Tom Holmberg

Maybe I should rename the perfume "Chicago." "This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide."

Smell like the beach! Back in the late 90s we got my mother an "email machine" that basically just sent and received email via the phone. Every other day she'd be calling me that she "got a daemon." She'd also call that she sent an email, while my father yelled about "that g*dd*mn" machine." So I can see why this might be useful for some people,

I watched "Blackboard Jungle", which I've seen many times, and finally realized Jamie Farr is one of the students (under his real name Jameel Farah).

I bought my nephews the game "Bugs in the Kitchen" which uses a hexbug. They really like it.

As long as you're not "strutting" down the toilet paper aisle. I wish one of the perfume companies would put out a perfume called "Mal de Mer". I'm sure it would sell like crazy. since it's French.

Other ads seem to be copying the perfume ads, some car ads for instance seem to be doing the same.

They do have "The Bob Newhart Show" in the morning and "Mary Tyler Moore" in the afternoon (my time).

Paging Dr. Freud... paging Dr. Freud.

That's the real way to do genealogy. People think you can just go to some website, put in your name and you'll get your genealogy going back to Adam and Eve (and showing all the kings and queens and famous people who you are related to). In reality, as your family shows, things are more complicated than that.

Actually, doing genealogy is the real way to get all this information, but it's a lot of work and takes some know-how. The U.S. isn't the only country in the world with immigrants, so while your DNA says Spanish or Italian or Polish or German, your ancestors could culturally be French, having lived there for generations. DNA isn't necessarily going to tell you that. I knew someone named Martinez, who was French, despite the name (his family pronounced the name "Martin-ay".

Adoption is a different issue. I don't think Ripa was adopted. As for accuracy of relatives, here's a story on DNA tests. https://www.insideedition.com/investigative/21784-how-reliable-are-home-dna-ancestry-tests-investigation-uses-triplets-to-find-out

How did she not know this before? It's not like her Italian ancestors came over on the Mayflower or crossed the ice bridge at the Bering Strait. I don't get how any of these people are so unaware of their ethnic background. How do they think they're German when they're actually Scottish? Maybe they should spend more time talking to their grandparents and other relatives rather than on DNA tests.

I don't think they are concerned with the controller, I think the point is that anyone can be a winner using their computer (so buy more Microsoft products).

And since she's full of maple-y goodness, she's probably Canadian.

In the 1960s Mrs. Butterworth was played by Cliff Arquette (AKA, Charlie Weaver), so she was transsexual.

Really disturbing ad. https://www.ispot.tv/ad/dBv7/dupixent-from-within

If you have a dirty mind, it's Pac-Man giving head.

Along with Shelia's chi chi "she shed" by the seashore

It matters to Lassie, too.

And sometimes you don't. :)

Should be in quotes. "caroling"...

They had the wedding at the National Archives so that Mika didn't have to be out of her protective encasement filled with inert gas like the Constitution, for too long.

Now that Joe and Mika are married, how long before Joe reverts to his right wingnut self? On days when Mika was off we saw the old Joe struggling to come back.

Mattresses... Since when do you have to be a millionaire to afford to buy a mattress? You can buy a refrigerator, dishwasher, washer and drier combined for the same price as a mattress. Really, are mattresses that hard to make? A few springs and a bunch of waste cotton batting. Now one company is advertising that they use diamonds in their mattresses! WTF? Diamonds? Who the hell wants or needs to sleep on freaking diamonds? Marie Antoinette?

I don't have to pay people to yell at me, my family yells at me for free.