Sorry
– I am a bit late getting my ramblings together this week.
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Last night I enjoyed Cottage Pie, one of the evening’s entrée specials at a
local restaurant – Gresham’s Chop House across from Lake Wallenpaupack. However, the menu erroneously identified the entrée
as Shepard’s Pie.
Shepard’s
Pie is sheep and potatoes. Period. My “pie” last night had beef, potatoes and
vegetables.
Most
American restaurants make the mistake of identifying Cottage Pie as Shepherd’s
Pie, despite the fact that it contains beef and not sheep and vegetables. Although I have come across a very few that
actually serve true Shepherd’s Pie.
If
a local in England or Ireland went to a restaurant or pub, ordered Shepherd’s
Pie and was present with the meal I had last night they would send it back.
I
did enjoy my Cottage Pie, regardless of what it was called, and I knew what I would
be getting when I ordered.
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Trump the candidate and the President has always been a potential danger and
threat to America, the American people and the world based on his history as an
unethical businessman and an extreme malignant narcissist with a pathological
need for attention.
Opposing,
denouncing, investigating, and trying to stop Trump throughout his candidacy
and Presidency, by any person regardless of job or position or political Party,
has always been about patriotism and not politics.
Trump
continues to be a threat and danger to America, American values and American
democracy. We must not stop until he is
fully investigated, indicted, prosecuted, convicted, and incarcerated.
Anyone
who believes, supports, defends, and would vote for an unethical, immoral,
ignorant, incompetent, and totally self-absorbed wannabe dictator – Trump – is
a complete imbecile.
By
embracing Trump and his lies today’s Republican Party is clearly the Party of
Imbeciles.
It
is very important that liberals, progressives and moderates, as well as true
conservatives and traditional Republicans, work together to combat the true
threat and danger presented by today’s Republican Party.
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Here is something no one ever told you.
Dick
Wolf’s “Law and Order” franchise is perhaps the most successful one in
prime-time television history. It began
with the premiere of “Law and Order” in September of 1990 and shows no sign of
ending. “Law and Order: Special Victims
Unit” begins its 23rd season on, appropriately, September 23. And two new L&O series have been added to
the franchise.
How
did Wolf come up with the concept for the original “Law & Order” – first half
“law” (police capturing the “perp”) and second half “order” (the trial)?
Successful
broadcast television shows can make lots of money in “syndication”, often more
than the original production. Some shows have been known to operate at a loss
on the initial broadcast episodes (they cost more to make than the network pays
for airing) just to be able to create a sufficient syndication “inventory”. As
one online explanation of the process put it – “If you can get a television
show in syndication, you can live off that money for the rest of your life.”
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years ago it was easier, and more profitable, to syndicate a half-hour series
than it was an hour-long program. But the networks were looking for hour-long
drama series. The “Law and Order” format – basically a half hour of police and
a half hour of lawyers - was essentially created so it could be run as two-part
half-hour episodes in syndication. Dick
had toyed with several such two-part shows, with names like Night and Day.
As
it turns out DW did not have to worry about creating half-hour segments for
syndication. I expect that the L&O franchise is the most syndicated in
history, and that every hour of every day an episode of L&O or one of its
spin-offs is running somewhere in the world.
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DANCING WITH THE STARS, which should really be retitled DANCING WITH THE
RELATIVELY FAMOUS, is running out of “stars” and starting to scrape the bottom
of the barrel.
I
have only heard of 3 of the fall season’s contestants.
BTW,
I have never watched an episode of this show.
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