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So do I. When there are three, I get more confused. "But she said her father was ... no, that was the other one."

Andrews is Pooh-Bah! In Gilbert & Sullivan's "The Mikado" several high government officials had resigned. Pooh-Bah was the character who took over their positions. And their salaries.

Article about the Chartists, on this show and in history.

Picturing Howard sending today's Dilbert to Sheldon.

What is "Good For You" in French?

3/5 this week. My third 3 in a row (the previous weeks had asterisks). Do I get a GFY for that?

Science fiction readers often recommend Shogun as a good "first contact" novel. It's not between humans and aliens, but the characters see the other side as very alien. I enjoyed the chemistry category even though ammonia was a TS.

Jill, congratulations on your silver medal! I misunderstood FJ ("In 1790 Thursday October Christian became the first child whose birth was recorded on this remote island") and thought Thursday October referred to the birth date and Christian was the child's first name. If they had said "a child named Thursday October Christian" I might have had a chance. Oh well.

An episode of the Dick Van Dyke show had Rob running for some town office against a popular many-year incumbent. IIRC, they had a debate and Rob realized that he could not do as good a job for the town as the incumbent was doing, so he dropped out. I hoped Russell's plot would go that way. Russell could use his financial experience to do good without uprooting his family.

Being on Jeopardy is like being on an Olympics team. You're a champ whether you get a medal or not. I hope some of the students asked that one if he had been on Jeopardy.

Boston viewers -- tomorrow (Tuesday) WBZ will air Jeopardy at 7:00 PM instead of 7:30, because of the mayor's speech at 7:30.

Article with background about the search for Andy Samberg's mother's birth parents.

If Victoria really thought the British did not do revolution, her education must have been even worse than we suspected.

In case anyone here does not understand this phrase, it uses "proving" in the sense of testing, as in "proving ground." [/pedantic]

Hoping you will expand on this in the "Compare and Contrast" thread. Thanks!

3/5, one *. No cable TV, never saw "Sopranos" or the logo.

She might have been depressed because of her situation (whatever it was) and got over it, at least well enough to kind to George. I guess the bottom line is that we don't know.

With any of the research, especially DNA, there is the chance that something might turn up tomorrow. If the grandmother was raped, she might have developed depression or other unusual behavior. At that time, it would not be unusual for the husband to leave her or (if he had the money) commit her to an institution. Many women were diagnosed as insane for what would now be called postpartum depression.

Maybe the Boston station thinks we don't really care about Jeopardy. On Fridays during f**tb*ll season they don't show it. They don't even put it on their other channel that shows sitcom reruns. Grumble.

Is there a thread somewhere for discussion of the comparative (in)accuracy of the medical aspects of various medical dramas? I would like to find a show that at least tries to get it right.

Maybe they are funded by the lumber lobby, and lost a lot of money because Vance cut back on his toothpick consumption? You'd think Gibbs's never-ending boat construction would make up for that, though.

I once spent a week on a small ship. The first night back on land, I couldn't sleep, because it wasn't rocking.

As a Gilbert & Sullivan geek "I know the croaking chorus from the Frogs of Aristophanes" and also that Ari wrote Birds etc.

I have never eaten a Twinkie. They just don't look or smell like food to me.

Maybe we need a separate thread for viewer discretion discussion? This will probably continue in later episodes.