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Article #621868Re: 1967 SCM ad "Do your taxes the easy way!"
From: Charles Richmond
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 05:18
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 05:18
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On 4/19/2018 6:48 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On 2018-04-19, Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote: > >> On 2018-04-19, Kerr-Mudd,John <nots...@invalid.org> wrote: >> >>> I vaguely remember some "coming next" bit on top of the end of a program >>> (on ch4?); maybe it was the hoohah about that that caused a change in the >>> rules. A lot of the commercial channels squeeze the credits and jump in >>> at the end to tell you about something exciting coming up. > > I hate that, especially when I'm trying to scan the cast list for the > name of an actor whose performance I enjoyed. To make things worse, > the now-shrunken credits are often scrolled at a much higher speed > than in the original: compressed in time as well as space. > > Then there are the networks who completely reset the credits - different > format, typeface, etc. - to better fit into their end-of-show ads. > Mr. Gibbs, you can look up the episode on IMDb.com and find out more than you wanted to know about the actors. In the future, I look forward to a post from you... listing some of the things you *really* like! After all... *no* need in being negative all the time. Just don't let the government know what you like... they will tax it or forbid it! ;-) -- numerist at aquaporin4 dot com
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