and before there were remote controls, my dad attached a switch to a wire so
we could silence the TV ads!
mag

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> note that i changed the subject line guys.
> > 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.
>