On 10/9/2022 11:02 AM, Rhino wrote:
> On 2022-10-09 1:21 PM, suzeeq wrote:
>> On 10/9/2022 10:09 AM, Rhino wrote:
>>> On 2022-10-09 12:36 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>>
>>>> There's also a lot of mental health issues from the all-day sunlight
>>>> summers and all-day nights of winter.
>>>>
>>> Anchorage is only at a latitude of 61 N so it's well below the Arctic
>>> Circle. The summer days are undoubtably long and the winter days are
>>> short but not to the point where the sun never goes down in summer or
>>> never comes up in winter. Point Barrow, the northernmost point in the
>>> US, is at 71 N and therefore it *will* see days where the sun doesn't
>>> set and where it doesn't rise....
>>>
>>
>> Anchorage gets a few hours of twilight in both midwinter and
>> midsummer, but maybe fully light or dark for only an hour or two.
>
> I went to timeanddate.com, set my location as Anchorage, and looked at
> sunrise/sunset times throughout the year. It certainly *looked* like
> full daylight for several hours at the Winter Solstice (Dec 21), the
> shortest day of the year but that's assuming their data is accurate;
> maybe it's not.

Well
>
> I've certainly never been there so have no real-life experience to draw on.
>

In article
<737406757.687026003.299283.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com>,
anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:

> I never found confirmation that either "paper" she worked for had a dead
> tree issue. Obviously they both had an online component.

> The evil general is initially up for the patient position of "defense
> secretary" (which I guess is different than the secretary of defense)

It's not. Just two ways of saying the same thing.

> then he definitely lost the job, and later in Alaska he's defense secretary.

Must have initially had his nomination withdrawn because of her story,
then reinstated when her story blew up.

> I don't know where the hell they're supposed to be but they referred to
> both Anchorage and Juneau as places they need to travel to.

And they're very far apart. The paper is located in Anchorage.

> How does the giant inside of the newspaper office have windows that look
> out on trees when it's in the middle of a strip mall?

The newspaper building is obviously a TARDIS and I suspect the guy that
recruited Swank is a Time Lord.

> Yuna goes to the Anchorage police department.

Isn't she cute?

> The daily Alaskan frontage in the strip mall is only 20 or 30 feet wide.
> There are multiple occupied storefronts on either side of it.

See? TARDIS.

In article
<1665950449.687025907.943133.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com>,
anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:

> Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
> > On 2022-10-09 2:55 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> >> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
> >>> In article
> >>> <95856895.686982177.563798.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com>,
> >>> anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
> >>>>> In article <thobtq$3jsbb$1@dont-email.me>,
> >>>>> "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> This show lives or dies on Hillary Swank's performance as Eileen.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Well, it was a lousy performance. She switches from obnoxious to
> >>>>>> motherly, but then she gets emotional scenes in which she chews
> >>>>>> scenary
> >>>>>> or has panic attacks. Mostly she performed in a monotone.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Working as a New York investigative reporter, she got stolen documents
> >>>>>> from the American counsulate in Shanghai that an evil retired general,
> >>>>>> nominated for defense secretary, is actually an arms dealer.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The writers on this show are just lazy. At her victory dinner with the
> >>>>> other reporters, she makes a comment that "the general" is retired
> >>>>> anyway, so how much of a threat could he be, and the others say, "Once
> >>>>> a
> >>>>> five-star general, always a five-star general."
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Except he can't be a five-star general because there's no such thing as
> >>>>> one anymore. Congress created the rank during WWII so that the American
> >>>>> Allied commanders would be the highest ranking officers among the
> >>>>> coalition forces. Eisenhower, Nimitz, et al, were the only O-11s to
> >>>>> ever
> >>>>> hold that rank and after the war was over, Congress amended the law
> >>>>> again to return to the status quo.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> And you'd think the prop photo they used of 'the general' would have
> >>>>> clued the writers in to this fact because he only had four stars on his
> >>>>> shoulder.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Somehow the FBI missed this.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> She broke the story with one source. She had no ability to
> >>>>>> authenticate
> >>>>>> the documents and she "just knew they were true" and insulted anyone
> >>>>>> who
> >>>>>> questioned her judgment.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> She was ridiculous and unprofessional, and there was a really stupid
> >>>>>> scene in which the researcher questioned her reporting. The
> >>>>>> researcher's
> >>>>>> job should be fact checking on a story that important, and boy, this
> >>>>>> story needed it.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> The source vanishes. The retired general hires a Washington fixer who
> >>>>>> creates fake social media complaints that she sexually harassed women,
> >>>>>> especially the researcher. The paper won't back her. She resigns.
> >>>>>
> >>>> Didn't they at one point say he was now secretary of defense and
> >>>> didn't
> >>>> deserve to be? So what are we doing off
> >>>>
> >>>>> They didn't say she sexually harassed them, just that she was mean to
> >>>>> them, which is now apparently just as bad as trying to fuck your
> >>>>> employees. If you're a "mean" but otherwise competent boss, you can
> >>>>> still apparently find yourself in legal trouble in today's Clown World.
> >>>>>
> >>>> Plus the idiot assistant had it coming. She didn't snap at her the first
> >>>> time. The assistant kept nagging her about something she already told
> >>>> her
> >>>> to shut the hell up about.
> >>>
> >>> Exactly. She told her politely several times to drop it, then gave her a
> >>> well-deserved 'screw-off'.
> >>>
> >>>>>> I guess this is filmed somewhere in British Columbia but I really
> >>>>>> don't
> >>>>>> know. It ain't Anchorage, that's for sure.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The scenes out of the plane window and of the car driving around town
> >>>>> are indeed Anchorage. I recognize a lot of it from the trip I took
> >>>>> there
> >>>>> a few years ago.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I made the same observation that Swank did about how deserted the town
> >>>>> seemed to be all the time.
> >>>
> >>>> That answered my next question. Was it ever teeming and now it's
> >>>> deserted
> >>>> or did they just overbuild and never filled it up?
> >>>
> >>> Not sure. I was there for about a week and pretty much whenever I was in
> >>> the city center area, it seemed to be mostly empty. A few cars driving
> >>> around here and there, the occasional pedestrian, but it's like the city
> >>> was about four times larger than its population warranted. Not that I
> >>> minded. Empty streets were a refreshing change from L.A. gridlock.
> >>>
> >>
> >> The only place that didn’t seem unpleasantly busy was the hospital. Other
> >> than that I kind of wouldn’t mind living there.
> >>
> > I'm not sure if winter in Anchorage would agree with you after most of a
> > lifetime in Arizona....
>
> I would however enjoy 30 days of night

One thing I never could stomach about Alaska... all the damn vampires.

In article <thv24f$hvi9$1@dont-email.me>, Rhino
<no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

> I'm not sure when they filmed this but I'll bet it was mostly before
> Trudeau finally relaxed the border crossing rules on Oct 1. Also, I
> understand Swank has just announced that she's pregnant so I'm guessing
> the nesting instinct will make her want to stay close to *her* home
> (presumably in Greater LA) rather than her parents home - with plenty of
> visits to the grandparents after the baby is born and old enough to
> travel, especially if they get a second season of Alaska Daily and
> return to Steveston for that. (Big Sky's first season was filmed in
> Canada but the second and third seasons are apparently filmed in the US.)

Swank is 48, and she's carrying twins. There's every reason for her to
be cautious.

In article <thuvvi$38ur$1@solani.org>, suzeeq <suzee@imbris.com> wrote:

> On 10/9/2022 10:09 AM, Rhino wrote:
> > On 2022-10-09 12:36 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>
> >> There's also a lot of mental health issues from the all-day sunlight
> >> summers and all-day nights of winter.
> >>
> > Anchorage is only at a latitude of 61 N so it's well below the Arctic
> > Circle. The summer days are undoubtably long and the winter days are
> > short but not to the point where the sun never goes down in summer or
> > never comes up in winter. Point Barrow, the northernmost point in the
> > US, is at 71 N and therefore it *will* see days where the sun doesn't
> > set and where it doesn't rise....
> >
>
> Anchorage gets a few hours of twilight in both midwinter and midsummer,
> but maybe fully light or dark for only an hour or two.

We stopped at Elmendorf AFB in Anchorage for a refuel on the way to
Japan and landed at about 2 AM. It wasn't daylight, but it sure wasn't
full dark, either. Looked like it does in L.A. right after the sun has
set with a ruddy orange glow in the western sky. It was bright enough
that I could have read a book in that light if I'd had a mind to.

On 10/9/2022 10:58 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>> A Friend wrote:
>>> The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 7 Oct 2022 12:21:28 -0400, Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com>:
>>
>>>>>> I guess this is filmed somewhere in British Columbia but I really don't
>>>>>> know. It ain't Anchorage, that's for sure.
>>
>>>>> Garry Point Park, Steveston BC to be precise, according to IMDB.
>>
>>>>> Your review had me pretty much convinced to give this a miss but looking
>>>>> up the location in IMDB revealed that this series has an 8.2 rating so
>>>>> now I'm thinking I should eyeball it myself to see if it is better than
>>>>> you describe. Mind you, I'm not sure how it gets an 8.2 rating given
>>>>> that there's not a single user review; this must be the average of the
>>>>> critics reviews....
>>
>>>> That gets funnier and funnier - Steveston is geographically as close
>>>> to Alaska as staging a film supposted to be in Toronto in Thunder Bay.
>>
>>>> I have relatives in Alaska and culturally Steveston and Alaska are
>>>> also about as similar as downtown Toronto and Thunder Bay......
>>
>>> The mass audience doesn't know and doesn't care.
>>
>> Washington D.C. looks exactly like Toronto. Seattle looks exactly like
>> Vancouver. Chicago looks like Queens.
>>
>
> The great support of metropolis, Kansas, looks just like…
>
You really need to work on your enunciation, Anim.
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In article
<488192627.687025803.236400.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com>,
anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:

> Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
> > On 2022-10-08 10:11 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> >> In article <thobtq$3jsbb$1@dont-email.me>,
> >> "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> This show lives or dies on Hillary Swank's performance as Eileen.
> >>>
> >>> Well, it was a lousy performance. She switches from obnoxious to
> >>> motherly, but then she gets emotional scenes in which she chews scenary
> >>> or has panic attacks. Mostly she performed in a monotone.
> >>>
> >>> Working as a New York investigative reporter, she got stolen documents
> >>> from the American counsulate in Shanghai that an evil retired general,
> >>> nominated for defense secretary, is actually an arms dealer.
> >>
> >> The writers on this show are just lazy. At her victory dinner with the
> >> other reporters, she makes a comment that "the general" is retired
> >> anyway, so how much of a threat could he be, and the others say, "Once a
> >> five-star general, always a five-star general."
> >>
> >> Except he can't be a five-star general because there's no such thing as
> >> one anymore. Congress created the rank during WWII so that the American
> >> Allied commanders would be the highest ranking officers among the
> >> coalition forces. Eisenhower, Nimitz, et al, were the only O-11s to ever
> >> hold that rank and after the war was over, Congress amended the law
> >> again to return to the status quo.

Five-star general was instituted as a rank equal to marshal.
Originally the U.S. was going to create a marshal rank, but Gen. George
Marshall put an end to that because he didn't want to be Marshal
Marshall.

On 10/9/2022 11:23 AM, suzeeq wrote:
> On 10/9/2022 11:02 AM, Rhino wrote:
>> On 2022-10-09 1:21 PM, suzeeq wrote:
>>> On 10/9/2022 10:09 AM, Rhino wrote:
>>>> On 2022-10-09 12:36 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>>>
>>>>> There's also a lot of mental health issues from the all-day
>>>>> sunlight summers and all-day nights of winter.
>>>>>
>>>> Anchorage is only at a latitude of 61 N so it's well below the
>>>> Arctic Circle. The summer days are undoubtably long and the winter
>>>> days are short but not to the point where the sun never goes down in
>>>> summer or never comes up in winter. Point Barrow, the northernmost
>>>> point in the US, is at 71 N and therefore it *will* see days where
>>>> the sun doesn't set and where it doesn't rise....
>>>>
>>>
>>> Anchorage gets a few hours of twilight in both midwinter and
>>> midsummer, but maybe fully light or dark for only an hour or two.
>>
>> I went to timeanddate.com, set my location as Anchorage, and looked at
>> sunrise/sunset times throughout the year. It certainly *looked* like
>> full daylight for several hours at the Winter Solstice (Dec 21), the
>> shortest day of the year but that's assuming their data is accurate;
>> maybe it's not.
>
> Well
>>
>> I've certainly never been there so have no real-life experience to
>> draw on.
>>
>
The shortness of the winter "days" and summer "nights" is enough to be a
problem for some people.
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anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:

>OK

>I never found confirmation that either "paper" she worked for had a
>dead tree issue. Obviously they both had an online component.

Yes we do. While nothing about The Vanguard made any sense, the Daily
Alaskan is a newspaper since the driver handed her a copy at one point.

Why the hell is the title of the tv series Alaska Daily as that's not
the name of the newspaper?

I don't see how the Daily Alaskan could be on line only. How would
anyone get internet service in Alaska outside of populated areas?

>When the idiot researcher is pestering her, she tells her that both the
>boss and legal have signed off on the story. That does present all kinds of
>problems for the researchers position. Plus the researcher is this horrible
>below the waist as felicity Smoak (snicker) was.

That was one amazingly stupid scene. When I saw it, I truly had the
impression that the researcher had nothing whatsoever to do with the
story and that's why Eileen wanted nothing to do with her because she
was overstepping.

>The evil general is initially up for the patient position of "defense
>secretary" (which I guess is different than the secretary of defense),
>then he definitely lost the job, and later in Alaska he's defense
>secretary. In the meantime, in her apartment, Joe Perry tells her that
>while the Gen is a bad guy, her source was wrong. And they let that
>drop completely unless it's still coming.

We saw James McDaniel's credit. I assume he's the general.

>I don’t know where the hell they’re supposed to be but they referred to
>both Anchorage and Juneau as places they need to travel to.

I want to see her driven to Juneau.

>Anchorage police refuse to give them their 911 notes about the nude guy in
>Muldoon. Mr. Google says Muldoon is a major neighborhood in Anchorage.

She was just talking about the police blotter, right?

>I can't find any such thing as the Alaska Native Health & Hospital
>Center. It looks like they faked the sign on the Alaska Native Medical
>Center in Anchorage.

It was a plot point that there are no doctors in native villages. I
assume there are no doctors in any tiny settlements in Alaska unless
there's a company doctor to serve employees. But that was an
architecturally significant building. Yeah, you can still get shitty
healthcare in a beautiful medical building but that's a plot
contradiction.

>How does the giant inside of the newspaper office have windows that look
>out on trees when it’s in the middle of a strip mall?

We did see a mountain behind the strip mall. Therefore the windows
should overlook the truck dock, the garbage cannister, and the trees and
mountain.

>Yuna goes to the Anchorage police department. I have seen three different
>spellings for her name now. I’m going with the one from the close
>captioning.

IMDb sez Jieun.

>There are definitely windows on two sides of the newspaper office, possibly
>three, with different views. Possibly four depending on which way the
>separate foyer set faces. You don’t often see that on an interior store in
>a strip mall.

Good point.

>. . .

BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
> In article
> <737406757.687026003.299283.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com>,
> anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
>
>> I never found confirmation that either "paper" she worked for had a dead
>> tree issue. Obviously they both had an online component.
>
>> The evil general is initially up for the patient position of "defense
>> secretary" (which I guess is different than the secretary of defense)
>
> It's not. Just two ways of saying the same thing.
>
>> then he definitely lost the job, and later in Alaska he's defense secretary.
>
> Must have initially had his nomination withdrawn because of her story,
> then reinstated when her story blew up.

How often do you see that happen?

By the way most of the articles say he’s secretary of state.

>
>> I don't know where the hell they're supposed to be but they referred to
>> both Anchorage and Juneau as places they need to travel to.
>
> And they're very far apart. The paper is located in Anchorage.
>
>> How does the giant inside of the newspaper office have windows that look
>> out on trees when it's in the middle of a strip mall?
>
> The newspaper building is obviously a TARDIS and I suspect the guy that
> recruited Swank is a Time Lord.
>
>> Yuna goes to the Anchorage police department.
>
> Isn't she cute?

She’s one of the main reasons I stuck with it all the way to the end. It
took me three tries.

>
>> The daily Alaskan frontage in the strip mall is only 20 or 30 feet wide.
>> There are multiple occupied storefronts on either side of it.
>
> See? TARDIS.
>

Yep

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BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
> In article
> <1665950449.687025907.943133.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com>,
> anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
>
>> Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
>>> On 2022-10-09 2:55 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>>>> In article
>>>>> <95856895.686982177.563798.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com>,
>>>>> anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> In article <thobtq$3jsbb$1@dont-email.me>,
>>>>>>> "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> This show lives or dies on Hillary Swank's performance as Eileen.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Well, it was a lousy performance. She switches from obnoxious to
>>>>>>>> motherly, but then she gets emotional scenes in which she chews
>>>>>>>> scenary
>>>>>>>> or has panic attacks. Mostly she performed in a monotone.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Working as a New York investigative reporter, she got stolen documents
>>>>>>>> from the American counsulate in Shanghai that an evil retired general,
>>>>>>>> nominated for defense secretary, is actually an arms dealer.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The writers on this show are just lazy. At her victory dinner with the
>>>>>>> other reporters, she makes a comment that "the general" is retired
>>>>>>> anyway, so how much of a threat could he be, and the others say, "Once
>>>>>>> a
>>>>>>> five-star general, always a five-star general."
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Except he can't be a five-star general because there's no such thing as
>>>>>>> one anymore. Congress created the rank during WWII so that the American
>>>>>>> Allied commanders would be the highest ranking officers among the
>>>>>>> coalition forces. Eisenhower, Nimitz, et al, were the only O-11s to
>>>>>>> ever
>>>>>>> hold that rank and after the war was over, Congress amended the law
>>>>>>> again to return to the status quo.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> And you'd think the prop photo they used of 'the general' would have
>>>>>>> clued the writers in to this fact because he only had four stars on his
>>>>>>> shoulder.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Somehow the FBI missed this.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> She broke the story with one source. She had no ability to
>>>>>>>> authenticate
>>>>>>>> the documents and she "just knew they were true" and insulted anyone
>>>>>>>> who
>>>>>>>> questioned her judgment.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> She was ridiculous and unprofessional, and there was a really stupid
>>>>>>>> scene in which the researcher questioned her reporting. The
>>>>>>>> researcher's
>>>>>>>> job should be fact checking on a story that important, and boy, this
>>>>>>>> story needed it.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The source vanishes. The retired general hires a Washington fixer who
>>>>>>>> creates fake social media complaints that she sexually harassed women,
>>>>>>>> especially the researcher. The paper won't back her. She resigns.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Didn't they at one point say he was now secretary of defense and
>>>>>> didn't
>>>>>> deserve to be? So what are we doing off
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> They didn't say she sexually harassed them, just that she was mean to
>>>>>>> them, which is now apparently just as bad as trying to fuck your
>>>>>>> employees. If you're a "mean" but otherwise competent boss, you can
>>>>>>> still apparently find yourself in legal trouble in today's Clown World.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Plus the idiot assistant had it coming. She didn't snap at her the first
>>>>>> time. The assistant kept nagging her about something she already told
>>>>>> her
>>>>>> to shut the hell up about.
>>>>>
>>>>> Exactly. She told her politely several times to drop it, then gave her a
>>>>> well-deserved 'screw-off'.
>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I guess this is filmed somewhere in British Columbia but I really
>>>>>>>> don't
>>>>>>>> know. It ain't Anchorage, that's for sure.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The scenes out of the plane window and of the car driving around town
>>>>>>> are indeed Anchorage. I recognize a lot of it from the trip I took
>>>>>>> there
>>>>>>> a few years ago.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I made the same observation that Swank did about how deserted the town
>>>>>>> seemed to be all the time.
>>>>>
>>>>>> That answered my next question. Was it ever teeming and now it's
>>>>>> deserted
>>>>>> or did they just overbuild and never filled it up?
>>>>>
>>>>> Not sure. I was there for about a week and pretty much whenever I was in
>>>>> the city center area, it seemed to be mostly empty. A few cars driving
>>>>> around here and there, the occasional pedestrian, but it's like the city
>>>>> was about four times larger than its population warranted. Not that I
>>>>> minded. Empty streets were a refreshing change from L.A. gridlock.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The only place that didn’t seem unpleasantly busy was the hospital. Other
>>>> than that I kind of wouldn’t mind living there.
>>>>
>>> I'm not sure if winter in Anchorage would agree with you after most of a
>>> lifetime in Arizona....
>>
>> I would however enjoy 30 days of night
>
> One thing I never could stomach about Alaska... all the damn vampires.
>

Hee hee

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Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
> On 10/9/2022 10:58 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>> Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>>> A Friend wrote:
>>>> The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 7 Oct 2022 12:21:28 -0400, Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com>:
>>>
>>>>>>> I guess this is filmed somewhere in British Columbia but I really don't
>>>>>>> know. It ain't Anchorage, that's for sure.
>>>
>>>>>> Garry Point Park, Steveston BC to be precise, according to IMDB.
>>>
>>>>>> Your review had me pretty much convinced to give this a miss but looking
>>>>>> up the location in IMDB revealed that this series has an 8.2 rating so
>>>>>> now I'm thinking I should eyeball it myself to see if it is better than
>>>>>> you describe. Mind you, I'm not sure how it gets an 8.2 rating given
>>>>>> that there's not a single user review; this must be the average of the
>>>>>> critics reviews....
>>>
>>>>> That gets funnier and funnier - Steveston is geographically as close
>>>>> to Alaska as staging a film supposted to be in Toronto in Thunder Bay.
>>>
>>>>> I have relatives in Alaska and culturally Steveston and Alaska are
>>>>> also about as similar as downtown Toronto and Thunder Bay......
>>>
>>>> The mass audience doesn't know and doesn't care.
>>>
>>> Washington D.C. looks exactly like Toronto. Seattle looks exactly like
>>> Vancouver. Chicago looks like Queens.
>>>
>>
>> The great support of metropolis, Kansas, looks just like…
>>
> You really need to work on your enunciation, Anim.

I have Alaska daily running in the background and it was confusing the hell
out of the iPhone

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A Friend <nope@noway.com> wrote:
> In article
> <488192627.687025803.236400.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com>,
> anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
>
>> Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
>>> On 2022-10-08 10:11 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>> In article <thobtq$3jsbb$1@dont-email.me>,
>>>> "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> This show lives or dies on Hillary Swank's performance as Eileen.
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, it was a lousy performance. She switches from obnoxious to
>>>>> motherly, but then she gets emotional scenes in which she chews scenary
>>>>> or has panic attacks. Mostly she performed in a monotone.
>>>>>
>>>>> Working as a New York investigative reporter, she got stolen documents
>>>>> from the American counsulate in Shanghai that an evil retired general,
>>>>> nominated for defense secretary, is actually an arms dealer.
>>>>
>>>> The writers on this show are just lazy. At her victory dinner with the
>>>> other reporters, she makes a comment that "the general" is retired
>>>> anyway, so how much of a threat could he be, and the others say, "Once a
>>>> five-star general, always a five-star general."
>>>>
>>>> Except he can't be a five-star general because there's no such thing as
>>>> one anymore. Congress created the rank during WWII so that the American
>>>> Allied commanders would be the highest ranking officers among the
>>>> coalition forces. Eisenhower, Nimitz, et al, were the only O-11s to ever
>>>> hold that rank and after the war was over, Congress amended the law
>>>> again to return to the status quo.
>
>
> Five-star general was instituted as a rank equal to marshal.
> Originally the U.S. was going to create a marshal rank, but Gen. George
> Marshall put an end to that because he didn't want to be Marshal
> Marshall.
>

Besides there’s already one of those in witness protection

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Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
> anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
>
>> OK
>
>> I never found confirmation that either "paper" she worked for had a
>> dead tree issue. Obviously they both had an online component.
>
> Yes we do. While nothing about The Vanguard made any sense, the Daily
> Alaskan is a newspaper since the driver handed her a copy at one point.
>

Thanks. I was going mostly on dialogue.

> Why the hell is the title of the tv series Alaska Daily as that's not
> the name of the newspaper?

That was my thought when I saw them walk into the foyer of the tardis and
the huge sign on the wall didn’t say Alaska daily

>
> I don't see how the Daily Alaskan could be on line only. How would
> anyone get internet service in Alaska outside of populated areas?
>

I’m not arguing that with you

>> When the idiot researcher is pestering her, she tells her that both the
>> boss and legal have signed off on the story. That does present all kinds of
>> problems for the researchers position. Plus the researcher is this horrible
>> below the waist as felicity Smoak (snicker) was.
>
> That was one amazingly stupid scene. When I saw it, I truly had the
> impression that the researcher had nothing whatsoever to do with the
> story and that's why Eileen wanted nothing to do with her because she
> was overstepping.

And that’s the entire body of evidence that she hates women and reason to
recall the article about the nominee for defense secretary of state

>
>> The evil general is initially up for the patient position of "defense
>> secretary" (which I guess is different than the secretary of defense),
>> then he definitely lost the job, and later in Alaska he's defense
>> secretary. In the meantime, in her apartment, Joe Perry tells her that
>> while the Gen is a bad guy, her source was wrong. And they let that
>> drop completely unless it's still coming.
>
> We saw James McDaniel's credit. I assume he's the general.
>
>> I don’t know where the hell they’re supposed to be but they referred to
>> both Anchorage and Juneau as places they need to travel to.
>
> I want to see her driven to Juneau.
>
>> Anchorage police refuse to give them their 911 notes about the nude guy in
>> Muldoon. Mr. Google says Muldoon is a major neighborhood in Anchorage.
>
> She was just talking about the police blotter, right?

911 transcripts

>
>> I can't find any such thing as the Alaska Native Health & Hospital
>> Center. It looks like they faked the sign on the Alaska Native Medical
>> Center in Anchorage.
>
> It was a plot point that there are no doctors in native villages. I
> assume there are no doctors in any tiny settlements in Alaska unless
> there's a company doctor to serve employees. But that was an
> architecturally significant building. Yeah, you can still get shitty
> healthcare in a beautiful medical building but that's a plot
> contradiction.

The pictures of it online are amazing

>
>> How does the giant inside of the newspaper office have windows that look
>> out on trees when it’s in the middle of a strip mall?
>
> We did see a mountain behind the strip mall. Therefore the windows
> should overlook the truck dock, the garbage cannister, and the trees and
> mountain.
>
>> Yuna goes to the Anchorage police department. I have seen three different
>> spellings for her name now. I’m going with the one from the close
>> captioning.
>
> IMDb sez Jieun.

Yes. And I wasn’t even going to try to get that past my spellchecker.

>
>> There are definitely windows on two sides of the newspaper office, possibly
>> three, with different views. Possibly four depending on which way the
>> separate foyer set faces. You don’t often see that on an interior store in
>> a strip mall.
>
> Good point.

:)

I’m also not sure why the hell he’s in a strip mall in the first place
given that he’s not retail. Usually the leases for that include a
percentage of sales and such. I could see him getting a deal on an
abandoned strip mall but he shouldn’t be in an active one.

>
>> . . .
>

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On 2022-10-09 3:11 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
> anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
>
>> OK
>
>> I never found confirmation that either "paper" she worked for had a
>> dead tree issue. Obviously they both had an online component.
>
> Yes we do. While nothing about The Vanguard made any sense, the Daily
> Alaskan is a newspaper since the driver handed her a copy at one point.
>
> Why the hell is the title of the tv series Alaska Daily as that's not
> the name of the newspaper?
>
> I don't see how the Daily Alaskan could be on line only. How would
> anyone get internet service in Alaska outside of populated areas?
>
Elon Musk's satellites? Reaching underserviced markets was a huge part
of what his chain of satellites was meant to do.

>> When the idiot researcher is pestering her, she tells her that both the
>> boss and legal have signed off on the story. That does present all kinds of
>> problems for the researchers position. Plus the researcher is this horrible
>> below the waist as felicity Smoak (snicker) was.
>
> That was one amazingly stupid scene. When I saw it, I truly had the
> impression that the researcher had nothing whatsoever to do with the
> story and that's why Eileen wanted nothing to do with her because she
> was overstepping.
>
>> The evil general is initially up for the patient position of "defense
>> secretary" (which I guess is different than the secretary of defense),
>> then he definitely lost the job, and later in Alaska he's defense
>> secretary. In the meantime, in her apartment, Joe Perry tells her that
>> while the Gen is a bad guy, her source was wrong. And they let that
>> drop completely unless it's still coming.
>
> We saw James McDaniel's credit. I assume he's the general.
>
His was also the face of the 4-star general in the photograph.

>> I don’t know where the hell they’re supposed to be but they referred to
>> both Anchorage and Juneau as places they need to travel to.
>
> I want to see her driven to Juneau.
>
I don't think Juneau is connected to most of the rest of the state via
road. I assume most people get there by air.

>> Anchorage police refuse to give them their 911 notes about the nude guy in
>> Muldoon. Mr. Google says Muldoon is a major neighborhood in Anchorage.
>
> She was just talking about the police blotter, right?
>
>> I can't find any such thing as the Alaska Native Health & Hospital
>> Center. It looks like they faked the sign on the Alaska Native Medical
>> Center in Anchorage.
>
> It was a plot point that there are no doctors in native villages. I
> assume there are no doctors in any tiny settlements in Alaska unless
> there's a company doctor to serve employees. But that was an
> architecturally significant building. Yeah, you can still get shitty
> healthcare in a beautiful medical building but that's a plot
> contradiction.
>
>> How does the giant inside of the newspaper office have windows that look
>> out on trees when it’s in the middle of a strip mall?
>
> We did see a mountain behind the strip mall. Therefore the windows
> should overlook the truck dock, the garbage cannister, and the trees and
> mountain.
>
>> Yuna goes to the Anchorage police department. I have seen three different
>> spellings for her name now. I’m going with the one from the close
>> captioning.
>
> IMDb sez Jieun.
>
>> There are definitely windows on two sides of the newspaper office, possibly
>> three, with different views. Possibly four depending on which way the
>> separate foyer set faces. You don’t often see that on an interior store in
>> a strip mall.
>
> Good point.
>
>> . . .

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On 2022-10-09 3:09 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> On 10/9/2022 11:23 AM, suzeeq wrote:
>> On 10/9/2022 11:02 AM, Rhino wrote:
>>> On 2022-10-09 1:21 PM, suzeeq wrote:
>>>> On 10/9/2022 10:09 AM, Rhino wrote:
>>>>> On 2022-10-09 12:36 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> There's also a lot of mental health issues from the all-day
>>>>>> sunlight summers and all-day nights of winter.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Anchorage is only at a latitude of 61 N so it's well below the
>>>>> Arctic Circle. The summer days are undoubtably long and the winter
>>>>> days are short but not to the point where the sun never goes down
>>>>> in summer or never comes up in winter. Point Barrow, the
>>>>> northernmost point in the US, is at 71 N and therefore it *will*
>>>>> see days where the sun doesn't set and where it doesn't rise....
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Anchorage gets a few hours of twilight in both midwinter and
>>>> midsummer, but maybe fully light or dark for only an hour or two.
>>>
>>> I went to timeanddate.com, set my location as Anchorage, and looked
>>> at sunrise/sunset times throughout the year. It certainly *looked*
>>> like full daylight for several hours at the Winter Solstice (Dec 21),
>>> the shortest day of the year but that's assuming their data is
>>> accurate; maybe it's not.
>>
>> Well
>>>
>>> I've certainly never been there so have no real-life experience to
>>> draw on.
>>>
>>
> The shortness of the winter "days" and summer "nights" is enough to be a
> problem for some people.

So I've heard from people who've actually been that far north. No
daylight at all for weeks on end would seem hard to take and no darkness
for weeks on end would just be confusing.

--
Rhino

On 2022-10-09 3:08 PM, A Friend wrote:
> In article
> <488192627.687025803.236400.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com>,
> anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
>
>> Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
>>> On 2022-10-08 10:11 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>> In article <thobtq$3jsbb$1@dont-email.me>,
>>>> "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> This show lives or dies on Hillary Swank's performance as Eileen.
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, it was a lousy performance. She switches from obnoxious to
>>>>> motherly, but then she gets emotional scenes in which she chews scenary
>>>>> or has panic attacks. Mostly she performed in a monotone.
>>>>>
>>>>> Working as a New York investigative reporter, she got stolen documents
>>>>> from the American counsulate in Shanghai that an evil retired general,
>>>>> nominated for defense secretary, is actually an arms dealer.
>>>>
>>>> The writers on this show are just lazy. At her victory dinner with the
>>>> other reporters, she makes a comment that "the general" is retired
>>>> anyway, so how much of a threat could he be, and the others say, "Once a
>>>> five-star general, always a five-star general."
>>>>
>>>> Except he can't be a five-star general because there's no such thing as
>>>> one anymore. Congress created the rank during WWII so that the American
>>>> Allied commanders would be the highest ranking officers among the
>>>> coalition forces. Eisenhower, Nimitz, et al, were the only O-11s to ever
>>>> hold that rank and after the war was over, Congress amended the lawinstituted
>>>> again to return to the status quo.
>
>
> Five-star general was as a rank equal to marshal.
> Originally the U.S. was going to create a marshal rank, but Gen. George
> Marshall put an end to that because he didn't want to be Marshal
> Marshall.

I don't know if you ever saw In Plain Sight but there was a character
named Marshall Mann in it who was a US Marshall; he was the sidekick to
the lead and they both operated within Witness Protection. Anyway, I
remember Marshall Mann often being called Marshal Marshall. Obviously,
that's very tangential to the decision of the Army to not create a
military rank of Marshal but it seemed a cute coincidence.

--
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On 2022-10-09 3:03 PM, A Friend wrote:
> In article <thv24f$hvi9$1@dont-email.me>, Rhino
> <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure when they filmed this but I'll bet it was mostly before
>> Trudeau finally relaxed the border crossing rules on Oct 1. Also, I
>> understand Swank has just announced that she's pregnant so I'm guessing
>> the nesting instinct will make her want to stay close to *her* home
>> (presumably in Greater LA) rather than her parents home - with plenty of
>> visits to the grandparents after the baby is born and old enough to
>> travel, especially if they get a second season of Alaska Daily and
>> return to Steveston for that. (Big Sky's first season was filmed in
>> Canada but the second and third seasons are apparently filmed in the US.)
>
>
> Swank is 48, and she's carrying twins. There's every reason for her to
> be cautious.

Indeed.

--
Rhino

Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
>On 2022-10-09 3:11 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>>anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:

>>>OK

>>>I never found confirmation that either "paper" she worked for had a
>>>dead tree issue. Obviously they both had an online component.

>>Yes we do. While nothing about The Vanguard made any sense, the Daily
>>Alaskan is a newspaper since the driver handed her a copy at one point.

>>Why the hell is the title of the tv series Alaska Daily as that's not
>>the name of the newspaper?

>>I don't see how the Daily Alaskan could be on line only. How would
>>anyone get internet service in Alaska outside of populated areas?

>Elon Musk's satellites? Reaching underserviced markets was a huge part
>of what his chain of satellites was meant to do.

In the days that Usenet had a huge feed, a friend used to get a Usenet
downlink from satellites, but the uplink was always via modem. Is there
a practical inexpensive uplink to satellite for Internet data these days
if it's not a major corporate campus?

>>>. . .

>>I want to see her driven to Juneau.

>I don't think Juneau is connected to most of the rest of the state via
>road. I assume most people get there by air.

It's the equivalent of saying take a long walk off a short pier.

Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
>On 2022-10-09 3:08 PM, A Friend wrote:
>>Five-star general was as a rank equal to marshal.
>>Originally the U.S. was going to create a marshal rank, but Gen. George
>>Marshall put an end to that because he didn't want to be Marshal
>>Marshall.

>I don't know if you ever saw In Plain Sight but there was a character
>named Marshall Mann in it who was a US Marshall; he was the sidekick to
>the lead and they both operated within Witness Protection. Anyway, I
>remember Marshall Mann often being called Marshal Marshall. Obviously,
>that's very tangential to the decision of the Army to not create a
>military rank of Marshal but it seemed a cute coincidence.

In the Karen Sisco tv series starring Carla Gugino, in the 1996 Elmore
Leonard novel and 1998 film adaptation Out of Sight, her father was
Marshal Marshall.

A Friend wrote:

>Swank is 48, and she's carrying twins. There's every reason for her to
>be cautious.

Did her obstetrician warn her of the danger of signing on to
poorly-scripted tv series?

On 10/9/2022 1:15 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>> anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
>>
>>> OK
>>
>>> I never found confirmation that either "paper" she worked for had a
>>> dead tree issue. Obviously they both had an online component.
>>
>> Yes we do. While nothing about The Vanguard made any sense, the Daily
>> Alaskan is a newspaper since the driver handed her a copy at one point.
>>
>
> Thanks. I was going mostly on dialogue.
>
>
>> Why the hell is the title of the tv series Alaska Daily as that's not
>> the name of the newspaper?
>
> That was my thought when I saw them walk into the foyer of the tardis and
> the huge sign on the wall didn’t say Alaska daily
>
>
>>
>> I don't see how the Daily Alaskan could be on line only. How would
>> anyone get internet service in Alaska outside of populated areas?
>>
>
> I’m not arguing that with you
>
>
>>> When the idiot researcher is pestering her, she tells her that both the
>>> boss and legal have signed off on the story. That does present all kinds of
>>> problems for the researchers position. Plus the researcher is this horrible
>>> below the waist as felicity Smoak (snicker) was.
>>
>> That was one amazingly stupid scene. When I saw it, I truly had the
>> impression that the researcher had nothing whatsoever to do with the
>> story and that's why Eileen wanted nothing to do with her because she
>> was overstepping.
>
> And that’s the entire body of evidence that she hates women and reason to
> recall the article about the nominee for defense secretary of state
>
>
>>
>>> The evil general is initially up for the patient position of "defense
>>> secretary" (which I guess is different than the secretary of defense),
>>> then he definitely lost the job, and later in Alaska he's defense
>>> secretary. In the meantime, in her apartment, Joe Perry tells her that
>>> while the Gen is a bad guy, her source was wrong. And they let that
>>> drop completely unless it's still coming.
>>
>> We saw James McDaniel's credit. I assume he's the general.
>>
>>> I don’t know where the hell they’re supposed to be but they referred to
>>> both Anchorage and Juneau as places they need to travel to.
>>
>> I want to see her driven to Juneau.
>>
>>> Anchorage police refuse to give them their 911 notes about the nude guy in
>>> Muldoon. Mr. Google says Muldoon is a major neighborhood in Anchorage.
>>
>> She was just talking about the police blotter, right?
>
> 911 transcripts
>
And how the bleep is she getting her hands on those? They are
considered confidential and usually require a subpoena for the DA and
the Court to get.

--
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
dirty old man.

On 10/9/2022 1:41 PM, Rhino wrote:
> On 2022-10-09 3:08 PM, A Friend wrote:
>> In article
>> <488192627.687025803.236400.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com>,
>> anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
>>>> On 2022-10-08 10:11 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>> In article <thobtq$3jsbb$1@dont-email.me>,
>>>>> "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> This show lives or dies on Hillary Swank's performance as Eileen.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Well, it was a lousy performance. She switches from obnoxious to
>>>>>> motherly, but then she gets emotional scenes in which she chews
>>>>>> scenary
>>>>>> or has panic attacks. Mostly she performed in a monotone.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Working as a New York investigative reporter, she got stolen
>>>>>> documents
>>>>>> from the American counsulate in Shanghai that an evil retired
>>>>>> general,
>>>>>> nominated for defense secretary, is actually an arms dealer.
>>>>>
>>>>> The writers on this show are just lazy. At her victory dinner with the
>>>>> other reporters, she makes a comment that "the general" is retired
>>>>> anyway, so how much of a threat could he be, and the others say,
>>>>> "Once a
>>>>> five-star general, always a five-star general."
>>>>>
>>>>> Except he can't be a five-star general because there's no such
>>>>> thing as
>>>>> one anymore. Congress created the rank during WWII so that the
>>>>> American
>>>>> Allied commanders would be the highest ranking officers among the
>>>>> coalition forces. Eisenhower, Nimitz, et al, were the only O-11s to
>>>>> ever
>>>>> hold that rank and after the war was over, Congress amended the
>>>>> lawinstituted again to return to the status quo.
>>
>>
>> Five-star general was as a rank equal to marshal.
>> Originally the U.S. was going to create a marshal rank, but Gen. George
>> Marshall put an end to that because he didn't want to be Marshal
>> Marshall.
>
> I don't know if you ever saw In Plain Sight but there was a character
> named Marshall Mann in it who was a US Marshall; he was the sidekick to
> the lead and they both operated within Witness Protection. Anyway, I
> remember Marshall Mann often being called Marshal Marshall. Obviously,
> that's very tangential to the decision of the Army to not create a
> military rank of Marshal but it seemed a cute coincidence.
>
Might not be a coincidence. On rare occasions one may hear of a script
writer who actual read.

--
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
dirty old man.

In article <thvem3$ivcc$2@dont-email.me>,
Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

> On 10/9/2022 1:15 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> > Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
> >> anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>> OK
> >>
> >>> I never found confirmation that either "paper" she worked for had a
> >>> dead tree issue. Obviously they both had an online component.
> >>
> >> Yes we do. While nothing about The Vanguard made any sense, the Daily
> >> Alaskan is a newspaper since the driver handed her a copy at one point.
> >>
> >
> > Thanks. I was going mostly on dialogue.
> >
> >
> >> Why the hell is the title of the tv series Alaska Daily as that's not
> >> the name of the newspaper?
> >
> > That was my thought when I saw them walk into the foyer of the tardis and
> > the huge sign on the wall didn掐 say Alaska daily
> >
> >
> >>
> >> I don't see how the Daily Alaskan could be on line only. How would
> >> anyone get internet service in Alaska outside of populated areas?
> >>
> >
> > I掭 not arguing that with you
> >
> >
> >>> When the idiot researcher is pestering her, she tells her that both the
> >>> boss and legal have signed off on the story. That does present all kinds
> >>> of
> >>> problems for the researchers position. Plus the researcher is this
> >>> horrible
> >>> below the waist as felicity Smoak (snicker) was.
> >>
> >> That was one amazingly stupid scene. When I saw it, I truly had the
> >> impression that the researcher had nothing whatsoever to do with the
> >> story and that's why Eileen wanted nothing to do with her because she
> >> was overstepping.
> >
> > And that掇 the entire body of evidence that she hates women and reason to
> > recall the article about the nominee for defense secretary of state
> >
> >
> >>
> >>> The evil general is initially up for the patient position of "defense
> >>> secretary" (which I guess is different than the secretary of defense),
> >>> then he definitely lost the job, and later in Alaska he's defense
> >>> secretary. In the meantime, in her apartment, Joe Perry tells her that
> >>> while the Gen is a bad guy, her source was wrong. And they let that
> >>> drop completely unless it's still coming.
> >>
> >> We saw James McDaniel's credit. I assume he's the general.
> >>
> >>> I don‰?™t know where the hell they‰?™re supposed to be but they referred
> >>> to
> >>> both Anchorage and Juneau as places they need to travel to.
> >>
> >> I want to see her driven to Juneau.
> >>
> >>> Anchorage police refuse to give them their 911 notes about the nude guy
> >>> in
> >>> Muldoon. Mr. Google says Muldoon is a major neighborhood in Anchorage.
> >>
> >> She was just talking about the police blotter, right?
> >
> > 911 transcripts
> >
> And how the bleep is she getting her hands on those? They are
> considered confidential and usually require a subpoena for the DA and
> the Court to get.

The news plays 911 recordings of high-profile incidents here all the
time.

On 2022-10-09 5:36 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> On 10/9/2022 1:41 PM, Rhino wrote:
>> On 2022-10-09 3:08 PM, A Friend wrote:
>>> In article
>>> <488192627.687025803.236400.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com>,
>>> anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 2022-10-08 10:11 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>> In article <thobtq$3jsbb$1@dont-email.me>,
>>>>>> "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This show lives or dies on Hillary Swank's performance as Eileen.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Well, it was a lousy performance. She switches from obnoxious to
>>>>>>> motherly, but then she gets emotional scenes in which she chews
>>>>>>> scenary
>>>>>>> or has panic attacks. Mostly she performed in a monotone.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Working as a New York investigative reporter, she got stolen
>>>>>>> documents
>>>>>>> from the American counsulate in Shanghai that an evil retired
>>>>>>> general,
>>>>>>> nominated for defense secretary, is actually an arms dealer.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The writers on this show are just lazy. At her victory dinner with
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> other reporters, she makes a comment that "the general" is retired
>>>>>> anyway, so how much of a threat could he be, and the others say,
>>>>>> "Once a
>>>>>> five-star general, always a five-star general."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Except he can't be a five-star general because there's no such
>>>>>> thing as
>>>>>> one anymore. Congress created the rank during WWII so that the
>>>>>> American
>>>>>> Allied commanders would be the highest ranking officers among the
>>>>>> coalition forces. Eisenhower, Nimitz, et al, were the only O-11s
>>>>>> to ever
>>>>>> hold that rank and after the war was over, Congress amended the
>>>>>> lawinstituted again to return to the status quo.
>>>
>>>
>>> Five-star general was as a rank equal to marshal.
>>> Originally the U.S. was going to create a marshal rank, but Gen. George
>>> Marshall put an end to that because he didn't want to be Marshal
>>> Marshall.
>>
>> I don't know if you ever saw In Plain Sight but there was a character
>> named Marshall Mann in it who was a US Marshall; he was the sidekick
>> to the lead and they both operated within Witness Protection. Anyway,
>> I remember Marshall Mann often being called Marshal Marshall.
>> Obviously, that's very tangential to the decision of the Army to not
>> create a military rank of Marshal but it seemed a cute coincidence.
>>
> Might not be a coincidence.  On rare occasions one may hear of a script
> writer who actual read.
>
True! I remember an interview with one of the writers of The Simpsons -
I forget which one - who mentioned having majored in French Literature
before becoming a TV writer. He mentioned that it was no coincidence
that one Simpson's episode featured a sack full of basketballs, i.e. a
ball sack, which was his way of trying to work in a shoutout to the
French writer Balzac. I couldn't quite tell if he was amused,
embarrassed or both by this bad pun.

--
Rhino