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"Stumpy" lives - much to the chagrin of the trolling trash...
On Fri, 2 May 2008 17:16:03 -0700 (PDT), snidely
wrote: Let me be the first to welcome you back! ....Otay :-) (looks in desk for key to time machine) ....Yeah, I could use a ride in that myself. However, I'll be honest - things like this happen for a reason. It's brought my family a lot closer together, and today I finally got out of the house for a few hours to run a few errands with Brother Dim. Had a reaction to the chinese food buffet that put a damper on things early, but at least I'm not dead. ....If I could go back in time with the provision that I couldn't change anything, I'd go back with a PC seriously geared for TV capture, find some city that had superior cable TV service for its day, and then capture TV programs that were live and the kinescopes never survived. IIRC, most of the DuMont network's shows are long since dumped off the end of some Long Island pier, and there's reportedly none of the "Kitirik" or "Cadet Don" shows left either. Most kids' shows are long lost because a) nobody thought they'd be worth saving, and b) home recording for the parents wasn't available at an affordable cost(*) until after the local kids' shows were essentially extinct. (*) Remember, in the late 60's - early 70's, only the uberrich could afford a 3/4" VTR deck, camera and tapes. Which is why Mama Cass, Bob Crane and Jimi Hendrix had them, and look at what they used them for! OM -- ]=====================================[ ] OMBlog - http://www.io.com/~o_m/omworld [ ] Let's face it: Sometimes you *need* [ ] an obnoxious opinion in your day! [ ]=====================================[ |
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