[Fictionary] THE BIRDS AND THE BEES results

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Sat Jul 17 19:56:09 UTC 2021 

Ask the guests to sing along.  Linda

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From: Jean-Joseph Cote <jjcotedsl at verizon.net>
To: fictionary at swarpa.net
Subject: Re: [Fictionary] THE BIRDS AND THE BEES results
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2021 08:01:39 -0400

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!)
 
 Jean-Joseph
 
On 7/10/2021 11:26 AM, lindafowens at netzero.net wrote: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...
 
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 From: E Cohen <eac at inbox.com>
 To: fictionary at swarpa.net
 Subject: Re: [Fictionary] THE BIRDS AND THE BEES results
 Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2021 09:24:38 -0400
 
 On 10-Jul-21 01:07, Hutch wrote:
 > I would be quite pleased to run this round, but it will be several days 
 > to a week before I can do anything with it. I am (astonished!) playing 
 > my fiddle in a wedding this weekend.
 > 
 > No, I'm not a very good fiddle player. But she wants *me* to play, and 
 > play my fiddle (I'm a much better guitarist and a MUCH, MUCH better 
 > singer), regardless of how good or bad I think I am. (I *know* how good 
 > a fiddler I am ... NOT! Soon, so will all of southwest Virginia and 
 > northeast Tennessee *sigh*)
 > 
 > I won't be able to even think about it until after the weekend. So, 
 > Eric, if you have a word off the top of your head, go for it. If I 
 > haven't seen a word by next Friday/Saturday, I'll throw one in the ring.
 
 I have plenty of words, but it's your turn. Also, have fun with the 
 fiddling!
 
 
 > BB,
 > Hutch
 > -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
 > Version: 3.1
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 > ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
 > 
 > 
 > On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 12:29 PM E Cohen <eac at inbox.com 
 > <mailto:eac at inbox.com>> wrote:
 > 
 > ����I think I've run a round more recently than Hutch, so I'm happy if
 > ����Hutch
 > ����takes it.
 > 
 > ����Thank you, Jim, I loved this game.
 > 
 > ����Also, I'd give five bucks to the Kickstarter for the movie about the
 > ����parrot.
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > �����> Hello, fellow fictioneers!
 > �����>
 > �����> Thank you all for indulging me in my variety round, and thank you
 > ����Beth Bruch for making a return appearance after something like eight
 > ����years! Thanks too to Jed, who submitted votes for the first time in
 > ����a long while.
 > �����>
 > �����> And now for the results: Apparently we collectively need more
 > ����practice in inventing plausible Hollywood plots. The actual synopsis
 > ����of The Birds and the Bees, (starring George Gobel, Mitzi Gaynor, and
 > ����David Niven; directed by Norman Taurog; and written by Sidney
 > ����Sheldon based on an idea by Preston Sturges) got twice as many votes
 > ����as any other entry!
 > �����> (On the other hand, it didn’t win the Most Want To See prize,
 > ����which goes to Ziv and the talking pet parrot.)
 > �����>
 > �����> Among the fake entries… we have a TIE, between Hutch and Eric at
 > ����4 points each, so I’ll ask them to confer privately and decide who
 > ����gets to run the next round.
 > �����>
 > �����>
 > �����>
 > �����> HUTCH:  Two friends from very different circumstances decide to
 > ����trade places at a high-society party. Each meets the girl their
 > ����parents expected the other to meet. Confusion and comedy follow.
 > �����>     Eric - I think this definition and my own are both more like
 > ����madcap
 > �����>        comedies of the '30, but I don't know much about movies. Maybe
 > �����>        they made those in the '50s as well?
 > �����>     David - 2 points.
 > �����>     Pierre - 2 points.
 > �����>     Jed - If that last sentence had been “Hilarity ensues” I
 > ����might have voted
 > �����>        for it. :)
 > ����(https://www.kith.org/words/2000/09/10/rrreviews/
 > ����<https://www.kith.org/words/2000/09/10/rrreviews/>)  I think I’ll give
 > �����>        this my “most want to watch” vote, though a lot would
 > ����depend on the tone
 > �����>        of the movie. I’m thinking it might have the general
 > ����flavor of _The Reluctant
 > �����>        Debutante_, which could be very enjoyable.
 > �����>
 > �����>
 > �����> DAVID RANDALL:  A lost Japanese fisherman and his two children
 > ����are rescued by a menagerie of animals that have become
 > ����super-intelligent in the wake of an atomic explosion on a tropical
 > ����island.
 > �����>     Ziv - I think this wins my "want to watch" award, but only if
 > ����it were made
 > �����>        more recently -- I can't imagine 1950's America having
 > ����Japanese
 > �����>        protagonists at all, much less ones portrayed with any
 > ����kind of sensitivity…
 > �����>     Eric - I know we're supposed to only get one vote for which
 > ����movie we’d
 > �����>        like to see, but it's hard.  Two watching points.
 > �����>     Jean-Joseph - 1 point, if for no other reason than that that
 > ����I'm amused thinking
 > �����>        about the Mr. Ed-like special effects that would have been
 > ����in play back
 > �����>       in 1956.
 > �����>
 > �����>
 > �����> ERIC COHEN:  When an out-of-luck reporter signs on as caretaker
 > ����at the Bird Nature Sanctuary, he hasn't bargained on all the Birds
 > ����-- formidable great-aunts Lucy and Helena, rowdy schoolgirl Rhoda,
 > ����or the lovely Diane.
 > �����>     Ziv - 2 points -- sounds like 1950 gender politics to me…
 > �����>     Pierre - 1 point.
 > �����>     Jed - I like this one quite a bit (especially the idea that
 > ����Bird is a family name),
 > �����>        but where are the bees? 1 point.
 > �����>
 > �����>
 > �����> JEAN-JOSEPH COTE:  Two rival all-female motorcycle gangs battle
 > ����over turf in Southern California, culminating in a choreographed rumble.
 > �����>     Ziv - Then, in the sequel, the victorious Bees meet up with
 > ����the Sharks
 > �����>        to find out who is US Street Rumble Champion.
 > �����>     Eric - I know we're supposed to only get one vote for which
 > ����movie we’d
 > �����>        like to see, but it's hard.  One watching point.
 > �����>     Ranjit - 1 point, and tied for most want to watch.
 > �����>     Jed - Nice. 2 points.
 > �����>
 > �����>
 > �����> BETH BRUCH:  A bee keeping widower and ornithologist widow clash
 > ����while trying to keep their teenaged children from dating. As tempers
 > ����flare, so does the chemistry between the parents; they resist until
 > ����the teens step in to teach their elders a lesson about the birds and
 > ����the bees.
 > �����>     Ziv - 1 point.
 > �����>     Pierre - I'd like to watch this one.
 > �����>     Jed - I like this, but I feel like it might be more 1970s
 > ����than 1950s. (Huh, but
 > �����>        I now see that _The Parent Trap_ (which this description
 > ����roundaboutly
 > �����>        made me think of) was made in 1961, at least ten years
 > ����before I thought
 > �����>        it was, so maybe 1956 isn’t too early for this sort of thing.)
 > �����>
 > �����>
 > �����> THE IMDB:  On an ocean voyage, a card shark and her father cheat
 > ����a naive man out of his money. Things take a twist when the girl
 > ����falls in love with the man  she's just fleeced.
 > �����>     Eric - 2 points.
 > �����>     David - The Lady Eve [Jim adds: I confess, when I chose this
 > ����movie I had
 > �����>        no idea it was a remake of the more famous film David
 > ����mentions!]
 > �����>     Ranjit - 2 points, and tied for most want to watch.
 > �����>     Jean-Joseph - 2 points for the shipboard romance.
 > �����>     Beth - 2 points.
 > �����>
 > �����>
 > �����> PIERRE ABBAT: Biologists studying pollinators in the Amazon
 > ����rainforest are abducted by the Ye'kwana tribe. Anthropologists and
 > ����missionaries in neighboring tribes cooperate to try to free them.
 > �����>     Pierre adds: I was going to say the Yanomamö tribe at first,
 > ����but Yanomamö
 > �����>        (which I think was considered a single language at the
 > ����time) is spoken in
 > �����>        only a small area and not related to anything else,
 > ����whereas Ye'kwana is
 > �����>        Cariban, and Cariban languages are spoken in a wide area,
 > ����so there would
 > �����>        be more outsiders who could talk with them.
 > �����>
 > �����>
 > �����> ZIV STERN:  A newly orphaned boy must learn to navigate first
 > ����love with the help of a new authority figure: his father's talking
 > ����pet parrot.
 > �����>     Eric - I hope this isn't true, but it might be. 1 point.
 > �����>     David - 1 point, and most want to see.
 > �����>     Jean-Joseph - I guess this last one is the movie I'd most
 > ����like to see.
 > �����>     Beth - 1 point, and most want to see.
 > �����>
 > �����>
 > �����> General comments:
 > �����>
 > �����> Eric - This was great fun.
 > �����>
 > �����> Pierre - This is tough! Maybe because I don't watch movies.
 > �����>
 > �����> Jean-Joseph - I think this worked out quite well, where all of
 > ����the entries seem well-written and plausible to me. Kudos to all!
 > �����>
 > �����> Linda - This ballot makes no sense.  I have been enduring a heat
 > ����wave plus family stuff--not so bad, as family stuff was fun and now
 > ����it is cooler.  sorry not to help out this time.
 > �����>
 > �����> David - The vote for The Birds and the Bees
 > �����> Was slow, for we lay at our ease
 > �����> In summer siestas,
 > �����> Or played in fiestas,
 > �����> Far away from our Macs and PCs.
 > �����>
 > �����>
 > �����>
 > �����> -Jim
 > �����>
 > �����>
 > �����>
 > 
 > 
 > ����-- 
 > ����-- Eric   |   @GoudyBoldItalic
 > 
 > 
 
 
 -- 
 -- Eric ��| ��@GoudyBoldItalic 
 
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