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NEW YORK — CNN and CBS News have romanced each other off and on for more than a decade, and they are checking again to see if the time is right for a serious business relationship.

Talks aimed at joining forces have foundered in the past due to questions of editorial control and complex labor issues. But the gloomy financial outlook for broadcast network news and CNN's need to kick-start its domestic network's ratings gives executives at both organizations a greater incentive to overcome the problems.

Jeff Bewkes, chairman of CNN parent Time Warner Inc., said Wednesday that “it's no secret” that CNN talks with broadcast networks and suggested they need CNN more than CNN needs them.

“There is a lot of fiscal strength at CNN that essentially puts us in a pretty good position offering a solution to the cost problems and profit squeeze that go on in network news,” he said during a conference call with investors. He said it's entirely possible that CNN and a broadcast partner can come to an agreement sometime during the next year.

Executives at both news organizations, speaking under conditions of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the talks, said nothing is imminent. But there appears to be a seriousness of purpose that was missing in the past.

Both CBS and ABC News have been losing money as viewers increasingly get their news through cable networks or the Internet. Both news divisions have sharply cut back on staff; ABC cut its news staff by a quarter over the past couple of months, primarily through buyouts. Neither network has the advantage of NBC News, which is not only atop the ratings but can amortize costs through cable affiliates MSNBC and CNBC.

Some have questioned whether ABC or CBS' news divisions can survive long-term by going it completely alone.

“The landscape is a little bit worse” than when the two companies talked about some way to combine forces in the past, said Marcy McGinnis, a former CBS News executive who was involved in negotiations with CNN more than a decade ago. “They both have more incentives to talk about economies of scale.”

With a far more extensive newsgathering structure both domestically and internationally, CNN can offer CBS more extensive reporting power, allowing CNN reporters on broadcasts like the “CBS Evening News.” For all of its ratings problems, that broadcast is still seen by more people than anything on CNN.

Republican candidate Mark Kirk was tight-lipped Monday about whether he will support President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan.

“There are those who have immediately moved to support or endorse, as if the confirmation hearings don't matter, and I think the confirmation hearings matter greatly,” the GOP hopeful explained at a Chicago luncheon.

Kirk opposed Obama's last Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor, claiming she was too much of an activist.

Democratic candidate Alexi Giannoulias has already declared his support for Kagan, and wasted no time seizing on Kirk's reaction to the President's high court nominations.

In an e-mail blast to supporters, the Giannoulias camp said:

When President Obama nominated Justice Sonia Sotomayor last year, Mark Kirk slammed the pick, calling Sotomayor a “hyper-activist” and saying he would have voted “no.” Now, Kirk's Republican colleagues in the Senate are already pledging to fight Kagan's nomination.

Republicans just can't accept having a fair-minded jurist on the bench who will interpret the law fairly and who won't favor corporate special interests. But we can't let Republicans tear down President Obama's Supreme Court nominee.

Kagan was a tenured professor at the University of Chicago before becoming Dean of Harvard Law School. There may be a political risk in opposing her for a Senate hopeful in Illinois.

According to Giannoulias, Kirk has demonstrated “that his beliefs on the ideological leanings of the highest court are not only out of touch with people of Illinois but they are wrong.”

Giannoulias on Monday called for Kagan to be confirmed in a swift manner and praised the Supreme Court pick, saying her “experience, temperament and demonstrated ability to forge consensus will serve her and our nation well.”

– ELYSE SIEGEL

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Pet Health Assurance Offers Pets A Life span Up of Health, Happiness

30 April 2010

Poll: Pets Listen Better Than Husbands

One third of pet-owning married women and 18% of married men said their pets are better listeners than their spouses in an AP-Petside.com poll. As for the pet's emotional well-being, 18% would take a depressed pet to the psychologist.

Send an email to Margaret Hartmann, the author of this post, at margaret@jezebel.com.

Cepia's Zhu Zhu Pets, the whimsical motorized hamsters that conquered during last year's holiday shopping season, are coming back strong in 2010. Really, really strong: Meet Kung Zhu Battle Hamsters, the militant hamster arm of Zhu Zhu, replete with elements “that appeal especially to boys,” according to Russ Hornsby, CEO of Cepia.

The new line will feature Special Forces, Ninja Warriors, Rangers, and the Skull Tribe Battle Hamsters, along with attendant battle gear, vehicles, and training arenas.

Training? According to the company:

Prior to their “training,” you might mistake the Kung Zhu squad for a traditional Zhu Zhu Pet. They dart around, scurry from place to place, and coo and squeak based on the unique environment they encounter. But all that changes when the hamsters encounter the magical “Tablet of Zhu,” a special training ground that transforms the Zhu Zhu Pets into Kung Zhu Special Forces or Ninja Warriors, ready to do battle against each other.

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29 April 2010

Humans wear underpants, so why shouldn’t dogs? Neena Pellegrini came up with a line of Pants for Dogs after her male bichon frise kept "marking" her female dogs:

First product up: cute, comfy and — of utmost importance — absorbent doggie undies and thongs.

Sounds crazy to anyone who hasn’t had a dog with a bit of an incontinence/dribbling problem, or a female dog that hasn’t been fixed. But those of us who have owned and loved such a dog have spent more than a few minutes wishing Depends came in canine configurations.

Neena Pellegrini to the rescue.

She’s the founder of Pants for Dogs (pantsfordogs.com), a little Seattle-based cottage industry filling hundreds of orders for tiny- to massive-sized panties for female dogs, and, for male dogs, items she calls cummerbunds (although the waist isn’t, in a precise sense, the true target, of course). Each garment in its own way protects rugs, floors and whatever else needs protecting from the drips and streams we’d rather not contemplate (and certainly not discuss).

The business started four years ago when Pellegrini’s little male dog kept marking her little female dogs. A training issue, most would
say. But improvement doesn’t happen overnight. How do you protect the girls?

Sharon Peters of Pet Talk has more: Link | Pants For Dogs website

The new line will feature Special Forces, Ninja Warriors, Rangers, and the Skull Tribe Battle Hamsters, along with attendant battle gear, vehicles, and training arenas.

Training? According to the company:

Prior to their “training,” you might mistake the Kung Zhu squad for a traditional Zhu Zhu Pet. They dart around, scurry from place to place, and coo and squeak based on the unique environment they encounter. But all that changes when the hamsters encounter the magical “Tablet of Zhu,” a special training ground that transforms the Zhu Zhu Pets into Kung Zhu Special Forces or Ninja Warriors, ready to do battle against each other.

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27 April 2010

F.A.C.E is the brand new collection from Loophouse. An acronym for Fabricate, Adorn, Compose, Embellish, it demonstrates the endless possibilities of custom designed rugs. Each of the new designs has been inspired by well-loved existing patterns. In F.A.C.E, designer Lorraine Statham shares her personal affinity for the discipline of patch-working and its ability to tell a story. She celebrates its wonderful contrasts: defined yet random, logical yet jumbled in this latest collection of 100% wool hand-tufted rugs.

Whoops a Daisy
Peeking through a hexagonal grid, the Daisy Chain motif (from Woodland collection) randomly appears, enhancing the lattice work. Narrow multi-colored blocks of color are placed off center, allowing the majority of the background to work a subtle gradation movement from dark (at its most central point) to lighter tones on its edges.

Dash Away
Dash Away displays the varying line thicknesses of the Reflections design (from Odyssey collection), jumping across the rug in a linear and curvaceous manner. Held within columns, these individual lines offer structure within a hap-hazard take.

Soft Spot
In Soft Spot, the ordered squares constrain the jumbled circles of varying magnitude. Patch worked from one of the subtle layers of the Estella rug design (from Hidden collection), the Soft Spot design plays with subtle striation textures within its background surfaces.

Barking Mad
The inspiration for Barking Mad came from “Bark”, a design from the previous Woodland Collection. Against this backdrop, jagged bands appear to leap from the surface of the rug, hovering above the original intricate, sequential pattern of Bark, to create Barking Mad’s striking new look.

Darn Tootin’
The lace-like lattice pattern is drawn from “Havisham” from the previous Hidden Collection and has been re-worked with a play on scale. With considered proportions and expert techniques, one color has been used to transcend a tonal story across the surface of this most beautifully subtle bespoke rug.

Photos by James Gardiner.

I've been involved driving sled dogs since the eighties and bought and built many gadgets over the years that I've found useful despite not being a big “gadget guy”.

A life long nordic skiier, I learned about skijoring from a Swedish musher and thought it sounded like a great idea. The only thing was that in the late eighties there were no suppliers of gear. My first skijor belt was a chain wrapped around my waist but soon found and adapted a climbing harness. As the climbing harness had leg loops it was superior to early models later available in the US until they started adapting this idea. Nowadays, there are many excellent suppliers of skijor gear.

One of the coolest things I've made was working with a retired aircraft engineer who had a grant from a dog food maker to study dog output. At the time, trees made GPS units rather unreliable so we used a bicycle wheel with a speedometer to measure speed / distance. But for measuring how much the dogs pulled, we built a system using a tensometer jury rigged to a Sinclair computer housed in a rubbermaid box to collect data. The research discovered that an efficient team actually put very little tug on the line to keep forward momentum. Less efficient dogs pull more with less consistency which results in more injuries as dogs pull best by relying on the harness to catch them as they throw themselves forward rather than landing only on their paws.

A modified four wheeler ATV has been a great gadget. Got it from the kid down the road for a great price as I had him remove the motor as part of the sale conditions. It's a nice way to get the dogs out when there's no snow. And without the motor there's no hassle for using the local multi-use trail that bans motors.

An avid cyclist, I also pioneered a sport called “bike-joring” which seems to now be an accepted term. Springer and others have been selling for sometime a way to connect your dog to the side of your bike, but it doesn't allow them to really work.

So I built a way to attach the dogs to the handlebars. It sounds counter intuitive, but it is the most stable spot to attach them. It's the same spot 6-day riders hold their bars when doing handslings on the track. And if you attach to the headtube, the line too easily gets tangled on the front wheel or fender and there is less control/stability.

A loop of bungie and rope over the bars, one on each side of the stem, gives great control and flexibility as it's easy to pull the loops off the stem if you need to untangle them or get better control off bike.

Then there's little things like better dishes, food scoopers and poop scoopers that make daily chores easier. Mine are home made for the most part, but I use hog pans as dishes.

I've always wanted a poop scooping robot and have thought of modifying one of those solar power mowers… but they are expensive and the dogs would probably eat it.

Auto axles are a great way to put a stake in the ground that will make it easy to chain up a dog. Much better than those little twisty stakes they sell in pet shops that never work reliably.

Good dog houses are also helpful. I use a 50 gallon plastic barrels supported on an A-Frame of pallets. This provides shade underneath the house and puts the door high enough that males don't pee in it. Over the years, been replacing the plastic with wood houses which look a bit nicer and give the dogs a flat spot on the roof to hang out. They like that. Never give a dog a peaked roof, unless it's a 2-D dog like Snoopy who can perch on that.

And maybe the coolest gadget I've seen and always wanted, was a truck load of old communication cable spools to give the dog yard a hacker/phreaker look by converting them into dog houses. Someday.

Dog mushing is fun in part due to the many innovations that come out over the years. Mushers tend to be quite resourceful hackers who combine high tech with an ancient art whose motto is, “you can fix anything with an axe” that reflex a legacy of self reliance in the wilderness. And despite the cool things I can brag about, am humbled by the true master dog drivers who could go out with one tool, an axe, and build an outstandingly engineered perfectly balanced sled out of a birch tree in short order that would outperform one made in a fully supplied shop of powertools and laser rulers and allignment devices.

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21 April 2010

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@Church Lady:
I haven’t had to do this with a pet but I’ve been through this with 3 people and the pain of ongoing treatment that just extends the pain for all doesn’t seem to be all that humane.
Both my grandfather and sister died of cancer. Grandfather 36 yrs ago and once diagnosed he only lasted for 2 weeks. My sister fought for 6 years, 2 remissions, but in the end she decided against fighting any longer. It hurt losing my best friend and sister but it was the best thing for her. My dad had Alzheimers and suffered for 10 yrs. In the end I had to decide to put him in hospice or extend his life for what would have been a relatively short time. I felt then and have not changed my mind in the least that hospice was the most humane thing I could do for him. Of course this is not the best decision in every case but I think the quality of life is as an important determination as the length of life. Please remember that in all of these situations life would have only been lengthened a couple of weeks to maybe 2 months. And they would have been the most pain filled times of their lives.
Please take this only as my experiences, in these specific instances, not as a cautionary tale. And that I would be devastated if it was my dog we are discussing.
Best of luck to you.
Bark Buckle UP Has Tails Wagging for Top Dog: Ford Edge Named Pet Safe Vehicle of the Year

NEW YORK, April 1 /PRNewswire/ – Bark Buckle UP the recognized leader and experts for pet travel safety – awarded the Pet Safe Choice Vehicle Awards “TOP DOG” today at the 2010 New York International Auto Show. This year, Bark Buckle UP's founder Pet Safety Lady Christina Selter and her furry friends awarded “TOP DOG” Pet Safe Vehicle of Choice and announced the Pet Safe Hotel, Retailer, and Airline of choice. During the presentation, Greg Kleva, host of Martha Stewart radio show “It's a Dogs Life,” the Pet Safety Lady, and furry friends wearing the Doggie Seat Belt hopped in and out of cars and stole the show with their animal antics and demonstrations of dog and car travel safety.

This year's Pet Safe winners included the Ford Edge (Vehicle of the Year), BassPro Shops (Retailer of the Year), Sheraton Hotels (Hotel of the Year) and Southwest Airlines (Airline of the Year).

“Most people don't think about it, but in only a 35 mph accident with a 60-pound pet it becomes a 2,700-pound projectile. This will injure the pet, passengers, driver or the pet may escape the vehicle and cause a second accident or become agitated and bite the first responder that is on scene doing their job,” stated Selter.

The registered vehicles are evaluated on a variety of pet-related aspects, including how easily the vehicle accommodates animals and kennels of various sizes, ease of access to pet from within the vehicle, ease of pet entry and exit, ventilation for animals in the rear, as well as whether the vehicle has pet-friendly surfaces, adaptability for third party pet travel or safety gear. Ford received four out of the top ten honors for 2010 Pet Safe Vehicles of Choice List, including the Ford Transit Connect, Edge and Flex and the Lincoln MKT.

“With more than 340,000 vehicles sold since it was originally launched in late 2006, the Ford Edge has been meeting the needs of customers who demand style, technology, performance and capability in a compelling package,” said Brett Burin, Ford Edge Marketing Manager. “We look ahead with excitement this summer to the arrival of the new 2011 Edge, which adds even more revolutionary technology and class-leading performance. And with a suite of safety features, flexible seating and nearly 70 cubic feet of cargo space, the Ford Edge is perfect for those traveling with pets.”

Doggie Seat Belt is the newest As Seen On TV product to offer real solutions to problems without breaking the bank. “When the weather is nice, you see dog heads hanging out the window all of the time,” said Anand “Andy” Khubani, President and CEO of Ideavillage Products Corp. and distributor of the Doggie Seat Belt. “Since we all love our pets and enjoy taking them with us, Doggie Seat Belt was designed to be as easy and convenient as possible to buckle up our pets when they are in the car. This should help to decrease the chance of injury to a dog or passenger in the event of an accident.”

The 2010 Pet Safe Vehicle of Choice TOP DOG Ford Edge award was accepted by Burin.

2010 Pet Safe Retailer, Hotel and Airline
– BassPro Shops
– Sheraton Hotels
– Southwest Airlines

Statistics
– 35 mph accident with a 60-pound pet unrestrained becomes a 2,700-pound
projectile
– 98% of dogs do not travel properly restrained in a moving vehicle
– Driver distraction causes more accidents than any other issue
– 82% of pets travel on vacation with their owners
– Pet friendly lodging has increased 300% since 2005
– Over 70 million homes in America have a pet

About Christina Selter

“Pet Safety Lady” has been featured on more than 250 TV stations nationwide including National networks, as well as radio, print, and online venues. Recently featured in her first national TV commercial, produced several PSA's and the Pet Safety seminar that will be attended by the public FREE at more than 4000 locations in the U.S. and Canada summer 2010. Selter's first children's book, “Be Smart Ride Safe®,” will be published in 2010. Pet Safety Lady founder of Bark Buckle UP and the Bark Buckle UP Charity, works closely with first responders, auto manufacturers, airline, marine and other pet experts to help educate, inform, and protect America's pets. Pet Safety Lady travels the country teaching pet safety to the public and works with Police, Fire, National Guard, Coast Guard EMT, K9 units, FEMA dogs, animal services, pet rescues, and volunteers her time to help save pets lives. Her Bark 10-4 program has delivered more than 8,000 pet oxygen masks to Fire Chiefs in the U.S. and Canada. She has been featured with many Fire and Police Chiefs in the media educating the public on pet safety and has frequently been the host of first responder press conferences nationwide.

About Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F) , a global automotive industry leader based in Dearborn, Mich., manufactures or distributes automobiles across six continents. With about 198,000 employees and about 90 plants worldwide, the company's automotive brands include Ford, Lincoln, Mercury and, until its sale, Volvo. The company provides financial services through Ford Motor Credit Company. For more information regarding Ford's products, please visit http://www.ford.com/www.ford.com.

About Ideavillage Products Corporation

Headquartered in Wayne, New Jersey, Ideavillage Products Corporation has been bringing innovative products to market under the As Seen On TV banner since 1999. Dedicated to providing affordable quality products offering solutions to life's everyday problems, the As Seen On TV category has become one of today's most popular lines of consumer goods and includes Doggie Seat Belt, Smooth Away, HD Vision WrapArounds, MicroTouch Magic, and more. All products are available directly while select products are available at food, drug, and mass retail outlets nationwide. Ideavillage actively supports charitable organizations such as the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, Cherish the Children Foundation, and more. For more information on the Doggie Seat Belt visit http://www.doggieseatbelt.com/http://www.doggieseatbelt.com.

Source: Bark Buckle UP

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Music fans of tomorrow are kids of today, and the way they pay for digital content is through virtual worlds like Farmville and Penguin Town, which turn the acquisition of virtual goods — and digital music is nothing if not a virtual good — into a game.

Conduit Labs’ Music Pets app for Facebook may look cute, but it could have tangible ramifications for how music is discovered and sold in the future.

The goal of Music Pets is to entertain a virtual pet by training it to like the music you like, then using points to send the pet out to find more music to add to your collection. It sounds silly, but this cartoon-ish virtual world includes every element of the real-world music experience: getting recommendations, deciding whether you like songs, collecting music, and going over to your friends’ “houses” to play songs from your collection, which, as with just about everything else, requires that you expend points.

As with similar games, you can get everything you want for your pet and your music collection for free, so long as you have the time to add them to your pet’s training regimen by engaging in repetitive, somewhat amusing activities, including a Plinko-style game that has you trying to bounce balls onto all of the letters in a band’s name. Powering up for more points without spending lots of time requires that you pay up in real money, which is something many people simply don’t do for digital music in other contexts.

Conduit Labs passes on a percentage of revenue to labels, which then pass some of that along to artists and publishers. Is it possible that little furry cartoon characters from Tamagotchi-land will succeed where industry heavyweights have failed: in convincing kids to pay for music?

So far, the Music Pet Facebook app has drawn over a million users since its launch about a month ago, and the company recently inked a deal with the biggest record label in the world, Universal Music Group, to complement its healthy selection of independent labels (Beggars Group, Domino, Downtown and Modular) in Music Pet as well as its other games, Loudcrowd, which launched at SXSW last year and Super Dance. Rather than selling music at a specific price, the company keeps price vague, because users earn music through a combination of effort and time.

“The public perception of the value of a song is very skewed and has little to do with its actual price,” Conduit Labs founder Nabeel Hyatt told Wired.com. “We believe offering fun, social, interactive experiences with music is the best way to monetize.”

If the idea of grown men and women discovering and collecting music using a cute little avatar sounds absurd, you probably haven’t watched Jesse Schell’s DICE talk. If you don’t have the 20 minutes it takes to watch the whole thing, it can pretty much be summed up in one sentence: In the future, he claims, everything will be a game. It’s either a horrifying Orwellian vision of what’s to come or an indication that we’ll all be more amused in the coming years, depending on how you look at it.

In the real world, people typically discover music through other people, give it a listen, decide whether to acquire it, and then take it out for a spin every once in a while and maybe play the song for friends.

Music Pets replicates all of that, except that it makes every stage into a game. If Schell is right, this is a template for how the kids of today will purchase music tomorrow.

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Thank you Dixie. You made southern ladies fun to watch and to be. I remember watching DW when I was a kid and I have too many favorites to list here but I do love the episode where the guy asks the ladies to plan his funeral because he was dying of AIDS. As a young kid that was one of the first times I had heard about the disease and I am glad the writers took on the topic in a respectful manner.

posted by Toni on
4-11-2010 at 10:01 pm
Designing Women made me proud to be Southern… I was always so grateful that the South was portrayed as a warm place with rich culture and not just denegrated for its past; I loved that the ladies displayed intelligence and enlightenment, all with an authentic accent. I won’t lie– I teared up a little bit when I heard the news of Dixie Carter. A classic, and classy, lady.

posted by Dara on
4-11-2010 at 10:18 pm
I, too, am a bit teary… she was a strong, beautiful woman, through and through. The older I get, the more I realize how beautiful it is to be a woman, and she helped define that.
Can anyone find a link of her and Hal Holbrook’s rendition of, “Love Letters” the play?

posted by Helenann on
4-12-2010 at 10:11 am
My lasting image of her was the episode of Diff’rent Strokes when her son Sam was kidnapped. Why she tried to get back that annoying kid I’ll never know.

posted by Turtle on
4-12-2010 at 10:39 am
Dixie Carter was born just 40 minutes from where I live, in West Tennessee. She’s one of the area’s most well-known artists.

Carroll County, where she was born, built a performing arts center named the Dixie…and the theater is named for Hal. They performed there a few times to help pay for the expense of the place and you can believe large crowds showed up every time.

Dixie will be missed.

posted by Tracie on
4-12-2010 at 10:47 am
My fondest memories of Dixie are scenes with Hal. To see their faces as their characters spoke to one another seemed to be to see the two of them in their real life together. The looks of love and appreciation passed between them were sweet and genuine.
I cannot imagine his grief.
Thanks to both of them.
Dixie will be missed.

posted by M. Forrest on
4-12-2010 at 11:23 am
This is a huge loss. Loved Dixie Carter from seeing her and Delta Burke go at it on “Filthy Rich”, and besides the DW flogging she so articulately delivered to the woman who was disparaging her sister (“THAT was the night…”), the scene where she nailed Charlene’s doctor to the wall for his hideous treatment of cancer patients had me crying and cheering. Heck, I just loved watching her elegantly sip tea and react to the craziness happening around her! My condolences to her family and friends and to everybody who loved her.

posted by Lynne on
4-12-2010 at 11:53 am
“Suzanne, if sex were fast food, there would be an arch over your bed.”
Beautiful, classy, intelligent, funny and feminine: a wonderful and modern take on the strong women of 40’s cinema. She is my role model [republicanism aside]. I loved her and her character, Julia. I am sorry she is gone but so grateful for what she has left us.

posted by Mique on
4-12-2010 at 2:49 pm
So sad when I found this out. DW is still one of the funniest shows, mostly due to Julia and her Terminator rants.

Julia: Look, Mary Jo, all that I’m saying is that I’m not gonna pay one red cent on that ticket, and if I have to I’ll take it all the way to the Supreme Court!
Charlene: What happened?
Mary Jo: (very dramatically) We’re on the way to the bank to make that deposit, right? But the car breaks down, so while they’re working on it, Julia decides that we should walk to the bank and make our “drive-thru” deposit on foot… because the inside of the bank doesn’t open until 10.
Charlene: Sounds reasonable to me.
Julia: Thank you, Charlene!
Mary Jo: So there we are standing in the drive-thru, and when we “pull up”— so to speak — to the glass window, the guy refuses to accept our deposit because we’re not inside a vehicle.
Charlene: That’s ridiculous.
Mary Jo: So Julia commandeers the back seat of the woman behind us and starts yelling for this woman to drive us through the drive-thru! and then the bank manager makes Julia get out of the woman’s car, and then the police come. Need I say more?
Charlene: Well, Julia. If you’re not gonna pay the ticket, what’s your defense gonna be?
Julia: My defense is… that when I attempted to use that drive-thru window, I was indeed inside a vehicle; the vessel in which I have chosen to go through life — my body!
Suzanne: Oh Julia, don’t be ridiculous. No judge is gonna believe that! If you’d gotten to choose… you would have selected a much newer model.

posted by angelcake on
4-12-2010 at 8:26 pm
last year,dixie stayed at the hotel wherei worked. she was super sweet- one of the few celebrities who stayed there and wasn’t a total disappointment!

my favorite episode is the fasting episode, where julia wouldn’t even let suzanne have a piece of gum until midnight. loved it!

posted by emmiline on
4-13-2010 at 2:08 am
Good night and sweet repose, dear Dixie. You truly were the ‘last of the big-shouldered broads’!!!

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4-15-2010 at 8:33 pm

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