From: mcmahon@nd.edu (Sheila M. McMahon)
Subject: Re: ATWT: GetEvenCabotCove Parentage Pool
Organization: OUC, University of Notre Dame
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 21:19:06 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.195448.24135@walter.bellcore.com> semele@oscar.bellcore.com (Semele Halkedis) writes:

>Ok, it's time to start a pool on how GetEvenCabotCove will learn
>the truth about his parentage.

>Will he:

>1) Be in a car accident and need an emergency transfusion that
>   only CabotCoveSr can provide?

NO!! That is too overdone and too predictable (which is probably why it 
will occur

>2) Be a perfect genetic match for CabotCoveSr, who will need a 
>   bone marrow transplant for some rare, nastiness-induced disease?

This is like number one. Although it would be Rosehand or one of her siblings
that need the transplant since bone marrow transplants work best if it is
a sibling who donates the bone marrow. Too boring!!

>3) Get Rosehand pregnant and produce a child with hemophilia,
>   which will immediately indicate inbreeding to the on-the-ball
>   Yukdale docs (a la the Russian royal family)?

This would be interesting but would never happen in a million years. The 
closest they ever came to an incest child was Angel pregnant with her Henry
Lange's child, but they took care of that by having her get an abortion.
They'd never get that one by the censors.

>4) See one of CabotCoveSr's grandsons (does he have any?), who
>   is the spitting image of GetEvenCabotCove at that age?

That old lookalike thing that they pulled with Frantic and Saboink!! Then in
a couple of years, when the current GetEven leaves the show, the parts will
be recast with two actors who look absolutely nothing alike, thus negating
the whole storyline of how they found out the truth. Just like Frantic and
Saboink. This one has definite possibilities given Doug Marland's propensity
for recycling storylines (example: 3 children in the past 4 years haven't a
clue who their real father is, Adam, JennyDarryl, Error).

>6) Overhear, through one of Yuckdale's paper-thin walls,
>   PruneFace (my new nick for Edweenie) and CabotCoveSr 
>   lamenting over the fact that they never had a child, 
>   then find PruneFace's diary (in which she stupidly 
>   chronicled her NYC tryst with CabotCoveSr) and realize
>   that the date coincides with his conception?

Given that the only way people ever find out things in Yuckdale is by 
eavesdropping, this scenario has an excellent chance of occuring also.

>7) Find old medical records that indicate that his father
>   became sterile due to an attack of German Measles right
>   after Conner's birth?

I like this idea, because I don't ever recall seeing this on another soap.
This means, of course that there isn't a chance in hell that this will 
happen. Heaven forbid Whirley World ever show a unique way of having someone
find out their true parentage.

>8) Have 1-7 all occur, and then begin to wonder about it, 
>   but finally conclude that it's just been one crazy
>   coincidence after another.

Excellent possibilities, given that most of the residents of Yuckdale have
no intelligence. I vote for this one.

>Any other guesses?

>Also - does PruneFace realize he's a CabotCove?  I vote no.

At one time I would have voted yes, because of her obvious hatred of Conner
(James Walsh's son) and her almost Oedipal love of GetEven (who is probably
CabotCove's child). But since GetEven is spending so much time with Rosehand,
and Edweenie doesn't seem to mind, that leads me to believe that she does not
know that GetEven is really CabotCove's. (unless she knows that Rosehand is
not really CabotCove's daughter, which I personally believe).

>GGG
>-- 

Irish