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In my town there is a police non-emergency number you can call for something like changing the battery in your smoke detector. I have a good handyman whom I use for that but he's probably older than I am so I'll be calling the non-emergency number if it gets to a point where he can't do the job anymore. Defendant in case #1 looked like an over-grown 3-year-old gawking at all the pretty lights.

I think a lot of Albert's prudishness was a reaction to his own parents - his mother was exiled by his father because of her affair, even though his father had a mistress or mistresses and Victoria's own uncles George and William - George with his unofficial wife and splitting from his official wife and William with his ten (yes 10) children with his mistress Mrs. Jordan.

A number of years ago I read that the prudery we associate with the Victorian era was due more to Albert than Victoria. The courts of George IV and William IV were rather wild places. Also, Victoria did not believe that there were such things as female homosexuals so, while male homosexuality could result in imprisonment or death, women were free of possible punishment.

I thought the last two cases - especially the one with the 99-year-old mother seemed very familiar. About the pot roast - how would the mother know that the pot roast had been sitting out for 5 days unless she had been there for all five days?

I wonder how many cases there are of a GUY loaning a GIRL his car for a while and her not returning it, getting tickets, and not paying them so the car gets impounded. Probably a lot fewer than a girl letting a guy use her car.

I HATE series that have an episode after a sporting event. My DVR can't adjust. I have the Simpsons to record all new episodes but if Fox has the second NFL game maybe Simpsons start at 8:00 and maybe not. I hope the Super Bowl is a good and exciting game and maybe I'll be able to stay awake long enough to watch This Is Us - can't stay up as late as I used to.

I was born in 1946. I don't know how long my mother was in the hospital but I seem to remember her mentioning a leg-dangling day - maybe even as late as a week after birth. On another note - still childbirth related - when Charles was born, Philip was playing - I think squash - bad husband and father. In that era fathers were not at the birth - they paced around waiting. According to an interview I saw years ago with one of Philip's friends - there was a squash court at Buckingham Palace and that's where he was - instead of pacing the corridor,

Thank you, Cowgirl. I knew one of the actresses playing a Goldberg Girl was very familiar but I could not place her. Thanks again.

Something that I found amusing from a few seasons ago when they had just adopted Will and took him home - He had surgery (it might have been on his ears) and Jen said that, when she had had one of her many surgeries, she couldn't understand why her mother was so tired when Jen woke up. Of course, her mother had been awake all (or most of the time) while Jrn was coming to and - even if she did get some sleep it was sitting up in a chair - and I wondered if her mother said or texted - "Now you know". Will is almost as tall as Jen amd Bill is almost a giant compared to his wife and children.

I love that Beverly thought a permanent was permanent. They're not - which I'm sure all of you knew.

When I watched case #2 today and Judge MM yelled at the defendant I thought daughter and sister of contractor. Something like that may have happened to someone in her family.

I'm guessing Judge M's paycheck is what enables her to endure these loony-tunes.

I wonder if either Claire or Shawn will be on the reunion show. Shawn didn't cheat but maybe, if invited, she wouldn't go without the twin who did most of her work - which could be considered a form of cheating. I remember the man being kicked out in whichever season it was - 2? but I can't remember if there were reunion shows then.

I was impressed that the plaintiff in the car case knew that there is a Universal Commercial Code - but, over 100,000 miles, no dice.

I'm WAY past the age to have children and I don't know what the young folks are doing these days so I had never heard of Shopkins until last night. When I was about 10 my aunt gave me a Barbie Doll. It was so long ago that Barbie was not famous. It's not the doll that runs into money, it's the accessories.

I wonder if Georgina will still have to be introduced as the beautiful (or is it lovely?) Georgina Chapman?

I always take my car back to the dealer for service so if anything does go wrong I know who to yell at.

A truck driver can certainly have a nice or even expensive wardrobe. He or she might make a good income and be very careful with money or have some investments. There used to be or maybe still is the motto of the American Trucking Association - If you have it, a truck brought it. Now you might get all of your reading material online so the motto would not apply - but if you're getting a physical object a truck, driven by a truck driver, brought it.

Re: the twins: I wonder if Shawn was dominant even when they were in utero.

It seems when WWII is mentioned people immediately think combat. My father was in the Army from July 1942 until late 1945 and was in the Persian Gulf. He and the others were building trucks which carried supplies so that the Germans did not get to the Caucasus oil fields. In the mid-90's he got a medal from the Russian government he and my mother had framed. In the back there is a newspaper story about a man in a neighboring town who got the same medal because he was one of the truck drivers carrying the supplies. If there had been an invasion of Japan my father would have been in it - and I might not be here. When there was footage from the first Persian Gulf war - George Bush the Elder President- he would say "See all those trees." and, of course, there were no trees. He wanted people to have an idea of what it was like climate-wise.

I will not watch any dog cases. I either completely mute the sound and read or do a crossword or switch over to any other channel. I know each case usually takes 20 minutes including commercials so I know when to go back - and if a dog case is the last one I can just turn off the television.

I would love to know how long it takes to actually make the show and when it begins filming. New York Fashion Week is in September - I think middle of the month - so for the finalists to make the garments they are going to show at Fashion Week and for Tim to go to see each of the finalists at home (and for them to redo or even remake some of the garments) has got to take a while.

Re Case #1: This is very personal but it might be time for the daughter to become her father's Power of Attorney or maybe even set up a conservatorship.

So often in a marriage it's the wife who is in charge of the social life - maybe the husband has a night out with the boys every so often but in the normal course of events it's the wife's job - that's how it was in my parent's marriage. I can't write from my experience because I've never been married.

If this were 15 or 20 years ago very few of us would have known about Jeff and Gage, or any of the real (?) housewives, or any other person on a "reality" show unless we actually knew them personally. The breakups probably still would have happened but the general public would not have known.