Your TV has no off button? Every flatscreen I've ever seen has one, you just have to find it. Of course, you could always unplug it, too, which is probably safer given the potential for a power surge.
Thought even my TV (ca. 2003) just...stays off. The satellite comes back on bu the TV itself doesn't.
And I remember what really bothered me about this. Trip? Seriously? TRIP?
I looked again last night, felt that baby up, and I still can't find one.
I like to imagine that Dawn's family had a TV like the one mine had in the mid-80's, the kind where you had to pull the channel button out to turn the set on, small screen (by today's standards), no remote, rabbit ear antennas...aw, man, I just bummed myself out, I kind of miss that thing.
That...seems like an invitaiton to disaster for when you inevtably lose/drop/break the remote/the batteries die and you don't have any...I hesitate to ask given my own cavalier attitude towards the things but where's the manual? If something happens to the remote are you really just supposed to yank the plug?
And given they're watching "All In The Family" for some misbegotten reason I'm imagining the TV we had that was ALREADY obsolete, with 13 channels and a round dial thing.
And the beauty of Kristy's embarrassing moment is that if she'd been a responsible sitter and TOLD Karen to stop scaring her siblings, she wouldn't have HAD to be afraid! Hey, maybe the reason she's embarrassed by it is because she knows she - GASP! - did something wrong.
Bored, Jeff wonders aloud, "What can you do in the dark?" and I wish I were drinking something, just so I could do a spit-take. I second this.
Re Trip: I wonder what Dawn thinks of 2011, where it seems to be considered uncool to call your kid an ordinary name. At least he's not called Abcde or Leukemia, Dawn.
just put him to bed, which she was very eager to do, because there was a good porgram on that she really wanted to watch. Wow, you can tell this is an early book.
Love the comments from your cat. What kind of cat is he?
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Thought even my TV (ca. 2003) just...stays off. The satellite comes back on bu the TV itself doesn't.
And I remember what really bothered me about this. Trip? Seriously? TRIP?
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I like to imagine that Dawn's family had a TV like the one mine had in the mid-80's, the kind where you had to pull the channel button out to turn the set on, small screen (by today's standards), no remote, rabbit ear antennas...aw, man, I just bummed myself out, I kind of miss that thing.
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And given they're watching "All In The Family" for some misbegotten reason I'm imagining the TV we had that was ALREADY obsolete, with 13 channels and a round dial thing.
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Great snark so far!
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Bored, Jeff wonders aloud, "What can you do in the dark?" and I wish I were drinking something, just so I could do a spit-take.
I second this.
Re Trip: I wonder what Dawn thinks of 2011, where it seems to be considered uncool to call your kid an ordinary name. At least he's not called Abcde or Leukemia, Dawn.
just put him to bed, which she was very eager to do, because there was a good porgram on that she really wanted to watch.
Wow, you can tell this is an early book.
Love the comments from your cat. What kind of cat is he?
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Kristy just got burned by an elementary schooler. even better, by Karen.
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