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Shia LaBeouf - Celebrities
Shanequia, Actually, when I first heard the name, I thought it was a French rip off of a Chia pet! Great having you back! -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on January 21, 2010, 11:46 am

Papa John's Pizza - Random Topics
Yeah, and the dough's so sweetened, it's almost like eating a doughnut with cheese and sauce! -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on January 21, 2010, 11:45 am

Murder, She Wrote - TV Shows
I have to wonder why it was that maybe only once or twice did anyone suspect JESSICA might have comitted any of the murders ! I mean, after 200+ murders she happens to stumble upon on an almost weekly basis for eight years, get others to fess up and earn her living as a murder mystery writer, wouldn't folks (and the law)have come to the conclusion she could have been [fictional] history's most prolific murderess? -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on January 21, 2010, 11:43 am

Global warming - Random Topics
I've thought about whether to do this for a long time and I've decided that it's better to put my thoughts to cyberspace than to let folks think that my silence means I'm going along with the flow (and since this is the Bone the Fish Site where folks of all beliefs can express ourselves and NOT North Korea where only ONE opinion is allowed) . This is gonna be long so I hope you all can bear with me here! I'm old enough to have parents who remember the Dust Bowl of the 1930's in which in just a few generations of wreckless farming techniques and overtaxing of virgin prairie sod turned what had been the U.S.A's and Canada's bread basket into a desolate wasteland tormented by dust storms so violent that the dust from the distant prairies fell like snow in Chicago and was carried all the way across the Atlantic to London- and, in the meantime, many farmers and their families choked outright, got blinded or died from pneumonia due to 'dust lung' caused by breathing in what had only recently been the topsoil. Even those who stayed indoors weren't safe from incredible amounts of dust blowing into window/wall joints and through door cracks! This would lead to over 2 million farm family members leaving their homes as 'Okies' (since some of the worst devastation took place in Oklahoma) and resettling in California,etc. Why have I brought up the Dust Bowl? To demonstrate that it IS possible for nature for the worse to be altered via human choice. Do I think every single scientific claim re global warming is irrefutable? Not at all but if one looks at virtually every subject out there, one can find at least one person trying to advance their own agenda but that doesn't mean that all other data need be discarded due to the odd bogus statement! Yes, there are cycles of nature but the recent extremes of droughts,heat and storms seem to be at a far excellerated rate compared with how the cycles had played out in pre-human millenia! As to recent cold spells? Put it this way. If one drives from Gatlinburg, Tennessee to the top of Clingman's Dome , the elevation STILL increases from 1200 feet to over 6600 feet in 29 miles- despite the fact that there are a few steep downward slopes on the way to Tennessee's highest peak! And speaking of mountains? One thing that's gotten me to believe that global warming needs to at least be considered instead of instantly dismissed is that not too long ago I flew over the Alps and noticed far fewer glaciers than had been visible over the SAME terrain that had been filmed for the opening of "Sound of Music" back in 1964 (the opening Alpine shots is the ONLY part of the movie I liked but that's another topic)- and I've also noticed that the Rockies don't have as much snow as they did decades earlier. Curse photography if you like but photographers loved taking Alpine shots almost as soon as cameras were invented back in the 1840's they were able to safely bring glass plates up to the foothills to photograph. Anyway, thanks to those 19th century photographs, we have a visual document of the glaciers melting at a rate far faster than one would expect in 'natural' cycles. Eventually most folks came to realize that there had been human mistakes made that contributed to the Dust Bowl's creation without having to study ice core samples,tree rings or satelite images. The good news it that through very hands on teamwork covering a wide scope of people, the Dust Bowl was able to be stopped and the areas became habitable even though all the effects weren't able to reversed. I don't claim to be all green (I drive a car and drink bottled water,etc.) but I'm willing to at least consider what I've seen around me re the environment and think about what might be best re our planet with six billion people (and counting) and less resources every day to sustain ourselves. -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on January 16, 2010, 5:30 pm

Jay Leno - Celebrities
Ironically, I initially LIKED Jay and was rooting for him when he and Letterman were at it re taking over for Carson. Yeah, it didn't take long for my patience with his shtick to wane and to consider the show something to be tolerated at best when nothing else was on. Oh, and I had a friend who attended a taping and he said that every SYLLABLE of the show followed a script- even the 'spontaneous' banter between Jay, the band and guests. Long-short is that by the time Jay said he was leaving (the first time), I had long since quit bothering with the show so my reaction was 'meh' to that announcement- and, though I considered Conan only marginally better, I believed he could have improved the slump had he been given a fair chance. Now? Two things: One is that I have newfound admiration for Conan for NOT playing 'happy family' when the suits announced taking off Jay from his sinking ship and insisting he pilot Conan's ship part of the time. Not only do I believe was it wrong for the suits to appearantly pander to Jay like that (instead of telling him 'too bad, you had your chance and you BLEW IT. Goodbye already!)but it was bogus that they didn't even have the decency of discussing this with Conan himself BEFORE they publically made their announcement. Good for Conan for actually publically rebuking the lot and telling them that he wasn't going to play along! I'm also wondering if there might possibly be a Mama Carlson motivation behind all this re the network ,etc. ("WKRP" fans know what I'm referring to- if that's the case here). As for Jay? I'm not giving him or NBC the satisfaction of watching him EVER (not even the opening night) and I hope there's some backlash re the entertainment industry against him (as in studios and celebs deliberately[and publically] refuse to go anywhere near his show)! -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on January 16, 2010, 4:40 pm

Star Trek: The Animated Series - TV Shows
I agree that it was surprizingly deep- especially for a Saturday morning 1970's kid's show! Anyone else remember Spock somehow observing himself as a child and then finally get [almost]emotional over the loss of a beloved pet he hadn't allowed himself to think about in the intervening time? That was something! -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on January 4, 2010, 7:20 am

Hey Vern, It's Ernest! - TV Shows
Stretching a commercial character into a full fledged show just did not WORK! Sad thing is that the late Jim Varney had FAR greater acting talent and skills than this character would have ever hinted at yet THIS is what is to be remembered for. -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on January 4, 2010, 7:14 am

Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve - TV Shows
Just to be clear. Yes, as long as Dick Clark wants to and the network will have him, he has every right to keep doing the New Year's show. However; that alone doesn't mean I have to keep watching it when there's nothing on it I want to see anymore. However,if Dick Clark regains his moxie and DUMPS Ryan Seacrest, THEN I'll watch it again. -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on January 4, 2010, 7:04 am

Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve - TV Shows
As much as I admire Mr. Clark for keep plugging along after that stroke, it's too painful to watch anymore (and don't get me started on Ryan Seacrest)! Well, Happy New Year everyone and let's hope the next decade is an improvement! -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on December 31, 2009, 5:29 pm

Lost - TV Shows
I wonder how many viewers the series finale will get next year. Even people who were done with the show years ago would like to see how it ends right? -- Submitted By: (kitchenbreak) on December 31, 2009, 10:19 am- Speaking at least for myself- WRONG! I'm not jumping through another set of hoops for a "St. Elsewhere" Snowglobe-type Finale and I've found plenty of other fish to fry/bone! It's been much more satisfying for me to admit that I made a mistake getting into the show in the first place , cut my losses and simply move on! -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on December 31, 2009, 5:25 pm

Psycho - Movie Series
Hitchcock proved his genius with the original! I mean all that SCREECHY violin stuff has scared the audience. . .witless for decades in spite of the fact that in none of the dozens of shots used in the shower scene was the knife depicted actually stabbing her. Oh, and it kept Janet Leigh nervous about taking showers the rest of her life! No point in remaking it or doing sequels, though. -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on December 22, 2009, 11:41 am

Sonny With A Chance - TV Shows
I haven't seen this but wasn't this what folks used to say about the late Mr. Bono before his ex Cher dumped him?LOL -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on December 22, 2009, 11:37 am

Whoopi Goldberg - Celebrities
At the sentencing of Anthony Marshall who'd been convicted of defrauding his late, Alzheimer's afflicted 100+ year old mother Mrs. Brooke Astor of her fortune and having kept her in inexcusable filth, it came to light that Whoopi Goldberg had written the presiding judge a letter stating that any jail time for Mr. Marshall would amount to 'unnecessary cruelty that would serve no real purpose'. Funny, I don't recall her ever dissing Mr. Marshall for inflicting unnecessary cruelty on his ancient mother who'd been one of our nation's leading philantropists before Alzheimer's started killing her from the inside! Yes, he's now in bad health but he shouldn't expect mercy after having been convicted of having been completely merciless to his own mother who'd been in worse health and jail time WOULD serve a real purpose in making him reap what he sowed on his mother AND getting others to think about consequences before they considered doing that to the elderly in the lives! Whoopi, would you have wanted someone to treat one of your elderly relatives (or your elderly self)that way? I just don't get why anyone would defend someone like that! -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on December 22, 2009, 11:29 am

Laurel and Hardy - Movie Series
I defy anyone to watch this series and not see where "Gilligan's Island" got a good part of its inspiration from! -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on December 20, 2009, 5:09 pm

Mystery Science Theater 3000 - TV Shows
I can think of a few big time movies [cough] latter day "Star Wars" triology[/cough] that I wished the show had stuck around to skewer! It would have been a welcome counterpoint to all the shameless media worship. -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on December 20, 2009, 5:01 pm

This Old House - TV Shows
Believe it or not, I can recall when it started out as a how-to show re renovating old houses with everyday tools and materials found in lumber yards,etc. for folks who found themselves wanting to renovate their old houses they'd barely been able to afford as efficiently as possible without having to blow endless bucks on specialty tools and materials! -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on December 20, 2009, 4:55 pm

Hello, Larry - TV Shows
McLean Stephenson left M*A*S*H to wind up doing this?! Only thing sadder was when he later attempted to be an afternoon blabshow host! A performers playing one of his daughters would wind up being aunt to Paris Hilton. I wonder if she'd rather folks remember her work in "Hello Larry" than that factoid? -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on December 20, 2009, 4:48 pm

Jon Gosselin - Celebrities
Shamelessly cashed in/exploited his kids, and blew the public's pity for him having been browbeaten by Kate by showing the judgment of a brain dead frat boy instead of a 30-something dad while STILL trying to exploit himself as father of a large number of kids. Does anyone have a petition to get the media to make a New Year's Resolution to IGNORE him from 2010 onwards? BOO! -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on December 20, 2009, 4:42 pm

Kate Gosselin - Celebrities
Shamelessly cashed in /exploited her kids, browbeat her lame spouse on camera then threw herself an endless pity party on the talk show circuit when they split. Does anyone have a petition to get the media to make a New Year's Resolution to IGNORE her from 2010 onwards? BOO! -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on December 20, 2009, 4:37 pm

Hugo Chavez - Celebrities
I agree, Robert, but then His Majesty Juan Carlos had singlehanded saved Spain's post-Franco representative government from doom when he defied thugs who attempted to hold the Spanish Cortes (parliament) hostage in 1981 by stating that he supported the legit government instead of them and rallied others to vanquish the thugs. In other words, King Juan Carlos knows the difference between a REAL representative government and a thug who's propped himself up. Oh, and I wish someone would confront Sean Penn and other Chavez fans on live national television about Chavez's blatant support for Colombian terrorists who have routinely kidnapped legitimate representatives and wreaked havoc on countless innocent civilians- yet Chavez backs THEM. How is THAT being a 'freedom fighter'? -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on December 16, 2009, 1:56 pm