Dabs, this was great! I particularly loved the Disneyfication of the lions! Not that I watch Disney films about five or six times a day or anything.
Didi? Gogo? Where are you? It's me. I'm here. No more waiting. Didi? Gogo? Where are you? I told you I'd come, didn't I? Hello? I could have sworn it was this bench. Where are they? Didi? Gogo?
awesome job dabs! you the man! this was great! YOu make my beloved dr. carl leaving a little more tolerable
the great entity of the thread
One of the most fun things about this approach to Survivor (as opposed to having one person writing all the summaries) is that you get to see each person's unique take on the situation. I loved "TILT", Hakuna & Matada, Don Carlo, Sgt. Franz, Linda Rafiki, and the whole group of 'em! Thanks, dabo.Oh, and as OFG said, I'm also sorry that there weren't any blue hens in the reward...
Great job dabo! All this talk of chickens/hens has reminded me of poor little chicken #6. She was a good chick...
Oh Dabs! I would *wakeywakey* you.. but it is obvious from this that you were MORE than awake!! LOL! I am WAY impressed! BRAVO!!!!!!!!*feels the pressure mounting...*
(smooches Dabs)
"Just die, Frank..." - Lindsey, S3
OMG dabo! This is frickin' awesome!! What a summary. I can't say enough about it, I am just so impressed. Not that I expected any less of you, it's just to see it all laid out before me, I can't get over it. You hit all the points that needed hitting, came up with great nicknames, through in the right quotes, added just the right spice of commentary, and brought an overall context to it that gives it just the right tone. Easy to read, too. I absolutely love it.No real comments on the below quotes, I just wanted to highlight some of my favorite moments. I was LMAO through the whole damn thing, though!
>Hakuna: Okay, let's go to the
>other camp now.
>
>Matada: Told you this would be
>fun, they were really scared.
>
>
>Hakuna: Yeah, now let's go see
>if that crazy lady will
>sing us "Circle of Life"
>again.
>
>Matada: I liked "Color of the
>Wind" better.*****
>Linda Rafiki: Spirits of the morning
>say it's time for work!
>
>
>Don Carlo: There is work to
>be done, capisce.
TILT thinks
>the Boomers are sucking up
>to them, I can't imagine
>why or how things work
>in TILTworld.
>
>Longhorn Brandi: Don't forget what they've
>put us through. They're
>probably talking about us!
>
>Seems fair to me, you're talking
>about them.>I give up, figuring out which
>side of this tribe is
>more demented is someone else's
>job.
>
*****
>Don Carlo frets over the
>crack in the water pot.
> Thanks, MB, but the
>crackpot thing is just too
>easy.*****
>Sgt. Franz: Necklaces are a waste
>of time! Food!
>Water! Shelter!*****
somehow wound up
>branding Brandi.
>
>Longhorn Brandi: MOO!!>00Silas: Carl, can I borrow 20
>grand?
>
>Don Carlo: One day I will
>expect a favor from you,
>capisce.
>
>Then the Sanburro young spend some
>time getting on his case
>for being a rich workaholic
>dentist, but Don Carlo knows
>lazy when he sees it
>and somehow manages not to
>tell them off. Finally,
>blessedly, tree mail arrives*****
Jiffy is there to
>get in his camera time,
>and what can I say
>but MB has some mighty
>big balls.> Yeah, a shower after
>balling, that sounds right to me*****
Jiffy
>gives them grief!>and Jiffy griefs them
>again!*****
a dust devil kicks
>into camp and knocks them
>all down. I sure
>hope Linda saw that since
>she's so into the omens
>and stuff.*****
>Powerpuff Kim states the obvious and
>Sgt. Franz takes charge of
>things.
>
>TILT: Old people suck.
>
>And the Sanburros commence ridding trees
>of their excess branches*****
>Meanwhile, at Sanburro TILT has collapsed
>with tummy pains, thanks to
>dehydration and MB being a
>sadist. Powerpuff Kim comes
>to her aid.
>
>TILT: Oh, I could take getting
>my hair braided better than
>this! Oh Oh!
>
>Then Linda wandered by as TILT
>writhed in pain. How
>embarrassing of the spirits to
>allow such a thing.
>
>Powerpuff Kim: Go 'Way, Rafiki!
>
>Yeah, that entertainment strategy pops up
>at the oddest times, how
>quaint.
>
*****>Back at Boron they've somehow stumbled
>into the sex sells strategy.
>
>
>Boss Tom: We got colored boy
>in bulging white, we got
>fat naked guy (no comment),
>we got skinny Action Figure
>and Punk Daddy, we got
>fat-bottomed Mama Kim a-makin' the
>rockin' world go 'round, we
>got sweet young thang a-shakin'
>her bacon!
>
>And hopefully they got MB pounding
>his head repeatedly into the
>wall for not having had
>this challenge three or four
>days earlier when Jessie could
>have played.*****
>The expert gives the win to
>Boron because the Sanburro signal
>just blended so well with
>the terrain that it would
>probably never even be noticed
>from the air, which fortunately
>for MB that actually makes
>a great deal of sense.*****
>Poor Linda couldn't handle it
>and became very freaky Rafiki
>over it, going on and
>on about the spirits not
>blessing a house in conflict
>and abandoning them to find
>some peace; generally making a
>pitiful spectacle of herself.
>I have to wonder what
>she actually would do if
>the lions showed up one
>night, this is the damnedest
>entertainment strategy I've ever seen.
> Well, Dick, I really
>dig the groovy far out
>spiritual stuff but I'm picking
>up such bad vibes from
>the attitude she's copping to
>that I have to give
>it a 35.
>
*****>And, of course, Jiffy was waiting
>for them when they finally
>got there. He commenced
>probing them for the traditional
>blatant lies and stupid aversions.
>
>
>Don Carlo: We have a water
>problem, we have a pot
>problem, we're not always on
>the same page, capisce.
>
>The pot problem, that explains everything.
> And so it went.> Sgt. Franz attempted a
>bit of soul searching at
>one point, that was cute.
> I'm starting to look
>forward to Jack Nicholson playing
>that character in the big
>screen version.
*****And finally
>they went to vote, Linda
>voting as Mother Africa wanted
>her to vote of course,
>and when the votes were
>tallied TILT and Don Carlo
>were tied 4-4. Seems
>00Silas decided it was better
>to have three dependants than
>be a fifth wheel, sad
>when the smartest one in
>the tribe is the bartender
>wannabe thespian.
*****Before the revote
>the two were given the
>chance to beg to stay.
>
>
>Don Carlo: I am a man
>who gets things done, capisce.
>
>
>TILT: Give a girl a break,
>huh, I need the money.
>
Predictably,
>neither of them knew what
>to take for a bellyache.
>and we all learned a
>valuable Survivor lesson. You
>should laze around and catch
>up on your reading or
>someday you too may lose
>a game of smarts to
>someone as lame as TILT!
Bravo bravo bravo dabo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
dangerkitty
Goddess of Words
extremely entertaining.
Awesome job Dabo!
You had the worst ever episode and you made it interestingBeatrice, get yee to Heaven, heres no place for you maids...and away to Saint Peter's for the Heavens, he shows me where the bachelors sit, and there live we as merry as the day is long -Much Ado About Nothing
Really excellant Summary Dabo. You covered all the events that was so yucky to watch and made them seem funny!! Such a talent you've got there.Please do a Univ. of Texas grad a huge favor and stop calling Brandy Boy ---"Longhorn Brandi". See the beautiful MALE BULL Longhorn is our official college Mascot and he has a long tradition of having BIG horns and BIG EVERYTHING!!!
Brandy Boy or Bambi Boy hardly qualifies as the great western STUD Longhorn of Texas. Thanks.
Dalton
(who votes for Dabo to do ALL the Summaries for S-3).
"Brandy Boy or Bambi Boy hardly qualifies as the great western STUD Longhorn of Texas."
(... personally, i wouldn't even call this sweet little bastard a BRANDY ASS. while no alumuni here, I was hopin someone might care to take on and rassle a bit with this sacred cow... I mean steer... excuse me, I meant bull..)"See the beautiful MALE BULL Longhorn is our official college Mascot..."
(.... naturally, as opposed to the beautiful FEMALE BULL Longhorn.)-------
uh, sorry bout dat... like my stepdaddy always said, you just dont mess with TEXAS, boy..-my bad
First, a big thank-you for all your replies, I'm very glad you all liked the summary so much. I had fun writing it, but I also sweated bullets about what to include, what to leave out, those sort of things, so the comments about how well it reads and hitting all the right points are especially wonderful! Thank you, thank you. And now some individual replies:IceCat and aymelek: Wow, and the Freaky Rafiki line was a last second call, I'm very pleased it worked out so well. The word "freaky" wasn't in my rough draft, I added it into that sentence on a whim as I was typing the final version. Good lesson there, listen to your whims.
Jizzy: I had to restrain myself when I heard Carl mention the "pot problem" in TC, especially since Brandon lists smoking as his hobby; there were so many possible ways to take-off on that line! I knew it had to be included somehow, it would have been a crime to leave it out.
LoudmouthLee and LadyT: Thank you. I wasn't so much concerned with it being such a boring or bad episode; dealing with that farce of an immunity challenge, though, was tough.
Outfrontgirl: In the rough draft I had Sgt. Franz speaking with a heavy German accent, but it didn't improve anything so I went back to playing him straight and that worked very well contrasted with how I was messing with so many of the others' quotes. Yeah, putting some words into the mouths of chickens, I could have gone overboard with something like that.
AyaK: I agree, I am very much looking forward to the round robin summaries, it should be fantastic.
VampKira: The key is to have fun writing your TI summary, let that infuse the piece. Think you can get into a fun place? You'll do great, I'm certain of it. (smooches back)
Dalton: WOW! A big thank you for the vote of confidence! ALL the summaries? WOW! I really am looking forward to reading the round robin pieces, though. Okay, Longhorn is out; I only went with that one for the branding gag, really. The other two I considered were Cookie Brandi and Ten-Gallon Brandi, let me know which one of those you prefer.
SMILES ARE FREE.
"If the race of man should be left naked upon a desert island, we should become extinct in six weeks. A few individuals might linger, but in a year would become worse than monkeys." (Samuel Butler, "Erewhon")
"Linda voting as Mother Africa wanted her to vote of course".... ""Go 'Way!""
"Not being allowed to just kick out whoever he wanted, Jiffy brought out the Trivial Pursuit challenge."
(if only they'd give jiffy the power he craves, he could just say).... ""Go 'Way!""
"TILT: We all get along really well!"
.... " More Growls, more "Go 'Way!s""
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these be some of my favorite lines...
and they outta order
so i "Go 'Way!" now..
How did I miss this, where have I been? It's GRRRRREAT! Loved the nicknames, especially Action Figure, Don Carlo, Punk Daddy, Sgt. Franz....aw, hell, ALL of em! Fun read!