“I’m So Glad We Had This Time Together…”

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Today is Tim Conway’s birthday (December 15, 1933 – May 14, 2019) and I thought I’d bring an article about The Carol Burnett Show.

Carol’s ear tug was a message to her grandma.

Burnett’s famous ear tug, which she used to sign off at the end of each show, was a way of telling her grandmother, “Hello, I love you.” Burnett’s grandmother passed away while the series was still on air but Burnett continued to tug her ear as a tribute to her.

Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence were the longest running cast members.

The two were the only series regulars to stay with the program throughout its 11 seasons.

A wardrobe malfunction caused Ms. Wiggins’s trademark walk.

Burnett has said that Ms. Wiggins’s signature waddle was because the skirt she was given was too big — Burnett walked that way to keep it from falling off.

Vicki Lawrence joined the cast at 18.

Lawrence, a high schooler at the time, wrote a fan letter to Burnett, prompting the sketch-comedy queen to attend a ‘Miss Fireball’ contest Lawrence was competing in. Lawrence won, Burnett was called up to crown her on stage, and eventually asked the teen to audition for the role of her kid sister. Lawrence became Burnett’s protégée, best known for the role of “mama” Thelma Harper.

Each show was taped twice before airing.

Each weekly episode was taped twice in front of different audiences. The best parts were edited together, but only two takes meant that even “flubbed” lines would sometimes make the cut.

Tim Conway was always trying to make Harvey Korman break character.

Tim Conway was known for improvising and deliberately trying to get other cast members to laugh during taping. Korman fell for Conway’s tactics nearly every time.

Lawrence was a one-hit wonder.

Lawrence had a hit single, “The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia,” that reached #1 on the Billboard charts in 1973. A lot of people didn’t realize that the singer and the comedienne were one and the same.

The print dress Burnett always wore as Eunice was a thrift-store find.

The “family” sketch called for Eunice to wear a “Tennessee Williams”-type dress. Costume designer Bob Mackie found the perfect 1930s frock in a thrift shop.

Dick van Dyke was a flop.

Harvey Korman left after the 10th season and executives brought on Dick van Dyke as a replacement. But audiences didn’t love the chemistry (or lack thereof) between van Dyke and Burnett, Conway and Lawrence, so he left the show after three months.

Conway turned down a Mr. Tudball spin-off.

Conway was offered the starring role in a Mr. Tudball spin-off in the 1980s but declined because he didn’t see much storyline potential—and because Burnett wouldn’t be playing Ms. Wiggins.

The show’s musical numbers are hard to come by.

Most of the show’s musical skits have not aired since the original network broadcast because of licensing issues.

Carol Burnett’s husband wrote the show’s theme song.

Joe Hamilton, executive producer for the show and Carol Burnett’s husband at the time, wrote the theme song. The couple divorced in 1984 after 21 years together.

SOURCE: COUNTRYLIVING.COM

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          1. They’ve also done a poor job of socializing him. SMH – some people need training before acquiring a pet!

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  12. Morning Everyone!

    I will hopefully transition the chickadees from hubby’s Ritz crackers to black oiled sunflower seeds and other seed favorites today. we cleaned and filled the new seed feeder yesterday and i put it out only they were not interested. I mixed a little bit of seed with a crushed cracker and put it on the chair arm (like i did with just the cracker previously) but they ate the cracker and left the seeds…LOL

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      1. Morning Filly!
        guess they never saw a feeder before…trying to land on top of it.
        i used a little dowel i have to dig some seeds out of the feeder onto the small tray beneath–they are finally pecking at those

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        1. They’ll figure it out – they always do when it comes to food! LOL – you should the acrobatics when they’re trying to get those last few clumps of the suet in the WP feeder!

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  17. Morning! Freezing fog again, temp @ 31 – most of the ice has gone but it’s still slick in some places. Wheezer was waiting this morning.

    EXCERPT: “The libertarian in me insists that a private business should be able to refuse business to anyone. Back in the days before all the pettifoggery about “places of public accommodation” became accepted, it wasn’t uncommon to see signs in bars, restaurants, and the like stating, “We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.”

    These same private businesses, though, also have the right to expect their employees to accept management’s rules about who and who won’t be served. So when a District of Columbia restaurant server announced her refusal to wait on Trump officials, her employer took swift action that would probably bring a grin to the president-elect’s face.

    A Washington, D.C.-area restaurant server has been fired after she spoke out about possibly refusing service to incoming Trump administration officials.

    “I personally would refuse to serve any person in office who I know of as being a sex trafficker or trying to deport millions of people,” Suzannah Van Rooy, a server at Beuchert’s Saloon on Capitol Hill, told the Washingtonian this week. “It’s not, ‘Oh, we hate Republicans.’ It’s that this person has moral convictions that are strongly opposed to mine, and I don’t feel comfortable serving them.”

    Suzannah Van Rooy is entitled to her opinion but not on her employer’s dime. Her employer acted decisively. And correctly.

    Beuchert’s Saloon told Fox News Digital that Van Rooy’s remarks were “reprehensible” and she had been fired for violating their “zero-tolerance policy on discrimination.”

    Beuchert’s said the former employee was a part-time server and not a manager. It put out statements on social media condemning her remarks after being made aware of them on Thursday.

    “Recent comments made by a member of staff who had no authority to speak on behalf of our entire restaurant have been, quite rightly, flagged as inappropriate, hostile, intolerant, and unacceptable. This staff member does NOT speak for us as a restaurant,” Beuchert’s initial statement on Thursday said.

    This is the correct response.

    Restaurants are one of the more challenging small businesses to run. My father-in-law ran cafeterias for almost 60 years until we finally talked him into retiring a few months before his 80th birthday, and he is always citing the fact that restaurants have the highest failure rate of any similarly-sized business. So a restaurant on Capitol Hill, in the District of Columbia, cannot afford to alienate half of the possible customer base or to let a nitwit leftist employee do so.

    Mind you if a server was refusing to serve Biden administration officials against their employer’s will, the same rule applies. This is the kind of case where one applies the “shoe on the other foot” rule. Principles, not principals….”

    https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/12/14/dc-restaurant-server-states-refusal-to-serve-trump-officials-and-gets-an-appropriate-comeuppance-n2183221

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  18. “Daniel Penny joins President @realDonaldTrump and Vice President Elect @JDVance at the Army/Navy football game in Landover, Maryland…”

    https://x.com/DanScavino/status/1868054048999706860

    Huff Post: “The man accused of killing Jordan Neely, a homeless Black man, will sit beside the future president and vice president at the Army-Navy game.”

    Readers added context: “The post is purposely misleading. Penny stood trial and was acquitted by a jury of his peers. He did not kill a “homeless Black man.” He immobilized someone who was threatening to kill innocent people on the subway, including a mother with a young child in her stroller. https://t.co/pGInD9PyPm“

    https://x.com/HuffPost/status/1867677154042888278

    Matt Gaetz reply: “INNOCENT”

    Riley Gaines: “That’s because he’s a hero. Hope this helps!”

    https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/12/14/huff-post-headline-on-daniel-penny-at-army-navy-game-n2183226

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  19. EXCERPT: “…..Statistically, when a woman in her mid-80s breaks her hip, the consequences are cataclysmic. Up to 33% of older adults with hip fractures die within a year. 50% are unable to bathe, feed, wipe their butts, or dress themselves. About one in five end up in a long-term care facility.

    During the first three months after a hip fracture, older adults have a five to eight times higher risk of dying. And this elevated mortality rate lasts nearly a decade. An untreated hip fracture is even worse. 70% of victims are dead within a year.

    It’s not a trivial thing.

    Often, it’s not that the broken hip itself is so medically dangerous, but it’s an overall indicator of physical frailty: if your grip-strength, stamina, balance, and bone density have all severely deteriorated, you’re more likely to fall and break your hip. It could be more correlation than causation.  

    Which is why grip-strength has been hailed as “an indispensable biomarker for older adults”: it’s not that having strong hands is the secret to a long and healthy life, but that people with strong hands are less likely to slip and fall. Plus, they’re probably stronger overall.

    When it comes to longevity, it’s usually not attributable to one thing, but to clusters of traits, behaviors, and characteristics. It makes pinpointing cause and effect a little tricky.

    In addition to being a wealthy, politically-connected woman, Nancy Pelosi was also an unusually active octogenarian. We’re all affected by Father Time, but by all accounts, Pelosi was still a wily, clever legislator with razor-sharp elbows. Just a few months ago, she spearheaded a coup that deposed the sitting president! And a few years before that, she was tearing up Trump’s speech on national TV.

    She’s not someone who’s spent the past 20 years in a rocking chair. She seems fit, thin, and very active. All of this matters. The healthier you were before your hip injury, the more likely it is you’ll recover.

    But it’s a deadly serious situation for Pelosi and her loved ones. Almost certainly, she’s facing a steep recovery process, and at her age, it’s foreseeable that there could be a series of struggles…..”

    https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2024/12/14/end-of-the-line-for-nancy-pelosi-hip-fractures-mortality-rates-and-father-time-n4935127

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  28. we got our Christmas tree yesterday and I was helping hubby put it in the stand and figure out the best side…now he’s decorating it.

    We have a deal: he decorates it every year and I UNdecorate it and put everything away after Christmas.

    I love the tree and he is so meticulous about decorating–I’m a throw stuff on and call it good person. So this is the perfect arrangement for both of us!

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    1. Bet your place smells delish! Teamwork! Good for you! Of course, my main concern was that the tree trimmings be balanced on/around the tree. I always liked to throw the tinsel, tho – my a-Mom always complained about that!

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  29. yesterday we stopped at pizza hut for lunch and our waitress was a young, shy, teen. She smiled and spoke very softly but was super sweet. We decided to give her our annual larger than normal Christmas tip. (we have a hard time figuring out what to get each other for Christmas, so we buy each other a gift or two and then pick a waitress to reward with a bigger than normal tip as a treat for each other.)

    we both liked Miya…and when I handed her the tip and said Merry Christmas–her eyes lit up and got big and she tried to give it back. You didn’t have to do this, she said, but hubby and i both insisted. she was so grateful. I sincerely hope the waitresses there do not share tips because the other waitress was a sourpuss and never smiled once the entire time we were there.

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  32. another shoe drops

    Clarion
    December 15, 2024 10:48 am

    “I am now calling on Congress to pass the Counter-UAS Authority Security, Safety, and Reauthorization Act.”

    Statement by Governor Kathy Hochul on Additional Drone Activity

    “Last night, the runways at Stewart Airfield were shut down for approximately one hour due to drone activity in the airspace. This has gone too far.

    “In mid-November, I directed the New York State Intelligence Center to actively investigate drone sightings and coordinate with federal law enforcement to address this issue, and those efforts are ongoing. But in order to allow state law enforcement to work on this issue, I am now calling on Congress to pass the Counter-UAS Authority Security, Safety, and Reauthorization Act. This bill would reform legal authorities to counter-UAS and strengthen the FAA’s oversight of drones, and would extend counter-UAS activities to select state and local law enforcement agencies.

    “Extending these powers to New York State and our peers is essential. Until those powers are granted to state and local officials, the Biden Administration must step in by directing additional federal law enforcement to New York and the surrounding region to ensure the safety of our critical infrastructure and our people.

    https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/statement-governor-kathy-hochul-additional-drone-activity

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  33. Just The News: “After weeks of saying publicly that they couldn’t explain the sudden surge of drones and other unidentified flying objects over New Jersey, New York, California and several other states, federal officials are finally preparing to deploy a high-tech drone detection system to New York State. 

    The drones that comprise the detection system will ostensibly help both state and local law enforcement figure out what has been going on over the past month or so, said New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Sunday, according to the New York Post. 

    “We are grateful to the Biden Administration for their support, but ultimately we need further assistance from Congress. Passing the Counter-UAS Authority Security, Safety, and Reauthorization Act will give New York and our peers the authority and resources required to respond to circumstances like we face today,” she said.

    This announcement comes a day after former CIA operations officer Laura Ballman called for more transparency and speculated on what this might be during an appearance on Fox News Saturday: “Now in terms of who is behind this, deducing the statements that have been made by John Kirby, who has said that these objects are not operating illegally coupled with the several op-eds that have been out the last 24 hours about the need to look at our detection systems, makes me think, perhaps, this is actually a classified exercise to test either evasion technology or detection technology in urban areas.” 

    Up until now, the Biden administration’s position has been that many of the objects seen are piloted aircraft, though they couldn’t explain the rest. Yet they assured the public they weren’t a threat or coming from a foreign country such as Iran. 

    They have been accused of either deceit for knowing what they are and where they came from but refusing to say, or of incompetence for not being able to figure it out. 

    President-elect Donald Trump expressed his skepticism on Friday and suggested a plan: “Mystery Drone sightings all over the Country. Can this really be happening without our government’s knowledge. I don’t think so! Let the public know, and now. Otherwise, shoot them down!!! DJT” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.”

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  34. “Trump World Order: Donald Trump stands as the architect of a new global hegemony that if successful will offer a robust alternative to the deeply enervated liberal order of the twentieth century.”

    Paul Ingrassia, Dec 15, 2024

    EXCERPT: “It’s become commonplace, though not cliché, to say that Donald Trump has transformed America’s political culture in fundamental and lasting ways. As with anything, the full impact of the Trump chapter in American history will not be understood completely until enough time has elapsed, giving opportunity for a comprehensive and objective assessment down the line.

    Naturally, a significant part of this assessment will depend on the trajectory of the next four years: whether the President can implement his agenda without encumbrances, or whether he faces opposition and gridlock along the way. To the extent he faces any challenges, his legacy will also be shaped by how he manages such obstacles; if the strategy he uses to overcome any problems proves successful, it will surely provide a rubric by which many leaders long into the future will no doubt seek to emulate.

    Nevertheless, even before his official swearing-in, the generational impact of Donald Trump’s second victory is acutely observable – and almost certainly here to stay long after he departs from the political arena. Part of this may be attributed to the President’s cultural impact; within the political realm he is, unlike so many of his immediate predecessors, larger-than-life. He belongs among the echelons of Mount Rushmore’s giants, whose legendary characters he follows in life and finds himself easily kindred spirits with.

    Donald Trump went up against unprecedented challenges and prevailed, exhibiting a willpower that finds itself more readily at home among classical heroes. Indeed, his inner strength is so foreign to the modern sensibility; this is partly why so many revere him: he likewise boasts the force of personality to match his dominant spirit, one that will leave a permanent mark on a cultural psyche usually susceptible to all sorts of diversions and distractions.

    It is necessary to invoke ancient tropes when discussing Donald Trump’s political achievement, because he has rewritten the rules of modernity, and the expectations of politics at the End of History. He has demonstrated in his many achievements that sheer personality – fueled by a relentless willpower – can overcome history’s deterministic bent, or fate, if powerful enough. But the Trump phenomenon goes beyond simple will-to-power: there is genius, born of deliberation and meticulous planning, to his grand strategy.

    Evidence of this might be gleaned through his recent appointments of Charles Kushner, as ambassador to France, and Massad Boulos, as an adviser on Arab and Middle Eastern affairs. In selecting the fathers-in-law of his two daughters to key diplomatic posts, Donald Trump has signaled that his political brand will not be contained to any country or even continent, it will be one with broad-based international appeal.

    Similarly, the Trump Organization continues to expand on the global arena – just recently announcing a new project in Saudi Arabia to add to its growing overseas portfolio. The economic and business side of things complements the political and cultural, demonstrating how the Trump hegemony is multidimensional – equipping it with the staying power to rewrite, if not replace, the former system.

    This element of conquering time and space is what makes President Trump’s hegemony so unique and puts him in an unrivaled class of generational leaders – the most influence a single man has had in shaping global events since Napoleon…..”

    https://paulingrassia.substack.com/p/trump-world-order

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  39. Harrison
    Harrison
    December 15, 2024 1:45 pm

    Wade admits what we knew…

    🚨BOMBSHELL: Nathan Wade admits to coordinating with the White House in the Georgia prosecution of Donald Trump. pic.twitter.com/kyBNlLGdD0

    — Alina Habba (@AlinaHabba) December 15, 2024

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  41. “Photographer François Brunelle has spent the last 25 years traveling the world looking for unrelated people who look like twins. He’s been remarkably successful! The photographer has found hundreds of doppelgängers since he began in 1999. He’s captured more than 250 pairs in 32 cities. That’s a lot! These days, facial recognition software makes the search a lot easier, but in 1999, all he had to rely upon was his own brain. How on earth does he retain all those faces well enough to realize he’d found their double?

    According to a fascinating documentary by Origin, it is estimated that each of us have the same face as about 7 other people. Can you imagine? I certainly can’t.”

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  47. Multiple strikes in 40 minutes. Kuala Lampur, Malaysia. The atmosphere was, shall we say, active.

    Italian gun captured by Austro-Hungarians during Caporetto breakthrough, November 1917

    Crystal dagger uncovered in Spain, dating to around 3.000 BC

    Gator in sun-absorption mode

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  48. Part of the ancient Roman road to Gaul near the Italian town of Donnas in Aosta Valley has been carved into the rock, bearing a testament to the Roman engineering capabilities. It was constructed during the time of Augustus.

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  50. We made it to 38 today and everything is melted, of course. Wheezer was here to eat twice today! Stocking up for another round perhaps? LOL – good night, Pat!

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