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16 minutes ago, meep.meep said:
Wish they had let those who had to leave early say something.
Yeah, like, "After the Final Bake"?
They must give additional instructions that aren't shown on camera, because I listened twice to the last challenge, and all I heard was, "You must make three different desserts." I didn't hear anything about how many people the desserts needed to serve, etc. Of course, for the first challenge they were asked to make pastry, and I wouldn't have thought to call biscuits "pastry."
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3 hours ago, BusyOctober said:
If they want to make one of the week's themes "Holiday", that's fine. But I don't want to see people walking around with scarves & gathering around bonfires while the trees & flowers are all a-bloom in the background.
I noticed during one of Amanda's TH interviews, and one of Jerimiah's too, you could clearly see their breath, so the nights must have been cold. During the day it seemed to rain quite a bit. Anyone know where this is filmed? Mary's estate? It was nice to see the other contestants at the party.
I was really rooting for Stephanie to win but every time Mary looked at Amanda, this look came over Mary, as if she was thinking, "She reminds me so much of myself." Somehow I don't think I'd get along with Mary--she reminds me of an elementary schoolteacher I had who would hit our hands with a ruler if we spoke during class. Next season, I hope they'll convince Paul Hollywood to join them and leave Johnny wherever he stays.
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Ah, Gary Cole. Remember the show where he played the DJ/crime investigator?
I have been thinking about watching the People show on demand but there have been so many negative comments about it I wonder if I would be wasting my time. Do they have any new interviews with Jeff or Kathryn? Jeff's second wife must drive him crazy--good!--because I think she is responsible for a lot of his late court filings. If that were you or I filing things late, we would probably have our appeal dismissed, but, you know, poor Jeff always seems to get all the breaks.
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15 hours ago, Aquarius said:
Which brings up a whole 'nother issue for me. Isn't your "culture" the one you are raised in? I mean, I was raised more or less as if I am a Polish-German American. If I found out that my German side was really Swiss, or Croatian, or Latvian - would I suddenly have a whole new "culture"? Does that come with awareness of your DNA, if you never even met the ancestors from whom it came? I just struggle with that concept, that you get a whole new understanding of your culture.
I agree with you that our cultures are what we were raised in. It seems to me that anyone who would latch on to a new culture based on what a DNA test said would have felt something was missing in his or her life. There is another Ancestry.com commercial that shows a woman who looks obviously--to me--Native American, and she got her results back and was shocked! to learn she was Native American. The commercial then shows her with a bunch of pottery, but I can't remember if she took up pottery or it spoke to her or whatever. I still want to do the test. I know I am mostly French on my father's side. If I discover my mother's biological family is Irish, you will not see me at the pub doing Irish jigs, but that's just me.
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On 11/23/2016 at 6:39 PM, slf said:
Stumbled across this, watched it for half an hour, shut it off wondering how anyone respectable could work on a show like this. "Hitler could have..." Hitler might have..." "This is a solidly built structure in the jungle in Argentina; who could have built something this secure? Only the Nazis."
....Like, wtf?
Lol. I had similar thoughts, along with, "Did they get a federal grant to research this?"
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10 minutes ago, janie jones said:
couples do not typically share ancestors.
except for in "Flowers in the Attic" type couples.
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@psychoticstate: What a pleasure it is to hear the ideas of someone as obsessed as I. Would love to read your blog--can you post or private message a link? You make an interesting observation about his apparent knowledge about the icepick. I doubt any of the first responders knew what--other than knife wounds--had caused the injuries to Colette and the children. Why do you suppose he placed his pajama top on Colette and stabbed her with the icepick? That has always struck me as strange. Another odd thing, in a whole lot of odd things, is the fact that he was adamant that Kimberly didn't wet the bed, even though it was later proven through forensics that it was indeed Kimberly's urine on their bedsheet. In one of his statements, MacDonald said he looked out the window during the night of the murders. I have always believed he happened to see the woman with the floppy hat standing on the corner, just as MP Mica did and she became MacDonald's scapegoat. Have you read this? http://www.statementanalysis.com/macdonald/? Thought you might find it interesting.
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Is that the dodo who later says something about "our ancestor"?
Yes, true. Weird.
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I hate the Ancestry.com commercial with the woman who says, "I thought I married an Eye-talian. Turns out he's mostly Eastern European," or something like that. Are you suggesting you might divorce him because he's not Italian? Jerk. Who are you, the Aryan Queen?
Has anyone here used those DNA kits for family ancestry? I ask because my mother was adopted as an infant and we know nothing about her biological family (other than her mother died of spinal meningitis two weeks after giving birth to her) and I would like to know about my mother's family.
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Just want to add my two cents here and say that Helena Stoeckly [sp] once remarked, when seeing photos of the crime scene, that the murders looked like they might have been committed by someone on speed, rather than LSD, and MacDonald's own notes indicate he had been taking a certain diet pill (long since banned for sale in the U.S.) for weeks before the murders which was known to cause psychotic behavior in some people.
I don't know why this case continues to fascinate me. I have poured over so many of the grand jury and trial transcripts (online) and read so many books and articles about it because I thought I would find a crucial piece of information that might have been overlooked--just something that Jeffrey MacDonald couldn't deny, couldn't appeal, couldn't wiggle his way out of.
Quoteand a suitcase found in the master bedroom with no blood on it, despite blood all around it and I would take that as the possibility that she could indeed have been planning to leave, MacDonald had unpacked the suitcase after the murders and forgot to put the suitcase away.
I read in "Fatal Vision" that Paul Stombaugh stated that the suitcase contained clothing of MacDonald's, leading some to speculate that he considered fleeing after the murders.
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20 hours ago, theatremouse said:
The actual tones are G-E-C (low, high, medium), which would be made by keys in this order: long, short, medium.
But in the ad, the xylophone keys go G-C-E, long, medium, short and are tapped left to right -- which would produce this tune instead: low, medium, high. It KILLS me that they tap them in order to make the NBC chime, even though that would make an ascending chime that is not at all the tune.
I am in awe of your recognition of the musical tones. My sole knowledge of musical notes comes from the scene in "The Sound of Music" where Maria teaches the VonTrapp children musical notes on the day spent in Vienna. (Right now, I'm singing, "La, ti, ti" etc.)
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Off topic: I recognize many of you as former TWOP-ers. May I see a show of hands? Nice to see you all.
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9 hours ago, SRTouch said:
Oh yeah, she found a winner, didn't she? Hey, can't afford your car lease, so just run anot ad on craigslist. Then she finds a homeless woman who lives in the car with her kids, makes the payments late and runs up the miles. That's a question I wondered about. Here's this homeless woman, living in a leased car with her kids, who can afford gas to run up the miles over and above the amount allowed on the lease? Uh, something doesn't smell right.
If a woman is homeless, how does she afford car payments? You're right, there was definitely something odd about that story. Something about the plaintiff made JJ act as if JJ had a bur under her tail. Sheesh.
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15 hours ago, AngelaHunter said:
Okay, this may sound wrong and I admit I'm far from being an authority on the law but we've heard often enough that court is about making people "whole" by putting them in the position they were in before being ripped off/scammed/damaged. Since plaintiff paid nothing for the chairs, wouldn't he be enriched by being paid cash for them now? If some bequest in the will was violated, shouldn't he have gone back to probate court or whatever? I could be dead wrong, but that's just how I see it.
IIRC, the plaintiff inherited the chairs from his late mother, and he and his wife repurposed them into salon chairs by reupholstering them and converting them into chairs with shampoo bowls, etc. I don't think JJ asked for receipts or pictures or anything. Years ago I purchased a condo that hadn't been updated since the 70s. If I had inherited the condo, I would have done the same thing: Over time I replaced the shag carpet and avocado colored appliances, and when I sold it a few years later I made a very nice profit. In the same way, and in my opinion, the plaintiff should have realized some value for his sweat equity. But it is, after all, JJ's playpen, it's sushi day, she has bigger fish to fry--have I forgotten anything :)
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I wonder why the Ramseys had such pull in Boulder? I know they were rich, and had rich friends, but that doesn't seem like enough to warrant covering up the murder of a child.
I wouldn't necessarily say they had pull. What happened was a perfect storm. The Ramseys retained lawyers for the entire family (I think for John's first wife too), their lawyers made unreasonable demands, and the prosecutor's office (which had never really vigorously prosecuted many serious crimes) didn't stand up to the lawyers' demands. In turn, the relationship between the prosecutor's office and the Boulder police department was marked by distrust and a lack of support. So, the PD was hamstrung in its efforts to, for example, obtain records by subpoena which would have aided in its investigation, the prosecutor's office was asleep at the wheel, and the lawyers took advantage of the situation.
On 1/8/2017 at 2:25 AM, Mittengirl said:Also, I wouldn't think the Ramsey's incrowd friends would feel such loyalty
You wouldn't think so, but investigators did try to talk with people in the Ramsey circle and were not met with much cooperation. One woman, who dared to talk to the press (I can't remember her name, but her daughter was friends with JB), was shunned by the group for "daring" to speak publicly.
For those who believe the Ramseys covered up their daughter's death (and I am one), some might say that the family has suffered enough from all the constant public and media scrutiny, but I don't agree. They told the police that an intruder, Santa Bill, the Whites, et al. should be viewed as suspects and they hid behind their attorneys. I wonder when the truth will ever come out about this travesty.
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On 1/6/2017 at 4:13 PM, AuntiePam said:
Judy Judy Judy! In the salon rental case, she gave plaintiff the rent he was owed, but gave him nothing for the salon chairs that the defendant absconded with. JJ says the chairs were old and because plaintiff hadn't purchased them in the first place -- they came with the building, which was an inheritance from plaintiff's mother-in-law. Judy! The chairs still had to be replaced, and they weren't defendant's chairs! So now it's okay to steal something because it's old, or because it was inherited?
Right! JJ's position seemed to be that because they had inherited the chairs, rather than purchased them, they had no value. Huh? If I inherit a diamond ring, by her logic, it has no value.
Her decisions just seem to be more bizarre and embarrassing.
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Referring to the last episode, I must have missed something. A lot of posters are saying that Daniel was daydreaming about what his life could be and then he's shown walking in the field, etc. For some reason, I thought that was real. In other words, it was set in the future after he was completely cleared and free to go wherever he wanted.
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I'm hoping Steph will win, but Mary really seems to favor Amanda. I notice when other bakers do something different, they're almost scolded when it doesn't turn out quite right, but Amanda is praised by Mary for having the courage to try. There's a restaurant I frequent that serves Napoleons and I've seen it at one other place, and the desserts they served on TGABC didn't look anything like the ones I've seen. I've wanted to try making that myself, but the recipe I have in a Fanny Farmer cookbook seems like an all day project. I thought that it was a traditional thing to drizzle semi-sweet chocolate on the top.
Can't stand the American judge--Johnny or whoever he is. He gives the contestants nasty looks and I almost expect he'll pull some sort of lever and the contestant will drop down a chute into the shark infested moat.
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I saw what must have been a rerun--a man was suing his neighbor over a fence. The plaintiff claimed the neighbor's debris was leaning against the fence and caused it to collapse. The plaintiff wins this year's award for "Best Use of Photographs Which Depict Nothing Relevant to a Case." He had a stack of photos and in the corner of one photograph one could barely make out Bigfoot, or maybe it was the fence in question. Turns out JJ is also an expert in fences and claimed that the fence was old and "rickety" so the plaintiff got nothing. She also called the defendants "unneighborly" for not chipping in for a new fence. I don't know how much fences cost, but it could be that they're living on a fixed income and can't afford it. There was something off about the defendant's wife. She would cock her head from side to side and not say anything, just like my dog does when I talk to her about going for a walk.
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15 hours ago, Brattinella said:
the glass eye that I thought was going to fall out of its socket ANY. MINUTE.
"The Tell-Tale Heart" came to my mind immediately.
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On 1/3/2017 at 11:51 AM, AZChristian said:
She had him pegged as a man-child from the moment she read the case details in her fake office backstage.
I love how they show JJ in her fake office on those rare occasions when she calls someone, and I have to laugh how--even though she may be on the West Coast in a different time zone--she is able to reach anybody, anywhere. She'll introduce herself, and I would love it if the person on the other end asked, "Who?" Of course, I realize only a small tribe in an Amazon rainforest doesn't know who she is, but...
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12 hours ago, Irlandesa said:
I think Cheryl would actually make a good calming food network TV show host and if she had been on Food Network Star, I might've rooted for her. But in this format, she kind of bugged. Her sleigh was cute but incorporating her daughter who is too young to even know irked me. I do want to try Shaun's cake. It looked yummy.
Plus her "daughter" looked like a green blob. The cake looked yummy, though.
Shawn's snowman looked scary with teeth and arms extended. I thought there was red on the side too. It looked like blood. Must have been some snowball fight.
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There seemed to be so much made about Tawny wanting to help her patient get his certificate of appreciation that I thought the old man was going to call his attorney and change his will to leave everything to her.
On a side note, I want to say that I have really enjoyed reading everyone's comments on these episodes; they have shown a lot of insight and intelligence. Many times some of you have pointed out symbolism I didn't pick up on or perspectives I hadn't thought of. I will miss reading these as much as the show.
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I think Duff wants Cheryl to win. Maybe FN wants Colonel Cornpone--er, Jason, to replace Paula Deen.
The kids' baking show is coming up. How does Valerie Bertinelli--an actress--wind up as a judge and a cook on these shows? Sheesh.
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S01.E11: Jeffrey MacDonald: The Accused
in People Magazine Investigates [V]
That's funny, Giant Misfit. I've never heard the term "flop sweating" before. Ha. I know Mrs. got arrested for shoplifting, but what other legal troubles has she had? Can you imagine being married to that lunatic? Your phone would ring constantly with collect calls from JM. "Be sure to add this. Oh, and state again that if the lower court had allowed Helena to testify..." Ugh.