LOL! Your rant about making one's own laundry soap, etc was toooo funny and ITA :) I'm also not a fan of the low water band wagon. The only FL experience I've had is my mother's machine. She's NOT happy with hers :( I AM VERY happy with my Whirlpool Cabrio TL NON-HE machine (with agitator). It's model number WTW6200. Had the 6400 model, TL HE. You can do a search with my name or Cabrio and read why I didn't like it, but basically it didn't clean. Like you, my top 4 priorities are CLEAN laundry without having to stand on my head and stack greased BBs to get it! 3.8 cubic feet, auto water level (more water than the HE TL) and 4 other water levels for you to manually adjust. Also has a delay wash that I find useful. Don't have the dryer so I can't comment on that. Good luck! Monica

That leaves only Max Baer Jr (Jethro) alive from the original cast. Even the actress who played Jane Hathaway is gone. I loved the Beverly Hillbillies when I was a kid. But looking at it today it seems so preposterous- hillbillies living in a mansion and talking about the "cee-ment pond".

Thank you Elmer. The most frustration I had with Comcast was when they had a help desk and would not, could not help me....didn’t know anything about port numbers and shared nothing with Microsoft and visa versa. Hung up in the middle of working with me. They had no skills to help me. They were so bad with computer stuff that I wrote to the New York Times and they ran the letter for 3 days so everyone could vent. A person high up intervened and called me and said I would never have to take the abuse again. He assigned me to the Regional Manager who sent someone out right away. Before that, I was given recording boxes three or four a week that broke down within an hour and had the previous users recordings still on it. That was how our local Comcast manager operated. Honestly a homeless person delivered the box off the back of a truck and swapped out one he had just picked up from another home. I would have to take off work etc. The article in the NYT got me help. Comcast, back before you started with them, saved lots of money and outsourcing to different countries helped. Some of those folks in India were far better educated than in America and stuck with the problem.. Now I can say that this television that lasted 4 1/2 years never had one blip no matter what kind of hurricane we had here and perhaps that has some thing to do with Comcast. There are people who live other places 7 min away in a different county not too far away who hate Comcast and have a chance to get another service and will because their service is out all the time. In my building we have a 2nd generator if that means anything. Life goes on - it was very good to talk to everyone. There is so much to keep in mind I learned a lot Thank you

"Neither Consumer Report or Amazon reviews have proven to be worthwhile due to the reviewers giving 5 stars for something they have owned a short amount of time" Ridiculous statement. Of course CR owns the TVs a short amount of time. TVs become obsolete; should CR rate TVs five years old and no longer manufactured? The TVs are rated on performance. "I would take the advice of a post on here may be better in the television section of garden web over anyone else." That makes no sense. Each person has only one TV; he can't do side-by-side performance comparisons.