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Intangibelle
Member
06-21-2006
| Sunday, July 02, 2006 - 9:21 am
I've only been around about two seasons, since one of my best friends <cough> spent a lot of our long distance time talking about BB. It is addictive! --I
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Bbpeach
Member
07-07-2005
| Sunday, July 02, 2006 - 11:54 am
I've been a lurker here since BB1. At the time, only had a computer at work so relied on Live Feed transcripts to keep me up to date. I remember during Season 2, when Nicole, Will and Monica were on the bed for HOH comp, after the show ended, my sister and I couldn't wait to find out who won, so went over to the neighbor's to borrow her laptop to get on and find out!! I was on phone to one sis, who was on her cell to other sis cheering when Nicole was out!! All courtesy of TVCH!! I'm basically a lurker who speaks out every once in a while. Who knows, maybe in the seventh year, I'll learn to speak up more! 
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Sunday, July 02, 2006 - 6:55 pm
Pamy - Whatever brought you here is all good to me! I truly think that I am your (elder) alter ego!!
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Watching2
Member
07-07-2001
| Sunday, July 02, 2006 - 9:53 pm
Awwwwwwwwww {{{{{{Sharebear}}}}}}}!!! I've been here since Fred was pedaling the bike out front to run the computer and Barney was in the back pedaling to run to TV set.   teehee
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Sharebear
Member
09-16-2001
| Sunday, July 02, 2006 - 11:25 pm
Pamy~ I can relate with the deployments, my hubby leaves again soon for his third. Bearware~ Hiya, I like the name. ;) I remember Tobor too, hopefully Tobor checks in soon. Watching~ ***big bear hugs*** To you! Have missed ya. 
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Sunday, July 02, 2006 - 11:46 pm
LOL Tnt!! I wish we lived closer so we could raise hell more often! Sharebear,,,we shall all be here for you during his deployment (((share))) I think Tobor huffed off last year
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Tanzanite
Member
06-29-2005
| Monday, July 03, 2006 - 12:27 am
BbPeach, don't be left out join right on in post post post and be sure to LOL a lot it's great fun around here
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Battlestar
Member
07-28-2005
| Monday, July 03, 2006 - 12:54 pm
I was here when Jordan was sobbing about being a stripper...and Curtis patiently listened. Did she ever write that book????
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Lanzee
Member
07-12-2000
| Monday, July 03, 2006 - 9:20 pm
Wow!! I fell in love to be a BB Deaf fan on the very first day of BB1. I hook up and just loved the FREE live feeds in a big time! That was so heavenly gift. Except, I missed the CLOSED CAPTIONS!! GRRR!!! Frustrated, screamed and Helpless!!! I decided to search, search and search for the live feeds transcripts on the net to help me to understand what HGs said since I am Deaf. Finally, I found and slide down to the amazing TVCH BB transcripts. I loved to kiss it all over. It's best ever I got the transcripts to read along watch the live feeds. Many thanks to fantastic live feeds posters in all BB seasons. You all are the BEST!!! I am counting you again this summer. You go, TVCH!!!  U know what? Still, no closed captions on live feeds today. It's unbelievable! U rock! Lanzee \lm/ P.S. I used to be a BB angel. Even I met some BB HGs, too. Many awesome BB memories!!
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Tanzanite
Member
06-29-2005
| Tuesday, July 04, 2006 - 2:46 am
Happy 4th of July - Independence Day - You have a Republic, if you can keep it.
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Tuesday, July 04, 2006 - 9:06 am
Lurked during the Big Brother Fan Club days from the beginning when all the first houseguests were kept separate and arrived one at a time to the house. Julie was standing like a statue in front of the cameras telling us about the house and what was happening. The posters would be telling us about the noises and faces seen behind the mirrors as well as the hgs. During the show I fell in love with all the BB Angels and their antics of sneaking around then fleeing with security or cops chasing them, then they came to BBFC and told us how they got away! It was during the next BB season that I started posting.
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Tobor7
Member
07-19-2002
| Wednesday, July 05, 2006 - 6:45 pm
Tobor was here. Tobor has always been here... like the caretaker of the Overlook Hotel.
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Cricket
Member
08-05-2002
| Wednesday, July 05, 2006 - 7:21 pm
Well, I'll be darned! I've been thinking about you. Should have known you were around. Glad to see you here. Can't wait to see your take on the All Stars..umm, Returnees. ETA...On topic, I've been here since BB2. Didn't like the show that much, but loved it here. Now I'm hooked!
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Csnog
Member
07-18-2002
| Wednesday, July 05, 2006 - 7:45 pm
Csnog has been here wondering how Tober7 comes up with some of his mind games. Been around the site since season 2. Fly answered my first question and I was put at ease about posting.
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Wednesday, July 05, 2006 - 7:48 pm
Big Brother brought me to TVCH. I was obsessed with BB1, when I was working from home in Whistler, and sorta bored with living in a ski resort when I didn't ski. To be honest, I gave up on Big Brother around BB3. I'm no longer interested. But I'm still at TVCH. I saw this under "new messages" and thought I'd post. Enjoy the season... and if I could vote anyone back into the house, it'd be my boyfriend Curtis from BB1!!!!
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Watching2
Member
07-07-2001
| Wednesday, July 05, 2006 - 8:08 pm
Sharebear - Be sure to join us here Military Family Support while your DH is deployed! So glad to have you back!! 
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Drifter83204
Member
02-22-2005
| Wednesday, July 05, 2006 - 10:04 pm
Tobor - So glad you're here. I was worried.
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Carol_shelly
Member
07-07-2004
| Thursday, July 06, 2006 - 9:16 am
lurking since bb1. This place makes Big Brother..Big Brother. Many thanks to all of you.
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Jagger
Member
08-07-2002
| Thursday, July 06, 2006 - 9:20 am
I was here during BB2, at the beginning when most people hated Will and I was cheering him on. I agree that this place makes BB what it is, the best reality show out there. Without a place to talk about their every move it would just be your typical reality show.
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Bblovergirl
Member
07-07-2005
| Thursday, July 06, 2006 - 11:06 am
I too have lurked here since BB2, but felt funny posting. Now I jump in every once in a while but mostly love reading other posters. It always feels like a big family - the kind that loves and hates each other at times, but always comes back. BB just wouldn't be the same without you guys.
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Thursday, July 06, 2006 - 11:09 am
Hey BBlvoer! How are you?
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Lafatme
Member
06-23-2005
| Thursday, July 06, 2006 - 11:11 am
started watching the night of the first eviction on BB1, came to tvch right after brittany was evicted because i had to vent somewhere.
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Bblovergirl
Member
07-07-2005
| Thursday, July 06, 2006 - 11:28 am
Hey Scooterrific!!! How are you? I'm fine. I don't want to go into the Katrina thing, but I live in a suburb of New Orleans and had a lot of cleaning up to do over the last months. But things for us are finally looking up and even back to normal - heck Big Brother's back and I have my computer to come see you guys with again. I can't wait to lose myself in Big Brother 7 if only for a while. Thanks for asking.
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Thursday, July 06, 2006 - 11:30 am
Glad to hear your safe BBLovergirl....glad you're back!!
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Mamapors
Member
07-29-2004
| Thursday, July 06, 2006 - 11:32 am
((Bblovergirl)) Happy to see you!!
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Therlin
Member
05-13-2005
| Thursday, July 06, 2006 - 11:36 am
I was here during the BB Angels group, I even made their logo. They went on a lot of recognizance missions. I also remember when the HGs decided that they were all going to live the show on a weekend and the intern in charge was so nervous and you could hear it in his voice. I remember calling all my BB addict friends so that they would get online and watch and I couldn't reach anyone and I was going crazy because I had to share it with everyone. Thankfully BB Fan Club (as this place was originally called before being TVCH) helped me through the day.
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Bblovergirl
Member
07-07-2005
| Thursday, July 06, 2006 - 11:51 am
Awww-thanks. I'm glad to be back. Hmmmm, wish I could say the same about some of the HG's back. Ugh!!!
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Thursday, July 06, 2006 - 12:01 pm
I wasn't sure where to post this (apologize in advance if it ends up needing to be moved), but thought some might be interested in this article, which mostly talks about Season 1 in relation to AllStars: http://www.nj.com/columns/ledger/sepinwall/index.ssf?/base/columns-0/115216450229570.xml&coll=1 Can "Chicken man" save a fetid hen house? Thursday, July 06, 2006 GO, CHICKEN George! Go! Tonight at 8, CBS presents "Big Brother: All-Stars." Feel free to pause here for either laughter or a dumbsquizzled expression at the idea that the phrase "All-Stars" could be applied to anyone who's ever been on "Big Brother," the red-headed step-child of CBS' reality division. It's not as popular as "Survivor," not remotely as good as "The Amazing Race," but it's cheap and it has an audience, which is good for at least seven summer seasons, counting this new one. To me, the outrage isn't that pathetic fame junkies like Mike "Boogie" Malin (if you're over 26 and still calling yourself "Boogie," you're in need of an intervention) are getting an extension of the 15 minutes of fame that is now apparently every American's birthright. No, it's that "Chicken" George Boswell is the only member of the cast of potential "All-Stars" (the field of 20 will be whittled down to 12 tonight by the Julie Chen Host-amatic 9000 artificial lifeform) from the first season, which was either the series' best and worst edition, depending on your point of view. That first year was one of the most colossal trainwrecks to ever grace primetime, and certainly for such an extended period. It was produced by the same group of Dutchmen responsible for popular "Big Brother" franchises around the world, and followed the same model as its international predecessors: 10 non-celebrities locked in a house for an entire summer, with the audience at home voting someone out every other week until the last person standing won $500,000. Whether the global versions were better made or the non-American audience just has a higher tolerance for junk, I don't know, but the Americanized "Big Brother" was a fiasco from the very first episode, which spent most of its hour on endless biographical clips about each "houseguest," with only two or three minutes actually spent inside the house, wrapping up with a humiliated Chen reading, "That was in-tense!" off a cue card. Things went downhill from there, as the audience systematically eliminated anyone with even a trace of a personality: Will "Mega," a hostile ex-Black Panther; Jordan the catty stripper; Karen the chain-smoking housewife who went on the show to get away from her loveless marriage, etc. By the time the voters dumped spunky, heavily-pierced Brittany, the remaining contestants figured out which way the wind was blowing and proceeded to spend the rest of the summer acting as boring as possible. (For many of them, this wasn't a noticeable change.) The international versions had been filled with sexual tension and catfights, but the closest the American show got to sex was Brittany and male model Josh almost kissing, then spending an hour discussing why they shouldn't. And with everyone trying to make nice with each other and the audience, it became obvious how threadbare the whole show was, with lame competitions involving jigsaw puzzle-building or stationary bike-riding, and other non-activities like taking care of the chicken coop in the backyard. (Hence George Boswell's nickname.) And because CBS was airing as many as five episodes a week, that was a whole lot of nothing Things got so bad you could practically hear the producers tearing their hair out from the control room hidden in the bowels of the house. (Frankly, a documentary about them would have been more entertaining.) Casting about for something, anything, to spice things up, they gathered the remaining contestants together and offered up $50,000 (equivalent to the third-place prize) for anyone willing to walk out immediately. The producers had reached into their familiar sex-and-fighting bag o' tricks by hiring a bikini-clad troublemaker to join the cast as a replacement, but no one took the exit bribe. Ironically, a few weeks after that, the houseguests, led by Chicken George, decided they had had enough of being televised lab rats and prepared for a mass exit, only to be talked out of it off-camera. (I still have no idea why; the walk-out would have been the most compelling thing all season.) Now, if this disaster were unfolding today, the show would have been canceled inside of a month. But this was the summer of 2000, the Wild Wild West of reality TV ("Survivor" had debuted only weeks before), and it hadn't occurred to anyone in the TV business that you could just pull the plug on a serialized game show the same way you would a struggling sitcom or drama. So "Big Brother" one limped to the finish line (one-legged pottymouth Eddie McGee won the grand prize), CBS promptly divorced themselves from the Dutch masterminds and brought in veteran producer Arnold Shapiro to reinvent the series. Having proved that it could not be trusted to contribute to an entertaining television show, the audience had its voting rights revoked forever, replaced by a watered-down "Survivor" where the contestants formed alliances and voted each other out. Now, pretty much every move Shapiro and partner Allison Grodner made was an upgrade: more contestants, weekly instead of biweekly eliminations, only three episodes a week, better casting, etc. But the new and improved "Big Brother" is, at best, an average mash-up of "Survivor" and "The Real World." You watch it because it's on. With that first season, you watched because you couldn't believe the show could possibly get worse -- until it did, over and over again. And that's why I'm pulling for Chicken George to go all the way. Somebody's gotta represent the poor, forgotten innocents of that first season. And, hey, if Amber could fly under the radar to win "Survivor: All-Stars," maybe no one on "Big Brother" will realize what a threat the Chicken man is until it's far too late.
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