Tips for BB3 contestants
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| Whit4you | Tuesday, August 21, 2001 - 12:33 am 
Well I think we can include some tips and suggestions on how to "get in" to BB3 - but personally in this thread I wanna focus on how to win over America... the tough net audience... and perhaps how to win... based I guess on the current format though I can't imagine them doing this format again.
Anyhow - another thread reminded me of this and I'm soooooooo going to emphisize this..
Win or lose the game - entertain US - the net audience. I have alot of friends who watched the "show" last year on TV - who could barely tell you who Josh or Eddie of BB1 are now... some guys on a tv game show... but they are practically worshipped here now... and will be for a many years to come.
Mike and Kent both mentioned BBFC - they know they are being watched 24/7 .. they know their every word is being recorded... and documented here...
PLAY to that audience... talk to the cams "US" make us laugh .. make us smile .. entertain us - make us remember who you are.
t years from not i'll remember a few BB2'ers - Kent being one of them for his friendship with Bunky and the way they entertained us .. the net audience.
There are alot of other suggestions on what to do and how to act etc on BB3 if you are crazy enough to want to apply but that's my #1 suggestion
any others? |
| Snee | Tuesday, August 21, 2001 - 12:53 am
*DEFINITELY play to the audience! clever asides right to us would make us LOVE you. let us in on the joke
*wash your hands, people!
*don't swear so much because some of us are sensitive.
*don't pretend that YOU are always honest when you aren't. we know better.
*don't mix alcohol and any over the counter or prescription meds. we worry!
*a little self-deprecation is nice.
*a little crying goes a looooooooong way.
*use only first names when telling stories so we don't have to go to the front door.
*try to talk about something besides strategy, keeping in mind that we only want to hear so many tales of youth excess.
*toothbrushes are for brushing teeth. (or polishing nooks and crannies in silver.)
*learn some stupid human tricks.
*no violent talk/actions, please. we frown on that.
*don't speed talk so our lfp'ers get sore, frustrated fingers.
*don't call us names or we'll send flint or ryn or somebody in to 'moderate' your sorry a$$es! |
| Rainbowz | Tuesday, August 21, 2001 - 01:04 am
Well, some tips on getting your self ready to be in the house.
For a couple of months prior to getting into the house, ask your friends to select random days when they'll charm the pants off of you. Then on other random days, they are to berate and insult you. This will help you get a feel for the roller-caoser ride of attitudes you'll face in the house.
Locate the person you dislike the most in your neighbourhood, preferably someone with a serious evil, unfriendly attitude. Make friends with them and see if you can't get them to like you while they still hate every one else.
Walk around your house and talk to the pictures on the wall and small objects on the table as if they were cameras. Tell the hanging plant in your kitchen all about your day.
Encourage your family/housemates talk to each other and suddenly stop and switch subjects when you walk into the room. This will help build your ability to spot when you are being dissed behind your back. Also, practice this same trick with your family but about another person, to hone your skills at Quick Topic Switch.
Make up odd, but only slightly untrue stories about yourself. See how long you can keep this half-truth believable. Then go all out and make up really wild lies and see if you can get anyone to believe it.
Watch TV shows and start to include these plot lines into your daily conversation as if this had actually happened to you. See how many people you can fool.
Don't leave your house for several weeks. Don't watch TV or play on the computer, learn several card games and how to teach them to others.
Eat nothing but peanut butter and jam sandwiches for a week at a time. Get on the internet and look up nifty ways of serving these limited ingredients.
Pick three or four friends who all know each other and start spreading rumours to the others about one. But stand by the one friend telling them how awful the others are to think that about her/him. Do as much damage as you can without ever seeming to be the cause. |
| Whit4you | Tuesday, August 21, 2001 - 01:11 am
RFLMAO!!! This is toooooooooooo funny...
*don't speed talk so our lfp'ers get sore, frustrated fingers
I can't stop laughing... 
Ya dammit!!!!!! Remember we are TRYING to type everything you say... it aint easy have you tried it????? If not you better do so at least once before you join the house!! Just go to the live feed area and spend 15 min trying to repeat what they are saying.. just once I dare you!!
Oh and those hard words... SPELL them out for us LFPs.. give us a break cut us some slack.. and spell it for us like ...
"Julie - ya know I could substantiate that .. psst LFPs that's sub*stan*ti*ate <wink>"
Now I'm INTO interrupting - I won't even BE friends with someone who cant inturupt - however when as a LFP - remember when your in that house how dang hard it is to type what 3 peeps are saying at once... so be sure and say.. one at a time there are peeps out there trying to type this shi* !!!!
Snee - I luv ya.. it's been a really rough week for me of a personal nature - and I look I guess for this site to make me smile - (the queen for a day on my capture of thursday's Kent chat did that) and your post definately did that |
| Rainbowz | Tuesday, August 21, 2001 - 01:15 am
Practice crying in front of a mirror. Say a tearry "goodbye" to someone you can't stand every day for a few weeks. Try to make sure that your sadness and sobbing is totally believable from day one to the last day. Learn to shed tears on cue. |
| Whit4you | Tuesday, August 21, 2001 - 01:24 am
ok I got some hehe...
first and this really doesn't have to do with your success overall but .. mention BBFC - it made our day when Kent and Mike did!
now in all caps cause I am shouting
MAKE UP GAMES!!!!!!!!
Get creative sheesh - I was raised on a ranch .. the perverbial .. stick and ball only I didn't have balls... but yet I entertained myself and friends for months on end. INVENT games - invent ideas - invent fun things to do - take a look at what's in your hand..what's around you - what you can do with a peice of cloth.. with week old bread..just GET creative.. invent some games - some hobbies some things to do that would be fun.. don't rely on BB to enterain you that isn't their job.. their job is to get 3 hours a week of footage..period. |
| Suzilovesbb | Tuesday, August 21, 2001 - 01:31 am
More ways to prepare yourself for the BB house:
If possible, sleep next door to a construction site and practice knocking your consciousness back with Nytol, Nyquil, Nitecaps, etc.
Once you're in the house, keep in mind:
Try to keep the b****ing down to a dull roar.
Talk around the word "banners" so we don't get FOTH.
PLEASE (Bunky, are you listening?)keep the crying jags down to a minimum.
If you want to stay in the game, don't put everyone into your private hell because you've been nominated. There is always another alliance or deal to be made.
Assume your loved ones are pround of you.
No matter what, don't start threatening to walk out! You will get freaked out and paranoid but don't walk out, even if you're certain that's what the producers had wanted in the lst place (yeah, right George) |
| Curtisahahahaha | Tuesday, August 21, 2001 - 07:31 am
Make sure you let people know up front that you are a liar. That's what you do. That's who you are. It seems to endear you to people. |
| Snoopie | Tuesday, August 21, 2001 - 07:49 am
Apply if you have nothing better to do for a summer than listen to others whine and cry constantly. A good start would be to spend a month or two in a daycare center with the kids having no rules to follow. If this is you and you no morals and are ready to be stabbed in the back time and time again then enjoy your summer at BB3. |
| Carlierae | Tuesday, August 21, 2001 - 07:56 am
STAY AT HOME. |
| Snee | Tuesday, August 21, 2001 - 11:24 am
happy to be able to do something for you, whit! |
| Paulyace | Tuesday, August 21, 2001 - 12:25 pm
Note: The following post is done in satrical fashion, and should only be taken semi-seriously.
If I were a BB3 contestant, I would:
1. Provided the format is the same, walk up to the HOH and say nominate me.
2. After nominated, I would tell every HG to vote me out.
3. After being evicted, I would give an interview that would make Kent's look like a Sunday school picnic.
4. After being free to talk to the media, I would spare no details and give them the inside story of BB3, contract be damned.
And, If I was still allowed to come back for the jury, I would refuse to vote in the finale. After all, I should have won, since I was smart enough to get out right away!
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| Snee | Saturday, August 25, 2001 - 12:50 am
bump` |
| Suzilovesbb | Saturday, August 25, 2001 - 01:28 am
The real secret to winning these reality shows and coming out smelling like a rose with the public is this:
Never get emotionally involved with another player. I've always felt that was the secret of Richard Hatch's success. He sat back and watched, detatched, as Kelly and Sue tried to tear each other apart emotionally. That was their downfall. This is the way Will is playing and in my opinion he is winning this game. He's hands down the brightest player, and I'm taking bets his smarts take him to the top. He really knows how to play people without making them hate him.
Keeping with the topic, use your sense of humor to diffuse negative feelings when possible. A fun personality alone got Gervase a long way on Survivor.
Even if you are in an alliance with someone strategies and loyalties change quickly, allies are voted out, people even get kicked out for breaking the rules or some have threatened to walk of BB1 & BB2. Be alert and on your toes and ready for any adjustments you must make in your plan. Again never let the other players affect your emotions. Use your emotions to play them, not the other way around.
I guess this is more how to win the game than please the audience but a good player is much more interesting and fun to watch, ie Richard Hatch & Will. I think the reason Will has not been getting banners is because people are enjoying his dastardly plan as much as he is and they don't want him to stop! |
| Lurknomore | Saturday, August 25, 2001 - 09:14 am
Great thread but I think we are forgetting the all important things we MUST do between now and then so we will be considered for the show:
1) This seems to be the most important. If you do not currently have an arrest record GO GET ONE!
2) If you are a "real person" and currently don't act, model or have an agent that must be fixed. Move it folks...we must go out and learn how to act real.
3) Remember to forget. It seems important in the audition phase that one never heard of, saw, watched or perish the thought went to a web site for Big Brother. Just repeat after me...BBFC? Is that where those internet freaks and nerds gather?? 
I think it is also important to think of every dark story in your life. If you don't have enough make up a few. If you can do all this THEN you'll be ready to apply for BB3
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| Highlander | Saturday, August 25, 2001 - 09:16 am
Do Not get on that plane!!!!! |
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