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I was pointed to this little quiz today. IT LIES!!!! I am not an Emmett.
Anyone up on QAF knows who Emmett is. IT LIES!!!!
Here is the link if you'd like to have a stab at it.
http://www.showcase.ca/queerasfolk/features/
The Calibrator Quiz
Have fun.
Brian
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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I, by contrast, appear to be.
Now who is Emmett?
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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He seems to be the totally out one. The one that in a crowd of 1000, you could still pick him out.
hehehe
Brian
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
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I've never seen a single episode of QaF US edition, so I have no idea who the various characters are, guess Leander or Setras could help me out with a crash course.  Anyway, here's what I got:
"The character you are most like is Ted Schmidt.
A bit shy and a tad insecure you are most likely to feel like a bit awkward in the social arena. For what you lack in the aforementioned scene you make up for in intellect and compassion. Your tastes are most definitely honed to the point where you would probably choose Bizet over Jay-Z and Moby Dick over Maxim. At the same time however, you have little interest in high-end fashions or expensive cars, preferring to blend in rather than stick out. But that doesn't mean you would ever condescend to those with less refined interests.
In fact, when it comes to your perception of others, you treat everyone you meet as a blank slate and would never intentionally prejudge. You may come across as a bit ordinary to some, but that is only because they probably have not taken the time to get to know the real you."
Anyone think this Ted guy is single?
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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By the way... I really like how your From:-line mentions both gators and baptists, as if the two are somehow equal... That's given me more than one chuckle I might add.
Oh! And I had my first biking casualty today. Bought a neat 'dirtboard' for the rear wheel of the bike in the afternoon after visiting the gym, which I quickly attached after coming home. What I failed to take into account however is how much the rear wheel moves vertically due to the suspension. Hence, when I went bouncing away the mudguard went *CRACK* and snapped right off the seatpost!  Oh well. It was only like 35 bucks! *groans*
Hugs:
-L
"But he that hath the steerage of my course,
direct my sail."
-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act One, Scene IV
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More correctly, if it has to be anything at all other than what it is [that being a blatant rip-off of the original British series transplanted to a polymorphic Urban venue] it's QAF North American Edition.
In truth, it the Canadian Edition, being financed, produced, and filmed entirely in Toronto, Canada, by the World renown "Alliance/Atlantis" Studios - the very same people who have, at one time or the other over the past 30-years, given North American audiences, amongst others, Airwolfe (their very first critical success, this despite CBS's attempts to have their name removed from the Broadcast prints), Earth Final Conflict, CSI (and it copious spin-offs), Traders, Tekwars, Hercules, Xena, The Associates, Fly By Night (featuring of all bloody people, Shannon Tweed and David James Elliott, he before JAG fame), The West Wing (like QAF, filmed entirely in Toronto, because Martin Sheen who now lives here will not work anywhere else), Trailer Park Boys (showing for the first time this year in the U. S. Market, but now in it's third in Canada), Sinbad, Paradise Lost, OZ, The Prophecy, and countless others.
In fact, Alliance/Atlantis is probably one of the few profitable studios in North America, with it reported that last year their productions were showing for a total of 12 of the 16 prime-time hours across the four American Networks in the crucial Friday, Saturday and Sunday A and B markets. They also are the heirs, and repository, of the Gene Roddenbury legacy, which numbers a host of programmes under consideration for development, or in pre-production.
You may not know their name, but you do know the Networks they either own outright, or control - History, Garden, Food, Showcase and Showtime, Oxygen, Life, and a dozen more.
QAF North American Edition, because the hard-core economic realities of Broadcast survival dictate it, whilst originally intended as more "true to form" of the British parent, had to be morphed in order to be acceptable to the mainstream "U. S." market, consequently the age of the youngest actor was made 18 (whereas he could very well have remained 14 or 15, or whatever, had the target audience remained exclusively Canadian), nudity has been kept to a bare minimum (although director's cuts of each episode shown in Canada do differ from those aired simultaneously in the "U. S.", featuring full-frontal nudity where called for), with drug use and references to prostitution (both widely promulgated throughout North American mainstream Gay culture) have been sanitized and made palatable to the masses. These and other changes, in order to be able to air the programme in the U. S. market were widely debated and discussed in pre-production, with the decision made to err on the side of caution. Alliance /Atlantis however does not air on the side of caution in a host of other Adult Entertainment "Broadcast suitable" and worthy features all of which air on one or the other of their cable channels in Canada.
And, "yes" to those of us who know Brian best, he is definitely an Emmett, with or without the Hummer H2.
Warren C. E. Austin
The Gay Deceiver
Toronto, Canada
"... comme recherché qu'un délice callipygian"
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I am not an Emmett!!!!!!! 
Hmm... 
Thanks, JJ! 
