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I've been watching a lot of clips of QI on YouTube. Unfortunately, they seem to have taken down all of the actual episodes. A few seasons are on Britbox, and a few are on Acorn. Hmm, I thought Britbox had the old seasons of Doctor Who, but they only list "Specials" in their page. Wonder where they've gone now?

Someone read Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and decided that Dolores Umbridge would be a perfect role model.

Or Dan just said that for comedic effect....

Hmm, yes, I can see how a "Sam" in a dress and Alice band might not be associated with the "Sam" who has a little soul patch beard, who just happens to be the same height and hair color. Still, it seems like a pretty big risk that someone there would make the connection!

The first time I bought a CD after moving up here, it got about 7.5% interest. A lot of retirement planning talks assumed similar returns. These days, it seems rare to see anything advertised as guaranteed for more than 2.25%, maybe 2.5%. That said, I'd happily take an income of 2% of six million! Even if she only gets the $3,000,000, at 2% that would yield an income of $60,000 per year, enough to let her choose how to spend her time based on what she wants to do rather than need to keep herself, or even herself and a family, housed, clothed, fed, and educated! (Assuming she doesn't blow it and get herself into an oppressive mortgage on a mansion or something....)

Oh yeah, and either Grace isn't including herself, or Gordon must be superhuman to be the most innocent and friendly of all comic shop clerks.

So, enough adrenaline and her antennae come out involuntarily? Unless Gordon chooses this monent to open the door, wide enough for Sam to see the antennae, I'm not sure how this will affect the situation. And if that happened, Grace would probably be too busy dealing with a very surprised and confused Gordon to be able to talk to Sam before he'd run off again.

Wasn't there a picture of Ashley holding the wand with an apprehensive/dubious expression among the montage at the end of that storyline?

I vote Ashley. Just because, well, it's Ashley!

That seems rather intrusive. Does Grace really have cause to spy on Sam?

Heh. I imagine a university would get rather annoyed if a professor kept having teaching assistants who dropped out of school because they'd suddenly gotten rich. Then again, maybe a student who suddenly had millions, and didn't have to worry about tuition or student loans, would just decide to stay in college for as long as possible...

Sam would not count, unless it turns out Sam is slightly gender-fluid rather than strictly trans, *and* happens to be female at the time of the kiss. However, all indications so far are that Sam is male, all the time, and only pretends to be female when he has to due to various social constraints and pressures.

Given how safe the EGS-verse makes transformations, I think I'd sign up for a few runs with Nanase Croft!

Hmmm, that "Girls who have kissed Sarah count" has been at 3 for far too long. Ellen, Grace, and Elliot...would a friendly peck on the cheek and/or motherly kiss on the forehead from Pandora count? Is there some way to arrange a kiss from Ashley without it being weird? Ah, if only Tedd had been a girl in that "The Dangers Of Clone Form Pranking" sketchbook! (I'm only counting canon, on-screen kisses here, we all know the OT3 means the count is probably at least at four by now.... ;-)

"After a while, you just don't see it anymore. Everything. I look at a star and it's just a big ball of burning gas, and I know how it began and I know how it ends, and I was probably there both times. After a while, everything is just stuff. That's the problem, you make all of space and time your backyard, and what do you have? A backyard. But you...you can see it. And when you see it, I see it." -The Doctor to Amy Pond, on why he brought her with him in his travels

Ah, yes, like a good neighbor, Barry Manilow deserves a break today, 'cos he's stuck on Band-Aid.... (For those who don't know, Barry Manilow used to write jingles, including "I am stuck in Band-Aid, 'cos Band-Aid's stuck on me!")

I have one regular Pichu and one Pichu wearing a witch's hat. I was really hoping to get a Pichu with a Santa hat, to match all the similarly-clad Pikachus, but the darn game just refuses to give me one. I have, BTW, renamed one of my cyndaquils "Justin".

"We need the guano." No, seriously. They can hold their own against sharks with knives in outer space, they don't need our protection! ;-) My high school's basketball team had a record-long losing streak at one point. They have a "sub-freshman" class which combines seventh and eighth grades into one year, so almost everyone is a year younger than the same grade at other high schools, meaning the guys were all a year shorter. In high school basketball, apparently that makes a difference. The school doesn't even *have* a football team. Perhaps equally important, perhaps moreso, it's a nerd school, so athleticism isn't exactly sought out or nurtured. Our chess and math teams, on the other hand, always kick ass!

Well, we do make good use of feedback from clients. "Last time Fluffy had his teeth cleaned, he wouldn't eat for three days!" "Sammy did so much better after her spay than Chloe did!" "We tried that doggie prozac, but Charlie was still crying for the whole storm, so then I gave him two more pills and he slept all night!" (Note: do not do what that last person did. Ask first! Some meds are dangerous at higher doses.) So maybe Fluffy needs better pain control, and Sammy needs a shorter-acting induction, and Charlie needs a different anxiolytic.

I'd love to see updated designs on all the parents, but I want to see them as themselves!

Okay, forget putting warnings on TV Tropes links, I'm spending way more time following a link to a past comic and then getting sucked into reading on from there! That first one had me reading from there all the way through the Swedekea race and the Demon Ally bit. I was only able to break away after the first page of Hammerchlorians when I realized how late it was getting. And then the second link led to SQ part 2, and a commentary link lead to the Summer scene at the movie theater, and that looped back into Squirrel Prophet part one....

That waking up feeling great is reportedly what Michael Jackson liked about Propofol -- apparently, he had horrible insomnia, and a Propofol anesthesia was the first time he'd felt like he'd had a good sleep in months, if not years. :-/ Glad you had a good anesthesiologist, who talked it over with you and didn't just decide on their own what was "best" for you. :-)

So good to have a proper Christmas sketchbook, with Ellen and Nanase, as it should be! :-D

Cool, another piece of almost-forgotten history! Personally, I kinda wish this were still an option for those who can only save a little at a time. I took a class in undergrad called "Novel Archaeology" which was all about archaeology as seen through the eyes of pop culture, mostly books but it also covered some films, including this one. You can get a good sense of the attitudes towards antiquities and the natives who might have laid claim to them, by watching this film. Ooo eee ooo aah aah, ting tang walla-walla bing bang! The result of Dogbert going to Dagobah? I'm sure they happened, and they have my undying gratitude for everything that was learned that eventually led to still having my sister with us almost twenty-five years after her successful one! Happy belated birthday! The next they sang was Stille Nacht, "'Tis 'Silent Night'!" said I, And in two tongues one song filled up the sky!" - "Christmas in the Trenches" by John McCutcheon "Yakkity Sax" deployed! My compliments to the blacksmith for forging such durable, difficult to escape even with help, manacles! They had already extended amnesty on condition of swearing loyalty to the United States, albeit with a number of exceptions that mainly covered ranking officers, higher-ups in Confederate government, and people who had deliberately left the government or military of the United States in order to go join the Confederacy. In an unusual inversion of "treat officers in a gentlemanly manner but screw the little guy," one of the categories exempt from amnesty had been anyone with property exceeding $20,000. So, it was hardly the entire workforce at stake, more like the rich and influential, plus those among the workforce who refused to promise not to do it again. I suspect that's why it may not have been popular, because it may have been seen as letting ringleaders off scot-free.

Love that one! It and the following were standards on The Midnight Special on WFMY when I was growing up. We weren't in range of WFMT broadcasts, but my Dad used to get cable radio (yes, that was a thing) just so he could hear The Midnight Special every Saturday. Three hours of "Show tunes and satire, folk music and farce, odds and ends, madness and escape" on a station that played classical music the rest of the week.