Today's Basket
Aug. 26th, 2009 08:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennis
It's another dog. I will not be doing dog after dog after dog but I did want to make sure I have this pattern down. Like the plane. I think I do.
There's a hippo in the queue! Do not touch that dial! (whoa! ooooold reference! wonder how many people would head scratch over that one?)
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Date: 2009-08-27 03:21 pm (UTC).
You might be amazed to find out that even I remember that phrase: "Don't touch that dial!"
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Date: 2009-08-27 03:24 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-08-27 03:35 pm (UTC).
Ha! Yes, of course I've seen several, although not in a long time. When I was really little, you may recall, my family was part of a fundamentalist Baptist church that generally regarded television-watching as sinful. Breaking the TV out of the closet on rare occasions, such as for the 1984 Reagan/Mondale debates, was a big, big deal. Given the rarity of TV use, having an up-to-date TV with something like a remote control was not at all a priority with my family in the late seventies and early- to mid-eighties. In fact, I don't think we had a genuine remote control until we moved to Spokane in 1985. I was 9.
The first remote control I ever saw wasn't even really remote -- it was kind of a cheat. My dad's parents had one for their big, screen-in-a-box-that-sat-on-the-floor TV in Shelton. Except the "remote" was on the end of a cord that ran to the TV. Even that TV had dials on it.
But I, like very, very few other people, continued to own a TV with actual dials on it well into the 21st Century. I had two of them, even! Before I met Shobhit, the only TV I owned was an old, 13" color TV that I got as a hand-me-down from my mom's parents, which they used to keep in their kitchen when I was a kid. (This was no big deal to me as I had zero personal interest in television for a full decade, between around 1996 and maybe 2006 -- it was only TiVo that got me into it again.) For a long time, I had that color TV propped on top of another TV -- a black and white one! Also with dials, which I got as a present from my mom when I was a teenager, her welfare-mom version of providing her kids with their own TVs for their bedrooms. It stopped working long before I got rid of it, but for a while I was making like a redneck and using it as a TV stand for the color TV!
So, yeah, I have surprisingly extensive experience with TV dials.
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Date: 2009-08-27 03:40 pm (UTC)My first video player - a beta max - had a wired remote control.
'Careful, don't trip over the cord' was our 'welcome to the TV room' (it was when I was married with children).
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Date: 2009-08-27 03:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-08-27 03:42 pm (UTC).
With children? Huh? Did your ex have children? I don't remember this.
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Date: 2009-08-27 03:46 pm (UTC)He had FIVE!! When we were married I was 30 and the children were: 27, 25, 17, 15 and 14. The oldest two were girls and never did live with us. The rest lived with us on and off. And, no, I have no clue where any of them are now. Shockingly, we did not bond.
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Date: 2009-08-27 03:49 pm (UTC).
I've been telling you for years that my memory isn't perfect!
Besides, when you said "married with children," I was thinking little kids, not teenagers and adults.
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Date: 2009-08-27 03:50 pm (UTC)yeahbutt I forget