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Woofy

Friday, August 23, 2002 - 01:58 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Uh - Gerry is an Alpha Male?

Romans8_1

Friday, August 23, 2002 - 01:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Zackly what I said. :)

Crazydog

Friday, August 23, 2002 - 02:06 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Gerry is more like an Omega Male.

Bbdiva

Friday, August 23, 2002 - 02:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yes Gerry is use to being the head male in his group.... lets remember he teaches... and the teacher is always the leader... he lives with his two sons and is the boss of them, even if his wife really runs the household... He has the distinct traits of an Alpha male. With the males left in the house he and Roddy are both alpha's Marci is such a mixture of traits that he can't be a strict A personality and Jason does not have enough confidence to be the male leader in the house.

Dogdoc

Friday, August 23, 2002 - 02:41 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
With wolves the Alpha male is the one with the most respect of the pack. I don't think that Gerry qualifies. I do think that he deserves more respect than he gets. In many civlizations anyone who reaches the age of 50 is considered an elder and a person of knowledge. They are right!. Just ask those of us over 50.

Sanfranjoshfan

Friday, August 23, 2002 - 02:46 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Gerry does seem to like to eat a lot of groceries...I think maybe he's an Alpha Beta Male. :-)

Jaysgal

Friday, August 23, 2002 - 02:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I kinda smiled when Gerry described Roddy as an alpha male and said that he Gerry is also an alpha male. I was smiling. It seemed rather interesting to me that he perceived himself as an alpha male. I wonder who would win the battle between the two. I guess that's why they play chess a lot. :D

Sanfranjoshfan

Friday, August 23, 2002 - 02:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Serioulsy....at his home he IS an alpha male, just like when he is in the classroom. Maybe he just carries that perception into other aspects of his life because he is used to being the big dog in those places....?

Amac

Friday, August 23, 2002 - 02:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
OK, what exactly IS an alpha male? Can someone define it?

Sanfranjoshfan

Friday, August 23, 2002 - 02:58 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The biggest, meanest male gorilla in the tribe, the one that gets first crack at the ladies and first crack at dinner.

Gritss

Friday, August 23, 2002 - 02:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
It's possible that Gerry is an Alpha male among his peers. No way of knowing since we only see him in the BB3 setting.

Maris

Friday, August 23, 2002 - 02:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
ROFL, Yep Gerry is an alpha male. -- Want to buy a bridge?

Amac

Friday, August 23, 2002 - 02:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks Sanfran--sound like Gerry all right--lol!

Sanfranjoshfan

Friday, August 23, 2002 - 03:02 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Right, Gritss - if you yank the alpha male out of his own tribe, pack, whatever....and toss him into another, he will have to fight to become the new alpha male or become subservient to the existing one....

I imagaine the rules of BB don't allow for a fight to the death, so they are just peacefully co-existing in there. :-)

Kminfinity

Friday, August 23, 2002 - 03:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I agree, I do believe Gerry is an alpha male in his normal milieu, Gritts.

He was thrust into an environment where he had little chance of maintaining that status, which is apparently the point for his "character." But in a more "mixed group" I think he would be more dominant. As it is, he's not doing too badly at adjusting to circumstances.

Gritss

Friday, August 23, 2002 - 03:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I agree he isn't an alpha in BB3. And he's smart enough that he should have known not to say that.

Woofy

Friday, August 23, 2002 - 03:42 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
SanFran did you have to say "crack?" Sheesh!

Chiparock

Friday, August 23, 2002 - 04:31 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Woofy, speaking of alpha males {ahem} -- did you or your group fly a banner last year in support of Bunky?

[I know, I know. Bad segue, off-topic, irrelevant. Sorry!]

Woofy

Friday, August 23, 2002 - 04:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yes, Chiaprock ... I did.

Niceguy

Friday, August 23, 2002 - 04:52 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
This is such nonsense. Just like in Survivor when Peter tried to yank Hunter into being the lead males of their tribe these games are designed so that gender doesn't have a whole lot to do with the eventual outcome. The thing that Vecepia did brilliantly that Dani doesn't have a clue to is allowing the alphas(Peter but more so Hunter) to cause their own demise and create in the tribe distrust. Silas from S3 and Hardy last year, same deal. Dani is a good back room manipulator but she doesn't have a the smarts to go all the way in this game. Letting somebody like Roddy be a big blowhard and gain the emnity of the rest of the HG's. Lisa seems to have that type of smarts of allowing someone to take as much rope as they need to hang themselves. Of course this is just me ranting again I guess. Things flip-flop so fast. I hope Dani doesn't give herself a brain hemmorhage playing the way she does.

Chiparock

Friday, August 23, 2002 - 05:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Good for you, Woofy! I don't remember the wording, just that it really cheered Bunky up when his morale was low. It was a wonderful gesture on your part.

Woofy

Friday, August 23, 2002 - 05:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yeah ... I got a lot of razzing about it cuz the site is for adult gay men - but the goal was to make Bunky feel good and it accomplished its goal

Muse

Friday, August 23, 2002 - 05:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I think Gerry *thinks* he's the alpha male, just like he *thinks* that he's the one in charge at home. :)