shapeshifter

Fran Drescher ("The Nanny") was married for 18 years to Peter Marc Jacobson, at which point he came out as gay (imdb.com/name/nm0414908/bio). In 2011 he produced a sitcom based on their marriage and his coming out, "Happily Divorced." Two of my former coworkers were hetero until their 30s (one male, one female, both married with kids). But, yeah, I think it's more common IRL than on TV. 😂🤣

I think this is what is being considered: Right now, under Everything Else, there is a topic: Health & Wellness which has about 2 dozen subtopics, including these 2: Health and Wellness Chit-Chat: Your Primary Care Topic Stress, Depression, Anxiety and other Mental Health-related things Considerations: For new users, it would be clearest to rename them as “Medical Chat” and “Mental Health Chat.” However, for current users, the renaming might cause confusion, so at least announce this poll in those 2 threads? "Health and Wellness Chit-Chat: Your Primary Care Topic" could at least have the cutesy and misleading "Your Primary Care Topic" removed without any current users being confused. But "Medical Chat" would be clearest, IMO. Probably changing "Stress, Depression, Anxiety and other Mental Health-related things" to "Mental Health Chat" wouldn't cause much confusion among current users, especially if a note was pinned at the top announcing the change. My opinion: Since both are long threads, lock them and start fresh with: Medical Chat Mental Health Chat …including a link to the old thread at the top of the new thread, and: Describe what the thread is about at the top of each new thread.

Yes. I am overly sensitive to naturally discordant voices, but I had a very dear friend with the same voice as Alison's, so I'm trying to channel my positive feelings for that friend towards Alison, who is an excellent player, has a pleasant personality, and is "cute as a bug's ear." My friend often spoke in almost whispery tones, which damped down the shrillness, but that would not work on Jeopardy! •.¸¸.•*´¨`* •.❊.•´¨`*•.¸¸.• @possibilities, was this👆 the image they showed?

So I didn't miss part of an episode? (Sometimes I fall asleep.) It seemed like the writers (understandably) spent more time on Buck's story at the expense of the the other 3 plots that came after the 2 opening rescues.

This happened to me Friday morning. But I still had cell phone from my daughter's plan, so I spent way too much time mastering tethering devices to my cell phone data because they said it was just me and I'd have to wait until Sunday afternoon for a tech to come out. (Turned out it was widespread, and they fixed it Saturday afternoon.) But I'm also almost done with a double-portrait watercolor for extended family, and I recently got out an old guitar and attempted to tune it — but apparently 30 years is really outside the lifespan of nylon strings; I didn't break them, but….

Ooo. I think the writers missed an opportunity for Alberta and Saul to do it on the kitchen counter while Jay was unwittingly having a midnight nosh. This may have come up in an earlier thread: The ghosts are like children to Sam, and she is like their mother. The ghosts have "lived" such sheltered lives, that in many ways they are childlike.

If this past year is any indication, there may yet be other Jeopardy invitationals to which Juveria or Ray LaLonde might be invited. I especially think Juveria is at her peak of performance right now.

Maybe the gambling room could get converted into a simple pinball arcade, perhaps with Bingo nights? Mandy's parents seem to have enough disposable income so that they could fly Mandy and Georgie to Dollywood.

You did do better than a lot of us Zeroes! Same! I knew Encanto was too recent, but went with it because I didn't have any other titles in my RAM (Random Access Memory🤖). I was once totally mesmerized/charmed by a missionary from Zimbabwe (I was recently divorced and he was widowed) who passed around an ostrich egg for us to inspect: "Laying an Ostrich egg" is, for perhaps obvious reasons, not a figure of speech like "goose egg," but the memory of the appeal of that guy with the ostrich egg still sticks in my mind much better than titles of movies, or titles or authors of books, or names of places and explorers and their dates.

I'm only posting this because I'm procrastinating doing real life stuff, but here's a free "gift" link from the NY Times: nytimes.com/2024/04/12/style/golden-bachelor-divorce-gerry-turner-theresa-nist.html?unlocked_article_code=1.kE0.ffaZ.X7_Al3JUZjKh&smid=url-share

Doesn't Sam already do this on a regular basis? It's just that there a lot more ghosts and ghost-demands? I can't name instances when Sam has told the ghosts "No" on Jay's behalf, but I'm pretty sure she has. And maybe a time or 2 she manipulated the situation for Jay's benefit. In this episode Sam hired the stripper for Isaac, which wound up later providing a little spice inbetween the sheets for Sam and Jay. Sam didn't plan it, of course, but sometimes being nice to a ghost has fringe benefits.👻 In this episode, yes, Jay had to go find the dentist to get Saul detached, but there was no other way around that due to ghost mechanics. Would Sam have detached Saul by herself from Jay if it was possible? Maybe? Sam had already tried to offer the dentist a free night for Alberta, and he had turned it down.🤷🏻‍♀️ Perhaps the writers need to give Jay a line or two in which he expresses how he appreciates having the ghosts around. Yes, they are mostly annoying. That's traditionally what ghosts are. But Jay likes nerdy stuff, so he probably feels pretty privileged and special to live with someone who shares ghosts' conversations with him.

Amy makes sense from the perspectives of both game playing abilities and current zeitgeist, but, yeah, there were others I'd just like to see again — or maybe have a Zoom tea party with.

So said we all! (Battlestar Galactica reference?) Having heated homes with wood-burning stoves for 15-20 years in the rural Pacific Northwest, I was so confused by the pristine fireplace. So Margo burned an entire room-size rug in her f'in' fireplace?!? And she was going to do a little cleanup with a bottle of stuff that fit into her pocket? Don't get me started.🤬🤯🫠 Not familiar with that reference, but I think there is a Columbo episode I watched in the last year in which a body was disposed of similarly. Cool! From a branding and SEO (Search Engine Optimization) perspective, the writers have been (IMO) very smart and clever to repeatedly work her unique name into the early episodes in clever ways, especially since, as of this moment, Google is not suggesting "Elsbeth" when I search "Elspeth." And it was very intriguing to me that the killer in the previous episode (played by Jesse Tyler Ferguson) and the chief's wife in this episode both were the exception to the rule in that they made a point of pronouncing her name correctly — with the camera taking a beat on the killer's face in the last episode and on Elsbeth's face in this episode while they noticed. It's almost like her name is a litmus test.

Thank you!! Now I feel smart again. That's what I said while looking at an incredibly large and close TV screen. And, yes, The Velveteen Rabbit was an instaget.

In fairness, the baby was all he had left. Not to mention he was recovering from a head injury. I don’t fault him for what was obviously a shell shocked state of mind I’m left wondering if the writers edited out a line of the father’s to Price and Maroun of “she’s [the baby is] all I’ve got left of my wife” (because the baby had the DNA of the father and his wife). And, if they did edit out the line for time or triteness or whatever narrative reasons, did they assume that we viewers would assume the father felt that way (that the baby was all he had left of his wife)?? Similarly, we were not given any information as to the cognitive state of the father due to Traumatic Brain Injury other than a little memory loss. IRL, the father could have been no longer cognitively capable of being a parent, or even performing the work he had done previously. A psychiatrist for the prosecution could have told us that on the stand. Maybe the passing line by the new DA to go after the evil surrogate broker would include a penalty of millions in damages for the father??

Same here: Week 31: 0/5 But I'm hungry, so I'll grab a bowl and join you.

Wow. This gives value to the work of current gatherers of family genealogies. I wonder what the nature of the "poems" was.

True, but at least we got these crumbs: [DETECTIVE] Computer crimes has been analyzing Eileen's devices. And when they were looking at her phone, it rang. [DIXON] Who was it? [DETECTIVE] Federal prosecutor. I called him, but I got the runaround. [DIXON] Those guys wouldn't tell you if your coat was on fire.

They're both "adorable," but in very different ways (says the portrait artist).

I was wondering this too, and afraid to ask.

This all makes sense. However, additionally, Margaret admitted in this episode she was a little "jealous" of Susan, since Margaret was older when she made partner. I wondered too if Margaret is concerned that Todd may still be carrying a torch for Susan.

Followed by "I'm drowning." For me, Sam wasn't caving into Alberta's requests; Sam was relating to her like any close girlfriend.… …although Sam was also being haunted by a ghost. Whenever Sam does the ghosts' bidding, it seems natural to me. It's what haunted people do. Right? I was more like Saul in my youth (clinging to my lovers) and am aware that's not typical, still I can't help imagine Isaac wanting to see more of the stripper. A few lines from Nigel seem to be hinting at a rift between him and Isaac. Maybe they will have a brief breakup during which Sam will agree to get the stripper back to cheer up Isaac. Then the ghosts might plot to kill the stripper at the Woodstone so he and Isaac could be together (which is so wrong on so many levels). After the shenanigans, Isaac and Nigel would get back together, having learned to accept each other for who they are. I think the stripper was maybe writing a dissertation on paleontology? I could not watch Jenkins' lap dance entirely. It was like when I used to squint my way through the autopsies on Bones.

Margo was so catty with Elsbeth about her hair! [MARGO TO ELSBETH] We all do things to make ourselves more appealing, don't we? Or is that your natural color? No way! Although there was something a tiny bit off about the way Kaya remarked about the Leaning Tower of Pisa image on Elsbeth's window/monitor: [KAYA] So, just different every time? Huh? [ELSBETH] Oh, yeah. Depends on my mood. And I have a lot of moods. Elsbeth sharing with Kaya “And I have a lot of moods” was a bit odd. Maybe Elsbeth and Kaya are doing a little dance. It would make sense if Captain Wagner asked Kaya to keep an eye on Elsbeth to find out what she's up to. But if that's the case, I want them to decide to join forces to take down the real baddies, who will be someone other than the Captain. But I'm prepared to be disappointed too, and have Kaya and Elsbeth not be bffs. 😥 I loved the Captain's wife, Claudia, played by Gloria Reuben, but she seemed possibly sketchy too.

I think the nicer, newer puffer coats are able to be warm without the bulk. My daughter had one with her on her way to Antarctica recently. It was a lovely apricot-orange color.

This CNN article echoes all the other mentions I happened to inadvertently catch yesterday about OJ’s passing. None of the discussion I caught mentioned the likelihood of a pro footballer having TBI or CTE, which some of us considered here, upthread. For the sake of his children and any grandchildren, I hope they do a postmortem exam for such brain damage. But it would be best if any definitive conclusions as to the presence or absence of a brain injury be kept out of the media. So I’m fine with not knowing. ETA: I haven't researched this further, but a NY Times commenter posted: