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BS: TV: Bachelor jumps the fence

05 Mar 19 - 07:24 PM (#3980414)
Subject: BS: TV: Bachelor jumps the fence
From: keberoxu

This moment on last night's episode of "The Bachelor" is

too good to be true.


05 Mar 19 - 08:21 PM (#3980417)
Subject: RE: BS: TV: Bachelor jumps the fence
From: Mossback

It amazes me that people actually watch this sort of crap, never mind analyzing & discussing it!


06 Mar 19 - 03:03 AM (#3980439)
Subject: RE: BS: TV: Bachelor jumps the fence
From: Mr Red

Ah- never forget Charles Dickens became famous and rich by making up stories involving amazing coincidences between people with amazing sounding names, drip fed in episodes.

I heard it said that people on the docks in the US would ask of immigrants "How is Little Dorrit?"


06 Mar 19 - 06:44 PM (#3980618)
Subject: RE: BS: TV: Bachelor jumps the fence
From: robomatic

Shakespeare stole his plots and made up his characters no better than Dickens, only he didn't have a newspaper to put 'em in, so he got his lads and lassies (sorry, no lasses back then, just laddies) to dress up and play act in a firetrap little place called the Globe (Sounds like a good name for a newspaper).

Dickens is the Shakespeare of the 19th century. I would refer to him as Saint Chuck except I already do that for the other great Charles (Darwin).


07 Mar 19 - 02:54 AM (#3980661)
Subject: RE: BS: TV: Bachelor jumps the fence
From: Mr Red

Bill Shake eventually moved up-market to the indoor Blackfriars Theater. The Globe was run by the same company that had a bear-baiting pit next door. Of which Bill would have been a shareholder.

Sort of takes way some of the gloss, dunnit?


07 Mar 19 - 09:03 PM (#3980846)
Subject: RE: BS: TV: Bachelor jumps the fence
From: keberoxu

Next week we will find out what changed for the Bachelor of the season, after jumping the fence,
apart from his haircut.


08 Mar 19 - 08:09 AM (#3980914)
Subject: RE: BS: TV: Bachelor jumps the fence
From: Dave the Gnome

What's it like to have a stalker, keberoxu? :-)


08 Mar 19 - 11:22 AM (#3980942)
Subject: RE: BS: TV: Bachelor jumps the fence
From: keberoxu

The answer, D the G, is
that it's all in a day's work for me.
For the better part of twenty-five years,
my name has been attached to something which
is coveted by someone else.
Because of this attachment,
I have been shadowed ever since.
It is the reason that I don't pick up the telephone
and rarely return calls;
half the time I don't even bother with the messages.


10 Mar 19 - 05:46 PM (#3981358)
Subject: RE: BS: TV: Bachelor jumps the fence
From: robomatic

Keboroxu:

Is it a motorcycle? I knew a Brit who owned a Triton and kept his phone unlisted because so many calls to see and buy it came in.


10 Mar 19 - 06:30 PM (#3981364)
Subject: RE: BS: TV: Bachelor jumps the fence
From: keberoxu

Thank you, robomatic, for making me laugh out loud,
it is something I ought to do more often.

I won't be watching,
tomorrow night,
when the Bachelor goes off the rails again.


12 Mar 19 - 11:44 AM (#3981671)
Subject: RE: BS: TV: Bachelor jumps the fence
From: keberoxu

I think it's a wonder that
this is the first season
in which a man who agreed to be The Bachelor
has bolted from the whole thing;
why hasn't it happened sooner?


14 Mar 19 - 12:30 PM (#3982035)
Subject: RE: BS: TV: Bachelor jumps the fence
From: keberoxu

No, I didn't watch any more Bachelor TV -- turns out I didn't have to.
After lo! these many seasons/years,
a Bachelor who jumps the fence was so newsworthy,
that when I turned on the FM radio to hear some pop music
out of Providence Rhode Island
(a syndicated national network),
there was the voice of Ryan Seacrest himself,
describing his recent interview
with said Bachelor.

Seacrest was saying how refreshing it was to encounter
an eligible leading man from that show
who was sincere, more than a little shy about interviews,
and didn't have something to sell.


14 Mar 19 - 01:09 PM (#3982044)
Subject: RE: BS: TV: Bachelor jumps the fence
From: Mossback

What would be a great deal more refreshing would be if these types of "reality"[sic] TV shows were banned.