Methinks to be a participant on any one of those "reality-based" shows, one
would have to be at least socially disabled right out of the blocks,
wouldn't you agree?

-Kyle

(who is still trying to understand why he would need a shotgun to get Laura
to lift her dress:

"Depends. I've got this little mental picture of Kyle sitting on the
verandah
sitting in a rocking chair, shotgun across his lap, expensive lens in the
middle of the lawn. Call from Laura:-

"Hey, hon, can you do up my dress".

Go on Kyle, hit the insurance. :-)

Cheers

Deri")

Betcha my mental picture is stranger than yours, Deri.  ;>)

Besides, if you've seen my shooting of late, you would understand that even
hitting insurance would be no mean feat!

CP spasms and a 12-bore.  What a great combo, eh?

-Kyle



-----Original Message-----
From: Deri James [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 4:41 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: A quandary!!


At the weekend I got a letter from the production company of a show called
"Big Brother". This was a very popular "greenhouse show" (cameras watching
24hrs a day) which ran last summer. They were inviting me to apply to be a
contestant in the new series this summer, because they wished 1 of the 9 to
be disabled this time. In the show the contestants vote each week to
nominate
two people to be evicted, the viewers then do a phone vote to kick out one
of
them. At the end of 9 weeks the one left wins a prize.

This seems full of pitfalls to me. It would skew the voting. Unless the
disabled person was ultra PC the disabled action groups would be down on
them
like a ton of bricks. And its boring sitting round for 9 weeks just
nattering, notwithstanding missing family, work, e-mail lists!!!.

What do you all think?

Cheers

Deri