TomServo

Did I miss the conversation about the fact that if you say Josiah's nickname or Twitter handle out loud, it sounds like you're saying, "side hugger"?

Maybe it didn't originally, but here is a picture of the Mars bar I remember. The wrapper says "caramel" on it. The one they showed Rebecca buying in the vending machine looks like the almond-free version. The prop department probably picked it up in the international section of a grocery store or something.

I don't have a hard time believing that a widowmaker heart attack can take someone that quickly, but I do have a hard time believing that Rebecca would not have noticed the commotion. I know someone who died in her 20's from a blood clot that traveled to her [heart? lungs?] after surgery for a disease that is not usually fatal. She made a remark to a nurse that she was feeling kind of weird, and at that point her husband left the room to go somewhere. He heard her alarms going off, and he rushed back to the room. They ushered him back out while they worked on her, but he said that when he got to the room, he took one look at her and knew she was already gone. Nope. It's a little confusing because there is a Mars bar sold in English markets that is not the same as the U.S.-branded Mars bar, but IS similar to the U.S.-branded Milky Way bar. The English-brand Milky Way is similar to the U.S.-brand Three Musketeers bar. English Mars = darker chocolate, nougat, caramel U.S. Milky Way = milk chocolate, nougat, caramel U.S. Mars = milk chocolate, nougat, caramel, almonds The U.S. version of Mars bars hasn't been sold in the U.S. in nearly 20 years. They tweaked the recipe and rebranded it as Snickers Almond.

It was the 1990's. I don't know when hard-wired smoke detectors became a thing, but our house didn't have them back then. Ours were only powered by the batteries, and when they were out, they were out; there was nothing to power a beep. I just want to know who are these people who buy batteries at the mall? And why does retirement-age Miguel bathe in self-tanner? My kids loooooove going to Costco.

The short answer is because it would have been really boring to watch all those minutes of Philip sitting around waiting for Elizabeth to walk down to the main house, retrieve the photo, and walk back, so all that was edited out for time. :) It's been several years and a child and a half since Elizabeth took that photo out of the briefcase. There's no reason to think it would still be in the briefcase. or that he even uses the same briefcase. Philip or Elizabeth could have put it in that drawer at the guest house at some point.

I thought the show wants us to believe that she did. There was the scene where she fainted, and after Dwight examined her and left, she said something to the effect of, "Ross has left me no choice" which I took to mean that she was going to have to marry George for the cover-up.

Coming in late 'cause I have to wait to watch on Amazon. Well, there's the power aspect of it. Plus, since all the original research is so hush-hush and likely illegal, they can't exactly go out and compete for research grants on the open market. Whoever is financing all this (Topside or whatever) only has so much money. If she can eliminate LEDA, then she can hog all the resources that are now being tied up in paying monitors, finding a cure for the glitch, etc. No wonder she was so excited when she met Beth at the book signing.

I was under the impression that Bells Palsy was a syndrome; I guess I'll have to go look that up. I've read the People interview where Milo says he was born with a nerve problem in his lip. Maybe it's a different nerve than the one that gets you a B.P. diagnosis.

I found most of the big ticket baby items I had lasted through one-and-a-half kids on average before having problems. Car seats made it through two kids before they reached the expiration date on the sticker. The motor on the swing burned out before baby #2 was finished using it; the fabric on the bouncy seat wore through and the vibration thingie got a short in it, etc. The stroller lasted through three kids, but only because we were fine using it without the mama tray that holds your coffee and we knew not to trust the plastic Graco brakes, etc. Even the crib mattress needed to be replaced after baby #3 and one of the slats on the drop side (ours didn't get recalled) started splitting from being moved up and down so much. If she's on child #6, I would expect there to be a few needs for the new baby. And if someone had given me a restaurant gift card instead of the 10th noodle casserole in a row, I would have been beyond thrilled.

The Bells Palsy is less noticeable now than it was when he was on Gilmore Girls and Heroes, but you can still tell. He talks out of the side of his mouth and his lower lip looks fatter than the other side when he makes certain facial expressions.

Retirement Rebecca looks so much like someone just wearing a Sally Field costume that it's distracting. They might have been better off just casting Sally Field for the part.

(Commenting on the entire thread at once) It was silly. But only half as silly as the cartoon-level-CGI tornado episode! I don't pay enough attention to the credits to know for sure, but I have long suspected that they made changes to the writing crew in addition to the cast between seasons 1 and 2 and probably also more since. When that happens, you often get shows that don't mesh with what's already been shown. See also: Gilmore Girls. Unless, of course, the original showrunner can't remember her own plot lines and then you get them anyway. See also: Gilmore Girls. But I digress... They also completely forgot that Mike was the one who intended to set Kyle up with Mandy in the first place and gave him lines where he complained about the kinds of guys his daughters pick. If they'd remembered that detail, they could have turned it into something funnier. Carol is walking him. This sitcom is set in Colorado. In Colorado, homeschooling parents send in a letter of intent once a year that says something to the effect of, "I'm homeschooling my kid." According to CDE, "You must be the child's parent, legal guardian or an adult relative designated by the parent. (22-33-104.5(3)(a), C.R.S.) No other qualifications or licenses are required." What Ryan did on the show is not inconsistent with that. Colorado Homeschool Law Colorado Dept. of Education Homeschool FAQ Where would Ryan's money be coming from? He's homeschooling his own kid, not running a tutoring business for other people's homeschooled kids. Did I miss an episode where Mike and Vanessa offered to pay Ryan the tuition they were planning to use to send Boyd to private school? Homeschooling costs additional money; it doesn't bring in money. For the most part, I am the same way. For minor-to-moderate inconsistencies, I eyeroll and then move on.

Sure. Just like the Duggars are doing it in order to minister to people and Kate Gosselin does it, "...to help others and...for women's empowerment.". I'm sure the money and attention-seeking has NOTHING to do with it, and that's why Jazz chose a responsible, non-exploitative network like TLC. The Duggars had a platform pre-TLC, as well; it just wasn't as big as the one TLC brought them. Their blog used to be shared around in (even non-fundie) homeschool circles as kind of a "Look! This guy is a legislator and still has time to homeschool his bajillion kids; you can do it, too!" A "direct reference" isn't the same as "naming" as in doing something like doxxing a private person who is also a minor. Jazz is not a private person. Jazz is a person who has actively pursued a public platform in print and on television. The only thing I saw on the feed (and admittedly I don't follow him on Twitter so I only looked at it briefly) was a reply to someone who accused him of "throwing shade at a teen" and Derick's reply was "I want to be clear. I have nothing against him. I only have issue with the words and definitions being propagated here" which is still topical rather than personal.

I guess that depends on what you mean by "biblically illiterate." I'd consider someone who isn't familiar enough with the Bible that they can't recognize a reference to a well-known and oft-quoted Bible verse because of a single-word difference to be on the lower end of the biblical literacy scale. You don't have to know exactly which translations include the word "cosmic" in order to understand the reference if you are generally familiar with the text and what someone is getting at when they talk about "fighting against spiritual powers rather than human ones [insert additional keywords like 'darkness' and 'heavenly places' here]." So, yes, most non-ESV readers who are "literate" would probably read what he said and think, "Interesting; I didn't remember the word 'cosmic' being in that verse." Then they either shrugged and went about their day as usual, or if they were curious enough, they looked it up and then went about their day. It's unlikely that Star Trek, Carl Sagan, NASA, or a mental hospital came to mind first. I don't know very many people (including evangelicals) who still use the NIV on a regular basis, and I have Bible Gateway set to default to a different translation. Some of the Bible Bowl/Bible Quiz organizations are starting to switch to ESV, so it isn't as though it's some obscure text. Probably more than half the posts on this forum involve naming children (younger than 16, who didn't choose to chase fame on television) in what could be considered to be "hateful" posts. Political correctness has never been a goal (attainable or otherwise) here, in this public forum, so I'm not particularly interested in using this forum to police whether people on other platforms are guilty of unpopular wrongthink. Also, did Derick actually "name" the "child"? The tweet I saw was just a link to TLC's promo (in which the child self-names in the hashtag). Didn't come anywhere close to a direct attack as something like, I dunno, "Josie Duggar is feral!"

It's not any kind of special edition; it's a very well-known passage of scripture among people who read the Bible: "For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places." I'm actually mildly impressed that he went with something other than King James, as "cosmic powers" wording is ESV.