On Thu, 5 Apr 2001 17:07:06 -0500 (CDT), Julia Thompson wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Jim Sharkey wrote:
>
>>> I don't know...I've always liked that bumper sticker that says,
>>>
>>> Kill Your Television
>>
>> I'd consider it, but, you know, Buffy and all... :)
>>
>> Not to mention my kids would kill me in turn! :)
>
>We were without a functioning TV for awhile, and didn't miss it *too*
>badly. (I think it was about 8 months or so.) We could get weather
>reports and baseball games from the radio, and that was about all we
>really wanted more immediately than a daily paper would give us. Of
>course, my sister and I were old enough not to pitch tantrums and cry
>about the whole thing. :) And anyone bitching about being bored
>would be directed to the shelves and shelves of books, not to
>mention the stacks in the upstairs hallway (that finally got
>bookcase homes a few months before I graduated from high school).
All good ideas, but since my brood are all less than kindergarten age, so
they're not quite up to reading speed yet. :)
Besides, I've gotten them to like Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 a lot, so at
least I'm sneaking a little culture into them! :)
Jim
"What can change the nature of a man?" - The Nameless One
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