Lugal
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So I'm not the only one that thought Melissa Benoist was a better Teela than SMG. Shatner, I knew right away especially when he said "I'm laughing at the superior intellect." (Wrath of Khan FTW!) The one that really threw me was Granamyr. I first thought it was Erik Todd Dellums, but then in the credits I saw it was John DeLancie! Actually, between Shatner, John DeLancie and Gates McFadden, we had a sort of Star Trek gathering.
Didn't think of it in the moment, but, yeah, He-Man did look a lot like Thor. Abolishing the monarchy and going straight into the elections of representative democracy felt weird and out of place. How come no one tries elective monarchy, direct democracy or an anarcho-syndicalist commune?
All in all it wasn't bad, and an improvement over Revelation, and I agree that Evil-Lyn or now just Lyn was the standout, her story arc was probably the most interesting and Lena Heady was spot on. They brought some moral complexity to the crazy cartoon about toys I watched 40 years ago, so yeah, I'd probably be in for another season.
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It was interesting for Ed's ancestor that fought in the civil war at 17 neither he nor Henry mentioned the money. I have records and letters from my ancestors that served and the money was a big motivator. I saw on the document they showed briefly on screen, it looked like he was paid $25.
On 1/24/2024 at 6:26 PM, Salacious Kitty said:In the first census record they showed (1840, IIRC), Sammy's ancestor was 5. They didn't show a census prior to that to show if the "father" was living in the home with the older children. It would have been more convincing had they shown this, even if they didn't have more of a paper trail.
It was 1850, which was the first census to show the names of everyone living there. Before that, the censuses just showed the head of household and tallies for the rest of the people there by age, gender and free/slave status. They could make a rough guess by ages and gender, but that would be the best they could do.
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On 1/6/2024 at 10:00 AM, Winston Wolfe said:
Another thing, no true Mob Kingpin would deliver that kind of beating to a rival and leave him alive to tell the tale. Sonny isn't good enough to lick Tony Soprano's shoes.
A true mob kingpin would have someone to do that for him.
17 hours ago, hypnotoad said:Well I mean to be fair, Sonny leads the gummy bear mob and we're supposed to believe the GH mob isn't involved in drugs! GH mob has nothing on any other mob on any other show or movie!!
My theory for years has been his coffee is grown on child-slave plantations and he smuggles it in to avoid being exposed. But, maybe he uses the coffee to literally smuggle in the drugs like this. But more likely he'll keep the drugs out of PC but he'll run them into other communities because he doesn't live there, why should he care?
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On 1/3/2024 at 9:30 PM, statsgirl said:
The irony that Lois told what Nina did and that's considered a good thing, and Nina also told what Carly and Drew did and that's considered a very bad thing, is not lost on me.
On 1/4/2024 at 1:21 PM, ffwbe said:Today had some really gross dialogue. The main ones being Drew telling Nina he wishes she wasn’t a woman so he could hit her and Carly telling her why she gets to live and Bobbie died. I’m paraphrasing but I thought those were both in very poor taste
Well, the old writers are back and GH is on fire!
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1 hour ago, Milburn Stone said:
I say them the same, and am curious how else to say whine. My guess is, whine would be pronounced with a soft exhalation of breath through a small round mouth on the "wh"?
I also say them the same too, and the pronunciation of "wh" doesn't seem overly precise. It can be a voiceless /w/ sound or more of a /hw/.
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On 12/30/2023 at 5:20 PM, SoMuchTV said:
Language is fun, right? Cot/caught, Don/Dawn, Erin/Aaron, Barry/berry, Mary/merry/marry, they're all the same to me. Yet somehow I'm apparently the only person still alive who hears a difference between wine and whine. Go figure.
The wine-whine merger happened nearly everywhere else in North America accept southern Appalachia. I definitely use a different vowel between cot and caught, but marry and Barry are weird in that I randomly switch between using the same sound as Mary/merry and berry, or a lower /æ/ vowel. Bury however, to me rhymes with Murray (that Philadelphia influence).
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Journalist and Documentarian John Pilger has died
https://news.yahoo.com/tributes-pour-journalist-campaigner-john-172703670.html
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On 12/27/2023 at 12:15 PM, JTMacc99 said:
(Kind of like the way I say macamadamia nut because that's the way Homer Simpson pronounced it, and I like his way better than the real one.)
It's funny, but Daffy Duck actually changed the way people say despicable (originally the stress was on the first syllable) because the cartoons were where a lot of people first heard the word.
On 12/27/2023 at 6:52 PM, partofme said:When I was in college I was told it was the way I said “bought”. No idea how I say it.
Question, do you say "cot" and "caught" differently? Because that usually identifies people from the East Coast.
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I just finished Bill Watterson's new book, The Mysteries. I thought it was good, but I can see how not everyone will. It's a "fable for grownups" abut "what lies beyond human understanding." He collaborated with another artist, so don't expect it to look like Calvin and Hobbes. To me it looks sort of like German Expressionism. It's a short read and I'll probably reread it a few more times.
SpoilerWe never actually see the Mysteries, but I would say it's probably their story rather than the people. It kinda forces us as humans to confront our cosmic insignificance.
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12 hours ago, scarynikki12 said:
Reportedly suicide.
This one hurts. I loved him in Dairy of a Prosecutor and My Mister.
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Rhotic or R-colored vowels (like in dollar) are exceedingly uncommon and only appear in less than 1% of the world's languages. However two languages they do appear in are North American English and Mandarin Chinese, two languages with some of the highest number of speakers on the planet!
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Because I hate nearly all Christmas music that gets played on the radio (from years of working retail) I find myself looking for the obscure and unusual, and this year I found this gem: Carol of the Bells played on the hurdy-gurdy
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I was also disappointed by Heidelberg. The scenery was amazing and it was fun to see the German Christmas customs, but our heroine was a bit much. And I just couldn't ignore that no one ships thousands of dollars of merchandise overseas in cardboard boxes with packing peanuts. That would be in a wooden crate with straw or paper.
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It's just not fair.
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On 12/10/2023 at 7:35 PM, kathyk2 said:
According to Instagram Shelia's baby is named Mirentxu aka Miri.
Apparently it's Basque and means beloved.
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27 minutes ago, Jaded said:
The 1994 comedy My Father the Hero was where I started thinking Gerard was creepy. The whole premise of that movie was icky in how it was written. I've never been interested in seeing a movie he's been in since though. The basic outline is the 14 year old daughter of his character played by Katherine Heigl tells the boy she likes that her father is her boyfriend/lover and that he's dying.
I think that's probably the only movie I've seen him in. It was enough. Especially gross is that Depardieu pushed for Katherine Heigl to wear the thong in that scene.
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On 11/30/2023 at 6:23 PM, DearEvette said:
Well damn. Juliana Margulies did a podcast and what came out was a rather racist, unhinged rant against black people, non-binary folks and gays.
This snippet here is both horrifying and rather funny:
On 11/30/2023 at 6:23 PM, DearEvette said:“and as someone who plays a lesbian journalist on The Morning Show, I am more offended by it as a lesbian than I am as a Jew,
Girl whut? Fuck you!
The tone of her voice when she said 'Blacks' and 'Those people' onthe podcast when referring to non-binary is so disdainful.
I guess that kinda clears up who was probably the problem between her and Archie.
That is bizarre. Uh...Juliana, you're not a lesbian, you know. And what's with the oppression hierarchy? Jew is less oppressed than Black which is less oppressed than Gay? So everyone needs to fall in line? It's not a contest!
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11 hours ago, KaveDweller said:
here was a movie a couple years ago that had the same twist. A woman worked at a museum made of some historical guys house, and the guy had disappeared at some point and no one knew why. Turns out he was transported to present time and never went back cause of the woman he met.
I remember that one. Well, I remember that was the one with the notorious "Christmas Blue Moon" when the second full moon of the month is on Christmas, which is astronomically impossible.
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On 11/28/2023 at 10:51 PM, Anduin said:
James Norton and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau will star in a show about Harold of Wessex vs William of Normandy, called King and Conqueror.
I'm intrigued. I'd be curious who they end up casting as Harald Hardrada of Norway. If not for Hardrada (a fascinating character in how own right) Harold would have probably defeated William.
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6 hours ago, ABay said:
Here's an episode for Unsolved Mysteries: How could Steven Moffat be such a good script writer and such a disaster as showrunner?
I said it at the time and I stand by it: Moffat is the Idea Guy. He can come up with some really interesting and creative stories, but he needs someone overseeing him to make him fit it all together into a coherent whole.
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2 hours ago, kathyk2 said:
I wonder how Ghosts will explain Flower's absence? She probably won't be on this season since she'll have a newborn.
That would be one of the easier things to explain: Flower spent the winter staring at a tree or something. I would hope they can work with her schedule somehow and have her put in some kind of appearance, even if she's just laying on a couch in the back of the room.
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I've actually been holding off until after Thanksgiving so I don't OD on Hallmark Christmas movies. They've been accumulating on the DVR and I watched my first one last night (Mystery on Mistletoe Lane, which was pretty good). Except the said "mistletoe" which was just a few sprigs of pine and cedar bound together with juniper berries!
Seriously, Hallmark, if you're going all in on Christmas, and I know it's your thing, then please learn what mistletoe looks like. Half the time the "mistletoe" is actually holly (however, in their defense, when you do an image search for mistletoe, half the results will also be holly). Holly has prickly leaves and red berries. Mistletoe has smooth leaves and white berries, viz.
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I first heard it in "The Lollygang Save the World on Accident" a short story by Jay Lake published in a steampunk anthology in 2008. I always assumed it was dialectal. And since I first heard it in a steampunk setting, I thought it was an old fashioned form.
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14 hours ago, marina to said:
Why aren't small task forces being talked about? Why does the response always seem to to kill 3 times the amount of innocent people the terror attack killed?
Small task forces can take heavy casualties in urban warfare. As for the other answer: "The emphasis is on damage and not on accuracy." - Daniel Hagari, Israeli army spokesman. Since October 7, Israel has dropped more than 25,000 tons of bombs on Gaza.
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S03.E04: Fire Storm
in La Brea
Someone else remembers Covington Cross! 🥳