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I'm so old that in the ancient days when I had a need for those, there were only 2 sizes, regular and super. It's been so long since I've had a need, that I don't pay attention to that aisle when I'm in a store and I ignore the ads. Taking the warsh and ice box discussion to small talk.

One of the toilet paper companies, Angel Soft. (saw it again today) is using "down there." It's toilet paper! Yes, it can be used to blow your nose, stem the blood in a razor cut, but it is toilet paper! Stop using that phrase.

I worked in the music industry for nearly a decade, starting in the mid 90s when we didn't even have email accounts yet, let alone youtube. Let me tell you, this part of the storyline was scarily believable to me. Also, it was established twice in the episode that young girls actually were present in the bar (I would get someone who kills people to steal their songs wouldn't be too strict on other legalities either) and I had to carry girls out of backstage areas often enough to know how cunning, tenatious and sometimes dangerously deluded they can be at a certain age. Sonja, you might enjoy a book written by a friend of mine, Sherry Carroll, Even Rock and Roll Has Fairy Tales: The Flight of the Sherry Fairy. She was a groupie with a long term off/on affair with Eric Burdon of The Animals and War. But then again, you might have already been there/seen that. I've watched this show on and off, an episode here and there on ION or late Sunday nights on MYTV, I may have watched it occasionally in it's original run on TNT, that was not a great time in my life, so I've blocked a lot of it. However, I've had it running nearly 24 hours a day as background for most of the last month on Pluto, except for the 2 weeks when my internet was down. (thank you so very much AT&T.) I do not pay near the attention that most of you do. But then again, I have the sound really low and it really is just background. Now and then, I do pay attention and even though it's on 24 hours/day, I'm still seeing things I never caught before. Maybe I'll turn up the sound and pay a little more attention.

shoot, I don't care what ethnicity the dancers are, as long as they can work with and teach their partners and not be "me, Me, ME!" As an old woman, I'd like to see older dancers really get a fair chance. There are videos on YouTube of several older couples and they really can cut a rug. So what if they are bringing the sexy. Dancing isn't necessarily about bringing the sexy, if that's all the dancer is doing, maybe they should be on a pole at a strip club. I'd love to see more diversity with the pros and get to know them. I have doubts that I will be watching this season. I've watched since season 1. I really disliked Tyra Banks on America's Got Talent. And the only thing I knew about her before that was that Oprah thinks she has perfect breasts.

I don't know which thread I saw the post on, I've had about 30 pages of reading to catch up on since I was without a computer and/or internet for about a month, but someone posted about annoying Pluto tv ads for other shows. Specifically for Siesta Key, yes that one is annoying, but the ones that irritate me the most are the ones for MTV's Made and Sweet Sixteen. I don't mind the girl in the Made ad for wanting to be "hella hot" and be a pageant girl. But, the little, entitled twit for the Sweet Sixteen, I want to smack her entitled little butt and send her off to serve meals at homeless shelters or to carry out food for old people at the food bank or send her to muck out cages at the animal shelter or all three. She's not nearly as cute as she thinks she is, then there's a clip of her going into the party and someone really should have spent some of that time and money to teach her how to walk in heels, she clomps and stomps, it's not a pretty picture. I forgot more of my Pluto shows ads, the Dallas Cheerleaders resident bytch, "have you ever held a pair of pom poms in your life?" And Nosey, feature Jerry Springer, Maury Povich and some other guy I am not familiar with. (I just don't watch these kind of shows) I don't know which one of the 3 shows, but one young woman with a quavering voice asks another young woman, "are you sleeping with him?" And the other young woman gives what is the stupidest answer, "Yes, I'm sleeping with your boyfriend." And then fighting ensues. The other one, Maury intones, "You are the father." And she proceeds to jump around in front of the young man, screaming incoherently. I guess shes refraining from punching his lights out, but if she jumps around in anger like that a lot, she'll take that baby weight off fast.

no, Chip Bell, Come Monday.

it happens when you don't change providers for 20+ years. I don't use that account, but I use my Hotmail account. Yep, I've had that one 20+ years too. I don't like change.

I've been having computer and internet problems for the last month. So I read, 45 or so books during this time. One of the books I read takes place in Key West and the characters want their beer NFL (no f**kin lime). Since I don't drink beer in any shape or form, I don't pay much attention to their ads, but I do like the Corona Christmas ad.

I've broken my wrist and my foot and had a concussion from dogs shenanigans. They can be devils.

thanks for asking Peaches, no he's not, he's too busy using meth and being high and knowing everything in the world. I've had no contact with him since December when I got the protective order. I miss him, but I miss the young man he used to be before meth got a hold on him. I worry about him.

I'm slowly catching up with reading all the threads. I've been having major computer problems, had a virus that caused major damage and took a couple of weeks to get fixed and if that wasn't enough, we had an electrical storm almost 3 weeks ago that killed my modem and my sister's tv. I spent 2 weeks in AT&T hell. The storm was late on Saturday night, so I didn't call until Sunday. Had a difficult time finding a phone number with no internet and paperless billing. While speaking with a rep, I mentioned I had gotten a letter about a free upgrade on my internet, it's fiber optics. They offered free installation, free HBO, $10 less/month for a year, then about $15/month increase. That's doable, so I agreed. We've been streaming on 2 tvs, a pc and a tablet, the fiber optics upgrade is supposed to improve that. Tech was scheduled for Thursday, he came out, he couldn't get in my back neighbor's back yard and she has a Pit. So I had to walk around the block in near 100 degree temps to make arrangements with her for the following Tuesday. She and I now have each other's phone numbers. The next Tuesday, different tech, an a$$hole. He didn't want to do the install because we have too much stuff piled up in the living room and he said it was unsafe, he left without saying a word to me, but reported me. The reason we have so much stuff is that I moved my full household of stuff into my sister's house and went into a depression that's lasted nearly 5 years. I've started coming out of it and I've got plans how to move stuff around and lots of changes. We're going to turn the living room into my doll/dollhouse room. I've got the shelves, I'm ready to go. We're going to make the back bedroom (that was occupied by my great nephew until I kicked him out and put a protective order on him) into a sewing/craft room. We don't really need a living room. If my sister has friends over, they go to her room, all my friends are doll people, we will enjoy the heck out of the living room. But in the meantime, there's still stuff packed in boxes and piled high. Right before the quarantine stuff, my sister's ex-son-in-law helped me sort through the living room. We had set up one set of shelves and put doll stuff boxes in it and had sorted through the sewing/craft stuff. It was all ready to go switch out rooms, and then the virus. In the meantime, my sister has piled every delivery box she gets on top of the mess in the living room. I've broke down tons of boxes and sneaked many into the recycling bin, but as nature abhors a vacuum, my sister abhors an empty space. We're going to have to do a moving day, except we're not moving, just organizing and putting stuff in the proper rooms, we have to empty the garage and bring a lot of my furniture into the house. We have a ton of stuff that can go back into the garage, boxes of Christmas ornaments, my great-nephew's stuff. But I didn't take time to explain it all to the tech, it's really not any of his business. So AT&T was just going to put everything on hold indefinitely. We aren't really going to be able to do much of the moving around until late September when it cools down a little. I could not wait that long without internet service. Have I mentioned lately how much I hate AT&T? I've had their internet so long my email is SBCglobal, since about 1998 or 99. They did agree to send a new modem for us to install ourselves since the old one had been fried. On Friday, my sister's ex-son-in-law and his girlfriend came over, he put the a/c in the living room window (don't ask), he repaired a hole in the wall that my great nephew had done, assembled one more set of shelves and his girlfriend and I moved stuff out of the way and then put stuff on the 2nd set of shelves. We cleared a large path to where the modem was. Then Saturday, he came over to hook up the new modem, it still did not work because there were also wiring problems from the outside to the inside wall where the modem was. Matt got rather fed up with AT&T and called them and raised more hell. A tech came out on Sunday and spent hours repairing the old internet. Another tech will be here tomorrow to install the upgrade. So, it's been he** for the past month. I hope when the tech leaves tomorrow I will be able to watch tv without it stopping and telling me I am not connected. I discovered Pluto tv a few months ago and a couple of weeks before AT&T he**, I started watching the Leverage channel. I had seen most of the episodes, but I never really watched it while paying a lot of attention. I leave it on a lot, it's kind of replaced Bill Kurtis and Cold Case Files as my sleep channel. It's oddly compelling and I constantly see new little things, interactions between the actors, I pick up new little tidbits in the plot. And you all who are 5'2" and 5'3" and have to reach for groceries on the top shelves, y'all are tall, what's your problem? lol. I'm 4'11" (barely) and I'll be 70 next month, there is no climbing shelves for me, can't risk breaking any bones. But I have no problem looking around and asking anyone taller than me for help. If I can find a store employee, great, if not I'm not picky, I'll ask anyone. And I've never had anyone refuse me. It's all about being polite and asking nicely.

I play solitaire on MSN games. I'm not paying for ad free, so I get ads every couple of games. Most of the ads are for other free to download games, but there are a few others, One for AAA Insurance, it's graphics are color background, the words FAAAmily and In$$$urance, lots of letters and numbers. It doesn't appear to be a very expensive ad. At one point in the ad, the screen has "Hello Insurance!" The other day, the screen froze and it had on "Hell Insurance!" I laughed and laughed and refreshed the screen.

Apparently tp is still in short supply in my area. I order groceries for delivery and cannot get more than one 18 pk double rolls per order. I'm a little ahead, but not at the hoarding stage yet. Things I can't find are Lysol/Clorox wipes, bleach, liquid hand soap refills, I usually buy one every 2-3 months, haven't been able to get any since February, the small bottles are available, so I'm stocking up, but there's a limit of 2 per order. Crunchy peanut butter is a shortage here also. My sister will only eat creamy and then rarely, she has a stash. I like crunchy and am ordering 2 jars this week, I like the Great Value brand because it does not contain sorbitol and my dogs like a little peanut butter now and then. Sugar and flour seem to be back in the store. I think my sister is still looking for yeast, but I want no part of it. I do not have the strength in my hands to knead bread. I will buy frozen loaves and rolls. Some meat items are in short supply. I want to make pepper steak this week. Finally cereal is back in the stores, for a while that was in short supply. Milk is abundant, farmers around here are dumping it because they can't sell it.

I'm still watching and enjoying, a couple of my favorite episodes are coming up in the next couple of weeks, one where Sam leaps into the understudy of a drunken actor playing Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha, played by John Cullum. I saw him in that show many years ago, it remains a favorite. The other is when Sam leaps into his younger self at 16 and sings Imagine to his sister. When I started watching a few weeks ago, that episode was on, but we had tornado warnings and I had to turn the tv to local weather. I've been wondering as I watch, what is going on in the mind of the person in the waiting room. I know sometimes Al reports that they are confused or think they've died and gone to heaven. But what I really wonder about is what happens when they are transported back into their own selves and Sam has put right what once went wrong. What do they think happened? That might be an interesting series to watch.

I just watched the final episode, I haven't seen it since it first aired. It made me cry. They just started episode 1. I'm rewatching with interest. And the bartender from the final episode is a superior officer in the first episode.

re the Dennis Haybert allstate ad in the coffee shop, isn't the guy behind the counter Geoffrey Owens, who played the husband of the oldest Huxtable daughter on Cosby?

Years ago, I worked at a museum, it has a lovely restaurant with 10 - 12 ft ceilings and windows that go from floor to ceiling. One of the kitchen staff found a baby blue jay in the garden. He chewed food and fed the baby and then as it grew up he continued to feed it other food. That jay was the pet of the staff. He sat on one of the gardener's head while he cut grass. He flew onto the patio and landed on the tables looking for food. Startled a lot of the patrons. But in the very hot summer, he would fly up to those windows, spread his wings and paste himself to the window to cool off. That really startled patrons of the restaurant.

I don't mind it, I believe that is the original Hank Williams (Sr.). I grew up with that song and all of his music. I hated it as a kid, but don't mind it so much now because it reminds me of my parents and I like thinking about them now and then. I used that version of that song for a slide show for my mom's funeral. Add me to the hatred of the gecko blooper reel.

I sleep to Pluto's Cold Case Files channel. Bill Kurtis' voice is so soothing. It's better for sleeping than Forensic Files or New Detectives or even Unsolved Mysteries. I don't want anything on that will keep me interested, I just want the drone of the tv. When I'm awake, I like Cold Case Files, but for sleeping, with the sound low, it's perfect and they repeat the episodes often. I might be tied of BTK though. But, back to the ads, on Pluto they advertise other channels and networks, a lot. I have never watched nor will I, some comedy show on some network where they keep screaming about "put a bird on it!" And, the only reason I ever watch WE is for Law and Order. I'm the one that started the WE TV, the trashy and tacky thread. I dislike most reality tv and WE has the worst of the worst with the exception of Naked and Afraid. But all of WE's bride shows annoy the crap out of me and so do their ads. The one where some woman is on a sidewalk screaming into a cell phone, "NO.More. Brides." makes me want to punch her lights out. I had problems getting to sleep last night and kept hearing that one. I'm also getting tired of All Together Now and Iko Iko. I like both songs, but I'm sick of them.

Over 6 weeks later, I found some at the store for $5.49. It does really work. I got some with my Walmart order last week. Paid less than $5 for it, don't remember exactly. I haven't tried it yet. I wanted it for cleaning the cookie sheet in particular but now we're in the mid to upper 90s and I will not use the oven when it's this hot. Maybe I'll try it on the Foreman Grill plates.

you want it's brother? He's my sister's cat, so I can't do more than cuss him out. He is a good mouser, but if I gave my Pit Bull free reign of the house, he'd probably give the cat a run for his money.

I would have stayed as far away from that thing as I could. I like watching birds...from a distance. I have a friend who has retired from her volunteer job as a bat rescuer. She would come to our doll club meetings and bring one or two in a cage to trade with another recuser who lived in this city. My friend lives on the other side of the state and they specialized in different kinds of bats. One time, the friend brought the bats in a cage to my house to take to the doll club, she was going out of town and couldn't do it at the right time. I accepted the job of transferring them reluctantly, I had to put the cage in my spare bedroom with the door closed to keep my dogs away. I did an elaborate rearranging of animals, locked the dogs in the bedroom while getting the bats and putting them in the spare bedroom, closing that door and letting the dogs back out. Then had to do it all again when I loaded the car with the dolls and bats. That was as close as I could get. I don't like creepy crawlies. I have learned a lot about bats because of my friend, and I appreciate them. I just don't want to get too close.

It's been a few days since I logged into this board, so I'm just going to copy and paste and comment on several posts. I see an ad on FB trying to raise donations for a candidate and apparently they are getting a lot of money and they are happy about it. But when they say in the ad "We were screaming! (over the donations)" I think about this ad, I've thought about commenting to them that "We were screaming!" sounds like a Plaxederm commercial, but I'd then get more ads just like that one. But the thing about the fake infomercial for the product with the 2 women, before they get to the "We were screaming" part, the one moderator says in such a serious tone, "this one's for real." I want to punch her in the face. I now, officially, hate that freaking song! But there's one lady in the ad, or maybe it's the Jane Seymour ad, where she says something like "now people can't tell my age!" I'm nearly 70, small stature and have always looked much younger, it's kind of annoying. I was nearly 40 before I was no longer carded to buy alcohol. I look older, but not 70. But, back to the ad, I scream back at the tv, I do that a lot, that no one gives 2 flying figs about her age, no one ever really has, build a bridge and get over yourself lady. I've said similar so many times in these forums. I hate him and I don't even know him. I particularly hate the fake press conference one. I hate all fake press conference, fake infomercials, fake product groups (the ones where the spokesperson is talking about the product and the people ask stupid questions like "will the estimate cost anything?" "how do I get my husband to use that product?" I don't mind the commercial, but not because I'm a cat lover, I'm not, I'm not amused by their cute cat behavior like racing ahead of me down the hall especially when I'm trying to get to the stove before the food boils over or burns, and then stop in the middle, roll over on his back, grab my leg in mid step and trips me and digs his claws into my leg and bite my shoe, then yeow at me when I step on his little ass. But I don't mind the commercial because I think the mother knows her spawn pretty well and he's not crying, not sounding any kind of alarm. Mom's don't have to jump and run because their child fell or tripped. She could ask, how much blood? I'd love to see the original commercial, it's one of my top 5 favorite commercials of all time. I can still recite the entire ad. And, I had a dog named Mikey just because of the commercial. My Mikey has been gone about 15 years, still miss him, he was the bestest dog ever.

I just discovered today that Prime has all 8 seasons available. I am still on season 1. Tom Selleck was so darn cute in his short shorts. I'll probably still be watching this a week from now. I had forgotten just how much I love this show.

I went to a Home Show at the height of Trading Spaces just to hear him talk. What I could hear was enjoyable. It was ruined for me by two women in the row ahead of me yakking it up the entire time. Frank was my favorite designer on the show, whether I liked his final room or not.