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Taylor Swift - Celebrities
I can't say I was a big fan of her music before but I always liked her creative lyrics and her rare level head in a rather chaotic industry. Anyway, after the Kanye West incident, I have to say that I truly admire how she and Beyonce not only kept their cool despite both of them being put in a rather awkward situation before a worldwide audience but conducted themselves as true ladies when Beyonce generously invited Ms. Swift to share her limelight later on without harping on what Kanye West had pulled! -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on September 14, 2009, 11:28 am

IKEA Furniture - Random Topics
There's no point in trying to have a dialogue with someone who considers what the other person has to say to be nonsense and ignorant so I'm done with neo as I have much better ways to spend my time than continuing that or putting together furniture from scratch. -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on September 14, 2009, 11:24 am

Facts of Life, The - TV Shows
Anyone remember the cringing Molly Pity Party Episode? That was when she found out her parents were splitting so she sang a song on a guitar full blast like she was headlining at a beatnik coffeehouse and the studio audience applauded her like she was Joan Baez. Sorry, no go. And, unfortunately there was also no go for henpecked headmaster Mr. Bradley who got himself guilt tripped into cancelling his Hawaiian vacation by Mrs. G JUST so he could stay in the dorm and console Molly! Great message. If your parents split, the whole world better come to a grinding halt to console you or you'll belt out a number! And,even during Molly Ringwald's movie career height, how many other songs does anyone remember her singing ? That's what I thought! -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on September 13, 2009, 7:15 pm

Avengers, The - TV Shows
Diana Rigg as Mrs. Emma Peel ALWAYS rocked. What was great was, unlike James Bond, Steed NEVER pretended to be anything besides a stuffy, middleclass,stiff upper lip, urban Englishman- always with that bowler and umbrella no matter where they were or how crazy the situation -somewhat like Alice stayed true to herself in Wonderland! Of course, the best episode had to be Diana Rigg's final one in which the presumded dead Mr. Peel had been found alive after years in the Brazillian jungle and so without the slightest hesitation, Emma resigned her comission as Steed's indispensible assisant and told her replacement that Steed always liked his tea stirred counter-clockwise (demonstrating re an 'air cup')- and then walked away to join her husband who looked EXACTLY like Steed (and, like Steed would have been, not a whit daunted or changed by his time being stranded in the Brazillian jungle). Of course, Emma had always teased Steed flirting with him but never letting on that she had any serious interest in him- and, of course, with Mr. Peel's re-appearance, Steed knew exactly why she'd behaved with him yet Emma had never hinted at him having any resmblence. The replacements just couldn't hold a candle to Emma but it was a cool show to watch and had one of the best 60's spy show themes ever! -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on September 13, 2009, 6:54 pm

IKEA Furniture - Random Topics
No, neo 11, I do NOT think that folks in Europe ONLY get around via bicycle or train but for many reasons (e.g. gas prices more than double in US, extra narrow city streets built centuries before cars' invention, a tiny number of available parking spaces,etc.) a LARGER proportion of Europeans use those modes of transport instead of cars than do folks in the USA (which isn't the ONLY non-European nation where folks use cars). Many folks who have cars only use them for road trips where there are no passenger rail lines and the cars themselves are often much smaller than US models due to the above-mentioned high gas prices and narrow city streets . Yes, there are also folks in the USA that opt not to use cars but, so far, they don't seem to have the same proportions as their European counterparts. I'm sorry if the phrasing of my first post made it sound as though I thought that NO Europeans had cars or that NO US Americans went without cars but, for folks who don't own large vehicles to transport bulky items, IKEA Furniture has tapped a very viable market so that's why they've been more of a hit in Europe. -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on September 13, 2009, 1:43 pm

UFO Hunters - TV Shows
I guess they're like dogs chasing cars. If they ever actually CAUGHT one, they wouldn't begin to know what to do with it. As Calvin of "Calvin and Hobbes" once put it d the surest proof of intelligent life existing elsewhere in the universe is them NOT visiting here. ET stays home. -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on September 12, 2009, 3:20 pm

My Big Fat Greek Life - TV Shows
This had been a somewhat fun movie about an awkward spinster overwhelmed by her demanding family who thought she'd found a means out by latching someone outside their ethnic group- only to discover her mate wanting to embrace HER heritage because he considered his own bland parents to be bores. Unfortunately, the TV show was an excellent example of going to the well once too often because the movie's complex characters got turned into crude caricatures and the underdog heroine got turned into a smug bore treating her extended family with open disdain. -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on September 12, 2009, 3:08 pm

Geraldo Rivera - Celebrities
I remember Al Capone's Vault (yeah, I wasted a few hours of my life watching the fool thing) and I recall how rather highhanded Geraldo was to the excavators - blowing air horns while they were digging so the jackhammers wouldn't be heard over his own whiny drone. In the end when he found nothing, they started surrounding him looking really . . .peeved and I was hoping we'd see the excavators invite him out to the nearest parking lot and that that would be the last we'd EVER hear from him on the air. Alas, there seemed to be a market for his whiny drone so he's kept returning on the air like a bad penny. I've never been able to stand him and believe he boned from Day One. What was really bad was the way he'd act all Mr. Hypersensative to his often fragile,shattered talk show subjects (whose woes he eagerly had them spill for a nationwide audience) yet it's public record that he wasn't always totally honorable to his spouses. Even if one doesn't care about the adultery, the shameless hypocrisy of him acting as though he was Mr. Hypersensative on the air while behaving somewhat differently off air was quite stomach churning. -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on September 12, 2009, 2:55 pm

Anastasia - Movie Series
Everyone can think what they want about the Romanov Massacre. However; IMO, the only way there could be no 'real villain in history' would be for there to have been no order given for their execution and for all the bullets and bayonets impaling themselves into their human and canine targets entirely on their own! -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on September 12, 2009, 2:42 pm

Paparazzi - Random Topics
I agree with Robert's last comment. I STILL think that each element of the paparazzi-publisher-consumer triad needs to be dissed! -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on September 12, 2009, 2:39 pm

Waltons, The - TV Shows
Although I liked the show and watched it to the very end, I have to admit (in addition to the Disappearing Elders Syndrom + Curt's Alive Ep), there were a few odd fishy moments scattered throughout. One early episode had John-Boy meet and fall in love with a girl named Jenny who'd run back to her childhood home appearantly bored at being left behind while her father and stepmother honeymooned. It looked like a haunted house and Grandma grimly said that that family had had so much tragedy but, apart from the Jenny's mother having died young (with her painting still prominent in the abandoned house) they never alluded to what might have happened. Did Jenny's mother die in especially tragic circumstances? We never found out. In one rather disturbing episode (warped like a "Little House on the Prairie" ep ), when Mary Ellen was getting ready to give birth, this very awkward perhaps even mentally challenged backwoods pregnant teen named Cassie started taunting Mary Ellen and the others. Cassie was an unwed teen orphan living with her grandfather but nothing was ever mentioned about her baby's paternity (and, in fact, it seemed no one wanted to breech that subject)- and later on Cassie gave birth to a stillborn daughter and, after Mary Ellen pronounced the baby dead, Cassie's grandfather just put the remains in a box and buried it in the backyard as though it the box contained a stray cat. Cassie became even more unhinged and would kidnap Mary Ellen's own baby yet even though John Curtis was soon found unharmed, nothing was ever said about what became of Cassie. Did Mary Ellen and Curt press charges and have her charged with kidnapping? Or was Cassie sent to a mental hospital? Who knows. Then there was an episode in which Elizabeth got all excited about a Nancy Drew-type detective series. Anyway, John-Boy seeks out the author while in New York City- and finds out from her mother that the author had died months earlier. John-Boy's rather saddened to hear about the author's death and tries to console her mother who generously gives the unfinished manuscript to John-Boy to give to Elizabeth. What's awkward about this is that when he tells Elizabeth ALL she can think about is how SHE will never get to read any more of that series- not one word about the tragedy of a mother surviving a child or anything other than how the death would affect HER reading options! -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on September 10, 2009, 10:02 am

Mission: Impossible - TV Shows
The opening with the self-destructing instructions and catchy theme was the BEST part of this show. In fact, many episodes proved to be downright snoozers after that opening. -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on September 10, 2009, 9:40 am

Crocodile Dundee - Movie Series
The first movie was funny enough but no great shakes. They'd have just as well ended it with that one because both the sequels were terrible. Then again, the first movie had one of the worst endings with them evidently not knowing how to end it so they had a cloying one with the girl reporter suddenly climbing over a crowd in a subway station to reach Mick so he wouldn't leave NYC. If they had just THAT movie five minutes earlier and had no sequels, it would been okay! -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on September 10, 2009, 9:37 am

Anastasia - Movie Series
OK, I stand corrected re Disney and acknowledge that Don Bluth did it. However; I stand by my stance re the cowardice of the animators to have Rasputin instead of Lenin being the villain (and yes, I know it was a fantasy cartoon but if they were going to depict the now-disproven possibility of Anastasia having survived, they should have at least attempted to stick to the real villains)! -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on September 10, 2009, 9:08 am

Anastasia - Movie Series
Day One! No, I never bothered with it. Yes, Rasputin was undeniably a manipulative villain who preyed on the Imperial Family's desperate wish for their heir to be healed from hemophilia but it would have gone totally AGAINST his ambitions to attempt to wipe them out. Couldn't Disney have had the cajones to use the REAL villain- Lenin whom it's been since proven personally ordered their mass execution then faked that it was done against his wishes to the outside world?! -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on September 9, 2009, 11:19 am

James Earl Jones - Celebrities
Not only did Mr. Jones's voice give Vader the authority the character needed but I can testify that having him recite the alphabet on "Sesame Street" way back when spurred me to learn it FASTER! LOL -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on September 9, 2009, 11:13 am

Vegetarianism - Random Topics
I'm all for eating healthy and if folks can actually have a balanced diet without including meat, good for them and I have to admit that I don't eat nearly as much meat as I did in the past. However; I don't like being told that somehow my dietary choices are immoral if I eat 'anything with eyes'. Does that mean those who choose to be intollerant vegetarians themselves don't eat POTATOES?! Besides, if one wants to get technical, there's evidence that plants feel stress when harvested so if folks don't want toworry about guilt over that , it looks as though they'd better eat nothing but lint! -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on September 9, 2009, 11:09 am

Paparazzi - Random Topics
Swanpride, Does the existance of hypocrites who decry paparazzi make nullify the rights of others to object to paparazzi's deplorable actions? Sorry, no. That doesn't fly with me! -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on September 9, 2009, 11:03 am

Wendy's - Random Topics
shanequia, That was the late Dave Thomas the founder of Wendy's who put up the image of the red-headed pigtailed girl on the sign- modelled somewhat after his own daughter named Wendy. As for the food? Well, the burgers always seemed to greasy and underdone to me (I don't care if they called them 'hot and juicy') . I rarely eat hamburgers these days but when I do, they need to be well done and moist (NOT greasy or, worse, smushed on the grill which turns them into pucks) . Anyway, because I hardly ever eat burgers and they don't cook them they way I like them, they've boned a long time for me- and not because of any bogus rumors. While I'm here, though, anyone else old enough to remember when they lost a good amount of business due to some rotten rumor about the burgers being made of worms instead of beef? It was,of course, completely bogus but one of my school friends jokingingly asked for a worm burger and they immediately took her to the kitchen prep area to prove they were beef without so much as cracking a smile. -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on September 8, 2009, 2:30 pm

Paparazzi - Random Topics
Swanpride, Read my comments again since this will be my only repeat. I didn't say the paparazzi were SOLELY responsible for the vicious cycle of chasing down folks to profit from their exploitation (and, in fact, did not address Princess Diana's death at all), but I think to pretend that simply because others in the transaction contribute to this mess (tabloid employers, buying public) does NOT absolve their own guilt. Moreover, if they have the skill to photograph and write stories, they could use those for many purposes besides stalking celebs and their extended families (including minors and elderly relatives who did not ask to be part of this). As for Princess Diana, yes, the others you mentioned are partially responsible,too, but that doesn't negate the fact that the papazzi raced after her car through twisting downtown tunnels to get more photos (putting countless other drivers/pedestrians at risk)- when the whole world ALREADY knew she was dating Dodi Fayed so there was no motivation other than greed for more photos involved here. Therefore, they DO deserve to be dissed for their role in that senseless multiple accidental death. Also, many of them seem to taunt their targets to get reactions for the sole purpose of getting better photos/video to get more money. To say that they don't deserve criticism because they only are supplying a market makes as much sense as absolving meth lab operators while ignoring not only the human desecration of methamphetamines on users and their families/ colleagues but also the incredible amount of environmental havoc that their poison's production leaves behind! -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on September 8, 2009, 2:10 pm