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Old 05-16-2013, 04:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Air&Road View Post
Jim, your post reminded me of the book "1984" that was written in the fifties or sixties. They portrayed television much as the curse that you accurately described it.
Thanks Larry;

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There's a classic scene in a Woody Allen movie, perhaps it was Annie Hall.

Woody leaves NY and comes to LA where he becomes, after a time, a successful Hollywood screenwriter; and he invites his best friend from NYC to Los Angeles to visit for the first time..

Woody is driving him around in this huge '76 El Dorado convertible in Beverly Hills, and can barely maneuver it (in NYC, "cars" are those yellow things with numbers on top) ..He backs it up into garbage cans and so on.

and his friend exclaims: "Wow, I can't buhlieve this!!! It's so clean here in LA!!!
In New York we have garbage 12 stories high! (This was when the famous mid '70s NY garbage strike was going on).

What do you guys in LA do with all your GARBAGE?"

And Woody looks over at him, and deadpans:


"Oh, we put it all on TV."
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