Did you have to get your mother's permission?

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And he says, well, can you go home and get permission from your mother, get something in writing stating that you can travel, and give me your mother's address and phone number and all this stuff and saying that you can travel, you're allowed to travel with me and have her to sign it and date it.

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It's important whether you get along with your mother-in-law.

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It would probably be easy to spend your life caretaking your mother's legacy, but that would make it difficult to get any of your own work done.

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In fact, we would have had to expand to no. 19 to get a CBS show (How I Met Your Mother, 45.4) on this list.

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"Get your kitsch on Route 66" might be a better slogan for Arizona's scrubby stretch of Mother Road.

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Now let's get into this CBS comedy block, which included a new series premiere: "How I Met Your Mother" (8.7 million, 3.4) returned down 28 percent with its lowest-rated debut since 2007.

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