Month: January 2021

Her Ladyship is an inveterate watcher of “The Price Is Right”, and make no mistake, it’s a great and classic show.  However, does it make great television to have the contestants jumping up and down and around the stage, screaming at the top of their lungs, flailing arms?  Does this add to the excitement of the show?  Is this why people watch?  And if that’s why people watch, what does it say about a) the content of the game and b) the caliber of viewers they’re attracting? 

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Yes, goodbye to “chubby” and “full figured”. For quite some time now, I’ve just thought of myself as, well, portly.  It’s a nicer way of slightly more than my ideal weight.  A comedian once remarked years ago, “I’m not overweight, I’m just short.  For my weight, I should be 11 feet tall.”  Here all this time, I thought that quality eating – as in “healthy appetite” – coupled with an irregular, one might say sporadic, exercise regimen was to blame.  Nay, nay. If television commercials are to be believed, and I have no reason to believe that folks in advertising would deliberately mislead us, I’m a victim of “insulin resistance”.  Yes (arm thrusting skyward)!  Now a dignified, professional condition for why my middle section has been, shall we say, out of proportion to the rest of me.  

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Particularly in this pandemic year, when life is abnormal anyway, with all of the added stress and worry about getting together or not, getting gifts to the right destinations, and remaining safely sequestered through the holidays, to say nothing about sending and receiving Christmas cards and yearly communications, watching “Muppet Christmas Carol” and “Holiday Inn” yet again, it’s time to regroup, take a deep breath, and resume sleeping nights.

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We as Americans are so sorry that you, citizens of the world, had to witness the spectacle of our electoral process under fire, and more importantly that you had to see Americans whose behavior is completely unacceptable.  That’s what it was, people completely out of control, an unbridled mob.  Completely unacceptable and contemptible.  

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