Blergh
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I wonder where/why Nellie picked up the surname of Barton from? It wasn't her parents' or any of her three husbands' surname but her estranged son [Miss Goodwin's grandfather] used it for a middle name.
If I were to conjecture where/when Nellie picked up the syphilis, I'd say it was most likely from Al Goodwin sometime after the birth of their son -if for no other reason than it doesn't appear that their son this disease which often gets passed down to babies being born to syphilitic mothers. Now whether his half-brother by her 3rd marriage had it may be another story [though he was still living at the time of her death at age 84(!)]. In that time and place, moonshiners were usually looked upon by their neighbors with nudges and winks so until he got a lengthy sentence, I don't think they were in any way ostracized. Speaking of incarceration, I wonder if Nellie found out about the nameless 'little short woman' who visited Al when she attempted to visit him but was told that 'Mrs. Goodwin' had already been there and it wasn't she then after proving her ID and marital status to the guards' satisfaction, got them to tell about a 'little short woman' who'd claimed to be 'Mrs. Goodwin' visiting Al. She didn't have much better luck with #3 but, despite the fact that she had gotten two divorces previously, she DID stay married to him until his death [and even was incarcerated as 'Mrs. First Name #3' instead of 'Nellie#3'.
My guess is that Pearl may have died of asthma and perhaps even morphine withdrawal not too long after her own time in the treatment center. The obituary listed Nellie being survived by seven grandchildren and since we don't know if Miss Goodwin's grandfather had more than her father for a child [and nothing about her younger son's progeny], it's possible Pearl may have had up to six surviving children before her own death. I wonder if any of Nellie's other surviving descendants had known her story before this episode.
Yes, I agree that Miss Goodwin was right to sympathize with Nellie's rather sad, troubled, tormented life but it cannot have been easy for her elder son to have grown up with an incarcerated moonshining father and a morphine addicted mother [and it's likely Nellie never intentionally told him she had syphilis since this would have been considered too 'shameful' to have shared with one's offspring- though it could have possibly come out during a 'morphine high' ] and I have to give him credit for somehow becoming a productive citizen and diligent family man in spite of his challenging childhood.
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Nothing but a relief now. RIP.
Bobby with a Y is likely going to the hot place, if you believe in that stuff, so that betters their chances.
I'm giving no prizes for how either of them 'parented' Bobbi Kristina but can we hope/pray that this will be major wakeup call for Bobby [with- a- y]] and he will consider ALL the stuff that happened to his late daughter to spur him to ensure that his months' old baby daughter will NEVER be exposed to the same stuff that its no good for any child to have to witness?Oh, and I hope there's a very thorough investigation to any possible assaults that led to that vegetative state. If somehow some parent out there [especially Bobby-with-a-y] can learn how NOT to parent their child from this tragic outcome, it will at least mean that some good came from all this waste and sadness.
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Can I use this forum to mourn the demise of a personality I formerly liked and considered helpful and entertaining but now comes across as completely arrogant and snotty? I refer to Alton Brown .IMO ,he was fantastic in the early years of "Good Eats" and even was fairly good in "Iron Chef America" but somehow was started to fray by the time "Good Eats" finished and become completely a smug bore by "Next Food Network Star". Now with "Cutthroat Kitchen" , he comes across as downright cruel and unpleasant with virtually no trace of his onetime likability. May I ask what happened to him? I'm not going to speculate on his personal life but was it a case of him at one time being a pleasant, intelligent and clever person who seems to have morphed into someone he'd have wanted to avoid or was he always mean and snotty but disguised it under a civilized veneer? I'd like to think it was the former and if by chance the Good Alton wants to overcome the BA side [and apologize for it and own it], I'd be willing to welcome him back but for now I have to say I miss him and have to say goodbye.
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Saw the Annie Lennox one -and it's quite ironic that her paternal grandmother was descended from a long line of short-lived, destitute folks who grew up orphaned and/or rejected by their parents/guardians yet Mrs. Lennox herself would live into her 90's to become the beloved family matriarch and even see her granddaughter become rich and famous. I wonder if Mrs. Lennox knew any of the tragic history of her father's side?
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Yuck, I've been seeing this too often lately - OK, once is too often. All these redheads air-thrusting like mad: I'm surprised they don't send their one customer out of the store, screaming in terror that he's about to be assaulted by these crazy people.
Yeah, why couldn't they have had them silently raise fists or shake index fingers to show appreciation ? Too bad the ' customer' didn't tell them " Just FORGET it. I'm outta here. Get a room!' while walking away and shaking his head in disgust.
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Re "Friends"- Just ONCE I'd have liked someone to have called them out on their nonexistent 'parenting'! Man do I hope those kids grow up to dump ALL the Friends in the cheapest nursing home they can find and show them all the love and attention they gave them growing up- NONE!
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Concur with those who hate the Match.com ads. I mean, of course they're going to use those 'interviewees' that claim to know someone who had successful matches. No way would they use the ones who say stuff like 'My sister tried it and she had to take a restraining order from the kook she got matched with!' or 'My best friend's match proved so flaky, she tried to plan their wedding as well as names and number of kids before their first (and last) date was even over!'
Oh, and as to the the CEO in his office? Are we supposed to believe he was genuinely surprised that that one said she had tried these hook up services fourteen times and did she actually expect the CEO not to blame it on not using his company instead of saying 'Whaddya expect? Folks who use these services often are folks whom no one they know in their real lives would wanna go out with!'
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I think Florence Henderson's characterization as Carol Brady's great grandmother might have been a shout out to her rural Indiana roots where she was the daughter of a sharecropper.
Miss Henderson has said that playing Carol's grandmother was simultaneously her favorite and least favorite part of the show. Her favorite because she got to use her own mother's Kentucky accent and even a few of her personality traits. This appeal almost made up for her enduring the application of very uncomfortable makeup comprised of latex and cotton padding that was downright painful when it had to be removed from her skin so that somewhat guaranteed that Grandma would be one-shot character.
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While I like all of the Trip Advisor ads, this one has to be my favorite.
They're two different women. At the end, the wife is in bed with him.
What makes you so sure the woman in bed's not his would-be mistress and the woman sweeping the street then purring at the sight of the car's not the old rogue's wife? Put it this way, it's less likely he'd be trying to enhance himself for someone who could dump him for a more vibrant sugar daddy than someone whose spent her life making the best of what he's given her.
Anyway, I like it because it recaptures the nearly lost art of being 'naughty' , coy and slightly risqué without devolving into being tacky and tasteless.
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Maybe I haven't scrolled back far enough but is it too late to put in a vote for that 'naughty' Fiat ad set in the Italian village with a certain blue pill getting missed and going straight into the Fiat's tank while the old rogue screams no? Anyway, I wonder if the older woman purring at the sight of that enhanced Fiat could be the old rogue's wife? LOL
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OK, this isn't exactly a 'LGBT' theme but I can think of no better category to put this in. Anyway, all this hullabaloo over Caitlyn the Jenner Formerly Known as Bruce got me to recall how in 1978, when they decided to produce a live-action version of the 'Incredible Hulk' comic strip, it was decided that they had to change the protagonist's name from Bruce to David Banner because 'Bruce sounded too gay'. Talk about times changing!
I wonder how that went over this Scottish viewers who consider Robert the Bruce to have been a national hero?
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Is it okay for me to not have to instantly fawn over the Jenner Formerly Known as Bruce? I mean, yes, I get this individual has shown others that it's okay to admit having been uncomfortable in one's skin and deciding to do something about it and I'll even say that no matter how this person has appeared, this person has always seemed nicer than their most recent ex. Still, just because this person has made this transition doesn't erase the sad recent death of the other driver nor the neglect of the children that this individual had with three spouses. And, forgive m,e but I find it a bit jarring that many expect everyone to instantly refer to this person by a new name instead of the one that was made famous almost 40 years ago and retroactively pretend that this person had always been female.
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Agree with everyone here re Josh himself and I'm afraid I'd explode my server if I got started. As to Anna, I wonder if it's possible that she may have liked the idea of being the 'heir appearant's wife' [and therefore outranking every other female save Michelle] and wanting to reap the bounty of being on the Dugger gravy train enough to be oblivious to what the victims went through despite her fiance fessing and the crimes being common knowledge in their circle? If that's so, then her own kids would have every reason to hate her forever almost as much as Josh and the rest of those complicit in the crimes.
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Agree Jacob's no angel but could that at least partially explained by the fact that after he nearly lost his life to Matt's giant slingshot toy which gave him a concussion and took out a piece of his skull, neither of his parents considered tearing down that devise- and, in fact, even insisted he [and family friend Mike who had also been seriously injured by it ] rebuild it?! Even after Mike died not too long afterwards, I've never heard Matt or Amy express the slightest remorse or regret re priorities.
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My UO is that I always found Letterman to be too smarmy to bother watching more than a few minutes here and there down the years and while I definitely think he's become more tolerable [and perhaps I've become more tolerant and his tude seems rather tame compared to virtually the remainder of late night folk], I can't say I'm crying buckets of tears over his departure. Still, I wish him well and hope he and his family have a good sunset. Oh, and I always liked his mother Dorothy and hope she's well enough to join in the sendoff.
OTOH, I wound up liking him FAR more than Leno [whom I initially liked] . Moreover, after ALL Leno did to so many folks down the years, I thought NBC telling him 'goodbye [and good riddance]' was a case of what goes around comes around and did not join his pity party and nor buy his claims of age discrimination. Therefore, I totally believe Melissa Rivers on how he treated her late mother and how he didn't muster any attempt at a condolence despite being in such proximity.
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This isn't a continuity error but I've often wondered why, no matter what else, the length of Dorothy and Stan's marriage was always 38 years each and every single time the length was brought up. I mean, the show fluctuated re the numbers and ages of children, siblings, fates of parents,etc. but they never once changed a reference to Dorothy and Stan's marriage having lasted that long. I wonder why THAT factoid alone was the only one that they had an elephant's memory for while they were squirrely about virtually everything else.
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All I can say is I'm so thankful he had the nickname back then and not now as there would be few if any TV characters with enough taste not to make junior high jokes about it.
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OK, here's something to freak out the 4077th and all its fans: Mr. Linville's first wife [and mother of his only child] was a Miss Kate Geer, one of the daughters of Will Geer [yes THAT Will 'Grandpa Walton' Geer]. Despite the fact that he and Mr. Geer's daughter stayed wed until 1975, neither of them ever guested on the other's show. However; can anyone imagine how much fireworks Thanksgivings must have been between those two? LOL
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To be fair, ONLY Charlotte's father's reaction was recorded in court documents. Her mother's was not and while it's possible that she herself simply wanted the best for their daughter and grandchild, there's simply no evidence either way.
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OK, here's one: re Bruce Jenner's reveal, AFAIC, it is what it is and while I admit to some shock inasmuch as I couldn't imagined it way back when, I'm not surprised considering recent events. However; [here's the unpopular deal], I have to wonder what Bruce Jenner was thinking re choosing Diane Sawyer to be the one to help break the news. I could be wrong but my impression of her has always been that she's rather insincere and exploitive [not unlike Barbara Walters in those regards]. Sad to say, it's hard for me to imagine a current journalist who wouldn't use Bruce Jenner's revelations to feather their own nest under the guise of supporting a greater cause.
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Interesting stories re Miss Etheridge's ancestors in Quebec City and Kaskakia, Ilinois in the 18th Century but I was a bit astounded that she said she had NO idea that Quebec was originally a French colony AND predominantly Catholic. And later she admitted she'd already BEEN to Quebec with her late father so why did she think this city had ALL these signs in French and looked like a small French city? Geez.
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Let me just say that IMO that Cam was pot calling kettle re stereotypes [as is the whole show]. Never once had any of their gay acquaintances had ever been anything BUT broad stereotypes nor has the show ever dared to show someone who fit some of gay stereotypes to actually turn out to be straight. I know it's a comedy and not a documentary but isn't it possible to find humor in discovering that oneself getting too invested in stereotypes even if one was supposed to be fighting against discrimination ?[off my soapbox now]
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"Julia," starring Diahann Carroll as a widowed single mother, predated "The Partridge Family" by two years.
Lucille Ball on "The Lucy Show" played Lucy Carmichael as a widowed single mother in 1962 and I think there were more obscure ones as far back as the 1950's. To bring this back on topic, Lucy barely interacted with before ditching her kids altogether before the show's run was half-through so, in that regard, it fits in more with sitcoms today than it did with contemporary ones.
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Amazing story re Bill Paxton's 4-times great-grandpa Sharp. Many questions though. Like why did he [and his family] leave the somewhat tamed Virginia spread to go to what was definitely fronteir land? Even going by river, they'd have had to cross the Appalachians to get there and then go upstream on the Mississippi. Could he have been given that land for his Revolutionary War service and/or government service. Also, were the slaves Mr. Sharp begged in his will to be freed possibly linked to them more than merely having grown up with his children- like could one of them have been his actual offspring? Even making those declarations in the will re urging them to be set free AND bequeathed land was somewhat risky for him in that time and place. Also, it seems that the Sharp Family Plot had long since passed out of the family to other folks because they almost certainly would NOT have put the gravestones in a hard to reach wooded area. However; none of the trees growing amongst the stones seemed more than a few decades old so it's likely the plot was tended for a good century after Mr. Sharp's death. Also, quite amazing how all those researchers ALREADY knew Mr. Sharp had written not one but TWO accounts of his participation in King's Mountain .What a WILD spot that must have been for all sides .Also a good note that, since it was fought between Colonists alone [ Patriots and Loyalists], that it was a sneak peak to how the Civil War would be fought less than a century later. Overall, a good episode [and liked the locales].
Grandpa and Grandma: Old Man and Old Darling
in The Waltons [V]
Not to dispute the late Mr. Geer's and Miss Corby's possible gayness, but both of them DID get married (and Mr. Geer did have quite a few children) so its possible that one or both were bisexual rather than strictly gay. No, this is not something I would have imagined to have been the case for the Walton Grandparents but that just goes to show what great actors they were.