shack up

[Wilson Gray]

On Jan 14, 2005, at 2:27 PM, James A. Landau wrote:

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> It probably hasn't made the major media markets, but down here in South
> Jersey we've been having fun with the Fox reality show "The SImple
> Life."  First
> they were banned from /byoona/

Re: /byoona/

There's a town in California named Buena /byoona/ Park. However, the
name of the town of Buena Vista has the pseudo-Spanish pronunciation
Buena /bweyna/ Vista.

-Wilson

>  Township, where they were originally supposed to
> take cafeteria jobs in Buena-Cleary Middle School.  Banned!  Yes,
> parents
> protested that Paris Hilton, who once did an X-rated video, was not a
> good role
> model for their kids.
>
> So Hilton and Richie ended up at Caprioni Portable Toilets, a business
> that
> cleans portable toilets at construction sites.  I almost think I'll
> watch that
> episode.
>
> From Brian Ianieri "'Simple Life'  lands in Cape County" _Atlantic City
> Press_ January 13, 2005, page A1 with jump to page A7
> <quote>
>    It's "The Simple life," a reality-based Fox television show that
> puts
> Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie in situations that the young
> millionaires and their
> diamond-encrusted cell [page A7] phones would otherwise never
> encounter.
> They shack up with pre-selected families, and chaos ensues.
> </quote>
>
>           - James A. Landau
>