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Deogie @deogie.bsky.social · 7h

Linnaeus @linnaeus.bsky.social · 7h

It’s like if the Yellowstone caldera started erupting months ago and has been erupting ever since but instead of ash it’s erupting thousands of cubic kilometers of liquid excrement and while we’re coping with that we learn that they stopped making candy corn. Thats how I feel about the Cheney thing.

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Linnaeus @linnaeus.bsky.social · 12h

I believe it’s called railbanking as theres a better chance of reactivating the ROW as a rail corridor than if houses or shopping centers were built on it, but it’s hard to imagine hiking/biking trails being turned back into rails without a lot of objections.

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Linnaeus @linnaeus.bsky.social · 16h

The WTBS part helps explain why I’d never heard of it, my exposure to cable tv hadn’t started yet.

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Linnaeus @linnaeus.bsky.social · 16h

Oof. Then again it could be argued that going from Sherwood Schwartz to Sid and Marty Kroft productions is almost a lateral move…

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Linnaeus @linnaeus.bsky.social · 16h

Wow, Eric Idle! Apparently it aired on NBC. The fact that the video of the opening credits you posted was pulled from BBC 1 suggested that a 6 episode run might have been a perfectly respectable full series run for a British show, as opposed to being quickly yanked off the air.

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Linnaeus @linnaeus.bsky.social · 21h

There’s something to be said for the “okay hear me out” genre of sitcom theme songs, where someone said “This premise is kind of out there, we should get someone to explain it to the viewers in the form of a song at the beginning of every episode. See also My Mother The Car.

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Linnaeus @linnaeus.bsky.social · 21h

TIL of Down to Earth, an ’80s sitcom about a flapper who gets run over by a streetcar in 1925 and is sent back to earth 60 years later to become a family’s ghost angel maid, as one does. The opening credits tell the entire story of the show and are a full 90 seconds long. youtu.be/yT5ghnY3Prw?...

Down To Earth (TV Sit-Com Theme Song) 1984

YouTube video by Sam Harris

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Linnaeus @linnaeus.bsky.social · 1d

Not all that long ago she was smaller than a loaf of bread, and she hasn’t really internalized that that’s no longer true.

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Linnaeus @linnaeus.bsky.social · 1d

Giant Dog & I went to the forest preserve off leash dog area Saturday & walked about a 2 mile loop. She enjoyed it except for the parts that were just a trail though tall grass, when another dog and their person came from the other direction it made her nervous and she had to press up against me.