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3/5. I was doing well until P. T. Barnum pointed me to the egress.

One of the best teachers I had in college taught a class that was considered quite difficult. He started by telling us that he had taken the same class at the same college. Three times. So he knew where the hard parts were, and how to help us get through them. By contrast, some of my teachers had learned something easily that we did not, and had no idea how to help and/or thought we were just being difficult. Of course it is also possible for someone who learned something easily to help others through the hard parts.

An old one: What will go up the chimney down, but will not go down the chimney up?

Creative, though. One of my college courses had a segment on making realistic estimates, such as how many cars in a total traffic jam from point A to point B, or how many blades of grass on the playing field. The important part was showing your work.

[curtseys shyly from a safe distance]

PBS is showing Escape to the Chateau. A couple buy a run down French chateau and try to restore it on a budget and a deadline. There are six seasons.

Glad you are doing this. I don't have access to the episodes now.

I was glad they did not end it with everyone paired up. But they wrote the Raj character badly. Early on, Raj and Howard were both sexist jerks, but Howard got better and Raj got worse. Would have been better if Raj had different characteristics.

In a way, Malcolm has been a prodigal son since the beginning of the series, because he has not followed in his father's murderous footsteps. Is this the meaning of the series title?

5/5, 1 *.

They thought her father did not affect her because she was so young. How did she get this way? Spoiler tags are not needed for episodes that have aired (U.S. eastern time).

Dedicated to his work ... and to the Whitlys. Spoiler tags are not needed for episodes that have aired (U.S. eastern time).

Troubled and troubling. Spoiler tags are not needed for episodes that have aired (U.S. eastern time).

Her taste in men, her priorities, her youthful appearance. Spoiler tags are not needed for episodes that have aired (U.S. eastern time).

What makes Martin tick? What makes him kill? What makes him smile? Spoiler tags are not needed for episodes that have aired (U.S. eastern time).