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Article #621869Re: 1967 SCM ad "Do your taxes the easy way!"
From: J. Clarke
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 10:46
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 10:46
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On Fri, 20 Apr 2018 00:18:19 -0500, Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> wrote: >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! ;-) I don't know about him but since they closed the forums I make it a point to avoid feeding IMDB clicks.
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