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Kapow

Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 08:50 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
True enough WCV. If they were not spoiled and selfish, they would not be on the show. Especially if they have children and families back home. No one goes on a reality tv show for a personal social experience (except maybe Gabe on S4). Most everyone on BB3 is looking for the loot and trying to pretend they are not.

Goddessatlaw

Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 08:52 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
True enough, but Amy screwed, blewed and tattooed Marc on the vote between Tonya and Josh. THAT capped it for me as to her. Height of self-centered lack of concern for the only person in the house who ever showed her any real kindness. And getting into an agreement with Josh still got her nowhere, because she's pretty much toast this week. As it should be.

Wcv63

Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 08:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Goddess...seeing as how Marc was clued in to Amy's intent and made her vote with Marc's full blessing, I'm just not buying that as a valid argument.

Goddessatlaw

Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 08:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
You don't have to - she still did it. It wasn't a blessing - it was do what you want.

Wcv63

Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 09:02 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
It was, "I totally understand if you need to vote Tonya out." That to me is a blessing. And I have Catholic roots so I'm familiar with the term. :)

Goddessatlaw

Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 09:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Taking a personal FOTH on the rest - opinions differ. The coal miners are alive, so I'm going to go watch some GOOD news for a change. Have a good night, ya'll

Oregonfire

Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 09:06 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
<walks by whistling, peeks in the door, keeps moving at a brisk pace>

Wcv63

Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 09:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Glad to hear about the miners Goddess. That is some good news. :)

BTW: I like Marc and I would be thrilled if he won the game.

Cervesa

Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 09:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm thinking Amy should have smacked him upside the head. The translation for that speach is basically "ummm, Kiki will rip my b***s off with her teeth if I don't put the 2 of you up so pleeease don't blame me, kay??"

Snee

Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 09:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
couldn't find anything written by roddy (all variations, including "r. mancuso"). maybe he's writing the Great American Novel and counts that... who knows? if it's out there i can't find it.

Bastable

Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 09:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Same trouble here, Snee. I caught on that annoying ad that preceded live feeds last week that Roddy was categorizing himself as "Screenwriter." As I said at the time, in L.A., the only difference between "writer" and "waiter" is how honest you "r." And I'd wager Roddy is a traylifter.

I work for a travel magazine and I've never heard of him.

Minnietlm63

Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 09:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Roddy's speech was so touching tonight. Too bad he doesn't practice what he preaches. So I guess all the nasty things he says about Gerry behind his back makes him a better person than Amy. Roddy is whipped and is in denial. He's thinking with one head and one head only....we all know which one. He claims to be so smart however I have yet to see him make a smart decision as HOH.

Snee

Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 10:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
hmm, don't you think it's odd that roddy hasn't talked about anything he's written/writing? it seems to me that he would not waste a chance to do that whether he's had something published/optioned, or not.

Bohawkins

Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 10:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Great job, by everyone who searched (however, in vain) for Roddy's body of work.

At his age (about 35 is he?), I would think that he would have accomplished something. Of course, many great writers don't do their seminal work until in their forties or later. Roddy's work may be "seminal," but on a more basic level.

I have no problem with Roddy calling himself a writer without anything yet published, but I would think that for this show, a better title would have been "aspiring writer."

The term "free lance writer for a travel magazine," is quite amusing. I would imagine that any travel magazine would welcome submissions by all "free lance" writers. So I guess anyone could call themselves that, with only pie in the sky plans to do some writing, someday.

Minnietlm63

Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 10:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
He's a writer like Tonya's a single mother!

Tabbyking

Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 10:11 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
i think roddy probably uses a permanent marker and leaves messages on stall doors. gosh, we may have all read something he's penned!

Tabbyking

Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 10:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
roddy's seminal work is on a more fluid level, anyway.

Tabbyking

Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 10:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
hey, i had something in reader's digest once...i guess i am a published writer. as for travel magazines, maybe he writes romance novels that even truckers are supposedly reading these days, or maybe he sent a letter to camping world or rv times once.

Minnietlm63

Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 10:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I think he writes school text books.....Geography and Social Studies :)

Tabbyking

Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 10:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
oh yeah, that bestseller, 'baffle 'em with bullspit'. man, is he out there or what? i mean i have a big vocabulary (okay, i still say bascetthi sometimes) but he was like john nash!!

Bohawkins

Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 10:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yes, Tabbyking, I made that "seminal" joke in my post. Perhaps, I was too subtle.

Tabbyking

Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 10:42 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
no, i got it, just adding another word (fluid) beside your 'basic' one, because i am in agreement with you. at least i didn't make a native american play on words with seminal, lol

Chyang

Saturday, July 27, 2002 - 10:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
It made me feel better to find out it wasn't my English ability but Rod was talking in strage tongue to all!!

OT: They are pulling the Miners out this minute! Four up already!

Fix2scream

Monday, July 29, 2002 - 07:39 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Maybe Roddy's first published book should be "Translating Roddy".

Ocean_Islands

Monday, July 29, 2002 - 08:40 am EditMoveDeleteIP
You don't have to be published to be a writer.

Emily Bronte for instance was clearly a writer but was never published in her lifetime.

You have to be published to call yourself an author, however.

'Aspiring writer' seems to describe someone who doesn't write but wants to.