# Discussion thread for the "Polls only" thread (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 16, 2024, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636 "2024-02-16T02:56:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 244
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/4862 "2024-12-12T16:49:48Z")
We stayed in a large hotel with a room # 66…on the 6th floor. 👹 Kinda surprised me that they didn’t give it a different room number, at least on that floor ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/4863 "2024-12-12T17:07:50Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > Kinda surprised me that they didn’t give it a different room number, at least on that floor I got a phone many years ago and was handed a list of numbers available to choose from. Two or three numbers were highlighted. The salesperson told me they were highlighted as potentially offensive numbers I probably would not want. I immediately chose one of the “offensive” numbers and to this day still have it. My number starts with two 6s, and ends with 666. I love it! ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/4864 "2024-12-12T17:45:22Z")
In the Asian hotels I’ve stayed in, they had no floor 13 and also no floor containing the number 4. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/4865 "2024-12-12T17:54:31Z")
In case anyone is puzzled by that, the number “4” is [considered unlucky](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraphobia) in Chinese culture because it is pronounced similarly to the word for “death”. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/4866 "2024-12-12T18:08:44Z")
I’ve been in a green room, and got to play with the equipment, putting myself in front of various scenes. But I’ve never actually used one, for real. It was a real green room, though, that the insurance institute for highway safety uses to record some press releases. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/4867 "2024-12-12T18:24:30Z")
I took Green Room to mean the room where the actors for a film or video hang out until their role is called. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/4868 "2024-12-12T18:38:40Z")
I took it to mean the room with the green screen. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/4869 "2024-12-12T19:08:17Z")
@Mollie_Magill is right, a green room is the holding area for people who are going to be interviewed, what @puzzlegal was thinking of is a green _screen_ ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/4870 "2024-12-12T19:17:12Z")
“[Green room](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_room)” is a commonly used term for the room where actors, talk show guests, etc, hang out before they’re called to the set. Given the context I’m sure that’s what the poll was referring to. (And I see I was ninja’ed on that while I was typing the rest of my post). My TV appearances: - I marched in my town’s Christmas parade, which was broadcast on the local public access cable channel. - I was in the audience of Nick Arcade, a game show on Nickelodeon in the 90s. I admit I didn’t actually see the episode, but they definitely got footage of us cheering in the audience and I was seated towards the front, so there’s a very good chance I was visible in the episode, so I am counting it. - I was interviewed by one of the local news channels when I was in college regarding the football game that night, but I didn’t catch the news that day so I have no idea if they actually used the footage. I suspect probably not. - But I also when I was in college the marching band was invited to appear on a local show about local high school sports. They normally featured a high school band, but on that day they band that was supposed to be there canceled at the last minute, and since their studio was right across the street from campus they invited us to replace them, figuring we could do it on short notice. So I’m counting that as “something similar” to the local news. It aired at something like 11:30 on Friday night. ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/4871 "2024-12-12T19:22:06Z")
TV appearances. Junior and senior years, I competed for my school on a quiz show that matched up local high school teams. We lost both times. 😢 ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/4872 "2024-12-12T19:25:34Z")
I’ve been in a green room as a guest of the band, and on TV as an academic saying stupid things (I did not do a good job). ---
**Author:** ![RollOutTheBarrel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rolloutthebarrel/32/1649_2.png) [@RollOutTheBarrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RollOutTheBarrel)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/4873 "2024-12-12T20:24:55Z")
I have a 69 in my number. (I didn’t get a choice). So far, no one has made a joke or otherwise acknowledged it when I’ve given my number which surprises me a little. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/4874 "2024-12-12T20:34:07Z")
I was one of a group of four in a local television commercial. I had to walk and carry a clipboard. I think I did ok. It got a lot of air time for a few months before it went to the land of dead commercials. mmm ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/4875 "2024-12-12T20:37:57Z")
I’ve been seen on TV in the background of sporting events, been interviewed by a TV news team about current events (decades ago) and have been a presenter on local public television multiple times, usually teaching people how to home brew. I was also shown on a local news segment playing Santa Claus to a group of children at a Women’s shelter one Christmas. My local sponsored the gifting from all the regulars. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/4876 "2024-12-12T20:37:58Z")
The local news used my high school for stock footage, so for about two years, whenever there was a story about education, there would be a lingering close-up of me pretending to work. When Dawson’s Creek was filming, they would often put out casting calls for extras. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/4877 "2024-12-12T21:24:52Z")
I’ve been at lots of public events that are televised, and may well have been briefly identifiable on screen. But maybe not. So i don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/4878 "2024-12-12T21:46:34Z")
> [@RollOutTheBarrel](#): > > I have a 69 in my number. (I didn’t get a choice). I was in the Class of '69. We didn’t get a choice, either; though I think fewer people knew the slang sense in 1969. Certainly some people did, though. I had a vague idea of what I thought a green room was, but it was vague enough that I picked that I didn’t know. Reading the thread above, that was the right decision: I had thought it was a room with a green screen set up in it. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/4879 "2024-12-12T22:12:34Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > I took Green Room to mean the room where the actors for a film or video hang out until their role is called. Yes, and I was in one for a talk I was gonna give, and a long time ago as security. I was interviewed on the news and was a news feature twice. I marched in a couple parades during High School, but you really couldnt recognize me. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/4880 "2024-12-12T22:15:49Z")
Yeah, i should have done that. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2024, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/4881 "2024-12-13T03:36:15Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > I was in the Class of '69. We didn’t get a choice, either; though I think fewer people knew the slang sense in 1969. That was my graduating year as well…on Friday the 13th!!! I was on a local CBS affiliate debate show for high school kids at Television City in Hollywood. I can remember my friends in the audience raised their hands when the warm-up guy asked if anyone was from out of town. When he asked them which town they said “Culver City!” He was not amused. I think I’ve told the story before, but when we were chosen for the show, we were given our topic, then, we had something like three months to prepare. Then, we’d go to the studio, tape the show, and it would be broadcast the following week (the taping and airing were both Saturdays). Well, our topic was “Should the US stop the bombing of North Vietnam?” We were the pro side, and our opponents (a bunch of YAFers from Burbank High) were the con side. Perfect. The Tuesday (IIRC) after we taped our show LBJ announced that he called for the cessation of the bombing. We said were so good he was convinced by us without even seeing the show! They went ahead and aired the show. We won, of course. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=243) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=245)