We're Jealous & Pathetic But We Need Our 5 Minutes

We're Jealous & Pathetic But We Need Our 5 Minutes

LOL

For those of use who cannot compete with the productivity of the big sim-soap producers this thread is for everyone else to post a pic or five with a li'l bit of background yarn.

Every picture tells a story, right?

I was watching the Abelard family go about its business and a scene caught my eye and I snapped it. So poignant.

From left to right we have:

Ricardo Abelard, Meadow Thayer, Kerie Abelard, and Chuck Thayer.

That's a lot of non-Abelard's in the Abelard house, huh? It's worse, Ricardo isn't even an Abelard; he's not the son of the recently deceased Abelard heir, intead his father is the lothario Tallin French ... but he carries the Abelard name and that was good enough for him to inherit a substantial estate. All his step-siblings on the Abelard branch of the tree are sisters so he alone carries the burden of the family name. Like his genetic father before him, Ricardo is a devoutly romantic character. At college he had lovers in every dorm and in one or two senior common rooms as well. Graduating, barely, his ambition was simply to have as much fun as possible with the impossible to spend fortune he would soon inherit. But Leonardo Abelard had not sired any dull sons. Adil Abelard, whom Ricardo had called daddy left a will that stipulated that his only "son" should marry as a condition of inheritance.

Meanwhile there were two daughters, Pansy and Salvia. Pansy, the eldest, had married well and was playing happy families. Salvia was ... well, a bit of a dyke. Salvia came home from Penn State University with Meadow Thayer and they had moved into the spare room. Meadow was intent on become a Shtar ... darlink; and yes, she affected a totally silly accent. She spent hours every day before the mirror and had, Ricardo, suspected, only hooked up with wealthy heiress, Salvia, in the hopes of getting enough money for a plastic surgeon. As if that wasn't atrocious enough, Meadow had adopted a foundling, Chuck; every movie shtar has to have a child, darlink, but carrying vun to term is sho bad for zhe vaist ... beshides, adopting an urchin is sho gut for vun's career ...

Meanwhile in an almost obscene inverse parody of The Graduate, Ricardo had dosed himself up on a potion he'd obtained from a dodgy looking gypsy and plighted his troth with a woman who was old enough to be his mother. Although he added her to his increasing row of bedpost notches, she rebuffed his long-term ambitions and he was obliged to consult his address book. Enter Kerie, a girl whose dorm room he had gotten to know quite well. He invited her to the funeral, splashed around a lot of the old gypsy philtre and ... well some of the toilets needed some serious brushwork in the ensuing days. Ricardo swallowed the bitter medicine and married the poor girl before she realised what she was letting herself in for; although she seemed quite pleased with the drophead coup in the garage ....

So there we are! An incorrigible Cassanova at breakfast with his step-sister's undertalented sho-biz wannabe, dyke girlfriend, the wife he married solely to inherit a substantial estate and a grubby little oik with no manners, no breeding but lots and lots of potential ....

 

LMAO. You are so funny. I look forward to more tales here. Everyone's.

 

I don't have a tail.

 

I do.

You are not pathetic, Mirelly. You are funny and witty and I always look forward to your posts. You make me laugh out loud.

You too, Babe ...

Actually, we have a lot of funny, and fun, people on this site.

OK, I did mention something about going to bed. Guess I should suit actions to words.

Bye now.

 

Well, I'm definitely jealous and it's my neighborhoods that are pathetic because everyone one of my families in all my neighborhoods are ignored and forgotten because of the Errol Waring family. I'm going to log out and go hunt through my vast collection of sim family photos to see if there's anything that was once upon a time interesting and that I can still remember what the story was about...and that didn't involve Errol, Harcourt or Emmeline.

OK, this is an edit: I looked at my picture folders. It's ALL Emmeline, Errol and Harcourt. Drat! I deleted some neighborhoods to make more room on my harddrive. I found one picture that, while Emmeline-related made me laugh a little. It's Duke Sidewalker, the private detective turned vampire who married the woman (Candida) that Emmeline's father George had an affair with, the same woman who conspired to get the family fortune by having Emmeline's brother falsely accused of murder. Anyway, I don't wish to retell Emmeline's story here. And it turns out when I try to post this picture I've already done so :shocked: , so all I can do is link it. http://forums.worldsims.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=1601&d=1131679634
Although he doesn't look like it in this photo he is actually very happy, celebrating buying a bathtub which was a big desire that sent him into the gold.

 

Since my lappy broke I can't update about Sophia anymore.

 

Is it all gone, Babe? As in erased? Vanished? Or are you just waiting for a spare part?

 

I can't open my disc drive to pop my disc in. :(

 

Hmm wonder if going to My Computer, then right-clicking the drive that's not opening and clicking on "open" would do anything. I had a faulty CD-RW drive that wouldn't open by pressing the button, and that was the only way I could open it for a while.

 

Could you possibly move the files to a regular computer and play them on that? I'm desperate for the story to continue.

 

Since this is a sim soap magazine thread I'll add my latest little woe. Harcourt's castle can no longer be entered. I wanted to move it to a different neighborhood. So I moved it to the bin then went to another neighborhood and planted it there. It's planted. It looks pretty. But when I try to enter it (in build mode) the game crashes. It was just too big and monstrous a castle, I guess. Too bad.

Fortunately, using the little bit of grey matter I still possess, I had moved Harcourt's family out of the castle first. So they're safe in the bin, waiting for a much more modest and workable home.

 

D'ya know ... that is a so un-blonde thing to say The correct answer would be that you had trouble with the thingy and tried to prise it open with a nail file and a piece broke off so you glued it back with super-glue and now you're quite certain that it'll never open again

Seriously, though. I thought we'd fixed that problemo?

 

Nope. I tried the paper clip thing - my whole family did - and since i told my Dad, and he's had a go at it. It's being quite stubborn. Looks like to the nearest repairman goes it.

My nail files are all soft ones, they bent as soon as I tried. And I can't find my metal one. It might be down my sofa. I did try a bent earring - I had to use my old Halloween party ones - thus sacrficing my pumpkin bells in the process - and almost broke some of my best studs, but then I realised I was using the spesh studs from South Africa and that wouldn't be one of the bestest ideas now, would it?

 

Lol!
Could someone tell me how to put up my pics? I'm sure someone has already asked that in a dead thread but yeah...

 

You should be able to use Manage Attachments. It's about halfway down the screen when you do a "normal" post, which I can't do at work anymore. Grr.

Anyway, click that and you should get a popup window that lets you add up to five attachments. Browse for the pictures you want (one per slot) and click Upload. Then wait a varying amount of time depending on your computer (mine takes forever since I have dialup) and voila! Pictureness.

Close the window, write what you want to if you haven't already, and then submit your post.

 

Here's my current soap opera. I just started all over as I keep getting tired/bored/distracted by other things and lose my train of thought. Here's what I'm starting with . . .

This is Glynna Vaux:

She's a family sim currently majoring in Economics at Sim State. Her life time want is to graduate three children from college.

This is Morgan Chagney:

He's a romance sim currently majoring in Art at Sim State. His life time want is to "Woohoo" with 20 different sims.

Little do they know they're life is planned out for them. They'll graduate, move into an apartment building with several other sims, fall in love after some drama (I'll have changed him to a fortune sim by then, maybe), get engaged, buy their own home, get married, and have children. Then I'll carry on several generations before I get tired of that family and I'll start ALL over AGAIN!

 

Goodness you have a nice graphics card.

Nice looking sims, too.

 

Absolutely! That chap is the best looking (sim) male I have ever seen ... it's amazing how much difference a good skin makes though. Are they Helaene's work? (They look like it ... *thinks* must go and check out and see wots noo .... toodle-pip

 

Looks like Enayla to me.

 

I bought that graphics card last year for my Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 and it sure doesn't do too bad with Sims. It's been a good investment. Also, thanks for the compliment on my sims.

Thanks! I love those skins, they're from Enayla. They do make such an awesome difference in even the townies, especially with the addition of Haleane's default eyes. They look like a whole group of different people. It's fabulous!

Good eye! They're my default skin tones and I have Haleane's eyes in for defaults too.