An Air America host had a hilarious recurring character called Sammy the Frozen Embryo, back when there was a raging controversy about whether frozen embryos could be destroyed by couples in infertility treatment. This was around the time we had the Snowflake Babies inflicted on us.

Sammy was an obnoxious creep who insulted the host and then chortled about how no one could touch him because he was "sacred life."

His theme song included the line, "I'm sacred life / I did your wife."

The only place I've seen the real wedding video was on regular TV for about 10 seconds. But somehow, I managed to figure out that Michael and Jim's brothers were copying the YouTube wedding video.

Some people did a weird wedding video and put it on YouTube. Am I leaving anything out?

But even if I had never seen or heard of it, I think I could have figured out that they were doing something that had been on YouTube. And it's the sort of basic-Michael thing that would've been wrong if he HADN'T done it.

.. who had the baby and went back to work in the fields.

She was back at work being famous.

Seriously, though, give the girl a break. I agree with the letter writer who said this "I had a baby, my life is over" attitude is ridiculous.

The way I see it, no American born after 1930 gets to get any credit for this "Greatest Generation who survived the Depression and World War II blah blah blah." If you were 15 in 1945, the end of that war we all seem to love so much, you had no risk of having to join it. Tough times in the Depression? Sure, but your parents were probably bigger heroes there.

You got the post-war boom (as opposed to the never-ending-war bust that my kids have to endure) And you might have been too old to have to worry about going to Vietnam.

So if you're younger than 79, you're just another American trying to get by.

I'm not saying Susan isn't a legitimate underdog - I mean that the judges faked their complete clueless surprise at her "discovery."

Just as "American Idol" seeks every year that one supremely horrendous weirdo act, so does "Britain's Got Talent" look for a "surprise" talent each season that makes the show look somehow un-scripted and un-calculating.

Whatever - more power to you, Susan!

Nothing against her personally, and good for her for getting a little something for awhile. I understand she's made some nice money from this, which is great.

But I'm glad this latest bit of pre-scripted "surprise" is over.

She was the biggest working-class-nobody-makes-good surprise on "Britain's Got Talent" since the previous season's working-class-nobody-makes-good surprise -- remember that guy who wowed everyone with an operatic aria?

I'm sorry, I just do not believe that NONE of the judges knew anything of her before she came onstage that first time. Next season there'll be another one just like her.

. . for teasing us with an image of Don Draper and then merely tossing off that "Mad Men won't be back until August."

Hate Aniston (sorry, sleepwalking through "The Good Girl" did not impress me.)

Adore Steve Zahn.

What to do, what to do?

>And who can forget her performance in the Star Wars Christmas Special? Classic!

God'll get you for that, nhf.

Too funny, azucat: We both posted the same thought at the same time.

". . . awful BIT of over-used gossip-monger slang."

While we wait for this story to go away, can we at least dump this awful but of overused gossip-monger slang?

I swear I've read this letter before in this space. Except it was the LW's boyfriend's obnoxious son, maybe.

. . . to have a shot at being stepdaughter to a woman who thinks you're stupid, useless and ugly to boot.

Oh, Mummy Dearest!

. . . I guess you would like Jennifer Aniston in "The Good Girl." Otherwise all I ever have seen from her is the cute-as-a-button elf you see in the photo at the top of this review.

All this Boss from Hell talk reminds me: How come just about everyone who complains about their boss on Web sites like this is the perfect employee?

Always the hardest working, the most talented, the nicest, the most cooperative, etc. etc. And yet all around them are slackards and dunces, all lorded over by tyrants just waiting to grind them under their heel each and every day.

Just wonderin'.

First, Cary, gotta share the love for Stanley Bing, whom I discovered a while back but haven't read lately. Thanks for reminding me how great he is. With a name like that I was sure he was some sort of rich-kid asshole, but his columns are clever without being glib, and he just kind of makes you feel better about the bullshit.

As for LW, I can't tell if her lies and politicking directly affect you or if you just know she's in everyone else's business and you hate watching her operate. If she's not wrecking your work, suck it up and ignore it, and do your job. If she's gossiping to you but not about you, nod and smile and get back to work.

Do you like the work, but hate your boss? Try to focus on that.

I would caution against just quitting. Many hiring managers have a thing about hiring the unemployed, curiously. It always looks better when you are working for someone; you are proven to be able to hold down a job, if nothing else.

Good luck!