From: starkid@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Lance Sanders)
Subject: AMC: Godzilla Speaks Update (c) 921113
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 23:22:57 GMT
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       ***  Godzilla Speaks Update --- Friday, November 13, 1992  ***
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                        Budapest Skinheads On Parade
                                    Day
                        ----------------------------



                                 Storylines
                      (ranked by relative superiority)
                      --------------------------------

[A]     The Mack Daddy decloaks in Budapest and takes matters into
        his own hands [Brumpt-TING!]; Brooke experiences misgivings
        about their break-up.

[B]     GloBoNurse tries to finalize the attack against the "Good Ship Enid".

[C]     Adam goes all-out in his quest to gain custody of Junior.

[D]     E and Igor make post-wedding plans.

[E]     Trouble In Paradise for Dix and Jethro X.

[F]     Tinkerbell and  Brian. Post-Breakup Chat v4.0. You were there.




      She Should Know:   Sharon Stone, warning folks not to try those sex
      ---------------    scenes from her "Basic Instinct" movie at home:
                         "Do you know women who have orgasms from these
                          anatomically impossible positions? Please.
                          In two minutes?"


            Rip-Off
         of the Month:   "All My Soaps" blank videocassette /Scotch Corp.
         ------------     "High-grade, T-120, durable, easy to identify,
                           'No Clog' limited warranty; 'Your special tape
                           for recording soap operas'."  Price: $5.49


         Music Videos
          of the Week:   "I Don't Care" --- Shakespear's Sister
         ------------     New sheriffs in town, folks. Excellent follow-up
                          to "Stay" (which I recommend you see first).
                          Strong, early Pretenders-type guitar riff
                          in this one.

                         "Kiko And The Lavender Moon" --- Los Lobos
                          Freak collage-like visuals; unusual tune.

                         [ Special Dedication for Brooke:
                          "Love Shoulda Brought You Home" --- Toni Braxton ]



           Update Specials:      Budapest's Skinhead Problems
           ---------------
                                 Beer Drinking Throughout The Ages
                                 Popcorn Eating Throughout The Ages
   
                                 Rent-A-Husband




Storyline [E]:
-------------

   In an attempt to keep Adam's lawyers from finding out what she was doing 
most of the summer (read: flipping out in a major way), Dix decides to go 
into Suzy Homemaker mode. She informs a just-dropped-by, and p.o.'ed Brian, 
of her plans to cut way back on hours at the hospital, devote more time to 
Junior, and in general, keep a low profile. 
   Dix: (to Brian) "And, oh, BTW, could you call before you come over next 
                    time?"    [B-r-r-r-r-r...]

   Bri transports out.



Storyline [F]:
-------------

   Pops instructs his operatives to "take off the gloves" in their attempt 
to collect damaging evidence against Dixie. Enter Halo, who gets cabbage-
patched-slapped for not being dressed for work, and her lack of eagerness 
to go out and drum up business for the new detective agency. She reverse-
slaps, citing Adam's continued efforts for custody of Junior. Pops plays "X 
blocks the square", offering a measly excuse of a vastly toned-downed 
"concern" taking the place of a custody fight, and blows Dodge. 

   Ding-Dong! It's Jethro X. Wants to get Pops off Dixie's case. Tink tells 
him that her father already _is_ off Dix's case. Brian: "And you're buying 
that?! ...if you think Adam is one of the "Good Guys", do yourself a favor 
and move out of the house right away, okay?" Hayley: "Since when does the 
dumPER get to lecture the dumPEE, post-dumping time?!!"
   Argument City, deja vu. Nothing accomplished, Bri blows Dodge.




Storylines [B,C]:
----------------

   Glo calls Adam in order to get his warplans against Enid's gambit to 
stop the PVH AIDS hospice. Stewart (visiting her in the hospital lounge), 
wants to know how she can stand to work with Pops. Gloria: "I refuse to let 
my personal problems get in the way of THIS problem."
   [Well...she wasn't exactly lying to the guy, was she? ;)) ]

   Enter Pops. His masterplan? To make Enid confront herself:
   "While you two are working in the light, I'm going to be working in the 
"dark"...breaking Enid's knuckles...she can't stand a confrontation...deep 
in that little heart of hers, she knows she's wrong...Enid is a bully; she 
just has to meet a bigger bully (in order to be stopped)." 
   Subplan A: Confront her at the country club.
   Subplan B: Threaten to take over her postion of CC admissions head.
   Subplan C: Buy the house next to hers and lower the property values.

   Stewart detects a "growing sense of admiration" for Adam from Gloria,
   [James Brown accent: ON     "Hot Pants!"    [J.B. accent: OFF]
and voices his objections to their sinking to Enid's level. Stu leaves, and 
Pops and GloBo engage in moon-eyes and sexual double entendre (Glo: 
"Stewart was right; when you want "something", you don't let anything stand 
in your way.") 
   Enter Dixie, who goes into SuperWuss mode. Adam transports to a phone, 
instructing his operatives to dig even harder, since Dix wouldn't be 
wimping out so badly unless there was a "bomb waiting to go off somewhere".
                    [Snidely Whiplash theme: ON]




Storylines [A,D]:
----------------

   Chez EuroWeirdwind, Dimitri brings a continental breakfast to a still-
in-bed, still-in-the-glow Erica, and she launches into her projection of a 
honeymoon aboard the Orient Express. Igor counters w/ a trip around the 
world idea. Right. E goes into a tizzy about being late to sign the final 
contracutural papers with Elena, but Dim convinces her to take a pit stop 
at Bop City.     [Wild Thang music: ON] 
   Apres whappa (E fully dressed; D "nekid" in bed), The Dynamic Duo make 
plans to meet for lunch/brunch in an hour at the "Fisherman's Bastion". 

[ Back in PV, after a brief chat w/ Dix about the Brian Situation, Brooke 
  confesses to Feebs that she'd call Ed if she had his number, but wonders
  if she's not just "giving in" to his position. Pheobe: "And if you don't, 
  isn't that just giving up?" Brooke gets Feebs to stay w/Jamie, and books 
  passage to Budapest. ]

   Destination: Budapest basement.
   Edmund intercepts E pre-lunch date, and tries to get her to go with him 
(ostensibly to learn what he's found out about Hugo). When she declines, he 
engages her in conversation about her engagement ring, and, with her 
shields down, whips out a pad of chloroform and applies it vigorously to 
her face! 

   Say "Hello" to Mr. Fuzzy!

   CLIFFHANGER!





Update Specials
===============



Illy Beanie Chilly Beanie...
----------------------------

   Looks like we're getting the "tourist version" of Budapest location 
shots. Seems Hungary has quite a skinhead/neoNazi problem. From a NYT 
921113 Page 1 article: 
   "In Hungary, where unemployment has risen above 11 percent, and 50,000 
refugees have poured in from the Balkans, Gypsies and other foreigners have 
been the target of ultranationalist groups. The Budapest police 
investigated 27 attacks by skinheads from 01-10/92...57 believed attacks...
...1500 skinheads, mostly teenagers, in Hungary...one group recently 
organized a celebration of Hitler's 101st birthday...'This isn't democracy 
in Hungary, it's anarchy', said a teen-aged high school skinhead at a 
Budapest rally..." 

   Could make for some interesting cast home movies...




"Blueblood" Beer/Popcorn Lines
------------------------------

   The Tad Lotto beerdrinkers can raise that stein with some sense of 
historical pride. 
   Archeologists and organic chemists reported in the 11/05 issue of 
"Nature" that, based on calcium oxalate residues (and Sumerian pictographs 
for 'beer') found in storage jars from the Godin Tepe ruins in Iran, people 
were making and drinking beer as early as 3500 B.C. 

   One of the most popular beer snacks, popcorn, has similar roots. Popcorn 
kernels have been found in 1,000 year-old Inca tombs - next to the gold and 
jewels (and they still popped!). Two-inch-long ears of popcorn, 5600 years-
old, have been found in New Mexico bat caves. Quadequina, brother of 
Wampanog chieftain Massassoit, brought popcorn to the 1st pilgrim/Indian 
Thanksgiving feast.
   1500 year-old pottery poppers have been found in Mexico and South 
America. The Papago tribe in Arizona popped its corn in giant, 8-feet-long 
clay containers. October is National Popcorn Month.

   Still not sure how to spend those Lotto winnings?
   Try Lee Chalfant's mail-order microbrewery offerings from her Glen Ellyn 
(Chicago suburb) shop, "Spice 'N Easy". MIX AND MATCH packs for $7.99. 
   Examples: Wild Rice Beer (brewed only 2x/year - Wisconsin); Legacy 
lager, Baderbrau (Chicago); New Amsterdam (NYC); Samuel Adams' Oktoberfest 
(Boston); Sierra Nevada (Colorado); Rattlesnake and Dixie (Louisiana); 
Pete's Wicked Ale (California); Trois Monts (Belgium), etc.
   And she's expanding her selection. Phone: 1-708-858-0779.



Anything Else, Ma'mm?
---------------------

   Large TAN thread last week on "husbands in the kitchen". Someone even 
asked if she could "rent" one who was a particularly good cook. :)
   It's already been franchised, folks.

   A former Balch Springs, Texas police chief, Ed Holland, has created 
"Rent-A-Husband". His men help women who are harrassed or stalked, need 
a "presence" (read: brainslapper) when purchasing a car, etc.
   Basic service calls (no actual work is performed) are $30. Negotiating 
deals are $100 or more. $50.00+/hour for personal security problems. 
   Holland's motto: "We're a lot cheaper than lawyers and bodyguards."

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