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[listersgirl]

Song Titles: A Cautionary Tale: "Please Call Me, Baby" or "Please Call Me Baby"? For want of a comma, a phone call was lost.

Oh, The Shame: I admit it, I kind of love watching Beauty and the Geek. I'm sorry! Half the time I watch it on mute, though, because I can't deal with the stupid and/or awkward things that they all say. They should do a season in opposite, though, with hot airhead boys and geeky girls. And then I should be on it.

Noises Off: I told you that the beep is gone, right? The banging pipes made a comeback this week, though, banging all night long on Monday. YARGH. But someone else must have complained (I wasn't quite ready to call back AGAIN, complaining about something ELSE), because I came home on Tuesday to a note saying that there were problems with the heat and so people might be coming into our apartments. And it's been pretty quiet since. Yahoo.

Home Swee(t) Home: I have finally made the leap. I now, after 5 1/2 years, pronounce Toronto, "Tronna". The proper enunciation comes back if I'm talking to strangers or in professional situations, but most of the time, it's bye bye, little T. You'd think I lived here or something.

Mmmm Pie: Staff meetings are made infinitely better by pie.

Comments

Exactly!

[pipesdreams.livejournal.com]

I loathe 'Beauty and the Geek' (sometimes it's on the TV at the gym and since I'm running on a treadmill I can't exactly look away - it's horrible!) but I COMPLETELY AGREE that if they did one with hot, silly men and geeky chicks, I would so try out to be on the show. Think of the moments of hilarity, when you try to engage the guy in a conversation about... well, anything, literature, technology, history, politics, philosophy. The possibilities for humour are endless. I think maybe it makes me a bad person to want that show to be on air, but at least it would be a small step towards gender equality on CityTV.

Re: Exactly!

[listersgirl]

Oh yes. Plus, you'd get to be a themed geek, with a one-sentence tag line! How much fun would that be?

[orionnebula.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine actually knows a couple of the guys on Beauty and the Geek (they're MIT boys, so they're local) and says they're really sweet. I haven't actually watched the show but she was very excited about ti.

We could probably cast the entire girls side of the alternate version of the show just from our friends lists. 'Twould be much fun.

[starfishchick]

Oh, I am SO glad they're doing something about the pipes. (One hopes they are, at least.)

And mmmmmmmmmm, pie. What KIND of pie??

[listersgirl]

Lemon Merangue. (is that even the right spelling? it looks totally wrong. in any case, lemon!)

[listersgirl]

Heeee. You're totally right.

[bruiseblue.livejournal.com]

I want to be on the reverse beauty and the geek, too!

And my favourite geek this season was thrown off last night becuase of the heinous and stupid bitch he was paired with - so so unfair!

See? I'm a big loser, too. :) But on you it's cute.

[sarrabellum.livejournal.com]

Though you are utterly geeky, you are also way too hot to be on that (hypothetical) show. Seriously! I can't believe nobody else has said so! People would not know if you were the beauty or the geek. Because you're both!

Jaci & Ellen have poked me repeatedly about my precise pronunciation of Toronto. "Tore-on-toe". I can't help it! It's hard to say "Tronna"! I can barely make myself pronounce Spokane ("Spoke-Ann") correctly!

[listersgirl]

Interesting - I found him totally irritating. Although maybe I just found them totally irritating.

[listersgirl]

Seriously, it takes years to get the lazy Toronto into your brain. And it totally snuck up on me! I was quite determined to avoid it. :)

(and thank you, that's sweet!)

[bruiseblue.livejournal.com]

He's the spitting image of one of my RL geek boyfriends, which is why I liked him - and he tried. he was so sincere.

I hated that women, though. Something about women who look like Sarah Michelle Gellar, partly, and partly because she never studied. She didn't try! She wanted to take the money and run on the first episode. Awful.

Now, it must be said, there are no women on that show that I can like or relate to. And the token grinning asian geek reminds me way too much of somebody here at work, who I don't like. And now that the geek who looks like my friend is gone, I may never go back - but it all takes place at a time when there is nothing else on TV that I want to watch, which often conspires to make me fall into shows like Hells Kitchen, Biggest Loser, and Beauty and the geek.

but yeah, we so need a female geek show. And not Ugly Betty-fied, with the fashion and bulimia jokes, either.

I hate anything which takes a pretty girl, messes up her hair and calls her ugly. I hate that SO much.

[listersgirl]

It's funny how everyone's perceptions are different - I felt like she tried harder than any of the other women. I didn't much like her (I thought she was pretty mean to her partner), but I kind of loved the fact that she was totally all about the fact that it was a game. She didn't care about anything except for how it related to how she could win the money, which is such a nice break from people who pretend that it's all about integrity.

[pipesdreams.livejournal.com]

And don't forget the glasses! Glasses, as we all know, are the ultimate "uglifier". Hate hate hate.

[bruiseblue.livejournal.com]

But it's about Learning. and Becoming a Better Person!

meh.

[sarcasma.livejournal.com]

Song Titles: A Cautionary Tale: "Please Call Me, Baby" or "Please Call Me Baby"? For want of a comma, a phone call was lost.

Laughing so hard. Although, when the demanded phone call fails to come and the comma excuse is trotted out, the songwriter could point out that in order to call him/her "baby" or indeed anything else, the intended needs, in fact, TO CALL. :D

I have never said and never will say "Tronna".

[listersgirl]

It hasn't got quite that bad, but I've definitely lost that final T somewhere.