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| Finding attractive and famous gingers was a little difficult... |
Ring in a Teacup beat A Girl in a Million
The Promise of Happiness beat Dearest Mary Jane
Winter Wedding beat A Secret Infatuation
Hannah beat Fate Takes a Hand
and
I have to cast the tie-breaking vote for Caroline's Waterloo over Dearest Love
Which means, if you're keeping score, that every mid-canon novel beat its late-canon counterpart.
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| ...as the specimens are more rare... |
The voting for the next set will be between early and mid canon:
The Magic of Living vs. A Girl Named Rose
The End of the Rainbow vs. The Secret Pool
Henrietta's Own Castle vs. Off With the Old Love
The Moon for Lavinia vs. A Gentle Awakening
and
Roses for Christmas vs. When Two Paths Meet
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| ...and unavoidably littered with the Carrot Tops, Ron Weasleys and Danny Bonaduce's of the polite world. |
I can't believe you didn't use Lee Horsley as Nero Wolfe's ginger-haired Archie Goodwin or, better yet, Fenimore Cooper's Hawkeye. I would put a link in here if I hadn't flunked Betty Magdalen's linking class....
ReplyDeleteHey, don't blame the teacher, okay? LOL
DeleteBetty JoDee,
DeleteHere is your new textbook Simple HTML for Formatting Blogger Comments by Mike Fitz.
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DeleteLook at the following hyperlink code. Copy the graphic (right mouse click into the graphic...) and save it in a word document and then write down the hyperlink code so when you want to use it you can just copy and paste it. Then all you need to do is replace the red letters with the internet URL of your choice, and the green letters with your own text. Easy as pie. If you want to do italics or bold or both you just need to add the appropriate tags around your text. (My "teacher" was Mike Fitz, I have a plain and a bold code in my Formatting blogger comments document, so when I'm too lazy to type all those letters and signs - which is most of the time - then I just copy the one I want to use.)
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Betty Anonymous,
DeleteThanks. See below.
Betty JoDee
Betty Barbara here--
ReplyDeleteFirst off, I resent you grouping Alan Tudyk and Rupert Grint (the pictured Wash from Firefly/Serenity and Ron Weasley, respectively) with Carrot Top and Danny Bonaduce---just because they all have red hair.
You could have put up Ken Howard in his hunky days, portraying Jefferson. Here's one of Betty JoDee's pick Lee Horsley as Hawkeye.
Okay--enough with the red-heads---
And on to the voting;
Miracle of Living because I love Arabella more than Rose, so there.
End of the Rainbow(in my Betty Top 10)
Henrietta's Own Castle (another in the Top 10)
Well, those two were easy, but the next are a bit tougher.
I have to go with Gentle Awakening because Florina is too cool(she dumps Lemonade on the Veronica, yay!)but I do like Lavinia as well.
and a coin toss gives me When Two Paths Meet.
Can't wait to see what you match up next.
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DeleteLet's try this again:
DeleteWell, I wasn't technically grouping Rupert Grint in (but Ron Weasley who tends to be a bit long-haired for my taste in the series) and, of course, I added a picture of Wash because he IS a babe. I hope I was just making the point that the pool of famous red heads is pretty small and has a disproportionate number of the men are really weird looking in it. Still, your resentment is not unfounded...
Hawkeye is hot stuff (mea culpa!) but I'm afraid that I must have missed the Ken Howard reference completely. Was that from a series I never saw?
Betty Barbara here--
DeleteWell! a musical Betty Keira hasn't seen! I guess because it's not Bollywood(*g*). Ken Howard was Jefferson in both the original Broadway and movie productions of 1776. Treat yourself to watching it someday. He was a total babe in that one.
He later did(among many other things) a TV series called White Shadow--he's the coach of an inner city high school basketball team. Really good, ran for three seasons 1978-'81.
Thank you, Betty Barbara! (Have I mentioned that Lee Horsley is from Muleshoe, Texas?--Really, I'm not making this up--not this time.)
DeleteProfessor van der Hertenzoon loves Ken Howard because of White Shadow, uh, not to be confused with Dark Shadows. (See I can do italics, just not links....)
How about a young Winston Churchill? Scroll down to see him in 1895, hair distinctly orange when contrasted with the true red of the Hussar uniform -- one of Georgette Heyer's favorite military dresses.
DeleteSix Degrees of Ginger Hair
DeleteHey, not only was Churchill a redhead, but our own oil-stained shorts Rod Taylor played him a few years ago in Inglourious B---erds.
Who is proud of me for passing Betty Anonymous' linking class? Of course, I'll never be able to do it again.
Well done, Betty JoDee! ☺ ☺ ☺
DeleteYou get an A for that.
Betty Anonymous
Impressed by the links, and perhaps more so by the movie knowledge. I didn't even remember Churchill appeared in I.G., and would never have been able to guess who played him.
DeleteI hope Betty Magdalen changes my "F" in her linking class....
DeleteHey, that wasn't my grade. You gave that grade to yourself. I'd given you an "incomplete" and offered to let you make up the class.
DeleteBut I'm glad Betty Anonymous, who's clearly a far, far better than I am, came through for you.
Some people just never get it on the first try... and wasn't there some mention of spitballs during the first class?
DeleteThat was Betty Mary with the spitballs and I think Betty Barbara with a whacking ruler....
DeleteAnd, Betty Magdalen, you have a point. With modern grade inflation, let's see: I ignored half of what you were teaching+didn't even try to do it+turned nothing in=B+
Typical slacker student--I only succeeded this time because I had the incentive of Rod Taylor....
I knew it was going to happen sometime, two of my top five against each other. Sigh. Now I have to ponder a while.
ReplyDeleteThe Magic of Living
ReplyDeleteThe Secret Pool
When Two Paths Meet
The Magic of Living
ReplyDeleteThe Secret Pool
Off With the Old Love
The Moon for Lavinia
Roses for Christmas
Betty von Susie
The Magic of Living Not fair! I wanted it to be Sybren and Rose. But I adore Arabella. (The purse-dropping-spilling-train-tickets scene comes to mind. Making proper toast in Nanny’s room. Pretending to be asleep in the car...) Still, not fair at all!
ReplyDeleteThe Secret Pool This one is easy.
Henrietta’s Own Castle Although I was not too thrilled the first time I read it.
The Moon for Lavinia My vote goes to Lavinia and Radmer. Sadly, A Gentle Awakening - Cookery Book by Florina Payne comes in second. Despite the fact that it contains the Best How-to-get-rid-of-your-fiancée-in-several-thousand-steps Technique.
Roses for Christmas This one is easy again.
Betty Anonymous
Oh, the pangs of remorse that smote me suffer late at night because I had not voted for A Girl Named Rose.
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The Magic of Living
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Henrietta's Own Castle
A Gentle Awakening
Roses for Christmas
What the @#^!*$% were you saying, Betty Magdalen?
DeleteWell, everyone knows I think that Waldo in The End of the Rainbow is [redacted], and while I appreciate the grief that The Great Betty was working through in The Secret Pool, I still think it's [redacted].
DeleteNah, I'm foolin' widja. I just felt like abstaining from that vote.
Ok. Sigh.
ReplyDeleteThe Magic of Living.
I'm SO torn! Both RDDs have big flaws, but I love both books! I just have to abstain on this one.
Henrietta's own Castle
The Moon for Lavinia
When two Paths Meet
Let the chips fall where they may.
The Magic of Living
ReplyDeleteThe End of the Rainbow
The Moon for Lavinia
Roses for Christmas
Gold Medalist Rose Comely for the win!(A Girl Named Rose)
ReplyDeleteThe End of the Rainbow (although I do love The Secret Pool too)
Henrietta's Own Castle!
A Gentle Awakening (love the lemonade scene, and all the cooking)
The Moon for Lavinia (two teens in the house!)
Psst--Betty Debbie--(ahem)Gentle Awakening and Moon for Lavinia are running against each other. You might want to revise your ballot. I'm sure Betty Keira will give you a "do over" out of sisterly kindness.
DeleteBetty Barbara.
aaargh!!
Deleteshhh...maybe Betty Keira won't notice and I can give a vote to both of them! Actually I slightly prefer The Moon for Lavinia.
I guess I forgot to vote on the last pairing - my vote goes to When Two Paths Meet.
Writing Dearest Love on a sticky note and slapping it on the computer with a bang, all the while remembering scary silent ninjas...
ReplyDelete*Magic of Living
*End of the Rainbow
*Off with the Old Love (I know I'm spitting into the wind here but just don't like that plane crash)
*Moon for Lavinia
*Roses for Christmas
Betty AnoninTX
Oh, that plane crash. Yes, it's the part of the book that doesn't work for me too. But I just love the rest of it, proud Hennrietta refusing to be bullied by Marnix, so I forgive it!
DeleteTo appreciate the crash you need the TUJD graphic for it:
DeleteMove over Picasso for Stick Figure Carnage
I think this was the first review I ever read on TUJD--burst out laughing when I saw that graphic--been hooked ever since....
Look at Betty JoDee and her fancy linking. Very nice indeed! If you do one or two a day for a couple of weeks, you'll never forget how.
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