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Article #1013Re: My 11-yr old son asked me this question
From: The Real Bev
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 01:11
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 01:11
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John Gilmer wrote: > > > But Arizona is REALLY screwed up. Not only are we nominally in the > Mountain time zone, but we do not observe dailight savings time. > > I've lived here a year now and still haven't gotten the knack for > calculating what time a show that begins at "8 eastern and > > pacific" is going to start. Case in point: I missed the season premiere of > Enterprise because I thought it was on at 8:00 but it > > really started at 7:00 (don't worry, I caught the Sunday re-run :). > > The solution is OBVIOUS. > > STOP watching TV. Tell the cable company and the dish TV folks to take a > walk. Use the money you save to install a long wire AM antenna and > wideband Internet access (but not through the cable company as you will be > tempted to watch TV again.) > > Go to yard sales and buy last year's best sellers for $.25. At the very least, dump TV news and read the Drudge Report and the AP feeds instead. -- Cheers, Bev -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- "I love to go down to the schoolyard and watch all the little children jump up and down and run around yelling and screaming...They don't know I'm only using blanks." --Emo
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 107518,6bdd091c9be7622d X-Google-Attributes: gid107518,public X-Google-Thread: f6c48,6bdd091c9be7622d X-Google-Attributes: gidf6c48,public X-Google-Thread: 101049,6bdd091c9be7622d X-Google-Attributes: gid101049,public X-Google-Thread: fb785,6bdd091c9be7622d X-Google-Attributes: gidfb785,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-09-28 18:11:57 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!colt.net!peernews3.colt.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.freenet.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!66-81-72-116-modem.o1.COM!not-for-mail From: The Real Bev <bashley@myrealbox.com> Newsgroups: va.general,misc.consumers,dc.general,misc.consumers.frugal-living Subject: Re: My 11-yr old son asked me this question Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 18:11:53 -0700 Organization: The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy Lines: 28 Message-ID: <3D965359.3D94A137@myrealbox.com> References: <3D957173.F57ACB7F@nospam.com> <LTel9.476253$_91.696277@rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net> <msdbpu08mutvqhu7ffst5i1pfcgo63ordg@4ax.com> <3d95e117$0$21850@dingus.crosslink.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 66-81-72-116-modem.o1.com (66.81.72.116) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1033261915 11938120 66.81.72.116 (16 [6883]) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.4 i686) X-Accept-Language: en