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Article #624828Re: OT: 1958 a day in the life of a TV repairman
From: Gareths Downstairs Computer
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 20:01
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 20:01
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On 13/07/2018 20:56, JimP wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jul 2018 12:33:32 -0700 (PDT), hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote: > >> On Thursday, July 12, 2018 at 5:58:13 PM UTC-4, Peter Flass wrote: >> >>> Another once-good career that has gone the way of the iceman. >> >> In an episode of Car 54, an older woman (played by the great >> Molly Picon), was given a modern apartment. She demanded an >> icebox, so the iceman would come up and visit with her. She >> thought her modern apartment was a jail. >> >> That episode, made circa 1961, was very phophetic. > > I have lived in three apartments in my life. I agree, I felt like I > was in a cage. I had tv, my computer, dvds of movies and stand up > comedy. There were days I had to make my self stay there. > I lived in the tower blocks at Essex Uni and thought nothing of it but nowadays appreciate a garden to go out to, to relieve the boxed in feeling. I'd never go on a prison ship, AKA cruise liner, for the same reason
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