LoneHaranguer

Leonard and Penny went to Vegas by themselves, so it wouldn't make sense to have a reception there, rather than coming back to CA for it.

And how then did he recognize him? Was there only ever one person with that name in all of time and space? Actually, the Time Lords just wanted to keep them from taking over the universe. They were also happy with the Doctor influencing their creation to make them less evil, or finding weaknesses that could be exploited in fighting them. For that to be the case, one of the Doctor's regenerations had to have not counted for some reason. Most likely, it would have been when the Doctor was forced to regenerate by the Time Lords early on, although there's an argument for it being when he used regeneration energy to heal himself while keeping the same body.

Maybe folks around here are just being pretentious. There are a lot of colleges in the area. I once ran into a web site with a very long list of words and phrases that varied in their use across the country and when you picked one it would highlight a map to show the corresponding regions where that was the norm. I wish I had bookmarked it.

Not sure I get Amy's comment in the ad for this episode; bouquets are normally thrown at the reception, not the wedding.

It is a real thing, and according to its Wikipedia entry, it qualifies as a disability under U.S. law, so the school would have to do what it takes to accommodate him. It occurs to me that being taught by a woman actually might not be a problem at a large school where the instructor is lecturing to a big hall and there isn't much interaction with the students (in which he wouldn't have to participate).

There was a big sodium scare in the U.S. many years ago. People relaxed after further research indicated it to be mostly just African Americans who were susceptible to eating too much salt. The marketers probably figure that nobody remembers, so it's time to push consumption of salted meat products back up in a group that had stopped eating them for a good reason. Or, they're just ignorant and think they found an untapped market.

It's often seen as pompous to use a long word when a shorter one will suffice, although it can take a while for a shorter version to gain ground. The word "veggies" hasn't entirely caught on yet. Neither has substituting "TV ad" for "commercial" (partly because the latter directly implies a for-profit aspect that is missing from the former).

OTOH, I think there are areas and jobs where a tat like that would cause people to give you some respect you wouldn't otherwise have gotten.

IOW, they passed the problem on to the company they hired, who may or may not care or be competent enough to fix it in a timely manner. FWIW, when The Voice had a problem with web voting they threw out all of those votes and only counted votes placed via other means. BB could do the same if the nature of the problem may have skewed the counts.

Their voting site is broken for me. I got some votes in on Wednesday, but it keeps telling me I've reached my limit since then. Somebody suggested that they're going by IP address. If that's true, they need to fire their tech guys because being able to tie an IP address to anything beyond a particular ISP or wifi site is absurd.

What's the composition of his field? In four years of engineering school, the only woman I had to deal with in the way he has issues with was the Dean's secretary, and that was to see the Dean for a couple of atypical matters. He was okay with talking in front of a group containing women, so classes not taught by a woman or something like presenting e thesis wouldn't have been a problem

Not all shoes are proportioned the same. New Balance has a whole section of their web site talking about their different lasts and tell you which of their shoes are made with which one. The catch is that most shoe stores only stock the ones made for average feet. Until a few years ago, I had to buy everything over the net, but a local store has started stocking a meager selection of New Balance and Sketchers that are wider in front. Somebody living near a big city would probably have more luck.

Just as you can keep your integrity while you bluff in playing poker, you can do so as you lie and backstab when this game requires. It's how the game is designed and played. The key word is "requires".

Sounds like you're arguing the other reason why Vanessa doesn't deserve to win. If she were the good player some jurists think, Austin would have been wasting his time. But, we've seen Vanessa cut off discussion before, so I'm not convinced that was behind what she did here. I think she just preferred to limit the amount of time she'd have to see Austin upset, which was a selfish decision that made things worse for him. And honor most certainly has a place in the game. I thought Derrick played with honor. The others were no match for him, but that was the casting director's fault, not his.

OTOH, I wouldn't mind seeing an ad saying who/what spicy chicken fries is planning to wrestle. Although, if the answer is nobody and the mask is a fetish thing, I don't want to know.

Not if you're picky about the fit. Feet generally swell up over the course of a day; that's why they recommend that you not shop for shoes too early.

So is a lot of the stuff that goes on routinely on Wall Street, but people get away with it. You just can't be so overt that authorities feel compelled to step in and make an example out of you.

As a matter of principle, I wish Austin luck in his "not Vanessa" campaign, but he's up against airheads who would rather believe that Vanessa is some sort of genius than face how dumb they were. Maybe he can leverage how he was unnecessarily blindsided in a season where people have been exceptionally nice to each other. It's one thing to respect an honorable player who bested you, another to reward someone who pulled crap like that (whatever you might think of their game-play). Count me among those who are disappointed with the way the season is winding down. I'm hoping for an unexpected twist, like Liz winning, but it's probably not happening.

I was disappointed that they didn't take the opportunity to skip the skull assignments for this episode. Just have the canvases pick skulls at random, or maybe mix things up by letting the canvases actually pick their artists.

Has Julie not been paying attention to how the game works all these seasons? She told us early on that Liz and Austin were safe from eviction after not being put on the block. My immediate presumption was that she was accidentally giving away knowledge of what happened in the veto comp, but apparently she was just clueless. I'm surprised that Vanessa made the worse of the two picks she could have made for her game, but her response to Austin's comment suggested that she was pretty pessimistic about her chances of winning so maybe didn't care.

You can say something similar about horse racing and the stock market. No amount of knowledge can take out the random element, but they're nowhere near something like casino gaming or state lotteries.

I liked the bit of self-deprecation the writers threw into one, where the idiot on the left ends a spiel with "how cool is that?", and the other fellow responds "not at all".

I'm fairly certain I saw that story in an old Reader's Digest. I hate it when someone who can't sing thinks they can hide that by doing opera.

Vanessa may be 32, but Liz is only 23. Ariana Grande is 22. I'm sure quite a bit of Vanessa's enthusiasm was actually for getting out of the house.

Do the live feeds come with an archive of highlight clips? That's what other successful webcam subscription sites have done, but I don't see any mention of it.