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FJ seemed familiar. Have they had a Castor & Pollux question in the past?
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The big yellow prop snake was pretty convincing, since the actors mostly kept moving. Prop snakes that size are expensive, so there are probably companies that rent them out.
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14 hours ago, pezgirl7 said:
I think it’s just because the actress has short hair
Thank you, that makes sense from a production standpoint (i.e. Doylist). But I was curious about the character Eliza's choice (i.e. Watsonian).
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Why does Eliza wear her hair in such an elaborate style? She doesn't wear evening gowns when other women do, so why not a simpler hair style? At first I guessed that Ivy did Eliza's hair, but it looks the same when Ivy is away. Maybe Eliza learned how to do that style and finds it easier to do it that way.
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Heathen, are you the same Heathen who used to review ER episodes on [web site whose name I don't remember]? If so, I hope your, ah, toes are doing well.
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4/5 (said Portugal on Tuesday). Wednesday's game mentioned nachos, so I'll bring the makings, including salsas of varying hotness.
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49 minutes ago, ams1001 said:
I hate tomato soup to begin with, so...yeah
I dislike Campbell's or other canned tomato soup because the main flavor I taste is cornstarch. Homemade tomato soup (with appropriate herbs) can be very good.
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3 hours ago, chaifan said:
I think that upper class women (as girls) were taught how how to do domestic things - cook, sew, play an instrument, even if they wouldn't be expected to actually to do those things.
Later time and higher class, but IIRC on Downton Abbey, one of the daughters went to the kitchen and wanted to cook something or learn how, much to the consternation of the kitchen staff.
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Re what Paige is doing, there must be options for a youngster who has completed high school but is not ready for college and is too young to get a job. There are a few colleges that have special programs for such students, but maybe not at that time in Texas. Maybe a specialized school that concentrates on music (or something else that interests Paige) and has students roughly her age?
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48 minutes ago, shapeshifter said:
Looking at their pie charts, I wonder why Angela Davis's chart does not show specific divisions of her European ancestry like the chart of Jeh Johnson and others on the show in the past:
Going by my own autosomal DNA results, I suspect that if she clicked on "European" the screen would list the varieties of European that she has. Possibly since she has six categories of African, plus European and Asian, someone decided that listing all the categories would make the graphic too complicated.
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Speaking of hats, there was a scene of Oskar and a higher ranking man. When the higher-up dismissed him, Oskar put his hat on before he left the office. Was that a demonstration of not quite as much respect as the higher-up expected?
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Hoping someone can correct the spelling of Isaac in the episode title. adTHANKSvance!
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23 minutes ago, ofmd said:
As for Gerald leaving... if he still moves away, that would make those scenes even weirder for me.
He was going to Hull? If my web search result was correct, that is in Yorkshire, so he might be close enough for an occasional visit.
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If Tristan's main goal was to get out from under Siegfried's shadow, maybe he could have moved to some other place that needs a veterinarian. Someone could at least have mentioned that possibility.
Siegfried's and Tristan's parents must have been fans of Wagner operas. My knowledge of Wagner is mostly from Anna Russell's Wagner's Ring Cycle (1950s) in which she did all four operas in 20 minutes instead of 20 hours. Her description of Wagner's Siegfried: "He's very young, and he's very strong, and he's very brave, and he's very stupid. He's a regular Li'l Abner type." (Wagner's Siegfried's parents were brother and sister, so he didn't have the genetic options that Siegfried Farnon did.)
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2/5, I'm sinking fast. Bringing a variety of beverages (alcoholic and not) so everyone can drink deep.
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Sasappis has been in the house much longer than he was alive. He is quite bright, and as a storyteller he must have an excellent memory. Maybe at some point (after he learned English) he saw one of the other ghosts reading something (maybe a Living had left a newspaper around, or a book open), asked about it, and got lessons in reading.
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1 minute ago, Elizabeth Anne said:
also loved the way Georgie figured he'd be the first parent in the history of parenting to get it right. George's little smiles when Georgie was talking were perfect.
George was probably thinking, "If there is justice in the universe, your kid will be just like you."
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8 minutes ago, ML89 said:
I am perplexed as to how measuring a skin fold is a sign of TB? I guess I need to ask Google on that one.
To test a human, they inject a small amount of fluid (called tuberculin) into the skin of the arm. After 2-3 days, if the area has a swelling, that is a positive test. Testing in cattle is similar except they use the skin of the neck. James was measuring whether the cow's skin was swollen.
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17 minutes ago, Llywela said:
And what kind of life the evacuees had in their new homes was very mixed. Some had a wonderful time. Others not so much.
Reminiscent of the orphan trains in the U.S., which took homeless orphans from Eastern cities to the Midwest, but that transportation was intended to be permanent. Some children were adopted into loving homes; others were exploited as cheap labor.
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2 hours ago, Llywela said:
A dairy farm in the 1930s would not really be raising vegetables or other crops except for consumption by the family - diversification is a much more modern concept.
Thank you. I was thinking of my grandparents' farm in the U.S. at the same time, which was more of a subsistence farm. They had cows and sold milk, but also raised chickens for eggs, grain for animal feed, and vegetables and fruit for themselves. I don't recall seeing chickens or crops on Helen's family's farm, but that wouldn't necessarily mean they weren't there.
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When a cow had TB, and the healthy cattle were temporarily confiscated, what happened to the farm's other sources of income? Chickens can get TB; would chickens be tested or killed? Could the farm sell vegetables and other crops? Were the humans required to be tested for TB? Maybe they had to look for work elsewhere for the duration.
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22 minutes ago, Clanstarling said:
Week 21 – Feb. 6, 2023
Thank you, but are you sure this was week 21? My spreadsheet claims it was week 22.
Anyway, I got 3/5.
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1 hour ago, twoods said:
Another good episode but I’m getting tired of sad sack Margaret. It’s your birthday and you’re pouting. How does her husband deal with her negative ass?
You mean Allison, right?
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Was Trevor's body found, or just his skull? Maybe I missed a line.
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S05.E17: The Enemy Within
in The Rookie
The good: less Bailey than usual.
The bad: everything else.
My favorite parts: my glass of wine, the book I was reading, and the nice nap afterward.
Were we supposed to recognize the prisoner with the books? If so, who was he?