<html><div>Fiddle away. If I may suggest, pick something short, sweet, sentimental, and easy. LInda As in Tennessee Waltz or Carry Me Back to Old Virginny...<br><br>---------- Original Message ----------<br>From: E Cohen <eac@inbox.com><br>To: fictionary@swarpa.net<br>Subject: Re: [Fictionary] THE BIRDS AND THE BEES results<br>Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2021 09:24:38 -0400<br><br>On 10-Jul-21 01:07, Hutch wrote:<br>> I would be quite pleased to run this round, but it will be several days <br>> to a week before I can do anything with it. I am (astonished!) playing <br>> my fiddle in a wedding this weekend.<br>> <br>> No, I'm not a very good fiddle player. But she wants *me* to play, and <br>> play my fiddle (I'm a much better guitarist and a MUCH, MUCH better <br>> singer), regardless of how good or bad I think I am. (I *know* how good <br>> a fiddler I am ... NOT! Soon, so will all of southwest Virginia and <br>> northeast Tennessee *sigh*)<br>> <br>> I won't be able to even think about it until after the weekend. So, <br>> Eric, if you have a word off the top of your head, go for it. If I <br>> haven't seen a word by next Friday/Saturday, I'll throw one in the ring.<br><br>I have plenty of words, but it's your turn. Also, have fun with the <br>fiddling!<br><br><br>> BB,<br>> Hutch<br>> -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----<br>> Version: 3.1<br>> GCM/S d+>- s+:+ a++ C+++$ ULAC>$ P+ L+ !E W++$<br>> N+ o K? w++++/--$ O? M- V? PS+ PE/- Y PGP- t++ 5?<br>> X-- R !tv? b++++>$ DI++++ D G+> e++ h+ r--?* y++><br>> ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------<br>> <br>> <br>> On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 12:29 PM E Cohen <eac@inbox.com <br>> <mailto:eac@inbox.com>> wrote:<br>> <br>> I think I've run a round more recently than Hutch, so I'm happy if<br>> Hutch<br>> takes it.<br>> <br>> Thank you, Jim, I loved this game.<br>> <br>> Also, I'd give five bucks to the Kickstarter for the movie about the<br>> parrot.<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> > Hello, fellow fictioneers!<br>> ><br>> > Thank you all for indulging me in my variety round, and thank you<br>> Beth Bruch for making a return appearance after something like eight<br>> years! Thanks too to Jed, who submitted votes for the first time in<br>> a long while.<br>> ><br>> > And now for the results: Apparently we collectively need more<br>> practice in inventing plausible Hollywood plots. The actual synopsis<br>> of The Birds and the Bees, (starring George Gobel, Mitzi Gaynor, and<br>> David Niven; directed by Norman Taurog; and written by Sidney<br>> Sheldon based on an idea by Preston Sturges) got twice as many votes<br>> as any other entry!<br>> > (On the other hand, it didn’t win the Most Want To See prize,<br>> which goes to Ziv and the talking pet parrot.)<br>> ><br>> > Among the fake entries… we have a TIE, between Hutch and Eric at<br>> 4 points each, so I’ll ask them to confer privately and decide who<br>> gets to run the next round.<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> > HUTCH: Two friends from very different circumstances decide to<br>> trade places at a high-society party. Each meets the girl their<br>> parents expected the other to meet. Confusion and comedy follow.<br>> >   Eric - I think this definition and my own are both more like<br>> madcap<br>> >    comedies of the '30, but I don't know much about movies. Maybe<br>> >    they made those in the '50s as well?<br>> >   David - 2 points.<br>> >   Pierre - 2 points.<br>> >   Jed - If that last sentence had been “Hilarity ensues†I<br>> might have voted<br>> >    for it. :)<br>> (https://www.kith.org/words/2000/09/10/rrreviews/<br>> <https://www.kith.org/words/2000/09/10/rrreviews/>) I think I’ll give<br>> >    this my “most want to watch†vote, though a lot would<br>> depend on the tone<br>> >    of the movie. I’m thinking it might have the general<br>> flavor of _The Reluctant<br>> >    Debutante_, which could be very enjoyable.<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > DAVID RANDALL: A lost Japanese fisherman and his two children<br>> are rescued by a menagerie of animals that have become<br>> super-intelligent in the wake of an atomic explosion on a tropical<br>> island.<br>> >   Ziv - I think this wins my "want to watch" award, but only if<br>> it were made<br>> >    more recently -- I can't imagine 1950's America having<br>> Japanese<br>> >    protagonists at all, much less ones portrayed with any<br>> kind of sensitivity…<br>> >   Eric - I know we're supposed to only get one vote for which<br>> movie we’d<br>> >    like to see, but it's hard. Two watching points.<br>> >   Jean-Joseph - 1 point, if for no other reason than that that<br>> I'm amused thinking<br>> >    about the Mr. Ed-like special effects that would have been<br>> in play back<br>> >    in 1956.<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > ERIC COHEN: When an out-of-luck reporter signs on as caretaker<br>> at the Bird Nature Sanctuary, he hasn't bargained on all the Birds<br>> -- formidable great-aunts Lucy and Helena, rowdy schoolgirl Rhoda,<br>> or the lovely Diane.<br>> >   Ziv - 2 points -- sounds like 1950 gender politics to me…<br>> >   Pierre - 1 point.<br>> >   Jed - I like this one quite a bit (especially the idea that<br>> Bird is a family name),<br>> >    but where are the bees? 1 point.<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > JEAN-JOSEPH COTE: Two rival all-female motorcycle gangs battle<br>> over turf in Southern California, culminating in a choreographed rumble.<br>> >   Ziv - Then, in the sequel, the victorious Bees meet up with<br>> the Sharks<br>> >    to find out who is US Street Rumble Champion.<br>> >   Eric - I know we're supposed to only get one vote for which<br>> movie we’d<br>> >    like to see, but it's hard. One watching point.<br>> >   Ranjit - 1 point, and tied for most want to watch.<br>> >   Jed - Nice. 2 points.<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > BETH BRUCH: A bee keeping widower and ornithologist widow clash<br>> while trying to keep their teenaged children from dating. As tempers<br>> flare, so does the chemistry between the parents; they resist until<br>> the teens step in to teach their elders a lesson about the birds and<br>> the bees.<br>> >   Ziv - 1 point.<br>> >   Pierre - I'd like to watch this one.<br>> >   Jed - I like this, but I feel like it might be more 1970s<br>> than 1950s. (Huh, but<br>> >    I now see that _The Parent Trap_ (which this description<br>> roundaboutly<br>> >    made me think of) was made in 1961, at least ten years<br>> before I thought<br>> >    it was, so maybe 1956 isn’t too early for this sort of thing.)<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > THE IMDB: On an ocean voyage, a card shark and her father cheat<br>> a naive man out of his money. Things take a twist when the girl<br>> falls in love with the man she's just fleeced.<br>> >   Eric - 2 points.<br>> >   David - The Lady Eve [Jim adds: I confess, when I chose this<br>> movie I had<br>> >    no idea it was a remake of the more famous film David<br>> mentions!]<br>> >   Ranjit - 2 points, and tied for most want to watch.<br>> >   Jean-Joseph - 2 points for the shipboard romance.<br>> >   Beth - 2 points.<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > PIERRE ABBAT: Biologists studying pollinators in the Amazon<br>> rainforest are abducted by the Ye'kwana tribe. Anthropologists and<br>> missionaries in neighboring tribes cooperate to try to free them.<br>> >   Pierre adds: I was going to say the Yanomamö tribe at first,<br>> but Yanomamö<br>> >    (which I think was considered a single language at the<br>> time) is spoken in<br>> >    only a small area and not related to anything else,<br>> whereas Ye'kwana is<br>> >    Cariban, and Cariban languages are spoken in a wide area,<br>> so there would<br>> >    be more outsiders who could talk with them.<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > ZIV STERN: A newly orphaned boy must learn to navigate first<br>> love with the help of a new authority figure: his father's talking<br>> pet parrot.<br>> >   Eric - I hope this isn't true, but it might be. 1 point.<br>> >   David - 1 point, and most want to see.<br>> >   Jean-Joseph - I guess this last one is the movie I'd most<br>> like to see.<br>> >   Beth - 1 point, and most want to see.<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > General comments:<br>> ><br>> > Eric - This was great fun.<br>> ><br>> > Pierre - This is tough! Maybe because I don't watch movies.<br>> ><br>> > Jean-Joseph - I think this worked out quite well, where all of<br>> the entries seem well-written and plausible to me. Kudos to all!<br>> ><br>> > Linda - This ballot makes no sense. I have been enduring a heat<br>> wave plus family stuff--not so bad, as family stuff was fun and now<br>> it is cooler. sorry not to help out this time.<br>> ><br>> > David - The vote for The Birds and the Bees<br>> > Was slow, for we lay at our ease<br>> > In summer siestas,<br>> > Or played in fiestas,<br>> > Far away from our Macs and PCs.<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> > -Jim<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> <br>> <br>> -- <br>> -- Eric  |  @GoudyBoldItalic<br>> <br>> <br><br><br>-- <br>-- Eric | @GoudyBoldItalic</p></html>
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