^^^
My only question: "aaaand what is your point in all this, again?"

If the statement shared is the truth (which I'm really not interested in discussing either way, actually) - write it on the Wiki page, make your statement about it, lock the page and be done with it. If you don't want attention drawn to the man's personal life, thennnn don't go to fan pages raising the issue; thereby, drawing attention to the man's personal life. Sometimes, people just baffle me, man.....


(and no, i am in no way directing any of my comment to our dear pink and fuzzy... )



EDIT: oop! Reason #1 why quoting is good - People can "beat you" in snagging the posting location that you thought you'd be landing in. Please note that my comment was written to follow NY1001's...!


edited by pfuzzy - took out the two (barely disguised) bits of naughty words.

I agree with you on this. Were VDO and Carin in bed at night unable to sleep because they were so worrried about the misinformation on the Wik page? I'm sure they both have better things to do!

...i know you can, pfuzzy, i know you can...

I can fix that.

Hi there NY10001, and welcome to the NBC boards. We're happy to have you. Please have a look around, we have a lot of informative and fun posts. Feel free to introduce your self in our "Welcome to the L&O:CI Message Boards" thread and review the board rules and etiquette when you have a chance.

We have a post from the editor at Wikipedia regarding this information, which I responded to. Please have a look. All I can reiterate is that, as the board moderator, I requested the ability to contact the spokesperson myself before I allowed the post. I was, in fact, granted that courtesy and am satisfied of the person's identity. I don't think it's "secrecy" - it seemed to be the preference for all parties concerned to simply correct erroneous information and just not make a big production out of it. It seemed it was originally intended only for Wikipedia, but knowing that data can be edited by random users, the spokesperson agreed to have it placed in two other locations. Most importantly, the information is not derrogatory or inflamatory in any way. We would not allow that on the board as it does not comply with the NBC terms of service.

Certainly, if the information is true, it's very nice indeed. If it's not, we will take the post down when we see information to the contrary provided by VDO himself.

Anyway, thanks for joining us. I hope you plan to stay and share your thoughts on LOCI with us.

rowe

I think I want to change my user name to pfuzzy. I really like it!



Good thing this is the off topic thread!

Hi vurtgirl! I didn't make any resolutions, unfortunately, though I know I need to quit smoking too and drop about 20 pounds. My husband wants me to resolve to spend less time online. YEAH RIGHT! That's like saying "stop watching LOCI!"

Keeping my fingers crossed for your back, sweetie.

Oh, thanks alot sweetie. At least I'm not alone on the smoking train.
These are thoughts I have on quiting smoking.
One of the hardest parts of quitting smoking, is fear of the knowledge that you gain weight when you quit. As you were saying you want to lose some weight, it's automatically going to make it that much tougher. That part is especially harder for all ladies to deal with. I, for one, just thought and planned/plotted it all out. Exactly why people gain weight, and how to quit without gaining any or a great amout of weight. For me it's especially bad because I went from being a very active person, to being dead weight on a couch or bed when I hurt my back, and it's taken it's toll on my health and weight. So I really can't afford to gain any more, just cause of my health alone, not even speaking of looks anymore. . Also, I realized that it's several things like anxiety, and the need to do something with my hands, mouth, and mind. It has to be a conscious effort to notice, and act on your needs, and fill them with something good. Firstly, I'm going to get a bunch of celery and baby carrots. That will help, for sure, to fill in that spot of handling something and nibbling (using my mouth) when feeling that need. Secondly, I'm going to change my routine. That's another huge need that is left empty when you quit. It needs to be filled with something healthy and good. Not only food, but hobbies, or take the money we spend on smokes and put it in a jar, or spend it on something healthy every day instead. So basically, what I'm saying is that some psychology and thought, and planning needs to be put in place, and then some really tough, strong will needs to be there as well. For me, I use the knowledge of cancer, and so many other horrible health risks and truths, to harden my resolve and strengthen my will to do it. Also, I'm going to do it cold turkey. I already know that I will quit. I have gone through so many horrible things, that this, is going to be a piece of cake compared to everything else. That's the train of thought you have to try to have as well. If you think you're going to fail before you even try, then you're already closer to failing before you even started. Also, if I/you/anybody does fail the first time around, I'm not going to give up, no way. I'm just going to try it all again, right away. It's not good to just say, well I tried, but I failed and go back to smoking. Try again, and keep trying until it works. Evaluate what it was that caused myself to fail and change the process to fill those needs so that I can succeed. If it's the cold turkey that's not working, then I'll plan out a slow myself off plan, which is much better than just smoking at will, as before, cause just by cutting down and down, is healthier than what was before. Also, another huge obstacle, is if you have a partner (husband, boyfriend, close friend, or whatever) that is a smoker as well. It makes it all that more difficult. My boyfriend is also a smoker, and he's going to quit with me. It's going to make it alot tougher, but when we do make it to the other side, we will be all that stronger for it.
Anyway, I wrote this in hopes that some, even if it's just one piece of my thoughts, helps you or anyone else who wants to quit. That alone is worth me opening up myself here with this.
Well, I won't blab anymore... ..
Take care sweetie, ~Good luck, though, I know you can do that, or anything else you set your mind to.
Vurtgirl

az vell, yu szud!!!



--------------------

for Cvl....

Green

Vurtgirl, I wish you the best of luck! It will definitely help that you're not going it alone. One other thing you have to remember, you're always a smoker!! I stopped many different times for as little as 6 weeks, 2 1/2 years and even 12 years. Now I'm having a horrific time trying to stop.

Hey, vurt - I've pretty much had the attention span of a flea since school ended and the looooong march toward sitting for/passing the boards and FINALLY being completely done with the RN transition began. I've not been quite 'there' to be able to fully give attention to everything you've been going through, but I was able to keep an eyeball still long enough at times to pick up that there's a broken back and insurance bueauracracy (<--sp? can't begin to try to fix it!) f-ng everything up, right about now? Well, here's to hoping for a good end to the sh't-storm you've been enduring in the new year...

*has nothing to contribute*

Here's my new off topic:

*confuzzledness*

Mmmm...feel the love. Or get very nervous. Not sure which is more appropriate until I know if that's Drano you're hiding behind your back.

Jordan, my friend

You always have something to contribute to this board.. because...
every time you post I get to see your picture of VDO & Erbe at the DVD signing

Don't know if this is the way to respond to this but since the topic was locked I can't respond there. I have seen this on the reel also and you can't respond there so here's my question. When i go to Wikipedia the site does not say what this note says it is supposed to say. The links form either site do not lead to a page with their spiel about VPD marriage. I have to admit this makes me wonder about the validity of the statement. Is it ms, or my computer? has anyone else had the same trouble? This seems very out in left field, making a big deal about that which is really no big deal or at least none of our business.

lmao...I looked at the picture after you said that. *sigh*

I'm goin' to NYC tomorrow with a friend from school. Bringin' back memories already, lol...

Thankyou for your support sweets. I know exactly what you mean by you're always a smoker. I have seen it in my mother (and friends, and many others). She stopped once, when she got colon cancer, she went through surgery and chemo, then about a year later, she started again. It's so hard, even the grim reaper can't stop you sometimes. I fear for her so much. The one good thing is that she went from one to two packs a day, to only about two cigs a day now. So for that, I am proud of her.
I think that it's great you keep trying. At least you're not just giving up. You should be proud of yourself for that. Sometimes people just don't give themselves a break. They fail and just give up, but with something as difficult as this, and the fact that you've gone through the effort and failed and are still trying, that's something to be proud of, and with that strength, I know you can do it.
Thanks again gorenfan330,
Vurtgirl

Naydi,
Thankyou so much for your well wishes on my d**m back . I'm the type of person that's just open about myself, usually. Even though most of it's not exactly things to be proud of. Though I didn't mean for it to get out so I could get sympathy, it really has been so nice to see the kindness in everyone. It really touches me and really makes me see the kind people behind the screen names.
I am glad you finally finished your transition to becoming a Registered Nurse. I wish you the best in your journey in this field. My sister is a RN and doing the board thing to become a Nurse Practitioner, or whatever it's called when you give out scripts, so I know what a difficult job it is. I know alot of people say this, but I really believe that it takes a special person to do this job. You will find alot of hardship and stress in this field, but that's one of the reasons only certain people can do it, and hopefully you'll also find it very rewarding.
Thanks again Naydi,
Vurtgirl

Hi vpdzoo. Topic was locked both here and at the reel so as not to belabor the issue. I just checked the wikipedia page on VDO http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_D'Onofrio, and the paragraph about his marriage is there. The other paragraph (the disclaimer about the family spokesperson) looks like it was put on the edit page so that anyone trying to edit it will see it. It probably didn't conform with the template for them to leave it on the main page the public sees. But it's definitely there.

If you have any question about the validity of the statement, please see my post in this thread.

rowe

Call me stubborn or stupid or whatever you want but even when i Click on the link you just entered I get this:

D'Onofrio has a daughter, Leila George D'Onofrio, born 1992 [4] in Australia. Leila's mother is actress Greta Scacchi, with whom D'Onofrio made several movies in the late 80s and early 90s (including The Player and Fires Within). He also has a son with Carin van der Donk, Elias, born in 1999. [5]

In late 2004, D'Onofrio experienced a health scare when he collapsed on the set of Law & Order: Criminal Intent on November 10. He collapsed again at home a few days later and was taken back to the hospital for more thorough testing, where he was diagnosed with exhaustion. [6] Subsequently, the series' producers introduced a second team of detectives in 2005, Mike Logan (Chris Noth) and Carolyn Barek (Annabella Sciorra), later replacing Sciorra with Julianne Nicholson playing Detective Megan Wheeler. [7]

so tell me what I'm doing wrong Please :[

No way are you stubborn or stupid, vpdzoo. But you might have a cached version. Try hitting the reload button on your browser toolbar? You can PM me if you need assistance.

thanks!

My preferred of all appropriate annunciations: *confoo-zed* or the slang *confoozd*

mmmmm....warm, smooth and suffocating....kind of like this:

yeah, but drowning would have been funnier

(to clarify: the offering is mine with "literary" license of SooB's POV... )*











*or any nearest and dearest, as a matter of fact... ;-}

Sorry for cutting into your conversation here, but if I have to die, that's how I wanta go.
Vurtgirl
How in the world did you find that?

Okay, this story immediately reminded me of the Smother's Brothers song "Chocolate"! I can't find a audio clip of it! Darn it all. But here's a little blurb of part of the lyrics, written by Pat Paulson:

http://beingtheremag.com/feature.php?issue=10&id=238

PeachyBC

Hey - as long as it's spiritually (no time to find the right word) on-topic with the off-topic, no such things as cutting in, as far as I'm concerned !! From, of all places, hearing Opie and Anthony laughing their a**es off at the guy on my way up to Weston yesterday. One of those golden 5 minute sections when I could actually stand to leave them on...

I found the "Chocolate" song. lol



http://minnesota.publicradio.org/radio/pro.../10/index.shtml

Scroll down to Thursday January 13, 2005. Click on: Listen to the show". The song "Chocolate" is 29:47 seconds into the show.
PeachyBC

this may be under the topic "all your off topic tendencies"!...ive noticed many people "sign" their comments, at the end. I wonder why? sincerely, affect

affect, that's a great question! I only started doing it so no one would type out "rowenaaine" when they were addressing me - this way they know "rowe" is good enough. Not sure why anyone else does, though I have seen people sign when they want to put a different name than the user name that shows.

Anyone? Bueller?

rowe

(I'll move this to off topic later on, so it doesn't get lost in the shuffle right now.)

Do you mean like when I make my post like this and finish with.
Vurtgirl ???

Well if so, I do it cause I'm use to doing it in faxes and letters and such from work, one of the reasons, also I like to show my emoticon on the particular post, also I have ocd and somethings I do are cause of that. No reason that any sane person would understand basically.
Vurtgirl

Out of curiousity, why do you ask? Does it bother you since the name of the poster is automatically on the post already, or what?
Vurtgirl

Why? Why not?

na

HA! Kind of funny because, when I was googling for the article, I found references to the Smothers Brothers "survival tip"!

(hmph! just noticed the date on the story... they must have been doing a "best of '06" O&A or something.. I didn't stick around long enough to know..)

ty sweetie

For bwalter:

TMBG

is there some way to find out when NBC will hold more dvd signings? A newsletter or something?

We actualy started a thread, it might have been a poll thread about how many poeple want another signing to send to the NBC execs. It should be on one of these first few pages, and it has DVD signing in the title I'm pretty sure.
Hope this helps,
Vurtgirl

Screw Opie and Anthony...tune in Bob and Tom.

--------
Simply Cvl - no sig required.

I read this kaleidescopically schizophrenic thread while listening to Naydi's TMBG link (above) to "Istanbul". You cannot imagine how bizarre the experience is. Try it for yourself. I feel a whole new personality disorder coming on.

Kathryn and Vincent don't have myspace pages do they? Coz I found a myspace page for Kathryn that is supposedly *the real deal* As well as one for Vincent which is set to private lol.

I know it is 99.9% doubtfull but i just had to ask.

this is supposedly Kathryn's one ...
http://www.myspace.com/kathrynerbe1

I send a msg and got a reply. I bet it's just some fan messing around. But my curiosity got the better of me.

i dont know if its really her. Most likely not because her profile thing only has info everyone has acess to.

I dont really know how to work myspace, but i think it would really fun to do one for Robert Goren and Alex Eames. maybe someone can do that. and then show it to me!

Guess we'll never know ... But I'd understand if either of them were going to have one that it would be set to "Private".

I was thinking bout writing to Kathryn, maybe I should ask "You don't happen to have a myspace account do you?" She'll think i'm a complete loony but haha ah well.

I wouldn't imagine he'd have the time for myspace, I would think he'd use the internet for research and email. For family and close friends, there's always the phone.

I'm thinking it's not them. Not sure about Kathyrn, but I don't think VDO would bother. Afterall, if he wants to use the computer to update family or friends he'd just shoot them an email. VDO strikes me as more of a phone guy.

And welcome to the board, Taty! It's great to have another LOCI fan join our ranks. Please introduce yourself to us in the Welcome thread, and we look forward to getting to know you!

rowe

Hey twiztid, great question. As vurtgirl mentioned, we started a poll on whether we would like NBC to do it for the season 4 & 5 releases. By now, it's probably on page 2 of the board. But we don't know yet when the those seasons are being released on DVD. Rest assured someone around here will see it and post it in time. I think it will probably be posted on the main NBC Media Village site when they decide, so keep your eyes peeled. We'll definitely be talking about it before it happens!

rowe

I, honestly, don't think it's them. I think the set to private thing was done, cause 1, maybe the person that is a huge fan of VDO was getting too many messages from people thinking it was the real deal, or 2, he/she is trying to make it look more real. I think if any 'star' would go onto a public website, like Myspace, to create an account, they would definitely get that it would be part of publicity for them, and they would go to the creaters of MySpace and have them set a confirmation that it really is them, so they can go ahead with conversing with the public, and writing about themselves and things they want to let the public know. If a particular 'star' just really liked Myspace and wanted to only get to play on it with friends and family, then I can tell you I am certain they wouldn't use their real name, and it would be set to private, for sure.
Anyway, this is all in my humble opinion. I do have a Myspace account, which I rarely visit, and I know that I have seen the creators, or managers of the site, constantely delete accounts that are set up under their music section as a band, when it's not really the band, and acknowledge a real band, when it is. So that's what leads me to believe they would do the same for a 'star' that would want to be known on Myspace.
Ok, that's it from me.
Thanks,
Vurtgirl

Oh, TatyGirl, you got us all curious now! These profiles are probably fake, as I don't think they have time to play on the internet, but I guess I'll try to add them to my friends list and see what happens.

Eames has a profile! She's actually on Erbe's friends list: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea...iendid=81962998

Actually, there are quite a few that do use Myspace, at least, as another way to communicate with fans, and as publicity. Although, they are most likely managed by someone hired by the celeb. I have actually seen on various celeb official sites, links to their myspace account and such. Mostly it's bands that I've seen so far, but I'm sure that actors use it as well. It's become so popular, that it's a good place for celebs to be seen and heard and give a lil to their fans. I agree most of them don't, but there are some. That's why I say that if it's real, you will know it. There won't be any guessing. The managers of Myspace would say it, and there would be info linked to their official page (and info on their official page) and such. I believe Metallica (or one of the band members) is one such band that has an official Myspace account. I'm a huge fan of theirs, so I get their newsletter sent to my email, and I go onto their site quite often, so I think that's where I saw it, but I may be wrong. Ok, blah, blah, blah, I've gone on enough. I think you guys get what I'm trying to say.
Vurtgirl

You're more likely to find musicians on myspace than actors, I think. Musicians have a bit more time on their hands than actors who have a lot on their plate do. After touring, there are normally a few months that they have plenty time to **** around on the net, inbetween writing songs and recording.