From: atropos@mac.com   
      
   On Jan 4, 2026 at 12:30:14 PM PST, "Arthur Lipscomb"   
    wrote:   
      
   > On 1/4/2026 7:25 AM, The True Melissa wrote:   
   >>  Verily, in article , did weberm@polaris.net   
   >>  deliver unto us this message:   
   >>>   
   >>>  The day mom died, I watched:   
   >>   
   >   
   > I'm sorry for your loss.   
   >   
   >>  I'm sorry to hear about your mom. How are you doing?   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>>  What did you watch?   
   >>   
   >>  I watched reruns of The Critic, on Tubi. The show isn't very good, but   
   >>  it has a frustrating quality of *almost* being good. It'll set up some   
   >>  reasonable character situation, then do a corny, predictable joke which   
   >>  knocks me out of both the story and the comedy. If only the comedy were   
   >>  funnier, it might have run for years.   
   >>   
   >   
   > It was occasionally good.  I liked the one with the Siskel and Ebert cameos.   
   >   
   >>  In that it reminds me of Whoopie, Whoopie Goldberg's sitcom vehicle. It   
   >>  was interesting in many ways, but it just wasn't very funny, and that's   
   >>  a death knell for a comedy.   
   >>   
   >   
   > Oddly enough, I don't think a comedy has to be funny if you like the   
   > characters and situation.  It just sort of becomes a drama.   
   >   
   > I watched   
   >   
   > Children of Men (blu-ray) 2006 movie written and directed by Alfonso   
   > Cuarón.  The movie is set in a dystopian future where women can no   
   > longer get pregnant and Britain has become a fascist police state that   
   > persecutes immigrants.   
      
   As opposed to importing them by the millions over the clear wishes of an   
   overwhelming number of their people the way Britain actually does.   
      
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