“When I was a kid we had 3 TV channels in black and white”
HA! When I was a kid, My Grandfather’s upstairs tenant got the first TV in the neighborhood. It was an enormous box, with a little oval-shaped picture tube. It was more black and pale green! My Dad built our first TV from a kit! One station, on in the morning, then the Indian head test pattern until sometime in the afternoon. I was outside all the time, either riding my bike, or exploring in the woods.
These days, I see my neighborhood kids come home from school, and don’t see them outside again until they’re waiting for the school bus the next morning. The K-9 school is about 3 blocks away. But they go to the Catholic school which is much further away, like 5 blocks!
Re: “When I was a kid we had 3 TV channels in black and white”
>HA! When I was a kid, My Grandfather’s upstairs tenant
>got the first TV in the neighborhood. It was an enormous >box, with a little oval-shaped picture tube. It was more >black and pale green! My Dad built our first TV from a kit!
Your conversation reminds me of this classic MP sketch...
Monty Python - Four Yorkshiremen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo