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On Murphy Brown she went in and was admiring the view from her window and the nurse was all "Mmm hmmm." Her co-workers took shifts to sit with her as labor glacially progressed - at one point, when Corky was relieved of her shift, she made a handover report and finished with "and now I'm going to the pharmacy to refill my birth control prescription". I actually liked the later Friends seasons (once they were all over and I got them in syndication), probably because I think I got to watch in order at a rate of ten episodes per week. Anyway, when Rachel was in labor they kept rotating other mothers through (semi-private room) who came in, popped out a kid, and went home. I think the final other mother was Janice. (It's always Janice.) I knew a woman whose first pregnancy was about seven months. Twelve years (and apparently about 80 pounds more of real (vs pregnancy) weight) later, she had her second kid, went about two weeks past term and when the doctor finally decided to induce the idea of it apparently triggered labor. I know all these wonderful mothers whose experiences have always made me kind of glad to be childless.

IIRC Hardison had also established an online presence for him and that is where some of the fandom came. from.

His brother's mission was to find and liberate POWs, but he changed it by saving his brother's life. The POWs were not rescued, the embedded reporter/photographer got a Pulitzer-winning photo after being mortally wounded, and the picture made the cover of something - it was a picture of one of the POWs, full face view, identifiable - it was Al, and Sam's hijacking of the mission meant that Al and the others weren't rescued, and also that Al's MIA (presumed KIA?) was changed to known prisoner. Well, it was pretty heavy at the time.

Lucille Ball was pregnant in the first year of I Love Lucy. They wrote it in, but they weren't allowed to say she was pregnant. She was 'specting, and also enceinte. This was 1951.

An indoor wc, made if I remember correctly from porcelain, is much easier to keep clean then chamber pots and outhouses. At this time in London houses dumped their wastes into cesspits under or behind the houses, which could and did leach into the wells. The book The Ghost Map is a wonderful description of how a cholera outbreak led to the demostration of disease transmission and contributed to the subsequent clean-up of London's waste system.

It can not be said enough: Diana read too many Barbara Cartlands, and did not have a realistic view of the marriage she was making, or the man she was marrying. Deep, abiding, faithful love & marriage was supposed to happen, because it always wound up that way in a Cartland romance. Cartland, who was Diana's step-grandmother, always maintained that Diana only read her books and they weren't good for her. As someone who read far too many Cartlands herself (in spite of the fact that the heroines always needed to loosen their corsets because they always spoke in very breathless ellipses and always made me nuts), I can see how the sillier expectations would be set.

Joan Hickson's Miss Marple is nice too, if you can find her.

Veteran's Day is a federal holiday in the U.S. The day after Thanksgiving is not. This is partly due to what I think was a Depression-era law: in the U.S. banks can not be closed two weekdays in a row (this made banking in the week following 9/11 a little tricky - the banks had to re-open no later than Thursday). Interacting with the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank is not for the faint of heart. Federal holidays are paid time off for salaried folks (and sources of overtime pay for non-salaried). Most places I worked in my career had us working on Veteran's Day so we could have the four-day weekend at Thanksgiving (and I think this was the case for my school years, 1962-1974, because I remember special class projects and stuff tied to Veteran's Day). But the last five years I worked at a bank, and on Veteran's Day there was no Fedwire (end-of-day real-time settlement of funds transfers which, if you missed it or screwed up the process, would cost your institution penalties and lost interest, which for a bank could hit seven figures or more in one day pretty easily), while the day after Thanksgiving there was a Fedwire and we by-gum had to have back office people working. And this is a pretty good description of the weirdness that is the U.S. Federal Holiday schedule.

There were lots of new shows that year. I always got the TV guide and thumbed through the one-page show descriptions to see what I might like to watch. I'd already decided not to watch WW but the cast picture had 4 of my Hey It's That Guy/Girl actors, so I started watching from the pilot. Never regretted it.

The article was dated October 28 2017, which is why Spacey & Ansari were mentioned without footnotes.... It was weird.

That's the point I've been failing to make. She doesn't just have "faith", she has actually thought about religion and pondered how to make conflicting issues work together. This episode (I think) presented her thoughts as the sort of thing that I think the better seminaries want their students to do, to think and consider and debate instead of memorize and regurgitate.

This prayer closet should be A Safe Place (I hope it is). I think your reactions are appropriate, but you can't comment there because you will receive a lot of vitriol (but you know that). I agree you should block them, but otherwise be very very silent. Only tell your friend (privately) IF she asks a minimum of five times. I've had people I despised (always with cause, of course :-P ) who have had terrible things happen to them. It is possible (and a relief!) to have a decent, human response, but that doesn't mean they get away with abusing people's sympathy. Hey, at least you are physically removed! I had a former co-worker who had a sudden loss in the family and no cash reserves to go home. The boss did a forced whip-around of $20 per head of all his co-workers. Most of them were furious but still had to contribute. And the recipient was extremely and sincerely grateful that his co-workers helped, so I hoped he never found out the details. A former co-worker at a different job had a very ill child (congenital heart defect, the details and causes of which I and everyone else in the office knew too much about because the mother is a motor-mouthed twit) who needed surgery in one of the big hospitals in a big city (West Coast, I think). He (the father) was checked in to the Ronald McDonald house while the mother was pretty much camped out in the hospital. Poor guy found the RM House to be just too awful - so many people, communal bathrooms, noise from other kids and parents, he Just Could Not Take It. So, since both parents worked in the same place, a whip-around of their combined co-workers was solicited (unofficially made a line item on everyone's performance review, I was told, but that may - I stress the MAY - be sour grapes), and they produced enough money for the father to check in to a hotel walking distance from the hospital, and priced accordingly. And I've wandered - I guess I've wanted to vent that for a long time. You don't own these people's actions, and you don't owe them a thing. They and their friends (including your friend) are indulging themselves in competitive grief coupled with competitive charity. You're good. Give yourself a moderate reward - whatever self-indulgent equivalent of a box of chocolate works for you,

The Dick Van Dyke Show The Game (2014) - the one with Tom Hughes

I have to say it, that was a surprisingly unflattering speedo. I'm blaming the pattern.

She really is that religious (a difficult concept for modern Western minds, and tough enough for me at 61, but context context context - she is anointed by God to be Defender of the Faith, she is not playing a part). She also is apparently on very good terms with Billy Graham (and his late wife), the details of which we will never know until her diaries are published many many decades from now. I think the show had a very good take on the interaction, and furthermore I think finding someone to sincerely discuss religious topics who doesn't blab to anyone has got to be a rare and treasured thing. (I do hope, however, that her view of Franklin Graham is at least half as jaundiced as mine.)

Ernst (in this series) is portrayed as a very kind man with very little self-control when it comes to fleshpots. It's not so much that he didn't find the untitled daughter of the English upper class an eligible bride as it was that as a German Royal he could not make a marriage with someone of non-royal status (it would have been morganatic (sp?)), and he therefore ended it really kindly. Such marriages did occur, a lot of them in the nineteenth century, but the German Hochadel were very much required to marry within their class, and most of them paid careful attention to their respective ranks in excruciating detail, especially to maintain their rank and precedence. Harriet, as a widowed duchess, was still not high enough ranked but she was older, more experienced, and apparently willing to take on the role of morganatic wife or mistress en titre - Ernst was stopped by the details of his disease, syphilis, the potential effects on the women he passed it on to, and the (really horrific) effects on possible children (I think the sterility the disease frequently caused was a mixed blessing). And this is where I can't speculate further, as I know the subsequent history of Ernst and the actual history of Harriet, which

There was that terrible period in season 18 when BBCAmerica didn't transmit the show At All. Apparently some fat slovenly unshaven slug had acquired the rights in order to launch a new television network. It didn't happen, we got season 19, and season 18 was slotted in without fanfare. I so despise unshaven slugs. Sometimes what we get is chopped down to a 45 minute time slot - this is when BBCA is debuting a series that runs long. I don't think they've done that for a while.

The baby Molly in TWW was named for the Secret Service Molly who was part of Zoe's protection detail and was killed when Zoe was kidnapped. Toby & Andrea's twins were born that same night.

My mother did it for eleven years, starting right after it came out. Started really acknowledging that she felt like crap early in year 10, saw the inventors on a talk show a year or so later who said that a) it was only supposed to be prescribed if a certain set of criteria existed, b) that it was supposed to be for no more then five years, c) it was NOT something to delay menopause and therefore maintain "youth" forever. So my mother asked her gyn why? and he said you should keep taking it. She stopped taking it, began to feel better immediately, and fired the gyn. My take is it was a magic therapy to defer menopause and therefore preserve youth, it was covered by insurance, and pharma made money. (My mother is now 84 and very very healthy.)

That scene had nice background detailing - Skerritt saw that Dash was dead before the Queen, took a moment to compose herself, and then ran like hell to get the Prince.

When the series was announced I found and watched the three movies, and was extremely unimpressed with Flynn. Wyle plays Flynn as written, so I am not Wyle-hating, I just Flynn-hate. I watched the series anyway because of Christian Kane and the hope that some of the Leverage magic would carry through. And I like the series, but I like the Flynn-less shows best. I was astonished and pleased that there was a fourth season (because of the newest batch of TNT execs), and I will be even more astonished if there is a fifth.

I remember that! All the networks were ready to cover day one of the trial, and day one was entirely procedural housekeeping, no drama at all. They all lost millions of advertising revenue, and they all scaled back on their coverage dramatically for day two.

Those slippers are making my toes hurt. (changing page now)

The show is deceptive as I don't recall the Duchess of Kent living anywhere except England after she was widowed. She probably did spend chunks of time visiting her older children (she was a widow with two children when the Duke of Kent married her, which gave him better odds of having a child). But as I recall middle class and upper class women did not usually attend funerals. At any rate, this was 1844, and that was a very long trip. Did someone say four days, England to Coburg? By sea and carriage. Later on in the reign, when trains became ubiquitous, not only could funerals be readily attended, but continental vacations could be easily taken.

I think it was around the time John Rogers left the show. His last blog post at kfmonkey promised wowsers for the next couple of weeks (January 2015), but nothing ever was posted. His last writing credit for the series was the season 2 finale.