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From: jyarnot@netcom.com (Jan Yarnot)
Subject: GH: Update Thursday August 10
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 1995 15:44:20 GMT

On the mystery mailing list, someone suggested the emoticon X-( meaning
brain-dead, so there may be times I use this for our own BrainDead Brenda.
However, not for today's update, as X-( didn't appear.

SLY was there!  Thereby doubling his appearances this year.  And the girl,
Julie Ann Knetzgar?  Was that the name of the little girl, the desirable one,
in the commercial that Sly was in last year?  If so, what a neat in-joke,
similar to Reginald being an expert on marine disasters.

THE GO-KART; or REALLY, LAURA IS PRETTY COOL
Laura comes into the garden and finds Lucky working on some contraption
which she hazards a guess at, a spaceship?  "MOM!  I'm not 9 any more!"
She finds out it's a go-kart, and absolutely forbids it.  They argue and she
goes to call Luke.  Sly and Julie Ann show up.  Luke, on the phone, puts
forth that Stone is a mitigating circumstance... he just lit up at being
asked to help.  At this point, here comes Stone with gears and a chain.  He
admits to Sly (I love Sly, I miss Sly, I would like to see more of Sly than
once every 4 months, hello PTB?) and Julie Ann that he has AIDS.  They're
cool with this.  Laura comes by to tell Lucky it's OK to build the go-kart.
Sly calls her "Mrs. Spencer."  Mrs. Spencer???  What happened to "Aunt
Laura?"  And if he'd been around as much as they say, it SHOULD be  "Aunt
Laura!"  Hello, writers?
        While tinkering with the whosis, Stone cuts himself... "DON'T
TOUCH ME!!"  Laura just happens to have her handy pack of latex gloves.
I dunno, I never did, except when teaching, not as a Mom in the house.
She bandages him up quite calmly and goes for the bleach to clean the
go-kart and area.  Both Stone (whose mother could never have been this
competent!) and Lucky are impressed.

THE DESIGNER DRESS; or IN YOUR EYE, PHILADELPHIA!
MaryMae is having her photo shot and Lois and Ned are watching.  She's
relaxed and mildly flirting (if there is such a thing on this soap!)
unlike your humble Updater, who freezes at a camera.  Lois asks Ned how
he can possibly be enjoying himself with Sonny being raided.  (She's
taken a while to remember that she and Sonny were friends!)  Ned looks
smug.  [I don't think it's so much putting his women out of danger, as it
is that he really hates having a boss, especially one who can stand him
down.]  Ned suggests something special for MaryMae's opening in
Philadelphia.  Lois thinks of popping out of a cake?  But no, they will
save that for anniversaries.  Ned would like MM to have a designer
original, don't let her see the price tag.  Heck, even Lois knows that
"if you have to ask, you can't afford it" and that designer originals
don't have price tags.
        Lois and MM go shopping.  I look at the selection of subdued
pastels and blacks she picks and think Red, but then (this is to show
what generation I come from!) I remember Mammy in Gone With The Wind and
think that probably MM is coming from the same place.  Sure enough, after
Lois rejects everything, including a blue satin number I thought had
potential, she picks up a red one.  Mary Mae says, "but this is
Philadelphia!"  Lois asks what her family would think, and MM lists
everyone, all of whom, even uptight Justus, would go for it.  But her
mother, rest in peace, wouldn't approve.  MM tries on the dress and it's
gorgeous.  Lois asks MM what she thinks, and it's the Line of the Day:
"Sorry, Mom, gotta check this out!" and they sashay off to get accessories.

FELICIA SUFFERS SOME DISAPPOINTMENTS; or SOMETIMES MOTHERHOOD ISN'T ALL
IT'S CRACKED UP TO BE
Felicia mopes around the Outback.  She and Mac hear from Garcia about the
search warrent, and still F. expresses no sympathy for Stone.  Or for the
Fourth Amendment, for that matter.  Tony comes in and sees that Felicia
is depressed. Tony wants to know why.  Well, it seems that while Maxie is
learning and growing, and thanked Filly for her breakfast, it isn't
enough to offset the days and days of diapers and packing lunchboxes,
etc.  Filly wants a good adventure.  [Maybe it's time for Ryan to return!]
        Tom comes in.  He never gets philosophical before noon.  They
laugh about the camping trip.  Tony tells Tom to hang in there with his
pursuit of Simone, look at how well he and Bobbie are now getting along.
Felicia just had two of the men in her life look elsewhere, so THAT kind
of adventure is scotched, too.  Tom, then Tony, head for the hospital,
best buddies, and Mac is puzzled because it seemed to him Bobbie was
seeing things differently.  [Say it around Amy, so Monica will hear it.]

TWO EXPRESS TRAINS HEADING FOR A CRASH; or CONSTITUTION, *WHAT*
CONSTITUTION?

Sonny is on the phone to Harry giving him the numbers for the out-of-town
bank account, when there's a knock on the door.  It's Lily.  She's
dropped by to discuss BrainDead and Icky, which Sonny, repressing, is
"totally cool" with.  Garcia comes to execute the search warrent, [this
makes me so angry!  I like Garcia, but I love my Bill of Rights more, and
he has never heard of it!] and Lily casually picks up the address book
Sonny was working from and slips it into her purse.
        Garcia packs up all the papers and suggests a good attorney
"whatever happened to Phil Cusak?" [Pest extermination, actually].  Maybe
Sonny could hire Scotty [Up against Lee, that'd be fun] or the vanished
Paul.  Sonny is upset with Ned and throws stuff.  [I love Sonny in a
temper, especially as he tries so hard to repress it, and more especially
as he hasn't hit anyone since he threw Stone into the Lake.]  Lily gives
him back his address book and then asks archly "just how grateful ARE
you, Sonny?"  Maybe she is the evil kingpin of crime after all.  She
likes having Sonny in her debt, maybe he could buy her San Juan.  He
asks if she'd settle for Oswego.  Oddly enough, this doesn't appeal to
her.  But she'll accept a lovely dinner at a good restaurant.  Sonny
calls Harry over to survey the damage.
        Sonny tells Luke about this and says he will get out of the club
and move, since this is not going to help Luke and Laura.  Luke,
predictably, looks disappointed.  Sonny says he can move, "since Stone is
still healthy", which is an Ominous Knell of Doom comment if ever I heard
one.  Harry is mad at having had his office searched.  He'd encoded the
sensitive information using PGP, though.  Obviously Sonny and Ned are
heading for a clash.
        Ned is disappointed when Garcia reports.  Mac says he thinks Ned
will be involved with Sonny for a long time.  Ned doesn't think so.
--
Jan Yarnot, net.granny, RABbabe, Proud Mom to Stands-With-a-Book, the
        Booklist Boy, the IRS Guy, the Tycoon, and Sunbunny.
Nifty Fifty (growing older is mandatory, growing up is optional.)
jyarnot@netcom.com           Hey, Major League Baseball!  Grow up!!