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Top Secret ... one of my favorites. That is not Mel Torme. I know a little German. The French resistance: This is Chevalier, Montage, Detente, Avant Garde, and Deja Vu. - Deja Vu: Haven't we met before monsieur? - Nick Rivers: I don't think so. Jim Carter was Deja Vu, I think.

Blythe Danner was Martha Jefferson in the movie.

He was the lead...and it was a musical and a movie, not a miniseries. Are you perhaps conflating it with The Bastard, which was a miniseries set during the Revolution?

When I first moved to CT after living in Ohio and western New York, I assumed the state motto was "Service with a snarl." It's not that bad, really, just compared to the other places. It also depends on why you're communicating. In my experience, people in large cities are almost always happy to give you directions and some will ask if you need help if you're wandering around looking befuddled or are obviously a tourist. Perhaps because the conversation is brief, purposeful, has a definite end point, and both parties can walk away when it's over.

Every customer service person I've spoken to in the last week, and there have been several, has a poor phone connection or doesn't know how to use the mic on a headset.

Bill! Time to listen to 1776 again. Has St. Elsewhere ever been on the syndication wheel or does Law & Order still have a headlock?

I'm in the process of moving and trying to declutter as I go. Some days I'm in a more purging mood than on other days. My plan, such as it is, is to get as many boxes to their ultimate designation by car, hire junk removal, rent Uboxes for the big furniture, and hire local to load and unload them. I haven't called UBoxes or junk places yet. This week I need to finish the bedroom closet and start the kitchen. Then I have to face the basement. Moving date is the last weekend in April.

To me, the advantage of subscribing to MhZ, Britbox, Acorn, etc. through Amazon is having the same interface. Stand alone apps vary so much.

I'm in the process of moving. You don't really grasp how many books you've accumulated until you start boxing them up. Even with getting rid of 3/4s of them I had 15 extra small HD boxes, half filled, to get into my sister's basement. I culled a few years ago. Weird how they multiply when you're not looking.Wednesday I'll try to cart some books to a place that buys used books...anyone here like mysteries set in ancient Rome? I've got you covered. * Christmas is 6 more partially filled boxes. 3 boxes of DVDs and that was less than half of what I had. If streaming services could be relied on to keep everything available and uncut, I would've tossed out more. What's left, including dozens on unused disks will go to a place that recycles them. This is the second time I've culled. Maybe 4 boxes of souvenirs and proof of my life in fandom. Two insanely heavy boxes of photo albums. A few boxes of assorted stuff like cross stitch and art supplies. Tonight I sort through tools. I've sorted the clothes from the dressers but haven't touched the closet yet. Then there's the minimal kitchen stuff (6 plates, 6 bowls, 3 pots, a frying pan, silverware, and storage containers I decide to keep). At some point I'll have to face the basement. Keep me in your thoughts and prayers that day. when I can get most this out of the way, I'm hiring a junk removal service to take away my mattress, microwave, air fryer, recliner, ottoman, dvd players and other assorted crap. That's the plan, anyway. *Both Falco and Flavia series by Lindsey Davis including the most recent book, Ruth Downie except for the first book in the series, Steven Saylor's Gordius series although I think one is only on my Kindle, John Madox Roberts SPQR series, David Wishart's Corvinus series except the last one. Roman not your thing? How about a complete set of Laurie R. King's Mary Russell series including the most recent book. A handful of Maisie Dobbs. A complete set of Sharan Newman's series set in medieval Paris (I meant to reread those someday...). Some stand-alone Holmes pastiches and collections and other Holmesian things, several anthologies (mostly Best British whatevers), all of the Truly Devious series by Maureen Johnson, a set of three about a woman who works as a poisoner or the Borgias. That's all I recall at the moment. It's a mix of paperback and hardcover, all read and enjoyed once.

I understand that some things that irritate me, like like being like used like every like other like word, or so at the beginning of every, like, sentence and SO on might have been around since god was young. But that doesn't make them any less irritating.

"Brain and brain! What is brain?!"

https://deadline.com/2025/02/actor-gene-hackman-wife-betsy-arakawa-dead-in-santa-fe-1236303385/ With their dog, so maybe carbon monoxide as said upthread.

It's Miracle Whip, not mayo for me. There are dozens of us! Dozens!

@shapeshifter the Thruway is Interstate 90 and runs from the Mass Turnpike west to Buffalo and then south to the PA line. I can't speak to Rochester roads but some state or county routes will be called by local names like the Kensington in Buffalo or the Parkway in CT, although they have numbers on the map (33 and 15). Others will be "the" like the 290 or the 190. Those are usually part of the interstate system. State routes 5 and 20 run east to west across the state but are often Main St in the towns they pass through. I join the chorus of complaint about having to choose one answer on some of the questions. Yard sale and garage sale are interchangeable, etc. The test did get me mostly right. I guess the light red Michigan and Cleveland are from northwest Ohio. Apparently nothing from CT has stuck.

the writer could, and should, have left out So and started with It.