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Cameltoes

Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 09:08 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I like Lisa and have been a supporter since Eric's eviction. Still, I think her lack of knowledge of certain things is odd. I don't believe it is an act since she discussed the ribs issue in the Diary Room. I'm sure there is a reasonable explanation but until I know what that is, I will continue to find it strange. There are many things I've never eaten but even coming from a family of immigrants, I would still have heard of them and/or seen them. It's especially odd considering her self-professed strength with visual memorization. I mean, I saw a picture of a plum in a first grade workbook! It does make her a bit of an enigma.. but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

Seamonkey

Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 09:20 am EditMoveDeleteIP
The best was from the live feeds last night after they watched the sponge competition: she said she didn't realize her pants were falling off..

Girl, you pants are ALWAYS "falling off".

I've never had a martini, but i know what one is.. she's never said she was raised vegetarian, even when Marcellas said that in real life he's basically vegetarian.

She acted like Roddy was imparting the most rarified of knowldge when he talked about the lifecycle of the salmon.. basically something people learn in elementary school.

I would respect her more if it is all a ploy.. along with the tiny baby voice.

Csnog

Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 09:22 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Lisa's lack of awarness has been apparent throughout the show.

Dannie latched on to her after Erics eviction for another vote in their camp, but still keeping her in the dark of Dannies and Jason's alliance, because she saw this.

I don't think she's dumb, she just lives in her own little world.

Uhoh

Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 09:23 am EditMoveDeleteIP
i'm with the crowd who finds it odd lisa is unaware of so many common things.

about the voting - i'm passionate about voting, and get absentee ballot if i'm going to be out of town or country during any election, but at the risk of being flamed for saying this:

lisa not voting doesn't bother me at all. i'd rather people who don't understand or know the issues NOT vote - maybe she just realizes her own limitations.

Mrskristaboogie

Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 09:27 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Lisa works at the Knitting Factory. It's a club in LA that features music acts, improv groups, alternative comedy, etc. Nobody strips there. FYI

Secretsmile

Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 10:01 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Oldflyer, If you meant me in that post about being an Amy supporter, that is too, but if you look carefully you will see that I posted a pro-Lisa message. I never have posted negitives about Lisa, I just like Amy, in some ways she reminds me of my 17 yr old daughter.

Cameramanbob

Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 10:08 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Lisa's naivete is absolutely endearing - she will be fine (especially if she wins the dough!) I still enjoy all your hilarious comments tho'.

Sunflowr

Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 10:16 am EditMoveDeleteIP
as mrskristanboogie says... Lisa works at the Knitting Factory here in Los Angeles. I have been there several times and its a very nice and trendy place. Lots of cool stuff happening there, bands, comedy, songwriters showcase. She works (or worked) the bar there. Far cry from any strip joint or even any joint! ;)

Scorpiomoon

Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 10:22 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I've said it before. Lisa was once Amish.

No one believes me.

Bernie

Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 10:38 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I was watching the other night when they were talking about food at bedtime, and Lisa said she eats at MacDonald's twice a day, every day of the week, she practically lives on fries. She has to have the most efficient metabolism! And yes, I'm not only female and an Amy supporter, but I LIKE Lisa TOO! She's just a little bit strange, you have to admit, folks! She acts more childishly than Amy, but she's excellent at handling the guys...a woman of mystery indeed.
Good one, Scorpiomoon!

Seamonkey

Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 10:45 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Lisa has also talked about working at a bar named
"Sugar".. I heard that personally on live feeds.. and she has worked at a "gentlemen's club", she's talked about that too. She's also talked about going there and the manager thought she was applying to be a "dancer" but she got a job "cocktailing".

So she has experience at more than The Knitting Factory.

But I bet most people at this Knitting Factory know about ribs and plums and can tell if they are in danger of losing their pants.. dontcha think?

Duchess

Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 10:53 am EditMoveDeleteIP
She had to know that BBQ ribs is finger lickin good with corn on the cob---her specialty?? :)
Maybe she lives by the adage.."what you don't know can't hurt you". Which is well and good as evidenced by her awesome figure. I agree though that it she's one strange cookie.

Milesquade

Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 12:31 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The Knitting Factory in LA is also a full service restaurant. I'm not sure if there are ribs on the menu, they do serve a wide variety of foods usually described as "Californian fusion eclectic" with very interesting and strange combinations of Italian/Mexican/Thai/Polynesian/Cajun food.

It's very hard for me to understand how anyone can appear so uninformed about things most of us would think of as basic foodstuffs. Then again, one of my co-workers, a female in her early 30's, swears up and down that she has NO IDEA who Frank Sinatra is (was) and does not recognize the sound of his voice.

I can only quote Jed Clampett here, "Pitiful...Pi-ti-FUL" heee heee heee

Eden

Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 03:58 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I could buy never having tasted ribs, but looking at them like they were something from another planet? That was just plain WEIRD! You don't have to actually experience something to know about it or have seen it even in a "pitcher". I find it extremely hard to believe that anyone remotely educated, living in one of america's largest cities has never SEEN or HEARD of ribs! Ribs are as common a fare in California as they are throughout most of the country! As someone pointed out, how much more ubiquitous can ribs be than to appear on a McDonald's menu! There is something deeply strange going on here. An act? To what purpose? Real? Very odd and somewhat sad.

Watching2

Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 04:11 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ok... Lisa DID go to college - a community college. She's lived in NYC. She moved all by herself to LA. I don't think she's as clueless as everyone seems to think. And for some people, seeing others eat with their hands and get all sloppy is just gross!

And you should have seen how grossed out I WAS 2 weeks later when I found out what SWEETBREADS really were, which I ate on a roof-top restuarant at the top of my hotel in San Francisco! Actually, I worked with a bunch of really educated people - M.D.s, Ph.Ds, MS, etc...and I was really really grossed out when they told me I ate testicles! We had to look it up and it turned out to by thymus gland, if I recall correctly!!!!! ewwwwwwww.... I'm glad I didn't know what it was at the time... I was wonderng why they were so chewy when I thought they would be something like spareribs...lol.. and yes, I live where Lisa grew up. There's rib places all over the place. Maybe she just doesn't pay that much attention to food? :) She sure doesn't look like she worries about eating too much w/that figure!

Kellirippa

Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 04:28 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Never seen ribs before!! Didn't she ever see the Carhop on the Flintstones tip Freds car over????

~Yeeesshhh~

Eden

Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 04:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I suppose the fact that Lisa IS educated, has lived in large cities, etc. is what makes these blanks spaces about ordinary, everyday things so perplexing.

Lisa didn't say she thought watching people eat ribs was gross. She said she had NEVER heard of or seen ribs before!

If Lisa isn't bartending at a strip club now, she did at one time, according to her and a few stories she told early on in conversations with Tonya and Chiara. That tidbit wasn't made up, it was said by Lisa, herself.

Kits

Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 04:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Sweetbreads are the pancreas.
Neck sweetbread or throat sweetbreads are the
thymus. FWIW

Lycanthrope

Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 05:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I just had to get my .02 in regarding this topic. I have seen the previous posts regarding Lisa's lack of knowledge of certain things. I think it's rather sweet and endearing, and even a little amusing. She was my pre-show favorite, and once Eric was gone she was my favorite again. She comes across as a completely genuine person, although maybe a bit naive(that's not such a bad thing). She was raised right, that's easy to see. She loves both of her parents deeply and that's a rare thing in modern times. If she went on the more high profile Survivor, she'd have every bit of the appeal that Colleen and Elisabeth did, if not more so. So I don't think her lack of knowledge in a few areas is at all a bad thing. I think there should be a thread on Lisa's genuine, caring, and very endearingly sweet personality, rather than on her innocent ignorance of a few inconsequential items.

I've been lurking here all summer, but this post prompted me to set up an account and post :-) Hope you don't mind too much.

Betty

Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 07:46 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Watching2 - Bring on the vittles! Yum, I love fried sweetbreads and may have to get some out of the freezer for tomorrow. Bull testicles are called mountain oysters. They are fried whole and quite...uh... tasty. Ever had scrambled eggs and brains (beef) for breakfast? A big pot of pinto beans with a pig's foot is good comfort food! Of course fried rattle snake and armadillo tastes like chicken.

That reminds me, where did Hillbilly go?

Watching2

Friday, September 20, 2002 - 12:16 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Betty, can you say Eeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwww!!!! LOL I'm not a breakfast eater and I definitely wouldn't be one if I had those things to eat. ICK!!!! :)

Watching2

Friday, September 20, 2002 - 12:20 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Kits, that makes me feel SO much better, NOT! hehehe My friend and I were 21 and on our first big trip all on our own. We thought we were sooooooo cool! lol There we were at the top of the Hyatt on Union Square having a really late-night dinner and we didn't have a clue as to what we were eating. I do recall the waiter telling us we should find a "sugar daddy" to show us around CA. Oh....to be that young again..... nah!!!! :)

2addicted

Friday, September 20, 2002 - 09:13 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm the one who started the "How Sheltered is Lisa?" thread about the plums and pralines, so this subject has fascinated me from the beginning.

I find it shockingly odd that Lisa is so unaware of such everyday things.

But I LOVE Lisa and am rooting for her to win, especially after watching her kick major booty last night in the HOH competition. Whether it was strategy or screw-up, Jason totally gave up, and after all of Dani's crowing, she crumbled like a cookie.

Lisa was calm, focused, determined, almost Zen-like in her concentration.

I am crossing my fingers that with her new winnings, Lisa will have ample opportunity to
taste many of life's small pleasures.

Maybe her gift basket should include plums, pralines, a deck of cards, a gift certificate to the best BBQ Restaurant and a voter's registration ap.

GO LISA!

Ericzj

Friday, September 20, 2002 - 09:19 am EditMoveDeleteIP
"I've never had a martini, but i know what one is"

What kind of bartender doens't know what a martini is? Are we sure whe wasn't the "entertainment"?

Mrbubble

Friday, September 20, 2002 - 09:59 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I want my babyback-babyback-babyback-babyback...

Gidget

Friday, September 20, 2002 - 12:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ericzj-

This is like the telephone game and how rumors get started. "I" said I had never had a martini until last year.

Seamonkey said she has never had a martini but she knows what one is.

Lisa has never said "martini" in the house as far as I know.

This was really funny :)

Pcakes2

Friday, September 20, 2002 - 01:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Big Deal...Lisa doesn't know as much as you all. So what? She asks questions and she's learning new things. What a bunch of snobs.

Lycanthrope

Friday, September 20, 2002 - 09:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
2addicted, I'm right there with ya!!

GO LISA!!