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Article #5775Re: Alternatives to Comcast?
From: Geoff Miller
Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 16:29
Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 16:29
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Dave C. <mdupre@sff.net> wrote: > The Weather Channel is the #1 television channel of > any type in all retirement homes and nursing homes. > Maybe when you get older you'll understand. (I don't > either) It's one of those mysterious "old people" things, like their marked preference for Buicks or the way they're so enamored of cafeteria-style restaurants. Maybe people get indoctrinated into this stuff when they join the AARP. (Strange but true: there was a cafeteria-style restaurant in a town in Oklahoma that I lived in back in the '80s whose female serving staff dressed in nurse's uniforms. This was obviously intended to put the oldsters at ease.) Geoff -- "If I wanted to make political statements, I would have run for office. I want to make movies." --Michael Moore
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