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Subject: BS: I've got TV, now what do I do? From: JenEllen Date: 27 Oct 02 - 02:50 PM I'm embarassed to say it, but I've been out of the loop! For the last few years, I've lived in areas where tv/radio reception is non-exhistant, the newspapers are a joke, and I could never see getting cable just because I don't watch enough of it to warrant it, but after an incident with this sniper thing (me at friend's house going "huh? someone got shot?" on victim 5...) it was decided for me that I need to be 'connected'. Yesterday afternoon, a few friends came over and dished me up! Problem being, I haven't got a clue as to what is out there, and no inclination to try and hunt things out. (I sat for about 15 minutes with the remote, humming Springsteen's "57 Channels and nuthin' on") What do you watch? Are the 'music channels' really music or just ads? News channels? What would you miss if you were stranded on a desert isle? JenEllen **PS of a heartfelt thank-you to folks like Dharmabum and katlaughing/Rog who did heavy time on their VCR's to help keep my head above water in the pre-TV days!** |
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Subject: RE: BS: I've got TV, now what do I do? From: Gypsy Date: 27 Oct 02 - 03:03 PM oh man, whatta loaded question..........but to answer you in a dignified manner: Discovery channel, history channel travel channel (kinda trippy, not necessarily travel) animal planet, and the sci fi channel. Any local public channels, as well. You would be well advised to stay away from network tv.....in a half hour program, can have 15 minutes of commercials. Of course, this WILL encourage you to practice more! lots of luck, gypsy |
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Subject: RE: BS: I've got TV, now what do I do? From: RolyH Date: 27 Oct 02 - 03:10 PM In the UK it's become 'the bigger the choice , the lower the standards' |
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Subject: RE: BS: I've got TV, now what do I do? From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 27 Oct 02 - 03:14 PM Well, our TVs different over here. But there's not a lot on. Of American programmes, I find I watch the Simpsons and the various Star Treks from time to time, but not much else. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I've got TV, now what do I do? From: CarolC Date: 27 Oct 02 - 03:18 PM There's a lot of good stuff on Public TV, if you can get it. My son and I watched that exclusively for years, and didn't really miss the other stuff. When I had cable, I enjoyed the Cooking Network from time to time, and the Home and Gardens Network has some good how-to, fix-it, and gardening shows. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I've got TV, now what do I do? From: mg Date: 27 Oct 02 - 03:36 PM I love the home network...and whoever carries all the Bob Villa reruns..and I used to like watching Cokie Roberts..Friends..whitewater rafting..love it on TV..would avoid like the plague in real life...steambuggy infomercials...(also avoid housekeeping in real life)...three Irish tenors...mg |
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Subject: RE: BS: I've got TV, now what do I do? From: catspaw49 Date: 27 Oct 02 - 03:39 PM The ones mentioned by Gypsy for a start. Discovery has an entire group of channels as well, health, history,etc. We also do A&E, PBS, and a few others. You might kinda' enjoy Animal Planet that was mentioned. WE have 200 stations, plus over 50 music channels and many times, there still ain't nothin' on! Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: I've got TV, now what do I do? From: Don Firth Date: 27 Oct 02 - 03:44 PM PBS, History Channel, Discovery Channel . . . lots of good stuff there. Arts and Entertainment (A&E) is frequently pretty good. The Classic Arts Showcase Channel gives you a sort of mixed bag of things: concert excerpts, bits from opera, ballet, clips from old movies, etc. Kind of like a rummage sale of the Arts. CNN, MSNBC, etc. for stateside news; Barbara and I like to watch news from the BBC and CBC. Gives one a bit of world perspective. Nik at Nite and Lifetime do reruns of old sitcoms. All in the Family and Golden Girls are a helluva lot funnier than a lot of comedies being fielded today. British sitcoms available on many PBS affiliates are generally excellent. Channel surf. Have fun, but don't fry your eyeballs (or your brain). Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: BS: I've got TV, now what do I do? From: GUEST Date: 27 Oct 02 - 03:47 PM RolyH, same in the States and Canada. Maybe worse in Canada because they have imitation Discovery and History channels of Canadian manufacture which broadcast old war movies etc., over and over. Cable in Canada offers about 150 channels (the more you get, the more you pay). Channels with the old tv comedies and "classic" oldies cost extra. Fed up because some nights there is nothing I want to watch, so I end up with my recorded collection or listen to radio stations which carry classical and some bluegrass-folk-etc. Some good stuff on the internet. Been listening lately to KBON, the Louisiana Cajun station broadcasting Cajun and zydeco. Of course the BBC, CBC, WQXR and CKUA when they have something of interest. The news channels have talking heads going over and over the same speculation over and over with the same pictures over and over until I go "over and out." |
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Subject: RE: BS: I've got TV, now what do I do? From: Dave Swan Date: 27 Oct 02 - 04:00 PM Lane, Fielding, Patterson & Swan, Layabouts for Hire, have a package for the professional too busy to watch television. For a reasonable monthly fee we will dispatch a qualified layabout, fully trained in remote control operation, couch hollowing, and refrigerator grazing to see that your satellite dish dollars don't go to waste. Why worry that you're not relaxing on your own soft couch? Why fret that you're not generating alpha waves in front of the blue flicker? Stay at work. Let us do nothing for you. At Lane, Fielding, Patterson & Swan, it's the least we can do. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I've got TV, now what do I do? From: wysiwyg Date: 27 Oct 02 - 04:08 PM No, no, no, NO.... Now that you ahve the TV, go shop for goodies to stock the fridge! There will be COMMERCIALS requiring you to take breaks fetching same for consumption! ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: BS: I've got TV, now what do I do? From: mack/misophist Date: 27 Oct 02 - 04:11 PM Now that you have television, the best thing you can possibly do is to turn it off. It's not good for you. There must be a metropolitan newspaper that delivers in your area. That's all the news your need. Emergency stuff will be on the radio. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I've got TV, now what do I do? From: Dani Date: 27 Oct 02 - 04:45 PM Give it back. Think of the time you'll save for making music!! Dani |
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Subject: RE: BS: I've got TV, now what do I do? From: Dagmar Date: 27 Oct 02 - 04:50 PM forget the TV..not worth learning about the channels..radio will do to be connected and I can still only praise BBC...though being german ..can only survive here in Berlin becaus I can receive bbc on fm....:-) Dagmar |
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Subject: RE: BS: I've got TV, now what do I do? From: CapriUni Date: 27 Oct 02 - 04:51 PM Personnally, I watch mostly PBS (Don't have cable, so I can't comment on the "niche" shows). I generally like Charlie Rose and the nature/science programming... and the shows for kids :-). I admit it, I'm still a sucker for Sesame Street and Zoom (the latter being a good source for kids's contemporary folk culture), and Between the Lions (a learning-to-read show with adult humor thrown in, and the glorious muppets of the Henson workshop). But I wish Barney the Dinosaur would go back to the tar pits! I tend to avoid the news I get from network tv... where the policy is generally "if it bleeds, it leads" Now that you have a dish, though, you may also get clearer radio signals (don't know what your set-up is, but that may be part of it), if so, I'd recommend sticking with NPR. Otherwise, you might like the c-span channels, which have live coverage of congress and senate, and discussion of same.... (don't have it now, but used to, before the cable signals were all scrambled). The couple of shows I really like on commercial tv are West Wing and Life with Bonnie, both as much for general rhythm and patter of the dialogue as for the content... just learned last week that half of Bonnie is improvised. Anyway, these are my recoomendations... when I'm not hanging out in places like The 'Cat! ;-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: I've got TV, now what do I do? From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 27 Oct 02 - 04:53 PM The answer is to use your video recorder to tape all the programmes you think you might feel like watching. Then you can give them a skim and decide they weren't, and you've saved the time. Or even do without the skim and over-record them with the next lot of programmes you aren't going to watch. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I've got TV, now what do I do? From: GUEST,Walking Eagle Date: 27 Oct 02 - 04:59 PM 1. Unhook dish. 2. Throw TV out of a second story window, first being sure that no people or animals are underneath. The only thing I find my TV good for is watching my videos. I'm not joking. Walking Eagle |
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Subject: RE: BS: I've got TV, now what do I do? From: Mudlark Date: 27 Oct 02 - 05:09 PM JenEllen... Ah, just in time for long, dark winter nights of TV watching! Since I cannot abide commercials but love movies, I've got HBO and Starz, disk pkgs that show just movies and specials, no commercials (except for their own stuff) at all. If I had to drop one of them it would probably be HBO--some of their specials are great, others, like boxing...agh. Sundance and IFC are also commercial free and show indy films, shorts, and lots of good documentaries, like Ghengis Blues. PBS good (EGGart, Masterpiece Theatre, Mystery and MacNeil/Leher News) but not nearly as good as it used to be. On the weekend, C-Span Books can be riveting, depending on which authors are on...runs 24 hrs both days. On the commercial channels, I'm willing to hit the mute for: BBC America (lots of fun, and short-if you dont want to get mired in front of the damn thing-programs like Ground Force [gardening], Changing Rooms [remodelling], Monarch of the Glen [Scots ongoing drama], Ballykissangel [Irish ongoing drama] and several amusing BBC sitcoms]. Also, esp. while channel surfing, Trio (music specials, not MTV stuff), Animal Planet (Pet psychic is a gas), Bravo (interesting intertainment oriented special programming). Have fun...if you put away the remote you can get quite a lot of exercse jumping up and down to change channels. I think you'll find time spent in front of the tube is self-limiting--after switching thru what seems like 100's of channels and finding nothing to watch it is a relief to turn it off. The sound is offensive, for one thing, unless you're really abosorbed in what your watching. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I've got TV, now what do I do? From: leprechaun Date: 27 Oct 02 - 05:15 PM So could you record The Sopranos for me on Sunday night? |
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Subject: RE: BS: I've got TV, now what do I do? From: Deda Date: 27 Oct 02 - 05:29 PM PBS, BBC news, and old BBC comedies. An occasional movie, or history special. Personally I'm also hooked on the BBC soap that my husband calls "The Open Sewer Program" but which is actually titled "The East Enders". But it's a form of entertaining brain rot, and I can't honestly recommend it. OTOH, I'm always locked to my TV when it comes on at 9PM on Tuesday nights. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I've got TV, now what do I do? From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 27 Oct 02 - 05:29 PM Or how about the foreign language channels up there? My father-in-law flipping through the channels found a German channel playing 'Allo 'Allo,, which is a pretty bizarre thought. He can't understand German, so he wasn't sure how they managed to negotiate the jokes. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I've got TV, now what do I do? From: artbrooks Date: 27 Oct 02 - 05:32 PM I guess I watch an average of 2 hours of TV a week. History channel, CNN and old movies, mostly. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I've got TV, now what do I do? From: catspaw49 Date: 27 Oct 02 - 05:54 PM Thank you Mudlark! I get a bit tired of hearing the "vast wasteland" bullshit. There are an awful lot of good programs on the alternative channels. If you're an information junkie you will be in hog heaven. There is an entire series right now that is listening to and discussing LBJ's White House tapes, if that winds your watch. There are a load of fine shows about people and places and their histories. None of this stops someone from reading books and newspapers ferchrissakes. but the sheer volume of info and pictures is fodder for thought. And frankly, the damn thing can be entertaining as well. Some of the new kids stuff and cartoons, while not replacing a parent, beats the living shit out of Bugs. I'm a cretin who thinks there are a few other things in life besides music and yeah, I love all the sports programming I have access to. This is especially good if you don't care much about the popular sports and would prefer yacht racing....it's on there! The premium movie channels are good at showing both old and new movies and though many of them are pretty poor, there are those gems that come along....and I don't go to theatres. I am sorry that so many of y'all view those of us with catholic tastes as lowbrow dimwits not fit to occupy the same fuckin' planet as you, but pucker up and kiss my ass. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: I've got TV, now what do I do? From: katlaughing Date: 27 Oct 02 - 05:56 PM IFC, INdependent Film Channel, as mentioned, plus the others, PBS, History Channel, Home & Garden, Sci-Fi, and BBC-American, plus we used to get Animal PLanet, but they don't offer it down here. I loved that channel! With your penchant for old B&W There is a Steve somebody who does a 30 minute travel show which is really first-rate, I think on PBS. Changing Rooms and Ground Force on BBC-America, PLUS MOnarch of the Glen are excellent. I get almost all of my news via NPR and Mudcat. :-) We have cable and sometimes the Lite Classical is okay to put on. There are no commercials on any of the music channels, but I don't listen to any of them, but that LC. I second the recommendation of Life with Bonnie. She is funny, has great delivery and has a comedic quality akin to Lucy. Can't hardly imagine you with tv!:-) luvyakat |
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Subject: RE: BS: I've got TV, now what do I do? From: Art Thieme Date: 27 Oct 02 - 06:12 PM JenEllen (Hi) Like you, I live in a low place river valley where nothing gets to us through the air. To watch anything at all we've got to have cable. What is offered here on basic is pure crap-. I've chosen to forego TV and go with the Chicago Tribune and NPR-radio. Our building has a TV in it's lobby where I can watch news. Tonight I'll be watching the seventh game of the World Series down there. But generally, we' built a good library of recorded video films and we also rent. That's about all. The day our cable provider allows me to pick the channels I want to buy, that's when I might give them my business again. I've been without TV for a few years now. I don't miss it. My feelings are that your returning to the vastness of the wasteland that American TV has become, much worse than anything Newt Minnow ever envisioned, will be quite depressing for you. Enter at your own peril-----and bring plenty Zoloft and caffeine. Art Thieme |
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Subject: RE: BS: I've got TV, now what do I do? From: Art Thieme Date: 27 Oct 02 - 06:17 PM Pat, thanks for droppin' your pants, but no thanks. ;-) Art |
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Subject: RE: BS: I've got TV, now what do I do? From: Thomas the Rhymer Date: 27 Oct 02 - 06:26 PM Hi JenEllen! I am sometimes fascinated by tv. I work so terribly hard, that falling asleep in front of the tele is pure joy! Propaganda blows my mind... and I like to kinda stay on top of it... so where else but network news? ... and... since I work outdoors, it is fun to surf between all the different weather reports... My appraoch to tv is simple. They are trying to give us what we want, but most of us are satisfied with strained vegetables. I am fond of the occasional game (with sound off and the classical music raadio on), and anything genuinely informative that transcends the usual (fox) slease slop... In short, PBS, with occasional surfing amoungst the clamoring of networks... I watch a lot of movies, most of which come from the public library system. They are free, you can keep em for weeks at a time, and the selection is sometimes quite good! Charlie Rose is rather late, but Fantastic!... and "The News Hour" is my savior... ttr |
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Subject: RE: BS: I've got TV, now what do I do? From: catspaw49 Date: 27 Oct 02 - 06:33 PM Are ya' sure Art? I mean these invites only come every so often.......Hate to see anyone miss out! (:<)) Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: I've got TV, now what do I do? From: Thomas the Rhymer Date: 27 Oct 02 - 06:38 PM (!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: I've got TV, now what do I do? From: Amos Date: 27 Oct 02 - 07:30 PM Jen: I don't get it -- you had to get Television because you weren't up on the NEWS? You had an intenret connection where the updates were as close to real time as wire services could make them. Well, now ya got it, I can only wish you the very best of luck. Can't help with advice, since I pretty well stick to rented movies. I think my TV is older than Barkie! But we tune in to her a lot more often! :>) Suggest you keep a strict budget on your itme! I am sure your razor-sharp mind will take care of itself! :>) A |
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Subject: RE: BS: I've got TV, now what do I do? From: michaelr Date: 27 Oct 02 - 09:07 PM WorldLink is at the top of my list (DirecTV 375/Dish Network 9410). Independent political programming - they just aired the incredible French documentary "The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm" - , news from other countries, and world music videos. Excellent! The Science Channel is pretty good; Sundance and IFC for movies you don't see on HBO; Food Network for "Good Eats" with Alton Brown; Comedy Central for "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart, "South Park" (THE most subversive show on TV) and "Crank Yankers". Cheers, Michael |
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Subject: RE: BS: I've got TV, now what do I do? From: Genie Date: 27 Oct 02 - 09:46 PM Well, Jen, you know what John Prine said. ("Spanish Pipe Dream") ¤;-D Genie |
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Subject: RE: BS: I've got TV, now what do I do? From: Liz the Squeak Date: 28 Oct 02 - 02:30 AM Of course, one option is to put an excercise machine (bike, walker, whatever but not a rower) in front of the TV. Your hands will be free to hold the remote, and you can flick through channels whilst excercising. It's what I do with the computer, but it gets awkward trying to type into Mudchat whilst doing 10 miles at 15mph in high gear. I get distracted and do more than I'm supposed to..... We only have terrestrial TV, no cable company will hook us up (it's an address thing - apparently we live in an area with a lot of defaulters so they have a blanket No policy now)and I won't have a hideous dish on the house. We're investigating Digital, and if that works we will probably try for one of the history channels, Choice, Children's channel and Sci Fi. Then I can spend hours not watching those too. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: I've got TV, now what do I do? From: Genie Date: 28 Oct 02 - 03:41 AM Actually, Liz, I've heard of folks who have a small generator attached to their exercise bike and the TV so that the only way to have power to run the TV is to pedal. Not a bad idea, eh? Genie |
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Subject: RE: BS: I've got TV, now what do I do? From: Frivolous Sal Date: 28 Oct 02 - 05:09 AM I really really want to see "Counting on Democracy", a BBC production that some PBS stations, but not Seattle, are showing even though the big guys at PBS thought it would cause too much trouble. Can anybody, anywhere, record it for the poor lost souls in the Pacific North West? I will be glad to pay, and promise to share. Mehitabel |
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Subject: RE: BS: I've got TV, now what do I do? From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 28 Oct 02 - 06:07 AM Here's something about Counting on Democracy". Not a BBC production, though it may have been broadcast on a BBC channel (I missed it if it was) - here's the site of Globalvision who made it, with contact details. No doubt as the technology moves on we'll be squirting the programmes we recommend across the net to each other. And the whole copyright thing will kick in, making life so much more complicated than it needs to be. But that's another argument. I'm sure that there must be websites out there which have adjusted to the fact that people living in different parts of the world want to exchange views and recommendations for programmes going out from different stations on different channels in different time zones and different countries around the world. Anyone found any that are helpful on that sort of thing? |
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Subject: RE: BS: I've got TV, now what do I do? From: Mr Red Date: 28 Oct 02 - 06:33 AM I focus pretty much. It is the only way - but then I can't stand soap operas, game shows, and most situation comedies. I get analogue satellite and 4.5 terrestial channels. Satellite gives one sports channel that does a good job in the area of interest and there is CNN when I think there is a big international story. AND of the terrestial I focus-in too. News, science and such. Having said that I don't have that much choice we get a lot of German channels on satellite and the poor girls after midnight seem to be unable to afford dresses, but they spend a lot of time on telephones! I still listen to a lot of radio - speech channels. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I've got TV, now what do I do? From: JenEllen Date: 28 Oct 02 - 03:37 PM Thanks all! The deal was this: The satellite was already here, and paid for, I just didn't have any idea on how (or why!) to hook it up. Thankfully, I didn't have to go it alone! There was a knock at the door last night and the TV SUPPORT GROUP came by to render their services! They thought I might be frightened by a flickering box with one-dimensional images, so I was introduced to junkfood and telly etiquette (see Jen, this is what they call a "commercial"...that's when you get up and pee), and they even picked a movie I'd seen about a zillion times (Young Frankenstein) just so I'd be comfortable. With friends like that.... And I do have the A&E/Discovery/History, so with all the thumbs-up they got, I'lll check them out. CarolC: PBS is great, but we can't get local tv in the valley. Same with NPR. If it's a sunny day, and I'm wearing my tin-foil underwear, I can maybe get a little morning news via radio. Don: Do they do Lucy re-runs? *g* misophist: excellent points, and the reason that network tv went the way of the buffalo around here, however, metropolitan newspapers aren't much better. If I wanted to be assaulted with sex and ads for crap I don't need, I could always just buy Cosmo. It has no place in 'news'. McGrath: GREAT idea! videotaping is on the books Walking Eagle: The dish was originally going to be an ornate birdbath....it might yet... Mudlark: yup, just in time to be snowed in, and turning the sucker off is no problem, seeing as I've never been one to subscribe to the "never push the red button" theory! *g* TTR: movies from the library is a fine idea as well, something to look into before the snow flies for certain katlaughing: You leave them ol' black&whites alone! *g* I can't help it if I'm a sucker for guys in cufflinks... ~JE |
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Subject: RE: BS: I've got TV, now what do I do? From: katlaughing Date: 28 Oct 02 - 03:41 PM funny, I prefer them without...cufflinks or anything else...**BSEG** |
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Subject: RE: BS: I've got TV, now what do I do? From: JenEllen Date: 28 Oct 02 - 03:55 PM Oh, c'monnnnn! Dapper guy, white tie & tails, little lock of hair falling over his eyes, breaking in to song for no apparent reason other than no one's sung in two whole minutes?? Suh-Wooooon... |
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Subject: RE: BS: I've got TV, now what do I do? From: katlaughing Date: 28 Oct 02 - 04:02 PM It don't mean a thing, if it ain't got that schwing...LOL* * you have to have seen that stupid movie of Dana Carvey & Mike Myers doing their "schwing" thing to get this:-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: I've got TV, now what do I do? From: JenEllen Date: 28 Oct 02 - 04:12 PM Oh, you know if a guy like that is still upright after everyone beating the ever-livin' crap out of him for singing all the time, then he's got 'schwing' to spare...*bg* (btw: that movie I toldja about went out to you in the post today, laugh well) ~JE |
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Subject: RE: BS: I've got TV, now what do I do? From: katlaughing Date: 28 Oct 02 - 04:31 PM no codpieces, eh? LOL...tks, I'll watch for it! Speaking og B&W, the OLD Avengers series is being run on one of the nostalgia channels; before Dianna Rigg joined them...they are a hoot! |
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Subject: RE: BS: I've got TV, now what do I do? From: John Hardly Date: 28 Oct 02 - 09:37 PM time to catch up on The Simpsons! |
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Subject: RE: BS: I've got TV, now what do I do? From: YOR Date: 29 Oct 02 - 01:32 PM Take two "Seinfelds" and call me in the morning. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I've got TV, now what do I do? From: Peter T. Date: 29 Oct 02 - 04:40 PM I have inherited a big screen TV, and if you put a blanket over it, the top makes a excellent shelf for plants, it is just the right width and the new sets aren't very deep (Panasonic, I think), it can almost go against a wall. yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I've got TV, now what do I do? From: Amos Date: 29 Oct 02 - 04:42 PM Good man, PT!! POxie things, IMHO... |
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Subject: RE: BS: I've got TV, now what do I do? From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 29 Oct 02 - 05:49 PM "...breaking into song for no apparent reason other than no one's sung in two whole minutes." That sounds an excellent sort of reason to me. I used to watch a lot more TV. I've even got a little thingy on my computer that lets me watch while I'm on the net. But when I start using it, a break comes in the programme, and I move over to the Mudcat; and more often than not the stuff going on here is better than what's happening on the box, and I switch it off. (When you're watching the TV and you find yourself saying "That's rubbish what you said" or "Right on!", nothing comes back; but here someone's bound to argue the toss with you.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: I've got TV, now what do I do? From: GUEST,Chicken Charlie Date: 29 Oct 02 - 06:03 PM You have TV? Sorry to hear that. I think you're supposed to move to Arizona, or someplace else where the climate is dry. Oh, and stop smoking, if you haven't already. CC |
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Subject: RE: BS: I've got TV, now what do I do? From: Mudlark Date: 29 Oct 02 - 06:56 PM Jen...Forgot to mention the music channels...mostly schlock pop and worse but there are 2 classical (one chamber/baroque with lots of classical guitar, the other more bombastic orchestral works), a good trad jazz (as well as a Muzak jazz), a 40's big band, a bluegrass, and a blues channel. Not better than my own collection, but better than anything I can get with lousy radio reception. Since that's what's mostly playing on my TV, I've got a nice thick scarf I drape over the screen. The dogs like it when I leave jazz on for them... |