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Not Ken, because he's said that himself. During James's original run, of course Ken kept getting asked who would win if they played each other. He said the relevant question is one that can't be answered: Who would win if James played 2004 Ken?

Wow, that's rather appalling. Not only because of the litters, but also because she's putting her dog at risk of later developing mammary cancer -- that part is particularly egregious for a vet.

LOL at those prematurely counting OU out when the second half turned out to be all Sooners; a 25-point comeback to hand Baylor its first loss of the season.

Quoting myself to say I did indeed watch the other show and there was no mention of Duncan, but Bean got a home with a couple and their 8-year-old daughter (who wants to become a vet). They came to the rescue, and Bean interacted well but was nervous to leave with them, but Amanda and the adopters were all wonderfully sensitive to his anxiety and understood not every bond needs to be immediate. In the update footage, he's happy as a clam, especially with the little girl. Bean bonded with several of the other dogs who made the cross-country trip back to Amanda's rescue, so I hope they get him a canine friend at some point - he loves other dogs.

What we need are more brief casual references to periods, as the part of life they are, rather than the two poles of either ignoring them or centering Very Special Episodes around menarche (and then ignoring them again until some godsawful episode about menopause). Not that there can't be any menarche or menopause storylines in the midst of that normalcy, of course, just that they need to be done better; Roseanne did menarche well with Darlene, and Cybill did menopause well with Cybill, but I'm struggling to come up with other good examples.

More Elise; cool. I love that she's been nagging her dad for years to adopt a dog, because it seems like she's been doing it good-naturedly rather than truly pushing him to do something he wasn't yet ready to do. And I love how Lizzy always tells adopters who feel torn between dogs that they cannot make a wrong choice, because no dog is more deserving than the other. Elise being excited to have a sister to play with every time she goes home to visit is cute, as is her dad joking if Connie doesn't like the snow, they'll just move. I don't watch Amanda to the Rescue, but I enjoyed the crossover segment; she clearly has a way with dogs, and her rescue sounds like a great place for Bean. She and Mariah bonding over their work in general and liking the oddballs in particular is nice - even though they both need to learn it's "fewer", not "less" dogs - and that Duncan video is cute. Good job, Animal Planet, because now I'm going to watch Amanda's show to see if there's an update that Bean and/or Duncan get a home. Someone who keeps up with VRC via social media posted quite a while back that Molly-O got a home, but we've seen her twice this season. I know they often use footage shot a long time ago, so I hope that's what is going on, and not that Molly-O was returned. (Elise's dad met Connie when VRC was in NYC filming the Dog Bowl, so that was indeed many moons back.)

I understand that it could, especially by someone in your situation. I find few things in life more disingenuous than sorry if you were offended by something I said "apologies", so I do not offer them. But even though I don't have anything to apologize for, I agree it's always good to be mindful of how we express ourselves, and I appreciate this dialogue. I wish you a good night as well. And I'm glad this show is recently available on streaming, since it's proving soothing to you during this terrible time. (It's good that in just a couple of months, there will be new episodes as well.) I latched onto Pit Bulls & Parolees as a source of comfort in the wake of my cat's death several years ago. It's wonderful when a TV show can serve an unintended purpose like that.

It wasn't; it was about how I watch the show, and the educational value I find in those types of stories (by which I mean the ones where an owner/good samaritan didn't know what was going on or what to do).

Your fresh grief is causing you to project onto my words a blaming that isn't there; I said these are things some loving owners - on the show and in the audience - don't know, so it's educational for the stories to be shown. Even though you are upset by my post and thus may not want them, I offer my condolences on the loss of your cat.

Is he planning on never drinking at all during their relationship, or just not drinking when he's with her or going to be with her later that day/night? Because if he's going out with his friends and then going home, it doesn't affect her at all if he drinks, so he wouldn't have to give up drinking entirely to accommodate her needs. (I'm assuming they still live separately, but if he's moved in with her, that's a different story.)

I don't know much beyond their names and what they do, so I don't care about either one of them, but I heard her name long before I heard his.

I've seen it written on ESPN and USA Today that Rudolph may have kicked Garrett in the groin when Rudolph was on the ground (after Rudolph had grabbed at Garrett's helmet and before Garrett yanked off Rudolph's helmet), but watching the footage on my monitor, it's too hard for me to make out -- I think it's more that he's pushing back at Garret as Garrett is trying to haul him up, but, like I said, my eyes can't make it out at that size. Does it indeed look like a deliberate kick to you? If the "only" thing Rudolph did is unsuccessfully pull at Garrett's helmet and lunge toward him after Garrett ripped Rudolph's helmet off, I've been figuring he'll get a fine but no suspension. I don't like his attitude about the whole mess, at least from the quotes I've read, acting like his shit doesn't stink. The escalation was unreasonable - to the extreme on Garrett's part - but he wasn't just innocently trying to get up from under a sack. Unless there's some other explanation for his hands I'm missing, he was trying to wrestle Garrett's helmet off.

I didn't realize there was a map for that clue (for a few, I was only listening without also looking). Hmm. Well, I withdraw that specific praise, then, but I still think in general the clues were befitting a ToC final - I think on the whole they were more challenging than in regular play.

That's true, and it was a good final round of the championship even if my third choice won. And it gave me the Before, During, and After category, which I loved. I was a little surprised by the volume TS, but I think it was only a TS because they started at the bottom of the category. I thought FJ wasn't quite as challenging as a ToC FJ should be, but at least there was no "identify the highlighted state" type clues today; for the most part, I think the clues this tournament were appropriate to the level of competition.

I'm bummed; I was inadvertently spoiled, and got all excited upon hearing Emma won ... and then I found out she won tonight's game, but with the two-day total James won the championship. I was so happy for a couple of minutes there.

I doubt it, since those are all things the kids did in the original series, without it ever indicating impending doom.

Rather flabbergasted and disgusted, and Troy said it's not something people should even have to see ... as production gleefully re-ran it over and over and over and over.

I watched the special features on the movie Blu-Ray, and cracked up at how the scene at the publisher's office when it turns out Bubble had transcribed big chunks of Eddy's telling of her life story as simply "blah blah blah blah blah" came to be: When Jennifer Saunders said she really was going to finally write the movie script, Dawn French - in order to motivate the procrastinator - told her, "Fine; if you don't do it by New Year's, you have to pay me 10,000 pounds." So, of course, Saunders waited until the end of the year, started pounding it out, and presented French with a script that had a basic storyline, some fully-formed scenes, some outlines, and a bunch of pages that just read "blah blah blah blah blah". It's nice to see how much fun the actors all have whenever they reunite for an AbFab project. And it's a random little thing, but I never thought of it until June Whitfield said it: It's an interesting coincidence that the main actors all have J names - Jennifer, Joanna, Julia, Jane, and June. What are the odds? Watching it all through, it struck me again that I love how many female characters there are as compared to male in this series, and how all the primary characters are women, while the men are secondary and tertiary characters, and you have yet more women in those categories as well. You don't often get that in comedy. I'm bummed I don't have any more AbFab to watch!

That was seriously ugly. I have major issues with Baker Mayfield, but I appreciate how disgusted he was after the game, repeatedly calling Garrett's behavior inexcusable and quite direct about the fact he will - and should - be suspended, and they don't know for how long, and that hurts the team, when they're already shooting themselves in the foot all over the place. It was obviously right to eject Pouncey as well, and whatever else comes to him, but I understand why he reacted like that. I wouldn't let Garrett back on the field all season.

I hate Toby Keith on every level, so it's hard for me to be objective - and I had to go look that song up (bleh) - but the CU folks back me up on it being "so wrong". And on Jo Dee Messina's cover of "Lesson in Leavin'" - which I also had to look up - being ranked too high, especially in light of Dottie West's original not even being on the list. I think "Why Not Me", "The Carroll County Accident", and "Do-Waka-Do" are placed about right, and maybe "Stranger in my House", too (I wouldn't put it that high, but this list fucking sucks, so I'm not going to get fired up about something placed a little higher than it should be given the utter crap that shouldn't be ranked at all). I'm not sure I even want to know what he said. I can't stand that guy, and have no idea what Trisha Yearwood sees in him. The industry has major problems if they're going to give women the stage for a night but still refuse to play their fucking songs on the radio and hand out the awards to undeserving men. But that opening medley was great, and I liked seeing people in the audience enjoying the hell out of it. Oh, crap, that was simultaneously beautiful and painful to watch. I found this article about it: Bless. Speaking of living legends, did anyone see the "Here She Comes Again" Dolly Parton special on ABC the other night? There wasn't a whole lot to it, but I loved how into talking with her Robin Roberts was; her excitement made it fun.

That was ridiculous; I hate when they do clues like that, period, but it's especially aggravating in a ToC. The Mickey Spillane and Michael Avenatti TS both surprised me a bit, but that was it. I'd never heard the word jeremiad and I can name only a few Bible books, so I stared blankly at the TV during FJ. In fact, I performed pretty poorly throughout the game; thank goodness for the synonyms for black, new news, teen letter words, and legal categories to make me feel better, because I was pretty spotty in the rest.

Aw, glad everyone is back home, @Mindthinkr. That's what I do after I return from a trip -- crawl in bed, turn the television on, and let Riley snuggle away to make up for lost time. Oh, and Chester? Happily chowing down on all that chicken I bought now that my mom is home. Goober. It's going to be a nightmare at Thanksgiving when it's friends taking care of them instead of me - we've apologized to everyone in advance. The friends will get lots of snuggles (and conversation; Chester and Bandit are both Chatty Cathys - and Bandit has no inside voice), but they'll be tearing their hair out trying to get him to eat and cleaning up after him. They both have cats, too, so at least they're used to it.

Ha - no judgment here; a few years ago, a friend and I got to reminiscing about that movie, ordered the DVD, and watched it again. It's still cute. When I saw the list of what would be available on the Disney streaming thing, that was one of the few titles that jumped out at me (I'm not much of a Disney person, apparently, and the things I do like I mostly already have on DVD).

The main reason I only like a handful of crime dramas in the history of television is how they normalize and glorify shitty behavior by the police, and the second is that, as a lawyer (even though civil, not criminal), I have a hard time setting aside numerous "That's now it works!" objections in the name of dramatic license, but the third big issue - that would be the second if not for my profession - is the lack of character development. So my ideal crime dramas - Cagney & Lacey and Major Crimes - avoid both problems, but I can occasionally go with one that has one fundamental problem but avoids the other, especially when what's avoided is the celebration of bad policing. Cold Case falls in that category for me; the personal storylines almost universally sucked, but the cases generally were solved in line with the law and civilian ethics. For me, the two big flaws were, like you said, the accuracy of witness's long ago memories (when in reality even recent eyewitness accounts are among the most unreliable of evidence, despite popular reliance on them) and also - perhaps especially - the frequency with which detectives would learn something from one witness and say to each other, in that witness's presence, about another witness, essentially, "That blows So-and-So's story out of the water." You don't do that! It's a genre-wide problem, but among the small percentage I watched with any regularity, this show seemed a prime offender. But, bottom line, it still makes my tiny list. And if I ever get the chance to record it again, I will.

Yes she was. As would be anyone who, through lack of experience and exposure, didn't know anything more than the simplistic notion she'd been told by her parents and guidance counselors that if she kept working hard and getting good grades, she could go to college, and then sat down to fill out financial aid forms and found out her parents weren't poor enough for her to qualify for full aid but they'd spent her college fund that was supposed to bridge the gap - "So even if I can't get into these schools, I can't afford to go?" A full academic scholarship was a "big maybe" and she wanted to know what the point of all that effort to get all As was if she was just going to wind up at community college: "All this time, you told me that if I worked hard and made good grades, I could make something out of myself." "You still can." "Going to night school and working at the Buy 'n' Bag? I'm gonna wind up just like you!" "Hey! You apologize for that; your mother busted her butt for you." "I busted my butt to get into a good school, how come you never told me there was no way?" "Oh, we purposefully went broke so you couldn't go to the college of your choice!" "You should've told me I was on my own." "Oh, come off it; you've never been on your own." "Well, then, what would you call it?" And she stomps off. After D.J.'s spelling bee, when Dan gives her the chocolate ice cream, she jokes forget college, maybe she'll just marry Mark and move in with them, and Roseanne tells her not to bother killing them for the insurance money, as there isn't any, and they all have the food fight. That's the end of season four, and season five opens with Dan deciding to close the bike shop, at which point Becky's ire flares up again, for Mark and herself. She wonders what's going to happen to Mark, losing his job like that, and they're agog at her thinking of him first rather than them. Mark tells her about the offer in Minneapolis, she squawks, he says he'll stay if she wants, she asks him not to go, he agrees, Darlene finds out and speaks the truth of how utterly stupid that would be, Becky decides to tell him to go ahead and move for the job, and then the fight in the kitchen ensues when Roseanne and Dan find out she's ditching school to be with Mark (coming on the heels of Dan whining about Roseanne taking a break from the closing to go on an interview, so everyone is on edge): "You know, you act like you're the only ones with problems around here." "You are the most selfish piece of work I have ever seen in my life! Do you have any idea what we're going through?" "Do you have any idea what I'm going through? Today may be the last day I'll ever see Mark again ... He got a job offer in Minneapolis, and I'm telling him to take it, and it's all because of you." "Excuse me?" "If you knew how to run a business, he'd still have a job and he wouldn't be leaving. Now I don't have Mark, I don't have college, I don't have anything! You blew it, Dad, you blew it for everyone in this family!" "Becky, you shut up!" "Come on, Mother, you know it! Everybody knows it. I'm the only one with the guts to say it." Then she runs off with Mark. When they come back to get her stuff, the explain their plan, and with some contemplation on the circumstances, the whole thing now doesn't seem quite as stupid as it did before; Becky and Mark head off for Minneapolis, and, as Roseanne says, "Maybe there's a very small chance this isn't the very worst mistake you're ever gonna make for the rest of your life." Statistically, Becky and Mark would likely have divorced somewhere along the way had he lived, just like Darlene and David didn't last. We already saw the odds defying in Roseanne and Dan. But it doesn't matter whether or not Becky and Mark would have also been an unlikely success story; what's poignant is that he died young and she's been stuck in that lost potential ever since.