That’s Autry.
Maybe Audrey Horne from Twin Peaks, otherwise I’ve got nothin’.
When using the GPS, I prefer the isometric view, because I glance at it. I do not read it like a map. I glance at it, and can easily determine how far away the next turn is, so most of my brain power is concentrating on not rear-ending the car in front of me.
It didn’t occur to me at the time I answered, but likely so. There are other names that could be Twin Peaks. The above-mentioned Leland. Also Dale (Cooper). But I clicked on Dale because Dale Gribble (King of the Hill) sprang to mind immediately.
It was also a TV show. Sally Field’s first big role. I was at just the right age to fall in love with this show, so I think of it more often than the movies.
Dating myself, but the only Leland I could think of was Richard Dysuart’s character on L.A. Law.
Did the poll mean Pinky and the Brain?
No Penny and Brain, from Inspector Gadget.
Whoops - gotta change a vote.
Only Leland I’ve heard of is this one..
I’d give a truthful, harsh critical statement about Kirk while emphasizing that he should not have been shot. And I would announce that I’d been told I had to say something, and by whom.
Well, there’s Leland Stanford, former governor and senator from California. You may have heard of his university there.
I matched most of these, but to me, Dale means Dale Gribble (King of the Hill) and Leland means Leland Townsend (Evil). I didn’t check Laura because I thought of two almost immediately: Laura Petrie (The Dick Van Dyke Show) and Laura Ingalls (Little House on the Prairie). I didn’t check Buddy because I had to think long and hard before I thought of Letitia “Buddy” Lawrence (the Kristy McNichol character in Family). I didn’t check Audrey because I couldn’t come up with anything at all without googling.
Suggested solutions to the poll on name pairs from TV shows:
- 86 and 99: Get Smart
- Al and Peggy: Married… with Children
- Arnold and Willis: Diff’rent Strokes
- Benson and Stabler: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
- Bob and Doug: SCTV
- Buster and Babs: Tiny Toon Adventures
- Eric and Donna: That '70s Show
- Fry and Leela: Futurama
- Gene and Roger: Siskel & Ebert
- Goren and Eames: Law & Order: Criminal Intent
- Kate and Allie: Kate & Allie
- Kevin and Winnie: The Wonder Years
- Larry and Balki: Perfect Strangers
- Lou and Andy: Little Britain
- Maddie and David: Moonlighting
- Pam and Jim: The Office (US)
- Patty and Selma: The Simpsons
- Penny and Brain: Inspector Gadget
- Richie and Eddie: Bottom
- Sam and Diane: Cheers
- Stanley and Helen: Three’s Company
- Wilma and Betty: The Flintstones
That seems so obvious now, but I kept going to Gene Autry and Roy Rogers for some dumb reason.
It’s the only entry on the list that names real-life people rather than fictional characters. I probably should have saved it for today’s poll on duos known by their last names.
I voted in the round-up poll, but none of the reasons were quite right. I don’t think it’s a scam, exactly, but I do think that it’s excessively greedy and not something I’m inclined to reward. They can donate out of their profits if they’re so inclined. The idea that they need more money, or a special basket of money, in order to donate doesn’t make any sense to me. I will, rarely, round up if it’s a charity I know and trust.
I never thought of it as a corporate donation, but more as a way to aggregate donations from their customers. I do it rarely, but sometimes I feel willing.
Same here. It’s not that I can’t afford to give to everyone who asks, I’m sure I could. It’s just as a matter of principle I’m not going to give to everyone who asks just because they asked. And there’s probably an element of “charity fatigue”. After you see that prompt so many times you just automatically hit “no” without really thinking about it.
If I’m not mistaken they deduct the donations from their taxes.
I believe that is exactly what they want you to think: that they are facilitating community generosity, merely helping us all save a step.
In reality, however, the corporation is presenting money they have collected to a charity. How is that not a corporate donation? And, as Frodo says, they are also benefitting from it.