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There are a lot of reasons, but in my family, it was more than a matter "entertaining", Since not all hospital rooms are as clean as they could be, it wasn't uncommon for relatives to clean the room themselves from top to bottom - bleach and all. Right down to the bed frame (lots of germs hiding there from the last patient) and remote. They also took shifts to make sure the patient would get proper treatment - especially on weekends when the staff is much lighter. My mom, whenever she was hospitalized couldn't even get a sponge bath on weekends, so my dad, sister, niece and myself all took turns making sure she was clean. When my niece was little, she used to cuddle up with my mom in bed to watch TV. Plus, it's good to have people you know and love with you - making sure no one takes advantage of you when you're in a vulnerable position.

I think it's because cats are harder to train than dogs and are more likely to do their own thing on a set. Most times cats are seen on camera they're in someone's arms or in a carrier.

Same with funerals. On Charmed, Prue's funeral could have been attended by some familiar faces. There were plenty of innocents they helped or saved in the first three seasons but we got a sea of unknown extras - while Piper, Phoebe, their father and their significant others sat in the front row.

Ditto. I've never forgiven him for what he did in "The Green Hornet"!!

I like the idea for the thread - but maybe we could change the thread title to: On The Job: Co-workers or Co-irkers?

More often than not, they end up a losing proposition. Toronto raised money to build its stadium and Olympic village via bonds and taxes. That was 1976. They only recently caught up with the cost! Some cities hope for a tourism boost the Olympics normally would bring but for a host of reasons, many stadiums end up being half empty. The only reason I can think of trying to bring it to one's city is because someone's brother in law stands to profit from building the Olympic Village or is a vendor selling food or souvenirs. You and your husband are great! I'm sorry you had such an ungrateful wretch before you. Call me cynical, but I can't help but wonder if she didn't do that on purpose. Lots of people have been known to pick up the difference on a grocery balance out of kindness and maybe she thought you'd oblige. I remember having to deal with a welfare case in a grocery line once who bought about $50.00 worth of groceries and handed her EBT card to the cashier. It was a zero balance so the woman just up and left the groceries behind without a second thought. No whining or pleading, just up and left because she knew the card would be replenished soon enough. Not for nothing but she didn't look like she was missing any meals either.

That pet peeve of rudeness combined with cluelessness rears its ugly head again: I was preparing to go shopping at Sam's Club yesterday morning. I get a cart from the lot and walk towards the entrance. A woman is on a cell phone blocking my path. I politely ask her to move aside. As I'm moving through I hear her say, "What do you expect me to do? Walk in front of traffic?". I kept moving but two possible answers came to my mind: "Yes, lady, please step out into traffic! It would be the best thing you could do for the species!" "No, Lady, I want you to pull your phone out of your ear and pay attention to your surroundings! Stop blocking people who are trying to get into the customer entrance when there are plenty of other places you could stand and make your call ! "

The only reason that happened was because of his VA role in Aladdin. Disney owns ABC, so they had to put him somewhere. I agree that I wasn't crazy about his character or his being shoehorned in. Love the idea of casting Elizabeth Olsen as Michelle. Won't happen, but a nice thought.

Speaking of the Killers, I love their cover of Cole Porter's Don't Fence Me In. It's not a song you expect to get covered by a rock band and come out sounding cool! It was also used for a Nevada tourism commercial.

Been back to the iPod again - with covers of "Take A Giant Step" by The Rockin' Berries and "Pineapple Princess" by Na Leo. Take A Giant Step was originally recorded by The Monkees but this was the first time hearing a cover by someone else. It's actually quite good - it's produced very differently than the Monkees version but enjoyable. Carole King's version (actually, a demo) sounds very "country" to me but a bit closer to the Berries' version. Pineapple Princess was made popular by Annette Funicello but I didn't hear her version until after I head Na Leo's version during a trip to Hawaii. No contest, Na Leo's version is better of the two. Funicello's version seems way over produced.

It depends on why he's at home. Is it due to financial reasons (divorce is expensive and he probably lost the house anyway) or had he never left home? I also don't put everything on "chemistry". I agree with the recent online dating commercial (Zoosk?) in which love doesn't come first, first there's like. Too many people get passed over in favor of imagined romance and non stop heart thumps when they don't seem to consider if they like someone or feel comfortable with them. I guess that makes me Miss Boring because I'd definitely have ended the date the minute he took to the field naked. Probably would have taken a cab home too - since he probably would have been in jail by that point.

This can be tough when it comes to comic adaptations - certain things you expect to see (Clark meets Lois Lane and works at the Daily Planet, Bruce Wayne loses his parents, Peter Parker's main squeeze was Mary Jane Watson but had other girlfriends before and after meeting her) so it can be tough picking and choosing what part of the mythos to keep and which to change or update. I thought it was great they used Gwen for the second round of Spiderman films since she did exist before MJ did. I had a hunch - what's another alt-universe right? Worst idea ever? How about remaking old TV shows for the big screen? With the exception of S.W.A.T. and Get Smart, the majority of them were mondo bombs in every way! Poorly cast, horrible storylines, and uninspired cameos from original cast members (with the exception of the Lost In Space debacle - They had everyone except Billy Mumy & Jonathan Harris). Which brings me to this: 2nd Worst idea ever: Casting the majority of the surviving original cast members of Lost In Space only to NOT cast Billy Mumy as the older Will Robinson in a sequence set in the future!!

Allen Kent's appearance in Princess Diaries 2. Everyone in the theatre laughed out loud when he appeared and repeated the exact line from Pretty Woman - the one in which he catches a snail that goes flying through the air in a restaurant and mentions how it, "Happens all the time!".

In a way I understand why they don't necessarily use their own faces - sometimes people don't want their faces out there. Although I'm not on FB, I wouldn't use my face either if I were. As here, I'd use the default icon. Then again, I'm lazy! I certainly would never use my family members' faces for the same reason - privacy. Our office is casual and some workers did that, but policy changed when there was the potential lawsuit of someone walking on a random staple or tack.

Mitchum did do a great job being the creep his character was, but when I saw it I started thinking the chase was turning into a spoof. With all the effort the kids put into ditching him, Mitchum's character just kept on popping up even when you think he couldn't possibly have found his way there. I figured his greed was stronger than anything else.

May you Oom Dooby Doom your way into Heaven, Dave! I always loved doo-wop music (even though I was born long after it's initial popularity waned) and I always feel just a little bit sad to hear those original singers passing on.

Gotta love HD, huh? Thanks to that and improved syndicated prints, I can see hair extensions on 60s actresses - and the hair colors don't seem to match up! I grew up watching the series and it was brilliant! I've been catching reruns on Rural-TV (aka Family Net) although I have it on DVD as well. Officially it was "Squish, squish!". Later came, "Mushie, mushie!" Jack Soo himself was a funny guy! I recently caught the tribute episode for him. It's not often you get an entire 1/2 hour dedicated to a co-star who died during production. At best you can see a 30 second tribute with a photo of them with their dates of birth and death superimposed on them. I guess that shows how much he really meant to the rest of the cast and crew.

Table for two? I find that obnoxious too - plus it's the height of rudeness for the date. Wouldn't it make more sense to call or text your arrival? It's beyond trend. Schools are like this too. For the past 15 years or so, classrooms have kids split up into groups to "problem solve" together. For the peeve record, I hate it too. Too bad we can't all choose to work in soundproof rooms.

This is why I like homeschooling. You leave that nonsense behind. You develop into your own person and become more individualized. I've been bullied as a kid and I remember those desperate days when your "friends" wouldn't stick up for you - because that meant they would be on the bully victim list. I'm just thankful electronic media wasn't around when I was in middle school! I just know I would have had a webpage labeled, "I hate [magicdog].com". What really peeves me is that parents raised these little monsters! Did any of them have an adult at home teaching them how to treat people? Did they have parents that taught them to bully others and treat them as pariahs if they didn't go along with them? This had to come from somewhere.

I enjoy collecting vintage sewing patterns. I have far too many to count - mostly from the 50s and 60s. I even picked up a few vintage pattern catalogs too. I have often thought fashions from earlier eras are more tasteful and have more interesting details abut them than many of today's fashions. Half the fun is bringing a piece of the past to the present by using a modern fabric on an old pattern! I always try to go for looks that are timeless and could still not stick out (in a bad way) in a crowd .

I read that article and the writer was soaking in serious bitters! I don't know why people act as if this is new - stories of heroes getting the girl have been told in fables and tales for centuries. Today's definition of hero changed a bit for some. To be honest, I prefer a guy who at least meets those standards (educated, working, making decent money, and is a good person) because they're increasingly hard to find! I don't blame TV so much as bridal magazines; it's a racket like none other!

I'd heard that the FX for that movie caused audience members to get violently ill (apparently puking up pea soup had never been done on screen before) and induced vomiting in auditoriums. Did anything like that happen when you were there? Or in area theatres? Not long after I'd moved here, I used to enjoy going to the Gold Coast Hotel & Casino. They had their own movie theatre which was subsidized by the gambling (this was before the casinos got bigger and started installing theatres in them). Since they were independent, they showed all kinds of films (my favorite was seeing the re-release of "Spartacus" which had been restored with new footage) and best of all the snack bar was more than reasonable. Only a buck for a giant container of popcorn! Now, they're not independent anymore and most stand alone theatres disappeared with them. We still have the old drive in theatre here - and I went there for years with friends and family. To this day you get a double feature with every screen. When I first started going, they still had the original speakers from the 50s/60s! They've gone digital now, and the radio is needed to tune into your films, but the experience is still a fun one.

This reminds me of a cartoon I saw in an editorial over the school uniform debate. One kid says to another "They're thinking about making us wear school uniforms." The other kid replied, "I'd hate that. Then we'd have no individuality". Then you see a group of teens all walking to class - all sporting the same look!

I do remember the DeBeers ads but IIRC (and even various wedding guides/articles have mentioned this) it isn't 6 months salary - it's 3 months salary as a guideline. [trivia alert] You're right about diamond rings being pushed is relatively recent; for centuries, it was sapphires given as gifts to a lover or bride, since blue represented faithfulness and fidelity. [/trivia alert]

Believe it or not, Bambi's mom's death didn't bug me as much as it was intended. Partly because my dad was an avid hunter (he went deer hunting every autumn), and partly because it didn't ring true to me. My dad told me that in NY state, one needs a special permit to hunt does, and they were few and far between. If anything, it would have been more realistic for Bambi's dad to take the bullet.