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It turns out that the can of worms with the abused girl is much larger than I had thought, and it might be that she hit first. Either way, she's no longer a minor and doesn't have to stay with her father when she's in town.

The jury's still out on the tofurky, but I don't recommend the basic baste + veggies recipe they give on the back. A quarter cup of soy sauce doesn't make anything taste better.

Well, we were all really happy about you guys getting electricity. How can you begrudge us our joy over finally being able to send email to Canada?

Okay, really. The program, made by Robert MacNeil (from the MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour- a Canadian!), is sort of a follow-up/second part to The Story of English, a doc about the historical development of the language and how it eventually came to be spoken today. He talked about some unusual things- the Gullah dialect, for example- but didn't cover all of the variations present in the States today, so he came back and made another doc about English as it is spoken in the States today. He covered a lot of unusual accents, attitudes towards different dialects, and lots of other neat stuff.