Thursday, January 25, 2007
the showgirl shoes
CBB5 Day Twenty-One
Such a day of culture in the Big Brother house. Danielle examining the metaphysical conundrum, 'is a potato a vegetable?'. A question that would have perplexed the combined great minds of the Ancient Greek philosophers. In the great schools of Athens, in the Lyceum and the Academy, the debate might have raged - why are we here? what does it all mean? is a potato a vegetable?
Sadly, as the potato was an unknown beast, outside of America, until a couple of thousand years later, those great philosophers did not have a chance to ponder such a matter.
Dirk, in noting Danielle's endless capacity for finding a use for the 'f' word at least once in each sentence she splutters upon us, referred to the paradox of Danielle's deployment of her favourite adjective, and the notion that she comes from the country that 'gave us Shakespeare'.
Danielle, of course, is more like a character from Geoffrey Chaucer, Shakespeare's most notable predecessor in English literature. Ms Lloyd's agent should be seeking casting auditions for her client in the very next available production of The Canterbury Tales. She would be a certainty for the role of Alison in the Miller's Tale.
Away from these loftier notions, in the diary room, Jack blurted out that sitting in that weird chair was "like being arrested". He was quick to reassure us that he has never actually been arrested, and thus, his comparison was based on a sort of speculative fantasy. Of course.
There has been much relief the length and breadth of the nation now that we have discovered that Jack has not been inflicted with some terrible disease that left him without the power of speech and, indeed, the power of thought. We now know that there is at least some intellectual light shining inside his bonce, as he has been heard to mumble a few words here and there. A few of these words even had more than one syllable.
Though not many.
If you had asked every CBB5 viewer what 'prize' Jermaine would choose, given a free choice as a reward for Shilpa passing some rather badly produced quiz, I doubt that even one of them would have predicted Jermaine would have picked as his great trophy, the shoes that he wore, the previous day, in the Scissor Sisters dance routine.
Jermaine has, I suspect, rather a wicked sense of humour beneath that defensive wall he hides behind. He became ever more animated and desperate as the possibility of owning those shoes seemed to fade away as Shilpa stumbled over a couple of questions. Then, such relief for our footwear obsessed buccaneer, as Shilpa grabbed at the right answer, when asked the final question.
"You'll never forget this show... every time you put on those shoes", said Dirk in his grumpy, pessimistic view of the whole CBB experience.
Jermaine has coped, in a quiet and dignified way, with everything this last twenty-one days has sent his way.
I rather like the fellow.
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# posted by Terence : 6:31 PM
