Thursday, May 10, 2012

I hated this as a kid but please stand by


I couldn't imagine anything worse at 11 years old than grabbing my parents' brown, push-button Jerrold channel changer box from my sister's grubby hands to switch the channel from TVOntario to CFTO to watch MacGuyver, only to be greeted with the stupid test screen from a US-feed that wasn't working. Anyhoo, Blogger is giving me issues and as I write, it has taken almost 12 attempts today to write this post to let you know there are technical difficulties. I'll try this again tomorrow.

5 comments:

  1. Skin ManMay 11, 2012 at 8:56 AM

    I remember that "remote", my parents had one as well!

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  2. Peter SeelertMay 11, 2012 at 12:31 PM

    LOL Oh, Cindy, you’re soooooooo young! This is a test pattern: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:RCA_Indian_Head_test_pattern.JPG. And you had to get up off the couch to change channels via the rotary selector, after which you adjusted the rabbit ears, and if the horizontal or vertical hold weren’t quite right, you reached around the back of the TV to fiddle with the controls. Yup, I’m a dinosaur!

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  3. C.J. SmithMay 11, 2012 at 12:44 PM

    I still can't post!!!!

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  4. ExGOnowTTCMay 11, 2012 at 2:11 PM

    Mad props to Beta players everywhere!!

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  5. daGOguyMay 12, 2012 at 12:43 PM

    wordpress much better lol

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