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Who are the greedy bastards?

Poll ended at Sat Jan 12, 2008 12:21 am

The producers
14
48%
The writers
1
3%
WGAS
14
48%
 
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What do you think about the WGA strike?

#1 Post by Bob Juch » Thu Jan 10, 2008 12:21 am

Who are the greedy bastards?
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#2 Post by TheCalvinator24 » Thu Jan 10, 2008 12:28 am

There should be a choice for

BOTH
It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. —Albus Dumbledore

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#3 Post by earendel » Thu Jan 10, 2008 6:16 am

I'd like to post an answer but since my writers are on strike I have nothing to say.
"Elen sila lumenn omentielvo...A star shines on the hour of our meeting."

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#4 Post by BackInTex » Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:04 am

earendel wrote:I'd like to post an answer but since my writers are on strike I have nothing to say.
I have long suspected all your comments weren't entirely yours. :lol:
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#5 Post by earendel » Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:28 am

BackInTex wrote:
earendel wrote:I'd like to post an answer but since my writers are on strike I have nothing to say.
I have long suspected all your comments weren't entirely yours. :lol:
No, some come from the voices in my head, when I choose to acknowledge them. But they're on strike, too.
"Elen sila lumenn omentielvo...A star shines on the hour of our meeting."

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#6 Post by PlacentiaSoccerMom » Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:32 am

My kids would really like to see new episodes of "Ugly Betty" but understand why the writers are striking.

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#7 Post by Appa23 » Thu Jan 10, 2008 11:41 am

TheCalvinator24 wrote:There should be a choice for

BOTH
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#8 Post by ghostjmf » Thu Jan 10, 2008 12:37 pm

In a way, I wanna thank them all for giving me time in which to view all my PBS non-drama recordings, which generally have to wait for rerun period, now. When its half-rerun period. Or whatever.

I also wanna thank them all for causing Lawn Order CI to be put back on a station I can watch, so I can see the beginnings of the ones my sister recorded for me but started a little late, & the whole-thing of the ones she can't find the tape of, this winter instead of never in case #1 & "when she finds it" in case #2.

In a way, I also feel I got to see more of shows I liked that would have otherwise gotten yanked early, like Journeyman. Even if they did screw around with its night toward the end.

I've been watching Canadian shows which are only ordered 13 at a time & shown once per year, when I can get them that is; however, these programs know they'll only have 13 shows/year, so they get to put everything they've got into those shows. At any rate, seeing only 9 or 13 shows of a series doesn't make me write the show off, even though America shows generally don't have "all we've got" put into the 9 or 13 we've seen, because the writers & producers thought they would have a whole 26-show season. Now, fellow-Americans who follow cable shows, which also have short seasons, have pretty much that same outlook. But I fear other Americans may simply lose interest in "not a full season"/"left us hanging on not-an-official cliffhanger" shows.

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#9 Post by wintergreen48 » Thu Jan 10, 2008 12:44 pm

earendel wrote:
BackInTex wrote:
earendel wrote:I'd like to post an answer but since my writers are on strike I have nothing to say.
I have long suspected all your comments weren't entirely yours. :lol:
No, some come from the voices in my head, when I choose to acknowledge them. But they're on strike, too.
I bet my voices could beat up your voices. And my voices don't need no stinkin' union.

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#10 Post by earendel » Thu Jan 10, 2008 1:22 pm

wintergreen48 wrote:
earendel wrote:
BackInTex wrote: I have long suspected all your comments weren't entirely yours. :lol:
No, some come from the voices in my head, when I choose to acknowledge them. But they're on strike, too.
I bet my voices could beat up your voices. And my voices don't need no stinkin' union.
Them's fightin' words, but since my voices are on strike I have no cutting nor witty rejoinder.
"Elen sila lumenn omentielvo...A star shines on the hour of our meeting."

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