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harrietthespook · 11/10/2011 22:20

Ladies....as we were?

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Bossybritches22 · 26/10/2011 23:05

Avoidka read on back up the thread....Grin

mucho gossip & innuendo thoughtful debate about that very subject

(amongst others!)

MarthasHarbour · 26/10/2011 23:14

psychic not just demon i too thought you were 'shoehorning' tomato ketchup up a mouse's arse [hshock]

as you were

bossboggle · 27/10/2011 08:25

Righty ho everyone!! If you could be a character from Downton who would you be and why??

FearfulYank · 27/10/2011 08:27

Definitely Anna...she's sensible and gets to snog Bates. Done. :o

AVoidkaTheKillerZombies · 27/10/2011 08:29

Sybil - Posh but feisty, and Branson is a bit of alright Wink

Animation · 27/10/2011 08:31

But I wouldn't want to snog Bates in this series. Maybe in the last series - he was hot then!

josephinebonaparte · 27/10/2011 08:35

I'd want to be Mary so I can help Matthew with the shoehorn marry Matthew.

MarthasHarbour · 27/10/2011 09:08

i want to be Lavinia because she seems to be the one most likely to shag Matthew (at the moment!)

no - scrub that - i soooo want to be Violet Dowager Countess of Grantham

MarthasHarbour · 27/10/2011 09:09

oops didnt give my reasons to be Violet - for the obvious 'one liners' and comedy value Grin

LadyHarrietDeSpook · 27/10/2011 09:32

Mary because I'm a bit of a masochist. She's her own worst enemy most of the time, full of angst AND insight in equal measure. And she's got a fantastic side saddle seat.

(And I'm full of hope she and Matty will get there in the end.)

What a great start to the day.

diddl · 27/10/2011 09:35

Edith-she´ll come good in the end-hopefully with Lord StrallanBlush

Couldn´t be Mary having to be beholden to Sir R.

Animation · 27/10/2011 09:43

I'd be Sybil - because she's got the Irish chauffeur and he's crazy about her.

Or Cora - if I got a love interest.

lazarusb · 27/10/2011 10:05

I'd be Violet. Dh says I'm a cross between her and Professor Snape anyway Hmm Weirdly, I'm quite proud of that! Grin

anonacfr · 27/10/2011 10:34

I would be too! Grin

Animation · 27/10/2011 11:11

Well you can't all be Violet!

Any takers for Miss O'Brian? [hgrin]

Animation · 27/10/2011 11:15

I mean O'Brien - you'd have to be a smoker for that role - or be prepared to smoke and inhale.

lazarusb · 27/10/2011 11:22

Definitely not O'Brien! At least Violet looks like she's had a good hard shag more than once. She is cleverly sneaky and mistress of the cutting remark and disparaging look. I love her!

Bossybritches22 · 27/10/2011 11:41

I'll be Daisy.............at least I'd get fed by Mrs P regularly & have a pension!!

Balconygarden · 27/10/2011 12:26

Sorry, but another Violet. I'd love to know her "back story". I like to think that she was a stunner in her youth, married the previous Lord 6 whom she was quite fond of, but is relishing her widowhood as she can be as rude and eccentric as she likes.

limitedperiodonly · 27/10/2011 12:30

Violet for me too

LadyHarrietDeSpook · 27/10/2011 12:38

I would love to hear more about Violet in her yoof too.

They should a Star Wars type thing: film 'prequels'.

No one putting their hands up for Isobel and Cora then?

ThePsychicSatsuma · 27/10/2011 13:20

well...I'd like to be Mary or Edith too. Both a bit spunky and v privileged. I'd like to be Mary and destroy sir R, or Edith and prove the burned guy is Really the heir.

Am I the only one who sees Sybil as quite a drip? She could marry anyone and she's wasting time faffing with pickle.

diddl · 27/10/2011 13:28

The Sybil/Branson thing doesn´t grab me as a great love story tbh.

What was it made him "dare" to even think about "chatting her up" iyswim.

I know she supposedly doesn´t care about her place in society, the irony of that being that if she wasn´t who she was she wouldn´t be nursing in Mummy & Daddy´s convalescent home iyswim-and expected to attend dinner parties when guests are there!

So although she might not want to be a member of the aristocracy, I can´t see her wanting to be the driver´s wife either.

LadyHarrietDeSpook · 27/10/2011 13:44

Diddl have you watched the trailer? She just says to Edith: I think I've found a way to escape. Which isn't what you say if you lurrrve someone really is it? He's a means to an end.

MarthasHarbour · 27/10/2011 13:53

hang on - i got first dibs on Violet

she is miiiine