Aquarius
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The one with Duck the dog. It's similar only starts with the kid encouraging puppy Duck, who is having difficulty climbing into the car and ends with the adult encouraging elderly Duck to climb in the car.
Now excuse me because someone must be chopping onions somewhere near my desk . . .
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12 hours ago, BusyOctober said:
Plus I think its gross and very icky when he shifts from talking to a person in crisis and his/her family, to spouting off about eye cream. Talk about a disconnect. It's so disrespectful.
That's a perfect way to put it.
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12 hours ago, Nordly Beaumont said:
Totally blanking on Charlotte - who played her?
Laura Linney.
She's Frasier's last girlfriend of the series. We're supposed to believe he leaves an entire life in Seattle behind and passes up a fantastic job opportunity in San Francisco (?) to go be with her in Chicago. Blech.
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Seeing the last episodes recently on Cozi reminded me of how much I really didn't like Charlotte for Frasier. She was entirely too wacky and insecure. They tried to play it off like he found her so refreshingly charming. I never bought it. There was no chemistry there.
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3 hours ago, Madding crowd said:
. . . I just am getting to the point where I think Dr. Phil is sometimes getting scammed and he may even know about it.
Not possible. No one fools Dr. Shill. And if they even try, why he'll huff and he'll puff and he'll just blow the lid off the whole thing.
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17 hours ago, txvoodoo said:
That looks like Pinterest threw up on itself! "country" cabinets, extra-busy tile backsplash, stainless "farm" sink and Ree's tablecloth. Which looks SO odd there!
I'm bothered by the command "EAT" over the sink. What, does it double as a trough? Pioneer Woman inspired, indeed.
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Ree's definition of a "busy day" is definitely different than mine. On my busy days, I don't have over two hours in the morning to cook a frigging beef stew to use as the base of a shepherd's pie for supper that night. And make a pie, even using pudding mix. Ree's life is nothing like mine.
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On 3/11/2017 at 9:05 AM, MrSmith said:
Could be, but it could really be as simple as bad parenting. In particular, abuse.
I completely agree it's probably an issue of abuse. I make a distinction between bad parenting and abuse, and generally Dr. Phool does too. (I've heard the term "mandated reporter" many a time but I did not hear it in this case.) Sending these parents to classes where they can learn to positively reinforce their daughter's good behavior is sort of skating around what seem to be real concerning behavioral issues. I've always heard that violence towards animals is a red flag for serious issues. Rabbits are so docile that I cannot imagine a situation where hitting one (hard, from what I understood) could be attributed to any aggression on part of the animal.
Why Phool put all these very disturbing behavioral issues up on his Big Board, and then came to a conclusion that all the child needed is positive reinforcement behavioral training, without mentioning the very real possibility that abuse might be occurring (which may not in fact be the parents), truly mystifies me.
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1 hour ago, Toaster Strudel said:
That Makenzie kid was mimicking adult behaviors around her. That's my theory. Where else would she pick up cursing? She seems to dislike her mother, maybe she has good reasons.
Offering poison to a friend? Hitting the pet rabbit? Sitting in the road in front of oncoming traffic? I'm not bald and I'm no Expert, but I think that kid might have problems beyond bad parenting.
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1 hour ago, larsonb said:
Maybe I missed something about Aiden's superhero, but what who was the superhero? There were all pyramids, and it was a cute story, and a pretty cake, but I couldn't figure out what the superhero was.
The superhero was the Prism. He made a whole bunch of pyramids from that special sugar, and put the nicest one on the cake.
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9 hours ago, TomGirl said:
For some reason, this comment just cracks me up.
Ha! And now an image I did not need will not get out of my head . . .
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So sad for Justice. He deserved to win. All things were not equal, because Aidan fell back on his comfortable buttercream - for which he'd been dinged before on a lack of originality. And Aidan's villain wasn't as tasty.
BOO!
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I thought the guy with the big ole cavity is already set up with the equipment they use when they're going to fill a cavity (the mouthguard, that spit sucking thing, he even sounds like he may have had some anesthetic). I've never had that setup when I was in just for a cleaning/checkup but then my dentist is sort of old fashioned.
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3 hours ago, Madding crowd said:
I think Phil has these people on because he thinks he is smarter than everyone else and will somehow extract some kind of confession or get some insight no one else has.
That does seem to be the theme lately, whether Phil is dealing with the addicted, the afflicted, the stupid, the spoiled, the lazy - whatever. He of The Bald Head of Experience will somehow manage to gain the insight that no one else dealing with the subject has been able to do. He's The Only One Who Can Help. Sometimes he just has to get tough and sometimes he just has to get real and sometimes he just has to invoke his superpower of baldness. But make no mistake, he didn't get to be that bald by not having been around a rodeo or two or something with a pancake . . . but anyway, Only He has the Intelligence and Expertise to help these people.
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57 minutes ago, Gam2 said:
What the hell is wrong with Phil?
Too many things to list . . .
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coppersin, thank you! As a kid I would not have even known what molasses was, but I did know what "maple" syrup was. I was sure it was maple syrup and snow.
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So, Ree uses pineapple juice "just from a can, cuz it's easier."
Easier than what? Squeezing a damn pineapple? Does anyone do that? This woman mystifies me.
It was sad to see Charlie. He looked so tired too. I mean, I know Bassets always do, but it seemed to me he looked especially so. :-(
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3 hours ago, peacheslatour said:
The recipe I read said Ma used sugar and molasses.
In my childhood version of the book (which was originally one of those condensed versions that I later replaced), it was maple syrup. I never checked to see what it was in the uncondensed version.
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3 hours ago, proserpina65 said:
Charmin
Cottonelle has the annoying British 'Bum' lady asking everyone to go commando.
Yes, thanks for the correction. As you can tell, neither the BareNStained Bears nor the British Bum Lady has created any brand recognition for me.
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20 minutes ago, Prevailing Wind said:
Not to get political or anything, but why are some of the butt-wipe bears blue and others red? And can you only tell lady bears from the dudes because of the jewelry or flowers on their heads?
Not to get political, but the commercials used to use the red bears for the "strong" Cottonelle and the blue bears for the "soft" version. I never thought that was pure coincidence.
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Right or wrong, Kaniyah is certainly not the first contestant on this show to get an assist from another. Personally, I find their willingness to help each other one of the endearing qualities of this being a kid competition. I'm glad they don't come down on them for that.
I was shocked, to the point of exclaiming loudly, that Cole was the one sent home. As others have mentioned, on balance, Cole has been the better baker. I dislike him as a competitor because he was a sore loser and I'm not sure he's not a Special Snowflake, but even I have to admit, he's been the better baker. They all had an off-day in some respect, trying completely unknown techniques. The lack of "goo" in Cole's pie filling in his underbaked shell seem to me to be a function of experimenting for the first time with molecular gastronomy and not any failing in his baking prowess per se. It was strange to eliminate him for that showing after all his other successes.
Sweet Aidan couldn't be sent home after coming to the rescue, but his failure to make successful tart shells was really not a function of the challenge. (And am I wrong? Are tarts not a form of pie - which he was sneeringly dismissing all his other competition for making while he made tarts?) And as much as I am Team Justice, his ganache failure also wasn't related to the challenge. How was Cole's underbaked crust so much worse than these failures?
But always, the judging on this show is skewed and strange. Sometimes the rules of the challenge apply. Just as often, they don't. <shrug>
Kaniyah is annoying, that's for sure. When Valerie said, "Love her!", I completely heard "Love her! NOT!"
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I never read Farmer Boy but I read all the Little House books.
I once tried to make the maple candies that Laura described in Little House in the Big Woods (my all time favorite) - maple syrup drizzled in a plate of snow.
I had the snow, no problem in a New Jersey winter. Obviously I had a plate. But pancake syrup is not maple syrup. Being eight years old, I had no idea of the difference, so I always felt cheated that nothing resembling a candy resulted from my efforts. It wasn't until I was in my thirties that I realized I used the wrong ingredient!
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9 hours ago, BitterApple said:
He was a nice guy, but I always felt like Daphne could do better and was just settling because she didn't want to be alone.
I always felt they set up Donnie, who was short, dumpy and rather unattractive, with Daphne so that Niles wouldn't look so mismatched with her by comparison. I didn't like that device any more than I liked Niles and Daphne as a couple.
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17 minutes ago, OneWouldHope said:
The Cheers episode with Emma Thompson was funny and really good but - and I know this is an unpopular opinion - I really like the Laurie Metcalf ep from Fraiser. I find it extremely funny and think Laurie Metcalf is amazing. While she has to make up for the negative of being American, I would say she is just as incomparable as Emma Thompson (are there really degrees? ?).
Yes, sorry, there are degrees. :-) Because . . . Emma Thompson.
That said, I did love the Laurie Metcalf as Nanny G episode too. There's room for both.
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Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage
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"Good choice on the color. What's that? Burnt rust?"
"Makes me think someone's gonna overpay for a piece of shit." HA!
Mahk is awesome. Thanks. I needed that today.