I pray for Vallerie to have strength through this trying time. Bless her heart...she HAS been through so much. 

I like Good Eats. Alton is a 'hoot', and it is educational. Since I've moved, I haven't had cable..so I miss the Food Network.. Later, after I move back to Texas, I might have it again.. Who knows..?
 I liked The 'Barefoot' Contessa..? I like Giada, but it's really unnerving..to see anybody that 'good looking' cooking and she never drops any food on herself..or down her cleavage, which she always shares with us..!

Oops, Lynelle, thanks for letting me know who Ben and Courtney are.  The premise of that show is too far-fetched for me.  Don't they have a Bachlorette program also?  One of the morning DJ's on KLUV was on some reality show a while back and said it was totally scripted and the most boring thing she had done.

Ginger, I think GCB is too funny.  I watch Army Wives right before GCB and really like it.  I have never watched the Bachelor, but I do watch some reality TV.  I watched Survivor when it first came on, but quit after a couple of seasons.  I hate to admit that I'm becoming a frequent viewer of the Food Channel.  I love Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Chopped, and Restaurant Impossible.  I caught a new one (for me) three or four weeks ago about America's worst cooks and it is pretty funny.  I figure you can only watch so much Wheel!  I tried to watch DWTS last night, but I'm reading a good book and only caught part of it.

I second that motion/question, Sharon. I don't watch that stuff..
No-Brainers.... Did I misspell 'no-brainers'..? Oh well, Big Brother, Survivor, The Biggest Loser...etc. etc.
   Now, I am tuning in to the GCB..at this point. Mainly, to see what Annie Potts does every week.. Ditzy, Dallas Women.. and the way they throw religion around.. Tis funny, however..The second and third week have been better than the first.. It's still outrageous.. but I know it is.. That's the point..
I quite like the way they throw religion around..some of it's true and it helps put it in a different light.. Hilarious, ditzy, and goofy..anyway.

Who the heck are Ben and Courtney?

Bill, on the Spike TV network there is a new show starting tomorrow called "American Digger". Here's a preview:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP0j6S9jZMU

A couple of weeks ago National Geo TV started airing a similar show simply called "Diggers". I saw the pilot episodes and it was entertaining. However, both programs feature some rowdy guys who are treasure hunting but are putting the hobby in a bad light.

Already the Archeological Society has started petitions to have both programs taken off the air. Their argument is that metal detector folks are merely "looting" historical artifacts without regard to documenting exactly where they were found and their condition etc.

Of course the modern day field of archeology is little more than "organized looting" itself and at the end of the day they want the goodies left in the ground for their own later benefit.

I, myself, am scheduled to go loot some artifacts in Mt. Pleasant next week.

Joseph Carl Ondrusek went to Adamson. He was an ROTC Officer in '62. Don't know where he went in his younger years.

On to more important matters ... whatever shall I do with my Monday evenings now that Ben & Courtney are no longer on TV?

Joe and Carl Ondrusek are in the news in Dallas over their Columbia Packing Company allegedly discharging pig blood into a creek directly leading into the Trinity River.  My sister Diane (SOC '62) and I have this nagging feeling we went to school with them, either at SOC or Holmes.  Can anyone with a better memory -- or access to the annuals -- clear this up?