Driad
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Barnum had Jumbo taxidermied, and later donated the stuffed elephant to Tufts University, where it was housed in a museum named for Barnum. Tufts athletic teams were named after the elephant, and students treated it as a good luck charm. The museum burned in 1975 and Jumbo was destroyed. Someone put some of the ashes in a jar, which continues to serve as a good luck charm for Tufts athletics teams.
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Margaret and Frank certainly did not agree on everything. In one episode, Margaret was drinking with Hawkeye et al., and was at least three sheets to the wind. Frank came in and lambasted them. After he left, Margaret asked, "Who was that?"
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Week 15: 3/5, no *. YTD: 54/75, 5*.
The national dish of Bhutan is Ema Datshi, a stew loaded with red chilies, cheese, and tomatoes. I'll look for a recipe and bring a batch.-
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Did Saber have a favorite dog rescue organization to which we could donate?
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4/5. Cioppino (see Monday) sounds delicious, so I'll find a recipe and bring a big batch.
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I got Oliver but had not known that Gigi came from anything literary. I saw the movie of Gigi as a young teen and found it vaguely icky.
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Gabi's elaborate hairdos puzzle and distract me. She is so busy with work that I wouldn't expect her to spend a lot of time on her hair, whether she styles it herself or not.
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Speaking of continental divides, I'm especially interested in triple divides. Water falling on Triple Divide Peak in Montana, for example, flows into the Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic Oceans.
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Week 13: 4/5. Bringing truffles, the chocolate kind. (I can't afford the fungus kind.)
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I must have a US sense of humor, because I don't enjoy watching people be miserable. I would rather see ghosts who (sometimes) help the livings, rather than always trying to get rid of them.
Years ago friends showed me a couple of episodes of Fawlty Towers. All I remember is thinking, "If the characters hate running a hotel, why don't they sell it and do something else?"
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I do not expect the writers to be experts on the history. I do expect them to look it up, and get it right in the script. Some viewers know the history and notice mistakes.
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The interviews raise the question of how much the showrunners should tell the actors about their characters. Should the actor who plays Sir know whether Sir is a killer? Should the actor who plays Gabi know whether Gabi really has Sir in her basement? Knowing these things might help the actors portray their characters more convincingly. On the other hand, an actor might accidentally tell a friend or an interviewer something they shouldn't say.
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3 hours ago, chicagofan said:
When I saw the category for FJ I thought "I'm screwed". I only have antenna TV - no streaming, etc. so I wasn't hopeful that I'd know something about 2020s Television. But I guess cultural osmosis was my friend today as I came up with Only Murders in rhe Building almost immediately. Go figure.
I'm in the same situation, including the cultural osmosis. I am sometimes annoyed when an antenna-TV station runs promos for shows on cable or streaming, but this time it was useful.
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When any f**tb*ll occurs, my local station airs Jeopardy later, when I am enjoying my nightly glass of wine. This week it happened twice, and I got FJ both evenings. Hmm ...
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The Most Shocking Celebrity Cousin Matches EVER on Finding Your Roots
For those of us who have taken autosomal DNA tests, does anyone know how to find out if we match anyone famous?
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Week 12: 4/5, 2*. Not sure what treat I'll bring, but it won't have cilantro. I have the genetic variant that makes cilantro taste like soap.
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I don't recall a recent question about Henry Kissinger, who died yesterday. Long ago I had to go to an event at which he would speak. Before the event, I thought about what to say if someone introduced me to him. I decided not to say, "I enjoyed your performance in Dr. Strangelove." (I was not introduced to him.)
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FJ: "Crossing over water" got me a mental picture of a bridge. "Cambridge" didn't work but took me to "Oxbridge," which changed to "Oxford."
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Sweet potato pie: I made one once. It tasted just like pumpkin pie, probably because of the spices, but it was a lot more work. Can anyone suggest an authentic sweet potato pie recipe that does not taste like pumpkin pie? (I like pumpkin pie, but if I do all that extra work I want a pie that tastes like sweet potatoes.) adTHANKSvance!
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6 hours ago, ams1001 said:
As a break from all the Thanksgiving leftovers, I have Stewart's root beer and Turkey Hill Simply Natural Belgian Chocolate ice cream. Who wants a root beer float?
Some people say that any flavor of ice cream except vanilla in a root beer float is disgusting. I say they don't know what they're missing, and I'll take their share of chocolate.
Week 11: 4/5, no *. There was a sushi question this week, so I'll bring lots of sushi. I can afford to buy enough for this group.
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If Gabi really has Sir in her basement (not her imagination) and wants him out, she would probably want him to be either (1) dead, or (2) in a vegetative state or otherwise unable to communicate, or (3) so obviously insane that the police would not believe anything he said. Maybe there are drugs that could do (3). Then she could leave him outside her house so people would assume he had been stalking her.
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S13.E00 Christmas Special 2023
in Call The Midwife
The only couple I sort of know who had quadruplets also gave them names starting with A, B, C, and D, as the parents in this episode did. I hope the local store carries nail polish in several colors, to help tell the babies apart.