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Post by Chuck on Sept 18, 2009 4:41:10 GMT -5
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Post by The Mad Plumber on Sept 18, 2009 10:46:11 GMT -5
You WOULD write an obituary for a soap opera, Chuck.
I began working at Target when I was 16. In the upstairs break room, there was one television and I believe they got Buckeye Cablesystem. The one lesson I learned was: never turn off the ladies' soaps. When the soaps were on, the television was theirs. Oh, yeah, and don't throw away their tabloid rags, either. They actually bought those filthy gossip rags!
Guiding Light was in fact my mother's choice of soap, so, as you can guess, I was subjected to it too much. It got to the point that could even predict a line of dialogue before it was spoken; I would say, "So, you're a clone," and it would be immediately followed by the character on the television saying, "So, you're a clone." When my sister heard that the show was being cancelled, she tried to remember her favorite characters' names and somehow I still remember them.
I would probably consider the cancelling of Guiding Light a LITTLE tragic, but that's forgiving the fact that it's still a soap opera.
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Post by solgroupie on Sept 23, 2009 9:36:51 GMT -5
guiding light was the soap we watched when i was a kid, along with as the world turns, and young and the restless. i remember summers when i was eleven or twelve, sitting with my sister and her girlfriends, watching GL. their guy friends would come over and complain that all they did was watch stupid soap operas, but it wouldn't be long before one of them would say something like, "i thought that guy was married to that other woman - what's he doing with her?" then all of them would get hooked.
i didn't bother watching the last show - i haven't watch any soap in ten years or more. as long as josh and reva got back together, i know all is right with the world once again.
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