FORKNI-L
Digest - 23 Dec 2010 to 24 Dec 2010 (#2010-43)
Fri, 24 Dec 2010
There are 4 messages totalling 146 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. Some musings on the "whammy" (2)
2. Merry Christmas (2)
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Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 16:41:36 -0700
From: Walt Doherty <wdoherty5@c.......>
Subject: Re: Some musings on the "whammy"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Angela Gottfred" <agottfre@t.......>
To: <FORKNI-L@l.......>
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2010 10:53 AM
Subject: Re: Some musings on the "whammy"
> Greer Watson pointed out earlier that the situation in "Only the Lonely" is
> not clearcut. Did Natalie pretend to be whammied by Nick when they first met
> in the morgue? If so, why did she drop the pretense when she saw him on the
> street later? And if she really was whammied, then what made it stop working?
> My gut feeling is that Nat did pretend to be whammied. But in the hours or
> days after her encounter with Nick, she wondered if she really had done the
> right thing. The combination of getting to know this good-looking guy (who
> she later admitted to being attracted to) and solving a scientific puzzle
> were ultimately too much to resist. So when she saw Nick for the second
> time, she decided not to let him go so easily.
> However, if she really was whammied in the first place, it's not too hard to
> see why it wore off. Nick didn't know about the documentary evidence problem
> at that time. Nat would have found a paper trail a mile long - documentation
> that she received a body that isn't there any more, not to mention the
> umpteen crime scene reports and photos that would have been necessary before
> Nick's body was sent to Nat's morgue.
> I also saw "Avenging Angel" the other night. That one was interesting
> because Nick's whammy of the TV reporter in front of the shelter for abused
> women suggests a fifth scenario, which I call "Whammy? What whammy?"
> Nick is upset because the TV crew is filming right on the doorsteps of the
> safe house, which is compromising its location. First he asks the reporter
> to move quite belligerently, and the reporter responds equally heatedly.
> Then Nick pulls out the whammy.
> Nick: "You're all done here. There's nothing more to see. It's what you
> call 'a wrap'."
> Reporter: "Let's go. That's a wrap."
> However, later, we see the footage airing on TV, with chaos ensuing.
> So obviously the whammy didn't work. There are two possibilities here.
> First, Nick's whammy was successful, it's just that he didn't give the right
> suggestion. He convinced them to leave, but didn't say a thing about not
> airing info that could locate the shelter. The other possibility is that the
> reporter didn't even know that a whammy had been attempted. He *was* all
> done there, he didn't see any reason to further annoy the homicide cop (who
> he might come into contact with on a future story), so he actually agreed
> with what Nick had said, and responded "It's a wrap," not even realizing
> that Nick was trying to pull something on him. (Probably just thought Nick
> was a bit overbearing.) And the reporter then went back to the studio to
> finish the footage in time for the news broadcast.
> Finally, one little side note regarding "Avenging Angel". In Canada, many
> shelters for abused women and children were originally established as homes
> for unwed mothers; places where the girls could have their babies far from
> home and then give them up for adoption, then return with nobody the wiser
> back home. With the sexual revolution, many of the maternity homes lost
> their original clientele and were repurposed as women's shelters. I learned
> this from Canadian journalist Ann Petrie's memoir/history, _Gone to an
> Aunt's_.
> (http://www.amazon.ca/Gone-Aunts-Remembering-Canadas-Mothers/dp/0771069715
> )
> Fascinating stuff!
> Can you picture Nick having a flashback to what was happening at that same
> shelter 50 years earlier?
>
> Your humble & obedient servant,
> Angela Gottfred
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Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 16:42:35 -0700
From: Walt Doherty <wdoherty5@c.......>
Subject: Re: Some musings on the "whammy"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Angela Gottfred" <agottfre@t.......>
> Can you picture Nick having a flashback to what was happening at that same
> shelter 50 years earlier?
>
> Your humble & obedient servant,
> Angela Gottfred
Sounds like the basis for a good flashback story! :-)
W
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Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 00:15:29 -0500
From: L McDavid <mclisa1014@g.......>
Subject: Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas to those of us who celebrate it! For those who don't, have a
happy long weekend.
McLisa (Lisa McDavid)
"That will be trouble."
listowner, Forkni-l & Fkfic-l
mclisa1014@g.......
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Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 10:44:16 -0800
From: Laurie of the Isles <laudon1228@y.......>
Subject: Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas!
Here's a little card I created for the FORKNI-L list.
http://www.care2.com/send/pickup/035/711/301/527/937/792
Laurie of the Isles
Laudon1228@y.......
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