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Did anyone else watch the new show New Amsterdam Tuesday?
Verdict? (I enjoyed it.) Katc
Oh, and I've continued to like Eli Stone

Nope, didn't see it. Had not even heard about it. What is it about??
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Tessa Onyx, Foudini, Charlee, Spottie, ShyRaven, Buddy, Tuxie, Widdle Attila Sipowitz, Lizzie, Minnie, ET, Mylo,(We be house cats at last), and Salem, Wicca and Marmalade (We iz also house cats, we guess)and the 5 porch kits also Riley da goggie and Buddha da baby hamster too
Tabitha and Samantha..always in our hearts//Fly free Penny 12/12/07
A house without cats is like a garden without flowers

Amsterdam is the name of a detective who lives in New York.
(nice play on words re: NY's former name, New Amsterdam)
He's lived there 400 years, through various professions. Don't know why he can't die (evidently missed a line or two). According to an Indian shaman who saved his life back in the 1600s, there is a true love he's supposed to find first and evidently she is there now. (I thought at first the same actress played the Indian and the current one but guess not.)
Anyway, cute clues throughout that he's lived before like saying in AA meeting that he's been sober xxxxx days which would put it back in the 1960s even though he's young or him knowing a club used to be a speakeasy. Also, neat photos shown of NY throughout the years. He's also evidently an artistic carpenter whose furniture brings astounding sums except everyone thinks he died a long time ago and a friend of his sells them as tables, etc. that just turned up in estates even though they were just finished in the basement. The friend owns Omar's bar and knows that he's lived so long. Don't know where the stories will go but cute for now. Here another episode is Thursday. Not sure when the regular night will be. It's on FOX.

Evidently in the mid-1600s the guy was given a long life by the Indian as a reward for saving a girl. I guess when he finds his true love, then he can grow old with her.

I saw an article in TV Guide (get it free with my frequent flier miles, never have enough to fly, but get free magazines). He looked cute, but I missed the show... I am waiting with baited breath for LOST tomorrow night...
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Tammy and Pookey
(Stanley 8/91 - 8/07)

By the way, what is baited breath? Does my breath smell like night crawlers? Minnows? Liver bits?
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Tammy and Pookey
(Stanley 8/91 - 8/07)

>>By the way, what is baited breath? Does my breath smell like night crawlers? Minnows? Liver bits?
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>>Tammy and Pookey
>>(Stanley 8/91 - 8/07)

Hmmmmm. Have the kits been kissing you a lot lately? Been eating a lot of tuna? MOL

I don't know if it's baited or bated. Have a book (somewhere) that tells about where phrases come from and meanings. Will
see if I can find it this weekend.

I always thought baited breath was that slightly breathless moment before you got the kiss - you know, that moment of 'will it or will it not happen?' before you move in to close the deal. Last thing you want to do is chase them off with breath scented by the garlic pasta dinner he just bought you, so you nearly stop breathing.

Maybe the cats should learn that trick before they snuggle right after breakfast tuna.....

You know that TV show sounds a lot, a lot alike a book series written by an editor of a major NY newspaper. I read one - wasn't bad, but the writer was almost cocky in his belief in his own writing, plus, it was clear the copy hadn't been checked before going to print. (Probably because he was a big name NY editor) Just all sorts of errors. The story idea was solid, but so much of the writer's jerk side showed through, I swore off his entire shelf of books at the library.

I bet this will be one of those rare cases where the TV show is better than the book. I'm going to try and catch tonight.

(Loved LOST, but I'm hopeless lost - I'll wait until I can rent or borrow the whole series on DVD)

Not me, never heard of it
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