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I hope the wedding went great! (I do need to point out that the
locals may have high standards for the numbers that Linda suggested,
as Hutch lives in Virginia, a little over 20 miles form the
Tennessee line!)<br>
<br>
Jean-Joseph<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/10/2021 11:26 AM,
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<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>
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From: E Cohen <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:eac@inbox.com"><eac@inbox.com></a><br>
To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:fictionary@swarpa.net">fictionary@swarpa.net</a><br>
Subject: Re: [Fictionary] THE BIRDS AND THE BEES results<br>
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2021 09:24:38 -0400<br>
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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>
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> On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 12:29 PM E Cohen <<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:eac@inbox.com">eac@inbox.com</a> <br>
> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:eac@inbox.com"><mailto:eac@inbox.com></a>> 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>
> ����(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.kith.org/words/2000/09/10/rrreviews/">https://www.kith.org/words/2000/09/10/rrreviews/</a><br>
>
����<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://www.kith.org/words/2000/09/10/rrreviews/"><https://www.kith.org/words/2000/09/10/rrreviews/></a>)
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>
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-- <br>
-- Eric ��| ��@GoudyBoldItalic
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