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Bridget Loves Bernie was a CBS sitcom that ran for just one 24-episode season in 1972-73. Starring Meredith Baxter and David Birney, it was based on the long-running Broadway play Abie's Irish Rose. The show's premise was that a young school teacher from a well-to-do Irish-American family falls in love with and marries a poor Jewish cab driver. The show was given an excellent time slot--Saturdays at 8:30 PM, between All in the Family and Mary Tyler Moore--and finished fifth in the overall ratings for the season. Why was the show cancelled? It was widely reported that Jewish groups opposed to inter-religious marriages inundated CBS with hate mail! (Officially, CBS claimed the show's ratings were disappointing.) Bridget Loves Bernie remains the highest-rated show ever to be cancelled after just one season. Birney and Baxter were later married in real life.
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Added: 21st February 2012
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First, before I reconcile with you, I'd like to tell you a thing or two. Do we have any replacement players out there? Any geniuses that know their trivia.
Either way, I am always happy to see you all checking out what could possibly be.
Keep cool! Or, should I be saying to all of you, keep warm? Either way, you get the idea. Recognize it?
UPDATED: SOLVED!!
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Added: 21st February 2012
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How many can remember when 3 dudes from Louisiana were suddenly the next "big thing"? Well now, that would've been way back when things were changing drastically with hairstyles and clothes. They, like all, were "one" grouped together as those that could be heard from 1 mile away, that is, when played correctly. Sure, many more elicited similar reactions, but at that particular moment, everything was right for them. But like most or some who vaguely sounded similar to them, it only lasted for a decade or less, this was when things changed for the worse for those alike them. But instead of packing it in, Zebra continued on. Not surprisingly, most of the guys were heavily inspired by a London-based group you may of heard before: Robert, two John's and Jimmy's blues-inspired sounds. They were the four who could take credit for it and so many more. So with the 3 Americans, it just wasn't another composition with its entirety worded about a lady or ladies. Or was it? Now that I think about it, this certainly applied with their own take on how they saw things. Also, it does certainly capture that unique time perfectly. Thankfully, they still manage to carry on with much more than their counterparts from that time. A matter-of-fact, they actually found their beginnings way before, away in '75. This was when things started to turn, as they got their own identity to work on. *E*
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Added: 26th February 2012
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Okay, you are sitting there, waiting for something to do. Ever wanted to add a word or two towards a game for your mind? Sure, you may know it, but maybe not. After all, I do enthuse about everything in my different life. I have to really throughly enjoy myself always, because somebody has to do it. Wanna join in? Coffee? Why are you still languishing there on that chair pad half hearted?
Come one, come all! So, in my humblest opinion, it's all easy. No need to feel insecure with botching it. I love all you people. Really!
Ohhhh, no! I forgot 2 update it. SOLVED!
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Added: 17th March 2012
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I had a chance to talk with driver Randy Brown about the 30 year history of the truck Grave Digger Monster Truck. Randy told us the owner Dennis Anderson started out as a mud bogger using a 1957 Ford Pickup body. The truck was put together with what ever parts Dennis could find, competitors would kid him about that. He told them "I'll take this old junk and dig you a grave with it" and that is how they came up with the name Grave Digger came about. A themed paint job has made it a fan favorite.
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Added: 3rd March 2012
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Hal March, born Harold Mendelson, was best known as the host of the popular 1950s quiz show The $64,000 Question from 1955 to 1958. This TV Guide cover is from August 1955 when the show was ascending to the top of the TV ratings after just three months on the air. Although no scandal was ever associated with the show, The $64,000 Question was axed in 1958 when rigging scandals involving other prime time game shows soured the public's appetite for them. March was also an actor. He appeared on a 1966 episode of The Lucy Show as a comedian whose partner was a very large monkey (played by a man in a monkey suit). March was hoping to make a comeback as a game show host in the fall of 1969 with It's Your Bet, but ill health quashed those plans. After completing about 13 weeks of tapings, March complained of weakness and tiredness. A medical exam confirmed the worst: March, a lifelong heavy smoker, had an advanced case of lung cancer. He died on January 22, 1970 at the age of 49.
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Added: 11th March 2012
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Herbert Hoover was a brilliant orgtanizer of relief supplies for Europe during and after the First World War. Unfortunately for him, he is mostly remembered as the man who was president of the United States when the stock market crashed in 1929. The resulting Great Depression crippled the economy. Hoover's administration largely chose to wait things out, believing that the economic downturn would be short, and that government intervention was not necessary. He famously predicted in 1932 that, "Prosperity is just around the corner." Of course many grim years followed and it took pretty much until the end of the 1930s for the United States and the rest of the world to extricate itself from the Great Depression. This political cartoon (from 2005!) lampoons Hoover's unwarranted optimism.
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Added: 13th March 2012
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Alright, I know I have grossly neglected the games recently. I guess you can tell by me being days away. I got so many assignments to complete. Too many! And with this, I know some of the games appeal to those who find fault in my openly awkward comments - but I'm not to blame. Now, I am just skipping outta work to sheepishly add something for all of you. I hope on the off-chance that maybe one or two may know it. Am I trying to insinuate something here? I doubt it. As to myself, I hope you have had a pretty good rest since the last brainteaser I blew on you. I had so much on my mind, I had taken little time to focus on it properly with the right disposition. My full briefcase is kinda disassociating myself from gaming these days. I wish I could be an overgrown kid every day. Sadly, it is only here with you. I still can't imagine mistaking a face I had seen too many times in that last picture. I was taken back with that. And I should be more patient with the PC. Typographical fix-ups was my specialty just a few years back. I made a good livin' at it. Yes, I am losing my edge from that. I need another mug of Maxwell House before I see another drawback with myself.
UPDATE: Angora has done it again! So, did you know it?
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Added: 13th March 2012
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Well, I do think it is time to start talk'n of something that began from over a quarter century of time. You and I know, it really moved increasingly forward back in the day. It was fortunate for Walter, if he had really listened to his father, it all would never of happened for the New Yorker. I want to point out, it was the brass sounds, immediately evoking a good feeling, and with that, brought the eclectic treatment commercial appeal immediately around-the-world. These days, it doesn't feel any different than when it came out. It added to the N.Y. urban scene back then. It wasn't something you would expect from such a classical piece of material. It was complex. The response was amazing to the rearrangement. Did you know that Mr. Walter was responsible for the array of instruments, which was very true. He alternated always with mixing it up. A true independent. There was nobody else that filled in at the time when he worked on it from scratch. Everything, all on his own. He was just 24 years of age when Beethoven was suggested to him. It really opened doors, adding more to his growing reputation. He had always dabbling with instruments and other required equipment that he famously used to his advantage. And with that, he was given always the chance in the industry with his knowledge. It was what it took to make something happen. So, after a few changes with a creative approach with the classical material, it really became quite cool, and soon went to the charts that late spring; where it touched the top position within a short 4 month period. More of the same kind of classical combinations came right after that. Even those in Michigan and New York's suburban areas, together bought it to the top. A different kind of audience had caught its emergence. More luck came as it was then brought to a gritty story of a dream on a Saturday night. That's just kind of wonderful, as more people could hear it's impact with re-discovering it. It now was earmarked by a mass-marketing campaign associated with the cross-over. For that time, an old piece of sheet music had became greater for all the right reasons. It sounded entirely current, and was poised to be remembered by us. Man, how the years have changed since. Did you know that Mr. Walter is still drawn into the business. Do you have any idea where he can be found these past years? He has been busy.Chances are there are more than a few of you who know it. *E*
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Apple
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Added: 19th March 2012
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