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Ellen Fanshaw (dame_ellen) wrote in undertherainbow,
@ 2010-02-12 18:01:00

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bela talbot, ellen fanshaw, gaz membrane, geoffrey tennant, miniver cheevy

Olympic fever
Someone want to explain to me just how the fuck Vancouver got to host the Olympics?

I mean, Vancouver.

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	miniver 2010-02-13 12:46 am UTC (link)
	Really good poutine? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	dame_ellen 2010-02-13 01:24 am UTC (link)
	If that's all it takes for an Olympic bride, Montreal would've won. In a landslide. Or a landfill. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	miniver 2010-02-13 01:46 am UTC (link)
	Ah. Well, can't guess right every time, I suppose. I've only been to Canada once aside from touring, which doesn't really count. A lifetime of debauchery has made it such that I can no longer remember what city I was in at the time. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	dame_ellen 2010-02-13 01:50 am UTC (link)
	Are you an actor? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	miniver 2010-02-13 01:54 am UTC (link)
	No, I'm a musician. I did try acting once or twice once I got over being dead terrified of being on a stage or in front of a camera, but I wasn't really any good at it. I knew a director, though. He was from Canada, he took me there. It was a long time ago. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	dame_ellen 2010-02-13 01:57 am UTC (link)
	Oh, god, was he a pretentious asshole named Darren? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	miniver 2010-02-13 01:58 am UTC (link)
	Oh, have you met him?? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	dame_ellen 2010-02-13 02:00 am UTC (link)
	Met him? He fought a duel in my living room. Well, partly fought. Mostly he screamed like a little girl and whinged about it for days. And broke things. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	miniver 2010-02-13 02:05 am UTC (link)
	What'd you do that for? ...Actually that sounds a bit like something I would do. He was very nice. And I was very young. I met him after I lost my first boyfriend. Darren... sort of looked after me a bit, in his way. Ended up running off with Kit Marlowe, but who wouldn't have? I'd have shagged Marlowe too, if he'd let me. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	dame_ellen 2010-02-13 02:06 am UTC (link)
	I wasn't the one fighting the duel. It was my house and I was having a party. This was when we were rehearsing Hamlet. Very nice? Are you sure we're talking about the same Darren? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	miniver 2010-02-13 02:15 am UTC (link)
	Well, nice... in his way. Snappish and rather easily offended but he meant well. Well enough for me, at any rate. He was very helpful. [ooc: no, really.] Of course, we might not be technically talking about the same Darren. I've jumped so many worlds and times I have no idea where my own is anymore. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	unhingedrapier 2010-02-13 06:32 am UTC (link)
	The same Darren? There's more than one? ... Jesus Christ. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	dame_ellen 2010-02-13 10:39 am UTC (link)
	Darren ... Nichols. Thin, brown hair, glasses, haughty mien? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ltldropofpoison 2010-02-13 01:30 am UTC (link)
	It does rather seem that a place with more dependable snowfall might've been a better choice for a Winter Games. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	dame_ellen 2010-02-13 01:38 am UTC (link)
	Fuck the snow - have you been to Vancouver? Half the people are always bragging about how small their carbon footprint is, and the other half are junkies. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ltldropofpoison 2010-02-13 01:42 am UTC (link)
	No, never have. I've been to Montreal and to St. John's, but never had a chance to explore any more of Canada. I'm English, so we have our own issues. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	dame_ellen 2010-02-13 01:48 am UTC (link)
	Oh, yes. Well, I could tell you that Canada is the largest land mass, the first nation of hockey, and the best part of North America, but then I'd just sound like a beer commercial, and I don't do commercials. Ellen Fanshaw. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ltldropofpoison 2010-02-13 04:13 am UTC (link)
	Bela Winchester. I don't have any special love for the U.S., aside from the fact my husband's a Yank. Never had anything to complain about Canada, though. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	gameslave2 2010-02-13 02:33 am UTC (link)
	Bribery? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	dame_ellen 2010-02-13 10:35 am UTC (link)
	With what? Birkenstocks? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	gameslave2 2010-02-13 10:43 am UTC (link)
	Pot. Promises to shower. Not playing Phish anymore. That's what I'd want from a hippie. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	dame_ellen 2010-02-13 11:06 am UTC (link)
	I can see one hippie promising to do that and living up to it, but I'm sorry. I'm sorry, I just can't see enough hippies in Vancouver agreeing to do it at the same time for a bribe. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	unhingedrapier 2010-02-13 06:34 am UTC (link)
	Is this your way of avoiding doing anything remotely constructive as usual? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	dame_ellen 2010-02-13 10:35 am UTC (link)
	I can't build anything with water crackers, Geoffrey, so I need to find something to do. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	unhingedrapier 2010-02-13 11:03 am UTC (link)
	I've moved on to Cheetos. Crackers are no good for pillars. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	dame_ellen 2010-02-13 11:06 am UTC (link)
	Is that what that orange dust was on your fingers last night? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	unhingedrapier 2010-02-13 11:23 am UTC (link)
	No, Ellen, it was residual radioactive leftovers from my trip to Chernobyl. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	dame_ellen 2010-02-13 11:33 am UTC (link)
	Ha, ha. I thought it was chalk or something. (Reply to this) (Parent)