In a message dated 2/26/2002 10:29:43 AM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask]
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> my dad liked it too and what dad wanted to watch the whole family watched. i
> liked it. back then we only had 2 channels anyway.
>

You weren't really living until you had to have channel locks permanently
mounted on the channel changer metal thing because your dad lost the plastic
knob turn thingy.

My Dad's idea of "the man thing" was to take a sack of TV bulbs to the
drugstore and test them all on that big tube tester.  That was a major
testosterone thing for him.