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The jack-in-the-box seems familiar. Still not placing the episode, though. George

"Will you hold my bomb just a minute? Just a minute. I got a pebble in my boot." "Must have fallen out of your head." "I just love anything Western. The Grand Canyon Suite is one of my favorites." "Never could afford much more than a room and a bath, m'self." George

Cute! (I, of course, would have used Brittany Murphy.) George

Yup. George

Maybe it's not the whole lion that's important... George

The voh-doh-dee-oh-doh line seems familiar. "Laverne and Shirley"? George

Well, it's apparently Rhino's 99th birthday today. (Maybe he appears so old because he has several birthdays a year!) Don't know when the real day is, Bill; but I hope you have a good one. :) George

Well, since that's the Sinatra tune you used in "Songs Remembered," I'll have to guess that it's a "Vic Fontaine" episode of DS9. How about the finale "What You Leave Behind"? George

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"Boston Legal"? George

He buys a gun, steals a car, tries to run, but he don't get far. George

"Land of 1000 Dances" by Canniabal and the Headhunters? George

You're allowed to look at a TV Guide. :) "Cashmere Mafia" George

"Coach"? George

TV.com also has quotes. All of these sites seem to be "wikis," i.e., entries are provided by people logging in. George

Got it. It's a new show, Suda. The first clue is CASH. George

Of course, there are "only" fourteen different calendars (one beginning each day of the week, either leap year or not). There is probably a relatively simple way to know which calendar it is from the last three digits of the year. Then, you could memorize the number of days preceding the month in question (e.g., 0 for Jan., 31 for Feb,. 59 or 60 for Mar,. 90 or 91 for Apr., etc.). The date then is added to the total. Divide by seven and take the remainder. So, Apr. 15, 1991 is the 105th day of the year (not a leap year). Divide 105 by 7, giving 15 with no remainder. The day of the week, then, is the same as the seventh day of 1991. If you knew that 1991 began on a Tuesday, you would then know that Apr. 15 was a Monday. Straightforward, but again, not easy. George

It's clear from the "Thinking Out Loud" section that he uses the formula for the square of a sum of two numbers: (A + B)**2 = A**2 + B**2 + 2(AxB) I learned a trick years ago to get the square of any number ending with a 5. You multiply the rest of the number by that number plus 1 and stick a 25 on the end. For example, to square 25, you multiple 2 times 3 and stick a 25 on the end: 625. 225 squared: 22x23 = 506, so 50,625 The reason this works is because a number written "X5" is actually 10X + 5. (10X + 5)**2 = 100X**2 + 25 + 2(10Xx5) =100(X)(X + 1) + 25 When he squared the five-digit number, he was doing something similar: "AB,CDE" = 1000("AB") + "CDE", so "AB,CDE"**2 = 1,000,000("AB")**2 + 2(1000"AB")("CDE") + "CDE"**2. He used some sort of verbal code to store the intermediate sums. Of course, that just explains how he does it. That doesn't mean it's EASY! George

I'm not getting it, either. And I'm pretty old. George

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Money/cash/bills/ones ISS/space station Mob/gun/wiseguy/hit ??? George

I'm glad he didn't get paid for his STOWRIES. Oh, wait. He did. <_< George

Interesting. Only a picture of a satellite comes up on my work computer. I'll have to see if the others show up at home. George

Jenna's husband is Bodhi Elfman. The other picture is Betty Grable. "Everybody Loves Raymond" is correct. George

That seems like a good guess. And it's a show I watched once or twice. George