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14 hours ago, mlp said:
I was mentally sifting through people who might replace Valerie well and I have an idea that may be really out there but.......................... Jet Tila's wife Ali. She's a baker, she's cute and nice, upbeat and she's a mom. Also she's done TV before.
And her name is a palindrome!
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53 minutes ago, AZChristian said:
She seems to be a nice person, but this isn't "Holiday Nice Person Championship." It's about baking.
34 minutes ago, RoxiP said:But Jennifer had the best story of the bunch, having been in the Twin Towers on September 11.
Food Network has given me more than my fill over the years of the Best Story Championship on many, many other shows, so I would gladly take the Holiday Nice Person Championship, please.
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13 hours ago, littlebennysmom said:
I have a feeling the person who is behind the Baker Cam nonsense was also the brainiac who brought us Molly/Spring Baking Championship's Sprinklegate (justice for Romy!).
Food Network, please stop listening to this person.
Don't forget having the parents in a room watching on the Kids Baking Championship for a season (or was it two?) -- sometimes it's like they're actively trying to ruin the franchise.
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13 minutes ago, Ancaster said:
sicky toffee pudding
Yes, that's rather how I feel about it too 🤣
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2 hours ago, mellyf said:12 hours ago, Irlandesa said:
It sounds so easy, but it never works out for me like that. Prue's recipe calls for 4 TB of thyme just for the cake.
Same for me! And that is a LOT of thyme.
Plus, I don't even know where one gets four terabytes of thyme... 😜
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King of Rock by Run-DMC perhaps?
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Just adding my voice to the chorus of those tired of the blood and gore cakes. This is the first time Mrs. Dew and I have ever stopped watching one of these series, and this is why.
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17 hours ago, marinw said:
There’s a line in “Let that be your last Battlefield” that has always bugged me:
Kirk: “That (planet) is in the most southern part of the galaxy. In an uncharted area”
1. If the planet is in an uncharted area, how do they know where it is?
2. How does direction like North and South even apply here?
As for the episode itself, it is rather heavy-handed but sadly relevant today given recent events.
The first one is a bit of a puzzler, but the galaxy does have north and south coordinates.
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*raises hand* Nearly his entire catalog predates me, but he was my grandfather's favorite, and my mom played the hell out of "That's Life" when I was growing up. Now, I've built a collection of my own of his music. The man defined cool to probably three generations, and modern singers of traditional pop are still chasing his shadow.
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1 hour ago, marinw said:
Last night I watched "The Omega Glory," which left me even more confused about World War III in the TrekVerse. Spock says something like "(This Planet) had the conflict Earth avoided" Yet isn't a nuclear world war a central tenant of the TrekVerse? Or was Spock referring to a biological war and not a nuclear war?
I always assumed that he was referring to the West vs. Communism (as that episode was meant to mirror), and that WW III was some alternate configuration.
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18 hours ago, Bastet said:
Which was the first time I learned it was "moving in" as I've always heard it as "the limit", which makes about as much sense as the linen.
See, I also heard it as "the linen", which made sense to me as the singer saying he just wanted to see his lover and not sleep with her (i.e., linen sheets).
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19 hours ago, Giuseppe said:
Also, how did the ghosts in the after-life help center (I don't know what else to call it) get those jobs? How do you become a receptionist or janitor mopping the halls? Why do ghosts need jobs anyway? Lol. Maybe it's some sort of 'punishment' for taking your own life...seemed like a lot of the workers there committed suicide (I hope that doesn't come off as insensitive).
This is actually hinted at -- there's a throwaway line by Otho, something like, "if you commit suicide, you become a civil servant in the afterlife." Glenn Shadix was great in that role. The overall casting of this movie was mostly great -- the mains (Keaton, Davis, Baldwin, Ryder) were all pretty perfectly cast, and then Shadix, Sylvia Sidney, Jeffrey Jones (if you can put aside his real-life loathsomeness), Robert Goulet all nailed their parts. Surprisingly, I think Catherine O'Hara was kind of the weak link as Delia -- unlike the other characters, she didn't come off as real to me. Anyway, a great movie, and required watching every October in the Dewelar house.
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Whenever I see topics like this, I can't help but notice a lot of artists pop up that had long careers in the UK or elsewhere in the world. Coming from a different angle, who were some artists that were huge in the US but were one-hit wonders elsewhere?
To kick things off, I present John Denver, who had a bunch of hits in the US, but only a single top 40 hit in the UK:
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2 hours ago, Shermie said:
I think that’s the same thing. What’s the incorrect way?
Ne-VA-duh, with an a like in "ham", is correct.
Ne-VAH-duh, with an a like in "car", is incorrect.
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14 hours ago, Shermie said:
How do they want it pronounced? I’ve only heard Ne-vah-dah.
They pronounce it Ne-VA-duh, with a short 'a' like in "ham".
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22 hours ago, proserpina65 said:
For me, there's a difference between all style & no substance and not being able to see what's on the screen, though. Also, I guess I'm somewhat less visually oriented, because no substance but lots of flash bores the crap out of me. To each, their own, obviously, but I wish there were more movies in the theaters which had at least some substance. Because there are far too many movies out there with very little, imo.
I suppose I was a bit glib in my earlier post. Indeed, "lots of flash" would definitely be boring, and not what I would consider "visually appealing". For instance, I loathe movies like the Avatar and Lord of the Rings series, but if I was in a certain frame of mind I could watch them for the visuals alone. The Austin Powers movies (well, the first two) also qualify as "visually appealing" to me, although obviously YMMV.
Also, I shouldn't have said "can't see what's happening", but instead "can't tell what's happening". I'm visually impaired myself, so I was kind of using shorthand there. Hope that clarifies things a bit.
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23 hours ago, proserpina65 said:
Oh, it's definitely best to aim for both, but if I had to choose between a great story with a lack of style and something which is all flash (Marvel movies, for example), I go for the thing with substance every time.
Yes, but at the same time, a movie could have the greatest story in the world, but if I can't see what's happening on the screen I won't watch it. Contrariwise, if something is visually appealing, I could at least tolerate watching it without engaging my brain. Thus, at least for me, style WITHOUT substance > substance without style.
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2 hours ago, Spartan Girl said:
So there’s another “controversy” about The Little Mermaid that people are upset about regarding the plot:
Apparently, according to the novelization, Ariel is the one that kills Ursula instead of Eric, this time. And the purists/mennists are acting like this somehow takes something away from Eric.
I have to bitterly laugh at the irony that after years of Ariel being crapped on because she’s supposedly anti-feminist, now people are complaining that she’s too feminist. JFC I can’t even…
Well, to be honest...
Spoiler...in the original movie, Eric's got very little going for him beyond bravery and...being pretty, I guess? Not that this makes him that much worse than the classic Disney princes, but maybe they'll give him a personality to make up for taking away the hero moment.
And of course it probably goes without saying that those two groups of complainers are pretty much entirely different groups.
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MLB Thread
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5 hours ago, mojoween said:Ok so this is shady as hell. The ump who tossed Scherzer also previously ejected two other pitchers for “sticky hands” and caused them to get 10-day suspensions.
He is the *only* ump who has bounced pitchers for this violation. Sounds like someone is too big for his britches.
That or he's the only one doing his job properly. Or both.
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17 hours ago, Salacious Kitty said:
Do you mean Chris "Boomer" Berman? 😃
Since Boomer's nicknames were pretty much all puns, and I'm one of those weird people who actually appreciate those, I obviously meant his lesser-known brother Craig. Duh. 🤡
(Man, my brain has obviously gone kaput the past couple days.)
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On 4/19/2023 at 2:39 PM, roughing it said:
Actually, Guy calls him "Mayhem".
Whoops. Too many nicknames to remember, I guess. Obviously Guy thinks he's Craig Berman.
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16 hours ago, Ellee said:
I hated the Mayday Mei Lin. Or was I hearing wrong?
Especially since it's a re-used nickname (Aaron May was also Mayday in a past season). Bad form, Guy.
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MLB Thread
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I'm torn on this one. Given all the stories about him that my father has told over the years, and that I only got to see him in his last season, I'd love to say Tony Oliva -- I know my dad would love to watch him one more time. Also Lyman Bostock, since he never got to HAVE a prime. In the end, though, I'd probably have to pick Walter Johnson, just so I could say I saw him pitch.
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MLB Thread
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23 hours ago, mojoween said:(and later that year Paul Molitor had a 39-game hitting streak, longest since DiMaggio)
Well, in the AL, anyway. Yeah, I know, we would all kinda like to forget Pete Rose existed...
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Tournament of Champions - Season 5 Discussion Thread
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Sadly, I think Shota beat himself by not showcasing the randomizer items enough. I often have trouble predicting who's going to win, but I called this as soon as I saw how little he used the chard and especially the sauerkraut. It's too bad, because Carlos was working my last nerve. I don't remember much about him from past seasons -- has he always been so abrasive? Anyway, here's hoping Jet goes three-for-three against him.