Blergh

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Kellogg's Danish Go-Rounds! Not only did I love them but I always wished someone had built a merry-go-round stocked with them like in the commercial! YUM!

I just watched the two-parter 'Read It and Weep' about when Jennifer attempted to present a book report on the classic novel "Huckleberry Finn"- only to be abruptly shut down by her principal on the grounds that the book had been banned from the school district. I won't spoil everything . However; highlights included having Alex come to Jennifer's defense and Mallory belatedly doing so when she found out that "Cosmopolitan" magazine had been banned(and her & Nick getting enthralled in Twain's work)- as well as how Jennifer's English teacher struggled re having to enforce an edict he disliked and wanting to support an intellectually moved student not to mention a dictator of a principal who reveled in laying down this new law and punishing all defiers . Oh, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus did a very appealing turn here as someone on Jennifer's side who still clashed with Alex. I guess I liked this a great deal not just for the issues presented but also because it was a rare show in which Jennifer's character actually shined on her own as opposed to be a foil or straight woman for Alex. Stay to the end when Nick somehow aptly links Mr. Twain's classic with a time-honored children's story.

Let me put it this way: Christina Crawford managed to muster up SOME redeeming qualities re 'Mommie Dearest' while recounting Miss Crawford's nightmarish shadowside so I don't see why Mr. Wagner couldn't have attempted to do the same- at least for the sake of the daughters who had to grow up motherless and might have wanted to contemplate some aspects of their maternal side. By no means do I consider the Gurkins/Woods to have been saints . However; perhaps, acknowledging Mrs. Gurkin/Wood having had to restart life in a totally new country and having the determination to ensure her family survived might have been balanced things a little.

Ages ago, I gave someone a ride home from work who asked me all kinds of questions about my car radio but I just shrugged them off and said it came with the older model car. Long-short is that this person got rides from a lot of fellow employees- and not only gave them 3rd degrees re their car radios but every person who bragged about said radios wound up having theirs stolen even when they parked nowhere near our workplace. Can we file this pet peeve under snoopy coworkers or radio thieves?

Robert Wagner: Even subtracting my POV re what happened to his late wife Natalie, his whole tude has been so incredibly arrogant (and he made no secret of it in his bio) that I can't stand to watch him. I wonder how her daughters feel about him essentially painting every single member of their late mother's family as having zero redeeming qualities whatsoever.

Sophia- Absolutely! It would break Rose's heart if she found out Danny Thomas's lesbian!

As long as we're doing classic shows, oddly enough, I can't stand Dick Van Dyke. I mean, I always liked his one-time costar MTM, got good laughs from Morey Amsterdam,Carl Reiner and Rose Marie on that show but, he's always rubbed me the wrong way. Yes, I'm impressed that he's still healthy at 90 and seems to be a recovering alcoholic but he just seems too patronizing and self-important. Just for laughs and giggles about his co-stars, I went and read his autobio and not only did it confirm my POV re him but I found it chilling that it didn't even mention the tragic death of his niece Kelly much less bring her up at all even when he briefly deigned to talk about her father (his brother) Jerry. I mean would it have killed him to have just said "I'm sorry this happened to her and have tried to help her family cope"? Nothing, though, and he just kept bragging about how talented and beloved he believes he is.

OK, I'm not quite of the 'can't stand ' stance re Suzanne Somers but there have been things she's said and done that just don't wash with me. Anyone else remember the Playboy pic deal? She denied having posed for them and then when they published a pic she'd posed for when she was still unknown, she went on a tear about how she'd only posed out of desperation to pay for her sick child's treatments and sued them. Well, after they settled, she went about and posed for them afterwards. I mean, I have no issue with her voluntarily posing. However; don't get all weepy, self-righteous and sue-happy about a pose you'd prefer no one would see and hope your fans believe you're still 'innocent' THEN go out and pose for another one because you want to show off at a later date. Either own the previous pose or don't pose again if you don't like the earlier being unearthed.

OK, I guess I'll start this ball rolling by stating how furious I am at the developments of "Sally Forth" in recent years. She started out life as a smart, bold and take-charge business person who didn't let anyone take advantage of her and called them on it if they tried to pull stuff on her but in the last few years we've seen her obnoxious mother steamroll over her (and Ted) by mooching off them months at a time and dissing Ted, guilting Sally into playing happy family re her flaky sister Jackie hooking up with Sally's obnoxious ex-boss Ralph,etc. The OLD Sally would have told the old bat where to go and to buzz off but this new one just seems to want to keep peace at all costs even when it clearly means everyone else has a one-way street to steamroll over her. Then there's how pathetic her daughter Hilary has become. The OLD Hilary was also smart and could make some good one-liners. This new one is self-important for no reason and thinks herself a LOT smarter than she is- and gets upset when folks don't behave the way she expects them to. Then the last few weeks, the strip really went out into cloud-cuckoo land by having Hilary INSTANTLY know via a psychic bond that one of her friends has feelings for Hilary's ex boyfriend that Hilary herself had dumped months ago- and worse getting a 'visit' from her 'future self'. Yeah, yeah, I know it's a comic strip , blah blah blah, but it used to based on real situations with characters one could imagine relating to and wanting to know. Now, it's too pathetic. Any comments?

Because surely there are folks here who'd like to celebrate/vent re the latest twists and turns of 'Blondie', 'For Better or For Worse', 'Curtis', Baby Blues' 'Sally Forth' or even 'Peanuts Classics',etc. How about it?

Yeah, and folks pestering docs to put them on pills found in appealing ads likely happens about as often if not more often as folks buying cars JUST because they saw an ad and somehow thought the model would be thrown in along with the car note. If I went back to 1979 and told folks of our current priorities, they'd think I was nuts!

Until the reporting of Mr. Leto's gifts, I'd never heard of those kinds of beads and had no idea that they existed- and would have been perfectly content to have lived the rest of my life ignorant of that fact. Just ugh.

Can I vote that any and ALL of the "Friends" were bad love interests to each other and to anyone else who made the mistake in getting interested in them? The only vaguely likable or interesting one of them was Phoebe but even SHE was a terrible love interest. But what do I know? I just wish I hadn't wasted the last four years of the show watching it and never want to see another rerun of it again as long as I live.

I agree and I think Mark Twain was right when he said that humans are the only species that deserve to suffer though I think that if they pose a danger to humans (e.g. a rapid dog or a lion that's eaten human flesh) I see no alternative but to put them down (and, yes I LIKE dogs and lions).

Yes, the BEST that can be said about her is that she's friendlier than Nancy Grace and not as nasty as Sarah Silverman. Why she hasn't been relegated to ONLY voicing Peppermint Patty in "Peanuts" cartoons is beyond me.

OK, while I've only had a few acquaintances make tiny disses re my line/s of work, I think a bigger pet peeve I'd like to air is bigotry. Some of the worst offenders I can think of are those who'll go on major rants about my demographics but then expect me to greenlight said rants by saying 'However; YOU are an exception so you're okay. Therefore, I can't be a bigot since I deign to tolerate you despite my openly hating a good part of your person' How arrogant is that?

Well, if anyone needs to be on this thread, I'd like to nominate Nancy Grace. I won't bore everyone detailing WHY I can't stand her. Suffice it to say that, IMO she seems to be an utter nightmare and I'm thankful that I can turn off any set or surf to another channel the instant she appears rather than have to have her in my life in any capacity. And, yes, I can honestly say that I'd feel EXACTLY the same way about this person were this person a man.

And the irony is that until about 20 years ago, they were unheard of. I mean, yes there were dens,studies and offices and the occasional smoking/pool room but at least dens,studies and offices were supposed to contain office materials for the ostensible purpose of having the husband/father be able to retreat to it for the purpose of helping to provide for the family during his 'free' time (and the women's sewing room was there for the wife/mother to be able have uninterrupted time to attire the family via handcrafted clothing). What does a man cave do but just have a man avoid the rest of the family while doing leisure activities?

OK, this is going to be an UO but here goes: Bill Maher. I can't stand him because he reminds me of those snotty, entitled,profane and obnoxious frat boys in college who thought everyone had to worship their POVs and lame puns/pranks to the degree that I take no comfort when he makes points I agree with.

Pet peeve? How about forms that officials say HAVE to be filled out and returned by X amount of time- then said officials take forever to return calls re form queries and/or there's no way to access said website form is on.

Someone showed me their Pokemon Go the other day and got all excited about 'capturing' whatever the image was they were supposed to capture - gushily telling me how once I started, I'd be hooked. Well, now that I've seen it in action and all I can say is. . . that's it?! Meh.

Demented Daisy, The pic you included is what I was talking about. Just to clarify. Thanks. Bilgitic, I'm sorry if my posts upset you. It was not my intention to do that. It's my belief that, as long as no one crosses the line to attempt to threaten a another's life, person, family or livelihood, one can express their reaction to whatever however they want- and others can react to said reaction the same as long as they also don't cross said line. As I've said all along, to each their own. Which means that I personally may not have any interest in partaking or participating in whatever but as long was whatever doesn't cause harm to others, I respect others' individual choices in partaking in whatever even if I don't agree with it and I can raise objections to it. For the record, I have many friends and colleagues who have unconventional appearances/ attire and while I may not copy these aspects, I respect their rights to present themselves as they wish even if I may question why. Without folks questioning, there is no room for thought or introspection and that's what I was trying to do.

I apologize in advance for bringing this up since the claimed journalist Miss Walters is supposedly retired and the subject Miss Katharine Hepburn has not been in this world for over a decade. However; IMO, there should have been MORE not less dissing Miss Walters re her interview with Miss Hepburn. Amongst other low moments was when Miss Walters seemed unable to contemplate of WHY Miss Hepburn would have wanted to give Mr. Tracy's family some privacy and dignity by deliberately avoiding his funeral- and then chastised Miss Hepburn for saying that the reason she didn't have any further romances after Mr. Tracy's death was that she thought she was too old for it. Miss Walters who had three wrecked marriages and who would later reveal that she'd treated her only child as a toy to be neglected unless she herself got bored actually thought she could advise Miss Hepburn decades after the fact how to live her life? Just no. Oh she stills whines about the 'what kind of tree' query that came from this interview saying she'd somehow been misinterpreted due to one of Miss Hepburn's own statements.

Mabinogia, Your call, of course, what's worth sticking around for and what to bail/bale on. However; IMO, 'kiddo' seems FAR less hostile than some of the other 'terms of endearment' I've seen in books, movies, tv, etc. in recent decades. If anything, IMO it sounds like something used by a 1920's speakeasy maître d' to a busboy. Was this story supposed to be set in the last 80 years?