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Well said!

I don't remember anything significant after PUPPIES!

If the Youtube file would play, I'd post the link for "The Egg" from 1776 for the argument between Franklin and Adams over whether the eagle or the turkey should be the national symbol.

Oh, yeah! All of those beings culled early in the season should've shown up. There was no pay-off.

As much as I hate the set-up, the Doctor saluting CyberBrig made me tear up a little. This is a first for the Moffat tenure--I actually felt something, in a good way.

When the show first returned, and for a long time afterward, I accepted it uncritically. The theme music would start and I'd feel all giddy that this silly show I'd had to put foil on the rabbit ears to watch (kids, ask your parents) in my youth had come back. I loved every Christmas special, even the much reviled Voyage of the Damned. Really, it's Christmas, I'm stuffed with lovely food and drink, I'm not that demanding. Now I'm concerned that this one will have Clara and suck.

They used so much vaseline and gauze in that ad, it could well be her wigged corpse hawking the product. I predict her ghost will grace us again this holiday season, or next St. Valentine's Day.

The equivalent for supernatural-type shows would be the supernormal person who just wants to be rid of their super-power. At least, if they're *good.* Only bad super-powered types actually enjoy immortality, having exceptional physical strength or speed or whatever. Because being normal is just so fucking miraculous, you know.

Only on TV do all women wax their pubic area.

I figure her comparatively youthful appearance indicates how skillful a hexenbiest Renard's mom is. She seems to know more about potions and such than Adalind, she's had more experience, and she's got enough hexenbeistiality to maintain a changed appearance. Maybe we'll get a glimpse of her as she would naturally look later in the season. The old man in the dungeon looked like Viktor to me. Viktor and friends think the Resistance has the baby. Releasing Adalind and tracking her will lead them, they think, to both the baby and the Resistance. Otherwise, why let her go so easily. He's got cameras trained on that cell, how can he not know about the secret passage?

Argh! I forgot to set the DVR!

That's my theory, too.

I just got a Genie from Directv, upgrading from my previous HD DVR. After several mishaps (my fault), I finally got it all set up and connected to my ISP, which is Comcast. And then I couldn't connect to the net with anything else: laptop, kindle, wireless DVD player that lets me access Netflix. Nothing. Except my ipad. Unless I unplugged the Genie--turning it off wasn't enough. Weird. I spent a very long time on the phone with Directv and stumped them. The next day, I used directions from Comcast to set up Windows connection and now I can get online with the laptop, but the Genie won't connect to the internet. This is stupid. With the older DVR, I could be online with everything. Yesterday I picked up a wireless gateway from Comcast because I think the problem could be my Motorola surfboard. I'm not sure it was even made this century. Later today I'm going to install it and hope for the best. ETA: So far, everything is working! I'm afraid to try the DVD or printer...Let's save some excitement for midweek.

I'm going to bask in your reflected glory, Sharpie! I spoke to Burke once when he was on a local TV show and attended his talk that night, but I was too awed to do much but spew my question and get off the air. I have Connections the book and had the sequel but don't know where it went. As I recall, Connections 2 ended with a bit about computers foreshadowing the surveillance and identity theft problems decades before they became omnipresent.

James Burke is exactly who I thought of when I heard the premise of How We Got to Now, and I don't know how I missed it being on. Oh, wait, my PBS station sucks. Right.

That was the best response of the night!

This reminds me, although they are only related because they were each scheduled and then weren't: I wondered if the reason Hannibal Burress wasn't on Monday had to do with the flap over his comments about Bill Cosby.

My geography knowledge is slightly above average...for an American. I've never heard of Cuzco, either. I have heard of Hiram Bingham but that didn't help since what I know about him is Machu Picchu.

Meg Ryan will always be Betsy Stewart from As the World Turns.

Mind if I pull up a chair to this table? The Irish coffee's on me. Janeway lost me with the very first decision in the very first episode, the reason the show existed. Ugh. I still miss Ryan's Bar sometimes, though.

Vote Noir/Moon 2016!

John Cleese said one of the most brilliant things I'd ever heard back in...I'm going to say the '80s. An interviewer, maybe Dick Cavett, asked him: "Don't you worry that people will take offense at some of the things you do? ", maybe in reference to Life of Brian. And Cleese replied: "There are those people one wishes to offend." No waffling, no "it's all in fun". Fantastic.

A toss! God I needed that. I also appreciate Jon saying the results won't make a difference because congress wasn't functioning anyway. At this point, it's actually a comfort that the worst they can do is the same nothing they've been doing. Any Canadians here have a guest room I can live in?

My eyes were drawn, against my conscious will!, to his groin. Something seemed to be happening there. LesserNYlandmarks was my favorite game, I think. Judah Friedlander looked much taller on 30 Rock. Either everyone else on that show was tiny or he's shrunk a foot.

I misread that as "are the ass that Nikki Minaj is."