I like to think it was because they foresaw this gem:
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I have found my new favorite comedy: Scotland's "Still Game" on Netflix. It's apparently Scotland's most popular sitcom, and now they are all coming back for new seasons. Anyway, I just started season 5, and I am still blown away how they combine silly humor and witty banter with a real, heartfelt look at life in the…

I like to hear about these very specific food oddities you don't hear about much where I am—fried seafood country. (I love it, of course, but I know a lot about it, including how many fried oysters it takes to make me swear off all food in the future)

I don't at all relate to Mr. Rooney, but I cannot stand Ferris Bueller now that I'm an adult. (Narcissism is adorable, y'all!) Also, Pippi Longstocking is an out-and-out psycho. I hope she was supposed to be just a crazy imaginary friend with magic powers or something. Otherwise, WTF?

Mine was the top left corner—copyright 1970, even though I wasn't born until 72. I guess my mom picked it up at a used book sale.

I'm so glad I didn't read "Forever" after skimming the summary. This may have been the only "teenage" Blume book I read. I mainly liked re-reading the elementary-kids books like Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Superfudge and Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great. Those kids were heroes! ETA: When it came to teen…

Yeah. That sentence was confusing. I meant that the narrator, Jill, was kind of a bitch at times, not Linda.

I liked the book since it came along at the right time in my life, but shit it was depressing. For some reason, I related more to the girl in Blubber who couldn't stand up for the bullied kid, even though she was kind of a bitch. I used to befriend the bullied kids, but I never really "stood up" for them the way I…

Me too! For some reason, I have a few specific memories of that and Best of the West.

He seemed like a unique, fun person. RIP

This was my favorite show for awhile. Filthiest show on TV at the time, so I felt like I was getting away with something. I still think fondly of Selma Diamond and Florence Halop. ETA: My brother and I sometimes like to quote Florence's line reading while she's watching a small portable TV that Bull should have had:…

I didn't know that about the Singing Nun. How horrible.

It's a great hangover or rainy day movie.

Ray was my favorite male character! I felt such empathy for him, for some reason. This was the first episode where I really felt that for Nikki. She's obviously intelligent. I hope she makes it. The brother feud thing seemed contrived from the start, but Ray's story held my interest.

Good call!

An elderly lady was usually about to tell somebody off, then suddenly you're in a hospital room and a plucky heroine is being told she has a brain tumor. Way to bring down my sick day. ETA: I still have memories of a woman in a hospital on All My Children seeing a vision of her dead dad in various doorways. WTF?

I hope he doesn't leave it out in the rain! #iamanoldperson

You nailed it! That's the perfect way to sum up her current "predicament."

Five years old in the theater. My baby brother had to be taken out crying. After that, listening to it as a story narrated on an 8track tape. I think Roscoe Lee Browne was the narrator and there were audio clips from the movie included.

Yeah. The up-is-down/shitty-is-good attitude and his obsession with Jake and Amy are getting reeaallly old. It's fine to have a character who has weird quirks, but he's pretty much all quirks at this point. Who even is he?