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When Sheldon first met Amy, she told him: "Now before this goes any further, you should know that all forms of physical contact, up to and including coitus, are off the table." So that robotic, non-emotional persona was the original basis of the friendship between Sheldon Cooper and Amy Farrah Fowler. The writers erred, IMHO, by making Amy suddenly leap from this Spock-like strictly logical person to a woman who suddenly yearns for physical intimacy. 20/20 hindsight indicates some serious flaws in the development of Amy's character. The writers could have taken more time to have her see the "satisfaction" that Penny and Bernadette got from physical intimacy, which made her progressively more curious. And then, when she met Zach at the bar and had that "Hoo!" reaction, everything suddenly came together for her, emotionally, physically, hormonally, whatever. The writers missed an opportunity to actually script Amy's epiphany onscreen; it could have been simply a moment of "my goodness, why didn't anyone tell me about this!" -type feeling/realization, which would explain her future "lustful" feelings vis a vis Sheldon.

I have baby fine straight blonde hair and one day when I was picking up a prescription at the drugstore I also picked up a packet of hair conditioner from a "Free Sample" basket sitting on the counter. I used it on my hair the next day and from the heavenly aroma I could tell that cocoa butter was one of the main ingredients. I should have taken the time to read the packet, because it was a product intended for black hair care and it stayed very waxy/oily all day. I had to go to work looking like Duke Ellington with my hair plastered to my scalp. I wondered what type of work the tablet-owning-but-not-sharing plaintiff did since he was so very....flamboyant. I couldn't picture him as anything other than a hairdresser or maybe fashion designer. So, yeah, I too laughed when the caption said "Nurse" and tried to picture him with a patient. ("Oh, honey, these hospital gowns are not flattering anyway, so you might want to think twice about eating all that Jello. It won't do your butt any favors....")

Hot rolled steel can develop stress fractures which could let liquid seep through. But Aaron made a point of telling CDB back at the barn (when he was first recruiting them) that the ASZ walls were made of cold rolled steel. (I used to work in the steel industry which is why I remember that conversation). Cold rolled is much stronger (and more expensive) and would generally only develop leaks at welded spots. I think the writers were trying to sound technical without actually doing any metals research. The Denise/Tara kiss seemed too out of the blue....they spoke a bit once last week and now Denise is all crushing on her? Same with Rick and Jessie....he was making goo-goo eyes at her 15 minutes after they first met. I know he's been without a woman for a long time, but he and Michonne always seemed to have some serious chemistry to me. Maybe it would be too "difficult" to have too many couples forming among the members of CBD....'cause if they break up, they still have to live together (like Lori and Rick did for a while)?

It's interesting how birth order can change a person's perspective on certain things....for example, my Mom is the second oldest of 10 children, and my Dad was the youngest of 10 kids. Most of Mom's childhood memories are changing diapers, washing diapers (this was in the pre-disposable era, natch), hanging diapers up to dry, etc. My Dad, on the other hand, has memories of his older brothers taking him to the movies on Saturdays and buying him ice cream and his oldest sister cooking his favorite meals. My Mom swore she'd never had kids when she got married, my Dad always wanted a huge family. They ended up having three, and both later said that that was more than enough. The writers are probably going to have to do something along the lines of Howard and Bernadette babysitting someone's infant for a weekend, and then Bernie has to work or something and Howard is left alone to care for the baby. He will have an epiphany that there is more to fatherhood than watching Star Trek with a kid and flying kites with him and stop pressuring Bernie to get pregnant. As for Sheldon, this is a great opportunity to bring back the ghost of Professor Proton - he could show Sheldon what Amy's life would be like if she married some Ideal Guy. Sheldon would see Ideal Guy come home from work and ask Amy all about her day and then praise her cooking during dinner, and offer to do the dishes because she'd already worked so hard.... and then he'd (hopefully) realize that he needed to be more thoughtful if he ever got a second chance with Amy. He wouldn't reform overnight, but wackiness could ensue as he awkwardly tried to be more Ideal. ("May I say that you look very nice today, Amy? Your new pine tar shampoo has thoroughly removed those unsightly scales from your scalp.")

In the preview for next week's episode, that girl at the door (Sheldon's date?) was Analeigh Tipton, a former contestant on America's Next Top Model. In fact, she previously appeared on BBT as one of America's Next Top Models.

That's putting it mildly.....sort of like saying John Goodman is a picky eater. I'm no oil paiting, but every litigant in that case was somewhat....atypical-looking. Reminded me a bit of that episode of I Love Lucy when Lucy, Fred and Ethel borrowed a truck from a quick-change artists and dressed up in all those weird outfits to go to the Tropicana.

Michael Landon's chest, lack of lingerie and other fun facts to be found in this Mental Floss article.

Is the state of Georgia that liberal that they would put a confessed triple murderer (Creighton Dallas Winton) on Freeway Flower Duty? Seems to me that he'd be locked away on Death Row, especially since he committed the murders while an escapee. Of course, this was written by the same guy who wants us to believe that Morgan became a stick-fu master in a matter of days (maybe weeks? Certainly wasn't all that long.) I'm not a member of the "Lennie James walks on water" club, so this episode was extremely "meh" for me. I wasn't dying to know what Morgan had been up to all the while our main group was fleeing the prison, being held captive at Terminus, etc. And his tale, such as it was, certainly didn't require 90 minutes.

This!! I mean, back in "Clear" Michonne somehow magically returned into a walker-infested restaurant and escaped unscatched in less than a minute to retrieve Carl's family photograph. But in this episode she had trouble scaling a chain link fence? She had to keep hanging in place and kicking at the walkers grabbing her ankles? Our girl Michonne has easily escaped many treacherous situations - remember her single-handedly taking down a herd en route to finding Rick and Carl after the fall of the Prison? - so why must the writers make her look so suddenly inept that she can't quickly scramble over a fence with built-in hand and foot grips? I had my hands to my mouth in horror when Glenn was attacked, but Mr. Ouisch quickly pointed out the "weird" camera angle, that it looked like Glenn's intestines were being pulled from his throat. So I'm voting for that was Nicholas' body being devoured and Glenn will escape somehow. How exactly did Rick injure his hand? Was he bitten/scratched? Did he cut it? Did he break a bone? (I know that in the comics a looong time ago his hand was chopped off by The Governor, but Kirkman has gone on record saying that he regretted that writing decision and would not have done it in retrospect.)

Morgan's Mahatma Gandhi routine aggravated me to no end. Didn't he see Saving Private Ryan and what happens when you turn soft and let an armed enemy go? What was worse was that circle of Wolves around him, each patiently waiting his turn to attack one at a time, just like the ninjas do in every poorly dubbed martial arts movie. I'm thinking that maybe Morgan spent some time in an Amish community along the way, since he mentioned that a "cheesemaker" taught him his stick-wielding skills. I've thought all along that the Amish would be best suited for the ZA, being already accustomed to living without modern conveniences and all. (But would an Amish person have masterful stick self-defense skills?) Don't you need eggs to make fresh pasta? I haven't seen any chickens in ASZ.

Some local coverage on the Horse Rape case. I'm curious about the gelding who will never be the same....isn't that an altered male horse? Randy the Stallion violated the gelding, too? What, was he just out of prison or something?

R: Blowing up the pit of walkers or firebombing it: I don't think fire kills walkers....remember when Milton set the walker pit on fire when Woodbury was still around? Schumpert, Martinez and the others went to fetch walkers and they will still alive, albeit charcoal-colored. Same in "The Grove" - burned-to-a-crisp walkers (presumably from the shack that Daryl and Beth set on fire) were approaching the house where Tyreese and Carol were holed up with the girls.

Some fun behind-the-scenes facts about MTM, including why Mare had to move to a new apartment and why the "guys" were glad when Rhoda left the show.

Not to mention that there are many leery folks who won't accept a personal check and insist upon a money order or cash. (How many "bad check" cases has JJ presided over, for heaven's sake? Is her memory that short?)

I thought Stuart and Amy made a cute couple on that episode where he took her out for a pumpkin latte and later to a movie. But if they did get together, eventually they'd run out of things to talk about (much like Penny and Leonard....eventually you have to get out of bed). What if Amy and Raj got together? He'd probably be a very nice boyfriend if he wouldn't go all creepy/possessive on the first date ("How many children would you like to have?"). He's a great cook, he's sensitive, he's a scientist, and he's not at all adverse to physical affection.

Both Nadia Day and the Greyhound bus pick-up guy's cases annoyed me mainly because everyone involved had boom boxes on their tables and nosy me was dying to hear what they had to play!

I'm presuming that we did not see the entire wedding ceremony so that when Penny and Leonard exchanged their "I do's" we didn't discover Penny's last name.

Omigawd, that landlord's voice drove me nuts! She sounded like she was on the verge of tears with every sentence. And despite all her protestations she had no solid evidence to back up her claims of $3000 worth of damage. Maybe if she'd taken a momentary break from her drama queen persona and had actually answered JJ's questions as to what damage was represented in the photos she might have fared better. But she was too focused on whining and ranting and trying to get "her side" heard... Quite frankly, she exhausted me.

The bitter father who insisted, even after JJ's ruling, that he wasn't giving his Corvette to his daughter (who'd paid for it a few years ago) because she was disrespectful reminded me so much of the Six Flags dancing guy that I could barely concentrate on how stubborn and unreasonable he was being. Felt sorry for the daughter growing up with such an unbudgeable hard-nosed father.

Who knew that Farrah Fawcett wanted to be Mrs. Kotter? Some fun behind-the-scene Kotter facts from Mental Floss.

I'm just now catching up on a week's worth of episodes, including two weekends of older reruns. In the latter category I saw a case new to me - the defendant said "Yeah" while taking the oath with Byrd and then greeted JJ when she sat down at the bench. Two strikes against him already (JJ told Byrd, "I heard the 'yeah'".) The plaintiff was a young man who'd worked for the defendant when he was 18 or 19, something like that, at an amusement park (IIRC), and the defendant kept borrowing money from the youngster. Even though the plaintiff had text messages from his supervisor saying stuff like "Bro, I know I already owe you a bunch of $, but if you could just loan me $400 more until next payday.....", the smirking defendant kept denying that he ever asked for or took money from the kid. Defendant mentioned that he was laid off from the amusement park and now works for Pawn Stars. Anyone remember this case? I tried looking the defendant up (I can't recall his name right now) and couldn't find anything on him except a message on a Pawn Stars forum asking "Does that crook that was on Judge Judy really work there?"

Once upon a time, there were banks on almost every corner of every busy intersection in most metropolitan areas. But I notice in my own area (north of Detroit) that the branches are fewer and far between, and many of the banks I did business with in the 1990s have now gone belly-up. So there was a time when I (who'd had a bank account as a child that my Mom had opened for me, and also a credit union account that I'd opened in 1980) was without a bank account of any type, thanks to financial institutions closing and the minimum deposit/monthly charges required at the few branches near my house. Yeah, I was one of those that JJ scoffs at/doubts who cashed her paycheck at the bank from which my payroll checks were issued and kept the money in an envelope at home, not in a bank. Eventually when I accumulated enough to call a "savings account" I did get a new bank account. But I admit that I'm one of those who "tsk-tsks" at JJ litigants whose only source of income is public assistance, yet they're sporting elaborate tattoos and professional fingernails and always have a smart phone at the ready to show a text message as evidence. The folks in question are young enough that we know they didn't get inked five or more years ago when they might have been more financially flush. (By the way, I'm also one of those people that JJ would immediately say "I don't believe you!" because I don't have a cell phone, much less a smart one. My husband has one, and that's all we can afford. I often wonder how these teens we see not only on JJ but on COPS and other reality shows can afford not only an iPhone, but also the monthly payments.)

Mental Floss has some fun facts about Judge Judy and Officer Byrd today. (Never knew Johnny Rotten was once in her courtroom!) That's interesting - the article on Dirty Sanchez says that he never repaid his stepdaughter. I thought the JJ producers paid any monies awarded on the show? Is stepdaughter looking to get paid twice (by the show and by Stepdaddy Dearest)?

Folks that agree to appear on Judge Judy sign an agreement that states they'll accept her ruling as final and will not take it to another court.Unless she dismisses the cases "without prejudice", in which case they are free to take their case to a local small claims court.

She and her husband were arrested in Washington in July 2014 for Failure To Appear/Second Degree Theft. I wonder if that was before or after their JJ case? Maybe it was when hubby got popped for driving the check that they had the bill of sale for (along with the "guarantee" check, which I didn't understand one bit....)