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Re: AFOL Wife Swap?
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lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.people, lugnet.org.us.wamalug
Date: 
Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:05:23 GMT
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Hey Steve,

Good luck with your shot at participating in this.  I am concerned that they can
cut and paste clips together to tell whatever story they want to.  I also think
that they go out of their way to put together the least compatible people
possible, to generate controversy and hence ratings.  So don't expect this to be
a pleasant experience.
One other concern is that if they think you're a reasonable person, you're much
less likely to be chosen.  It's been a while since I've seen that show (or
perhaps the other one - don't Fox and ABC have shows with exactly the same
premise?), but I remember that the people they have are usually a little
freakish.  Instead of someone who likes to keep their home clean they'll have a
total neat-freak who goes nuts if one thing is out of place (and then, of
course, place them with total slobs who haven't cleaned their home in decades),
or there was one where they had a religious person, but instead of any of the
people I see in church on Sunday, they had someone who fulfilled the worst
stereotypes you can come up with for a fanatic intolerant religious person.
I got the e-mail too, but don't fit their criteria (no kids), so it's not a
question for me.

Bruce



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  Re: AFOL Wife Swap?
 
(...) There are, of course, different ways of looking at this. It seems to me that at the end of each show, all four spouses end up talking about how much they appreciate the person they're married to. Usually even more than when the show started. (...) (18 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.people, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)

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