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spookyfish · 11-19-2005, 02:14 PM

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Originally posted by Hank's Newber Soc
Long time lurker, first time poster, so please be kind (thanks Hank, for being so welcoming here).

So at the risk of being too bold, I have an idea for spicing this forum up a bit. Remember those Choose Your Own Adventure books when we were kids? Well, I've got an idea for an adult version.

I will volunteer to sign up to an internet dating site. The board will be able to craft my site persona and my responses to all inquiries, and I will report back to the board at every step of the way, including all the intimate details of dates. Decisions will be by majority vote. The rest we can make up as we go.

If this is a stupid idea, let me know and I'll go back to lurking.

Yours,
Hank's Newber Soc

Do we get to decide who your twoo wuv will be, too?

Pretty Little Flower · 11-19-2005, 03:17 PM

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Originally posted by Hank's Newber Soc
(thanks Hank, for being so welcoming here).

Ahem.

str8outavannuys · 11-19-2005, 03:24 PM

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Originally posted by Hank's Newber Soc
Long time lurker, first time poster, so please be kind (thanks Hank, for being so welcoming here).

So at the risk of being too bold, I have an idea for spicing this forum up a bit. Remember those Choose Your Own Adventure books when we were kids? Well, I've got an idea for an adult version.

I will volunteer to sign up to an internet dating site. The board will be able to craft my site persona and my responses to all inquiries, and I will report back to the board at every step of the way, including all the intimate details of dates. Decisions will be by majority vote. The rest we can make up as we go.

If this is a stupid idea, let me know and I'll go back to lurking.

Yours,
Hank's Newber Soc

Nothing to lose -- I'm in. Would love to see if I and the rest of the lawtalkers braintrust can get laid by proxy. I think we'll need access to a photo to see what we're working with, however.

eta: A face photo, or otherwise G-rated, will be more than sufficient. I could see how my post could be easily misconstrued as a request for what would be TMI.

spookyfish · 11-19-2005, 03:59 PM

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Originally posted by str8outavannuys
...I and the rest of the lawtalkers braintrust...

There's something about this statement here that really made me laugh. No offence to anyone.

Hank Chinaski · 11-19-2005, 05:41 PM

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Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Ahem.

cool people don't post on weekends. WTTW

Pretty Little Flower · 11-19-2005, 06:52 PM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
cool people don't post on weekends. WTTW

How much later?

taxwonk · 11-19-2005, 07:57 PM

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Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
How much later?

Remember the old joke, how do you keep a [insert group you wish to insult here] in suspense?

Hank Chinaski · 11-19-2005, 09:01 PM

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Originally posted by taxwonk
Remember the old joke, how do you keep a [insert group you wish to insult here] in suspense?

2. For someone who has such blind adherence to rules, Flower seems to not be able to follow many. What's sad is that once the newber isn't new anymore, we all know Flower will attack him for transgressions much less than the rules Flower breaks, seemingly on a whim.

Did you just call me Coltrane? · 11-21-2005, 11:26 AM

YOUR SHOW HAS BEEN PULLED from the November sweeps--which equates to a near-death experience for any TV producer. What to do? Perhaps poke fun at the network that did the dirty deed.

Mitch Hurwitz, Fox's Emmy-winning "Arrested Development creator, has something like that planned; he's ready to produce an episode called "Save Our Bluths"--otherwise called " S.O.Bs,"according to Daily Variety.

In the episode, the Bluths try to save their fictional construction company--and wonder whether the Home Builders Organization--HBO--might want to save them. But when the idea is canned, George Bluth Sr. says: "I guess it's Showtime. We'll put on some kind of show at the dinner."

"Arrested Development" has never been a mass-appeal show--which TV business insiders and critics have known for some time. Thus this retort from the Jason Bateman character: "We've had plenty of chances. Maybe the Bluths just aren't worth saving. Maybe we're just not that likable. Who'd want to spend a half-hour with us if they didn't have to?"

Yes. We get it. But how many other viewers will? The average TV viewer is a bit more sophisticated these days. Regular viewers may have heard of the term "sweeps," "pilot," and, surely, "hiatus."

But this kind of episode is like playing a Beatles record backwards--witty and mythical for media historians. But there's little else. "Arrested Development" isn't quite the Beatles. Maybe just The Kinks.

It isn't quite over, as the show still goes on. Fox trimmed back future production on the number of episodes to 13.

Hurwitz blames the show's problems on what every TV producer on earth, including recently the folks at David E. Kelley Productions for "Boston Legal," says--that the show didn't get enough marketing support. But unlike "Legal" and other shows, "Arrested" isn't your usual mainstream comedy. The show's sly wit has always been tough to communicate in short 10-second or 15-second promos.

Perhaps Fox should play to the inside joke in some last-try marketing. Tell everyone in a satirical promo that unless you, the viewer, start watching, Fox is going to send the Bluths, and the actors who play them, to the unemployment line--or to work in a Venice Beach frozen banana stand.

ThurgreedMarshall · 11-21-2005, 11:36 AM

Why are we here this week? What's the point? Hardly anyone is around. Sure, I have work. But I can't be motivated to do it. I'm already on vacation. Work can suck it.

TM

Alex_de_Large · 11-21-2005, 11:38 AM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Why are we here this week? What's the point? Hardly anyone is around. Sure, I have work. But I can't be motivated to do it. I'm already on vacation. Work can suck it.

TM

2.

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) · 11-21-2005, 11:41 AM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Why are we here this week? What's the point? Hardly anyone is around. Sure, I have work. But I can't be motivated to do it. I'm already on vacation. Work can suck it.

TM

Yeah, the Man isn't giving us enough vacation.

When did thanksgiving turn into a weeklong vacation? Was it before or after lazy americans started their weekend on Thursday and spent Monday recovering?

Burger-San

ThurgreedMarshall · 11-21-2005, 11:51 AM

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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Yeah, the Man isn't giving us enough vacation.

When did thanksgiving turn into a weeklong vacation? Was it before or after lazy americans started their weekend on Thursday and spent Monday recovering?

Burger-San

You're a sell-out. You can suck it too.

TM

bilmore · 11-21-2005, 11:59 AM

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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Yeah, the Man isn't giving us enough vacation.

We obviously have different Men. I keep taking vacay, and HR keeps calling to tell me they're worried I have too many v-days left.

Hank Chinaski · 11-21-2005, 12:02 PM

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Originally posted by bilmore
We obviously have different Men. I keep taking vacay, and HR keeps calling to tell me they're worried I have too many v-days left.

Round the water cooler, when the talk turns to everyone's fav TV shows, do you just sit quietly or do you try and change the subject?