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richardg49:
More essential minutiae about the Cantrell/del Mar household and its inhabitants that we need answers to:
1. Do they have a cleaner hired to come in or do they do this job themselves? How often? (Ellery doing vacuum cleaning could be wierdly erotic, couldn't it?)
2. What are some their favorite tv programmes? Do they have cable? Do they ever get in conflict about what channel to watch? Who controls the remote?
3. Have there ever been any "Not tonight, dear, I have a headache" moments (legbone-related situations excepted) ?
4. Do they vote Republican or Democrat? Do they feel strongly about busing, nuclear disarmament, and Reagan's 'Star Wars' program?
louisev:
--- Quote from: richardg49 on January 07, 2007, 06:16:59 pm ---More essential minutiae about the Cantrell/del Mar household and its inhabitants that we need answers to:
1. Do they have a cleaner hired to come in or do they do this job themselves? How often? (Ellery doing vacuum cleaning could be wierdly erotic, couldn't it?)
2. What are some their favorite tv programmes? Do they have cable? Do they ever get in conflict about what channel to watch? Who controls the remote?
3. Have there ever been any "Not tonight, dear, I have a headache" moments (legbone-related situations excepted) ?
4. Do they vote Republican or Democrat? Do they feel strongly about busing, nuclear disarmament, and Reagan's 'Star Wars' program?
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my goodness me!
1: they do not have a housekeeper - Ennis compulsively keeps the house clean, and not because he is expected to, but because he seems to need to keep it neat. However, in an old-fashioned manner, he thinks vacuum cleaners throw dust in the air and he just picks specks up off the carpet most of the time.
2. They watch the Sunday Night Mystery Movie and Ennis managed to get back to his old habit of watching daytime game shows. He also developed a secret crush on Adam Drake from "The Edge of Night" which comes on at 3:30 in the afternoon while he was sick with his legbone, and was rather pissed off that Adam stepped out on Nicole with that floozy, especially when he really thinks Adam is queer anyway. He will never, EVER admit to Ellery that he watched a soap opera, however.
3. Ennis once passed out after a three movie marathon when Ellery was expecting some sugar, but Ellery never said anything about it. It was a rather boring videotape of some Lionheart presentations of Sherlock Holmes that Ellery went for, but since Ennis didn't think the Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett) was very sexy, his attention wandered and he nodded off before the entertainment portion of the evening.
4. Ennis doesn't vote, and Ellery doesn't bug him about it, and votes against everything Republican he can think of just because he knows they are funded by religious fundamentalists.
mariez:
--- Quote from: louisev on January 07, 2007, 07:58:36 pm ---my goodness me!
1: they do not have a housekeeper - Ennis compulsively keeps the house clean, and not because he is expected to, but because he seems to need to keep it neat. However, in an old-fashioned manner, he thinks vacuum cleaners throw dust in the air and he just picks specks up off the carpet most of the time.
2. They watch the Sunday Night Mystery Movie and Ennis managed to get back to his old habit of watching daytime game shows. He also developed a secret crush on Adam Drake from "The Edge of Night" which comes on at 3:30 in the afternoon while he was sick with his legbone, and was rather pissed off that Adam stepped out on Nicole with that floozy, especially when he really thinks Adam is queer anyway. He will never, EVER admit to Ellery that he watched a soap opera, however.
3. Ennis once passed out after a three movie marathon when Ellery was expecting some sugar, but Ellery never said anything about it. It was a rather boring videotape of some Lionheart presentations of Sherlock Holmes that Ellery went for, but since Ennis didn't think the Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett) was very sexy, his attention wandered and he nodded off before the entertainment portion of the evening.
4. Ennis doesn't vote, and Ellery doesn't bug him about it, and votes against everything Republican he can think of just because he knows they are funded by religious fundamentalists.
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LOL! Thanks, Richard, for asking! That is essential minutiae (and yes, at this point I guess we should be pluralizing that!)
And Thank You, Louise! I remember The Sunday Night Mystery Movie - "Columbo" was part of that series, right? One of my favorites! Ennis getting hooked on "The Edge of Night" and getting a crush on Adam Drake? Oh my God - that is too funny!! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: I can just picture Ellery coming home early and Ennis quickly changing the channel! :laugh: :laugh:
Marie
richardg49:
--- Quote from: mariez on January 07, 2007, 08:32:00 pm ---LOL! Thanks, Richard, for asking! That is essential minutiae (and yes, at this point I guess we should be pluralizing that!)
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No, no, Marie! It should be 'Those are essential minutiae'. Correct grammar is so undervalued these days. ;)
Also, Louise, you overlooked answering the question "who controls the remote?". This is vitally important trivia which we need to know. I'm picking it would be Ennis, as it would be in keeping with his dominant character in the bedroom, and there are some obvious Freudian associations to be made when you think about using the device. ;) But a good case could be made for Ellery, too, considering it is his home and he might claim priority rights.
louisev:
oh... who controls the remote? I believe there have been a couple of tussles over the remote earlier in the Laramie Saga and ...
Ellery controls the remote.
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