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OMG, kalamac. What a delicious menu they had. I would have had an awful time choosing. What did you have?

My Dad had a major crush on Maureen O'Hara. Plus he loved John Wayne, and Ireland. Obviously making The Quiet Man his favorite movie ever. We played a theme from the soundtrack at his funeral - at his request. I hope the three of them have now been able to meet too. ⭐️

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8jeuYMHX9Y For some reason, I'm having a TLC-bashing day and found this after discovering the "Network" section of PTV. The thread for TLC is a riot. Highly recommend checking this section out. There are great threads for legitimately-great channels like PBS and TCM as well. Enjoy, and if this has already been posted here, mea culpa...

Clearly an amateur photographer. Or a fundie-style "trained" professional, which of course means a pro showed a fundie how to take a picture once for about 10 minutes.

Did anyone go as far as the Comments with this article? Grain of salt time, kids. According to one commenter, the bride's family are famous - or rather, infamous - in the DC area for their own prolific religious grifting. Right up there with the Duggars - private planes etc.

Excellent post - and very good points.

Agree. But even if they DO falsify the birth certificate, they will still know the truth. This child was born on Halloween. For fundies, this has got to be veddy bad joo-joo. Something that will be permanently banned from discussion. Always make them really uneasy, really nervous.

I'm in your camp, Julia. I keep a list of favorite movies and have 202 titles on it so far. Ninety of them were made before before 1960. I will have to check out the TCM thread. I'm a HUGE fan of Robert O, plus I especially like "The Essentials." Every single co-host that's ever done that program along with Robert has been great. Rob Reiner, Alec Baldwin, now Sally Field. Each time one left I thought, they'll never get another host that good again for this. But somehow they do. Drew Barrymore was terrific - and very interesting. She really knows her movies. Whooda thunk it? PS - my 22-year old niece/godchild is a MAJOR Audrey Hepburn fan now too. She's going to study next year at the Fashion Institute of Tech in NYC and tells me she's going to single-handedly bring back "Audrey's look."

Night Gallery was awesome - TRULY terrifying. I completely agree about Michael Meyers et al. They can't hold a candle to the terror created by Rod Serling's genius. Does anyone remember the Night Gallery episode - "Green Fingers" - with Elsa Lanchester? And one of Steven Spielberg's first directing jobs was a Night Gallery episode with Joan Crawford as a blind woman getting new eyes.

100% agree - Rod Serling was a certifiable genius when it came to writing suspense, thrillers, terror. So creative. For many years, he & his family had a cottage on Cayuga Lake in upstate New York, just down the road from one of my college suitemates.

On second thought, Derick has the exact same expression on his face as I do when I'm doing my taxes...

Just what I was thinking. I hope they're not doing whatever to Derick. He's not my cup of tea, but he was OK while he first met Jill. Since then, however, he's been in steady decline.

If Derick and Jill think this pose makes him look as though he's genuinely cracking the books, he's wrong. The Duggars CAN - NOT - ACT. Period. He looks like he's struggling with Spanish 101.

I'm confused. Your comments here seem to say conflicting things. Do we think Me-chelle writes the Duggar blog? Which is what your first comment here implies - or do these leg-humping girls do it? In your second comment here you say they "also" write one for the Bates. Thanks.

I still can't quite believe the females are permitted to use makeup. I guess the men decided it was more important for their women to look good, even though just decades ago, their good stalwart Christian ancestors believed that "the devil done made them women paint their faces..."

I have to say, I think there's no question that Me-chelle could not write a blog. She can't talk without using the same 6 sentences and the same 10 words - over and over. Boob either - he must have repeated "I can't believe little Jill is getting married..." a minimum of a dozen times - that made it to air!! - on the Jill wedding episode. How in the world could either of them sit down at a keyboard several times a week and write at least a few paragraphs on an original thought? Not to mention that the original thought has to be conjured up first. Nope, can't see it. I would bet a lot that their blog is ghost-written. Pathetic.

Wow, in the Tacky competition, this one is the hands-down winner. OMG. I guess I can see some self-absorbed 20-something bride and groom coming up with the idea, but there wasn't ANYONE older who saw what an utterly tacky and classless thing this was? No parents, no maid of honor or someone? Anyone? Wow - just wow. The whole family - both sides of them - entirely clueless. FYI - there is absolutely no way I would have provided this couple with a check. If I gave a gift at all, it would have been a gift card - and NOT my private banking information.

Apple cider vinegar - ACV - is my big discovery for the year! SO GLAD I learned about this. Wonderful stuff - very helpful for the rosacea I've had to 20 years. Be sure to get the organic kind with the "mother" - the healing properties and benefits are far better and more powerful than a bottle of processed Heinz. Although to be fair, Heinz is just fine for cooking, canning and preserving etc. But in general, the less processed foods are, the better they are for us. From my reading, it seems that some people need to dilute the ACV with water or it'll dry their skin. For others, straight-up ACV is no problem. PS - Fels Naptha soap is also a very effective remedy for poison ivy. if you're unfamiliar, it's a really old brand of soap, usually found in the laundry section. The women in my family have used it for about 100 years. I got a bar in the "moving out" box my Mom gave me for my first apartment, and it's a champion stain remover too. No kidding, it can handle blueberries, mustard - all the biggies. ETA - PS - Fels Naptha is very hard-milled. Lasts forever. Took me about 5 years to use up my first bar - and I used it regularly.

Everything IS relative, isn't it? "Anything under 65 is tundra..." And no doubt this is true in CA. Then you have my university in upstate New York, where it is completely normal to see the boys walking to class - wearing cargo shorts - in 20-degree weather. Even without a weather forecast, if the boys on our campus were wearing LONG pants, we knew it was REALLY cold outside.

You are so right. I just remembered the lamb spiedies that my Dad would grill for our Sunday dinner when I was really little, no older than 5. My Mom marinated them in some awesome Greek lemon & garlic concoction overnight, and once cooked they'd literally melt in your mouth. Fathers up and down our street, who were normally at home grilling their own Sunday dinners at noontime, would somehow always be out for a stroll on "Spiedie Day" at that time, and our yard would look like we were having a Dad convention as they gathered around my Dad, offering advice. LOL!

Maybe they're between childcare-givers right now and Jen got tired of having to fix Zoey's hair every day? I'm sure she was probably fairly OCD about it and it might have taken too much time for Jen to get it as she had to have it. Of course, Jen knows Bill would be no earthly use when it came to Zoey's hair. Also she has a good friend, that Indian doctor in New York, who has a very short do - or at least DID when they filmed the vow renewal. Maybe Jen wanted to see how that look would be for Zoey. I think the other cut was cuter but if I was in charge of maintaining it and it was a pain, I'd opt for something easier too. As oldest, I was the only girl who had long hair until first grade - and even then my Mom did my hair in braids most days, or a ponytail. My younger sisters got the little "Prince Valiant" cut with bangs once they were about 3 and basically we stayed short-haired until we were old enough to complain about it - and change it - ourselves.

Our family just had breakfast habits, not really rules. School days were cold cereal all year long, or optional hot cereal in the Winter. When I was in high school I started making "cheese toast" for myself some days - think open-faced grilled cheese. Mom was making granola by then too, from the Quaker Oats cookbook she sent away for - extremely delicious and really easy. Since finishing college I've had the same thing almost exclusively on weekdays/workdays - 8 oz yogurt - Greek yogurt now, orange or grapefruit juice, coffee and occasionally a baked something - muffin, scone, bagel etc. Weekends I'll usually make eggs or French toast, or once in a great while, something left over from the previous week. FYI - vegetable lasagna reheated makes a wonderful Sunday morning breakfast in the Winter. Oh, and I'm always first in line when someone suggests breakfast out, or even better - a serious Sunday restaurant brunch. With Bloody Marys or whiskey sours, thank you. On the weekends when we were little, the whole family would eat together and my Dad, a breakfast savant, would take over. Bacon & eggs, pancakes & sausage, ham & eggs - Dad was your basic carnivore - with hash browns, home fries or cottage fries. His specialties. If and when I ever get to Heaven, one of the first things I want is a breakfast cooked by my Dad.

Totally agree. For people who grew up amid the 4 seasons, I think it would be difficult to live in nearly year-round warmth. I am without a doubt THE loudest moaner in my family about snow, ice and cold. We've lived in upstate New York State for close to 60 years. Until I had to drive in it, I liked Winter. Wanted a cold, snowy Christmas. Loved sledding, skating, hot chocolate. I even liked getting up in the dark to go to school, and needing lights on at suppertime. Twas cozy. But then I was 18 and had to maneuver around in it myself. Cleaning snow and ice off a car many days from November through March - often multiple times a day. Dressing in layers. Salt marks on boots and pants. Boots that don't keep feet warm. Worst of all, coping with many other drivers who don't know how to drive on good roads, let alone snow and ice-covered ones. Yet I would never want to live too far south - because I think it would be really dull weather-wise, after being so accustomed to the changes we have here. I think I'd go no further south than the Carolinas, because the coasts are so beautiful. And because if I'm not mistaken, their Winters are chilly and rainy, but rarely if ever snowy. I could totally deal with that.

Love this. A huge Jim Gaffigan fan - have all his CDs.

I'm guessing that at least SOME of the monkeys - the smarter ones? - actually let go of the treats.