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  1. 🤣Yes, but where was @ItCouldBeWorse when my 40-year-old was in high school?
  2. IMDb show/movie pages do have clear, informational links to services that stream that title. Each page also serves up curated lists of related and relevant shows or movies. IMDb seems to have a robust algorithm populating its pages. I just noticed this Consumer Reports page: Guide to Streaming Video Services It looks very useful for all of us on this thread, except that it was posted February 24, and I don't readily see how frequently they issue updates.
  3. When I was in 1st grade in 1959-60 (age 6), the teacher asked each child to name their favorite color. Due to alphabetical seating, I was last. I sat there and heard all the boys say "blue" and all the girls say "red." Blue was the color of my birthstone, blue was my mother's favorite color, blue was my favorite color, I had no brothers, I was the youngest in the class, and I had been taught that lying was a terrible thing to do. So I said "blue." I don't recall any repercussions, but I do still have that memory when many others are long gone. That same teacher also explained to me patiently why the book I brought to share was not okay: Little Black Sambo. (I had thought it was about tigers turning into pancakes.) So she probably wasn't expecting the red-blue gender division? I like to imagine she was hoping we would offer up a rainbow of colors, perhaps including the names from the Crayola Crayon sets of that time: crayola.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Crayola_64_colors
  4. My guess is that you're not the only one asking this question. Likely someone will try to monetize a solution. For now, I have 2 Roku TVs that allow me to search for a title and then the software attempts to show me what access I have. It's very incomplete. For instance, it cannot know what's temporarily freely available on YouTube, and it does not index the Internet Archive (which has, for example, most of the Ironside episodes). The Roku search has trouble parsing limited access to seasons too. But if I just want something to watch without being too picky, and I'm too tired to do some serious searching and curating of choices, it does the trick. I imagine in a few years it will do better with the help of AI. And Wikipedia will likely have a greater percentage of the data you seek as well. — unless somebody blows up crucial satellites. 😪 — or sunspots get crazy.😪😪 But probably the worst thing that will happen is a roadblock to funding for free information. IDK. Just educated guesses.
  5. OG Matlock S5 E1, “The Mother,” that originally aired September 19, 1990 just re-ran on METV. It was a very dated script. The B plot was especially so weird to me: A $50 side-bet between Michelle (Ben's co-counsel) and Conrad (his investigator) as to whether or not Michelle could get Ben to make a sexual/romantic move by physically signaling to him that she is "approachable, agreeable, and available." Michelle uses perfume, tight clothes, and a wiggly walk towards that end. It almost seems that Ben is onto her game, but not…??? Michelle loses the bet to Conrad. Even for 1990 it is weird to me. Michelle continues to work with Ben throughout seasons 5 and 6. The show continues for another 3 seasons after that. FWIW, Julie March (Ben's gf) was the prosecutor in this episode but had no speaking lines outside of the courtroom and barely any in it. Maybe not relevant, but adjusted for inflation today in 2024, the $50 bet would be $119. It could be really interesting to see the new show do an episode related in some way to this one.
  6. I recall in the 1960s there were repeats in the summer of most, if not all episodes. Given that there were no VCRs yet, I'm sure the ratings were good enough to get support from the advertisers. And now back to our more-or-less regularly scheduled program.😉 Has anyone heard any talk of a spin-off?
  7. Women can rise to the occasion of being Pest Removers too. Spiders, waterbugs (house centipedes), bats, mice and Jerusalem crickets (potato bugs), oh my! 👀 Mom and Dad were married 67 years, but it was Mom who would use the Swiffer to go after the geckos and Giant House spiders and Cane spiders. Dad did the cooking. Now my Swiffer is always at the ready!🕷️ Those spideys never see it coming.
  8. Yes. Thank you. Maybe because we moved to new environments every couple of years, I was still exploring the natural world when I was 10. Yes, but, @PRgal, no live rats or ants in the house are necessary to encourage studying the life sciences. Learning about the reproductive parts of flowers can be a beautiful introduction to reproduction in general.
  9. New bug thread is live: Pages not loading full screen (and can be posted to) If it was mid-January, I might have missed it when my grandbaby was being born.
  10. Recently? Or…? (Sorry. My short-to-intermediate-term memory ain't what it used to be.) Arrrgh. Cannot get the duplicate of my second image to go away in the post above.
  11. I submitted one too. Probably a bunch of users too. Anywho, here's what it will look like if it's approved. Regardless, any other platforms or browsers to add? Like Chromebook or Windows PC? I should probably add OSs too. Note the "Your content will need to be approved by a moderator":
  12. On: iPhone 7 Plus, OS 15.8.2 (newly released for iPhone 7 Plus), Chrome and Safari MacBook, OS Sonoma 14.2.1, Safari and Chrome, Android Chrome iPad Safari Windows 11 Firefox And:
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