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11:29 - Stoooooopid television!

Stoopid television. I've been hearing how Digital Television comes today. If we got our stations through the air, instead of through cable, and we didn't get a converter, all stations would go away.

I never got a converter. We get our stations through the air.

And I was hoping to be free, free, FREE of endless reruns of Law and Order, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, Law and Order: Tax Fraud, Law and Order: Highway Patrol, and Law and Order: Postal Police. Hah!

So, I turned on the television, and...

...grumble... It worked.

What had gone wrong with my plan? What could have possibly gone wrong?

Eli mentioned something about "DirecTV". Could that have anything to do with it?

Tags: humor, mock-grumbling

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From:	genecatlow
Date:	2009-Jun-12 06:47 pm (UTC)

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Turn it OFF and go compose more music. ^_^

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From:	jrittenhouse
Date:	2009-Jun-12 06:53 pm (UTC)

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*smack the boy upside the head good*

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From:	zorinlynx
Date:	2009-Jun-12 07:05 pm (UTC)

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I don't watch enough TV to justify pay TV, so I have an antenna.

Or if you want to be old fashioned, an aerial! No, not the mermaid...

Anyway, I'll probably have to rescan all the channels tonight, as a few are changing frequency in the shuffle today. But since I watch so little TV it's going to be more of an exercise in curiosity than a real need.

Not until Fall anyway. :)

(and this userpic is so fitting the topic!)

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From:	polymathwannabe
Date:	2009-Jun-12 07:14 pm (UTC)

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No - that can't *possibly* have anything to do with it. It must be something else.

Did you remember to pull the pluggy thing out of the wall?

It may also help to administer a sledge hammer directly to the screen.

Failing that, there is always fire.

If none of those work, and you are *still* receiving Law and Order reruns, then I'm afraid your TV must be possessed and you will need to exercise it. Buy it a treadmill or one of those all-in-one home gym systems.

Good Luck!

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From:	the_gneech
Date:	2009-Jun-12 07:15 pm (UTC)

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I recommend a sledgehammer. Just to be sure.

-The Gneech

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From:	shockwave77598
Date:	2009-Jun-12 07:21 pm (UTC)

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Heheheh. Curse you satellites in your Geostationary orbits!

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From:	polymathwannabe
Date:	2009-Jun-12 07:27 pm (UTC)

A solution I hadn't thought of...

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Good point - another possible solution would be to put a curse on the satellites, or at least pray for them to be struck down by an act of divine intervention ;)

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From:	megadog
Date:	2009-Jun-12 07:28 pm (UTC)

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Will we never be free of their extra-terrestial mind-control rays?

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From:	polymathwannabe
Date:	2009-Jun-12 07:32 pm (UTC)

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Don't give up hope! Keep fighting the rays until your last breath!

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From:	drleo
Date:	2009-Jun-12 07:40 pm (UTC)

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Ah, because your TV doesn't come through the air, it comes...

<cue deep voice with absurdly high reverb>

FROM SPACE!

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From:	merle_
Date:	2009-Jun-12 09:46 pm (UTC)

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What had gone wrong with my plan?

You turned on your television.

I don't think they were required to remove the analog broadcasts, just that they didn't have to provide them (and should quickly deprecate them so as to free up that part of the spectrum). But whenever their ads came on I just said "blah blah blah" and fast-forwarded.

Besides, they didn't say what time of the day it would happen at. You might see blessed static at 23:59:59 tonight.

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From:	lysana
Date:	2009-Jun-12 11:36 pm (UTC)

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Actually, yes, they are required by Federal law to stop broadcasting on the analog channels in order to make room for other uses of the frequencies. It's that or lose their license to broadcast, period.

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