Archive through October 15, 2003
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Archive through October 15, 2003
Lorry | Sunday, October 12, 2003 - 09:54 pm     Welcome Egbok and Giniel... gee, you people can't imagine how my brain spins trying to figure out the meaning of your online handles...lol I'm one of those people that cannot for the life of me, come up with an interesting or amusing or even meaningful (to me) online name... I must be boring to myself...rofl Anyway, love your online names. Giniel... please keep jumping in. Egbok... I've been a lurker since BB1... but only this past BB4 season did I get up the courage to participate... so if I post something I shouldn't or to the wrong place... well, lol.. feel free to clue me in so I don't make a total fool of myself...lol |
Egbok | Sunday, October 12, 2003 - 10:34 pm     Lorry, I'd be more than happy to help you out anytime! I have a folder in the Members Area or you can email me anytime...just put TVCH in the subject line or I'll just delete you! LOL!! BTW, my nick stands for "Everything is Going to Be OKay". Most people on the board call me "Eggie". E = Everything is G = going to B = be O = O K = kay |
Enigma2 | Monday, October 13, 2003 - 06:27 am     Trivia (inspired by Egbok a.k.a. Gloria): —Martin VanBuren (8th pres. of US) came from Kinderhook, New York. He had a reputation for being honorable in all of his dealings. When campaigning for president, he was called 'Old Kinderhook'. This was frequently abbrieviated to O.K. The term has stayed with us.... (I'm a wealth of useless information, Egbok.) Lorry: At the end of Carnivale last evening, the cast lists John Savage. Andrew has mentioned in his bio that he has a brother named John Savage. A fast net search told me that there are two John Savages in show business. The actor John Savage is no relation to Andrew Savage. But...The actor John Savage and Andrew Savage have nearly identical experiences and attitudes regarding South Africa. Very curious...... Am I posting this stuff in the wrong place? I'm new to TVCH, and I get confused (this place is enormous....). |
Egbok | Monday, October 13, 2003 - 08:29 am     Hi Enigma, I love "useless information" such as where the term "OK" came from. You should start a thread in the General Discussion area call "Useless but Interesting Information"...I think you would find many people who would have information to share or those who would enjoy learning some historical facts. I know this place is enormous but there are lots of us around here who are willing to help you get around. You might want to put yourself up for adoption. Check out the Community Corner: Lurker Adoption Agency. (sorry, I don't know how to attach links, otherwise I'd put the link here). Anyway, if there's anything I can do to help you out, let me know by leaving me a message in my member folder or sending me an email (click onto my name and see my profile for my email addy). If you do email me, please put TVCH in the subject line otherwise I will just delete the email from those I don't recognize...thanks! Welcome aboard and I hope that you come to find this board as friendly and a place to get to know others, as much as I have. |
Atjoybell | Monday, October 13, 2003 - 08:43 am     Hello everyone I'm Atjoybell. The AT are initials of my real name and Joybell is my clown name. I'm from Detroit Michigan and I'm a Pastoral Associate at a local church. I love Big Brother and really like Survivor. I haven't been around for the past couple of weeks because things have been very busy here at the church. I have four children and then I really got crazy and got married two years ago. I love this site and can't wait to get a new computer (church office was broken into and they stole our computers) so that I can visit everyday. Love reading the threads on Survivor. Now I don't feel so bad missing an episode. I know where I can go to get caught up. |
Wargod | Monday, October 13, 2003 - 08:47 am     Welcome Atjoybell!!! |
Producerchic | Monday, October 13, 2003 - 09:40 am     Hi all!! I've been lurking here and on the BB boards and decided to come out.. My name is Laci and I live in Texas, where I work in TV news... My favorite shows are BB, TAR, Survivor, CSI, Six Feet Under, Sex and the City, Without a Trace and SOOO many more (I work in TV... I HAVE to watch it LOL ) I got hooked on reality TV this summer with TAR and now I can't get enough! LOL |
Amchess | Monday, October 13, 2003 - 02:46 pm     Enigma, wow! A Nina Simone lover. Are you familiar with Pastel Blues (has Be My Husband, Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out, Trouble In Mind,Sinnerman, etc.) Great music! |
Enigma2 | Monday, October 13, 2003 - 03:17 pm     Egbok: Thanks. (I don't even know where to find a member folder.) (I recently found the area for formating text. Need to print it out –and study...) Atjoybell: Hi (and joy to the world...) Producerchic: Hi (tv news: now there's a subject for a whole chat room...) Amchess: I can vividly recall the first line that I heard Simone sing: "I loves you, Porgy...". I went to a live concert here in NY (she was 2 hrs. late –and I didn't care...) My favorite 'album' is one she later said she did not like. "Baltimore" (lush, over-produced, very sexy, but then, I've always liked a whole-lot-of-excess) |
Reiki | Monday, October 13, 2003 - 04:34 pm     Hi all. I'm Reiki and I've been posting under this name for 2 years now, but had different names during BB1 and BB2. I am a single, 40 year old (just barely) woman who currently lives in Albany, New York. As a child I lived in Kinderhook, New York - hometown of Martin Van Buren. It was also the sometime home of Washington Irving and we argue with Tarrytown, NY over the claims to the setting of the headless horseman story. (The school district is even named for Ichabod Crane.) We left Kinderhook when I was 10 and went west - first to Arizona, but eventually to Texas and California. About 16 years ago I decided to move back to New York and have been here ever since. I love the fall but every winter I wonder what the heck I was thinking. I'm glad to see so many former lurkers taking the leap to posting. See you around the boards. |
Lorry | Monday, October 13, 2003 - 09:31 pm     Atjoybell: I lived in Ann Arbor while attending the University of Michigan, then after college I lived for a couple of years in Dearborn. I'm crazy about Detroit and the surrounding areas. I visit friends in Saginaw and each time I visit I think how much I miss Michigan. It's a lovely place, and the people are so great. You mentioned your clown name... are you a working clown? I have a friend whom I've known for awhile and she went to clown school. She is retired now, but says it was the most wonderful career. She has such wonderful stories of her clown days. Everyone: Welcome new posters and returning posters. It's so nice to meet so many great people. |
Lorry | Monday, October 13, 2003 - 09:40 pm     Eggie: Thanks for letting us in on how you came to have the name Egbok... very clever. Reiki: I've been on a visit to Tarrytown, about 20 years ago or so... we stopped in a place called The Headless Horseman Pub.. sort of an old building that used to be a carriage stop at one time. Lovely area. Do you recall that place? I'd love to know if it is still there. |
Surfgirl | Monday, October 13, 2003 - 10:52 pm     HI ALL!! I have been a lurker on TV club house Big Brother live feeds for last two years, Was how I found TV club house thru BB link silly me didnt check out other reality forums on this site till recently!! Which is really silly of me.. seeing that I am a reality TV junky lol. Have never posted on boards till now so please be patient with me and if i get a little hot headed or high handed( tend to do both lol ) please put me in my place!P.S. I am from Amarillo Texas and i just love all your post..Peace all:> |
Ruiner | Monday, October 13, 2003 - 11:34 pm     Enigma2 YOU now have a folder!! Members Room --> log in ---> Message Board...go down the list to your name... AHA!! There you are! Enjoy!!! |
Enigma2 | Tuesday, October 14, 2003 - 02:23 am     Hi, Reiki. You must be "O.K." Hi, Surfgirl. I have read some of your posts, and I already knew that I liked you... Ruiner: Thanks. (you have made me feel 'special') (really nice of you to do that...) Tarrytown is at about the half-way point in the ride to my week-end hovel-in-the-woods. Have been to the Washington Irving house; also Lindhurst (the best preseved gothic revival house in the country; once owned by Jay Gould) Parts of the Rockerfeller estate/compound at Tarrytown are now open to the public (very impressive: they bought 80 miles of land on the far side of the Hudson River so that no one could spoil their views...) |
Twiggyish | Tuesday, October 14, 2003 - 03:49 pm     I love this thread. =) Waving at everyone. |
Atjoybell | Tuesday, October 14, 2003 - 04:32 pm     Hi Lorry, Detroit is a great place. It's taking on a whole new look, you have to come back and see it now!!! I'm a ministry clown - I do services with other clowns in mime for retreats and special services. I love clowning! |
Atjoybell | Tuesday, October 14, 2003 - 04:33 pm     Thanks for the welcome Enigma and all!!! Love being here. |
Reader234 | Tuesday, October 14, 2003 - 04:58 pm     ATjoybell, and Lorry - - Michigan, I love!! My dh was born in the Detroit area (Redsomething!), still has relatives in the Ann Arbor area, and we love to honeymoon on the ISLAND, for a week, so queit, peaceful, a great retreat!!
HI EVERYONE!!! this thread makes me smile!! Forgot to ask Eggie, (my mom - she 'adopted' me so I lurk no more, check out the Lurker Adoption Thread in the Community Corner!!) Eg, how do you account for Egbob??!! (which is too cute btw!!) |
Reader234 | Tuesday, October 14, 2003 - 05:10 pm     Lorry, this thread has really grown, I'm going back and reading all I've missed!! (love your pics alaginger!! I'm big on prayer too!!) and Eg, I forgot how much we have in common... my dh and I were high school sweethearts, went to different colleges, married,and we're still here 23 years later (that would be 5 yrs of dating!) and have 1 college son (1st year), 1 sophomore in high school, and 1 SURPRISE dd - who turns 7 on Friday!! I'm currently entailed in Adven's game - which I had no idea what I got into, but I'm lovin it, and lovin that others are posting, just be fun and rediculous!! Its some kind of take on reality shows, but online!! I too love spoilers and spend way too much time making sure I havent missed anything. I will tend to stand up and defend Lil, because I am in the brotherhood of Scouting, my dh and I are scoutmasters in a troop here, and 1 son made Eagle this summer, and one on the way... (and if I could ever figure out how to reduce the jpegs I would post my brag!!) (Did I mention I talk too much???!!!) |
Schoolmarm | Tuesday, October 14, 2003 - 06:48 pm     Hi, you can call me "Marm" and my first name is "Doctor" LOL....really, I live in a tiny town and won't give out my name on the board, only to those whom I've met in real life. I was born in Michigan, raised in Illinois, lived most my life in Iowa and had a stint in Indiana before landing in Pennsylvania. I am living in the areas of my ancesters, and if I go backwards a couple more generations I will be in Germany. Only one grandparent is German, the rest are Norwegian. I had Norwegian visitors at my house last week and that was great fun. I am a perpetual traveler. I go to lots of conferences and most of the time I am presenting at one of them. I love to meet other TVCHers on these trips. I do research in Munich, Germany and love to travel abroad. I am a bargain traveler and a bargain shopper. I work too much....because I have very little else in my life right now. No husband, no boyfriend, no kids, no pets. Just a BIG ole house in a tiny town in the woods. (Marm invites you all over to gawk at the autumn leaves and to go a huntin' or fishin'!) I am a professional organist and music educator. I used to teach in an inner city school and I LOVED it! Now I am in teacher training. I am the quintessential absent minded professor. I SWORE that I would NEVER be an absent minded professor, but I've got so much on my plate that I tend to forget things....like paying bills. My phone was cut off for a couple of hours today because I forgot to pay. I can't believe that I 'fessed up to that! I love reality TV, especially this year's Survivor (go Rupert!) and every year's Amazing Race. I also like shows on HBO like Sex and the City, Six Feet Under, etc. I'm bubbly and vivacious, but now I'm very tired...I tend to fall asleep in chat! I was lurking on the board during BBI and finally posted due to a trivial pursuit that Juju, Fruitbat and others were doing. There are lots of great people here at TVCH! |
Lorry | Tuesday, October 14, 2003 - 09:07 pm     Waving back at Twiggyish.. I love this thread too. Wow, Reader.... It sure has grown.. and look at all the interesting people we are meeting. That's the thing I love about the internet. I get to meet people from all over the world, people I would never have the opportunity to meet in the real world due to location or schedules. Marm, you sound like indeed you have a full plate. It's amazing how busy we can get. I'm glad you made a little time for us... welcome. BTW, Reader... I love when people are moved to do more than just a brief note. It makes me feel like I get to know the people better... and hey, it's great when someone feels so comfortable on these boards. I am enjoying your posting very much. Please if I missed someone.. it was not intentional... welcome everyone and all you lurkers.. please join the fun. |
Enigma2 | Wednesday, October 15, 2003 - 02:42 am     Hi, Schoolmarm: you are reminding me... I may have stumbled onto another interesting reality show: "House Rules" (TBS on Fridays at 8pm here in NY). (I only caught the last half.) Three couples are offered a house to renovate. (I missed how the couples were selected.) They were then shown three (somewhat sizable) houses. There was a contest; the winners got first choice of which house they would renovate. They then moved into their houses (sleeping bags). The next 13 weeks will consist of their work and contests. At the end, the audience will choose their favorite couple/renovation. The winners get to keep the house plus 50K. (It's sort of a combination of generic reality and 'This old house') I'm going to try to watch it again on Friday to see if it is living-up to expectations. I thought that I would add this here because many of you seem to be into either building or renovating houses... |
Texannie | Wednesday, October 15, 2003 - 06:29 am     Enigma, there is a thread for it. It's being filmed not very far from me!!! |
Enigma2 | Wednesday, October 15, 2003 - 09:17 am     O.K. Texannie. Thanks. I'll have to look for it. (My only concern –so far– is that the show is going to be too much of a commercial for Lowe's: the sponsor, but time will tell...) |
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