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That's the one! Thank you so much, @iPad!!!

I know. It hurts...I was a proofreader for my local newspaper before budget cuts went down. No one cares about correcting errors like that anymore, it seems. 😭

You're exactly right. Besides, that's the story of my dad's life!!! He mows until the last possible second, even with ominous rainclouds above.

Remember some immortal words growing up in the 1980s? "Look, Mom's feeling better!" "Uh-oh!" Classic!

I know!! Too bad we will likely never find out...boo!!!

Do TV theme songs count? Lee Majors sang the theme song to his 1980s show, The Fall Guy. The theme song is entitled "The Unknown Stuntman". Several celebrities are mentioned, the first of which is Mr. Majors' ex-wife Farrah Fawcett. Another starlet mentioned only by her first name is Bo Derek. Here are the lyrics: Well, I’m not the kind to kiss and tell, but I’ve been seen with Farrah I’m never seen with anything less than a nine, so fine. I’ve been on fire with Sally Field, gone fast with a girl named Bo, But somehow they just don’t end up as mine. It’s a death defying life I lead, I take my chances. I die for a livin’ in the movies and TV. But the hardest thing I ever do is watch my leading ladies Kiss some other guy while I’m bandaging my knee. I might fall from a tall building, I might roll a brand new car. ’Cause I’m the unknown stuntman that made Redford such a star. I never spend much time in school but I taught ladies plenty. It’s true I hire my body out for pay, Hey Hey. I’ve gotten burned over Cheryl Tiegs, blown up for Raquel Welch. But when I end up in the hay it’s only hay, Hey Hey. I might jump an open drawbridge, or Tarzan from a vine. ’Cause I’m the unknown stuntman that makes Eastwood look so fine.

"Insipid" is far too kind a word to describe Margie!! As my mother would say, "that woman is out of her tree!!"

Two words: LiMu Emu!!!!!

When I was still in single digits, I would watch the reruns of M&M every night on one of the local stations. Mearth TRAUMATIZED me. Something about this big, grown man wearing a diaper and babbling baby talk absolutely terrified me. I refused to watch any more episodes with him. (Though I did like Jonathan Winters on the later sitcom, Davis Rules.)

For me, it's TV characters learning how to drive and mayhem/hilarity (not the Allstate character) ensues. Trust me, I've been there myself!!

I learned about the concept of kissing and making up from a rerun of Mork & Mindy when I was in my single digits. Pick a fight with someone you have it bad for, sweeten them up, and then...you know the rest. I honestly have never done this, because I am the most non-confrontational person on the planet!!! 😂

I don't understand the point of having "LiMu Emu" RADIO ads. An emu is great for a medium where you can actually SEE it. YMMV.

The "LiMu Emu" jingle annoys me. The commercials itself don't really bother me except for the singing part. UGGGGH.

For some reason, I can never find this commercial. It was from the 80s and showed a group of people coughing inside a doctor's waiting room. A nurse opens up the door, holding up a bottle of cough syrup (Robitussen?) and says in a singsong voice, "Next!" Please help me out here!!!

Here's an interesting op-ed on the Callaway situation: https://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonywitrado/2019/06/23/the-mets-must-fire-mickey-callaway-now/#6ec3b13a6770

Speaking of the OMAX back to school ads, I remember when Jay Leno did a parody of them - superimposing Kevin Eubanks' head over Eddie's. Too funny!!! 😂

OWN will be airing Tracy's episode again tomorrow, 6/24 at 11 AM EST.

They did work together for years on All My Children, where they met. Their characters were married. Kelly did double duty on AMC and with Regis for the first year or two, but eventually both she and Mark left the soap.

I would also recommend Tracy's 2005 memoir, Breaking the Perfect 10. Most of the book is about her horrible relationships before meeting her husband, a cop (who I believe she is still married to to this day), her courtship, engagement and marriage to her husband and her conversion to Christianity, but it does touch on her childhood quite a bit and how her mother's hoarding was an issue for years. It's easy to see her conflicted between her love for her mother and her decision NOT to have her mother live with her. Tracy and her husband have kids and I wouldn't want them to have to deal with all that baggage (figurative and literal), either.

As for the Sharona/Natalie debate, I like them both equally. I never saw the show when it was originally on, and started watching it when it was in syndicated reruns on one of my local stations. Natalie was on when I first started watching the reruns. I like that when Bitty Schram left (after a contract dispute), they didn't make Sharona's replacement a carbon copy.I like that despite some similarities (both were single moms raising a preteen), their personalities and backgrounds were completely different. Yet, both ladies were completely devoted to Monk even though their methods in dealing with him varied. As the Captain told Monk, "you got lucky twice".

I'm currently watching S1 on DVD. I have three young nephews (oddly enough, who have the exact same age differences that TC, DG and SL had), and the show did a great job of showing how chaotic a household of growing boys can really be. They came across as real kids and not overly cute and saccharine.

Yes, they are Christians but NOT the type that you are talking about. They really do walk the walk as well as talk the talk. They are kind to everyone and are not judgmental. Both Brenda and Wendi are as gorgeous on the inside as they are on the outside.

The episode of Dr. Phil that featured Tracy Melchior (Kristen Forrester) with her mom was just rerun:

Here's the video!! The best part was Tom Hamilton's sheer excitement calling it on the radio. https://www.foxsports.com/ohio/video/1555478083812 Here's the post-game interview:

I loved the barely-concealed sarcasm Sara used the other day when reporting about Bill Cosby being a "life coach" and doing comedy routines for his fellow prison inmates. I'll miss that. Maybe my favorite Sara moment on the show came about a year or so ago when they showed a video that went viral of a toddler singing Dolly Parton's "Jolene", only the little girl pronounced it as "Darlene", as in Sara's iconic sitcom character. Sara then looked into the camera, completely deadpan, and said "Don't worry, kiddo, Darlene's not going to steal your man." She brought the house down!