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Because I'm that kind of nerd, I looked it up, and Jim did get his currency conversion rate more or less right with 'we're in a race for a million dollars' followed by 'we're in a race for forty million pesos'. Odd what people remember sometimes.

The clue of her condition wasn't the blood pressure; it was when she said she felt cold in frelling hot conditions, which is a sign you're in heat exhaustion territory.

I find the judge comments and puff pieces a lot more tolerable when I remind myself that their real purpose is to give the show's crew a chance to get singer, band, and set changed over and the lighting effects switched to the next song without breaking the fourth wall in some ways and showing that process to America. Kind of wish they would show more of that actually, since the show is quite good at repositioning a band, 20 dancers, and the darn staircase in the space of 20 seconds of Adam 'I love it' babbling and a modest commercial break.

Assisting someone in committing a doping offense is effectively considered to be the same thing as doping yourself in the modern WADA rulebook. And you do not make a doctor's visit to Michele Ferrari, now under a lifetime ban from associating with professional athletes because he was passing out EPO like candy to any decent pro cyclist of the 00s, because a knee feels a bit of a twinge. Lay down with the radioactive and the resulting glow isn't necessarily the glow of good health.

It's a sign that you've watched a lot of figure skating over the years that when you hear that FINA has approved mixed gender duet synchronized swimming as a world championship event, your first thought is wondering how many Romeo & Juliet, Bolero, Carmen and Black Swan programs will show up at the inaugural event.

I'll join you in the Marty Casey love because he made Creep all creepy and stalker-like as it should be if you go by the lyrics. No matter what musical genre you're using with that song, there's a certain underlying emotional context that needs to come through. I'm getting rather bored with this crop of singers. The only ones I really remember an hour after broadcast are Craig and Anita, and Craig is in part for shallow reasons.

House Hunters has also long been one of the most diverse shows on television. Gay couples, straight couples, interracial couples, singles, old people, young people, physically disabled people, people who doesn't seem to be quite there mentally (see Mickey Mouse law school lady) and pretty much every ethnicity you can think of has whined their way through their choice of three different properties. And yet they never feel the need to have a Very Special Episode for a Very Special Homebuyer when they're showing something that would be in VSE in a scripted drama or sitcom.

I think a change in network would help a lot. Right now it seems like the show has to try to aim for 18-24 year old male demographic because that's the viewer Spike wants, and they think that the douchebaggery is what gets them their desired ratings from the 'right' people. If you look at them side by side and with the sound off, Ink Master and Face Off are structurally the same show down to even having the occasional essentially identical challenges. But Ink Master is what it is and Face Off is the Montessori experience of competitive reality television because SyFy is fine with the producers making it a lighter, more collaborative show. Maybe it would work on TLC or similar better.

Unless the a prescription says I've got to take it with water, I really do prefer to swallow pills dry, and never have a problem doing so, even with pretty large pills. So it does happen in real life with a few people.

I tried to wade through the ISU rulebook but kept having problems with my eyeballs glazing over when I went looking to see if there was anyone who could force a medical withdrawl. I got as far as it being the responsibility of the skater's federation to guarantee they were healthy and fit enough to participate in the competition, but couldn't puzzle out whether a representative of their federation had to be on hand at Grand Prix meets and could also force a skater out of a Grand Prix against their will over medical concerns once the event had started. General ISU rulebook has a section on required medical personnel on site for sanctioned events, but didn't specify if there was an official who could pull athletes for health/injury concerns. (I think they saved that for the speed skating technical section because it's usually more relevant there than on the figures side.)

Whatever else I see him in, I have to fight to not see Richard Jenkins as Dead Dad from 'Six Feet Under'.

I was just saying on the Facebook that I'm welcoming the Lexus car bow ads if they replace the political ones.

Did I catch a glimpse of a non-broken ox for next episode?

Okay I take back anything vaguely nice I said about Honey Boo Boo before. Mama June is slime.

I was only as far away as western Michigan, and yeah, got WGN and all the Chicago commericals too, including the ones for Empire's competitor, Lincoln, who was still trying to explain seven digit phone numbers in the 1980s. In more recent music notes, I actually ended up tracking down the 'Suit' song from the Diet Coke plane commercial and buying it http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7NOl/diet-coke-economy-class-song-by-boom-bap-pow

RFF has it filmed on June 9. Wunderground says the high temperature was 87F that day.

Jim Balsillie! Yeah that's who I was thinking of with the Yotes bankruptcy saga that lasted longer than '7th Heaven".

Hamilton also has territorial rights issues, and might even manage to fall within both Toronto and Buffalo's zones. IIRC, the last serious bid they made involved a billionare ownership group that was willing to pay high rights fees, (IIRC, it was one of the options during the Yotes bankruptcy saga- What a Long Strange Trip That Was- see "Phoenix XCIX: "I Got 99 Problems, But A Lease Ain’t One” at HF Boards ) but I'm not certain what current the current status of that group is.

Because TAR is not filmed on a sound stage and weird things can and do happen beyond the Race's control, they do have more flexibility than the sound stage shows do when it comes to making changes on the fly in the name of safety or fairness. I can think of one Russian music or dance task where the judging apparently got massively screwed up and there was speculation that they may have ended up with an unplanned NEL leg in the name of fairness to all the Racers, and also some speculation that they're had to move legs because of natural disaster or political unrest. (Dubai? Again?) And we know for sure that the to-be-continued leg was created pretty much on the spot after Production discovered mid-race during the Mug You on the Mat era that local law didn't allow Racers to beg for money like they usually did after NEL at that time. But that kind of thing is implemented to make it fairer to Racers, not favor one team over another.

Price for a second Toronto franchise-possibly as high as $1.2 billion before they even draw up arena blueprints http://www.thescore.com/nhl/news/573073 If it goes to form like the last round of expansion, the Laffs get half of of that franchise fee because a second team would infringe on its 50 mile territorial right zone.

I'm guessing he was going with the idea that it's easier to memorize something if you sing it or tap dance along or something like that rather than just try to spit back the words. (The Schoolhouse Rock theory of learning.)

And while it wasn't a Mike Judge product IIRC, Daria was also a spinoff of Beavis & Butthead, and was a real gem of MTV animation.

You acclimate to the hot and get to a point when 68F seems deathly chilly. (So very easy to tell local from tourist at the beach in Tampa and points north in the winter when it's 60F out- the tourists are in shorts and t-shirts and the locals are in jeans and sweaters.) And even in South Florida, it can get a little brisk in the winter at night and early morning, and you want a light coat or heavy sweater when you're headed off to work and the air temp is 55F.

As a Floridian who used to go to work wearing a sweater underneath a suit coat in August to keep from feeling frozen, I'll say not to underestimate the power of air conditioning in the Sunshine State. God had John Gorrie invent the air conditioner (okay ice-maker) after all, and we shall therefore set the summer thermostat to 64F in his honor.

I'll join in the Aeryn Sun love. And add in some for Susan Ivanova from Babylon 5 in a somewhat similar vein- strong, capable, and got some great lines. I'll still repeat the Ivanova is god mantra from time to time. Emma Peel from the original Avengers- one of the original ass-kicking babes on television, who did it with such style and wardrobe and could take out half the thugs in Wales without breaking a fingernail. For all the she was supposed to be Steed's sidekick, they were very much equals. Kay Howard from Homicide:LOTS for being one of the best Baltimore homicide detectives evah and the heart of the department. And for putting her damn hair in a bun when they were going into a possible confrontation with suspects. Tegan Jovanka from classic Doctor Who- she figured out that she was way out of her league early on in her travels, but kept plugging away trying to save the universe and do the right thing, even though it ended up breaking her.