This thread has reawakened memories in me of being a pedantic kid who always put a heavy emphasis on -stain. At some point this memory faded and (on the rare occasions when I had reason to refer to the books) I became a -steiner. So, thanks for reminding me of the truth, Internet, even if this so-called theory is…

There were only three years between the departure of Littleford and the arrival of Bee, but during that time there was a real revolving door of women. I have no memory of Birdsong or Tolan or Siegel and barely one of Weedman. I think Harris and Nancy Walls probably appeared the most during that time. I think…

I kept waiting for that connection to be made explicitly, but it never was. If that was the intent, they must have been expecting the average viewer to be much more tuned in than he really is.

Beth Littleford instead of Bee? Otherwise the chronology is off. (In fact, Kliborn was still the host in 1998.)

Apparently she married a guy named Woods, since there was a name change at one point. The rest is silence.

I saw her in a commercial a few years ago and immediately exclaimed "Beth Littleford!" out loud. My brother was there and being younger than I, gave the quite reasonable response "Who is Beth Littleford?"

I don't find it any worse than the usually-lame scary Halloween names.

Flanders as Charlie Church has never been a fully consistent character. He is sometimes "a guy who is nice to everyone and always tries to do the right thing" and other times "an insufferable goody two-shoes who unintentionally attacks others with his smug self-regard." It depends on the episode or even on the joke…

It was Cleveland under Dennis Kucinich that went bankrupt.

Don't get me started on how the media tried to guilt-trip everyone into being pro-Yankee because of 9/11.

I have read plot synopses for this movie and decided that I don't think I could handle actually watching it. From those synopses, it seems like a film that would only be palatable if Page's character were literally some kind of avenging angel or fury rather than a human being. (I guess that would also explain her…

Good luck to him.

The moment that Dr. Strangelove proved a triple stumper, I knew it would be the "Before Our Time Department" winner.

They have that in the New York Times as well.

I have heard the song praised by The Edge and Joni Mitchell as well. I think the former even said it was the song of the last ten (at the time) years that he most wished he had written. (I like it OK, but not that much.)

The album on which the other Spanish Fly routine appeared was called It's True! It's True!

I think just the opposite - it is precisely because Cliff was such a paragon that the show is unsalvageable.

I had already heard that there was a Spanish fly routine on one of his comedy albums, but another one involving the Fat Albert characters? It sounds like Rule 34, only written by the actual creator! Like Sandusky and Savile, he was basically hiding in plain sight.

In Romance languages the rule is that g before e or i is soft. In English this is a tendency (usually in Romance-derived words) but not a rule. The only previous word that started with gif is gift - hard g. (There is also the surname Gifford, as in Frank - hard g.) So there is no reason to pronounce gif like jif.

I have not been following this as closely as some, but I think the most likely explanation is that she was talked into thinking it was a good idea rather than outright forced or deceived. That could easily happen to an older person technically still of sound mind.