HI Bob,

On Sun 2037-Aug-23 06:37, Bob Ackley (1:300/3) wrote to Richard Webb:

 RW> NOpe, I haven't, but then I don't own a television.  I grew
 RW> disgusted with tv news being too busy telling me about some
 RW> actress's new hairdo or giving me other sensationalist
 RW> crappola and passing it off as news.  I haven't owned a
 RW> television since 1996.

BA> Hmpf.  I think I have four of them here.  Haven't watched any of
BA> them for probably 35 years except for the week following 9/11/2001. 
BA> Didn't bother to get the digital conversion boxes so I can't watch
BA> broadcast TV any more - not that I'll miss it.  I have both VHS and
BA> Beta VCRs and a DVD player and several dozen tapes and DVDs if I get
BA> desperate to watch something; I assume they still work, none of them
BA> have been turned on since before I moved out here beginning in 2003.

sOunds like where we were.  Over a decade ago I gave our
television to my daughter, her son was missing his cartoons
fix when hers crumped.

When we moved into this mobile home here in Tennessee  there was an old
black and white portable, which I think went to
the dump.

Regards,
           Richard
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