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What is your case of blindly overconfidence? Mine: I swear I wasn’t drunk when I bought this. I haven’t started it.

That's her problem! Oh -- hi, Arcadia! Didn't see you lurking standing there!

I don’t owe this book, this is not my picture, but I have checked, this is a real book! Tell me, how did the author do their research? Did they have to get peer review? How do readers check the accuracy? Should anyone get to the bottom of it? How do we crack the case? Why is this so cheeky? Should we get behind this book???? Or should we laugh our asses off????? (Arcadia would kill me if she read this!)

Wait, with Locky, right? Right? They ‘belong’ to a beach vendor. In here, everyone helps to raise these dogs because they might not get enough food or proper medications/vaccination from the owners alone. At the very least, they have a ‘place.’ Good news. One of the challenges of befriending strays is never knowing for sure if they are well at all times. I used to patronize this stretch of beach and do regular feeding, but when this beach’s authority forbade the activity (long, stupid story), I vowed not to go there as long as the stupid regulation was at place. Thankfully it didn’t last long, but with Covid etc, it’s not my regular beach anymore and I only come here once in a while. This was three/four days ago. The visit was great, because I still met some surviving regulars. These two seniors were well and they still remembered and greeted us. Of course, I brought them something special. The younger ones were great as well and now we have new puppy friends.

I kinda hope that guy asked the last guy who he was.

He is a small/medium size. Long body, short leg. He stays in the front yard of the neighbor. Before they got him, they let our two neighborhood strays dogs inside as and when they feel like it. (the dogs even have beds). They still feed these strays daily, but I notice they are not going inside the fence anymore. I’m dealing with visa problem and have to go back and forth currently. There are probably four houses, including mine (of ten) who help to feed these strays. However, none of them seems to have knowledge about dog training or medication. The strays have skin problems regularly, but they clear up after I medicate them. When I have been away for a while, I always come back to them having their skin issues back. So, it’s one of my concern for Archie. If he stays outside often, he might get skin issue. I’m being judgmental but I hope the owner becomes more knowledgeable now. We did have a conversation back then about the medication for the strays and I had shared what I know. While Archie is playful, he is not destructive as far as I know. He digs my pitiful yard, that’s all. Other than that he mostly chills, plays ball with me. He loves smelling the messy plants, and the neighbor’s yard looks fine to me. I think it’s a training and boundary problem. It will get worse if she can’t get it together, especially because I think Archie is not neutered yet. She indeed always tries to get him inside, to call him, and expresses her worries about Archie’s new habit: chasing cars and motorcycles. We are secluded in a dead end path, but there are still light traffic, and when Archie is outside, he ventures to the bigger neighborhood road. This is very dangerous because of the possibility of him getting hit or harmed by unhappy humans. I definitely have seen him outside at night/early in the morning. I walk my dog around at night and we go to the beach early in the morning. Archie never fails to come and asks for treats that’s why I know how often he is outside (at least 50%). Here are the photos of him. He always spends time with me while I’m outside and has to be enticed to get out of my fence. My mom joked that he tries to adopt us. Here he is all wet after he stuck his head inside my water bucket (that is how he drinks!) Found a tiny ball (maybe belong to cats, my small yard is a free zoo for neighbors' pets)

I recommend that you hire Perry Mason or Ben Matlock. Seriously, though, I suspect that was merely the clue that made them investigate that particular suspect more thoroughly -- which lead them to find the missing person's corpse in their attic or whatever. If you can find better hiding places for any corpses in your possession, you should be perfectly safe.

That means they are even smarter! I believe so. My dog has 87 nicknames and he knows them all. On topic, here is my neighbor's dog, Archie. Archie thinks my hose water is the best, he has exorbitant treat tax rate for me, and he tries to sneak in whenever he can. Nowadays I have to help the neighbor 'catch' him because he always tries to escape her while let me grab him. I have no idea why she let him roam outside. It's dangerous even when we have a pet-friendly neighborhood.

That's from just over five years ago, and I've been assuming our area is simply too rural to *ever* have cable service. But some months back, we started seeing evidence that it might actually be coming our way, and then a neighbor down the road mentioned having it installed recently, and they seem quite satisfied with it. So today we signed up for just the their internet service, which should be installed in about a week. I may have mentioned about a year and a half ago that our landline-and-internet service had suddenly gone kaput, and that the erstwhile provider seemed in absolutely NO hurry to do anything whatsoever about it (other than send a bill every month!). They kept postponing our technician appointment, to the point where I'm pretty sure they don't even HAVE any techs around here. So we finally cancelled their "service" and got Starlink, which was quite a relief, and also enabled us to get VOIP phone service from another company (without even changing our number). Problem is, wonderful though Starlink is if you have a clear view of the sky and/or no alternatives, there are enough trees in our area that every so often our internet goes away for a few minutes. And since VOIP phone service relies on the internet, our phone service isn't 100% reliable either. Now that we do have an alternative, switching to cable internet *should* solve both of those problems, as well as giving us higher speed and a smaller monthly bill. Will keep y'all posted!

Kudos for Barry. I checked and it is based on Odyssey, including the cyclop, which is represented by one-eye salesman.

Dragonball is a classic anime series. I didn’t watch it myself, but as far as I know, characters collect the balls and then wish for something. This is probably a over simplification. Anyway, the villain is on the verge of getting it done and about to wish something bad, something along the line of taking over the world, and one of the protagonists has to interrupt it by wishing something else. His quick thinking is ‘underwear.’ Yes, he wishes for underwear after all the efforts of uniting the balls. It saves the world. So, this is my tale about how I know that pantsu means underwear. I don't think I have a cooler tale to tell.

The second (bottom) one looks like a dog we had when I was a kid. We called her Poochie.

Oh, sweet doggies! I hope they all have homes.

Yes, I believe we did -- or rather, I had just read that "pants" meant "underpants" in British English, and passed along that info as regards that scene. But that was in "Scandal," wasn't it, which aired on New Year's Day in 2012, so was presumably filmed about 15 years ago (and of course written before that). And I don't recall encountering any British use of "pants" as "trousers" that long ago. English seems to change more rapidly than most languages (though maybe it merely seems that way because I'm seeing it from the inside). Footnote: Last I heard, the Japanese word pan-tsu (borrowed from British English some time ago) still means underpants -- which really confuses Americans!

There’s a certain resemblance though …

Hiiiii! *waves frantically* Long time no see!

We were bombarded by five puppies yesterday morning. I swear they are not my kids and my dog Locky also swears they are not his kids.

Fantasy, I'm so sorry for your loss. Please take good care of yourself!

I saw this meme and I know I have to come here!

No I haven’t. I barely watch movies lately, only very selected few. I heard it’s good? Have you guys watched The Odyssey? What do you think? I always like Nolan brothers’ work but I knew nothing about the tale/poem except a big ass horse. I thought I would give it a pass because Greek mythology is not my thing and many controversies around the movie, but mostly because it’s not my interest. Then I happened to accompany my mom somewhere, we needed to kill a few hours, the cinema ticket was $5, and it was an empty theatre. And I enjoyed it. A lot. I think it’s very well made and I’m not sure if there will be something like this again. Three hours well spent. I guess he remains my favorite director.

Just to say hi... I have actually managed to open this board... but can now get back into Andrew Scott's news!

Weird, thought I already replied to this question. Maybe I didn't click "Submit"? Anyhow, no, Oscars are for movies and Emmys are for TV -- so you can't get both for the same production. ADDED: I may have misunderstood your question, though. Do Golden Globes cover both media, though? If so, he might get one of those. And it's a regular chat room today -- three of us online at once!

It's okay though, I console myself with the thought that he isn't suffering anymore

I'm sorry to hear you've lost your dad, FL. It's never something you're really ready for, but 65 is kinda young. And you're quite right, those people are tone-deaf idiots.

Thanks. If the torch is ever to be passed, now would be the time. Lessee, IMDb lists Eric Bauza as voicing Bugs Bunny, Charlie Dog, Daffy Duck, Dr. Lorre, Elmer Fudd, Foghorn Leghorn, Gossamer, Porky Pig, Road Runner, and Tweety, which presumably covers all the Mel Blanc voices. (I didn't recognize some of those character names, but according to the internet, they were also originally voiced by Blanc.) YouTube has a bunch of interviews with Bauza, including him doing some of the voices.

Yes, but while they were rare in Austria our neighbors the Germans had them regularly back then. Nowadays, with streaming, everything is everywhere anyway.

That's quite true, as far as The Hobbit (book) is concerned. But I had completely forgotten that there's another page or two about him in LotR (specifically, in Fellowship of the Ring, Book II, Chapter 2, "The Council of Elrond). Gandalf reports on a conversation between the two of them, beginning with . . . not far from Bree I came upon a traveller sitting on a bank beside the road with his grazing horse beside him. It was Radagast the Brown. . . . [He] is one of my order . . . . And including this comment: Radagast is of course a worthy wizard, a master of shapes and changes of hue; and he has much lore of herbs and beasts, and birds are especially his friends. Nothing about bunny sleds, but at least what Jackson made up is (more or less) in keeping with that.

Has anybody seen Coyote vs. Acme? It's sort of a feature-length Road Runner cartoon mixed with live action, wherein the Coyote *finally* gets fed up with all those Acme devices blowing up in his own face instead of destroying the Road Runner, and decides to sue the company. IMDb has a trailer that looks pretty good. We haven't seen it yet (don't much go to theaters anymore), but we're tempted. (Also hoping it'll come out on DVD sooner or later, but with our luck it'll merely go to streaming.) Are/were the Road Runner cartoons shown outside the US?

The FIRST series DVD and Blu-ray are available on both Amazon UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk) and Amazon US (https://www.amazon.com). Amazon UK also has what I take to be a German-language version. None of them are cheap (or even what I'd call reasonably priced), though! I'm hoping the price may come down once it's no longer quite so current. (On the other hand, they could simply stop selling them at that point.) There is a trade-paperback novelization (or actually "short-story-ization") by Matthew Sweet available for about half that price. Reviews are mixed but overall favorable.

Wow! Quite an all-star cast. Meaning that I actually recognized most of them, which (given my difficulty with faces) is quite a statement.

It's a rather funny WTF-Moment

Life seems to be pretty much a series of trial and error. In other words, see what works for you -- and what doesn't. During an awkward phase of my life, I had frequent panic attacks and near-constant anxiety, which I assumed were caused by stress. Counseling sessions helped me develop coping techniques, which helped me a lot, just being able to deal with it better, but I still had the basic problem. Some years later, I discovered quite by accident that the panic and anxiety occurred because I had developed a chemical sensitivity to a common household substance. Since then I've avoided that substance, and have been mercifully panic free. Best of luck in learning how to deal with your depression.

To celebrate my 10th anniversary of meeting him for the first time, I've had my first actual, story-like dream with Sherlock. Sadly, I don't remember the story, but we spent a significant amount of time roaming through some ominous backstreets of Frankfurt, Germany. Sherlock was… tall and slightly annoyed, probably by my presence. It's so funny how I never dream about topics (or persons) I obsess about, no matter how I'd love to, but some slight, hardly noticed detail can trigger a dream the following night. Sometimes I'm even able to remember what a detail it was. This time, zapping through the channels, I caught a few seconds of Sherlock on TV. Didn't stop by, as the German version is still a no-go. Brain, you little rascal!

Probably renovation plus Autocorrect.

That only works with selected sites that the forum recognizes, like YouTube. In which case, just paste the address in.

Yup, that link works fine -- looks like "doggy see, doggy do." I used to know how to hotlink to videos (so they look like they're embedded in the post), but can't seem to get it to work just now. Anybody else remember how?

Here is an animated version of "The Sign of Four" Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four

I don't know, you have to ask Barry

And they say that anime isn't educational! (At least I assume that "they" say that. "They" say it about pretty much all the fun stuff, don't they?) I learned it from a blog (by an American living in Japan), myself -- though I don't offhand recall when/how I found out *why* it means only underwear (namely, because the Japanese got the word from the British, who for reasons still unknown to me, were using it that way at that time). I went just now to check the "Scandal" thread (where I revealed my then-newly-acquired knowledge), but the only explanation I gave there was "I have recently been informed." Big help!!!

And you don't even know me

Hii! I have to admit you have ruined me. I can't see an owl or Mycroft without associating them with you

Time for another update, and a rather sad one. My dad passed away on August 18th, 10 days after he turned 65. People are asking me what I'm going to do with the inheritance. And I'm like he hasn't been dead for a month, how about you leave me alone?

OK, was wondering if that sunshine had anything to do with whatever the joke was. I shall now laugh.