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[Goofyernmost]

I remember all of the above. If you were like my family, though, you did have remote control. My dad would just tell me, "Get up and go change the channel for me!" :D:

Wasn't much to it though were I grew up...it only had two channels in English, so the change didn't require a lot of hand movement.

[WEDFan]

Yer darn tootin'! All that, plus wireless word processors. What did we call 'em back then? Oh yeah, typewriters!

How could I have left typewriters off the list??? Maybe I just supressed the memory. They were the bane of my existence. I couldn't type to save my life. There was always the point on any given page where the weight of the white out had doubled the weight of the paper, and I had to start the whole page over again.

Man, I love the delete key. :D:

[delsdad]

Wasn't much to it though were I grew up...it only had two channels in English, so the change didn't require a lot of hand movement.

You had twice the choices we did. One channel, CBC. So we spent our time outside instead, which was not entirely a bad thing, at least in summer. In the winter we looked forward to the new season of the Beachcombers and of course Hockey night In Canada !

[BRWombat]

At least we had it better than back before electricity, when people had to watch TV by candlelight. :D:

[Belgarion42]

At least we had it better than back before electricity, when people had to watch TV by candlelight. :D:

Nice!

[WEDFan]

At least we had it better than back before electricity, when people had to watch TV by candlelight. :D:

Ok. That just brings to mind this trivia question...

What does "burning the candle at both ends" really mean? ;)

[shilohmm]

There was always the point on any given page where the weight of the white out had doubled the weight of the paper, and I had to start the whole page over again.

I can relate. I had a college prof hand me a paper with no grade on it, and say, "This is a 'B' paper, but you're not getting a grade until you retype it." So I paid someone to do type it up for me.

What does "burning the candle at both ends" really mean? ;)

At this point it means someone who works hard and is exhausted, but it originally meant a marriage where both partners were spendthrifts. Candles that burned at both ends burned brighter but didn't last half as long, so I guess it fits both.

What I want to know is why a "spendthrift" is someone who wastes money when the word has "thrift" in it. I look up the etymology periodically, but it never sticks.

[Goofyernmost]

You had twice the choices we did. One channel, CBC. So we spent our time outside instead, which was not entirely a bad thing, at least in summer. In the winter we looked forward to the new season of the Beachcombers and of course Hockey night In Canada !

Our third, was channel 2 out of Montreal. Mostly wrestling and a pair of hand puppets that just repeatedly hit each other over the head with sticks. Neither of those required translation, but it would have been handy to know why they were hitting each other. The puppets, not the wrestlers. :twisted: Good times!

[delsdad]

Our third, was channel 2 out of Montreal. Mostly wrestling and a pair of hand puppets that just repeatedly hit each other over the head with sticks. Neither of those required translation, but it would have been handy to know why they were hitting each other. The puppets, not the wrestlers. :twisted: Good times!

Was it Nik & Pic ? They traveled in a balloon ? low budget programming at its worst !

[Zazu]

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