Appalled that she can get away with singing
"I just lay there with my eyes open"
on the "I don't want to go to bed" song on "Carrie & David's Poptarts" or whatever the heck it is called.
And no, it wasn't the past tense of "lie" - the rest of the song is in the present tense. So the writer, editor, director, producer, the milfy Ms Grant and, presumably, the whole of the production team do not know the difference between the transitive verb "to lay" (an object down) and the intransitive verb "to lie".
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Right, that Carrie Grant has got to get a stern talking to
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UnquietDad · 09/03/2008 11:34
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