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The word Boricua comes from Borinquen or Borikén, the name given to the Island by indigenous Taínos who inhabited Puerto Rico for hundreds of years before the Spanish arrived in 1493. I looked it up here so I'm posting this for anyone else who is less familiar with the word.

In the past few days I have received several emails about So Help Me Todd via change.org. Have other folks received these? I don't object to the messages but I wonder how they got my email address. I have not posted about SHMT anywhere besides here, IIRC.

Just curious -- if someone's pronoun is "they" should we say bravo or brava or something else? I looked up the plural in Italian and it's bravi (regardless of gender) so maybe that's the right word.

I watched the drama MaryLand on PBS and started laughing at a serious scene between two British sisters that went something like this: Sister 1: You went off to college and I had to deal with [family crisis]! Sister 2: I never even heard about [family crisis] until years later! Sister 1: We didn't tell you because [reasons]. So it's still your fault! Familiar, eh?

I hope they will have more animals next season. A quick view of a bull's head, a pig taking a few steps, and a parrot not related to the job are not enough IMO. We can see human soap opera on almost any show, but the animals make this one different.

I don't either. I wondered if their firm was somehow renting (paying for) two floors of the building but thought they had only one. If they could straighten that out, they would have to pay only half as much rent, which would help their financial situation.

There should have been, although we have all seen worse cases on other shows. Shall we call this type of error an "obfuscating omission"? I don't mean to complain about "So Help Me Todd" specifically. I'll miss this show, and I hope it finds a home somewhere.

Week 35: 3/5, no *. (Wednesday I had "Rigoletto" but no libretto so no point, but that evening I got the "Pirates of Penzance" FJ in Masters, so not a complete washout opera-wise.) YTD: 117/175, 16 *.

Yes. I'm still mourning Alaska Daily, which had a running theme of investigating disappearances of Indigenous women. Nope. This show is so serious, we could have used a laugh. Ormewood's recent work is more tolerable than the family drama though.

Ken sometimes wishes the contestants "Good luck" before the game begins. I think he means that he hopes they will not make mistakes that will keep them awake at night, like Isabella's bet or giving the title of a book when the clue asked for the author. Why he says "I'm sorry" when someone is wrong is beyond me, though; it takes up time.

My vision is not great and I have more trouble telling characters apart on this show than any other, specifically the many brunette women. I can usually recognize Nyla Harper and Celina Juarez, but sometimes I can't recognize the others unless there is a closeup. (I do recognize the redhead, and hope she will vanish soon.)

Apparently North Hollywood is an undesirable place to be stationed. How is it different from other places in the L.A. area?

Week 34: in honor of the Four Tops, 4/5 + 1 *. Bringing something with blueberries, because they were the favorite treat of my bearded dragon (a non-cat & dog pet).

The Puritan ghost's name Patience disappoints me a bit, since it would not be a particularly unusual name now. Puritans often named babies for what they considered virtues; girls' names included Silence and Obedience. The writers could at least have named her Prudence.

As for the one on your keyboard: if you say "I only regret that I have but one * for my country" and it doesn't make sense, you're mispronouncing it.

When and how did Mary start working at the church again? We're seeing some of how Connie turns into the bitter Meemaw of BBT.

In olden days, if a show started on the half hour, that was often a "hammock slot," meaning a new or low-rated show was placed between two higher-rated shows, in the hope that viewers would not bother to change channels. Guessing that is no longer the case, because Ghosts does well in the ratings (IIRC) and networks don't keep low-rated shows around as long as they used to.

Some article said that Ken wears a different tie every day. He certainly appears to have a lot of them. What happens to them after he wears them? I doubt he would want to keep that many at home. Is there a site for "I want to buy the tie Ken wore today"?

What was the resolution of the nanny brouhaha? Did the hospital set up a daycare? Didn't it have one already? (I was tired, and had already watched "two families need nannies" on The Rookie, so maybe I zoned out.)

Amy's childhood hypochondria reminded me of a joke. Three students were leaving their last classes of the day. The law student said, "I'm tired and thirsty. I must have coffee." The engineering student said, "I'm tired and thirsty. I must have beer." The medical student said, "I'm tired and thirsty. I must have diabetes."

I was hoping that Bailey would quit her job and become a nanny for John's colleagues, to see if she likes kids as much as the thinks she does.

Timeline of the Post Office scandal

Opinions of weather depend on experience etc. I lived in Boston for a while, and considered it subtropical compared to where I had been before. I couldn't stand the weather in Texas or southern California. Some people like it, and that's fine with me.

I had email before 1990, from my connection to a university. Email may not have been the standard method for academic communication in 1993, but it did exist.

Week 33: 2/5, no *. Bringing pears and Cheddar cheese for the popular table and everyone else.