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Article #63912BCTV New's gimicks....
From: Thomas Wong
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1993 02:47
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1993 02:47
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Am I the only one or is anyone else getting sick of BCTV New's deficit comparison song-and-dance? Mind you, I think their week long program on the deficit is great, most imformative, and does well in pinpointing the problems and possible solutions. Those segments have been most wonderful. But throughout the week, every 5 minutes within the News, they have to do a .... everytime you tie your shoelace, the debt increase by blah blah blah dollars. Everytime this man does 10 push ups, the national debt grows by ..... everytime this dog walks across the street, the deft grows by.... everytime you change a tire on your car, the debt grows by.... everytime you brush your fingers through your hair, the debt grows by.... everytime you start your car engine, the debt grows by...... argh! :( Well, at least they did one different song-and-dance amongst the others today.... if you get 100 dollar bills, put them end to end, and wrap it around the earth, you'll have to go around 32 times to equal the among we need to pay off the deficit. Wow, exactly what I always needed to know but couldn't find in my encyclopedia! Yeah but, if we stack dollar bills upwards to the height of the CN Tower, how many stacks do we need to equal the amount needed to payoff the deficit? Yes, this is important info! We as Canadians should all know the answer to this one! ... what do they (BCTV) take us for? Thomas.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 106cdd,9c94336565b45e6f,start X-Google-Attributes: gid106cdd,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-03-25 18:47:36 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!uunet.ca!xenitec!van-bc!cs.ubc.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!twong From: twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong) Newsgroups: bc.general Subject: BCTV New's gimicks.... Date: 26 Mar 1993 02:47:36 GMT Organization: Dept. of Civil Engineering, U.B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 28 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1otqs8INN9b8@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: sam.civil.ubc.ca