Ohiopirate02

Thanks. I'll confess to not keeping up on all the details with the various Duggars. But, the Dillards' watching movies on a laptop and not a TV will live in my head for awhile. I honestly do not get choosing to watch stuff on a laptop when TVs are cheap and smart, so are projectors if you must eschew a TV for reasons.

Jill has been with Derick for the better part of a decade. I'm sure he has shown her all his favorite movies and TV shows on the laptop cuddled up together on the couch. I'm sure he's also stopped and explained all the finer points. I do wonder if the Dillards ever got around in their new house to set up a real TV for family movie night. Or are they still using the old laptop.

He's in a few of the Vacation movies--the original Vacation, and Vegas Vacation. But, his Christmas role is the iconic one, and the one I assume Derick dressed as on Tuesday.. I have no desire to look it up. All that costume requires is the hat and a bathrobe. I prefer Cousin Eddie's other costumes from Christmas Vacation--the green dickie under his white V-neck sweater always cracks me up. So does is blue leisure suit with butterfly shirt.

A character in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

A passport is not a requirement on some cruise lines leaving from the US. Because you leave and return in the US, you do not necessarily need one though a passport is recommended. And, you can still visit the various foreign ports without a passport. A birth certificate works on both Disney and Carnival.

And now we will lose out on her diatribe when the ship persecutes her by kicking her out of the pool for wearing street clothes.

I stayed away from the Scream franchise after Scream 3. Between the rather lame long-lost half-brother as a villain out for revenge and the general handling of the character of Maureen, I was out. The revenge angle never made any sense and why was he still jealous of Sydney after the events of the first two movies. The only good part in Scream 3 happens in the beginning when Cotton finally dies.

Outside of Hazzard County, the cops can radio ahead to the law enforcement of the new area to obtain permission to continue the chase. They will also rope in the highway patrol who have a much larger jurisdiction.

David will be wherever the free food is. Buffet open--he's got a prime seat as he tries each and every station. Buffet closed--he will mosey on over to the free ice cream or their room to nap off the buffet before round 2 or 3.

The absolute worst one is the one these people will leave servers as a "tip" on a busy Sunday afternoon. The tract is designed to look like the back of a twenty dollar bill, and these people will leave this sticking out under a plate as the only tip.

Yes. Leo hallucinated everything from killing the cat to the rat being identical to Pluto to all the gifts Pluto left to all the injuries Leo sustained by "Pluto."

I take the wig as part of Madeline's armor (some would say costume) that she dons when being Madeline Usher, businesswoman. Clothing, hair, makeup, and accessories like glasses are tools people use to project an image in business at this scale. I can't say why Madeline and her algorithms decided that wig was the best embodiment of whatever it is she wanted to project, but I know she did the work. It could be worse, she could have done an Elizabeth Holmes and modified her voice.

They can also refuse to release transcripts if you owe the school money. Colleges, universities, scholarship organizations, and employers do not normally care about a high school diploma. They care about seeing your official transcripts to prove you fulfilled the state requirements to graduate high school. And "official" transcripts can only come from the school. Also, some employers like the federal government will require your high school transcripts when applying for jobs even if you already have a decade of experience in the field and other degrees.

I think it's up to interpretation whether the Usher siblings needed Verna to cover up their murder of Rufus. Their plan was not the most fool-proof to start. They were banking on no one from the party witnessing either Usher sibling leave the party, no one catching Madeline with Rufus, and none of the construction crew realizing someone came in and did part of their job while they were on break. They may have dosed the wine correctly, but Madeline's hands were all over that bottle, and the construction site, the handcuffs, and Rufus.

So they either abandoned giving their daughters a middle name to honor famous Protestant women or there's only one who ticked all their boxes.

Ivy did get a middle name to fit into Bin's Mount Rushmore of Protestant Preachers or at least the female version. She's named after Lady Jane Grey. I can't remember if Fern's middle name is a homage to another obedient Protestant woman.

New Pet Peeve unlocked--the Amber Alert system in my state. I'm at work, and just got one located 20 counties due west of where I live. My state roughly divides into 3 distinct sections going from east to west. There is no need to send out this alert to those living in the coastal plain when the abduction happened in the mountains 6-9 hours away. If for some reason the abductor was traveling east, we are all going to forget the details of the alert by the time they got near us.

I honestly was expecting Vic to stab Roderick with the knife there at the end. Roderick was the one applying pressure to her to advance her research in unethical ways, and that pressure increased after Roderick got his diagnosis. Everything Vic does leading up to this moment is her trying to gain her father's approval and love. But, in the end she realizes she was the one who chose to do all those things including murdering her wife, so she kills herself. That wasn't Verna but Vic

Well, that's why I said matching dresses for her and the girls. I am aware that Jill does not care what her girls look like when they leave their house.

I am actually surprised that Jill has not managed to grift matching LHOTP dresses plus bonnets for her and the girls.

It does and the Asheville area makes an almost perfect Hallmark locale. Decent sized city in the middle of the picturesque Appalachian mountains with a large Victorian estate nearby.

That looks like a parody account where the account holder uses real advice column questions and gives a made up answer. I'm sure that many advice columnists would love to be able to answer some letter writers in this manner over the years, but standards would never allow. Though Nicole Cliffe got close a few times over on Slate.

I remember researching the homeschool laws in Ohio, and I quickly realized why the Rods moved where they did. It counts as school because Jill moved her family to a place where there is some willing to turn a blind eye to her curriculum and give their stamp of approval. It's either a sympathetic superintendent or a licensed teacher. If something happens to that individual, then expect the barndo will be on the market in record time.

The state won't kick Sammers off of Medicaid on his 18th birthday. There is a grace period where he would still get coverage, and said grace period can get extended as long as Sammers is still a student. Once he graduates from the Joyful Noyes Homeschool, things change.

That and he did not care about his children until they could be of use to him and the family business. All of the Usher children had to prove they could expand the business in order to benefit long-term from the money.