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    Small Talk: The Prayer Closet

    in Counting On

    2 minutes ago, GeeGolly said:

    my mom was born on a farm in the tiniest of towns in OK, in the 30s, hence no record of her birth)

    There's also not a birth certificate for one of grandma's aunts, who was born in the early 40s in the middle of nowhere in NC. I think it was to get a social security card, but for some document, she had to take her mother to the courthouse to confirm she was born on her birthday to her parents.

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    Small Talk: The Prayer Closet

    in Counting On

    Here jury duty is done 6 months at a time. I've never been summoned. My brother was last year, but he was never called during his 6 month period. A lot of people I talk to here say they get called but then never have a trial. I had assumed he would, though, because there was a murder trial scheduled during that time, but the trial fell apart after someone stopped cooperating. I guess they didn't have much evidence beyond that. 

    My grandparents have both been called over the years. My grandmother tried to warn them that my grandfather was profoundly hard of hearing, but they insisted that he still had to show up for selection. After about a minute of interacting with him, they told him he was excused. LOL 

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    Gut-Busters: TV's Funniest Moments

    in Everything Else TV

    I used to deliver library books to the nursing home, and 2 of the residents were sworn enemies over something that happened over bingo. I never did hear what it was, but God they hated each other. I didn't dare tell them that they had similar reading taste and were just swapping the same James Patterson books back and forth between each other. 😂

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    What Are We Currently Reading?

    in Books

    2 hours ago, DearEvette said:

    Yeah, it is really fun. 

    I was listening on my earbud and I think I cackled out loud during one scene in Target and a person looked at me like they were sure I was about do something crazy.

    It was a scene where the mean  dragon, Ajax Nightwhisper, was trying to intimidate Birdie into abandoning Jim and he had her arrested (the Dragons had some cops in their pockets...)

    So she gets arrested:
     

     

    LOL. 

    Bahahaha that's great! Your description of the dragon wanting to blend in with the locals and root for Bama was cracking me up before a Zoom meeting. 

    I wonder if any rogue dragons want to adopt my poor long-suffering Razorbacks and become a Hogs fan. We need all the help we can get. 😂

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    What Are We Currently Reading?

    in Books

    11 minutes ago, DearEvette said:

    I just read Dragon Heist by Alexander Kane and it was a fun, fun ride.

    It is exactly what it says, a heist book with Dragons!  The main character is a washed up former child star named Birdie Binkowitz who works for her dad in his store hilariously called 'Binkowitz Seed and Feed And Bagels'

     When she was a 'star' she was a major asshole.  Now she is super snarky and just a little mean and has been banned from every bar in the greater metro area.   In this world, Dragons are like mafia clans who own and control territory.  In this book we meet a lone Dragon named Jim who wants to take over Tuscaloosa from a bigger and meaner clan of dragons.  He inveigles Birdie into helping him in heist to steal some of the horde of a dragon he has a beef with. 

    In true heist story fashion, they assemble a crew and plan their theft.  The story has a huge humor quotient, especially Birdie.  Also it takes place in Alabama and Jim just wants to be a local and root for the home team, Roll Tide!

    I listened on audio and the narrator was fantastic.

    I've never heard of this, but it sounds awesome! I'm a sucker for a good heist story. 

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    Party of One: Unpopular TV Opinions

    in Everything Else TV

    7 minutes ago, andromeda331 said:

    So did I. He never got off his soap box. I liked Winchester better because there were more sides to him. My favorite character was Klinger. He was so funny.

    Yeah he was super preachy, and I also thought he was one of the worst actors on the show. 

    But the side characters were great. I loved Radar, Potter, Father Mulcahy, etc. 

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    Party of One: Unpopular TV Opinions

    in Everything Else TV

    21 minutes ago, Notabug said:

    I really liked The Good Wife, too., especially the seasons before Archie left.  It was sharp and funny and the characters were well-rounded people who were basically likeable but had their flaws. The writing was witty and incisive.  I also love Christine Baranski in just about anything.

    Yes and it had some interesting, thought-provoking material about a range of social and legal issues. I never did finish the 7th season.

    Spoiler

    I never got over Will, though the aftermath of his death is one of the best depictions of grief I've ever watched. 

    I want to be Diane when I grow up! She was one of my favorites. 

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    Party of One: Unpopular TV Opinions

    in Everything Else TV

    48 minutes ago, bluegirl147 said:

    I loved the Good Wife.

    I watch a lot of cable prestige drama, and I still maintain that season 5 of The Good Wife is one of the best seasons of television ever made. 

    38 minutes ago, proserpina65 said:

    Okay, so that brings up a possibly very unpopular opinion: I hate All in the Family.  The only good things which came from it were The Jeffersons and a private joke between my BFF and me about Edith's nasally pronunciation of Scranton.

    I do too. I'd heard for years how groundbreaking it was, but when I finally tried to watch it, I found Archie absolutely insufferable. Every episode to me was like enduring some unpleasant family Thanksgiving dinner from hell, and I usually like crazy family sitcoms. I also know way too many people who genuinely love the show because they think Archie just tells it like it is to find it successful as satire. 

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    Party of One: Unpopular TV Opinions

    in Everything Else TV

    · Edited by Zella

    CBS does really play it safe, but once upon a time amidst all the NCIS knockoffs, they also had The Good Wife and Person of Interest. I always wondered if they weren't paying attention to what was happening with those shows because they--particularly the later seasons--seemed to have wandered in from a different plane entirely and were quite unusual for network TV. 

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    Milestone Moments: All The Celebrity Vitals

    in Everything Else TV

    10 minutes ago, Cobalt Stargazer said:

     

    Maybe, but at the same time I'm not a professional armorer, and even I know not to leave guns lying in the dirt and/or carry them around under my arms, much less pose with them so I can look like a badass. It's been said repeatedly, but Guitterez was supposed to be in charge of making sure the weapons were safe for use, regardless of what else she was doing on the set. Don't you have to have some kind of training or a qualification certificate to do that kind of work? I don't know enough about that part of the industry to be certain, but her father has been in the business for years.

    Oh I agree 100%. I don't know the ends and outs of being an armorer, but I've lived around firearms all my life. She violated really basic rules of safety. I would have had some sympathy for her if she was clearly just scattered/rushed due to being overwhelmed by having 2 jobs. But I think her actions go way beyond that, and I don't think she would have been any safer if she'd been doing only one job. I think the fact she was the only one willing to take it on goes beyond a question of experience and is indicative of how un-safety-minded she is. Because that's what the other armorers pushed back on--it's dangerous to have your armorers focused on anything but the weapons. She didn't seem to care.

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    Milestone Moments: All The Celebrity Vitals

    in Everything Else TV

    10 minutes ago, cynicat said:

    I was amazed that even after knowing the judge had listened to those jailhouse calls, Gutierrez still kept blaming everyone else when she gave her final statement.  Unreal.

    It really is. I'd wondered if this might be a teachable moment for her. But based on her behavior, I'm thinking that's going to be a no. Maybe she will gain some clarity in prison, but I doubt it. 

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    Milestone Moments: All The Celebrity Vitals

    in Everything Else TV

    36 minutes ago, MissAlmond said:

    The probably thought Gutierrez-Reed knew how to handle the job because her father - Thell Reed - had an excellent reputation as an armorer and assumed he taught her firsthand.  

    He definitely is highly respected, but from what I've seen, the overriding reason she was hired was because the production was so cheap that other professional armorers balked at being required to do both that job and prop work. I think if she had been a no-name, she still would have been hired because she was apparently the only one willing to deal with that. I don't think that reflects well on her or the production. 

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    Little House On The Prairie - General Discussion

    in Little House On The Prairie

    7 minutes ago, jason88cubs said:

    It's too bad we didn't get a episode with both Garvey and Edwards

     

    Maybe a storyline of they fight over who is Charles best friend then they both realize they tire of Charles and his ego and they ditch Charles and become best friends instead

    I would pay money to watch them bond over how annoying Charles is. LOL

    "Then he's always trying to get you to cry."

    "And whipping that shirt off!"

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    Little House On The Prairie - General Discussion

    in Little House On The Prairie

    3 minutes ago, Blergh said:

    Not a bad point.

    Oddly enough, Jonathan's intro episode had a 'humorous' subplot of him having a bit too much of a liking for booze and him doing his best to hide it from Alice and (of all folks) Mary- the resulting disposal of said booze caused Nels to get sloshed from it. It must have been near 200 proof for a mere jugful of it getting diluted in a rain barrel to have STILL been enough to have caused tipsiness.  

    THAT would be the ONLY hint of Jonathan not being a teetotaller in the series ( apart from his numbing himself to mourn Alice) but I'm wondering if perhaps that late Merlin Olsen having been a member of the Church of Latter Day Saints [who are rather strict about their members drinking alcohol] might have been flatly refused to have played a boozing character more than one  or two episodes- even though  it might have made for some potential plotlines.

    Come to think of it,though, neither Isaiah nor his then-wife Grace  ever had any family members visiting them- although we did learn of the tragic deaths of his first wife and their young daughter when there was an outbreak of some kind of plague! Of course, Mr. Edwards DID have both humorous and serious booze storylines.

     

    I could see Olsen objecting for sure, but I also wonder if they decided it made him seem too Mr. Edwards like and that it would be better to have a clearer contrast in their personalities. 

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    Little House On The Prairie - General Discussion

    in Little House On The Prairie

    · Edited by Zella

    6 minutes ago, kav said:

     What would be sell a complete wrapped set w/ boxed case of 9 paperback  books used?  We got one donated to the Friends of Library to sell.  We usually sell a paperback for $1.

    The library where I work usually just charges the same amount for a set as it would for a standalone. Our paperback price is .50, so all the books together would be $4.50 or $9 with your standard price.

    However, we also have a very successful silent auction the library does weekly. When we see things like sets in good condition, we pull it aside and let them duel it out on bids, and that often nets a better sale. If someone really wants it, they may well bid $10-20 for it, especially if it is wrapped.

    Party of One: Unpopular TV Opinions

    in Everything Else TV

    Yeah the 2017 eclipse was a thing then and wasn't at night, at least where I am. I was only in 70-something totality, and my crochety scrooge of a boss at the time still let us all gallop outside with our eclipse glasses to watch and he joined us and didn't even nag about us not working. It's one of my most pleasant memories of him honestly. LOL

    Earlier this week, I was reading anecdotes from people at the time who said the traffic coming out of St. Louis, which had totality, slowed to 10-15 mph on the interstate afterward because so many people came to see it. In another online community I'm in, which isn't astronomy focused at all, a lot of people said they'd traveled to Wyoming for it. 

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    Sweet Fellowship: Duggars and Friends (aka the Bates Family and Other Featured Families Thread)

    in Counting On

    · Edited by Zella

    17 hours ago, crazy8s said:

    Usually a few people going at a scheduled time once a week to sing and maybe pray. Surely no senior would be forced to attend.

    Yeah I used to be part of the nursing home programming my library offered, and we would sometimes be scheduled after a church group that would sing hymns. Participation in these activities was entirely voluntary. You were there because you'd expressed an interest in doing so and you could leave at any time. My library would always send 2 of us. Usually, my coworker would be the one doing the presentation/programming, and I was up and out of the room a lot flagging down staff once someone decided they were tired and wanted to go back to their room and couldn't do so without assistance. I'd argue the nursing home residents are less captive audiences than the church groups they sing for.

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    Milestone Moments: All The Celebrity Vitals

    in Everything Else TV

    3 minutes ago, Kel Varnsen said:

    There was a great PBS documentary that used to be in Netflix called League of Denial about Mike Webster and the pathologist that first diagnosed CTE in football players and how the NFL basically ignored it(it was the basis for the Will Smith movie Concussion). I don't even really like football but watched the whole thing and would watch it again if I could.

    I'll have to check that out! I was just a teenager when I read the article so didn't know who he was--I was that weird kid that read Reader's Digest cover to cover every month LOL--but it was such a sad story. 

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