Have you ever seen “Another Period” on Comedy Central? You can stream it from their website. You can root for Hortense, like I do.

I posted this comment before I read yours. Doesn’t the guy on horseback behind Lady Mary and Lord Grantham in the screencap bear an uncanny resemblance to Cliff Clavin from “Cheers”? You may get your wish!

In the screen cap it looks like Cliff Clavin from “Cheers’ has dropped by.

Slightly off topic, but didn’t the doctors and their families actually live in the camps, in officers’ quarters or whatever they were called? I don’t think the doctors commuted in. Maybe at Dachau, the town of which is a pleasant enough upscale Munich suburb, but at Auschwitz?

Sangria is actually Spanish (and I think maybe also Portuguese?) so you could try it with Spanish or Portuguese foods, like tapas or paella or chorizo. If memory serves Sangria was created to use up wine that wasn’t really good enough to drink on its own, so fruit was added. And I think there’s something about the…

They’re related to THE Michael’s in Midtown? I didn’t realize that. Michael’s is a big media meeting spot. I don’t think the clientele will be happy to hear about the Santa Monica stunt, and they’ve all heard about it by now.

What the hell was that reply that you replied to yourself? Have you been hacked?

And this reastaurant was in Santa Monica, which is all the more shocking.

Because even when Devo was popular almost 40 years ago no one knew or cared about the band members’ names?

I took the extremely unpopular (in New York, among those who read the NY Times) action of actively supportng Jerry Brown for President in 1992, against the Bill Clinton juggernaut. No regrets. I still think he would have been better.

Oh admit it though, he’s kind of 2015 hot. If I were his age I wouldn’t be married and I’d be interested in getting to know him better. Not on the Liberty University campus of course, maybe at NYU or Columbia.

Oh no, now it is I who want to hang out with your friends, because THEY sound fun. Plus I’m blessed with genetically driven low cholesterol so nothing on that menu would have really affected me, except for my waistline.

Did you make the poached chicken out of Julia Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking”? It’s amazing that woman lived as long as she did.

Thanks! They really are fun. But if you get together with us you’ll do your liver no favors and your cholesterol count might rise a little higher than you’d really want…

I was at a favorite restaurant once with a group of people, and this time a friend brought his new boyfriend who was the wine buyer/sommelier for a pretty upscale restaurant. The waiter sauntered up and said, “Should I bring a couple of bottles of your usual for the group.” And I stammered, “Oh no, I think…”

My husband wouldn’t. I have about two dozen affectionate nicknames for him, and in public I inevitably slip up and call him by one rather than his given name. I’ve never done this in a professional setting but hundreds of people in social situations have heard me call him something you don’t normally see on a baby…

You know what’s a huge revelation is if you can get your hands on decent Lambrusco. To my mind it’s a $3.99 bottle that high school girls buy to get drunk, but Italian friends of mine serve it at their summer parties and it’s pretty delicious, and these folks are not exactly wine snobs but they know their way around…

I come from a family with pretty bland tastes and whenever they come stay with me we stay in and I make dinners, because we’ve all had exhausting touring days and with kids they don’t want to go roaming around Manhattan after dark.

I worked in an upscale department store and they had levels of in-house credit cards. So imagine if Macy’s had many levels of Macy’s cards. (Maybe they do.) The top level was for the families of senior executives and they got a huge discount. Whenever anyone whipped out one of those cards everyone stood up a little…

The quality of food in Europe in general is much higher than our over-processed factory-farmed stuff. People have been eating steak tartare for centuries. Same with the Japanese and sushi. They don’t pasterurize cheeses in Europe (which is why you’re not supposed to bring any back to the US, although the US may have…