What soap opera doesn't have the all-powerful, head of the family who's been on-air since the pilot episode? Sure, The Wise Benefactor has probably come back from comas, near fatal accidents, abductions, mysterious illnesses, botched murders, and multiple corporate takeovers. But they're the heart of the show with their integrity, sense of right and wrong, and ability to magically make things happen around the town.

Like The Wise Benefactor, you're a true original who can't be replaced--which is why you're sure to be around for a long time. There's just no substitute for your wise and powerful personality. And people can't help but to ask for your advice when times are tough. That's because they know you'll tell it like it is.

Always a warm soul, though sometimes you do exhibit some cold ambition, you keep your family together and are probably also the center for lots of happenings. The town wouldn't be the same without you, so keep doling out the advice, giving folks a hand-up when they need it, and putting people in their place when the time is right. If it weren't for you, who would keep the family, much less the town, afloat?

What's your soap opera scenario?

Ok. I wanted to do a quiz instead of a written entry, because what I was thinking of adding to yesterday's entry seemed moot today. So I decided to go to the trusty, ever plentiful quiz site, Emode.com. I'm not into soaps much; they mostly drive me nuts with their prolonged melodramas and myriad crossing threads. "Cassidy and John are in love, but her evil cousin, Miranda, is scheming to separate them because she's also in love with John, but she just happens to be married to Port Raphael's police chief, Derek Matthews who btw, refuses to grant her a divorce. Meanwhile, Selena Montahue, youngest daughter of music mogul, Peter Thaddeus Montahue, has been kidnapped by unknown persons for as of yet an unknown reason. She's being kept on a desert isle in the midst of a hurricane. Her brother Thad is lying half hidden in a ditch off of Brentley Road, critically injured after his expensive Jaguar spun out of control and flipped. Twice. Was it from his careless driving--or something more...sinister? Will he be found in time, or die unnoticed? Will his scheming socialite wife Cari-Ann and her lover finally be caught and exposed as the daring Cat Burglar Duo? And amid all this Sylvie, Peter's second wife and one true love is trying to hold her family together and trying to help the police solve the murder of a mysterious transient with her psychic ability. Little does she know she's pregnant again--with twins."

Sometimes the threads get so hokey as to become so far-fetched it's not funny. Like Passions. Though, I will admit I became hooked on the twisting threads of General Hospital for a time before my favorite thread soured.

I have to laugh at the results though. I cannot see myself as "the all-powerful, head of the family" who "has...come back from comas, near fatal accidents, abductions, mysterious illnesses, botched murders, and multiple corporate takeovers." I am not, and never will be such a CEO.
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Originality makes the world better.

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