:36 pm
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| mreow wrote: |
| Emily's article is wonderful. Never stop writing please. |
Quoted for emphasis. This goes for all of you, actually.
Updates like this remind me why I love this website. Three peices of work that move me in a different way. Okay, both Bill and Nick just moved me to Thomas Haden Church, but there's nothing wrong with that.
I know you feel a little unsure about these types of updates Emily, but this type of thing is what I look forward to most from you. Your honesty has always been what really set you apart to me. Not an easy thing to read without being a little bit teary, but it was excellent.
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Rusty Cooledge
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Easily my favorite Emily post ever and ranks up there in my favorite Breakfast Serious pieces done on this site. Just fuckin incredible. I too wish to be a writer though I feel I will be stuck at some job with out being able to pursue that ideal. The handicap that stops me from becomming a full out writer is my complete inability to describe things as they are, like they teach you in writing class. I usually find myself using metaphores with brand name products and erasing synonyms for the words I try to get away from.
In other words, Emily, your article wasn't just terrific, it was awesome. And as appealing to me as a Hershey's chocolate bar. A really big one.
Nick's summary of Deal or No Deal had me laughing pretty hard. I've never seen the show but instead was first exposed to it as a flash game touted "AS SEEN ON TV" and I immediately hated it. Glad someone else feels the same way.
Bill, well, fuck. Hilarious. The jokes always sneak up on me and piece themselves together instantly for a shock laugh at any given time in a Bill piece, and it is always gold.
Terrific week this week.
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wee bull
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Fri Feb 03, 2026 5:39 am
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I just though I'd have to add my own input here.
I very rarely read the Breakfast Serious pieces on here. They often make me feel slightly uncomfortable, and I find them a bit hard to relate to, so I usually lose interest fairly quickly. However, I clicked on the link to Emily's piece yesterday out of curiosity and I couldn't leave my computer until I'd finished reading the entire thing.
I really can't think of the appropriate words to express how good it was and how much it moved me, but whatever they are, that's what that piece was. Don't ever stop writing Emily, you've got a real talent. |
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Shamrock
what you are any of your yes-men
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Fri Feb 03, 2026 4:16 pm
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Nick, you're absolutely right. I watch Jeopardy! almost every day and for all I know, Alex Trebek is a CIA assassin. Also:
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| Howie Mandel's problem is that he treats the game very seriously. “There's no skill”, he admits, yet he feigns interest and tugs people along into thinking that a very tough decision is at hand. “The Banker” calls Howie via telephone (What? No floating face orb? No PA system, even?) and tells him what the offer is. Howie deliberates for a few moments, asks “Do you want to know what his offer is?”, the contestant screams “Yes! Yes! Please tell me God damnit tell me right now!”, and he says “It's a looooot of money, are you sure you want to know?”, and the contestant responds “Why would I be less inclined to know how much it is when it's a large sum?! Just tell me you Yankee!”. He then tells them a figure roughly 3-8% less than their expected return and they clasp their hands over their mouths and laugh and think about it for 20 minutes and say things like “Well, I could really use that million dollars!” to which Howie makes some joke referencing information the contestant unveiled earlier like “You could buy your cat a lot of toys with that money” or “I bet your husband would like a new rifle” and they ultimately say “NO DEAL BANKAH I WANT THAT MILLION BUCKS YOU HEAR ME YOU SON OF A BITCH NO DEAL”. |
One of my favorite Nick quotes.
As much as I love the funny stuff on this site, what really sets it apart from the rest of the internet is the never-too-often Breakfast Serious post. Emily's post made me wish that it would just stop and have a happy ending at the end and at the same time that it would just go on forever. Really, I don't think I have or ever will find content on the internet as deeply moving as the stuff on this site. Thank you so much.
And thank God for whoever decided to put Bill's article last so the last thing I read didn't make me want to slit my wrists. Every time I see Bill's name under an update, I seriously just start laughing in anticipation, then I force myself to stop because if I laugh before, once I read the article my face will hurt of over-laughing.
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Nick
B I T C H
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Fri Feb 03, 2026 6:09 pm
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You guys are the best. I'm glad you all enjoyed this week's update.
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Emily
I don't know, slow clap?
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I'm really glad as well. I know I'm a shithead who doesn't post much and almost never responds to feedback, but seriously. I worry a lot that people will hate my funny stuff, and I worry even more that they'll just roll their eyes at the Breakfast Serious. So when I can do something that you just seem to respond to so positively. . .it's just a really amazing feeling, one that I don't articulate nearly enough.
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