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Same here. Maybe if they'd said "2 word name, and one of the words is NOT San" I might eventually have come up with Palo Alto.

Merde. Gigi is one of my favorite movies and I was just thinking of it the other day. "She is Not Thinking of Me" is one of the best examples of why letterboxing is better than pan and scan--you miss the crowning moment when Gaston pours the champagne down Liane's top.

I love the dog and deer chasing each other and the cat with the chicks best. But they're all adorable, even the orangutan (I'm not a fan of monkeys, chimps, apes).

Damn. Another good story ruined by an eye witness.

I had to look up paneer. I would've had to look up khoui...whatever but they explained it. They look like they should have a tasty filling so I was disappointed it's just pastry all the way through. IIRC, they were also a challenge on the U.S. version of the show but they didn't interest me enough to remember what they're called. And now that I know, I'll promptly forget because the spelling takes too much effort. (Sorry, French ancestors!)

The first time I heard the British pronunciation was in the radio (original) version of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, which imo is one of the high points of English literature. The passage concerns the Babel fish: “Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The argument goes something like this: `I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, `for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.' `But,' says Man, `The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.' `Oh dear,' says God, `I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanished in a puff of logic. `Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.”

I used to seek out and read spoilers for shows I really liked. Then one week I missed the spoilers and was surprised by a twist I didn't know was coming. At that point, I realized that 1. When I knew what was coming, that became the focus of my watching, overwhelming everything else in an episode. 2. I prefer being surprised. So now I avoid spoilers almost as actively as I used to search for them.

I've been fastforwarding through it to get to @midnight (I have the DVR set to record from TDS-1 a.m. because CC has had problems with time keeping in the past).

You bet your bippie I remember him.

OK, don't judge me too harshly, but I've watched Allegiance. Hersch lives! I'm not sure if he'll be back, but Peter Yaggeroth (sp?) has a significant recurring role.

Beginning Presidents' Day weekend early. It looks like reruns all next week.

Roget for me, too, but knew it wasn't right. I couldn't think of Bartlett's name.

Since I don't watch The Walking (or Talking) Dead, I have no idea what Kirkman's joke was. I did however giggle hysterically over Gato Malo and have renamed my cat.

Reese seems more Cartwright than Winchester to me, but his body count is much lower. As far as we know. The best things I can say for the therapy storyline are: for once, seeking help is not dismissed as something for wimps and it gives Reese more scenes than he's had in 2 seasons. I loved the return of original pair and the bookend scenes! That sort of structure and the scenes between Reese and Harold were two of the things I loved most in the first 2 seasons. I don't hate any of the other characters and I think the show needs more than just the two main characters, but this episode made me realize how much I missed those moments between Harold & John.

What a fucking horrible way to start the day--seeing the news about Jon on a local news crawler and then getting confirmation by watching last night's show. We just lost Stephen. This is so unfair.

Hollywood Reporter missed the point of Jon's bit on Brian Williams. Thier headline says Jon slammed BW for his celebu-whatever that was, instead of focusing on the actual point which was the hypocrisy and media news failure to question the reasons for the war.

Kanye finally understanding the riddle of the Sphinx was genius.

There's probably a list somewhere of default Jeopardy answers: Scottish Poetry--Robert Burns; American folk art--Grandma Moses... It reminds of years ago when my friends and I used to play Trivial Pursuit and realized that if you knew the James Bond movies you could win Silver Screen edition without knowing much else.

ITA re: Adler. In Stout's defense, he was writing comparatively early on and the only clue re: Wolfe is that he was born in Montenegro...and I can't quite remember why that was significant. It's been a while! I would love it if someone would would do a Holmes adaptation where NONE of the following appeared: drug addiction, Moriarty, Adler, These appeared maybe twice in the canon, and the addiction wasn't an addiction, but they dominate every freaking Holmes story since the 1970s revival of Holmes media. I much prefer when other minor aspects are used, like Kitty Winter. That's a fresh take, not the same old tropes over and over.

Syme, Nero was supposedly based on Mycroft and was implied to be the son of Sherlock and Irene Adler.

Archie Goodwin, Nero Wolfe? So sort of Holmes-related.

On the matter of EW and spoilers: They don't have to blurt everything out on the main page. "What did you think of that shocking moment on [insert show here] ?!!!???1?" would still grab eyeballs without spoiling the episode for people who happen to DVR a program to watch later. As it is, I never look at EW since I still carry a grudge from when they were still a print magazine and spoiled a movie. I've learned never to go to TVLine until after I've watched anything I'm interested in because they're assholes who don't know how to write a headline to entice readers without spoiling those who haven't watched yet. On the matter of liking the bad or good guy: Just because I enjoy watching a fictional character on TV does not mean I would like that person in my personal life if he was a real person, or that I condone his actions. It means I enjoy watching that fictional character on TV.

I enjoy Provenza but my very favorite GW Bailey moment was when he played a psychiatrist early in St. Elsewhere. The hospital is in Boston and it's just a throwaway moment where he's on the phone at the beginning of a scene: Dr Beale: Mrs. Stevens, I'm sure your daughter-in-law is not actually a witch.

The guy who plays Philip Stroh on The Closerand Major Crimes will never be anyone else to me. I can't even remember his real name. Billy Burke, maybe? I'll never be able to buy him as anything other than pure evil.

The truth is that clearly that statement does not apply to all people in the U.S, or GBBO wouldn't be drawing large numbers for PBS (by PBS standards) and the article wouldn't have been written in the first place. It certainly didn't help the US version to be aired on a major broadcast network where higher viewer numbers are required than on either cable or PBS, and it certainly didn't help that it was aired in summer.