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References? Credit checks? I'm so fabulous, I don't get anything in writing and toss receipts in the trash as soon as I can. I tend not to believe parents who say "I didn't know the 14 teens who hang out at my house every weekend are drinking, Judge." We had a recent local case were a parent allowed underage drinking at his home. 3 of the drunk kids drove afterwards and wrapped their car around a tree. 2 of them died. The parent only got fined for contributing to the deliquency of minors. AND the parents are sponsoring a trip to Mexico for spring break this year and are having the parents of the other teens sign a release from liability waiver because it's for 18 year old to drink in Mexico. So, unless these parents are drunk/high themselves, they know that their children and their friends use their home for alcohol, drugs, strippers, etc.

Quof, I think my $159.45 is enough for any competent seamstress to make me that dress in 2 days. AngelaHunter, I don't do second hand. I'm fabulous enough to have only couture.

Oooooo, a party! Well, I will hire someone to make me a dress exactly like this: But my limit is $159.45. And I don't want it black but some tacky purple and gold stripped crap. And I want the skirt to go exactly 1.57 inches below my knees. And I want the skirt to be more full and poofy. And I want some lace ribbons hanging from the ends of the sleeves, so they can flutter gracefully as I walk about the party. And I want Dollar Store stuffed tiger to wear around my shoulders (it will complement the paper gold crown I'll be wearing). And if that dress doesn't look exactly like the one Princess Di is wearing, I swear I'll sue, sue, sue!

Mrs Green is like a chef de cuisine: it's the line cooks who do the prep and actually cook the food, but it's the chef who gets the Micheline star and gets written up by the food critics.

I can't remember with Morse episode, but he said had to make a speech at a police conference sometime in the late 1960s (i think it was 1967). And he's a bit melancholy about it. So I hope Endeavour shows what happened.

I should have put a sarcasm warning in my post about Aurelia getting pregnant if this series lasts... Historically, wealthy/well-to-do women did not do the cooking and cleaning but they knew enough about it to be able to direct it. She was also in charge of inventory of the household supplies, the preserving of food for winter use, etc. In effect, she was the manager and how well her household ran (meal production, food preservation, cleanliness, etc.) was a reflection on her managerial skills or lack thereof. So the writers got it right this time.

I was able to "like" last night but the connection was too slow to post anything. The connection is still slow today. Ahh, the snow breaking news updates. During our blizzard a couple weeks ago, one of the stations did 24 hour coverage of snow.

The American Civil WAr was the first time where medical field hospitals were used. M*A*S*H* was set in a field hospital in Korea.Using it as a point of reference, Mercy Hospital is like the army hospitals in Seoul or Tokyo, where the soldiers Hawkeye et al. patched up went to further recuperate. BUT, impaired physician Foster probably would have seen one or two amputations even there because gangrene was a deadly and common side effect of wounds.

Why they didn't do a hysterectomy? Anyhow, Aurelia's survival rate, realistically, would be dismal regardless of the procedure. If the blood loss doesn't kill her, the infection will. But she'll probably survive and give birth next season to a healthy baby.

Back in the day when our local NFL team was actually good, they used to do that live coverage of them landing after a win, blah blah blah. It used to tick me off because it would pre-empt my favorite soap opera. So I feel your pain. The Kenny G and Meatloaf beat down duet was disgusting but not nearly as disgusting as Mr. Irby. He's got to be one of the most depraved JJ litigants ever. He grieves for his dead daughter by taking up with a woman young enough to be his daughter (or grand daughter) who writes explicitly what she'll do to him when she gets out of the big house??? Ugh, I needed to wash in bleach after that case.

I liked how Mary ASSumes that Sam impregnated Aurelia.

Awwwww, let's cut Ms. Shepard a hair style break. Obviously, she's fashion forward enough to incorporate the fascinator hats popularized by the Duchess of Cambridge and a chignon. All she has to do is stick a big bow or some feathers into that scrubby pad and she's ready to attend tea party (or dance.) eta.....got Duchesses n,ixed up. Anyhoo, I expect chignonators to become very chic

Ick. I guess I should be happy it wasn't the sexual assault OF a jet ski.

The BeatDown girls was 1.5 episodes? I forgot about that. Oh great, not only do I have to worry about my pets and livestock (if I had livestock) being raped, now I have to worry about my car being raped too---in parking lots and, perhaps, even in my own drive way.

I can't remember any previous " to be continued in another episode" cases. I was amazed at two or three sentences of language so foul or suggestive of something foul that the beeps were uninterrupted. It's usually "He looked at the garage door and said "Oh BEEP, kids, let's get the BEEP outta here!'" or "He called me a BEEPing BEEP"

With Mrs. Foster, I can so totally see her go to California or Nevada (or anywhere for that matter) and present herself as a widow or as Miss Whatever-her-maiden-name-is. It seems the "west" was a place people could start anew.

Let's see the average life expectancy for a woman these days is 73 years. Okay, I have about 30 more years left on this batshit crazy world.

When I was growing up, we had a family that could only be described as trash in the neighborhood. The kids were bullies. They owned German sheperds that would jump the short 4 ft chain link fence and run after you (never got bit myself, but came awfully close). The parents were mess. the husband and wife would get drunk and go outside of their home to scream at each other. After a while, the adults in the neighborhood realized there could be no negotiating with them. So anything that happened, the cops would be called. The eldest son had to leave school to attend a reform school. The son my age, avoided reform school, but ended up in jail for assault and rape 2 weeks before we graduated from high school. Hopefully, those kids will have a life changing moment and turn their lives around. Otherwise, they'll be fed, clothed and housed by the prison system. Oh dear.....first we have the popcorn-box-at-the-movies masturbating cover, now we have people who have sex with cars.......(I hope that's a typo, Tee. I hope you meant to write "people who are addicted to having sex in cars". I hope.)

That was another way, but it would have taken up a whole lot of time. No Panama Canal at that time, so the ship would have had to go around Cape Horn.

Exactly. Also we are not them. They made their decisions during their lifetime: some good, some not so good, some absolutely awful. But unlike them, we still have the ability to learn from them and emulate the good stuff and avoid the bad stuff.

That was revealed in the halterview. The defendant's dog killed a 10 year old poodle in the animal hospital. So it looks like the animal hospital was negligent for not having Presa Canario under control either.

Exact opposite with me. The Greens and Belinda and the rest of the former slaves transitioning and adjusting to a new social order is more thought provoking and more interesting to me. The hospital dramas are very clichee and have been done better in the past, imo. Instead of Frank Burns and Margaret Hoolihan, we have Dr. Hale and Miss Hastings. Instead of impaired physician House, we have impaired physician Foster. Instead of Cherry White, we have Emma Green. Instead of McMurphy, Jenny, Chummy, Trixie and Cynthia, we have Miss Phinney. Been there, done that. It wouldn't surprise me if the writers decide to rip off Call the Midwife, which borrowed the plot from The Nun's Story, and have one of the nurses fall ill with tuberculosis, and have her love-interest doctor diagnose her and successfully treat her. B-o-r-i-n-g.

Mrs. Foster goes to California...She would have been able to get to Iowa from Dc via railroad before she would have had to join a wagon train or take a stagecoach. http://etc.usf.edu/maps/pages/2800/2889/2889z.htm One of the things glossed over in school is that during the Civil War, there were continued skirmishes between settlers and Native American tribes in the West. So that's one way to kill Mrs. Jed. Foster off. As for Maryland being safer, Maryland was under martial law during the Civil War. It was occupied by Union troops stationed a series of forts that surrounded DC, Union and Confederate spies, and everyone else. It also was home to Point Look-Out, a Federal prisoner of war camp which not only housed Confederate soldiers but also civilians who were sympathetic to the Confederacy. So California was probably safer than Maryland.

Good ol' Scarlett! Anyhow, Green is clever going into the furniture business (selling coffins to the Army). And he seems to have a "okay, life just handed me a barrel ful of lemons, so let's start making lemonade." attitude, which is admirable. That's why I'm beginning to like his storyline rather than the M*A*S*H-China Beach soap at the hospital. It's showing how a person has to adapt to change.

Yes, and according to that book, Mary was in her early early 40s when the Baron died. Not to mention they were nearly flat broke when he died. But back to the Miss Phinney thing......she is always referred to as Mrs. von Olnhausen in that book.