MacMillan and Wife. . . no wife - Cafe Society - Straight Dope One summer I was stuck at my relatives with no job – the only thing on during they day were sopas, talk shows and re-runs of detective shows on A E like, Banacek, Columbo and MacMillan and Wife Since you saw episodes almost every day, they’d got through the seasons pretty quickly McMillan and Wife starred Rock Hudson and Susan Saint James Toward the end of one season Sally McMillan was
MacMillan and Wife. . . no wife - Cafe Society - Straight Dope Some, like Darren Stephens, were recast Some, like Adam Cartwright, “went to sea,” but there were a lot of out and out deaths Margaret, the first wife on the Danny Thomas Show, Grandmother Lindstrom on* Phyllis*, even Kate on Petticoat Junction were almost completely ignored after those characters died
Gaydar? Does it exist? Has it changed over the years? I am reacting to a comment in a CS thread about Paul Reuben’s having been gay: “Something” is a low bar Obviously any degree that it exists is subject to many false positives and negatives, but is there anything to it all? I know that when my wife and I were early in our relationship the was a time that she got off the phone with her mom looking … puzzled I asked what was going on
Again with the annoying commercials! - Page 279 - Straight Dope You get used to it when it’s been like that for your whole life, but it’s annoying when I’m watching something really engrossing, and yank I’m dragged completely out of my suspension of belief Oh, that’s where my older sister lived before she and BiL got married…
Did Columbo make a mistake? - Factual Questions - Straight Dope On today’s episode, shown on the Hallmark Channel, Lt Columbo is, of course, investigating a murder In the course of his investigation, a logic puzzle comes up He solves the puzzle, but I think an important point was left out The puzzle: You are presented with bags of gold One of the bags has “fake” gold in it The fake gold is heavier than real gold You have a penny scale and only
(Missing person case) Cutting the wire to the starter relay question . . . Specifically, a 1993 Jeep Cherokee Short version: On March 9, 2000, Twenty-three-year-old college senior Leah Roberts left her home in North Carolina for a cross-country trip that lasted just three days and never returned Investigators still don’t know what happened to her Two weeks after she left, her jeep was found wrecked down an embankment in Whatcom County, Washington, by a couple
RIP Sly Stone - Cafe Society - Straight Dope Message Board Obit from the NY Times I’ve been watching the clip of him at Woodstock, leading the crowd in a “sing-along” (“say ‘Higher’ and throw the peace sign up, it’ll do ya no harm ”) periodically since 1970…it never gets old Unfortunately no decent examples exist on You Tube RIP Sly Too funky for this world
My wifes computer was hacked - Straight Dope Friday afternoon, I suddenly heard beeping from the room where my wife’s computer was She soon came to me and said that there was a screen that said her computer was having problems and she must call Microsoft immediately Oh, and she must not under any circumstances turn the computer off The phone number it gave was not the Redmond area code I know this because when my son worked as an
Why were the DC parade tanks green? - Straight Dope This has been pointed out by a number of ex tank corps Our tanks have been tan for decades Did Trump spent a few million to paint them in the color he wanted?