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If Derrick is smart, he will take a long careful look at what he'd be getting in to before becoming liable for however legitimate those businesses are. And if Jim Bob is smart, he will not open the books to someone he can't control.

I discovered the Duggars during a time when I had too much time and inferior OnDemand programming. I had trouble believing what I was seeing, went online to TWOP and confirmed that yes, this is "for real", and decided to view wrestling instead. I still don't watch, but I read this forum. I guess I'm not a nice person, but I believe I am waiting for the ginormous train wreck when one or more of these kids breaks away. Gosh, I'm an optimist.

Whippersnapper is late seventeenth century, well described at Yahoo Answers. I have a vague memory of this being used in old westerns, usually spoken by Walter Brennan. Are television writers expanding their vocabularies? The Selfie pilot used coxcomb, and had a later line of dialogue stating that the usage had been correct.

My mum & I settled in to watch this "final" Marple, and about halfway through we agreed that we wished we hadn't, but it was too late to bail. That was when I wiki'd the story and discovered it wasn't originally a Marple at all. It was written in 1967, and the narrative voice-over, which was obviously part of a confession, was in fact how the original story was told. It was praised at the time for being a departure from Christie's usual style, even though it wasn't what readers (or at least reviewers) were expecting. If it had been advertised as what it really was, an Agatha Christie short story, even with the Miss Marple stickers liberally applied, we would have watched with different expectations. As it was, we want our 86 minutes back.

A late reply to Lonesome Rhodes: we were both right. Paul Burke was the Admiral in Season 2's "Memories are Forever", where Magnum's dead wife turns out to a) not be dead and b) not technically be his wife, as her dead first husband (omg I've forgotten the acronyms), who was a North Vietnamese general (not VC - NVKD maybe??), turned up not-dead-at-all just before the fall of Saigon. Rather then tell him she was staying with her first husband (she was very Catholic), she faked her death. The secret Vietnamese delegation is bartering remains of missing US war dead for something, and Paul Burke's Admiral is the head of the US delegation, which arrives at one meeting in helicopters flying low in an "attack formation" and suddenly appearing over a ridge, just like the "old" days. The episode where Burke's character is musing over old enemies is Season 3's two-part opener, "Did You See The Sunrise?" and in that story the old enemies are the Japanese, making an official and very public visit to Hawaii. The other old enemy is Ivan, launching a nefarious Cold War psy-ops plan, which led to one of the more shocking episode endings of the era.

Yeah, BBCAmerica will air episodes 8 days later. This one is schedule for 4 October.

This was a stoopidly late entry on the 1/12 thing (which I think can only work mathematically if you are a Hapsburg). My first awareness of Dan Snyder was the parking controversy in 2000. Fans used to park at a shopping mall near the stadium and walk in. Free parking at a mall vs $$$ at FedExField? Nonononono. He got a ban on pedestrian traffic into the stadium grounds enacted, ONLY FOR GAME DAYS, forcing people to park in his lots or use public transit. It was overturned after a class action lawsuit. Good reading: "The Cranky Redskins Fans Guide to Dan Snyder" It's from 2011 but I think it holds up.

I am not worthy!

"vow removal"? Oh, floridamom, I think I love you. In a totally side-hugging way, of course.

Still off topic, sorry, but that WW "dw" always always bugged me. There are three root words beginning with dw. But there are also: dwells dwelled dwelling dwellings dweller (?) dwarfed dwarves dwindles dwindled all of which I managed to spit out before the scene ends. And if it had been written correctly, Toby would have listed all of them too. Back to the show! Scott Bakula is still mighty fine!!!

Staying off topic, if Scully ever believed Mulder's theories, he'd know something was wrong. Which in fact happened in the episode I refer to as "The Trippy Underground Mushroom That Oozed Semi-Frozen Orange Juice Concentrate" episode. Back to the show of this forum, I think that's it - the DHD wasn't connected to the gate until Sam chipped it out of the ice and fixed it with a hard reboot, so it couldn't override the other gate. And they'd called off the search by then, so I could argue that the other teams were on some sort of minimum mandatory stand down after several days of searching strange environments. As for Jack and Sam going through the other gate instead of dying - that's the programming of the Stargate system. A gate with attached DHD (or also, as we later learn, the "Pegasus" gates - which this one ain't) will be primary, but any functional gate is a good port in a storm. The original gate fried, and the active wormhole needed to go anywhere, to "safely" deliver its datastream, thus setting up every future fix when a Forced Quit was needed on an active wormhole. In the end, any episode that gives me early J/S ship, Daniel making a perfect telephone analogy to the wrong person to ask, AND that fabulous MacGyver gag, is Good.

I think the way the Antarctic gate got retconned was that the crevasse had only recently opened up. Ice moves all the time. I always like the detail that there was a conical hollow in the ice from the kwawhoosh (or has my memory retconned that?). That they would take the time to get all the way from CSprings to Antarctica before sending a rescue mission out of McMurdo has always ticked me off. The synch of Sam's last try with Daniel figuring it out puts O'Neill and Carter lying down to die much too early in that time frame for them to survive, especially since that blanket wasn't pulled up over their heads. But that's show business. Colorado to Antarctica in just a few hours (and with zero weather delays) is no different then Mulder making the round trip from DC to Martha's VIneyard twice in less than two days, or Scully getting a phone call in Georgetown before dawn on Sunday morning and driving into a motel parking lot in Rhode Island less than two hours later. By the way, I luuuv your recaps. Please don't stop!

There are three episodes left, and I bet they will be burned off with very little promotion. This is what they did to Leverage.

I'm thinking you are describing the Admiral's musings as he welcomes visiting dignitaries from Japan,, in part one or two of "Did You See the Sunrise?". The US and Vietnam did not normalize relations until 1995. This is also the episode which ends with Magnum killing Ivan. The story leads inexorably to that point, but there is no way outside of television that the act was legal or justifiable. That it would be overlooked by the governments in question I can buy. That don't make it legal. Ivan had diplomatic immunity, and was being deported probably more for his attempt to set up a "deranged" Vietnam vet to execute visiting Japanese royalty and generally embarrass the US. Everyone knew what he'd done; everyone knew the murder attempt on Magnum (which is how Mac was killed) to build in to TC's paranoia was done by Ivan. And because of the diplomatic immunity nothing could be done. Other than that :-) I completely agree - welcoming the Japanese to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in 1982(!) is profound. I remember being moved and impressed on the original broadcast.

I did enjoy the pilot, and I'll keep watching. I mostly liked NA, but I hated that search for the "one twu love" that would allow him to die. I was also aggravated by how careless they were with their own damn timeline (he had to have had two overlapping families at the turn of the last century, both in NYC). But this show isn't doing that. IG is likeable and I've enjoyed his work since Hornblower. Judd Hirsch is sweet in this. And Alana De La Garza sold her character to me. However, IMDB just told me that Hirsch and De La Garza are only in one episode. The only people in more than one ep (so far) are IG and Lorraine Toussaint. Episode 2 will be like a new pilot?

I forced myself to watch the entire first season of Copper, mostly by not letting myself pause it. While the characters were probably consistent with the times, and certainly consistent with their circumstances (the child whore is both sooo plausible and utterly repellent, and my response to her is contrary to my own view of my own compassion that I resent that too). But at no time did I give a damn about any of these people, or their stories. The only thing I liked about Copper was that when Ripper Street came out, I stopped watching after the first episode. Saved myself a lot of time! Not sure this fits in this topic, but the lead character's house, with its two stories and open plan first floor (and sizeable kitchen), seems to fit the trope of the over-sized apartment in shows set in NYC.

O'Neill could have retired by 45, even without his tragedies. This is 1995 or 1996 (1997?), and he was a full bird-colonel at the start of the first movie. Usual time for promotion to colonel is around 20 years of service, but with his implied special forces history he was plausibly promoted early. First retirement was after the death of his son, and he was called up from that (and from the verge of suicide) for the first Stargate mission. Also, he has at least two service ribbons from Vietnam, the Vietnam Campaign Medal Ribbon, and the Vietnam Service Ribbon (thank you wikipedia). For US military personnel, April 30 1975 was the last day for that assignment. So he has at least 20 years in the Air Force, which means he could retire with a full pension, and was free to go work in other gummint jobs as a "double dipper". Or, since his son was dead, his wife divorced him, and he really didn't have expensive hobbies, he could have lived comfortably in his cabin, fishing in The Lake With No Fish. The conversation with Samuels on the roof of his house at the beginning of CotG has always left me with the impression that he's on watch, waiting for the goa'uld, which is why he didn't retire to his cabin (too remote). Or it could be that having found that incredibly cool house, he put off moving until the Air Force forced him to transfer to the Pentagon. (Seriously, I wanted to retire to that house.)

In a recent season of Dancing with the Stars, one of the female stars spoke almost entirely in hastags in every interview, until Tom Bergeron finally said "Hashtag Stop".

I think Tom's chief problem since Sybil's death in regard to women is that he is Just Too Polite. Edna pushed and manipulated; Sara Bunting is bigoted and encroaching. Tom would previously have had the protection of his marriage, and Sybil would have handled or when necessary discouraged such attentions perfectly. Tom is polite to women and not terribly confrontational with men - at least not in an ugly way. He is now, technically, aligned with the upper class while not entirely of it, and he doesn't have one crucial skill - he can't depress/discourage/deflect behavior that most aristocrats would put an end to instinctively.

I just re-watched the Endeavor pilot and season 1 on Prime. The quality was very good, and it's my impression that it streamed very smoothly.

I've been following various links from this forum, and there is repeated mention that a house built on a flatbed trailer (working or not) does not count as a permanent home, and therefore is not subject to building codes. The house in this episode was intended to stay in place permanently, so it could connected to water and sewer, but if the foundation is on wheels it's not a "real" house. And if it's on a flatbed, the footprint is pretty small.

As I'm two weeks behind I've only just watched Trove, and I think I can respond to some of the questions upthread: 1. If I remember correctly, both Captain Battan and Private Spurgis (sp??) were Japanese POWs (which explains the letter being dated after the war), and also the marriage between the original Private Spurgis (sp??) and Frida's mother was "not a love match". Assuming an officer's identity and abandoning a family you didn't want to begin with is not such a stretch, and surviving probably four years as a Japanese POW will physically change a person. Also, it's good odds that most of his original unit were killed or died in captivity. 2. According to the canon, Morse had a lifelong adversarial attitude, if not contemptuous relationship, with the Freemasons. I don't think it started here, but his advice to Strange was in keeping with his later views. 3. That "pinky" ring was a signet ring, almost certainly masonic. Pinky rings in the U.S. vernacular are usually vulgar, blinging things with big obvious gemstones (like a class ring on an acid trip). Signet rings are very posh. 4. I'm sufficiently OCD that I had to look it up. If Trove occurs in line with the 900th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings (October 1066), then Lane Pryce was indeed still at SCDP - his sudden "resignation" (quoting wikipedia) happened about five months later.

Happy to help! That picture has to be at least 10 years old (eek!). If I recall correctly, Coates had very very long hair, worn while on duty in a nice tucked up twist, or sometimes a french braid. Brody has very short hair, which really suits her (and also the climate - the Gulf coast is very very muggy). Part of my delay in ID'ing her in Crescent City was how much better she looks nowadays (I hate the word perky, but it kinda fits). I had to check IMDB to get her name, and then see if she'd been in NCIS before, and try to identify what episode that was. To be clear, Brody's case/history with Gibbs was not in any broadcast episode. Perhaps someone is doing fanfic on it? kassy

That's Nanci Chambers, David James Elliott's wife. I can't tell if that cast picture pre-dates Zoe's time on the show (IMDB has her in JAG for 63 episodes, 2001-2005). Chuck Carrington is in the picture, and he was on the series through 2003. Her character (Coates) replaced his character (Tiner) as the Admiral's Yeoman. Nanci Chambers' character (Singer) wound up getting murdered and the investigation into that was the pilot for NCIS.