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Katta

Monday, September 16, 2002 - 11:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Did anyone else feel bad for Dani today that there is no real fan web site dedicated to Danielle? (The way BB presented it to them on the posters, at least she "thinks" that she has a real fan web site, as the other three DO.) I only wish I knew how to go about setting up a web site. I joined the two yahoo message board groups dedicated to Dani, but they're awfully small in membership, not very active, and can't really compare to this board's thread. I wish she'd have a real fan web site to see upon leaving the house (hopefully with the half million). However, she'll at least have our fan mail. And I'm hoping that somehow she'll have a chance to see this thread (without seeing all the anti-Danielle threads) because she's got alot of love here reaching out to her and cheering her on.

Essence

Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 05:11 am EditMoveDeleteIP
It's great to see all the support for Danielle. She deserves the support and the win!!! Neither Jason nor Lisa would still be in that house if it weren't for her. Here's to you Danie!!!

Reeniehere

Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 06:40 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Wendo, I think your reading is--as it so often is in your posts--very astute. When you're forced to take on adult responsibilities too young--and she's done an excellant job with this--parts of yourself are repressed or not given a chance to develop in order to succeed.

Also I think it's exaggerated a little for game purposes.

Another possibility might be environmental--specifically cultural. She said at one point that she was glad there was no other black women in the house because she and the other woman would get "too catty" together. It is difficult and tiring to be a minority in a world designed by the majority--some of which reject you. You tend to develop your own means of communication--Rap being an example--as a defensive means to let off steam. Just as there is a certain amount of truth in the stereotyping of us WASPS (white anglo saxon protestants) being uptight and inhibited--Amy of course being one of the many exceptions--there is also a certain amount of truth to the concept that minorities who are not fully accepted in the mainstream feel freer to be less inhibited and more creative in their means of communicating, be it talk, music or dance. I think it is very possible that in her particular social set this exaggerated form of dissing is taken lightly and is not considered as insulting as some are viewing it. (It's sort of like adult male jocks who pat each other on the butts and try to one-up each other with humorous insults. While this is accceptable in the locker room or playing field, it might be looked on with alarm in the culture of the executive board room.)

Whatever; I think she's a competitive, determined woman, basically decent, but flawed like the rest of us.

Gramma

Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 06:45 am EditMoveDeleteIP
As I just posted in the OMG! Houseguests Are Reading Fanmail thread, I'm pretty sure Dani got my fan-mail as well! Doing the happy dance!

This is what I just read from Bbfreak's 8:11PM post:

"L: I thought that was so precious, the woman who has a daughter your age and was watching you like you were her very own
"


This is a snippet from my dani fanmail:
"...You're a credit to your family and I'd be proud to be your Mom. I'm betting your Mom is just busting a gut she's so proud of you. I have a daughter who's only a couple of years older than you. She's also married with two kids. I've been watching you as I would have been watching my daughter. I am SO PROUD OF YOU!! ...

I'm quite sure they heavily edited what I wrote wince I also referred to her alliance with Jason, told her she had Gerry all wrong and needed to apologize to him once he got out and warned her that she needed to have a knock-their-socks-off final speech to deal wuth the frail and brusied egos that were on the jury.

I'm just all bubbly now! LOL

Reeniehere , how very nice to see you here! I was so impressed with the post you made about Roddy (told you so in that thread). As a fellow Dani-fan, I feel honored that this is the thread in which you chose to come out of your lurkdom for the 2nd time. Your insights are so dead-on and so appreciated!

I'm still very much in catch-up mode here so haven't read the rest of the board yet (bopped over here from my live-feed catch-up as soon as I saw the above bit that Lisa said).. but wanted to thank all of you who have added your well wishes to

Danis fanmail

spygirl , you had me almost spewing my coffee when I read that bit about my being a CBS mole. LMAO. Kudos for getting Dani-fans to go to her fan-mail folder should actually be going to Bmh as she's/he's the mastermind behind the campaign. ;)

there now, time for the slobbering of stars to stick to all the newly deserving foreheads :

Thanks and a star to :

Bbnan

Katta

Jenhavins

Reeniehere

Oregonfire

Starr-Wv

Annitar

Here's to another day in the trenches. GO Dani-Fans!! ;)

Jan

Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 07:55 am EditMoveDeleteIP
katta in case Dani sees an online version of the fanmail page, I added a link to this thread. Hopefully she will come to it and read it... as long as we can keep it alive and not archived (I don't know what happens then). Hopefully all the hate threads will have gone to archive glory by then.

reenie great post.That might also explain why Marc was that way as well. Like Gramma I am so glad you are a Dani fan.

Fruit great to see you around again.

all Dani fans...sorry I was the one who brought the wrath of the mods into our thread. I apologize. I tried to gently tell Cassie, since she is a new poster, that she couldn't post anti Dani in here . My bad and I won't do it again.

Wcv63

Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 08:15 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Reenie...loved your posts and totally agree that cultural differences play a big part in outside perceptions.

Jenhavins

Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 08:31 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Wearing my star proudly! Thanks Gramma

Reeniehere

Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 09:39 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Jan...I think you're right about Marc. He shares Dani's feeling personality, and a somewhat similar cultural background. One other factor may also come into play with him. Years ago, before I went into social work, I was an art student. All my friends were in art, theater, fashion, etc. Marc's behaviors--biting wit, flambouyant pronoucements and gestures, exaggerated temper tantrums--were not only acceptable, but often rewarded as being the signs of a creative temperment. Not that everyone was that way, but people in the arts and fashion world are more tolerant, often amused and admiring of those traits. Marc has spent a long time in that culture and probably isn't aware of how it offends some social sets. I liked & enjoyed him, but can see why others didn't.

Bmh

Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 11:58 am EditMoveDeleteIP
lol Gramma..we will share the credit..because you played a huge part in gettin over half of the 32 people that have now left a message in Dani's fanmail folder..the credit definitely should not go all to me..It is just really great to see..Dani fans uniting and working together..bc we are such a small minority of the majority of BB fans

PS: I'm a guy lol

Bmh

Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 12:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Oh I agree Katta..I was very disappointed to not see any positive Danielle websites..believe me if I had the slightest clue on how to make a webpage..I would make one for Dani in a heartbeat...if any Dani fans out there know how to make a webpage or anything of the sort..please notify us..and we can maybe get to work on developing one before the show is over..so Dani will be able to see it when she gets out!

Meggieprice

Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 12:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Gramma- I also heard the portion of your letter about her Mom busting a gut read out loud when they were looking them all over later after the chat.

Yesterday on the boards there was a poster who kept telling me to go get a gold star from Gramma! I didn't respond to the bait.

Wendo

Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 01:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Reeniehere, thanks for your comments and compliment, much appreciated. It's certainly interesting to hear the perspective of someone who's worked in the field of working with "people". Gives us an interesting point of view, and I appreciate you taking the time to post. (I know you're generally a lurker.) :)

I was going to post my observation about Marcellas filling the "other black female" role in the house, however, I see it's been covered. So, ditto. LOL! Though Mar is a male, he did exhibit quite a lot of "female" qualities too.

Keep on posting!

And...Go Dani!

Whit4you

Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 03:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
For all you dani fan's - here's a beautiful pic of Dani - hope ya like :)

Whit

dani

Katta

Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 03:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Gramma, thanks so much for my "star". I feel so very honored!! Here's to Dani.... an affectionate BUMP.

Jan

Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 04:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
good one whit

Bmh

Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 04:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
ahh the beautiful Danielle Reyes..I got some great pics of her..I just dont know how to post them..thanx for the pic Whit

Gramma

Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 05:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hugs to all fellow Dani-fans. I went out to spent the day with my grandbabes and was just gushing the news to my daughter about Dani having been given my fan-mail and how I compared Dani to her. Of course my daughter thinks I'm nuts (she's not even on-line. lol), but that's ok. She's loves me nuts and all. ;)

Meggi! You heard the bit about her mother must be busting a gut she'd be so proud?! Cool beans! I didn't see that written on any livefeed posts anywhere and I don't have the live feeds myself. Thanks for telling me! And which thread is this that they were telling you to get a star from Gramma? Let me at 'em! LOL.. (I guess it must mean they look here, eh?)

Reenie, I read your post about people in the arts and their creative temperments and was nodding in agreement all the way through it. We're also closely involved with many folks in the arts (my husband has a BFA) and you're so right. Listening to Marcellas doing his "flamboyent thing" sounded more normal to me than Amy's southern belle thing. I'm a Bostonian. We don't have too many soutern drawls or "ways" up here. I didn't even know what grits were til last year. Folks are different regionally, and it is largely a matter of what you're used to. Just as many folks "don't get" the dry British sense of humor, the whole Southern belle thing is pretty new and foreign to some of us. I SO 'recognized' Marcellas.

Bmh.. Yes Bmh. I can whip out a web page with my eyes closed. I have 3 different sites comprised of over a thousand pages. Problem is, I've used up all the good free sites already. If someone else wants to secure the site, I'd be happy to put the pages together and send them to whoever for upload. I'd need help getting the photos since I don't even have the livefeeds myself and well, it's just not kosher to steal them from other folks sites. If we have any Dani fans here who are good screen-capturers, and some one else who wants to get the site. I'm more than willing to slap the pages together. We could/perhaps should make it very much a joint-Dani-Fans affair, with others contributing text, lay-out ideas etc. Let me know..I'm available for my end. I DO think it's a crying shame that the only Dani page to be found in google is an anti-Dani page. We DO need to do something about that.

Whit nice pic! Is that one you captured yourself ? Of so, please read the paragraph directly above this one.

Your very welcome for your stars Jen & Katta. They were well deserved.

Ok.. Getting ready to slobber on the backs of some more gold stars. Here ya go, for the latest entries into :

Dani's fanmail

Auntkk
Jagger
Danimom
fruitbat

Woo Hoo! There are now 33 fanmail posts for Dani!!

And while I'm giving out stars, having perused the threads a bit just now, I think one of us deserves a special mention for meritorious actions above and beyond, so to :

WENDO

ps.. read above about members pages. Can someone enlighten me? I looked, but haven't found any areas called members pages???

Lisad

Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 05:03 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
That is a good pic. And it reminds me of an actress in the 40's/50's that had a heck of a time in hollywood being black. She was very light skinned and I think she was 'marketed' as being latin or something. Shoot - can't remember her name. Oh well.

Can someone tell me what members here got their letters read or presented? Anyone have a list?

Bmh

Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 05:05 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
cool..Gramma tell me what to do and I will see what I can do..give me like instructions..on how to get a free website and stuff..cuz I am totally in the dark about the whole thing..

Bmh

Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 05:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Lisad..My post was represented, Wcv's, Meggie's, and now we found out Gramma's too..not bad huh?

Oregonfire

Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 05:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Are you talking about Dorothy Dandridge? Halle Berry played her in an HBO movie and won an Emmy or a People's Choice award or something.

Can't say that I've ever seen one of her (DD's) movies though. One of these days. :)

Whit4you

Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 05:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yup I took the pic - and yes feel free to use it anyway you wish - she does look really beautiful in it I think.
I'll try and snap a few other good ones - fyi to get a copy of the pic just right click on the picture here ..and choose "save as" (or something like that you'll see the right option.

Gramma

Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 05:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Bmh, first go to one of the places that gives free web pages. Geocites (since linking up with Yahoo), still has free pages, but if you get "too much traffic" the site goes down temporarily. hmm.. how about Fortunecities? I've had very good luck with them.

Fortunecity gives you hmmm.. looks like it's down to 25mb. (They gave mw 100mb, but I signed up ages ago) But that's Ok. I can compress the photos and we don't need more than a few pages.
front page
photo gallery
fan mail page?
accepting ideas here.
links page. mebbe..mebbe not.

link to : Fortunecity join-up page

Make sure you sign up for the Free home page. (Not the top option, the bottom option)

geocities IS another option, but as I say, traffic will render it useless when you most want it. Also, you can't link pics from a Geo site. My own Geocities site often goes down due to too much traffic.

I know there are other free web pages available, but I don't have any personal knowledge of the, Perhaps others here have other suggestions?

oh..and Bmh.. when signing up, they ask for a combo of letters and numbers, but keep in mind that thr name you sign up with will be part of the URL.. so why not use BB3DaniFans ? something like that. so it can be picked up by the search engines.
Once you've signed up and have the site, let me know. First things first. We need the site.

Bmh

Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 05:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ok gramma I got a page at fortunecity..

My username is BMH2

Now what?

Do you want me to get a url..like danifans or something?

Gramma

Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 06:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Um.. it's your username that will become part of the URL. LOL.. That's what i mean when i suggested you sign up as BB3Danifan or something like that. LOL

Since you JUST signed up, why don't you see if you can still change your username? To get a domain name, you'd have to cough up some bucks. Not much.. they tell you on the site, but if your username is apprpriate, you don't really need it.

And then, um, for security reasons, don't tell us here what your username is. LOL. We're gonna have to figure out a way to communicate more privately.

Do you have a yahoo chat ID, or ICQ?? I'm not really wanting to post my email addy.