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No! nonononono do not invoke the curse of the *dm*nd F*tzg*ld! Jeopardy uses that for a clue at least once a month, it feels like. And then the song is stuck in my head for a week. Damn you, Gordon Lightfoot. Damn you.

Sorry for the ad at the start!

I try to patronize local chocolatiers when I can. In CT, there's Munson's and in Western New York Alethea's and Sweet Jenny's. SJ doesn't ship but the other two do. When i need a quick fix, M&Ms or Cadbury will do.

Parts of Airplane! haven't aged well but so much of it is eternally brilliant.

This morning the wonderful Manuela at Disney+ got my account straightened out. The problem was, and this will sound familiar, that I signed up for the 2.99 deal last year with a different email account than the one on my Roku, and also that I'd signed up through Hulu rather than Disney...although it's all one so I don't knw why that mattered. Anyway...I now see my profile when I login on my PC and can cancel when I want. I'll probably wait until after Christmas because I want to see Dr. Who on Xmas day.

I couldn't cancel Disney or Hulu today because my profile never showed up. It would flash in the upper right corner then vanish and all I could get was the sales page for Disney. Three different browsers, multiple codes because it wouldn't recognize my password. So fucking sketchy. I also tried the QR code on my phone and it wouldn't even send the code to my email. I'll try again tomorrow.

Yes, that's what I was going to say when I read @Ancaster's post. Berry and Barry (ask a Jeopardy fan...or don't), merry and marry, all the same sound. I can't remember where the Harvard Dialect survey showed them sounding different. Here's the map: http://dialect.redlog.net/index.html I also saw an article that said 57% of Americans pronounce them the same. I don't know what the other 43% are doing with those vowels. One of my friends who does pronounce them differently said the words slowly to me and I didn't hear a difference.

I feel sick and I don't want to live in this country anymore. Has anyone here retired from the US to another country? Feel free to message me.

1776 is still depressingly true: Most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor and that is why they will follow us to the right, ever to the right

It was.

Yes! That show had one of the worst final episodes I've endured.

I don't need to justify my liking or disliking a celebrity, or anyone else, here.

I did use to like him. I enjoyedChuck until the horrible ending, and I was happy when Levi showed up on the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. My opinion of him has changed.

The Privacy Badger extension on my browser blocks Twitter posts and unfortunately the images don't have alt image tags. It's like an exciting little mystery every day here. 8-)

It's the people who don't move their cars off the streets during a parking ban in the winter, when they have driveways. The streets are barely wide enough for two cars to pass each other as it is. I wish the town would tow them away.