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by CIDU Bill

CMT: You guys are awesome as always

Since the March of Dimes Walkathon isn’t happening this year (though as Chak reminded me, my 27-year streak isn’t affected if the event doesn’t take place), I was hoping to move our support over to Charcot-Marie-Tooth, a rare degenerative neurological disease with which my son’s girlfriend was. They’re doing a bike ride at the end of this month to raise awareness and money for research.

(I promised I wouldn’t post the long version of this more than once, so it’s here)

Almost immediately, support started coming in from CIDU visitors, and we’re all very grateful.

(Disclaimer: We are not donating money for Mary Cate’s ride: our son is part of the same team, of course, and nobody’s visiting his page: it’s just sitting there like Charlie Brown’s Christmas tree, and it’s really sad)

A couple of people have reported having trouble making donations online. Please let me know if you do, and maybe I can help.

Mary Cate’s fundraising page

by CIDU Bill

[OT] Bouncy Wake-Up Music I Don’t Understand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj60WOoctnY

B.A.: Maybe it’s just me, or maybe this 1997 song just didn’t age well, or maybe it’s a generational thing (I was in my second year of nursery school when it was released)… but I listen to this and I hear a song about an emotionally abusive relationship. Nothing ambiguous about it. I would tell Shania to kick his ass to the curb before she becomes a police statistic.

by CIDU Bill

Another Secret

B.A.: I was on the Victoria’s Secret site just now (long story, but the short version is I needed to know whether it was “Victoria’s Secret” or “Victoria’s Secrets”), and I noticed this:

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What in God’s name is a “verbal fitting”? You hold up a bra and a clerk says “Yeah, I think that’ll fit you”?

by CIDU Bill

OT: History on Film

B.A.: Movies about historical events, when they aren’t completely fanciful, tend to play fast-and-loose with facts, creating characters and scenes out of whole cloth. Sometimes the changes are cringe-worthy, as with Clint Eastwood’s horrifying libel of journalist Kathy Scruggs last year, or crediting Churchill’s resolve to stand up to Hitler to a chance encounter in the Underground with a ten-year-old girl (which I believe was discussed, for some reason, right here).

So my question is: Can anybody name an historical (or biographical) film that stuck completely to the facts, at least in every meaningful way?