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I recently discovered the Comet was running Quantum Leap on weekday afternoons, so I've been watching. In the 2 hours before the 2 episodes of Quantum Leap, they are showing Sliders. I watched that occasionally during its first run, but I've been watching. There are things I don't understand since I didn't watch the show before. Does anyone know anything about backstage gossip on the show?

The manscape chimps are getting on my nerves.

I've heard this one for a couple of weeks now, (I don't watch tv, I mostly listen), for Healthy Wager where people bet on their weight loss. I'm not sure exactly how it works and I really don't care enough to waste time going to their website and reading the small print, but from the ads, I gather that you pay into the pot and place a bet on how much you will lose. I don't know if that's a one time bet or a weekly bet. I'm sure the lure is the possibility of winning some pretty good money, $2,000 - $5,000. But it seems like those who've won that big money have lost a lot of weight, around 50 lbs. That's not an easy weight loss and it doesn't happen overnight. What I'm puzzled about is how is this all achieved. I'm guessing there has to be a lot of people who don't make it, pay their money and then find they can't do it, so they drop out. And it sort of smells like some kind of Ponzi scheme to me. Somebody, somewhere has to be making a lot of money. And I don't think it's necessarily the people who have 50 lbs to lose.

Coderlady, thank you, I know that's where the "purple" cow came from from, but I still do not see the connection between a cow - purple or otherwise - and a credit company. And Poserpina65, it's not a very effective ad for the product if people don't know what they are advertising for, whether it's a credit reporting service or a cell phone. And if I ever did give 2 flying figs for what they were advertising, I now really don't. It's still a really stupid ad.

thanks, just goes to show how little I pay attention!

I caught most of Night of the Comet on the Comet channel yesterday. I switched to watch Sliders but apparently on Mondays it's Night of the Comet. Anyway, Catherine Mary Stewart wears a dress at the end of the movie that is 80s! Very wide shoulders, but at least she gets to play house with Robert Beltran (Chakotay!)

I have an acquaintance who owns several Dominos franchises with her husband. She made masks for all their employees when masks were scarce. Add me to the hate Frank Thomas and his stupid Nugenix (she'll like it too!) and Tom Selleck and his reverse mortgages. And I really dislike the stupid CB1 Weight Gainer, that spokesmodel is terrible and she intones "I'm super pumped" with the flattest affect! Editing because I wanted to reply to things on different pages and I have no memory. Not exactly on topic, but Leverage has it's own binge streaming channel on Pluto.

I love the Diarrhea Guy, I crack up every time. He looks nothing like my friend who is a flight attendant, but I think of my friend every time I see the ad. Now, what does a purple cow have to do with Experion/Experian? I know where "purple cow" came from but what does it have to do with a cell phone company? Isn't that what Experion/Experian/however it's spelled, is?

I'm rather intrigued. As a migraine sufferer for nearly 60 years, and not all medications work and are not worth bothering with for the small ones, I sometimes have lain on the bed with my head dangling off, trying to get blood there or something, anything to stop the pain. And I have been to chiropractors for adjustments and they do sometimes help. However I am leery now, since the last guy I saw, the only one I've gone to in Tulsa, wanted me to sign up for some long term intensive, expensive treatment. I had to work, I couldn't do all those visits, and I couldn't afford them, and he had horrible bad breath and to top it all off, he told me that someone I worked with saw him, that seemed like a HIPPA breach to me, but I don't know if chiropractors have to follow the same rules. And further, since I broke my foot a couple of years ago, my gait and stance are off, I think hanging upside down for a few minutes every day sounds great.

I just discovered this evening that Comet is showing 2 episodes daily during the week, 6 and 7 PM Eastern. They had a marathon today, that I didn't discover until about 8 PM. I've enjoyed what I've seen. Some, I remember, some, I don't.

It's just regular rock and roll. You remember the sixties and seventies, right? I wouldn't know who Ratt is either, I didn't have little kids in the 80s, but I quit listening to current music about 1980 and still don't. I know who a few artists are, but not their music. So, the humor of that ad goes over my head. But I do find the cloggers mildly amusing. I've been watching a lot of the Justice Network/Channel lately, they have a lot of my favorite old true crime shows, Cold Case, City Confidential. But, one of their major advertisers right now is The Hartford with AARP. The guy driving the car for The Hartford is annoying the stuffing out of me. And when he says something about "the buck," I think he's saying, "the bus."

and that is exactly why I watch them! Along with Escape/Mystery and the Justice Network, I switch over for 4 hours in the wee hours to watch NYPD Blue. Don't give me hearts and flowers and girl meets boy bs, give me crime drama!

re the leadership discussion from commercials that make you scratch your head. I understand that some skills of leadership can be taught, but many just come naturally to some people. Some people just have the ability to think and say things in a way to make people look up to them and to do what they say and how they say it. I worked in a couple of psych hospitals in the years before I was forced to retire, and on the adolescent units, they regularly held groups on leadership. Most of those kids are not going to be leaders, ever and the ones that are? Some of them are learning dangerous skills that will enhance the problems that they are in a psych hospital for. I know that the groups were to help those kids who are afraid of their own shadows, who have a lot of depression, poor social skills and self esteem problems to step out of their comfort zones and to see other solutions, but for a child that is narcissistic or is a sociopath those groups can teach dangerous skills. It's really important for there to be oversight by a therapist for those groups and that's not always the case. Some of the techs are kind, caring and aware people, with years of experience, but others...not so much. For someone with a lot of anxiety, those groups or classes could be torture. Some of us are better working in the background and getting the work done. I am one of those. When I participated in the plays in high school, I was better backstage, making costumes, helping the actors with their costume changes, than I would have ever been out on the stage. Taking a speech class in college was difficult for me, so I took it pass/fail, because I knew I was not a public speaker. Learning some things helped and later in life I was able to work in retail where I had to put myself out in the public and assist customers and I even could enjoy it. But some people are natural leaders and some are not.

I'll take my next leadership comments to small talk, in a few minutes.

and this is why I haven't bought it from Amazon, I have noticed when their supplies get low, they increase the price. I check back in a few days/weeks and the supplies are up and the price has decreased. And to keep it to commercials, I haven't seen their Ave Maria commercials lately, I didn't watch the ads, but I liked the music.

I've known supervisors and managers that were terrible leaders and good leaders who were not supervisors or managers. I'm not a particularly good or natural leader. I know that and I don't put myself into positions to screw things up by trying.

I just remembered the ad that's really getting on my nerves lately, Hanno for Gabi - some kind of auto insurance finder. For the longest time, I thought he was saying his name was Hodel, I watched Fiddler on the Roof a couple of months ago. I did finally happen to be looking at the screen and saw his name. I don't care if it's Hanno or Hodel, he annoys the snot out of me.

`I had the new Dawn spray in my Walmart cart, which I started about 2 weeks before my once a month pay date, and then and then and then, the quarantine hit and I can't get anything I need from Walmart. I've used their grocery delivery for about a year and now, it takes 2 days to get an order delivered and half the stuff in the cart is out of stock. For next week, I'm going to be checking out Instacart and Shipt because they deliver from other stores. But I really want to try the new Dawn spray.

Just what makes a leader? Does one decide for themselves, I'm going to college and that will make me a leader? There's an ad for one of the online (probably worthless) college degree programs where one young man says that going to whatever online college made me the leader I am today. Is there a college degree program in leadership? I really don't understand. I always thought being a leader came with experience in some area and for many leaders, a natural charisma, for others, just the experience earned by doing something for a time period (months, years) made them more knowledgeable and more qualified to lead the group. But I don't think I know anyone who is a real leader that calls themselves that. Those that can, just do, then there are those that advertise themselves as.

Re the old Herbal Essence ads, I thought they were horrible, they made me embarrassed, but they were on when I became foster parent to my 2 young nieces, ages 6 and 8. I cringed when they came on, but one night I asked the older girl what she thought was going on in that ad and she answered, "that lady really likes that shampoo!" So, I quit worrying. I've been reminded of another old shampoo commercial lately, the one where the actress said, "you use x shampoo and you tell two friends and they tell two friends and so on and so on..." Makes me think of the how the virus spreads. But to stuff I really am annoyed by. I watch ION a lot for old CSI NY reruns, they run a lot of positivity ads and most of them I don't mind, I'm rather entertained about the dance like a dad ads. But there's one for one of the Veterans organizations, I don't know if it's Wounded Warriors, I just mentally turn off when it runs. But the wife of a wounded veteran says, "I woke one morning to a odd phone call..." I scream at the tv, "an odd phone call!" Use "an" if the next word starts with a vowel!" Then later she's talking about her husband being wounded and then without a breath starts talking about how what's considered care giving she just thinks of as loving him. I think that may be the editing but it drives me crazy that there's 2 different subjects and she doesn't pause or breath before changing subjects. Staying on ION or Pluto endless streaming of Cold Case Files and Forensic Files cuts down on a lot of the annoying ads. I just turn the volume down and play games.

In favorite commercials, Abay said: "That's how I always referred to the couple that lived in the apartment above me. Moving out of there was such a relief." that's better than the last upstairs neighbors I had the last time I lived in an apartment. I always knew when they had sex, their headboard banged against a wall. The worst time was Valentine's Day when I had signed divorce papers that day. I would turn on the radio, the tv, anything to distract me, it made for awkward chance meetings. Editing to add, that my divorce was a good thing. I've considered signing the papers on Valentine's Day to be a gift of freedom I gave myself.

taking to small talk.

In trying to find information about grocery delivery other than Walmart, I spent some internet time on Shipt. Now, of course, I get a lot of internet ads for them. Some of them are really cute. I wouldn't exactly call them favorites, but they are cute.

for me, it's her mouth. She has the widest mouth and she exaggerates the width by that bright red lipstick.

the thing I find amusing about NOOM is that apparently Nutrisystems feels they are a threat. In some of the Nutrisystems ads, when they mention plans they are better than, they make disparaging remarks about a "psychology" app.