Murray Head (muzza@omen.net.au)
Thu, 27 Nov 1997 23:27:44 +0800
At 15:44 27/11/97 +0000, Natacha wrote:
>> I was wondering - it is well established that Lynda didn't have many
>> firends - apart from Kenny, Sarah etc
>> So why in A Quarter to Midnight do they call so many of her friends
>> in an attempt to find Lynda - who were all these people ?
>My suspicion is that they weren't really friends they were phoning,
>probably business associates that Lynda had met in running the JG.
I thought this myself - I can remember a line about Julie/whoever calling
people to find out where Lynda was, but I don't remember the word friends
specifically.
As for the stuff in the newsroom where people were calling around - I'm
pretty sure they were all armed with pages from Lynda's address book or
something - which may have included Lynda's friends (such as they are),
business contacts, spare hunks of meat (of the male variety) she could use
to make Spike jealous, and old "associates" who she liked to leave "I know
where you live and I'm gonna get you sometime" messages in the middle of the
night ;) (I wonder if Sam's name was in there ;)).
I
>>wonder what their reaction would have been to Lynda going missing? I
>>think a few of them would have been quite relieved!
>For about a week untill they realied just how hard Lynda worked. Then
>they would have wanted her back.
I agree! Look at the situation in "Shouldn't I Be Taller" - okay, so that
involves Colin, and thus is null and void in terms of any sensible analysis
- but would Julie "Hi, my name's Julie and I can get your picture on the
front page of a newspaper" Craig be any better? The annoying thing about
people who devote their lives to somewthing is that, while you can make fun
of them for doing so (as the newsteam no doubt did), you can't help but
notice that they are doing the job pretty bloody well. (sorry for the
diatribe - I'm currently desparately hoping this is the case in real life
while I wait for honours marks and scholarship details - I virtualy lived in
my lab & (shared) office - so the "Lynda sleeping in the newsroom idea" is
not foreign to me (although I resisted that temptation (with the exception
of a couple of 48-hour stints) as men get too stinky after 24 hours without
immersion/scrubbing and my offficemates would no doubt (quite rightly)
resent the pong :) )).
>>[1] No, your memory's not playing tricks on you, this line isn't in the
> > ep, I made it up.
Hmmm, sneaky! :)
Anyway, on a final note (or two) I happen to like this list, and, while it
can occasionally stray off topic for a bit too long, I like to hear a bit
about people's other interests. So in a final act of defiance to the "we
salute you post", I'd like to say that I just watched the BBC movie Priest,
and thought it was really good, and ask the Adelaide posters what the
weather is like (I'm off to Adelaide for a week as of Sunday).
Yours not really caring whether he's totally on topic all the time as long
as it's not annoying the other list members,
Murray
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