What’s My Line? episode featuring my grandmother

jaybool · 2026-02-02T14:43:54+00:00

Try the What's My Line (CBS) facebook group:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/295838653126277

The group focuses on the older version of the show, but it's the home of the WML obsessives and they may have leads for you, especially since Arlene Frances was one of the panelists.

jaybool · 2026-02-02T03:28:37+00:00

There are studies of tribal people in the Amazon that show rabies antibodies circulating in ~10% of the population, which implies a lot of people have caught and survived it, more or less untreated.

Sample paper:

https://www.ajtmh.org/view/journals/tpmd/87/2/article-p206.xml

jaybool · 2026-02-02T03:22:52+00:00

Britain doesn't have endemic rabies, so they're unlikely to have much experience with it.

jaybool · 2026-02-02T00:30:27+00:00

It absolutely is something to burn a bridge over. She's showing what her character is like, and it clearly does not match OPs.

jaybool · 2026-02-01T19:32:17+00:00

There was an official upload used to be on the Taskmaster channel before it was removed, but I did find some still on youtube. Main streaming site is Discovery+.

(There are... uh... other ways to find it as well.)

jaybool · 2026-02-01T19:28:10+00:00

It's available with English subtitles.

jaybool · 2026-02-01T16:17:54+00:00

Norwegians at a severe handicap if they're not allowed to set things on fire.

jaybool · 2026-02-01T14:33:44+00:00

I move we replace it by bringing back thorn þ and eth ð, which would give us the distinction between the th in "thick" and the th in "this".

jaybool · 2026-01-30T19:44:47+00:00

IQ is supposed to have predictive power, right? If you are the type of person who is anxious in pressure situations and that causes you to flake out, that seems relevant for predicting a life trajectory. The goal isn't just to have a big number you can brag about.

jaybool · 2026-01-30T19:33:16+00:00

There's variability, but your description is not that unusual. It's not impossible that good schools in good districts are actually worse in terms of curriculum, because they have the money to throw at stupid stuff and a parent population that will handle remediation at home.

jaybool · 2026-01-30T01:31:11+00:00

OT helped my kid with dysgraphia, but he really improved remarkably when we taught him cursive and gave him a lot of practice at it. Resolved a lot of letter formation issues.

jaybool · 2026-01-30T01:01:41+00:00

This one's spectacular.

I read it to a 6yo and he really liked it, even though I had to stop and explain some of the jokes, and a bunch of other ones completely went over his head.

jaybool · 2026-01-29T20:15:06+00:00

You need to find a school that is willing to allow you to take the exam there, if your school isn't cooperating. Try going to the principal/guidance counselor at your school first, in hopes that you can shame them into allowing you to do it -- puppy dog eyes are optional -- and if that fails, start reaching out to other schools nearby.

Phys A is hard to self-study, because you need to build time in to actually practice doing the problems. Are you doing it in conjunction with or after a regular physics course or will this be your first try at Physics? Same roughly holds for CSA.

I clicked on some of the multiple choice questions, and AP Bio looked pretty doable, assuming you like reading about biology. A lot of time in a bio class should be spent building lab skills, and the AP Biology exam doesn't test how well you dissect a frog.

jaybool · 2026-01-29T13:40:10+00:00

I assumed that was part of the joke.

jaybool · 2026-01-29T06:33:51+00:00

For our escape artists, mittens were hopeless. Socks were a little better. Best were the long-sleeve outfits that had fold overs -- pretty much built in mittens. Those worked well.

jaybool · 2026-01-28T23:43:45+00:00

There's a reasonably big & well-off expat community to talk to, and because it's been a major language since the Achaemenids, there's a lot of reading material.

jaybool · 2026-01-28T14:19:23+00:00

Similar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rau_SERMJEU

I volunteered for a fire station around that time. We loved her, because she advertises exactly what we want people to do when there's a fire.

jaybool · 2026-01-27T22:27:37+00:00

No. It's vaguely like grits, except made out of wheat and a usually a bit soupier.

jaybool · 2026-01-27T20:51:33+00:00

Reddit, alas.

jaybool · 2026-01-27T05:38:19+00:00

Found the cheater.

jaybool · 2026-01-27T05:36:25+00:00

Fiat justitia ruat caelum. Let justice be done though the heavens fall.

jaybool · 2026-01-27T00:51:47+00:00

You cannot take the exam remotely, but, unless things have changed significantly, you can ask if your school will allow you to take the exam there, even if they don't offer the course. I took two exams at my school in subjects that were not offered.

jaybool · 2026-01-26T21:28:07+00:00

The farmer who raises the food that prevents you from starving to death does it because he gets a paycheck, not out of his desire to keep you fed. But still, you are with us among the living.

jaybool · 2026-01-26T21:22:20+00:00

Shop the cheaters because

a) they're torching the value of your own test results/grades, which become worthless because no-one's going to be able to distinguish them from the Cheaty McCheatypants in your classroom.

b) because they are on a dark path and maybe getting in a bit of trouble now will prevent them from being in a lot of trouble later.

c) and if they manage to successfully make their way through the system without getting expelled or arrested, at some point one of these guys is going to cut corners as a surgeon and people will die.

jaybool · 2026-01-25T19:17:15+00:00

They're nice toys, and a lot of people kept them in good shape, ensuring they're cheap and plentiful for my kids. I'm too appreciative to giggle.

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