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Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 7:53 pm
by Jason Larsen
I have added a new Dictionary Corner character on Apterous to be included soon. Here are some hints as to who this person is.

[*]This person is female
[*]This person played the oldest child on a very popular '80s American sitcom

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 8:08 pm
by Derek Hazell
Is it Kelly Bundy from "Married with Children" or Becky Conner from "Roseanne"?

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 8:27 pm
by Jason Larsen
No, Derek

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 8:33 pm
by Ben Wilson
Jason Larsen wrote:No, Derek
It's Derek?

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 8:40 pm
by Jason Larsen
Ben, I sent you a PM. You should know who it is soon.

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 8:43 pm
by Kirk Bevins
Jason Larsen wrote:Ben, I sent you a PM. You should know who it is soon.
Why does Ben get a clue and we don't? This is an unfair game.

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 9:09 pm
by Jason Larsen
Just a moment, Kirk. I'll send you a PM right now.

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 10:22 pm
by Matthew Green
Sophia out of The Golden Girls. What do I win?

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 1:39 am
by Jason Larsen
No, Matthew. That's not right.

Hint 2: "Lollipops and gummi bears."

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 8:10 am
by Marc Meakin
Harriet Bo

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 8:20 am
by Matthew Green
Michael Jackson?

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 8:24 am
by Derek Hazell
Well, if Lady Gaga's male, and I'm female, then anything's possible.

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 10:15 am
by Phil Reynolds
I thought at first it was going to be Betty White. But then you said this person played a child in a 1980s sitcom, so it can't be Betty as she would have been in her 60s then; so now I'm stumped.

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 11:41 am
by JimBentley
Jason's made this pretty tough by not mentioning that the sitcom in question has never been shown in the UK.

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 1:10 pm
by Jason Larsen
Phil, Betty White is actually in her 80s.

Jim, oh yes, the sitcom in question has been shown in the UK. It is this one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_House

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 1:17 pm
by Phil Reynolds
Jason Larsen wrote:Phil, Betty White is actually in her 80s.
Yes I know. The 1980s happened 20 years ago. Hence she was in her 60s then. Which is what I said.

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 1:24 pm
by JimBentley
Jason Larsen wrote:Jim, oh yes, the sitcom in question has been shown in the UK. It is this one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_House
I know this is your field of expertise, Jason, so I'm wary of disagreeing with you, but I can't remember it ever being shown on TV over here.

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 1:27 pm
by Jason Larsen
It must not have lasted very long, then.

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 1:45 pm
by Derek Hazell
Jason Larsen wrote:It is this one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_House
So your character is D. J. Tanner then. Another of these people who are bizarrely just known by initials who seemed to be so popular on American TV. It says she "[can handle] many tough situations with general ease", so should be an interesting character during some of the difficult word games. Can you tell us a little more about how you are going to adapt and develop this character, Jason?

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 2:03 pm
by Jason Larsen
No, it's her real self. Her name is Candace Cameron-Bure. She married Valeri Bure, a former Russian hockey player. She is a devout Chrisrian, very beautiful and very funny too.

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 6:07 pm
by Eoin Monaghan
I watched Full House when I went to America, it was great!

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 3:24 am
by Jason Larsen
So, that's an "aye" for Eoin. What about everybody else?

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 10:53 am
by Derek Hazell
Jason Larsen wrote:So, that's an "aye" for Eoin. What about everybody else?
Eyes to the right Eoin, nose to the left everybody else.

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 1:31 pm
by Jason Larsen
I was asking for everyone else's opinion, Derek!

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 1:52 am
by Jason Larsen
I will add a new host of Countdown on Apterous tomorrow. And I'm sorry, Sue Sanders will not very happy.

Hint: He played a doctor, and he always asks if you are willing to take a "Yankee Deal"
Hint 2: His other show follows "Countdown" on early weekend mornings

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 8:08 am
by Matthew Green
Is it Blanche out of the Golden Girls?

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 1:39 pm
by Sue Sanders
Is it Mengeles?

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 2:13 pm
by Derek Hazell
Sue Sanders wrote:Is it Mengeles?
Is it because you're fed up with your initials being SS that you're not happy about it being him?

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 2:31 pm
by Sue Sanders
Derek Hazell wrote:
Sue Sanders wrote:Is it Mengeles?
Is it because you're fed up with your initials being SS that you're not happy about it being him?
'Tis true I NEVER use S.S...other than in my anagram which is S.S. Nude Arse - but there it means Steamship!!

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 2:39 pm
by JimBentley
Jason Larsen wrote:I will add a new host of Countdown on Apterous tomorrow. And I'm sorry, Sue Sanders will not very happy.

Hint: He played a doctor, and he always asks if you are willing to take a "Yankee Deal"
Hint 2: His other show follows "Countdown" on early weekend mornings
Is it Tula out of the Hoobs? The Hoobs follows Countdown on early weekend mornings, and Tula once had a fight with Sue Sanders in Bluewater Shopping Centre on an episode of Gok Wan's "How Big Is Your Arse?"

MY LOGIC IS SOUND.

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 3:08 pm
by Jason Larsen
No.

Hint 3: Bald Canadian
Hint 4: Dr. Fiscus

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 11:00 pm
by Sue Sanders
JimBentley wrote:
Jason Larsen wrote:I will add a new host of Countdown on Apterous tomorrow. And I'm sorry, Sue Sanders will not very happy.

Hint: He played a doctor, and he always asks if you are willing to take a "Yankee Deal"
Hint 2: His other show follows "Countdown" on early weekend mornings
Is it Tula out of the Hoobs? The Hoobs follows Countdown on early weekend mornings, and Tula once had a fight with Sue Sanders in Bluewater Shopping Centre on an episode of Gok Wan's "How Big Is Your Arse?"

MY LOGIC IS SOUND.
And my arse the biggest. Yay!

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 11:10 pm
by Jason Larsen
If the person I'm talking about heard that, I'm sure he would take it to heart!

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 8:33 am
by JimBentley
Is it Jaycee Lee Dugard?

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 8:54 am
by Kieran Child
Full House has been on in the UK. I'd never heard of it though, but a friend was telling me about it a couple of days back.

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 9:43 am
by JimBentley
Kieran Child wrote:Full House has been on in the UK. I'd never heard of it though, but a friend was telling me about it a couple of days back.
Wikipedia, Internet Movie Database and tv.com all come up blank for UK showings, so you'll have to tell me what channel it was on and when, cos I'm pretty sure it's never been on over here. There was a completely unrelated ITV-made sitcom of the same name in the mid-1980s (prior to the American show starting), but that's about as close as it gets. Which isn't very close, what with it being a totally different show.

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 7:38 pm
by Jason Larsen
Hint 4 of new host:

Cartoon character Bobby's friend

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 10:39 pm
by Matthew Green
I couldnt give a fuck who any of your characters are.

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 10:50 pm
by Jason Larsen
Matthew:

Have you ever heard of Howie Mandel?

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 11:07 pm
by Matthew Green
yes. i murdered his pet minotaur.

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 4:22 am
by Jason Larsen
Matthew, he did not have one.

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 7:52 am
by Phil Reynolds
He did have some pet fireflies in St Elsewhere though; he was catching them in a jar, on the green in front of St Eligius Hospital, at the beginning of the episode where he got shot. That was a great episode. But then they were all great.

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 1:31 pm
by Jason Larsen
Of course!

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 1:36 pm
by Sue Sanders
Matthew Green wrote:I couldnt give a fuck who any of your characters are.
D'accord :lol:

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 1:43 pm
by Michael Wallace
Sue Sanders wrote:
Matthew Green wrote:I couldnt give a fuck who any of your characters are.
D'accord :lol:
You know, D'accord looks a bit like R'accoon.

Image

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 10:38 am
by Martin Smith
The next one you do should be Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory. The combination of his snootiness, obscure word use and lack of social refinements could be hysterical.

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 12:06 am
by Jason Larsen
I'm sorry, everybody.

I have been so busy, so I haven't had a chance to add Howie yet. But, "there's a 100% chance that I will" this weekend! Word!

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 9:47 am
by Dinos Sfyris
That's good to hear, Jason. I look forward to seeing your creation featuring in DC soon :)

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 11:02 am
by Matthew Green
What if you were to get murdered by a Canadian lesbian with a breadknife while brushing your teeth? Its unlikely but definitely a possibility. And it makes your '100% chance' assertion look positively mindless. Up your game Larsen.

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 8:21 pm
by Jason Larsen
I have added Howie Mandel as a new host of Countdown on Apterous! Watch for him soon.

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 5:37 pm
by Andy Wilson
JimBentley wrote:
Kieran Child wrote:Full House has been on in the UK. I'd never heard of it though, but a friend was telling me about it a couple of days back.
Wikipedia, Internet Movie Database and tv.com all come up blank for UK showings, so you'll have to tell me what channel it was on and when, cos I'm pretty sure it's never been on over here. There was a completely unrelated ITV-made sitcom of the same name in the mid-1980s (prior to the American show starting), but that's about as close as it gets. Which isn't very close, what with it being a totally different show.
I remember it. Couldn't tell you what channel. Could have been RTE, but we tended to watch Uk channels a lot as RTE is pretty crap.

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 7:11 pm
by Jason Larsen
There was an American soap opera on Irish television years and years ago, but it is so outdated I don't even know if it airs anymore.

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 8:10 pm
by Andy Wilson
The Bold and the Beautiful maybe or The Young and the Restless... one of those? Yeah, they've always showed all sorts of tripe!

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 8:41 pm
by Jason Larsen
No, I mean this show.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan%27s_Hope

No wonder!

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 2:22 pm
by Andy Wilson
have heard mention of it... looks like a hoot :P

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 5:34 pm
by Jason Larsen
I've heard some people say that show should never have ben canceled.

In fact, Marg Helgenberger, one of the actresses now on CSI, appeared on that show also. She's a funny lady!

Could she possibly be added as a Dictionary Corner character on Apterous?

Re: Guess my new Apterous DC character!

Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 6:58 pm
by Ryan Taylor
Jason Larsen wrote:Matthew:
Have you ever heard of Howie Mandel?
Matthew Green wrote:yes. i murdered his pet minotaur.
Jason Larsen wrote:Matthew, he did not have one.
A-lol!