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On 6/7/2020 at 4:29 PM, SoMuchTV said:
his all brings up a whole 'nother pet peeve. What do you call those dang things? I'm assuming the original question about scrunchies was referring to the covered rubber bands you use for a ponytail (but maybe not, Google tells me the original 90's (80's?) version is coming back). I grew up calling them "pony tail holders" but that's a mouthful for such a little thing. Hair tie? But nothing's actually tied. Rubber band? But those are a different thing, that would only be called into service as a last resort. Hair elastic? Aren't we fancy!
On 6/7/2020 at 4:45 PM, Bastet said:Yeah, I pondered over word choice, too. As a kid, they were ponytail holders. For a while, scrunchies - different than ponytail holders; they were big poofy things with fabric over the elastic - were the rage. For a long time, I've just used the basic brown bands from Goody, which are called "elastics" on the package but used to say "ties". So, whatever - hair thingies.
On 6/7/2020 at 8:31 PM, forumfish said:They are all called "hair doo-ies" here in the fishbowl. I guess "doo-ies" is short for "doohickies."
Chez Rat they are all referred to as "hair thingies" and a ruder name as well - but hair claws are also referred to as "thingies."
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Lady Mabel Lengua Taco of Lotto King Bodega
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On 6/3/2020 at 9:23 AM, Shannon L. said:
All women and POC are in luck! If anyone ever does invent time travel, then you can go back to any decade and dress any way you want or do anything you want and you'll only get a side eye from people. At worst, one bully in the bunch will say something derogatory or borderline hostile, but all you have to do is show your strength, either by a verbal threat or grabbing their collar and pushing them and they'll leave you alone.
On 6/3/2020 at 11:55 AM, DoctorAtomic said:Don't go traveling with the Doctor then!
Doctor Who is nowhere near as big an offender on this as the American and Canadian shows like Timeless, Legends of Tomorrow, Warehouse 13, Murdoch Mysteries, Frankie Drake Mysteries, etc.
Of course I don't really take it seriously and just snicker through that stuff on the above shows since they are comedies.
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4 hours ago, Blergh said:
Oh, and on a shallow note, IMO he's also somewhat easy on the eyes in a rugged, bearish way!
LOL. This is the TV crushes thread, you don't have to apologize for noticing and appreciating somebody's looks.
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On 5/30/2020 at 10:58 AM, Milburn Stone said:
One more word about the TCM section on HBO Max. (For now.) It's becoming clearer to me that it's simply the branding that AT&T/Warner has chosen to give to any non-current film that AT&T/Warner has in its library.
And geez, that's not depressing at all. 😭
The weirdest thing about writing this post was searching the Emoji Pantry and I'm still not sure I picked the right one. 😞
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On 5/28/2020 at 2:09 AM, Camille said:
I can't stand that scenario of "Person is doing/about to do/has done something lousy, then sees themself in the mirror and feels sickened and ashamed by their actions." And add on a disgusted shake of the head to top it off.
Back in the day they would have THROWN SOMETHING INTO THE MIRROR and SMASHED it.
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Sweeter than a hungry cat in a chicken coop.
Damn but that is weak. If I can't imagine Jim Ross hollering it at a wrestling match it just doesn't seem like much of a Southern catchphrase.
"he's serving up a restaurant-quality slobberknocker!"
"he's stompin a mudhole and walkin it dry!"
"he's runnin like a scalded dog!"
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8 hours ago, meep.meep said:
High school girls basketball was a huge sport in the mid-west for a while.
I'm under the impression that high school basketball and football are STILL huge in the Midwest, at least from what my family there tells me.
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14 hours ago, shapeshifter said:
There really should be more fictional librarians in TV shows; I don't think today's writers realize they still exist, or else they have no idea what they do.
As a retired librarian, I agree (ESPECIALLY about the dating opportunities) but I don't think yesterday's writers had any better idea. Did you spend most of your time shusshing people? Were you the kind of brittle female anthrophobe we all saw in The Music Man or It's A Wonderful Life?
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5 hours ago, DrSpaceman73 said:
The thing was at the time it was the complete opposite of how any other TV show had handled such situations to date.
Eureka! You have found it. All of the four main characters on Seinfeld were assholes. The audience was expected to grasp that. It does become much funnier when you realize you don't have to root for them and that they richly deserve any shitty thing that happens to them.
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12 hours ago, BW Manilowe said:
My pleasant renewal surprise is Stumptown, which I just adore. I also like The Rookie, but I figured that on to be picked up.
My big disappointment is Emergence, which I loved.
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19 hours ago, VCRTracking said:
Years later I found out about this duo of singers Nelson Eddy and Jeannette MacDonald, who starred in a whole bunch of movies in the 30s and 40s always as a romantic pairing and I realized that's what the Muppets were parodying! Nelson and Eddy were incredibly popular in their day but now nobody knows who they are. Anyone who would remember them died years ago. Part of it I'm guessing is they were old fashioned even back in the 30s. They weren't singing the pop music of the day which was jazz and blues based. It was as white as can be:
They were massively popular back then, partially because what they sang was less "white", whatever that would have been at that time, but European. Remember that between 1880 and 1920 there had been a massive influx of European immigrants who would have reacted very enthusiastically to this light opera material.
I didn't like them either when I was younger, but as with so much antique popular culture Turner Classic Movies has schooled me. Along the the lively Turner Classic Movies board here on this site. Which I know you participate in. So I'm kind of shocked for you to say that everybody who might remember them is dead - when you must know that their films have gained new fans over the years who were born long after those films were made.
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On 5/19/2020 at 2:33 AM, Hiyo said:
I'm sure our parents were saying that when their cultural icons were dying too.
And it was just as true, and just as sad. But because all of us were little clueless a-holes we didn't realize how true it was, let alone how true it was going to turn out to be for us.
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On 5/4/2020 at 12:09 AM, Milburn Stone said:On 5/3/2020 at 7:13 PM, GussieK said:
Poorly constructed. I didn't believe he'd really end up with the rich girl.
Watched it tonight. I agree. They didn't plausibly establish why Alice Faye would be drawn to Dana Andrews in the first place. Maybe we were meant to sense some "core of decency" in his grifter character, which she and she alone of all the characters could see, but I don't think the audience could see it!
Eddie Muller has said that it was re-edited in a way that made Alice Faye's character less plausible. But the Dana Andrews character seems SO unlikeable throughout. Only a really charming sexy likeable actor like, let's say for that time period, Cary Grant on the one hand and Robert Mitchum on the other and Edward G. Robinson on the third, , could have played a character who seems to be so clearly on the make throughout the film, and make us believe that he secretly is a great guy. Dana Andrews - hell no. Why not just go for Tom Neal and be done with it.
On 5/9/2020 at 9:00 AM, Rinaldo said:enjoyed the movie too (it somehow seems like a famous title to me, how has TCM never shown it before?)
It has been shown before, many times. Thursdays are pre-code days most of the time and of course there's always Joel McCrea's birthday or something like it. So many of McCrea's early films were things like this where he played a weak rich playboy who can't keep his dick in his pants.
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11 hours ago, VCRTracking said:
The husband and wife comedy team of Stiller and Meara on The Ed Sullivan Show.
Way before Seinfeld I already thought of Stiller and Meara (and I always thought of them together) as comedy geniuses because of all the TV and radio work they did in the 60s and 70s. I even loved the Blue Nun commercials!
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13 minutes ago, SVNBob said:
I think they're available on Netflix outside of the US. I know every other Trek series that is not Discovery or Picard is still on Netflix US (because I literally just checked.)
They're also showing on digital broadcast subchannel Heroes and Icons five nights a week. I don't subscribe to any of the streaming services, not really tempted even. The only one that does tempt me is FITE TV, because I I love professional wrestling and they carry some programs I'd like to see. But I don't care about any of the "legit" fighting sports really so I keep not bothering with it.
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On 5/3/2020 at 10:17 PM, Zella said:
My understanding is that television rights ownership is extraordinarily convoluted
The fact that somehow CBS now owns the rights to one of the most iconically NBC shows, Star Trek, being a good example.
I wonder if they will make some of the earlier seasons of the streaming shows available on network in the short run, as ohiopirate suggested. CBS did run the first season of The Good Fight last year, for example, I'd imagine to tempt people into subscribing so they could see how the story turned out. Isn't it still true that the Star Treks are only limited to CBS Access in the USA and available on broadcast TV elsewhere?
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On 5/9/2020 at 9:30 AM, Shannon L. said:
The only reason that I was thinking about bringing some shows to network stations was because not everyone gets the cable/DISH/streaming stations that some of the shows in syndication are on.
But there is already so much of this retro stuff being shown through the various digital subchannels that anyone with a television and a digital antenna can pick up for free. And it's not just the commercial network stuff. PBS for example has about 5 of these retro channels that show older PBS how-to, children's, and arts programming.
Of course if you don't have a TV anymore and just watch everything through the computer I guess that won't help you.
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2 hours ago, Katy M said:3 hours ago, Nicmar said:
LOL a tuxedo cat! i actually think skunks are cute
They're adorable. But, still don't want one as a pet:)
I would love to have one as a pet. But it's illegal in this state (and a lot of other states, I believe). My cousin had one when I was a kid and he was so funny. He never ever walked around anybody - he'd stamp his feet and grunt at you until you got the hell out of his way.
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21 hours ago, forumfish said:
Sis and I have added "social distance hug!" to our daily vocabulary. It's just a regular hug, but with each of us turning our faces away from each other. 'cause you know, those extra couple of inches keep the germs away. We live in the same house and I'm her wheelchair-to-bed transfer person, so we can't stay six feet apart or she'd never get out of bed.
I can't tell if this is a joke or not, sorry. You do know that members of the same household aren't really expected to keep six feet apart.
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11 hours ago, bmoore4026 said:
Not much of a Jane Russell fan except for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Her acting like Marilyn Monroe was a hoot. But these other movies of her just stink, I'm sorry to say.
I know what you mean, although I'm really a fan. She's not just strong in charisma, she looks physically strong as well - she reminds me of Maureen O'Hara. She looks as though if she ever found the need to stop melting in Robert Mitchum's arms that she'd be more than capable of kicking the living shit out of him.
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Just wanted to comment that every single cheftestant had a problem recognizing the voices of their SPOUSES and PARENTS and SIBLINGS on those Metro cellphones. Not a great advertisement for Metro.
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The difference is that a bunch of different actors have played Sherlock Holmes, and yes Virginia at least three others I have seen on TCM (Warren William, Ricardo Cortez, and Donald Woods) besides Raymond Burr played Perry Mason - although seriously few people are going to think of anyone but Raymond Burr in the role. In the case of Columbo this just seems nuts to me. While Peter Falk was not the original choice for the role he right away BECAME this role and America fell in love with him. I certainly did. This isn't like Superman or James Bond. I understand this is another IPR reboot but I'd rather just see Ruffalo play a detective with some Columbo-esque characteristics. That would be fine.
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Howard Finkel, legendary and beloved ring announcer for the WWE, is dead at 69. Cause of death so far not revealed. He was THE ring announcer for professional wrestling in the last forty years. Hail and farewell.
https://uproxx.com/prowrestling/howard-finkel-the-fink-dead/
In Memoriam: Entertainment Industry Celebrity Deaths
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Oh man, your mom was BOSS. That was a MAD Magazine parody song.