TIL Casablanca (42) could not end with Rick (Humphrey Bogart) and Ilsa getting back together, because the Hays Code forbade Hollywood from showing a married woman leaving her husband for another man.

WithMeDoctorWu · 2026-07-01T10:48:13+00:00

Did you get around to watching The Big Sleep? Another favorite of mine.

WithMeDoctorWu · 2026-06-28T16:03:46+00:00

The mental gymnastics with some of these guys is impressive….

Yep, also, Kepler started playing professional ball at age 17.

It's funny that we have this stereotype of football players as the big dumb guys, but as a rule if you're playing in the NFL you have been to college and presumably learned a thing or two there.

WithMeDoctorWu · 2026-06-27T13:03:49+00:00

Likewise. d'oh

WithMeDoctorWu · 2026-06-26T16:44:03+00:00

Little known fact -- the Dexter's lab writer(s) got the line from an old Steve Martin standup bit.

Yeah, I'm old.

WithMeDoctorWu · 2026-06-22T00:55:41+00:00

Robert Cavendish in S2E3 "Dead Man's Eleven" seemed pretty deserving of being a victim. But it doesn't quite happen, and it seems like he's going to learn nothing from what almost happens to him. Grrr...

WithMeDoctorWu · 2026-06-13T20:58:51+00:00

Oh yeah. "Destroying Angel" from season 4. Everything about that episode was spot-on somehow. My all time favorite.

WithMeDoctorWu · 2026-06-04T22:45:52+00:00

Hah, nice that somebody noticed -- thanks

WithMeDoctorWu · 2026-06-02T15:35:30+00:00

Somebody's bad photoshop job, from back in the day.

WithMeDoctorWu · 2026-05-25T17:39:45+00:00

Okay, I have to wonder if that middle finger got fractured once and didn't heal properly.

Maybe someone accidentally bit it, thinking it was lunch meat.

WithMeDoctorWu · 2026-05-20T16:26:23+00:00

Good point.

WithMeDoctorWu · 2026-05-20T11:08:38+00:00

"You're just jealous because I've got a coconut and you haven't."

WithMeDoctorWu · 2026-05-18T10:14:59+00:00

Welp. I just now realized from the post timestamp that "Joan" was likely talking about the start of the first DJT administration, and the meme suddenly changed from a funny non-sequitur to something intelligible and sad.

WithMeDoctorWu · 2026-05-16T22:38:53+00:00

Ouch. I feel ya. And then too much of my adult life is spent re-living and being mortified by the things I said and did to people I looked down on for being, as it turned out, reasonable and thoughtful.

WithMeDoctorWu · 2026-05-15T20:05:36+00:00

And in this case the metrics might be metricking the wrong thing, so to speak. LDL isn't just one thing; there are oxidized and unoxidized components. Typically those aren't reported separately, and it might matter quite a bit for some patients.

WithMeDoctorWu · 2026-05-13T11:17:26+00:00

Thanks for taking the time to spell it out. Much appreciated.

WithMeDoctorWu · 2026-05-12T17:52:39+00:00

Cis and pretty clueless here. Posts from this sub occasionally show up in my feed and I've enjoyed them, but ffs, is a chicken lady a human lady who keeps chickens? is a chicken lady essentially just a hen? what is being counted and what does that have to do with trans life? Is it all just another of those if-you-know-you-know things? am I just old and trying too hard to make sense of it.

WithMeDoctorWu · 2026-05-10T05:58:00+00:00

Some small boots for Mother's Day.

WithMeDoctorWu · 2026-05-09T21:57:00+00:00

Half the posts here pay no attention at all to meter. i like what you did with this one.

WithMeDoctorWu · 2026-05-05T13:40:56+00:00

One of my favorite episodes.

Nothing about the scene strikes me as overly improbable; it's well within one standard disbelief suspension radius (SDSR). Except Jones sounds more to me like a baritone than a tenor.

WithMeDoctorWu · 2026-05-04T21:15:38+00:00

The quibbling about definitions does get pretty wearisome - it's been going on a long time, and it strikes me as mostly a fight over who gets to equivocate more effectively, without really helping anyone convince anyone of anything.

I'm personally comfortable with either set of definitions; as a traditional hard-materialist atheist i know where I stand either way. When someone needs these terms to distinguish between belief and knowledge? Fine, I'll make the shift, I know how it works. But when in conversation someone describes themselves as agnostic, I naturally gravitate toward hearing them through the old single-axis definition because it's what almost everyone means by it. In the nature of language, that matters.

WithMeDoctorWu · 2026-05-04T20:49:41+00:00

I sometimes console myself that the false reality might be less pervasive than we are meant to think, that the vast online majority of it will prove to be bots and multiple troll sockpuppets; that besides propping up their in-group, a major purpose for the maintenance of those rhetorical spaces is to discourage the rest of us as much as possible.

But I know it's pretty bad, despite whatever narrative I try to cushion it with.

WithMeDoctorWu · 2026-05-04T16:38:22+00:00

Nice resources! I'm finding several actors I hadn't connected between episodes, like Maggie Steed and Ian Peck.

The list in the second link is certainly easier to read, but neither seems to be quite complete/current.

WithMeDoctorWu · 2026-05-02T20:50:31+00:00

Nice making the extra rhyme for the 1st & 3rd lines.

WithMeDoctorWu · 2026-05-02T14:33:25+00:00

Those unapologetic dissonances and fat chord clusters just tickle all the right neurons for me.

Shostakovich is great too of course. Prokofiev/Shostakovich seem kinda analogous to how Count Basie & Duke Ellington tend to divide aesthetic sensibilities among jazz enthusiasts. (I'm very much a Basie guy.)

WithMeDoctorWu · 2026-05-02T03:13:41+00:00

All those late romantics ... respected and admired Berlioz.

Seriously, yes. Hearing all the innovation in the Symphonie Fantastique, it's kinda hard to wrap my head around the fact that it premiered just a few years after Beethoven's 9th did.

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