28 May
2024
28 May
'24
4:16 p.m.
> "If your working television sits on top of
your non-working television,
> you might be a redneck." - Jeff Foxworthy
On Wed, 29 May 2024, Adrian Godwin wrote:
As a child. my parents weren't sufficiently
enamoured of televisions to buy
one, but I was given some old ones.
The one on the bottom had working sound and the one on the top had working
video.
When the TV wasn't working, and seemingly unrepariable (drugstore tube
testers), my father would buy another cheap old working TV from Goodwill,
etc.
A significant part of the time, that meant not having a working one.
So, my brother and I pooled our money to buy a 19" "portable" Philco. My
father chipped in the balance for the UHF option ("educational" TV was UHF
in those days).
I remember watching the "Cuban Missile Crisis" on it.
I also remember going down Massachusetts avenue in the middle of the
night, and all embassies had all of their lights on all night.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com