Posted on 12/10/2006 11:40:56 AM PST by lowbridge
["riding to Gettysburg on the back of an envelope?"
I always though that he went by train. History really is something!]
LOL! That was the answer a school kid gave to a question on an exam about Lincoln. It appeared in one of the early Pocket Books (ca late 40's).
I still find it funny.
You are a gentleman! Actually, I'm flattered when it's assumed I'm male. I confess that as for TV w/cable, I'm like an alcoholic. Leave me at home with an old movie channel or an old 50s TV rerun channel, and I'll go on a ridiculous, shameless bender. It's why I made myself return the cable box! If "Leave It To Beaver" is on, the rest of the world stops.
Let's see. I haven't had cable since 1993, and barely watched any television at all since I moved, seven months ago. It seemed to me that the Internet is where people go to turn their brains on, and TV is where they go to turn their brains off.
I have never seen "Beavis and Butthead."
I have never watched "The Sopranos," or any other program on HBO.
I never saw "South Park" or "Sex in the City" until the edited versions came on the WB Network.
I haven't seen the new version of "Battlestar Galactica," though I hear it is much better than the original one that starred Lorne Greene.
The last time I saw MTV, they were playing music videos. Is it true they don't do that anymore?
Am I an incomplete person for missing all that?
There are some wonderful programs on cable. Let it go at that.
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