Mr. Clark is hard to place -- one of the more portly and established
cats. Bustopher, Old Deuteronomy, Asparagus, or the Railway Cat.

Rhonda would be Grizabella in her youth, but not unduly hardened.

I have no idea of the spelling,but I remember them as Unkajerry and
Rumpleteaser.

I'm not sure where I'd cast Ding, the Philosopher Cat. He is very
athletic.

I don't think I was watching then. Of course, I was watching Leno when
Angie Harmon's fiance proposed live, so I know more than one reason she
left.

(snip)

Stinky likes to watch those too, especially ones with lizards, ;)

Theresa
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Just a bit of warning, Christina, if you do decide to tune in. It shows
very graphic stuff, lots of blood, wounds, autopsy stuff. It's not just
that it *shows* those things, but something about the *way* they show
it that is very disturbing. It's like, suddenly splashed on the screen.
My brain doesn't have time to prepare, it's just there. SPLASH!! Grody
stuff.
It's very interesting stuff, really, presented in a factual way.
Although I'm not entirely sure it's all completely true stuff.  I used
to like it but it kind of makes me sick sometimes. Don't watch it while
you're eating for sure.

Sherry

I got spoiled by a software system called myth-tv.  It's an incredibly clever
hard drive program recorder.  It's smart enough to know that two shows are on
at the same time and one will be replayed later that evening to shuffle the
recordings to get both.  Combine that with 200-500 gig of hard drive, and two
or three capture cards and it'll get every single program you like
automatically.  Instead of a bookshelf with 200 VHS tapes, it's all on the hard
drive(s).
Detects commercials and skips them upon playback.  Can play at
elevated speed.  Can network to boxes scattered throughout a household.  Gets
it's program listings off the internet;  can be programmed from any web browser
on the planet.  If a friend tells you about a show, you can tell it to record it
just by going to a PC and firing up a web browser.  Some shows I like are never
in a routine time slot, Dilbert for example.  It's smart enough to record it any
time it finds it on any channel.  Doesn't record duplicates; can expire unseen
or older programs to prevent the hard drive from filling up.  And of course, it
all works from a remote control.

Now I can't watch live tv anymore except perhaps a little news in the morning.
I find news repeats itself after about 20 minutes and is half commercials.  I'd
rather get my news from google news, or yahoo news.  I'd rather watch series
prerecorded by the mythtv box or via netflix.

That's what make is so tough to be asked to decide.  The general notion that
eight year olds seldom lie while true is pretty hard to convict on if there
is nothing else.  And perpetrators can be so convincing.  Leaves a juror
feeling unable to convince but feeling slimy for having to let a probable
creep go.

Jo

Statistically, you may be right that it happens seldom.  But
when it does happen it is so terribly tragic.

Alas, on this side of the pond we have had many instances of
people falsely convicted by the completely fictional stories of
children a good deal younger than eight.  They weren't actually
lying, of course; just making up a story to please some adult.
It doesn't require any experience at all.

Interviews with the children, years later when they are in their
teens and twenties, generally evince a very high degree of anger
against the adults who manipulated them and left them with the
guilty knowledge of having caused someone to serve time in
prison for a crime which never happened.

I expect the somewhat older children in the Michael Jackson
case(s) will also feel some of that anger, even though
(blessedly) their actions didn't finally result in a false
conviction.

Here's a ridiculous reason for watching CSI Miami....once in awhile I tune
in, ignore the plot/actors, and enjoy the many scenes shot in my hometown,
for which I sometimes get homesick out here where the terrain/weather is so
very different. Sometimes where they are *supposed* to be is very funny
because I know where they really shot the scene and it don't add up (i.e.
Metro Miami Zoo).....LOL

I always cringed when they showed anything more technical than a pencil.
Anybody use a computer at work?  I hear they're quiet common.  Any of them have
dancing lines of text, and make brasping noises every time a character is placed
on the screen, no faster than 3 lines a second?

The other scenes that make me cringe are they re-enactments where they assume
that nobody watching the show could possibly have 20 brain cells in which to
have an imagination.  Say the line "He probably had kippers for lunch", and
they would have to show an animated scene with kippers being chewed and going
down a tunnel that supposedly must have been his throat.