Forum Archive Index - October 2002

["tennyson@caverock.net.nz" <tennyson@caverock.net.nz>]

Remember 'Neighbours'?

Well I've got a pilot storyline for a new Aussie soap I'd like to run 
past sharechat readers.

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In a quiet city-side suburb lives a woman, an ambitious matriarchal 
giant named Brokenhillia and her two daughters, Othelia and Asteelia. 
 
Next door lives a hard working fellow of solid character.  He has no 
personality at all but is nevertheless a good bloke.  His name is 
Tube.   Brokenhillia takes a bit of a liking to Tube.   A couple of 
loose weather-boards appear in the fence between their respective 
backyards.  One night after she has put the girls to bed Brokenhillia 
slips through the hole in the fence and doesn't come back until seven 
o'clock the following morning.  The small girls barely notice this 
new found liaison at first since 'mother' has seemingly boundless 
energy.   A few years later when they have reached the age of 
understanding what is happening they don't dare question it 
because of mother's boundless power!

One weekend many years later the normally tyrannical Brokenhillia is 
out of town for three days.   It was a sudden call away and the now 
teenage Othelia notices the light burning expectantly in Tube's 
bedroom window next door.  Curious, she slips through the back fence 
and doesn't come back until the morning.  The next night the same 
thing happens except that Brokenhillia  comes back early and creeps 
into Tubes bedroom only to find him in bed with her daughter!   
Furious, she bellows so loudly that Tube is forced to sell his house 
and move away.  He takes Othelia, now cast out of the family home, 
with him.  Brokenhillia immediately takes up 'officially' with a new 
South African lover who she was two timing while carrying on with 
Tube anyway. 

With new lover in tow, Brokenhillia pays less and less attention to 
her remaining daughter.  Asteelia vows to get back at her mother by 
setting up a secret video camera in her mother's bedroom and filming 
her nocturnal activities for sale as a porn movie!  And guess who 
volunteers to act as distributor for this porn movie?  Her own sister 
Othelia!  When Brokenhillia finds out about this arrangement she 
throws  Asteelia out of the house vowing never to speak to either of 
her daughters again.  Brokenhillia marries her South African lover 
and now calls herself 'BrokenhilliaBilliton'.

However, seeing another opportunity for revenge,  Asteelia changes 
her name by deedpoll to 'Brokenhillia-Asteelia' and decides to go 
about impersonating her mother.  Meanwhile Othelia is growing tired 
of Tube and can't decide whether to divorce him or murder him, wipe 
all traces of his name off this earth and just surreptitiously take 
over his assets.

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Now I know what you are thinking.  What sort of twisted imagination 
must I have to come up with as dastardly a plot as this?

Actually none, as if you substitute BHP for 'Brokenhillia', Onesteel 
for 'Othelia' BHP Steel for 'Asteelia' and 'Steel & Tube' for 'Tube' 
this little pilot outline pretty much sums up the relationships 
between the four respective 'steel' companies and how they developed. 
 And you thought investing in steel was boring!

Long time holders of BHP shares will have their own little pieces of 
'Othelia' and 'Asteelia' after both of these companies were spun off 
from their parent.   A legitimate question to ask is whether one 
should continue to hold these shares or whether they would be better 
sold and swapped for the local boy, (Steel &) Tube.  Over the next 
few days I hope to shed some light on this incestuous question.

SNOOPY

disclosure:  Hold a few OST and BSL and am wondering what to do with 
them.










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