Aquarius
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This is, I think, New York Tri-State Area most of all. That said, I doubt it's misunderstood anywhere else.
I've been obsessing over how I say it since first reading about Alyssa Milano's pronunciation. I can't tell if I'm saying "kwar-ters" because i am aware now, but "kore-ters" doesn't sound bad to me, so maybe that is how I naturally say it. I'm in New Jersey.
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For the entirety of ST:TNG's run, I could not watch LeVar Burton and not see young Kunta Kinte of Roots.
I had to do it in reverse, having never seen Roots until a few years ago. It was disconcerting to say the least.
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Hee. We had a restaurant in town that served Mexican "Food." Talk about taking chances!
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Or anyone with a fatal disease is a noble, heartwarming person. I don't have a lot of experience with people with fatal diseases, but I have known some who were just ordinary, miserable (with good reason of course) people.
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It's because it's knocking out people who are ordering food over the phone. They want you to order food on their website.
Occam's razor probably does apply here. But with a flying burrito, you never can tell. LOL.
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OH MY GOD, this is the bane of my existence! I need Frasier and GG and all that shit to go to sleep to! See, I can't leave the TV on something too boring, but I also can't leave it on something new and interesting; it has to be an old dependable standby! And these crappy Christmas movies are not that! Oh, I am mad.
Not to worry. This was clarified by another poster some time back, but it just means new Christmas movies airing Sat/Sun nights starting October 31. I think Frasier and The Golden Girls are probably safe, until closer to Christmas at least.
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But beyond that, in my house chocolate milk was a treat. I wasn't playing games, blowing bubbles and lollygagging when it came to chocolate milk, my game plan was to get it down my trap as soon as possible. If I had started blowing bubbles my mom would have taken it away, and that would have been punishment enough.
Word re: the chocolate milk. That was down my hatch before it ever occurred to me to use it as a toy.
I'm confused, his car is depreciating before its first oil change no matter what. Does he not understand the concept of depreciation? If he tries to sell his car two days after he buys it, he isn't going to get what he paid going in. Maybe he just realized this fact and is going to crash his car before his first oil change.That's exactly right - he doesn't understand that his car depreciated the second he drove it off the lot (and that he, like everyone else in the world, assumed that risk by driving it off said lot) and he insists upon an insurance company who will play along with this little deluded fantasy of full new-car value for a used car. Because, you know, basic rules of society don't apply to this entitled fool. Plus you can't possibly expect him to find a new car with the $37K he got back from his old insurance company, can you? I mean, that's just cruel and unusual.
Every time this entitled jackass says, "The question is, why would you have that insurance company?" or whatever he says, I respond, "Because that's how depreciation works in the real world, asshole." I hate that commercial.
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Twice a week? Those little stinkers will watch something over and over ten times a day if you let them.
I read something about this, I think in one of Malcolm Gladwell's books. If I remember correctly, because of the way children learn, repetition is actually the best part of things for them. While adults might find it boring, they find it exciting. Programming to that need was the basis of "Sesame Street," which was groundbreaking at the time.
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Maybe it's me, or maybe it was the Paula Deen thing, but it seems like I heard a lot more about Damaris after she won FNS than I am hearing about Lenny. I refuse to look him up though (I get my updates here), so maybe I am just missing the buzz. But it seems so strange to me . . . all I've seen is one interview about the win . . . then nothing. Knowing what I do about his online presence it just seems weird. I wonder.
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This might be because Chris Elliott is the creepy guy, period.
To me he will always be the creepy guy from Get A Life.
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I never thought Three Valentines was that riveting. Not even Niles's ironing board scene. I'll show myself out now.
I'll do you one better. I HATE the ironing board scene. I find it annoying and not at all funny.
How can he not prefer Faye?! Fabulous Faye who could use jejune in a sentence.
But there's Cassandra! Who doesn't even need to use a sentence! That might be my mad girl-crush on Virginia Madsen talking, though.
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The thing is, in the eighties fifty was old. I was a teenager in the eighties, and times have definitely changed. Dorothy, Rose and Blanche were nothing like my mother's friends, particularly Blanche with her free-wheeling sex life. She was responsible about it, but she also dated around a lot. That wasn't as common back then, at least I'm pretty sure it wasn't. That's what made it such a groundbreaking show, and its why even today younger people enjoy watching it.
I sort of agree with this. I am now the age my mother was during the 1980's, and I am so very happy that I don't have to dress the way she used to back then. Of course, there were no Fashion Police or anything, but the styling of mature women's clothing was very different. Dowdier. My mother wears skinny jeans now, but back in the 1980's she would have looked somewhat ridiculous if she'd worn something that "young." Also, hairstyles, etc. - it's all gotten more acceptable for older women to be more young in their style, if you will.
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Well, dontcha know, men have no idea how to parent their children, only women do. Commercials said so.
True. But in this case, Dish is saying the MAN is right. That's why they added all that extra space so Brat never needs to live without her Special Pretty Pony show. So I guess in a way, Dish is groundbreaking with this ad. LOL.
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Totally agree with this. Mel was so good at building up Niles and she was portrayed as though she truly believed in him. We saw that in her speech to Daphne when Daphne was giving her a massage (okay she was awful to Daphne before that. And in the Cork Master episode when she got him to believe in himself enough to run against Frasier. Daphne never appeared to really have that spark for Niles that Mel did.
Exactly right. Mel was pushy and ambitious but she really believed in Niles. I always felt like Daphne suddenly developed her feelings for Niles after finding out how into her he was . . . it was more a matter of "wow, he really loves me!" more than she fell in love with him. Mel's personality was abrasive and she was very direct, but she did seem to be in love with Niles.
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No, you are not alone. In the beginning Mel was perfect for Niles. Even after they trashed the character, I still would rather have seen her with Niles. Niles and Daphne as a couple were the worst. So unbelievable. He should have pined until he finally decided to be her friend.Am I the only one who thought Mel was absolutely perfect for Niles, until they made her over-the-top awful for the sake of Niles/Daphne? Okay, then.
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But isn't the rest button kind of necessary sometimes? I don't advocate lazy writing, but sometimes time jumps are better IMO than showing every single thing. Where's the line between skipping ahead six months and narrating every fart and burp?
As I understood the "time jump" trope, it was not the normal time lapse employed in storytelling. Continuity is respected in the time lapse. Like you said, it's used not to show every farting thing that happens, but the story is advanced. It's not used as a mechanism to just change story direction, like a random time jump.
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In the next episode of "Aren't Terribly Behaved Children HILARIOUS HARHARHAR," today I saw one of the Dish Hopper commercials (the ones with the kangaroo) where this little girl is screaming because her episode of "sparkle pony dance off" or something got deleted. And the kangaroo so kindly informs the parents that they should get a Hopper so they can record more stuff, and avoid those gosh darn tantrums! WTF. Now parents are expected to buy extra special dvrs just so their child doesn't experience a brief moment of disappointment at any point in their *special, special* lives??? And the issue with the obnoxious, screaming tantrum this girl is throwing is that the DVR sucks?? I know it's been said before in this thread...but I just cannot handle all these commercials where parents are expected to walk on eggshells around their own children, and fork out money for assorted products in a constant effort to avoid meltdowns/tantrums/etc. No. Your child acts awful and it's your fault. Get it together.
The worst part about this commercial is that the mother asks, "What was I supposed to do, keep it forever?" And the father says, "YES!" And apparently HE'S right.
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My first crush was on David Cassidy in 'The Partridge Family.' I later graduated to Scott Baio on 'Happy Days' and Ralph Macchio in his cousin Oliver role on 'Eight Is Enough.' Obviously I had a type.
Hee. My sister had the same type. Her first serious boyfriend had feathered hair, years after it was fashionable.
I'm gratified to see above that my Peter Tork love is not as unusual as it has always seemed to me. One less thing to feel like a freak about, LOL.
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Maybe you are not the focus, maybe its not anti-you, maybe it is just pro-them.
And for people like the Million Moms, that is exactly the problem. Because just the act of celebrating, or even just acknowledging, those that are different than them, is an affront to their very way of being. I've never understood it either, but it's become very clear to me that this is how they see the world. It's a very "us vs. them" viewpoint. If "they" exist, "we" are threatened.
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Similar to this is the time jump, basically for the same reasons. It's more egregious because the time jump is usually on the order of months v a wham/cutaway. It's such a hack cheap move because it allows the writers to not deal with any follow up, but it's also a reset button because if you jump far enough, you can put the characters wherever you want without explaining any motivations regarding how they got there, cf. the entire premise of the Leftovers.
Like on The Ghost Whisperer, you can just time jump yourself out of the fact that Jim is something akin to a reanimated corpse. Jim in Sam's body. But jump five years into the future, and he's just Jim again. Gah. I don't know why this still bothers me, so many years later. I guess I need a time jump myself. LOL.
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I saw a Lincoln car commercial staring Matthew Mcconaughey last night and immediately thought of this forum. I guess it's too "deep" for me because I don't get it.
You and me both. He keeps talking about going back in order to move forward. I kept expecting him to pull up to some neighborhood of his past, but no, just driving along some loop, with some random traffic and construction scenes. What does that have to do with being willing to go back?
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I swear I saw half-ears of corn on their plates.
Nope, she cut the corn off the cob then broke it up with her fingers as she put it in the bowl. Maybe what looked like half ears of corn were huge hunks of baguette? What a stupid way to serve it that was.
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The Subway ad with the feats of farm strength or whatever - at the end when he's pulling that big wooden thing and he cries out, "This is NOT a one-person job!" Don't know why but that just cracks my shit up.
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How about a commercial where I put on the perfume, and then that guy from the Zesty ads pops up and offers to cook me dinner because I smell so good, and then his shirt melts off because of the delicious smell of my perfume.
Thats a perfume I want to try!
Yes, please!
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TV Tropes: Love 'em or Loathe 'em
in Everything Else TV
Yes! The great thing about Weaver is, I don't even remember her as "disabled." She was just Weaver.