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Due at the airport in three hours for a gig in Washington, D.C., Soul Asylum guitarist Dan Murphy wanted to make sure his bandmate of 31 years, singer Dave Pirner, did not get lost finding the coffee shop arranged for our interview last month. It was in Uptown Minneapolis, about a half-mile from Pirner's house.
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Kristina may be falling for the UPS man. When he rings her doorbell, she tingles. She orders things she doesn't need or want-extendible fan blade dusters, silver serving spoons (she never has dinner parties), and complicated underwear with clips and flying buttresses. Anything to get him to her door, this man whose brown eyes are "the flavor of bitter brickle chocolate."
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Timon and Pumbaa are an animated meerkat and warthog duo introduced in Disney's popular 1994 animated film The Lion King.
Timon is a wise-cracking and self-absorbed meerkat who is known for claiming Pumbaa's ideas as his own, while Pumbaa has flatulence issues. However, Pumbaa is also a fierce warrior, charging into battle like a battering ram, and taking great offense if anyone who's not his friend calls him a pig, at which point he exclaims "They call me Mister pig!"-a reference to Sidney Poitier's line "They call me Mister Tibbs!" from the 1967 film In the Heat of the Night. Unlike real meerkats, Timon can walk on his hind legs, while in real life, meerkats walk on all four legs and can only stand on their hind ones.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Meerkat
Sally said:
I know, I know, Timon's a Meerkat, a type of mongoose. Love that show...
"Look, sure I'd get into Sally's garden if I could. I'm a freaking animal, and that's what we do!"
"She wouldn't kill me, I'm cute, ya know?"
PS: Don't be too sure, Timon, I will defend my tomatoes to the death!
PPS: I thought that was the case, MAM. I saw on Doppler radar that you were really hit with that storm. Glad you are back!
PPPS: @B2BB - I well know that particular stretch of road that goes through, "Sleepy Hollow" land. It is a beautiful drive, and at one time, you could see all the Naval ships harbored on the Hudson as you drove down - now it is all private yachts. It is one of my favorite places in NY State.
Charlie responded:
Meerkat
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Timon is a meerkat
BttbBob wrote:
OK... Here goes... The answer is... (I'm thinking hard)... Meerkat!
Gotta be... Gotta be Meerkat... If not, it damn'd sure should be!
I knew it! ~ Har! ~ I'm often prescient in my occasional insomniac states, QED... Next time I'll pick some 'Powerball' numbers when in one. Be assured, I'll share...
(Hmmm... That would put us in the 1%... Well, no matter... raise my taxes)
Adam answered:
Timon was a meerkat.
Marian replied:
meerkat
Dale of Diamond Springs responded:
Timon was a meerkat. Timon was voiced by Nathan Lane in "The Lion King".
MAM wrote:
Meerkat
And, Joe S answered:
Meerkat. I've never seen the movie so I'm relying on wikipedia and this picture for the right answer.
Carla and I love meerkats. Not too wild about lions, not even cute little baby ones. Okay, we like lions too, just not in the house.
Not much of a marine layer, so it's starting to warm up.
Tonight, Sunday:
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Big Brother', then a FRESH'3', followed by a RERUN'The Mentalist'.
NBC fills the night with FRESH'2012 Summer Olympics'.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a RERUNSecret Millionaire', then a RERUN'Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition'.
The CW fills the night with what passes for local news and other fluffery.
Faux has a RERUN'American Dad', followed by a RERUN'The Cleveland Show', then a RERUN'Simpsons', followed by another RERUN'Simpsons', then a RERUN'Family Guy', followed by another RERUN'Family Guy'.
MY has an old 'How I Met Your Mother', followed by another old 'How I Met Your Mother', then an old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by another old 'Big Bang Theory', then still another 'Big Bang Theory', followed by yet another old 'Big Bang Theory'.
A&E has 'Criminal Minds', 'Longmire', another 'Longmire', and still another 'Longmire'.
AMC offers offers the movie 'Rambo III', followed by the movie 'Rambo', then a FRESH'Breaking Bad'-Hazard Pay, followed by a FRESH'Small Town Security'-Dr. Sandy and the Swear Jar, then 'Breaking Bad'-Hazard Pay, again.
BBC -
[6:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES - SEASON 4U-Ep 1 - Spanish Pavilion
[7:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES - SEASON 2U-Ep 1 - Handlebar
[8:00AM] PLANET EARTH-Jungles
[9:00AM] LONELY PLANET'S CALIFORNIA ADVENTURE-Lonely Planet's California Adventure
[10:00AM] JAMIE OLIVER'S FOOD REVOLUTION - SEASON 1-Episode 5
[11:00AM] JAMIE OLIVER'S FOOD REVOLUTION - SEASON 1-Episode 6
[12:00PM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 4-Episode 4
[1:00PM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 5-Episode 5
[2:00PM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 5-Episode 6
[3:00PM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 5-Episode 7
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 2-Episode 7
[5:00PM] ALEXANDER
[8:00PM] A KNIGHT'S TALE
[11:00PM] A KNIGHT'S TALE
[2:00AM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 2-Episode 7
[3:00AM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 5-Episode 7
[4:00AM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 5-Episode 5
[5:00AM] TOP GEAR - SEASON 5-Episode 6 (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NJ', another Real Housewives Of NJ', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of NJ', then another FRESH'Real Housewives Of NJ'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin', followed by the movie 'Jackass Number Two'.
FX has the movie 'Superbad', followed by the movie 'The Proposal', then the movie 'The Proposal', again.
History has 'Ice Road Truckers', another 'Ice Road Truckers', followed by a FRESH'Ice Road Truckers', and 'Great Lake Warriors'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[6:15AM] Arrested Development-The One Where Michael Leaves
[6:45AM] Arrested Development-The One Where They Build a House
[7:15AM] Antwone Fisher
[9:45AM] Choose Me
[12:00PM] Arrested Development-Best Man for the GOB
[12:30PM] Arrested Development-Whistler's Mother
[1:00PM] Arrested Development-Not Without My Daughter
[1:30PM] Arrested Development-Let 'Em Eat Cake
[2:00PM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[2:15PM] Daltry Calhoun
[4:15PM] Antwone Fisher
[6:45PM] Good Guys Wear Black
[8:45PM] The Last Legion
[11:00PM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Elizabeth Banks Wears a Red Dress
[11:30PM] Bunk
[12:00AM] Scream 3
[2:30AM] Scream 3
[5:00AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Elizabeth Banks Wears a Red Dress
[5:30AM] Bunk (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:00A] Pleasure Of Being Robbed
[7:15A] One Week
[8:50A] Monsieur Hubert de Givenchy
[9:45A] Lost in La Mancha
[12:00P] The Crucible
[2:05P] Pleasure Of Being Robbed
[3:20P] This Way Up
[3:30P] PUSH GIRLS - Everyone Stares (Episode 1, Season 1)
[4:00P] PUSH GIRLS - Watch Me (Episode 2, Season 1)
[4:30P] PUSH GIRLS - You Don't Get It (Episode 3, Season 1)
[5:00P] PUSH GIRLS - Hope It's Not Too Late (Episode 4, Season 1)
[5:30P] PUSH GIRLS - How'd I Get Here? (Episode 5, Season 1)
[6:00P] PUSH GIRLS - Fired Up (Episode 6, Season 1)
[6:30P] PUSH GIRLS - How You Get Through (Episode 7, Season 1)
[7:00P] PUSH GIRLS - In the Fast Lane (Episode 8, Season 1)
[8:00P] Ghost World
[10:00P] Raising Arizona
[1:00A] Ghost World
[3:00A] Together
[4:50A] The Red Carpet Issue (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Signs', followed by the movie 'National Treasure: Book Of Secrets'.
The Olympics opening ceremony was seen in the U.S. by 40.7 million people, making it the most-watched opening ceremony for a summer or winter Olympics.
The Nielsen company said Saturday that the average viewership topped the previous record of 39.8 million people who watched the opening of the 1996 summer Olympics in Atlanta. The London festivities bucked a tradition that American viewers are generally more interested in these ceremonies when they are on U.S. soil.
The 2008 ceremony in Beijing reached slightly fewer than 36 million people.
The strong ratings came despite - or perhaps because of - complaints about NBC not streaming the ceremony live online.
Actress Lily Tomlin, star of the new comedy series "Mailbu Country", and Executive Producer Kevin Abbott speak during a panel discussion at the Disney-ABC Television Group portion of the Television Critics Association Summer press tour in Beverly Hills, California July 27, 2012.
Photo by Fred Prouser
The stars of "Modern Family" have reached new contracts to keep working on the Emmy-winning comedy, ending a dispute that had threatened to spill over into a courtroom.
A 20th Century Fox spokesman confirmed Friday evening that the deals had been reached and that shooting on the ABC series' fourth season will begin Monday.
The deals cover stars Sofia Vergara, Ed O'Neill, Julie Bowen, Ty Burrell, Eric Stonestreet and Jesse Tyler Ferguson.
Five of the actors sued Fox on Tuesday, asking a judge to rule their contracts on the hit show are illegal and should be invalidated. O'Neill joined the case later in the week.
Executive producer Christopher Lloyd said the lawsuit wouldn't have interfered with production but it is "great to have that not hanging over our head." He said there would be no ill will on the set because the situation was resolved quickly and the show has a "charmed setup."
A lawyer representing Snoop Dogg says the American rapper has been banned from entering Norway for two years after trying to enter the country with a small amount of marijuana last month.
Holger Hagesaeter, the rapper's legal representative in Norway, told The Associated Press on Saturday that his client "can live with the decision" and has no immediate plans to appeal it.
Snoop Dogg, whose name is Calvin Broadus, was on his way to a music festival in southern Norway in June when sniffer dogs detected eight grams of marijuana in his luggage. He was also carrying more cash than is legally allowed and was fined 52,000 kroner ($8,600) after admitting to the two offenses, the lawyer said.
Actress Jessica Biel attends the photo call for the film Total Recall at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills, California July 28, 2012.
Photo by Jason Redmond
Instead, these are good days for the "Anger Management" star, he declares, with his FX sitcom half-way through its initial 10-episode run and poised to get an order for 90 more.
Sheen told reporters Saturday that the prospect of continuing is as "exciting as hell," and added cheerily, "I don't think 90's gonna be enough."
With the expected pickup, FX plans to bring aboard Sheen's dad, Martin Sheen, as a regular cast member. He will play the father of Charlie Goodson, the anger-management therapist played by Charlie Sheen. The veteran movie actor, who also played President Jed Bartlet on the drama series "The West Wing," is guest-starring on an "Anger Management" episode that airs Aug. 16.
They had booked their wedding far in advance. The invitations had been sent, the programs printed. But one day before Charles and Te'Andrea Wilson were to be married at the Mississippi church they frequented, they said a pastor told them they would have to find another venue -- because they were black.
There has never been a black wedding at the First Baptist Church in Crystal Springs, Miss., since its founding in 1883. According to Pastor Stan Weatherford, some church members objected so strongly to breaking that precedent, they threatened to oust him from his pastorship.
Rather than risk his job, Weatherford, who is white, said he decided to marry the pair at a black church down the road.
"My 9-year-old was going to the church with us. How would you say to your 9-year-old daughter, 'We cannot get married here because, guess what sweetie, we're black,'" Charles Wilson told ABC's affiliate WAPT-TV.
Actor Rowan Atkinson, known for his role as Mr Bean, performs during the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium July 27, 2012.
Photo by Kai Pfaffenbach
Seven nations may lose their ability to legally trade tens of thousands of wildlife species after U.N. conservation delegates agreed Thursday to penalize them for lacking tough regulations or failing to report on their wildlife trade.
The suspensions against the seven nations - Comoros, Guinea-Bissau, Paraguay, Nepal, Rwanda, Solomon Islands and Syria - were approved by consensus among the delegates and would take effect Oct. 1.
They would prevent the countries from legally trading in any of the 35,000 species regulated by the 175-nation Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, said Juan Carlos Vasquez, a spokesman for the U.N. office that administers the treaty.
Delegations to the weeklong meeting of CITES, a treaty overseen by the U.N. Environment Program in Geneva, agreed to trade suspensions against Comoros, Guinea-Bissau, Paraguay and Rwanda based on their lack of national laws for regulating the lucrative wildlife trade.
The Geneva meeting's attendees also agreed to trade suspensions against Guinea-Bissau, Nepal, Rwanda, Solomon Islands and Syria based on their failure to adequately report what they are doing to regulate wildlife trade, as they are required to do under the CITES treaty.
British actor and comedian Russell Brand from the FX show "Brand X With Russell Brand" takes part in a panel discussion at the FX Networks session of the 2012 Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour in Beverly Hills, California, July 28, 2012.
Photo by Gus Ruelas
Though they travel at the pace of a horse and buggy, the Amish are spreading out across the nation more rapidly than most other religious communities.
A new Amish settlement is founded in the United States nearly once a month, according to a new census, which also found that more than 60 percent of all existing Amish communities sprang up after 1990.
"The Amish are one of the fastest-growing religious groups in North America," Ohio State researcher Joseph Donnermeyer, who led the census project, said in a statement. "They're doubling their population about every 21 to 22 years, primarily because they produce large families and the vast majority of daughters and sons remain in the community as adults baptized into the faith, starting their own families and sustaining their religious beliefs and practices."
Ohio has the largest Amish population at 60,233, and Pennsylvania is a close second, with 59,078 Amish residents, while Indiana has 44,831 Amish citizens, according to Ohio State. New York - where 15 new settlements have been established since 2010 - has seen the greatest recent growth in Amish population of any state.
Actors Ingvar E. Sigurdsson (L) and Shantala Shivalingappa perform on stage during a dress rehearsal of 19th century Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen's play "Peer Gynt" in Salzburg July 27, 2012. The play is directed by British director Irina Brook and will premiere on July 30 as part of the annual Salzburg Festival.
Photo by Herwig Prammer
Gray's Store in Adamsville village brought in customers for years with its old-fashioned marble soda fountain, cigar and tobacco cases, and Rhode Island johnny cakes.
The 224-year-old business may be the oldest operating general store in America, although others have staked similar claims. The Rhode Island store near the Massachusetts line opened in 1788. Now owners say this year is its last. Gray's is set to close Sunday afternoon.
Owner Jonah Waite inherited the shop after his father died of cancer last month. He said Saturday it was a hard decision to close the store and leave behind all the history, but the shop's finances aren't sustainable and a supermarket down the street has siphoned away business.
Waite, 21, who will be a senior at the University of Hartford in Connecticut in the fall, also is consumed with pursuing a career in sports journalism.
The shop features general store standards like penny candy and a small selection of groceries, as well as antiques and collectible knickknacks. It's been in Waite's family for seven generations, since 1879, and comprises the front part of the family's home.
Maria Delgado (2nd L) who lost 3 children, all victims of violence, poses next to volunteers holding a picture of her in front of their faces, during a protest in Caracas July 28, 2012. The protest is part of a project called "Esperanza" (hope) that through art makes a call for peace.
Photo by Marco Bello
The ancient Native Americans of the desert Southwest subsisted on a fiber-filled diet of prickly pear, yucca and flour ground from plant seeds, finds a new analysis of fossilized feces that may explain why modern Native Americans are so susceptible to Type II diabetes.
Thousands of years of incredibly fibrous foods, 20 to 30 times more fibrous than today's typical diet, with low impact on the blood sugar likely left this group vulnerable to the illness when richer Anglo foods made their way to North America, said study researcher Karl Reinhard, a professor of forensic sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Members of Southwest Native American tribes are more susceptible than Caucasians to Type II diabetes, which happens when the body either doesn't produce enough insulin to break down sugar from food, or when the body's cells fail to recognize the insulin it does produce.
Researchers have long hypothesized that a "thrifty gene" (or, more likely, genes) acquired through feast and famine makes Native American populations more prone to this chronic disease. The idea is that people who were able to rapidly adapt to both lean times and times of plenty would have done better in ancient times. Today, the modern diet has rendered famine rare in the developed world, but the body continues to respond to times of plenty as if starvation is around the corner. Diabetes and obesity can result.
Reinhard and his colleagues now suggest that feast and famine may not be necessary for the "thrifty gene" hypothesis to make sense. Basically, Reinhard said, an extremely low-calorie, high-fiber diet made the ancient Native American gut a paragon of efficiency. With the arrival of whites, the diet changed faster than physiology could keep up with it. In other words, the digestive system didn't evolve for abundant, high-GI foods.
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