Saint James Infirmary 146: Admission Policy.

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[laguna85]

I'm sorry but bug me each time look at the Cell phone
Claudia is whole the cell phone the worng way for a Iphone for that type picture.

The way she have it is a wide picture.

Just bug me Sorry

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[Daphne]

Claudia is whole the cell phone the worng way for a Iphone for that type picture.

That doesn't look like an iPhone case to me... and I have iPhones from the first through the 5 here on my desk.

[jmundt29]

GW--I think we're having a definition of terms problem here.  The initial story...WAY back before Christmas sounded as if the break-up happened over the phone, a conversation, not a voicemail message.  Think Alan and Vicki in Splash or Philip and Susan on Mixed Nuts, not Radar's recording on MASH.

Mixed Nuts is an okay "zany" Christmas comedy from the early 90s starring Steve Martin, Rita Wilson, Rob Reiner, and Madeline Kahn.  Martin's character, Philip, runs a suicide hotline out of his apartment and learns he is being evicted on the same Christmas Eve that his girlfriend breaks up with him:

A portion of their conversation as exemplar of this phenomenon:

"My psychiatrist thinks we should break up."

"What?  I didn't know you were going to a psychiatrist."

"Well, I'm not actually going to one.  I've been dating one for four months."

"This is so sudden!"

"I didn't want to tell you over the phone.  I really wanted to fax you.  But you don't even have a fax." [click]


Anyway, that passed for an actual conversation, as opposed to a recorded message.

The story with Echo is different.  She seems to have left him a strange, obviously unclear voicemail about needing space, that Claudia had to clarify by spinning the tale of Echo returning to England.  I don't think any sort of explanation would have been necessary if Adrian could have heard Echo and...presumalby, the head of the New York Harem en flagrante on the message.

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[jmundt29]

Neither she nor Jacqui ask follow-up questions...or we don't see them ask yet.   And, you're right.  That is pretty weird.  Of course, we don't know what her immediate reaction to seeing the photo was either.  That could have been quite interesting.  For now, I guess we're left to postulate...or assume...that the Watch programming is dampening reactions dangerous to the survival of the Harem.  Incidentally, if that's true, it makes Dani's Escape from New York that much more of a puzzle.

[Werdna]

I know I've been away from the forum for a few weeks, but I don't think anyone has pointed this out - if they have, my apologies:  I just noticed on a reread of earlier issues while looking for hints about what's going on that the woman in the polaroids (issues 30, 31, 51) is wearing the same choker as Claudia in this one, so I think it's reasonable to assume that Claudia and woman-in-polaroids are the same person.

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[jmundt29]

While we might enjoy Raven embracing Claudia's other fashion choices, the idea that she'd get flipped into something like Claudia in other aspects is...well, personally horrifying.

My personal guess as to the third person would be the as yet unseen absent "master" of the New York harem given that Dani was first among equals.  I don't think the red book is a photo album, but I have no evidence one way or the other...it's just more interesting that way (not that this needs to be more interesting or more layered, but...just my personal take).

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[jmundt29]

Well, did any of the inductees in the SJI harem know anything about it before it was used on them?

I think this was a much easier cover...advertise a model search, applicants come for the tasteful shoot, ...and then, "Surprise!"

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[jmundt29]

THREAD EDIT:  I originally posted this analysis of perceptions about Claudia in the wrong thread and have reposted them here, after the post to which they originally intended to respond.

I think we are prejudiced against her because

1. She uses Derek the moron and the Notorious Zenon, and
2. She sort of looks the part in her current attire, but mostly because of Derek and Zenon.

It WOULD be a twist if the villain turned out to be Dani, but I much prefer the current alingment.

It might even be more fun if the real villain turned out to be the absent head of the Harem who is either staying behind the curtain for a reveal much later after a lot of fun, frolic, and intertwisting of plot threads...or,

he's dead, and there's a vacuum where he used to be, so all we have is minor annoyances like Derek and Q and Yves who, while potentially damaging, in the short term can't do much to damage anyone in their circle of influence long-term.

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