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Google your name and the word "needs" in quotes ("Nancy needs") and see what you get. Post only the first seven.

1. Nancy needs to learn what the moon is.
2. Nancy needs to ask Palin's advice on cleaning products.
3. Nancy needs JAIL TIME!!!
4. Nancy needs to calm down.
5. Nancy needs Judah.
6. Nancy needs the Catholic Church to push her Amnesty Agenda.
7. Nancy needs dental patients.

1. Keith needs content
2. Keith needs Mick to stay cool
3. Keith needs Facebook
4. Keith needs some luv
5. Keith needs to write on his blog more
6. Keith needs your help
7. Keith needs practice

1. Troy needs sexy time.
2. Troy needs a job.
3. Troy needs to clean up his clogged alogrithms.
4. Troy needs some entertainment options besides bars to go to at night.
5. Troy needs a new show to be staged in Istanbul.
6. Troy needs an iPod.
7. Troy needs to shape up and smarten his ideas.

1. Harper needs to go.
2. Harper needs more scandals. (LOL)
3. Harper needs to stick to issues that matter.
4. Harper needs help getting a wheelchair.
5. Harper needs an idea trust.
6. Harper needs to support Afghan self-sufficiency initiative.
7. Harper needs a home.

Tee-hee! Can I join in?!

1. Fiona needs some help to remember what she must do.
2. Fiona needs her Shrek.
3. Fiona needs her groove back.
4. Fiona needs to be cuter.
5. Fiona needs to work out the maximum she is prepared to save so that it 'hurts a little', and then add a bit ...
6. Fiona needs to eat.
7. Fiona needs a home.

Fabulous Fun! Thanks!

Matthew wrote: "Finoa,
I love what came up for you!

And I hope you indeed get your groove back and eat and find a home!! LOL"

I'm preparing to "hurt a little" first!

But thank goodness I've got my Queereader friends to help me feel at home... ;)

Here's my list of what "Loren needs:"

1. To go on a diet
2. A dog (My husband disagrees, since we already have five)
3. Your help
4. A face lift
5. Your phone number
6. Help with Facebook
7. An extension on that restraining order

Five of the seven are pretty accurate. . . but that's all I'm sayin'.

These are from Google suggestion (I'd ike to know who Tom is!)

Bill needs help
Bill needs job
Bill needs Tom
bill needs facebook
bill needs love
bill needs 60 votes
bill needs his cigs

These are from Google search results (wasnt sure which you meant)

Bill Needs Some Help To Expel Alien Gang
Bill needs fixin'—now
Bill Needs Your Help
Bill Needs Big Changes
Bill needs 2.0 revision
Bill Needs Just 1 Vote More
Bill needs 3D tech

Kernos wrote: "...bill needs 60 votes..."

You've got mine! Only 59 more votes are now needed! ;)

Thanks Fiona!

I was thinking of you after watching the complete "Little Britain"—What fun!. Now we are in series 2 of "Skins", a teen soap but the Brit culture is fascinating and it is much better than 90210 or The OC.

Kernos wrote: "Thanks Fiona!

I was thinking of you after watching the complete "Little Britain"—What fun!. Now we are in series 2 of "Skins", a teen soap but the Brit culture is fascinating and it is much better than 90210 or The OC..."

'Skins' is now in its fifth series over here; I am really glad that this British teen drama is being aired in the U.S. It certainly differs from 'The OC' and 'Dawson's Creek'!
I think you will agree that 'Skins' is brilliantly stylised; beautifully, controversially, tragically realistic; appeals to both a teenage and adult audience; has great casting (the line-up for the first series was astonishingly good); demonstrates inspired script-writing (the writing team has an average age of 21); and the way in which the television series has permeated other forms of media is truly ground-breaking.

http://www.e4.com/skins/

http://www.facebook.com/skins

One can even follow the characters on Twitter!

Hmmmmmm.... 'Little Britain': I'm bored of the catchphrases, tired of the same crass jokes, bothered that they continually pander to public expectation, and I would even go so far as to say that their stereotyped sketch show characters are offensive. I just can’t bear to watch ‘Little Britain’ any longer.

The wonderful David Walliams and Matt Lucas are really not challenging themselves enough nowadays.

They are both brilliant and talented actors. I highly recommended ‘Capturing Mary’; Walliams' performance was utterly breath-taking: http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/poliakoff/...
And I was delighted to read in the news just last week that Lucas is going to continue in his role of Thénardier in Les Misérables on stage in London’s theatre-land. I must try to get a ticket!

I agree with you about Skins. it is as some Brits say, brilliant! I really care about the characters. We are watching it on DVD and are in the middle of Series 2, Michele and Sid just did it on the beach. And Maxie... sigh he make me want to be 18 again...

A question—The girl from the girl's school who is after Tony and lied to him about their being a couple after is accident. She has what I interpret to be a Dutch accent. Is this a British comment about the Dutch?

We watched all of Little Britain back to back and I kept telling Chris, "I wish they do something different." Still, it was fascinating for us to watch the 2 guys making fun of British cultures. I loved it when they made fun of Americans too. The bit when the US President & your PM met and their 2 assistants was a hoot.

Thank for telling me about "Capturing Mary". I'm a watch-all-Maggie-Smith's movies guy and somehow missed this. I will give it a look. Opps it's region 2 only, but I can sign up to be notified when region 1 is available which means it will probably be released.

These are the series we have, but have not seen. I'm not sure which we'll watch after Skins:



Skins
Beyond the Fringe
Mapp & Lucia
Two's Company
Stalag Luft
Clatterford
The IT Crowd
People Like Us

Sorry for hijacking this thread, but Fiona is a great resource for Brwiticisms ;-)

1. Joy needs a better understanding of the nature of evil.
2. Joy needs to take a lesson and step to the back of the line.
3. Joy needs no translator.
4. Joy needs your help.
5. Joy needs a home.
6. Joy needs true grief.
7. Joy needs numbers.

Yeah, so, clearly some issues there.

Kernos wrote: "I agree with you about Skins. it is as some Brits say, brilliant!..."

Thanks for your comments, and also for apologising about us digressing from this fabulously-fun thread!

@ Aughadan/Joy: your "needs" are hilarious, especially #2 and #6! I am glad you participated in this game.

Back to Skins, just ever so quickly: in response to your question I will have to return to my DVD box set and remind myself of this scene with Tony. It is all a bit hazy right now...it has been quite a while since I have watched these early episodes. Is it okay for me to get back to you another time with my thoughts?

Regarding Lucas and Walliams, apparently they have written and are starring in a 'new' comedy spoof show: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00trc9v
I am not at all impressed, but many others are! I thought that perhaps you might like to take a look if it is available on region 1 DVD.

I would certainly recommend "Gavin and Stacey" - a heterosexual romantic comedy, following the long-distance relationship between Gavin (Mathew Horne) from Billericay in Essex, England, and Stacey (Joanna Page) from Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. Alison Steadman as Gavin's mother is fantastically funny!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_an...

Enough of the "Brwiticisms" (love that term, will steal that term!), we should let the fun and games continue here ;)

Kernos wrote: "A question—The girl from the girl's school who is after Tony and lied to him about their being a couple after is accident. She has what I interpret to be a Dutch accent. Is this a British comment about the Dutch?"

Okay Kernos, so it took me a while to figure out who you were referring to (utter confusion) but having now re-watched series 1 and 2 of Skins I can confidently state that there are absolutely no Danish characters, no Dutch accents. The reason you had me feeling really rather perplexed and as such questioning my own memories of the series' was because the character you question the nationality/accent of - Abigail Stock, is quite simply a terribly posh, stereotypical affluent young upper class British girl! It is fascinating to me that you heard Danish! :)

Because my name is a color, my results were quite varied.


1. Red needs a plan.
2. Red needs to be less orangey.
3. Red needs more dog (related to Paddy's Irish red beer)
4. Red needs your email
5. Red needs a new logo
6. Red needs another bracket pitcher (baseball?)
7. Red needs transmission $3650 (regarding a Jaguar auto)

1. Lea needs assessment.
2. Lea needs intervention.
3. Lea needs Facebook.
4. Lea needs love.
5. Lea needs a swimsuit fix.
6. Lea needs a sponsor for football!
7. Lea needs your help-Vote for her.

Why is Google trying to tell me that my name doesn't exist?

Doug needs
... to cool down.
... money!
... a new tattoo kit (!)
... to start a flight academy (!)
... $4 million quick (!)
... a child harness so he can stop getting lost (!!)

A child harness?!!!! Too funny, Doug! :)

1 lyndz needs me
2 lyndz needs to go faster
3 lyndz needs more help
4 lyndz needs a new image after taking comments from Michael to heart
5 lyndz needs food ASAP
6 lyndz needs a male dance partner for the school dance competition [haha! as if!]
7 lyndz needs to slap me


Fun!

Julie needs...

1) paper pleasing ideas
2) work on her parenting (might be good since I have no real kids to speak of)
3) help on everything, I guess
4) a new pair of shoes (that's right!)
5) a high fiber diet
6) a new home
7) your prayers

Rick Needs ...


... A Kidney Donor (I really don't)
... A Lift (sure doesn't everyone)
... To Butt Out (sure doesn't everyone; from the bold & the beautiful message boards) 
... To Die (sure doesn't every...wait a minute; from the walking dead message boards) 
... You
... sparring partner (pretty funny coming after the previous one)

And then was...
What Rick Perry needs to turn his campaign around (how about a brain!)

Security

Kernos wrote: "Security"

hahaha ;)

An by security, I mean personal security in therm of relationships, health, enough money to survive—-not security from terrorists, villains, etc.

Bryn needs a companion home with part-time working hours at most without too many visitors.

Bryn needs to find out if he has remembered his old home correctly

Bryn needs people who will be understanding of his stress

Bryn needs to know you're not always this serious.

Bryn needs to stay away from my brother!

bryn needs to grow up a bit

Bryn needs to figure out how to control her new dragon powers

Is Bryn OK?

I agree with you about security, Kernos. I think it's something people think about more often as they get older.

Nancy wrote: "I agree with you about security, Kernos. I think it's something people think about more often as they get older."

I certainly have. I am finding it harder to deal with changes—big changes like moving or work and even little changes like changes in activities of daily living.

Kernos wrote: "An by security, I mean personal security in therm of relationships, health, enough money to survive—-not security from terrorists, villains, etc."

And here I thought up you were calling security on me. ;)

Kernos wrote: "I certainly have. I am finding it harder to deal with changes—big changes like moving or work and even little changes like changes in activities of daily living."

I would dread having to move again with all the books I have. Even after streamlining my collection, I still have three overflowing bookcases, plus a few boxes in my walk-in closet.

My current job is going well so far, other than the deadly commute. I've been with the university a year and a half and became full-time last month. I'm now eligible to join the union. I wish that union was around in some of the places I've worked at before.

I'm not sure I could deal with a "deadly commute" anymore. Mine is 12 miles of rural highway and takes about 12 minutes unless I have to wait for a train.

What kind of work are you doing know?

I'm a Senior Program Coordinator (fancy title for administrative assistant) for Boston University. I work for a researcher and support 20 post-docs and students. Even though I get very busy at times, it's one of the most stress-free jobs I've worked at. The people here are super.

My commute is actually pretty good in the summer months, about an hour there are and back. After Labor Day, it will be a two-hour commute in the morning and slightly less in the evening. I spend time at the library, eat dinner, and go for walks to avoid the worst traffic. If the weather is real bad in the winter, I'll spend the night at a hotel. If it's extremely bad, we get shut down. Last year we had 6 snow days.

Sasha needs memes

Sasha needs a wheelchair

Sasha needs help

Sasha needs a family

Sasha needs more profiles

Sasha needs someone to love her

Sasha needs a wonderful home

Poor Sasha. :(

Hava wrote: "Hava needs your extra stuff
Hava needs garage sale items
Hava needs numerical-formula state goals to prevent "voter ID"
Hava needs numerical-formula state benchmarks to stop
Hava needs assessment ..."

LOL Hava!

I had to dig... but...

1. Arin really needs to get another power up this season.
2. Arin needs to do this.
3. Arin needs to hold something but what
4. Arin needs to just....stop. (hear, hear!)
5. ARIN Needs you!
6. Arin Needs a Friend!!!!
7. Sorta ran out of results here.

Arin is one desperate, lonely bastich, apparently, if the exclamation points are any indicator. But Arin WOULD love another power up this season.

unfortunately....mine are not appropriate...when you type in Nadia needs....the results are NOT for children...