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Did they say he's a 13-time competitor who has made the finals 6 times? I have absolutely no recollection of him. Then again, he seems to be known more for skills than schtick, which I've got to respect.

It was like Chris O'Donnell at Fort McHenry all over again...standing under a giant American flag and wondering aloud "Did something...important happen here??" My husband said the same thing! Zachary Levi might have a whole other branch of his family tree to explore.

I'm no Cesar Milan, but I'd bet a shiny button the bolded part has to do with why he's leaving his chow in the bowl. No pup's going to be satisfied with dog food if he knows he's guaranteed The Good Stuff.

No kidding. I thought that girl on the right was going to fall on the floor and start frothing at the mouth. Dial it down a notch, ma'am.

I hope you put some clothes on before you hopped in the car ;) Sorry, I couldn't resist! Seriously, I hope you're feeling better. Yellowjackets are assholes.

Oh, I frequently pause the DVR so I can read as much of the document as possible! Giles was baptized in January 1607, so he was a baby when Stephen left on his first ill-fated voyage. There was another daughter, Elizabeth, from the first wife, but she would have been about 17 when Stephen and Eliza came over; it is speculated that she was either married by then, or had died in England, because there is no record of her in America. The other child on the Mayflower with Stephen and Eliza was Damaris. They had 5 more children together, including another named Damaris (the first Damaris died in Plymouth). Sadly, the awesomely-named Oceanus died when he was only 6. There is an extensive Wikipedia article on Stephen Hopkins if you'd like to read more.

I wanted them to talk about Oceana, the son of Stephen and Eliza who was born on the Mayflower during the journey! Wikipedia says he was the only baby born en route, though another was born on the ship after they had arrived. It is also speculated that the story of the shipwreck in Bermuda inspired Shakespeare to write The Tempest—there is even a character named Stefano who seems to be based on Stephen! [We’ll save the discussion of the fact that I was today years old when it dawned on me that Shakespeare and the pilgrims of Plymouth Colony were contemporaries for another day, hmmm?] Fabulous episode—one of the most interesting ones I’ve seen!

The mere thought made me feel super-old (and a little queasy), so I looked it up--Alex competed in 2010, so JoJo was about 7 and was probably watching. Phew. Just the other day Alex posted a reel (I think that's what the kids call the videos on the Instagram? ::rocks in rocker and smacks gums together::) of himself dancing along in his living room to that Outta Your Mind clip. He was so damn good, it was really a shame when he was injured during his season. On topic: Listen, I've been one of the biggest Beau stans this whole season. I love that they cast two dancers (Beau and Virginia) outside of the usual body type, and I think Beau's fun to watch when he's in his element. But the guy's been out of his element too many times now, and it really is his time to go. I thought that non-elimination this week was some kind of bullshit. And yes, Nigel was somewhere clutching his pearls during that male-male jive. I do think it's great that the show has unclenched enough to feature two men in a ballroom dance, even a "meh" one.

At first I thought the pinch was on the bum or in the side or something, and then the penny dropped--it's got to be a pinch on the hand. In the middle of that scrum with the lights off you're not necessarily going to know whose hand is above or below yours. Mike and Ikes--made in my home town, woot-woot!

Maybe you can tell us whether anyone ever filled Micki in on how they got past the "brick wall" she hit at the 5th-great grands level! When the first expert was all "We've traced your line back to your 8th-great-grandparents..." my first thought was that having worked so hard to go back 7 generations, Micki was going to be dying to know how they got back even further.

There was a lot of excited bellowing here in the 'cat house, too! It's a miracle I didn't choke on my dinner. Such an exciting, satisfying finale. On a more personal note, Mr. 'cat and I played (non-extreme) mini golf last weekend and I *crushed* him. I usually suck, so I can only think that my faithful viewing of Holey Moley has somehow upped my game over the last few years.

Yeah, I hate to break it to those folks, but they're not camping...they're sleeping in mobile hotel rooms.

Is anyone planning any summer travel? My husband and I are going to Maine for 2 weeks the early part of September. We're taking the train from Newark to Portland and picking up a rental car (free, with points from all of the business travel he's done this year). We'll be home-basing at an AirBNB in Bangor for a week, exploring Acadia and the southern coast, then heading to a cabin in the Moosehead Lake area for a few days, and finishing up with a few days in Portland (another AirBNB in the city, so we'll jettison the car in favor of walking/public transport) before taking the train back to Newark. We haven't been on a nice vacation since September 2019, and are looking forward to celebrating our 5th wedding anniversary while we're at Moosehead Lake.

Well that makes *much* more sense than LICENSE, considering this episode was mostly silent. Duh. ::smacks forehead::

They are not. A friend's husband competed on Night 2 of Qualifying, and though he made the aired program the last 2 years, his run was not shown this year. I spotted him on the sidelines, though. I also noticed that one of those Tower of Power dudebros placed in the Top 30 last night (Polizzi, I think...saw his name on the leaderboard) but was nowhere to be seen in the broadcast.

Apparently Matthew Morrison is now like Voldemort: He Who Shall Not Be Named. It's like he's been "disappeared" by the mob or something!

Josh tweeted that the detective had had some skin cancer removed (he's fine!); he actually said in his tweet that he knew people would be asking :) If there was a surgical ridge it sounds like he had a wide excision closed with stitches.

I'm late to the party, too, and reading/posting here as I finish episodes, so I'm not sure if this will mean anything later on, but in the opening credits there are Scrabble tiles in Mabel's window: E N S L E I C. LICENSE?

And as an avid Dateline watcher I know that the best way not to end up on Dateline is to never ever "light up a room." I didn't, but I did notice that Aphrodite's little dashboard hula dancer was on Oliver's windowsill in the opening credits.

See, and I went right to ANDREA Canning, one of the correspondents on Dateline.

I loved that when they showed the COVID safety people in the audience they were all wearing masks, because they know better. I love her, I think she is witty and charming and beautiful, but *man* that was exhausting to watch. I think she was working hard to elevate some some of the material, and it just came off as...a lot.

Or as I described it to my husband, “Much less punchable than in the original.”

Well that was by turns ridiculous and magnificent, and I kind of loved it! Let me tell you though, the tension in those combat mission scenes really ratchets up when you’ve drunk a bladder-bursting sized soda and have to pee like whoa. I wasn’t just on the edge of my seat due to the nail biting action sequences…I was trying not to wet my pants!

I believe they changed some guns to radios.

Until the fisherman was interviewed, my husband and I were convinced she had never even gone to the beach, and had drowned the kid at home. "Check the towels for sand!!" "Was the water in his lungs chlorinated??" "Is the house closer to the hospital than the beach??" It was like Statler and Waldorf all up in here.