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It sounds pretty good to me -- quiet, nobody building something tall enough to obstruct your view, etc. I would never live next to a school, daycare center, church, etc., but a cemetery would be no issue for me.

As a life-long resident of Los Angeles, the "twenty minutes" line is probably my favorite. Ha, yes! When he - a top-notch litigator - learns she considers her report card grades opening offers from which she successfully negotiates upward.

I've never heard that described as a cliffhanger before (but I wasn't terribly involved with any online commentary regarding WW at the time it aired; just obsessively discussing it among my friends and co-workers who also watched). I think it's a nice way of showing the audience he's decided to run again; I still remember getting a nice little shiver when Leo said, "Watch this," and then Bartlet put his hands in his pockets.

Oh, that's what she's saying -- repeating the yoga woman's "crow pose," only in a WTF? manner? Thank you; I couldn't understand it when I watched it. Not that it would have pained me to watch it again had you not posted, mind you; that cracked me up. I especially love the swearing montage, but the whole thing is fantastic.

I agree; thank you for sharing it. I especially love his bewilderment at the "she always plays the same role" complaints.

Oh my god, my dad has another family out there somewhere? I'm telling my mom!

I'm glad you posted this; I missed Thursday and Friday's shows, so didn't get to see Margaret. After seeing the clip of her J! interview and reading her comments in the HuffPo interview, I am utterly charmed by her. You do you, Margaret. It's part of a joke in the tremendously silly horror spoof Saturday the 14th, which a friend and I find such campy fun we have it memorized and quote from it regularly. So whenever I hear a clue about the Crimean War on J! - yes, the only other time I hear it mentioned - I giggle, thinking of the film.

Sister Rose and Sister Blanche, when Dorothy and Stan are pretending to still be married to spare Uncle Angelo's heart, are on right now. "We're here collecting lingerie for needy sexy people." "Oh, Jesus! ... Please protect us and watch over us during this our time of need."

A hearty co-sign to Olive's parents in Easy A. And speaking of excellent teen comedies, Cher's dad in Clueless. Not just to her, but that he actively kept Josh in his life after he and Josh's mom ended their brief marriage. "You divorce wives, not children." (Which, yeah, makes Cher and Josh getting together a little icky.)

I used this on my mom today: I hung in there as long as I could, but you've long since passed the point when I stopped caring. (Due to the context of the conversation, I did not get to say, "If you're curious, it was right around raisin muffin.")

Yeah, I'm a sporadic Mom viewer -- maybe half the time. So I wanted to make sure to watch the episode with Richard, and thus appreciate you keeping us posted as to the air date. And, like you, I love how they're using him in the episode.

Every time someone posts about Oprah saying "honey child," I have Linda Ronstadt singing in my head for hours. (Different Drum contains the line, "but honey child, I've got my doubts.")

When it comes to proposals to agree to disagree, I'm like Toby Zeigler [The West Wing]: "I don't like doing that." Of course there are many times it comes from a genuine place of, "We've thoroughly stated our cases and aren't going to change our minds, so we should probably just move on to other things now," but too often it's, "I don't want to talk about this anymore, so you can't either" just couched in nicer language. If you're done, just stop talking. Then the others can either state their remaining points - or look like an idiot by repeating the same ones over and over. Their call, though, not yours. This is undoubtedly influenced by seeing/hearing "we'll agree to disagree" spouted by way too many people who are not expressing a differing opinion, but arguing an incorrect fact. No, no one should just "agree to disagree" when you're flat-out wrong.

He knew it was a cat and was still taking that attitude with you? I had to fill out "patient information" cards for my cats at the Costco pharmacy, but I just put a guess of a month and a year for the birth date (complete with either a question mark or "approximately") and it was no issue.

Oh, I will. The only late-night TV I watch regularly is The Daily Show, so I only saw his version of The Tonight Show the few times I took out-of-town guests to a taping at their request, but I think his middle-of-the-road comedy absolutely has a place on television. Although I'm generally drawn to "edgier" comedy, and would have chosen Letterman's show if I was going to watch one of the two, Leno's jokes made me laugh. Plus, he's a nice man - when my friend's husband was involved in a single-car accident on a canyon road, Leno is the one who stopped to check on him and direct traffic around the accident until authorities arrived - who is married to a smart, interesting woman. Yep, I like him.

When the cops interrupt two guys about to rape an unconscious woman, and one of them protests he was just helping her up. Liv: With your penis? When Casey goes to a judge's home to get an exhumation order signed, and finds him in the midst of game night with a bunch of other judges. "I've had this nightmare before, only I was naked." She's pretty clever when the judge questions her about the justification for disturbing the "sanctity" of the dead, saying she has a compelling argument but it is long and would disturb the sanctity of their poker game. And, of course: "Better sign it, the corpse might be a flight risk." Elliot over a store's PA system: Will the Master Baiter please report to register one? Liv, after some teenaged clerk shuffles up: Not a masturbator, the Master Baiter.

Extreme doesn't mean physical, it just means ... well, extreme. A high degree of whatever form we're talking about. But harsh, which another dictionary uses rather than extreme, might be better (although there can certainly be a harsh insult that isn't abusive). And characterizing disagreeing with someone as bullying them is primarily what I was thinking of with my peeve, as if the act of disagreement is per se bullying, regardless of how that disagreement is delivered. It's a more dangerous (because using the words to apply to lesser offenses leads to a dismissive attitude toward bullying/abuse in general) version of calling anyone who disagrees "a hater." That used to be an effective way of characterizing someone who didn't genuinely disagree with what someone had said or done, but was just so unhinged by hatred of that person that they automatically objected to everything s/he did -- even where they'd have loved it coming from someone else. Now it's used to dismiss anyone who disagrees.

When I regard something as out of character, I mean it's something that doesn't make sense for a person to do given who they are and what's going on in their life -- when dealing with a fictional character, I'm saying to the writers, "You've shown me nothing to explain why this is happening."

Today's pet peeve: calling just about any activity one doesn't like bullying. Bullying has a specific meaning, and is a serious problem, especially in this internet era - quite frankly, if I had a young teen I think I'd live in fear - and I think that's diminished when anything and everything gets labeled as bullying. It's similar to categorizing any negative interaction as abusive. It's important to acknowledge abuse takes many forms other than physical, but the definition of abuse emphasizes characteristics like "extreme" or "habitual" -- it does not automatically apply any time someone yells or insults.

Yeah, not all pharmacies do it, so depending on your location tracking down one who'll compound may be tricky, but it's a good option for cats who'll take liquid much easier than pills. I haven't been watching this season, and I didn't watch much of the last one, either -- the show got so formulaic and rather hokey. But reading through this thread made me kind of miss it, so I think the next time I'm home when it's on I'll have to try it again.

I hate the impression left by the re-ordering of episodes that Scully's actions in Never Again are a result of Betts making her fear she has cancer; it works so much better for me as the spark at the end of years worth of slow burn frustration, so I always watch it in the intended order. I love the episode, and don't think her actions are out of character - they're something different than we've seen her do, but not something that don't make sense based on what we know of her - but I agree Morgan and Wong are, like most of the writers, fixated on Mulder and other outside (male) forces rather than on Scully's internal logic and it would have been an even better episode had she been given more agency.

I am ridiculously excited for this, and have marked my calendar.

Yes. I don't drink soda very often, but when I do I want one made with sugar. Not high-fructose corn syrup, and not some artificial sweetener.

The era in which this will presumably be set is perfect for Sorkin's patronizing brand of sexism, so I'm quite hesitant. But Cate Blanchett pulled off Katharine Hepburn well enough, something I thought impossible after watching several good actors take their shot at Tea at Five, so I'll give it a whirl at some point. But, yeah - Sorkin. Women. Jackass. It's funny (to me) to hear the Debra Messing talk, given how many people over the years have said she should play Myrna Loy. I don't think anyone should play Myrna Loy. Lucille Ball? That ship has sailed; I vaguely remember Frances Fisher in a TV movie. We'll see; unlike with Loy or Hepburn, I am not a fan (nor am I a non-fan), so I'll be more forgiving. But, again - Sorkin, writing for a woman. That always requires an actor who can elevate what she's given. Blanchett might be up to the task.

J. Lo was the title of one of her albums, but I have no idea which came first -- the album or the nickname. All I know is my poor friend whose first name begins with J and last name with Mo spent a good two or three years in Lopez' heyday being referred to as J. Mo.