u/Navitach

I know that some people skip the episode, and I understand why. But I always watch it when it airs (unless I just happen to miss it, but I already have it set to record tomorrow), because it is his and Trapper's last episode, and there's some great dialogue (as there is in most episodes).

The last time the episode was on MeTV, in April, the scene where Henry is talking to his wife and kids on the phone was shortened. I described the missing parts in the comments of this post, so let's keep our fingers crossed that they restored those few minutes. I'll be watching.

UPDATE: Well, I guess that answers that question. They're starting to butcher the episodes as bad as TVLand.

Apparently the man was able to eventually get the ruling reversed.

I’ve had a Citizen digital/analog wristwatch that I love (with a couple of variations of the face color) for many years that’s not manufactured any more. I can remove the screw-on caseback and change the battery myself, which saves me a little money; but when one of them starts to malfunction (after several years), I’ve had to look for online resellers for another one, and over time they’ve been harder and harder to find. I know eventually I won’t be able to find them at all, but for now, I can still count on them.

One of them has started to show its age, so I recently found another one online and purchased it; but when it arrived, I found out that one of the function buttons didn’t work properly: when it was pushed in, it didn’t spring back like it’s supposed to. The seller that I got it from must not have realized it, but they also didn’t accept returns, so that wasn’t an option. After a few online searches, I found out that those buttons have a very small plastic C-clamp that allows it to spring back, and also keeps the button from being pulled out of the watch entirely.

I had already figured out how to remove the crown and take out the main watch component on one of the older ones, and since I had a few spare watches, that meant I had some C-clamps that I could use for the most recent one. I needed reading glasses to see the small parts; it’s very delicate work using tweezers and other non-professional tools; I lost a couple of the clamps when I squeezed a bit too hard with the tweezers and they popped out and flew somewhere (they're really hard to see on the table, floor or other surfaces); and my hands were shaking a little from just trying to hold them steady to remove the clamps from one of the old watches and carefully slip them onto the button stems in the new one. But I somehow managed to finally get the last clamp that I had salvaged from the old watch onto the new one, so I put it all back together, put the battery in, and set everything on the watch, so now I have another one for at least a few years. It’s not much, but I’m kinda proud of myself for fixing it without having to pay someone else.

Was just watching "That's Show Biz Part II" on MeTV (as many of you likely were), and Radar was there at the beginning of the opening titles. I know they kept Gary Burghoff in the opening credits for a couple of episodes after he left, but I just thought it was a little odd that he was in the start of an episode two seasons later. I guess since the episode was originally an hour long. it was split into two episodes for syndication, but as far as I can tell, every other syndicated episode was consistent with him being absent from the opening titles after he left. I suppose someone wasn't paying attention when they edited this one.

Just watched the movie for the umpteenth time, and my 15-year-old son watched it with me. (He hadn't seen it before and he loved it.) But when Val is trying to get to the bulldozer and he has to stop so the graboids can't find him, a thought occurred to me: Throughout the movie, people stop running or walking so the graboids don't sense their vibrations, and they're all wearing some kind of shoes or boots. But if someone was barefoot and standing still, do you think the graboids could sense their heartbeat through their feet and find them?

Another song and dance. I've already seen this twice in a half hour and I couldn't mute it fast enough.

He was also very involved with Friends, of course.

Not sure if anyone has seen this. It was published on the Variety website today.

Hoping someone might be able to help or have some information about this...

For several years I've been using Powerbeats. They're not the Pros; I much prefer the model with the cord connecting the pair, so I don't possibly lose an earbud somewhere. They're the last model that were made with that cord, so I think they're the ones referred to as "4".

Anyway, I lost the original pair I had, but by then they were no longer made, so I had to find a used pair on eBay. Those worked fine for a couple of years until the rubber on the ear hooks started to tear, and I was worried that would get worse, so I had to find yet another pair. I was able to find a pair of "Renewed" on Amazon, and they worked fine too, until one of the earbuds broke off and is only hanging on by the wires (the pair was in my pocket; lesson learned). So I bought yet another renewed pair on Amazon, and here's where the problem is:

I have connected the Beats to my iPhone via Bluetooth, and they turn on and work just fine; I know what the light on the left earbud means, and I hear the turn on chime. The Volume and Pause/Play work as expected also. But when I turn them off, the white light turns off, but I don't hear the turn off chime, and the earbuds still show as connected; the logo still shows on the phone display. The only way I can be sure they're off and hear the chime is to disconnect Bluetooth. Obviously I don't want to have to turn Bluetooth off and back on whenever I want to play music. This has never been a problem with the other pairs I've had, even the other used or renewed ones. I have reset the Beats several times, but the issue still persists. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions, other than "Don't buy renewed"? If I want to continue using this model of Beats, it's either that or buy used from eBay again or something. Thanks in advance...

My son graduated from high school this week. The ceremony was held in the afternoon at a university in our area (around 700 graduates!), and since he was in the band, they were going to play the Star Spangled Banner at the start of the ceremony before he joined his fellow graduates to walk the stage. He and other seniors were instructed by the band teacher to ask their bandmates to take their instruments back to the school for them, and they could be picked up later. (In my son’s case, his brother, a freshman, was going to bring his home one day after school.) My son asked a couple of his underclassmen friends in the band to take his, but they forgot, and they couldn’t find it in the band room. We didn’t know where it was; we didn’t know if someone else had grabbed it and taken it back to the school, so he was not happy and kind of upset with his friends for not helping him out.

Last night, to celebrate them graduating, we took him and his girlfriend to one of those entertainment places that has food, a bar (for adults, of course), big screens with sports, and a lot of games; you get a card and pay to put tokens on it, and you can win tickets on many of the games to turn in for various things. After we ate dinner, we played some games; at one point, while we were watching them play, he felt something hit his foot, and when he looked down, he saw one of the play cards. He scanned it to see what was on it, and even though there weren’t any play tokens on it, there was around 21,000 tickets! He felt bad for whoever had dropped the card, and he was trying to figure out a way to get it back to them, which was going to be difficult, if not impossible; there were a lot of people there, including what looked like a group of middle schoolers (they were in one of the big party rooms), and he had seen a few of them run by him right before he found the card, so he figured it belonged to one of them. He’s a good kid, and he didn’t want to just take someone’s card, but we were thinking that he might not have any alternative. I suggested he take it to the cashier where people turn in their tickets, but he pointed out (which was a good point) that someone else could claim the card was theirs when it wasn’t and take it.

We had not moved from the games we were standing near when he saw a few kids from the school group walk by, and he saw one of them looking at a few cards and overheard him saying, “It’s not here…” He went to catch up with them, and he asked the one if he had lost a card. When he said he had, my son asked him how many tickets were on it, and the kid said around 20,000, so my son gave him his card back. I was so proud of him for doing the right thing even when it seemed like he was going to have to keep the card.

I had called the venue at the university to ask about his instrument before we left last night, but the lost and found was already closed. I gave them a description of the case, and they took my information as well as giving me the direct number for the L&F; they said they would look for it, and they would be in touch. I had not heard from them yet today, so I decided to call them again. The woman I spoke to said she was actually right in the middle of composing an email to me to let me know they had not seen it, but they would continue to look, and hoped that someone would turn it in. My son was disappointed, thinking that his instrument was gone; but then he mentioned that another local high school had had their graduation the same day in the evening at the same place as his school’s, so he thought maybe someone at that graduation had taken it to their school, thinking it belonged to one of their band members. I called that school and explained the situation, and the woman there said they did have an instrument case, but she thought the one I described was a little different than the one they had. She started to tell me about it, and it sounded more and more like it. I asked her to open the case to see if certain things (besides his instrument) were inside, and sure enough, it was his! So someone did take the instrument to their school. I told my son, and he went and picked it up. I’d like to think that him making sure the kid got his card back last night was paid back to him by his instrument turning up safe.

How was the driver allowed to operate a bus again? Surely the bus company knew about his prior offense.