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mahree

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  1. So much of this is anecdotal, so here's mine: I'm from the Midwest and would have been a little older than Nancy (I was a junior in college in the fall of 1984), but I think the popularity of the TV show Knots Landing (ran from 1979 - 1993) was largely responsible for the entrance of the term cul de sac into the popular lexicon nationwide. As such, I don't find it outside the realm of possibility that it would be used in small town Indiana in 1984. The show was massively popular and would have been on for five years by then. From Wikipedia: "The series peaked during the 1983–84 season with a 20.8 rating (finishing in 11th place) and a 20.0 rating for the 1984–85 season (when it finished 9th)."
  2. I grew up in the Detroit area (graduated from college in 1986) and we always called it KFC.
  3. Those are students, presumably with parental guidance, signing documents for their education. Again, attorney here: whether a minor has the legal capacity to sign a contract is largely a matter of state law, so it can vary, but generally speaking, a minor lacks the legal capacity to sign a contract, except for those concerning food, lodging, or clothing, if the minor is over the age of 16. So the determination would be on a case by case basis, and if the person can show that the contract was coercive or signed under duress (probably not hard here) the contract could be declared void no matter how old the person was at the time of execution. Here is a pretty good explainer: http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/lack-capacity-to-contract-32647.html
  4. Copyright attorney here: I would guess A&E can (validly) claim the "fair use" exemption. They are only using snippets of the work and are engaging in criticism (boy howdy, are they) and comment. That would be enough to avoid an infringement claim.
  5. He already was - see The End of Time http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1415016/?ref_=ttep_ep6 Photo gallery from the episode: https://filmreviewonline.com/2009/12/05/doctor-who-the-end-of-time-part-1-image-gallery/
  6. You forgot the Heavy Sigh
  7. I had to watch it twice because DRAGON'S LAIR!!!! I used to play that all the time - would stack up $10 worth of quarters at a time. The season looks really good.
  8. Marian Bowles? There was a (very brief) shot of her photo when MK was first introduced making her chart (when she was trying to figure out what Ferdinand looked like). Unfortunately, it had a big red "X" over it.
  9. He also plays (played? guess we have to wait for Season 7) Daario Naharis, a love interest for Daenerys Targaryen, on GoT. IMO, this show has always been about a woman's right to self-determination and control over her own bodily autonomy. I wish they had made Kira (the character, not the actress -- she is already way to old to play 8 believably, IMO) a little older to begin with, because I think it would make for an interesting twist if she were to decide that she WANTS to donate her eggs to Rachel and Neolution. Clone Club then would have a very difficult decision to make - what happens when a woman (girl) exercises her right to self-determination in a way of which they don't approve?
  10. From the recap: I thought it was supposed to be the Johnson Space Flight Center in Houston: As did I. I even looked it up (they are different actresses, though).
  11. Yeah, apparently it's a lot different than mistakenly putting rat poison in someone's coffee because it looks just like Skinny and Sweet (except for the little skull and crossbones on the label)..... ;)
  12. I don't know if you've watched the whole thing, but
  13. Here are a couple scholarly articles - mainly, the upshot seems to be that memories recovered outside of therapy (as Jean's seem to be) are more likely to be real than those "recovered" during therapy. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2007.01940.x "Continuous CSA memories and discontinuous memories that were unexpectedly recalled outside therapy were more likely to be corroborated than anticipated discontinuous memories recovered in therapy. " And"... individuals who recalled the memories outside therapy were markedly more surprised at the existence of their memories than were individuals who initially recalled the memories in therapy. These results indicate that discontinuous CSA memories spontaneously retrieved outside of therapy may be accurate, while implicating expectations arising from suggestions during therapy in producing false CSA memories." (emphasis added) See also: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02247.x "People who recovered memories of abuse through suggestive therapy exhibited a heightened susceptibility to the construction of false memories, but showed no tendency to underestimate their prior remembering. Conversely, people who recovered memories of abuse spontaneously showed a heightened proneness to forget prior incidences of remembering, but exhibited no increased susceptibility to false memories."
  14. Here is a (very dark) still - he's the one that starts flipping our at the precinct and when Logan tries to restrain him he dies.
  15. The episode with Steve from Blues Clues as the person who dies in the opening scene!
  16. As I understood it, the programming wasn't sloppy at all - the suits were doing exactly what they were programmed to do - the miners had become, in their own words, "inefficient," so the suits were destroying them to make room for their (presumable more efficient) replacements (the people who were on the ship heading for them that wasn't a replacement because it left before the distress signal was sent. The space station was a mine. The miners had not been producing recently, so the "head office" had somehow come to the conclusion that they had become inefficient (and thus unprofitable), triggering the suits' programming. They are being charged for air in the same manner as we would be expected to pay for food in a company cafeteria; at least that's how I rationalized it.
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