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There were a surprisingly large number of ways you could legally get alcohol without having to abandon your knocked up fiancee on Christmas during Prohibition. You could brew your own wine legally, up to 200 gallons a year, and you could even have a doctor write you a prescription for medicinal alcohol. Those prescriptions could be for a wide variety of things to from insomnia to depression. If you still needed a kick there was always religion! Religious exemptions for things like sacramental wine were allowed. And many beer companies sold this stuff called malt syrup that you could basically add yeast and water too to ferment at home. Wine makers sold a similar thing for wine that was like a concentrated wine brick. Would these ways save your struggling inn and the only reason your soon to be father in law thinks your worth anything? Maybe not but I don't think they would get you murdered either This is an example of an alcohol prescription. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/during-prohibition-your-doctor-could-write-you-prescription-booze-180947940/

So technically his job as a rum runner would not exist or if it Dr it wouldn't be as profitable. Like unless he's stockpiling like a crazed alcoholic doomsday prepper his job is pointless? Wait I take that back! Actually people often get this key fact about prohibition wrong: the only thing illegal was the *sale and manufacturing of alcohol*NOT the drinking of it. SO TECHNICALLY any alcohol people had after January 1920 was theirs to do with as they pleased as long as it was for personal use. In fact many wealthy people did have large stocks of wine and other libations. So him becoming a mad booze squirrel desperately trying to stockpile alcohol for the dry years ahead would make a weird kind of sense ...

I would have to disagree with you on the fact that drinking during Prohibition was relatively harmless. The United States Government actually poisoned industrial alcohol knowing it would be stolen and used to drink. Originally commercial/ industrial alcohol became "denatured", by adding chemicals to make it unpleasant to drink so people couldn't avoid a tax on beverages. It wasn't stopping bootleggers though who hired chemists of their own to "renature" or just masked the taste anyway they could. So the government decided to add even more chemicals into industrial alcohol knowing that they would potentially kill people. They did it anyway hoping those deaths would serve as warnings to others. It should be noted that only those who were poor would have been affected by the deadly alcohol. Rich people could afford to buy actual whiskey and other libations . This doesn't even cover how deadly some home made booze could be.

It's a Catholic, Anglican, and Lutheran thing I think? And more importantly Murder She Wrote is free to stream with Amazon Prime ! Never be without a murder in Cabot Cove again!

So I know I'm always going to be disappointed in "historical" clothing on something like this but holy fuck. While Lily wouldn't be fully outfitted as a flapper ( because the flapper didn't exist yet), the Volstead Act was passed in January of 1920. So we have to assume this takes place in the December of that year at the earliest. If he's been at this for a while like he said he was maybe it's a year later? Either way they had her outfitted in some Edwardian bullshit. True she lives in a sleepy little inn but they said her widowed father had come from Boston. She would have been aware of current fashion at least up to then. Even in sleepy little nowhere you could get magazines and catalogs. In fact that's how many people kept up with things and we owe such publications a debt of gratitude because they have helped us see how life was like then. Advertising alone is an invaluable tool to get an insight into how people dressed and lived. For example basically everything Daniel was wearing was an even bigger historical fashion sin than poor Lily. At least I can allow she might have a very old dress. He was wearing a suit from Men's Warehouse for fucks sake! if you look at this ad from 1920 for a tailoring service you can see how different the suits are, Jackets were much longer and he clearly doesn't have a hipster White Supremacist hair cut. This is a link to the December 1st 1920 issue of Vogue. https://archive.vogue.com/article/19201201065 You have to be a member to read the full article but the photos of the drawings you can see are great. for reference here's a time line of the decade from Glamourdaze an amazing historical fashion resource: t and yes I'm up on Christmas Eve obsessing about this because some fucking asshole children are playing football extremely loudly at ONE IN THE FUCKING MORNING and I'm too sober for this shit.

Oh I was deeply stressed, children terrify me especially really young ones! Thankfully I have figured it out I'm getting him tickets for the local children's museum/ science museum because someone else suggested that I give an experience. If that fails we go with Candy Land!

I know that Liza said she wouldn't see it. Apparently she doesn't watch portrayals of herself or her mother and thinks that this film would be particularly painful. As a person whose lost their mother tragically , I can't imagine how I would feel to see a movie based on the lower points of her life. I'm torn on seeing it because I know it's kind of dark and personally I can read all about how much someone struggled in a biography but seeing it acted on screen for some reason hurts more?

In my defense I was planning on like giving his mom cash to buy a gift that he would like. Another person suggested that I offer an experience as a gift so I'm getting tickets to the local science museum.

I want to know what makes the strings instruments so special. Do they do wind instruments and dance competitions as well? Like just a bunch of competitions with each musical instrument section giving away millions in cash and scholarships? Because I am *almost* here for that nonsense! I'm dying to see a hand bell performer and a tap dancer take to the stage ! God can you imagine how pissed off other musical students would be to be denied the chance for that money and scholarship?

The way God intended. We are all Life's Balcony Monsters

I took part in the HDTGM Facebook group's secret Santa and my Santa sent me this book!!!!! I'm so excited!

This is Lacey Chabert erasure.

I assumed those young kids were musical prodigies. God they probably ruined practice for the next Mozart with their bullshit. These dancers must be stopped!

Did anyone else get upset when the Bad Boys of Violin began dueling with their bows? I always thought those were fragile! So I googled and apparently BOWS ARE FUCKING EXPENSIVE . At the cheapest you can get one for $50 to under $100 for a fiberglass bow. Carbon fiber is $50- $300. But our Bad Boys look like they have wood bows. That's gonna set you back $50 for a cheap brazilwood into the $1,000s. You can apparently go well over $5,000 for a bow. A violin bow should cost 20-25% of your violin. Something tells me Bad Boy Violinists don't buy cheap bows. https://orchestracentral.com/ufaqs/much-violin-bow-cost/

I find it odd that she says she's never done contemporary. If she's a dancer in today's world it's kind of impossible for her to NEVER have taken Contemporary classes. How did she get in this school with nothing but ballet? Yes she's a ballet dancer ( and a very good one at that) but many ballet dancers now take several kinds of dance and Contemporary is one of the main ones. She would have probably started dancing at a young age and should have had at least a few years under her belt. Also some of the criticisms of her problems in the Contemporary class I could remember had to do with her lines and angles. Ballet is all about the lines of the body and the angles. Those aspects of Contemporary would have been the most similar to ballet I would think? Also I thought that the big dance finale would have her using contemporary style. But I don't think she did anything but ballet. She might have done more modern ballet but that was ballet as far as I could tell.

Jane Seymour is the only part of the movie I want . I live for her odd costume choices in these films.

So "crematiing your pointes" is a thing. Pointe shoes can be worn through REALLY quickly. It's a way to keep your shoes going longer and stay stiff. I don't know if I've ever heard of the term in my reading on the history of ballet, but according to a dancer wear blog I found one way to do this is "Some dancers also use this method to revitalize dead shoes: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Swirl a floor polish like Mop and Glow inside the pointe shoes, the pour out the excess. Place the shoes on a baking sheet covered in foil, and place them in the oven. Turn the oven off, and let the shoes sit in the oven 8 hours or overnight. The polish will re-harden the box and shank of the shoes, but it stains the satin a yellowish color and makes them super stiff. This method is not exact, and it will take experimenting to find the perfect amount of polish. Practice this method on an old pair of shoes you don't need before you try it with the pair you are wearing. " http://thedancewearguru.blogspot.com/2014/10/how-to-make-pointe-shoes-last-longer.html I found a lot of recommendations to use Jet Glue which I think is pointe shoe glue? I also saw on a dance forum that some recommended putting shoes in the freezer for a brief fix. Or to use shellac http://www.dance.net/topic/8757237/1/Pointe-Beginners/Rehardening-pointe-shoes.html&replies=1

Are you insinuating you DON'T have a fierce sexy pillow fight with your new roommate to welcome them? Rude.

So are we gonna talk about how this old violin is magically an electric violin at times?

I haven't listened to the episode yet , in fact I just started the movie. I paused it after 2 minutes because I NEED to talk about how insane it is that Brit Boy is playing violin shirtless.( Sorry if this is discussed! I'm in a full tiz!) Some people get these sort of chafed red marks on their neck and sometimes throat / collar bone area. They are known as "violin hickeys" or "Fiddlers Neck". In fact when selling a rare Stradivari violin only people who had a "violin hickey" could try the instrument at Christies auction house . Some people get really painful cysts and lesions that can get infected. Not everyone who plays gets one though. There's been a theory that some people are allergic to the woods I the violin or the metals while others think it's the playing style. According to Wikipedia the cause of this can be ( I'm only going to be putting the important info to prove my case) " ....Hot weather is reported to exacerbate fiddler's neck, as are tiredness, playing emotional music, and playing in smaller groups where individual stress is higher.[2] Type I hypersensitivity reactions may also be involved, particularly to rosewood and ebony in the chinrest and tailpiece, as well as to varnish of the instrument body when chinrests are not used and to rosin deposits on the instrument and on chin cloths. " So technically Brit Boy ( I refuse to give him a name) said that he burns with his music. Maybe it's just really hot in that million dollar loft? Hence playing shirtless? And he sure as hell wasn't using a chin cloth. He seems under the impression his music is deep and full of *emotions* ... In conclusion this idiot is gonna get Fiddler's Neck all over his damn shoulder if he doesn't put a shirt on.

I'm DYING to see Knives Out! I hate going to the movie theater because it's always so loud but I really can't wait for it to stream. I've been excited since TIFF

Would the bear sing? That's all I care about

Kelly all the way. Astaire is great but I honestly like him for his dancing most of all . I never seem to see anyone but Fred Astaire in his roles

I literally said out loud at least five times " Christ he's hot" or various versions of that. Gene Kelly can GET IT even in the great beyond.

So did anyone else read about Henry Ford's crazy white supremacist plot to make square dancing replace the evils of jazz? https://www.avclub.com/this-square-dancing-conspiracy-goes-deeper-than-you-thi-1821128344