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Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog
You should consider going to the local Republican watch party! Get all decked out and show up alone, nobody cares! They usually have great snacks and you can get a nice beverage. I used to go alone all the time and actually met a sheriff at one and dated him for a while. And you get to see the officials. I expect to see Keating tonight at least and probably Largent and Sullivan. I know for sure that Inhofe will be there.
To: 2Jedismom
Last time - during That Election, you know the one - we had a couple friends over. The younger guys had their maps and were figuring electoral votes, I had meant to stay up until it was decided but... well, I didn't, obviously. But my dad was on a business trip (he actually rearranged the trip so he could vote before he left) and kept calling home, telling me to check one web site after another because Gore just couldn't win. Honestly I thought he might have done something drastic.
Anyway, that's my idea of election night fun!
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11/05/2002 2:59:20 PM PST
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JenB
To: JenB
Well, it's basically the same thing, except I watch other people fill in the map and the map is on a screen the size of a large wall!
My parents took me to the watch parties when I was a kid. We always watched the returns down at the bank in the small town where I lived. We always got free punch and cookies and got to stay up late!
To: 2Jedismom
Sounds like fun!
Crossing my fingers... man, I hope we win tonight!
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11/05/2002 3:07:09 PM PST
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JenB
To: SuziQ
Another adaptation, which was on PBS a couple of years ago, was "Persuasion". I could watch it again and again!Hm...guess that just goes to show opinions differ. I LOVED Persuasion (the book), but I really didn't like the movie at all. I felt like it assumed that you'd read the book, so it didn't explain a lot of the back story, but then it changed so MUCH of the book that I would have liked it better if I saw the movie first. And I didn't like the people in it. They didn't match their characters in the book at ALL, with the possible exceptions of Charles Musgrove (?) and Wentworth's friend...what was his name? Began with an "h".
One thing to keep in mind with reagards to Jane Austen's books is that the older ones tend to be more difficult to read. The language is more confusing and the characters aren't as richly developed. Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion are probably my favorites.
To: SuziQ
Oh, and with regards to PBSs changes to Persuasion...the one that bothered me the most was that they had him pretty much PROPOSE to her in the middle of a crowded room, without having really asked her father! I can't imagine that happening in that society, at all! Maybe it did, but...it seemed out of character to me.
To: 2Jedismom
Happy FR anniversary!I am back from voting and I bought brand new tires for my Ford truck! I feel like an American!
To: SuziQ
At one time, Peterborough had a thriving Folk music club. I don't know if it is still open or not. Maybe Rosie knows.Couldn't tell you. From where I'm sitting, southern NH is the deep south. ;-) My knowledge doesn't go much further south than Lebanon, NH, if that far.
To: Corin Stormhands
Heh... you said
pimply-faced!?
Nice exit post later though. Now go forth and sin no more!
To: HairOfTheDog
I had to go out to my old town to vote...never got around to registering here. Small town voting is confusing - a good half of the categories only had one candidate and then a blank for write-in. I did the best I could...my brother had a voting guide to study at one point.
I don't think the Republicans have a snowball's chance in heck, but I did my best. Of course, even our Republicans are RINOs, but that's the best you can hope for in this state.
To: SauronOfMordor
Hullo
Sauron!
Welcome to the Hobbit Hole!
(one of the things I never expected to say in my lifetime!) Hope there are no hard feelings about the whole ring thing.
To: rightwingreligiousfanatic; Overtaxed
Happy FR anniversary!
To: RosieCotton
One thing to keep in mind with reagards to Jane Austen's books is that the older ones tend to be more difficult to readOK, I'll give them another try, especially 'Persuasion'. Which adaptation did you see, by the way? I went looking for it on video or DVD today, and the only one I saw was from 1995 or so, and it starred Colin Redgrave as Wentworth, I guess. The one I saw seemed to explain the story pretty well, but it may have been one of those Masterpiece Theatre things that had several parts. It starred Ciaran Hinds, who also played Rochester in the most recent version of 'Jane Eyre'. And if you saw 'Sum of All Fears' last year, he played the Russian President.
To: 2Jedismom
I would love to go to the watch party! - Perhaps next year I will have a different job or more autonomy and I can be more active in local politics! But not this year unfortunately. Low profile is the word for now.
To: RosieCotton
I had to go out to my old town to vote...never got around to registering here. Yeah - me too. I am still registered in the next district over, Gig Harbor. I can move my registration now, and should. I kept it in Gig Harbor last time (and I am a property owner there so I felt ethics were on my side) because there was a local bridge issue I wanted to retain a vote for... (A bad plan for a new Tacoma Narrows bridge) That decision has been made now, for good or ill, and I should move it down here for next time around.
To: SuziQ
Which adaptation did you see, by the way?Same one. Maybe it was just the knowledge of the additional back story that made me feel like they didn't explain things, I don't know. In any case, I didn't care for it.
I really wish the people who did the series of "Pride and Prejudice" would do more! That is perhaps the best book to movie adaptation ever made, IMO.
To: RosieCotton
they had him pretty much PROPOSE to her in the middle of a crowded room, without having really asked her father! I don't remember him proposing, it seemed that his appearing there was HER answer that he did still want to marry her. I think at that point neither of them cared what anyone else said. She was a grown woman, and she'd marry who she pleased. She had already wasted a lot of time she could have been with the man she loved in the useless attempt to please her family! I actually thought it was the PERFECT way for her to inform her family of her decision.
To: SuziQ
In the movie, he kind of calls to her across the room that he wants her to marry him. At this point, they both knew they were still in love...but I still think there's no
way it would have been that open and public at that point in time. In modern times, sure...but not then.
I'm an opinionated little hobbit, ain't I? ;-)
To: rightwingreligiousfanatic
Hi RWRF, it's great to see you back again, I was worried you were lost to us.
I'm hoping too, but worry about what the Dems will do, they tried to rig the election for Gore, nobody's really called them on it (because the press is on their side), so now there may be no holding them back.
To: JenB
"I voted! I feel really great!"
Way to go!
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