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Well, it is an online advice column, so I won't swear to the veracity of any of the letters, but it tends to come up at least once a month in some form.

Reading Dear Prudence on SLATE has taught me that apparently this does happen in real life. Maybe not the surprising you with the person thing, but definitely the nagging.

I think the point of it was her learning that not every soldier is a cruel bastard who needs to be killed. Clearly these were men who were there because they had to be, not because they wanted to be, and she seemed to be affected by their talk of their homes and families.

With the end of the Tyrell alliance, surely meaning the Tyrell army skeedaddled out of King's Landing, I'm not sure Cersei has enough of a military force left to send anyone to Dragonstone.

I suspect he had no idea HOW MUCH dragonglass is at Dragonstone until he saw that map.

I think they're waiting for something to take away the magic spells which prevent the dead from being able to cross the Wall. Like, say, Bran, who's carrying the mark of the Night King, which made it possible for the dead army to attack the Three-Eyed Raven's magic tree.

This was one of those weeks (like Biscuit week) where the differences between British baking and US baking stand out for me. Here, a meringue topping on a pie is stiff but soft, and most definitely not crunchy. I seriously don't want crunchy meringue on my pie. Although, in all honesty, I'd rather not have the meringue at all - just nice, tart lemon filling.

I think he was seeing the Night King's army moving towards Eastwatch-by-the-Sea, where Tormund is going.

Maybe they could both talk to each other ahead of time.

Or Hodor, that would kill me.

Season 3 of Broadchurch is, so far, a vast improvement on Season 2 (which was utter crap), but I really don't need to see any more of Beth, Mark, their family, or the newspaper editor. They're all shoe-horned into the story very unconvincingly, and add nothing to it.

Why the flipping hell is BBCA running Veronica Mars? Honestly, the only thing I even watch on the network anymore is Doctor Who re-runs. Well, and Broadchurch since season 3 is much better than that crap season 2.

I wouldn't recommend this to people in general, at least not at home, because dyeing anything close to one's eyes can be difficult and dangerous if you don't know what you're doing. However, an actress with access to top-flight professional hair colorists (presumably the television production uses good hair people) don't really have an excuse.

I actually figured it out early on. I'm surprised that she didn't. I found the resolution of both cases quite overly melodramatic. And I still wasn't buying that actress as Jane Tennison. Practically nothing of how the character was presented bore any resemblance to the Jane we see later. This was pretty much how I ended up handling it. Although I thought there wasn't enough blatant sexism. Certainly not as much as the original, which was set in the nineties.

I've read about that incident, but never saw the footage until now. That was freaky. The horse did, indeed, seem to jump straight up into the air, the way my cats sometimes do when they're startled. Count me in as one who didn't know that Dick Francis was Welsh even though he was one of my favorite writers.

I didn't get cryptic or serpentine (I didn't know it was a type of mineral), and I had no idea about any characters from New Girl because I've never seen it. But I did get the rest, easily. Well, except the Marques of Queensbury - which just makes me want to see the Mike Tyson mystery thing.

Yep. When that earthquake hit DC a few years ago, we felt it up here in the northeastern corner of Maryland. As we were standing outside the courthouse waiting for instructions, everybody was trying to call home, but no one could get through on their cellphones. One of the attorneys went down the street to his office and used his landline to make calls. Worked perfectly.

I have diabetes and I sometimes forget whether or not I've taken my second Metformin in the evening. I try to always take it at dinner time, but I'm not always home then, and even when I am, I'm human and forget shit once in awhile. (Last night, in fact - I didn't remember that I hadn't taken it until it was too close to the morning dose.) I've also occasionally forgotten to take my thyroid medication, and it has to be taken at least a half-hour before or 4 hours after eating, so if I miss it before breakfast, I can't take it until almost lunchtime. I have no problem buying that sometimes women might forget to take the pill because we're human, not robots. (I do, however, find the commercial in question stupid.)

I think the commercial is aimed not at people who drink it to avoid dairy, but at people who think it's automatically better for them than regular milk because they've been told that by almond milk commercials. Nothing wrong with drinking it because you want to or you're avoiding dairy, but if someone is drinking it just because they think it's more nutritious, they're somewhat misguided.

I will try to remember that in the future. ;-)

I did too, even though I knew it wasn't Pepys, who was about a century earlier than Boswell. But I just couldn't pull Boswell out of my brain. I've always pronounced it "pray-leen" - is that not correct? Or did Jon say "prah-leen"? (I can't remember.)

I got all of those, plus means, Splendor in the Grass, Jim Bowie, and Shutter Island. I missed the QEII question because a) I forget when she became queen, and b) I can't add.

I'm pretty sure she said she guessed them all. I didn't get it right away, I said Sri Lanka at first, but then Seychelles dawned on me, I think in enough time to write it down. Oh, and I would've hated to ding Sebastian for it if he'd beaten Jon, but it's the Hundred YEARS War, not the Hundred Year War.

I'm actually glad to know that the rights have lapsed. I was very unhappy at the idea of Peter Jackson screwing it up the way I felt he screwed up Tolkien. Which I realize is perhaps the ultimate in unpopular opinions. Book-wise, I haven't actually gotten beyond the one set in Australia, partly because there were things about that one I didn't care for.

The family tree part of Ancestry used to come with the disclaimer that others have supplied the information, and that there could be errors. The fee they charge is mainly for access to the records. They are not a research organization, and if they were, they'd charge a lot more than they do. That said, I generally find their commercials profoundly annoying.