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Not mine. I seen't it on the internet
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This might be good:
When Nature Calls With Helen Mirren

The funny things that animals get up to in the wild.
Premiere tonight
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM ET on ABC • TV-PG • Stereo • CC

A supermodel lemur; a thousand-year-old fairy fish trying to find someone in 2021 who wants to make a wish; the new hit game show "Wolf or Rock"; a crab who writes erotic fiction.
AFV for wildlife?

Edit: Meh. Some decent video and Helen Mirren's potty mouth can be fun, but way too much anthropomorphizing.
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O Really wrote:
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Wed Feb 17, 2021 10:32 am
"Clarice" - Poor Clarice, PTSD'd from her original adventure, colleagues are jealous, boss doesn't like her, her shrink thinks she's not fit for duty, and yet she seems to be the only one able to find an answer. Might give it one more, but so far it's not promising.
:thumbup: So far, so good. More true to the original than I might have expected.
Rebecca Breeds does have Jodie Foster's Clarice voice down - especially good for an Aussie - and if you don't look too close and don't wear your glasses, she's got the look. The story (so far) seems more Erin Brockovich though.
Yeah, it pretty much got away from the corporate malfeasance and into something far creepier. Good season, good finale.
Clarice season 2: Is it renewed, canceled on CBS, Paramount+?

... Technically Clarice has not been officially canceled, but we’d say right now that it’s fairly unlikely that it comes back for more episodes....
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Tonight:
American Masters
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
(2016)

Season 30, Episode 8
9:00 PM - 10:30 PM ET ON PBS • TV-14 • Stereo • CC

Writer/producer Norman Lear's turbulent childhood, early success with sitcoms "All in the Family," "The Jeffersons," "Good Times" and "Maude," and social activism.
One of our greatest Americans. :-||
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Excellent show. :clap:
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Apple TV is giving Asimov's Foundation a whirl. The pilot looks, as all pilots do, great. The series starts in September.
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It's Shark Week. Tonight's episode on the Bahamas' tiger shark nursery is called Mothersharker :o . Clever.
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Vice Orders Documentary Series ‘Unknown Amazon With Pedro Andrade’ From Icon Films

Pedro Andrade

Excellent series. The host is informative, inquisitive, culturally sensitive, ecologically in tune, adventurous, compassionate, self deprecating, and has a charming deadpan humor, while the filming is stunning.

In fact, I like a lot of progressive VICE's programming.
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I've been a big fan of progressive vice in all its varieties for decades and continue to enjoy potential new vices.

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I've been a big fan of progressive vice in all its varieties for decades and continue to enjoy potential new vices.
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I got tired of paying through the nose for telephone service, and got an Ooma device instead. It uses the internet, and hooks up to my cordless phone system just fine. Cost is about $10/month. Plus unlimited domestic long distance, for free.

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I got tired of paying through the nose for telephone service, and got an Ooma device instead. It uses the internet, and hooks up to my cordless phone system just fine. Cost is about $10/month. Plus unlimited domestic long distance, for free.

Geez, very trusting of you trusting internet technology (and way off topic).

Kind of thought these would be more your style.

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I got tired of paying through the nose for telephone service, and got an Ooma device instead. It uses the internet, and hooks up to my cordless phone system just fine. Cost is about $10/month. Plus unlimited domestic long distance, for free.
As long as you stay at your house?

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I got tired of paying through the nose for telephone service, and got an Ooma device instead. It uses the internet, and hooks up to my cordless phone system just fine. Cost is about $10/month. Plus unlimited domestic long distance, for free.
As long as you stay at your house?
Sigh, it replaces a landline. Remember those? Wires strung along, get this, "telephone poles" ?

I have a cell phone for when I leave the house.

Sigh.

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What advantage is there to having a landline at all - real or virtual?

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What advantage is there to having a landline at all - real or virtual?
Yeah, it stopped making sense when people just started calling the cell as the first option to get ahold of me.
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I hate phones and rarely answer them but when I do I just pick it up and shout "WHAT IS IT?" This tactic ensures calls are very brief.

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What advantage is there to having a landline at all - real or virtual?
Well, I can think of a few:

1) The batteries never ever run down

2) The line quality is always the same, or at least more same than a mobile phone

3) No restriction as to minutes

4) You can use an old fashioned answering machine with tapes and everything

5) You can give out your landline number to annoying people and keep your mobile number secret for the special few

6) I'm sure there is a number six but that's all I got for now

7) Have a nice day!

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What advantage is there to having a landline at all - real or virtual?
One good thing is that you can slam hell out of the handset while hanging up on an unsolicited trump fund raiser.
Another good thing is that the cord from the wall jack to the phone is damn near indestructible and can be used to tie someone up or strangle them.

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Ulysses wrote:
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O Really wrote:
Wed Jul 28, 2021 10:15 pm
What advantage is there to having a landline at all - real or virtual?
Well, I can think of a few:

1) The batteries never ever run down

2) The line quality is always the same, or at least more same than a mobile phone

3) No restriction as to minutes

4) You can use an old fashioned answering machine with tapes and everything

5) You can give out your landline number to annoying people and keep your mobile number secret for the special few

6) I'm sure there is a number six but that's all I got for now

7) Have a nice day!
I guess some of those might matter to some people. In my case, I rarely if ever have battery issues or line quality issues anywhere a landline would be. It's been decades since I had to count minutes, I have no idea why I'd want an answering machine, and I have a free Google Voice number to give out and limit access to my "real" number. I suppose you probably need one to plug in your modem, though.

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