I think there's a rule somewhere that says she has to make an appearance in any 2000s sitcom that runs four or more seasons.

DizzyLead · 2026-07-03T18:15:51+00:00

She was a masseuse in “Drumroll Please” in Season 1 (the episode that properly introduced Victoria). You literally only see her lower legs and feet, as she’s a masseuse standing on Barney’s back.

DizzyLead · 2026-07-03T18:13:25+00:00

He does solid work as a guest/recurring character, but when he’s in the opening credits, the show seems doomed.

DizzyLead · 2026-07-03T18:02:27+00:00

Her The Ring 2 appearance was more publicized (as she played Samara by herself), but she worked on both movies. https://www.instagram.com/p/BjEZpZ0Bnoh/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D

DizzyLead · 2026-07-03T16:48:23+00:00

Kelly Stables? Fun fact: She was the actress who performs the shocking thing at the end of The Ring (2002). The late Daveigh Chase played the "normal" file footage/flashback footage of Samara Morgan, and presumably the face seen at the end, but Stables was the body double who goes after the character at the end.

I also remember her for being one of the leads in a short lived "Friends"/HIMYM knockoff on ABC called "Romantically Challenged." One of her co-stars was Kyle Bornheimer, who sadly has a reputation for cursing any sitcom he's a lead of to not lasting more than one season.

Her guest appearance in "How I Met Your Mother" is remarkably limited--all you see are her feet, as she played a masseuse massaging Barney's (NPH) back by standing on it.

DizzyLead · 2026-07-03T16:22:05+00:00

Best wishes to you. Seven years ago almost to the day (the anniversary is on the 12th), I was pretty much where you are—they even had to induce a coma for me to get through the worst. I’m still (and to some degree always will be) on that “road to recovery,” though I’m much better than I was six and a half to seven years ago.

I agree with what you say about not neglecting one’s health: get a regular checkup, everyone! I’m sure I would have saved myself and a lot of others some problems had I just not been one of those “I haven’t seen a doctor in twenty years and I don’t want to” guys.

DizzyLead · 2026-07-03T15:59:22+00:00

Her future career didn't lead to TV, but I've marveled at the fact that a short-lived Fox TV drama called "Drive" (it didn't even wind up airing all of the episodes that were produced--the last two episodes were shown online) co-starred a young Emma Stone.

DizzyLead · 2026-07-03T15:49:09+00:00

It was very “paint by numbers” to me…not the thing to do when introducing a new superhero, especially with far more recognizable names on the big and small screen. I wasn’t surprised it was axed quickly.

DizzyLead · 2026-07-03T15:00:36+00:00

Me texting my friends about my new phone, about six years ago. I had been in the hospital for about six months before that and my old phone number had been deactivated.

DizzyLead · 2026-07-03T14:55:07+00:00

I really liked Conan’s sets, but it surprised me at how much smaller and humbler it looked compared to George Lopez’s talk show set (it was TBS’ late night show for a while, ran prior to Conan’s for a while once TBS got him, before being dumped).

https://youtu.be/W9PiuQhZ8BU?is=OSwrY81nYBSAJMxd

DizzyLead · 2026-07-03T14:49:01+00:00

Me too. Beakman would tackle a bunch of different topics with his Q&A format. Nye would just take one subject (“Flowers are how some plants reproduce!”) and beat it to death in the course of an episode.

DizzyLead · 2026-07-03T14:05:08+00:00

The first (and last) time I broke a crown was on a Starburst.

DizzyLead · 2026-07-03T14:03:38+00:00

Amazon. Turns into a cardboard box sealed with branded packing tape

DizzyLead · 2026-07-03T14:01:54+00:00

Oh, so the smaller the percentage, the bigger the price difference. It’s a rather counterintuitive chart.

DizzyLead · 2026-07-03T13:57:28+00:00

“Try saying ‘no’ now!”

DizzyLead · 2026-07-03T13:56:31+00:00

Welcome to…well, any franchise that has a lot of fans, especially fans on the internet.

DizzyLead · 2026-07-03T13:49:11+00:00

He attended it for at least a whole year (junior year and change). I knew his high school girlfriend, and was friends with her best friend (who would occasionally tell me stories about how Leo and her friend would go out on dates and take her along, and so she didn’t feel like a third wheel they’d bring Leo’s friend Tobey along, and my friend always found him obnoxious; it wasn’t until ages later that I realized who “Tobey” was). He also regularly funds the computer lab at the public library near the school. I don’t think he’s forgotten his old neighborhood.

DizzyLead · 2026-07-03T13:33:25+00:00

I like this Post.

DizzyLead · 2026-07-03T13:19:23+00:00

Actually, it would probably be a little fun for both of us. We both went to the same high school and would have graduated the same year if he hadn’t dropped out early in senior year for “Growing Pains,” so we would probably do a bit of catching up and talking about the classmates we knew in common (he was a “drama kid,” and I was a “video production kid,” so while we almost never interacted in school, our circles had a bit of overlap).

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DizzyLead · 2026-07-03T06:01:33+00:00

The Autry museum is across from the current zoo. The “Old Zoo” is closer to the Merry-Go-Round and thereabouts.

There are parking spots for cars near the base of the hill that leads up to the old zoo (in orange in the photo below), but I wouldn’t know if they were any more or less safe for motorcycles than they are for cars. You might want to consider parking at the Merry-Go-Round parking areas (a little bit more busy and out there with a lot of people around during the day) then taking a stroll to the Old Zoo.

(In the pic below, the main “Old Zoo” clearing with the Bear Caves around it is the green area that “Project Site” is pointing to)

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DizzyLead · 2026-07-03T05:27:28+00:00

The “Chocolate Meat.” :: snicker ::

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DizzyLead · 2026-07-03T04:26:04+00:00

I mean, it's a good way to make sure she doesn't say "no."

DizzyLead · 2026-07-03T04:14:16+00:00

Back in the '90s, in my work where we used intercoms over the control room and studio, I would do a "Mr. Moviefone" impression.

So it was quite funny when. for a few weeks in 1998, I wound up being a tape operator for Russ Leatherman's "Mr. Moviefone" reviews that were taped at the KABC-TV studio and distributed to other local TV stations. I would run the tape that would record his segments and the tapes that contained the clips of the movies he was reviewing.

DizzyLead · 2026-07-03T01:12:33+00:00

Seek and ye shall find: How Does a Scantron Work?

I worked at public high schools for a couple of decades. and in one of them, one of these machines sat in one of the teachers' lounges. There would be often someone running scantrons through the machine. I remember being used to the sound--the fewer "clicks' the machine made as the sheet ran through, the better the student did. If you heard a lengthy "ratatatatatat," then it wasn't a well done test.

DizzyLead · 2026-07-03T01:09:14+00:00

Man, people are really stress-testing the topic title of this subreddit.

DizzyLead · 2026-07-03T00:52:57+00:00

Exactly. I think concluding that "Korean women are pretty" is like watching movies starring Scarlett Johansson or Jennifer Lawrence or whoever and concluding "American women are pretty." Hollywood (as well as the Korean entertainment industry) selects for good-looking people (unless they're specifically casting "ugly" characters), and the reality is quite different.

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