That was a lovely video – I guess watching snow fall is kind of like watching grass grow.
Sped up to 2x, it looks more like what we’ve been getting this winter in Denver.

Not Ernest?

Even as a child I made a distinction between real people and television characters.

Although I was rather indignant when the “Bewitched” sticom switched in a different actor to play Samantha’s husband, Darrin.

Turned out to be a sad story. Dick York, the original Darrin, had suffered a terrible back injury while making a Western in 1959, which worsened over the years and included an addiction to painkillers, which forced him to leave “Bewitched” in 1969.

He seemed like a good fellow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_York

huxley on March 31, 2022 at 5:49 pm: Surely you were acquainted with June Cleaver?

“However, two ended up becoming rather popular later.” RTF, trend setter!

Name frequencies are strange in how they rise and fall, often against one’s intuitive sense.

My real given first name is (shh!) Jack. Which is a great All-American sounding name and one often runs across Jacks in books and movies. But I’ve only known two other American Jacks in my entire life.

Wiki says that Jacks are common in Ireland and Australia, but in the US we are roughly 3 per 1000.

I like being a Jack.

If your home is powered by safer, cheaper, cleaner electricity, like solar or heat pumps, you can save about $500 a month [year] on average.

I gotta get me one of them homes powered by heat pumps.

April seems to be the month name I’ve encountered most in real life. I’ve run into a few Augusts and Junes, fewer Mays. Lots of Julies, but no Julys that I know of.

I can’t recall ever meeting anyone named for a day of the week. There’s Tuesday Weld and Wednesday Addams and Friday in Robinson Crusoe.

Neither of my kids’ names were in the top 100 the year our kids were born. My wife and I tried to pick names we liked that were not overly common (my wife has a very uncommon name). However, two ended up becoming rather popular later.

My mother was named June, but otherwise I’ve never known a June. It’s been in decline since the 20s, though has made a mild comeback:
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June was a very popular girl’s name and somewhat popular boy’s name in the early to mid 20th century in the United States. As a girl’s name, it reached a peak in 1925 as the 39th most popular name, but then gradually declined until it dropped off the top 1000 list of names in 1987. In recent years, it has started to make a comeback: in 2018 it ranked 241st.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_(given_name)
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I’m not sure the lyric would have been a big deal in a 1964 sixth grade class.

That would have been awkward for any girls in your class named, June.

The official statement from the academy claiming that they explicitly asked Smith to leave was a lie. They explicitly told him he could stay.

Hmmm. The soft bigotry of low expectations? (Had to look that one up.) Or just raw celeb. power?