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Archive through April 15, 2008

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Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Wednesday, April 09, 2008 - 5:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
Here's Elaine's dance:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5xi4O1yi6b0&feature=related

Uh...I'm actually thinking that Ramona's real-life dancing is far worse than Elaine's, lol!

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Wednesday, April 09, 2008 - 6:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Ramona is rude <100> I couldn't believe her. I still love Luann and was rofl'g during the Mrs Delasseps(sp).

Bombaycat
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07-21-2007

Wednesday, April 09, 2008 - 8:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bombaycat a private message Print Post    
Ramona has been my least favorite housewife. Her inappropriate dress and the way she treats her daughter drives me crazy. I adore her daughter and find her to be more mature than many adults.

Her behavior on tonight's episode was over the top and inexcusable. Having said that, I understand her disappointment in the "Girl's Night Out Dinner-NOT". I'd be upset if my friends invited me to a "girls night out" and a husband/boyfriend showed up. Most men I know would cringe at the thought of spending an evening with a group of women. LOL.

I'm so over Alex/Simon. I found it interesting that their house is such a mess. They seem to be very caring/loving parents. However, impressing the Jones' (and becoming them) seems to be their sole goal in life.

Jill is the most likable, well balanced person in the group.

Vacanick
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07-12-2004

Wednesday, April 09, 2008 - 8:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vacanick a private message Print Post    
With Ramona ... even when they added the end piece with her and Bethenney opening up about their men issues and how that effected how Ramona reacted to Alex and Simon ... I still didn't buy it. Ramona was just rude. No excuse.

I thought Alex and Luann handled it beautifully. And I cracked up when Bethenney did the whole 'oh no she didn't' thing.

I doubt that Bethanney and Ramona will become true friends.

Sugar
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08-15-2000

Wednesday, April 09, 2008 - 11:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sugar a private message Print Post    
I haven't seen every episode and was surprised I wanted to watch. I have seen several of the OC episodes and am appalled by the behaviour of those women but I have kinda enjoyed a few of the NYC shows. I think there is a bit more individuality among the NYC women. My take on these ladies:

LuAnn: I didn't think I would care for her at all, that she would be a little to "front & center" for me. Actually, I think she is rather funny. She was the only one saying something about now that Simon was there he would be welcome. I thought that was classy and a nice attempt to calm Ramona down. Good for her.

Jill: I really like her. She seems funny and kind.

Bethanny: She makes me cringe. It is like watching a speeding train about to wreck. She appears to be very unhappy. IME, people who have to let us know that they are just being themselves have been unahhpy with many things about themselves. She appears to drink a lot. Even with editing, there is certainly a lot of drinking being done.

Ramona: Does she think she is the charater from the childrens books with the same name? If I remember correctly that Ramona was a handful. I think she too is very unhappy, insecure and woefully immature.

AlexSimon: Probably a good thing they found each other. I don't believe I have ever seen anytwo so desperate to climb a social ladder and think they already belong on the top rung. If they weren't so very keen on being in the public eye, would they be one of those couples that keep the wife in a locked house all day? I read that bio, can you imagine taking a newborn on a plane? Didn't the poor little thing scream in pain due to ear pressure? <100>

Cricket
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08-05-2002

Wednesday, April 09, 2008 - 2:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cricket a private message Print Post    
She also handled the messy and brokendown house well (I laughed when she talked about how Jill or LuAnn would have handled seeing Alex and Simon's home). And then she opened up with Ramona and is trying to find commonalities between them.

Great post, Hukd. I was shocked Alex/Simon's house and the peeps invited to the birthday party. It made me even more sure they are <100> and are trying to push their way into society by being seen with the 'right' people and at the 'right' places. Their house was absolutely awful. No design taste whatsoever. I'm so underwhelmed by them.

I certainly wish Luann would make a visit there. She's so up on everything, ya know..<100> Luann thinks she's all that because she's the 4th wife of a man old enough to be her father?

Cricket
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08-05-2002

Wednesday, April 09, 2008 - 3:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cricket a private message Print Post    
The discussion of "class" was priceless. And she was the one who shouldn't have accepted the invitation if she didn't intend to stay for dinner.

It was, Seamonkey. Ramona reminds me of Vicky of the Los Angeles housewives. I got where she was coming from the night of the party. Even though she was rude, the others were talking about A/S before they arrrived. Ramona just said it in front of them, lol.

Lexie_girl
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07-30-2004

Wednesday, April 09, 2008 - 3:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lexie_girl a private message Print Post    
I was mortified at Alex and Simon's townhouse. They spend $26,000.00 on a shopping spree, $10,000 on tickets to the Met and they have unfinished hardwood floors?


Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Thursday, April 10, 2008 - 1:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Oh heavens, one cannot survive with unfinished floors

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Thursday, April 10, 2008 - 4:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
While I agree that Ramona was rude at the dinner party, I kept thinking "does Simon NOT get it?" If you walked in to a party and found it out was a girls' night out, wouldn't you leave? He seemed to be clueless. And Alex. Good gawd. Bethenny calls and says "I want to invite you to a dinner party" and "it's gonna be girls' night out." So Alex asks if she could bring Simon. But the way she tells it to Simon, it's like THEY were invited to dinner, not HER.

And the Brooklyn townhouse? Whyever would you host a party, even a children's party, in a house that looked like that? I don't care if they are in the middle of a three-year remodel. You just don't invite guests over (especially someone who's never been there before) when your home looks like that. Obviously, as Lex points out, their priorities are wee bit misplaced. (And I cracked up at Bethenny "preferring" to spend time with the kids. I'm not a kid-lover but I'd have done the same thing!)

The society pages thing was also cringeworthy. I'm thinking it you wanna claw your way up in society, being a "star" on a reality TV show ain't gonna be the way to do it. I'm pretty sure NY is not like the OC!

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Thursday, April 10, 2008 - 6:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
I wouldn't have kids at an unfinished house because I'm sure there are tools and materials lying around and they could get into them.

Grooch
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06-16-2006

Thursday, April 10, 2008 - 8:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Grooch a private message Print Post    
In defense of Simon (though I am not a fan of his) I put the blame on Alex. SHE told him that THEY were invited and she insisted on him coming. He even said that it would be rude not to show up then, and asked her.

What was he going to do when he got there? I'm sure he felt like an ass when he arrived and realized how everyone else really felt.

Also, I think it was a b.s. excuse that Ramona came up with afterwards when she apologized to Bethenny. She ran screaming from the apartment that she had to get out of there because she "needed" a real girl's night out. She is just strung to tight.

I also can't stop fixating on Ramona's eyebrows and I keep waiting to see if they will ever move out of their constant "surprised" expression.

Also, I do have to laugh about Simon/Alex opera thing. None of the women seemed to care about being there. But, I forget. They already are the "Joneses". lol!

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Thursday, April 10, 2008 - 8:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Lol yep Grooch. And new money social climbers are soooo de'classe.

Vacanick
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07-12-2004

Thursday, April 10, 2008 - 8:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vacanick a private message Print Post    
lol Mocha!

Lexie_girl
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07-30-2004

Thursday, April 10, 2008 - 8:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lexie_girl a private message Print Post    
Costa - I love it when you call me "Lex."

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Thursday, April 10, 2008 - 9:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
LOL, *Lexie*!!! :-)

To counter the Simon defense, yeah, Alex told him something inaccurate. But once he got there and realized what the party's intent was, and that he would be the ONLY male there, don't you think he'd leave for a bit? Didn't someone (Luann?) even suggest he go to a bar or whatever for a bit? While I'm sure he felt bad, he did have it in his poiwer to take control of the situation and JUST LEAVE.

Lexie_girl
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07-30-2004

Thursday, April 10, 2008 - 9:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lexie_girl a private message Print Post    
Noooo... you're supposed to call me "Lex."

Yeah, I was little surprised Simon didn't tell Alex "see ya, I'll be back in a couple of hours to pick you up." But I also think Alex is one of those women that think whenever you invite her, you invite her husband. I don't remember Bethenny actually inviting Simon to Fashion Week, but lo and behold, he was worried about which boots he was going to wear to Fashion Week.




Dannysgirl
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08-09-2007

Thursday, April 10, 2008 - 11:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dannysgirl a private message Print Post    
Lexie - I agree, Alex really seems like she needs Simon with her at all times; kinda reminds me of those people who bring their kids to everything (like the girl at the bank I used to work at who brought her baby to the Christmas party and preceeded to nurse the baby right at the table!)

Vacanick
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07-12-2004

Thursday, April 10, 2008 - 12:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vacanick a private message Print Post    
I love how much Jill loves her dog. a

Kellsma
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08-28-2002

Thursday, April 10, 2008 - 1:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kellsma a private message Print Post    
I had to laugh about the dogs in the episode the other night. Jill's dod never touched the ground, LuAnn's dog was held by her son and never touched the ground, only Bethenny's dog was seen actually walking. Don't dogs walk in NYC, haha.

Marameko
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07-15-2002

Friday, April 11, 2008 - 7:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Marameko a private message Print Post    
This show is interesting, I so envy those who can live in NYC. I would probably enjoy it for a while and want to come back to my nice college town and visit to shop,go to plays.
I am shocked that Alex and Simon would let the world see their home in such a state.It's a wonder that townhouse was not drop dead gorgeous and they were fussing to keep the kids from making a mess.

And given that ALex and Simon are true snobs/wannabe's I ask again why they live in Brroklyn ? I know Brooklyn is a nice place,yada yada, but these two to me seem to be the type to be on Park Avenue or Soho right up in the mix of high society and the social scene.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Friday, April 11, 2008 - 3:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
I wonder if Alex and Simon hang out at the hotel more than at home?

LOL, or maybe they are hoping for a spin-off reality show that follows their renovation?

Sugar
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08-15-2000

Friday, April 11, 2008 - 6:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sugar a private message Print Post    
Seamonkey, I think you may be 100% correct!!!

Lurkin
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02-15-2002

Saturday, April 12, 2008 - 8:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lurkin a private message Print Post    
I know where I live the classiest old homes are a wreck inside. People want the address but cant afford to renovate and even furniture. I think that is the case with Simonex.

Wouldn't they get cheap rates in St. Barts with his job anyway? My eyes are still scarred seeing him in the bannana hammock.

Jill's mother fascinates me for some reason. I was surprised she was a college professor.

I bet if there is a season 2 Ramona won't do it. She isn't well liked an bet her ego won't take it. the dancing was hard to watch.

I am sad only 1 more episode. I love it

Dannysgirl
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08-09-2007

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 5:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dannysgirl a private message Print Post    
Reminder that tonights' the season finale and I just read in TVGuide that next week they'll be a reunion....woo hoo now that'll be a good show!