Question:
Talk about tokens! I resent these so-called television home improvement babes. Most of ‘em can’t figure which end of a hammer! The gal that gripes me most is Marlene Pratt on fix-it line. Nice lookin, nice bod, but dumber than a bent nail & forgets to read cue-cards. Her poor sappy male partner’s role is to bail her out. OK, we’ll never be able to afford the tools that Norm Abrams is supplied with but at least his show doesn’t jerk us around.
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> Talk about tokens! > I resent these so-called television home improvement babes. Most of ‘em > can’t figure which end of a hammer! The gal that gripes me most is > Marlene Pratt on fix-it line. Nice lookin, nice bod, but dumber than a > bent nail & forgets to read cue-cards. Her poor sappy male partner’s > role is to bail her out.
I disagree. I think that her male partner isn’t any better. Both are pretty clueless, and the advice they give is often bad, and sometimes dangerous.
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Is that the show where Ms. Bimbo shows how to repair a concrete crack, Mr. Airhead shows how to hang a coat hook on a wall, Ms. Bimbo adds lace to a sofa pillow, then they both paint a birdhouse with a sponge? I’d rather watch Bob Vilas watch other people work. Seriously though, I was reading a column on the ‘net on how to remove popcorn finish from a ceiling. There was no mention of asbestos in older popcorn ceilings. No matter what you’re views are on asbestos toxicity, their liability was showing, big time. I pointed that out to them in an email and they quickly changed the column. Lance – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Talk about tokens! > I resent these so-called television home improvement babes. Most of ‘em > can’t figure which end of a hammer! The gal that gripes me most is > Marlene Pratt on fix-it line. Nice lookin, nice bod, but dumber than a > bent nail & forgets to read cue-cards. Her poor sappy male partner’s > role is to bail her out. > I disagree. I think that her male partner isn’t any better. > Both are pretty clueless, and the advice they give is often bad, and > sometimes dangerous.
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>I resent these so-called television home improvement babes. Most of ‘em >can’t figure which end of a hammer! The gal that gripes me most is >Marlene Pratt on fix-it line. Nice lookin, nice bod, but dumber than a >bent nail & forgets to read cue-cards. Her poor sappy male partner’s >role is to bail her out.
Readers may not understand why, when deploring HI babes, you single out the one you think worst. Would your criticism not be stronger if you told us why the best is still not good enough? (Possible example, Mary Bellows of Toronto. Her speciality is automobile and house repairs women could manage alone, although inclined to suppose beforehand they could not.) — | Donald Phillipson, 4180 Boundary Road, Carlsbad Springs, | | Ontario, Canada, K0A 1K0, tel. 613 822 0734 |
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