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It's part 1 on Dec 17; part 2 will be Dec 24.

That is the original Charlie's Angels.

Most people don't update their wills (it means confronting your mortality). When this will was written Katie was 18, and from what little I've read their re-connecting was fraught, and never all that complete. It's a small estate. She was there at the end, and that's better than most estranged people get. I'd much rather hyper-analyze the Duggars than this subject. David Cassidy had talent that was never fully realized the way he wanted it to be; it took a long time for him to make peace with the way it was; and he lived a life that produced a child whose upbringing he never really participated in. It's kind of sad; it ended better than perhaps anyone thought it would; and I'm feeling intrusive so I believe I will Peace Out now.

It's because of the doping scandal. Some Russian athletes can compete, but only if they are invited, and those athletes will wear neutral uniforms. Neither the Russian flag nor anthem will be on display anywhere in the 2018 Games. Who knew the IOC still had teeth?

Weird fact: I also remember Dr. Zee as being Robbie Rist, but that was only for the first three episodes. James Patrick Stuart was Zee for the final seven. Rist was 16, Stuart was 12, and Zee was never not irritating.

I never liked The Family sketches either. In the later years they seemed to eat the show. And I'd forgotten that Julie Andrews should have been on, although I can't recall if she was ever a guest on the show (I seem to remember they did at least one special together). They've been BFFs forever, I thought.

Natural henna is a dye. So you dye or stain a henna pattern. I've always wanted to try it, but I live in a tourist area (Florida panhandle) on the beach, and here you learn to avoid black henna, which is a chemical and can burn and scar....

Yeah, g80 was crap. However, if you can stand it, watch the episode with Dirk Benedict, The Return of Starbuck, which was also the series finale. It is in many ways an early version of Enemy Mine. Nevertheless, it was a very welcome conclusion to a very disappointing series. Also, neither McCord nor Van Dyke are in this episode, just Adama, Boomer, & Zee.

I told my mother this was coming on and we watched together. I was expecting something a lot more along the lines of the '80s syndicated version, or even the infomercials flogging the DVDs from a few years back. It got better (in glacial increments) as it went on, but the celebrity stuff was clearly scripted. I suspect the audience questions were too. Tom Selleck & CB have been friends since Magnum; Pat Boone was a guest on TCBS often enough, and I think the last questioner might have been Julia Louis-Dreyfus. But the first segment with the female comediennes was painful, and everyone's non-stop eye-contact with the teleprompters was irritating. Martin Short was refreshing (words I would have sworn I would never put together) with his immediate and constant going off-script.

Also, Texas. Where a drunken father certainly had the right to beat the hell out of his son. Also where a woman I once worked with had lived in the early 80s with her drunken lout of a husband, and who vividly remembered kneeling in her front yard, with two black eyes and many other bruises, while her DLoaH told the two cops who had responded to a noise complaint that no, nothing was happening here. The two cops, seeing nothing worth an arrest (wife w/ 2 black eyes and other bruises == not worth an arrest), left. Riggs' memories of his father are among the most believable parts of this show. His nightmares of his father are of course fiction. And creepy. And yeah, kind of logical in context.

Evidence tampering? By killing the chain of custody, it kind of became useless in any legal proceeding. Plus, sorry, as far as I can tell NTSB don't issue a report in just a few days. And Mayday! / Air Disasters / Air Crash Investigation has taught me that at its best NTSB doesn't generalize or assume, no matter how tempting it would be....

I dunno. He looked better than his mugshots. He's still a raging tiny dick.

Ronnie was arrested and he's no longer in the show, so I believe yes.

How about Corn Huskers Lotion? I don't remember if it's scented (definitely not perfume-y considering the original target demographic), but it works very well.

A jet with the range to get to Australia is millions of dollars, and a whole other set of licenses. While JD would probably like to fly a jet (I would!), that's a lot of training too. The Duggar Fleet (that I have seen) contains single-engine turbo-props. They could upgrade to twin-engine (or I dunno, a surplus B-52? kidding, I jest (but I would fly that too). Nope, you need expensive aircraft, a double flight crew as crossing the Pacific to Oz is at least fifteen hours, which is at least two crew shifts) What is it, 15? round trip tickes to Oz commercially would be much cheaper. Wow. They are being thrifty.

Aren't those professionally gift-wrapped packages? Same paper, so same place.... I mean, that wrapping is very neat, the pattern of the paper is straight (and that can be as difficult with gift-wrap as it is with wallpaper), and almost everything is in a rectangular box.... And yeah, I learned how to giftwrap from older relatives who used to do that as their holiday job, but all packages wrapped identically - even though I remember most of the tricks (hospital corners, no raw cut edges visible, good tape), I would never wrap every package in the same paper AND there would be ribbon and bows. ETA: oh yeah, all those boxes in a living area shared with a toddler and an (soon to be crawling) infant - won't make it past Saturday.

I seem to recall mandatory retirement for NCIS is 55, but Show blew past that years ago. Splinters?

I think The Brave is fortunate to be at NBC. CBS does have a formula which Seal Team fits and this show does not; ABC would have promoted it before the premiere and then yanked it from the schedule halfway through the broadcast of the second episode; FOX would have added at least one comic book graphics novel character; and The CW would have reduced the age of every character by five years and every actor by ten. The shorter season approach seems to be working for NBC, so as long as they don't lobotomize it (as seems to have happened to Taken), I remain modestly hopeful.

I took a typing class my senior year of high school. There were a few electric (not Selectric) typewriters which we were allowed to use once we'd passed all the tests on the manual typewriters. The manual keys took a certain degree of strength, and also you couldn't type too fast or the bars would jam. And you "hit return" by reaching up with your left hand, pulling the arm and gently slamming the paper roll all the way to the right. Once we had manual down, we could learn electric, which let you type a little faster as the machine didn't let you jam the bars, but you also had to learn to "hit return" by tapping a very large key with your right pinky. There was a sometimes lengthy learning curve before you'd stop lifting your hand to find the arm to "hit return". I tested out at forty words per minute in late February, which gave me an A for the year (yep, a year to learn how to touch type). I then spent three months typing whatever I wanted to type. It was fabulous.

I remember while watching them paint each other's faces that Amir had an exposed watch face. I do call BS on that, because Television has taught me that Special Forces use Special Watches, that are silent, non-reflective, and can have covers... No way anyone in an elite force would let that pass. They didn't need a glint off a watch to imperil the group. In fact I missed the glint, and thought it was a standard (pardon my moment of non-PC) injun country thing. (shrug, I'm old enough to have watched Daniel Boone) I kind of loved the fact that both sides realized it was a kill box. The episode did make great use of some gorgeous New Mexico scenery. I wound up fact-checking and wow, there are varieties of aspen in China.

Yeah, that part I knew. The show used the idea that two LCCs (not two LCC officers) working together could coordinate a launch to make the plot work. That's the part I hope was made up. Although positioning heavy trucks on top of each silo is a solution that the nefarious Patton group appeared to fail to consider.

Well, for one thing the guy on his own seemed to be rigging something. But more importantly the show stated that if two LCCs were compromised and working together, they could launch. The show also made a point that that particular detail is not well known. I personally hope that particular detail was made up to hand wave the plot, because otherwise my life long comfort in two launch control officers is blown.

Yep, and the half hour (with perhaps a bit more) was Hawkeye's session with the shrink (how did I forget his name?) as he dealt with his breakdown and the gradual return of his memory of what really happened on the bus. The rest was the farewell, the kitchen-sink goodbye episode. (I threw a viewing party, so I remember it fairly well, plus the formatting was just strange enough that we actually did a post-viewing roundtable. The things one remembers.)

I believe the running joke is that she has trouble remembering the name of the character she played that she is there on the couch to promote. What usually gets glossed (for everyone) is just how long ago the thing being promoted wrapped....

Yes, the show is usually shown on BBCAmerica 8 days after broadcast on ITV in Britain (there has been one exception this season: the Hilary Clinton show aired the same week}. Thanksgiving weekend will stretch that out, but it is not weekly over the Christmas holidays, so it will catch up.