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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Thursday, May 18, 2006 - 10:30 am
OK...I feel better if she was laughing... The weather here at Ocean Shores is fantabulous! (Now that is a Jade word) But we deserve it. After a miserable winter this sunshine is heaven.
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Thursday, May 18, 2006 - 10:47 am
I thought she was laughing too.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Thursday, May 18, 2006 - 11:00 am

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Jan
Moderator
08-01-2000
| Thursday, May 18, 2006 - 11:14 am
WOW!!! Danielle looks absolutely fantabulous!!!!! she makes the other two look so average and pasty in comparison! she is an absolute WOW!!!!
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Thursday, May 18, 2006 - 11:16 am
It kinda looks like she had her teeth fixed??
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Jan
Moderator
08-01-2000
| Thursday, May 18, 2006 - 11:38 am
you mean even more than she had done on the show, Mocha?
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Thursday, May 18, 2006 - 11:42 am
I don't know. I'll have to look closely when I watch the repeat.
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Jasper
Member
09-14-2000
| Thursday, May 18, 2006 - 1:41 pm
I actually didn't even recognize her until the third picture.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Thursday, May 18, 2006 - 3:36 pm
wow Dani looks great!! She outshines those other 2 by far!!! NIcole's covergirl ads suck, she is so boring and never even looks good. I hope Joanie has a great career, she was stunning this season also.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Thursday, May 18, 2006 - 5:36 pm
Yeah Nicole looks very out of place. I still think Nik should've won.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Thursday, May 18, 2006 - 5:54 pm

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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Thursday, May 18, 2006 - 6:21 pm
totally agree
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Bob2112
Member
06-12-2002
| Thursday, May 18, 2006 - 7:20 pm
Nik would have won if I wasn't still cursed back then!
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Friday, May 19, 2006 - 5:25 am
Dam you Bob! 
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Friday, May 19, 2006 - 9:47 am
Interesting article, which discusses (among other things), Tyra's reaction to Danielle's accent: http://www.slate.com/id/2141972/
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Friday, May 19, 2006 - 10:13 am
Interesting. But I think the author was way off base. Having a southern or midwestern accent is in no way an ethnic idiosyncrasy(sp) and doesn't mean Dani was 'talkin black'. That's some bullish.
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Max
Moderator
08-12-2000
| Friday, May 19, 2006 - 11:04 am
There are many things that Tyra is bugged by that don't bug me or, seemingly, the other judges. WIth Danielle, the other judges did, at times, remark about her diction, which did need some work. The accent didn't seem to be as problematic for them as the diction. Seems to me that at one point something was mentioned about how fast she talked and the words sort of running all together. That definitely needed some work and she did remarkably better in the last commercial shoot, I think. What bugged me more was that Tyra kept saying things that implied she came from the South as well. Or at least that she could understand Danielle's struggle with the accent because she had been there, too. Unless Inglewood, California is considered "the South", which I'm sure it isn't, she doesn't have any background in common with Danielle except racial heritage. I suppose that's where the writer of that article derives much of the opinion that the African-American characteristics of Danielle's speech are really what Tyra has issue with. Tyra, Tyra, Tyra. I think "Diva" is in your bio. 
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Friday, May 19, 2006 - 11:36 am
Californians have an accent Max. I don't know whatchu talkin bout. 
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Max
Moderator
08-12-2000
| Friday, May 19, 2006 - 11:42 am
LOL, Mocha! Well, I come from far Northern California in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. We ain't got no stinkin' accent, but y'all do! 
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Friday, May 19, 2006 - 11:52 am
Lolol
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Jan
Moderator
08-01-2000
| Friday, May 19, 2006 - 12:45 pm
all you 'mercans have accents and I, for one , think it is time you all learned how to correctly say "out and about" 
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Friday, May 19, 2006 - 12:47 pm
I am thrilled that Dani won, and maybe because I am a southerner, but it really bothered me that Tyra constantly harped on her accent. Accents can be fixed just like teeth! I agree with the author on her inconsistancies. Although Tyra had several problems with Danielle—at one point bullying her to close the Lauren Hutton-esque gap in her smile—she was particularly unhappy about Danielle's "country" accent. Danielle does speak the way one might expect a young black woman from Arkansas to speak, but the lilting, syrupy sound of her voice is a huge part of her charm. All the judges—except Tyra—acknowledged this. While no one found it problematic that Jade (the "biracial butterfly"—her words—from New York City) peppered her speech with made-up words like "analystic," "dwelve," and "releasement," Tyra seemed unable to bear the fact that Danielle (who, incidentally, properly used the word cantankerous to describe herself when she gets pissy) had regional inflection in her voice. Even more to the point, Nnenna, the recently booted stunner from Nigeria, also spoke with a thick accent, which Tyra and the rest of the judges found fetching. Evidently, an African accent is fine, but not an African-American one. At last week's judging, Tyra told Danielle the judges "didn't trust her when she opened her mouth." But the truth is that the other judges loved Danielle, especially when she spoke, because she was articulate, modest, and hugely charismatic
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Mayajnn
Member
01-27-2006
| Friday, May 19, 2006 - 12:47 pm
Is that "ooot" and "aboot"?
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Jan
Moderator
08-01-2000
| Friday, May 19, 2006 - 12:51 pm
you know it Mayajnn!!!! I once hostessed in a restaurant in Tucson and told a customer "we are out of trout tonight" and he said "what part of Canada do you come from?"
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Max
Moderator
08-12-2000
| Friday, May 19, 2006 - 12:55 pm
is it "oot of troot"? or "aht o' tha traht tanaht" 
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