u/J_Scarbrough

I doubt it was a conscious decision on the writers, but it seems like there were certain names that kept being reused for characters over the years. I don't mean how we had multiple Nurse Ables, Nurse Bakers, etc. but other names.

For example. . . .

We had Trapper John McIntyre, Francis John Patrick Mulcahy, Ugly John, Ho-Jon, among other Johns.

Henry's wife's name was originally Mildred, which was also the name of Potter's wife, then it became Lorraine, which was also the name of Margaret's childhood friend who was temporarily assigned to the 4077th along with Roy Dupree in "Temporary Duty".

There were also a few Franks aside from just Burns, including a Private Frank Daily who was first in line for Payday, and letter Major Frank Dorsett the "Unknowing Soldier" who was dead drunk A Night at Rosie's.

B.J.'s beloved wife's name was Peggy, which also was apparently Nurse Bigelow's first name.

Private Charles Lamb was certainly no Winchester.

There were even a couple of occasions where this was actually a plot point, such as "Officer of the Day" when Hawkeye saw and treated a total of five Kim Lucks ("A new Kim Luck record I hope will stand for a long time"), and later in "Mail Call Three" when Hawkeye finds himself receiving a number of romantic letters from women that are addressed to and intended for another Captain who happens to be named Benjamin Pierce.

And those are just some of the specific examples I can think of off the top of my head.

Throughout the run of the show, there were two characters who were often refered to by name, but each of them were only ever show on-screen approximately once. Who were they?

Okay, so let me start off by saying even though I'm technically lumped in with the Millennial generation, I'm in my mid-30s, I didn't grow up with smart phones like younger Millennials and even the younger generations after us did, so I'm not well-versed in how they work like I am, say, a laptop computer or something, so I'm struggling with something and I can't quite figure out how to resolve it.

Lately whenever I add a new contact to my android (which is an LG model), texting/messaging with them almost always is set to RCS by default, which is a problem I didn't used to have before, but I do now. Although I am able to usually got into the settings whenever texting with such a contact and manually switch the messages to SMS/MMS, for whatever reason, those specific contacts always automatically switch back to RCS. This causes problems. In some cases, I can still receive/send messages in real time if the contact is RCS, but trying to send file attachments requires me to have my phone's wifi or data turned off (I keep both turned off, because I typically use my internet on my computer, and to prevent draining my phone's battery) - and with some specific contacts, I won't receive any texts they may have sent until I turn my wifi or data back on (like if one of my supervisors at work tries to text me to ask if I can come in on any given day to cover for somebody else who may have called out). I don't have any of these problems whatsoever with older contacts who are SMS/MMS, but like I say, for whatever reason, this only plagues contacts that have only been recently added to my phone (I'd say within the last year or two) that are set to RCS. Another unique problem it's causing too is one new contact in my phone is a friend/co-worker of mine who speaks Spanish; when I have her contact set to SMS/MMS her incoming messages are automatically translated to English, but when it switches back to RCS, her incoming messages are in her original Spanish, then I have to manually translate them on my end to read them (I'm still learning Spanish, so I still have a ways to go).

So, could somebody explain to me like I'm a kindergartner getting their first phone, or a biddy who's never used a mobile device before, how exactly I can switch these specific contacts to SMS/MMS permanently and stop them from automatically switching back to RCS? FWIW, I'm using my phone's default messaging system, not Google Messages or Facebook Messenger or anything of the sort.

And I'm not talking about those reCAPTCHA puzzles like "Select the boxes that contain (X)" or "Type the characters you see above" or like that. No, you have to solve actual puzzles now, like swipe through images containing items that equate to the same number of items in the first image (i.e. some strange item x3 = three of that specific items in one of the images), and/or listen to sound bytes and type in which sound byte contains a difference from the rest of the pattern (i.e. AI voices, but one of the voices changes partway through their word salad). And you have to do each of these five times? I already had 2-step verification enabled on my account after somebody hacked it a couple of years ago, but now, solving these puzzles before even getting to that is making a 2-step procees into an unnecessary 3/4-step process. So has security on FB really gotten that bad now?

Oh, and before anybody asks anything like, "Can't you just stay logged in?" I clear out my browser's cache, cookies, temporary files, etc. every night - been doing that for eons. Helps keep the machine (which is technically outdated now since I'm still operating on Windows 7) running smooth and frees up diskspace.

I don't understand why it is that movies that are broadcast on over-the-air television - whether network or cable - still start with the disclaimer about the film having been, "Modified from its original version to fit your TV screen," when those days are long gone. Just about everything we see on TV is cropped for widescreen formats and aspect ratios, as many movies are intended to be seen; we're long past the days of TV screens being in 4:3 aspect ratios that would require many movies to actually be modified to fit such a screen: whether completely cropped, presented in a pan-and-scan format, or letterboxed to avoid either such modifications. So why do TV broadcasts of movies even still include such a disclaimer when such a practice is practically obsolete at this point?

Why is it every time I try to watch a video - any video, the entire page just freezes after only a few seconds of the video playing? I'm not talking about just the video itself freezing and/or buffering, I'm talking about the entire page I'm on freezing, and it doesn't matter which browser I use, Chrome or Firefox, this has suddenly become a persistent issue for the past several days.

In nearly four years, I have lost a ton of weight; over 110 pounds as a matter of fact, and it's gotten to a point where I'm having to downsize just about all of my wardrobe about two sizes (I had gotten up well into 3XL, but now I'm finding even some 2XL clothing is still a tad baggy on me).

Since the weather's been warm for a long while, and with summer approaching, I've been trying to downsize my shorts as well, but I seem to have run into a unique problem: why are all men's shorts super long now? Okay, in my case, I'm also a relatively short guy too (only 5'7''), but even so, I was always able to find shorts that fit me and came down to my knees. Nowadays, anywhere I look or try to shop: in store, or online, it seems almost all men's shorts have inseams that are 8 inches or longer, all of which come down near to my ankles! Granted, I'm not a fashion guy, so I don't follow trends or anything, I just get clothes I like the looks of to wear for the sole purpose of wearing clothes, but I really don't get why it seems like all men's shorts are so long now, unless this is some kind of trend of something.

What happened to shorts with 5 or 6-inch inseams like I used to wear? Where can I even find shorts like that anymore? It doesn't just get hot where I live, it also gets wicked humid as well; I want to be as cool and comfortable as possible while I suffer through the time of year I hate the most, and long shorts kinda defeat that purpose.