“The television and I have the world’s best relationship, because we see each other every day and I am pretty sure it loves me as much as I love it.” -Author Unknown
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Jared: How have you been?
Vera: Well, I’ve been through a tornado in the middle of an earthquake, followed by an alien invasion. I barely survived it all.
Jared: Wow, where were you?
Vera: I was at home . . . I probably should watch less television!
“Kristina, my wife, and I thought about this one day when the kids were, of course, watching television. And we took a big blanket and put it in the backyard and said, ‘Let's go out on our back and look at the sky and call it sky television.’ We saw all kinds of things.” -Clyde Edgerton
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“You watch television, and what does it do for you? Does it wash and dry your laundry? Does it put money in your bank account? Does it help you succeed in school or at job interviews? Does it give you the physique of Charles Atlas or the gracefulness of Ginger Rogers? Does it paint your house and mow your grass and trim your hedges? Does it help you meet amazing people? No - television does not contribute anything worthwhile to you, your life, your surroundings, or your world . . . and television may even be preventing you from living the life of your dreams . . . so throw the television out with the other household garbage, and spend your time with people, animals, and plants - or in making wacky inventions, exploring mysterious caves and mountaintops, and rehearsing jokes to tell to crowds of strangers!” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“My father hated radio and couldn’t wait for television to be invented so he could hate that, too.” -Peter de Vries (1910 - 1993)
A farmer’s son invented television when he was just 14 years old. While plowing potatoes, Philo Taylor Farnsworth (1906 - 1971) observed that the rows of a farm field had noticeable light patterns. Based on this observation, by 21 years of age, he had built the first working television that was entirely electrical and without any electro-mechanical parts, followed by an early video camera invention, which he used in combination to transmit his own entertainment shows between the rooms of his workshop. He held more than 300 patents in his lifetime, mostly in the field of television, but he also innovated concepts in the field of nuclear fusion.
“If it weren’t for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we’d still be eating frozen radio dinners.” -Johnny Carson (John William ‘Johnny’ Carson (1925 - 2005))
“The best thing on television the other night was a meadowlark on my neighbor’s antenna.” -William D. Tammeus: as quoted in the Kansas City “Star” newspaper: as quoted in “The Reader’s Digest” (1981) magazine
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“Have you ever noticed that TV families never watch TV?” -Henny Youngman (Henry ‘Henny’ Youngman (1906 - 1998))
In 1965, BBC TV featured an interview with a professor who had just invented a device called ‘smellovision.’ This miraculous technology allowed viewers to experience directly in their own home aromas produced in the television studio. The professor offered a demonstration by cutting some onions and brewing coffee. A number of viewers called in to confirm that they distinctly experienced these scents as if they were there in the studio with him. Since no aromas were actually being transmitted, whatever these viewers thought they smelled coming out of their TV sets must be chalked up to the power of suggestion.
“People only know what they see on TV.” -Carmello Anthony
“There’s a new television series in development. When it is broadcast, people will be able to watch ‘famous celebrities’ and ‘influencers’ on their televisions, and those people will be . . . sitting on a couch watching television. So, it will be a television show about people watching television.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“I don’t watch TV. In my spare time, if I have any, I want to make music.” -Chino Moreno
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“When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about close relationships.” -Andy Warhol
Emma: What was the television watcher doing at the beach?
Lee: Channel surfing.
“After 20 years of searching, you are forced to admit that there just isn’t anything good on TV.” -Author Unknown: “The Onion,” ‘Horoscope’
“Television is the single greatest threat to communications and connections within a family. You may as well be fifty miles away from the person sitting next to you if you’re both watching television.” -Author Unknown
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“The first time I got a universal remote control, I thought to myself, ‘This changes everything.’” -Author Unknown
“The worst thing about television is that everybody you see on television is doing something better than what you’re doing. You never see anybody on TV just sliding off the front of the sofa, with potato chip crumbs all over their shirt.” -Jerry Seinfeld (Jerome Allen ‘Jerry’ Seinfeld (born 1954)) at: http://jerryseinfeld.com/
“I may have made a lot of bad decisions in life, but at least I don’t watch daytime television.” -Andy Borowitz
“Imagine what it would be like if TV were actually good. It would be the end of everything we know.” -Marvin Minsky
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“Whoever controls the media - the images - controls the culture.” -Allen Ginsberg (Irwin Allen Ginsberg (1926 - 1997))
“As long as there’s a jingle in your head, TV isn’t free.” -Jason Love
“The one function that TV news performs very well is that, when there is no news, we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.” -David Brinkley (1920 - 2003)
“When a child is watching television, he or she is not involved in play, not socializing with other individuals, and most importantly, not receiving feedback as to the actions or consequences of his or her behavior.” -David Perlmutter
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“Television is to news what bumper stickers are to philosophy.” -Richard M. Nixon (Richard Milhous Nixon (1913 - 1994))
“Television? The word is half Latin and half Greek. No good can come of it.” -C. P. Scott (Charles Prestwich Scott (1846 - 1932))
The English word television is derived from the Greek word ‘tele’ meaning ‘far’ or ‘at a distance’ and the Latin word ‘visio’ meaning ‘sight.’
“The word ‘television’ is a poor choice, not merely because ‘tele’ is Greek and ‘vision’ is Latin but also because it is a simple synonym of telescopy. One could have found a more characteristic Greek expression such as ‘teleopsy’ and derivatives from this word.” -André Blondel (1937)
“There was a show on television the other day that was so old . . . the cowboys were riding dinosaurs.” -Author Unknown
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“It’s a good thing television shows are so awful; otherwise, some of us would squander our entire lives watching television.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Television has changed the American child from an irresistible force into an immovable object.” -Laurence J. Peter (Laurence Johnston Peter (1919 - 1990)): as quoted in Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull: “The Peter Principle” (1969), page 324
“I haven’t had a TV in 10 years, and I really don’t miss it. ’Cause it’s always so much more fun to be with people than it ever was to be with a television.” -Chuck Palahniuk (Charles Michael ‘Chuck’ Palahniuk (born 1962)): as quoted in the “San Francisco Bay Guardian” (30 October 2002), newspaper
World Television Day is observed on 21 November of each year.
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Jared: How have you been?
Vera: Well, I’ve been through a tornado in the middle of an earthquake, followed by an alien invasion. I barely survived it all.
Jared: Wow, where were you?
Vera: I was at home . . . I probably should watch less television!
“Kristina, my wife, and I thought about this one day when the kids were, of course, watching television. And we took a big blanket and put it in the backyard and said, ‘Let's go out on our back and look at the sky and call it sky television.’ We saw all kinds of things.” -Clyde Edgerton
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“You watch television, and what does it do for you? Does it wash and dry your laundry? Does it put money in your bank account? Does it help you succeed in school or at job interviews? Does it give you the physique of Charles Atlas or the gracefulness of Ginger Rogers? Does it paint your house and mow your grass and trim your hedges? Does it help you meet amazing people? No - television does not contribute anything worthwhile to you, your life, your surroundings, or your world . . . and television may even be preventing you from living the life of your dreams . . . so throw the television out with the other household garbage, and spend your time with people, animals, and plants - or in making wacky inventions, exploring mysterious caves and mountaintops, and rehearsing jokes to tell to crowds of strangers!” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“My father hated radio and couldn’t wait for television to be invented so he could hate that, too.” -Peter de Vries (1910 - 1993)
A farmer’s son invented television when he was just 14 years old. While plowing potatoes, Philo Taylor Farnsworth (1906 - 1971) observed that the rows of a farm field had noticeable light patterns. Based on this observation, by 21 years of age, he had built the first working television that was entirely electrical and without any electro-mechanical parts, followed by an early video camera invention, which he used in combination to transmit his own entertainment shows between the rooms of his workshop. He held more than 300 patents in his lifetime, mostly in the field of television, but he also innovated concepts in the field of nuclear fusion.
“If it weren’t for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we’d still be eating frozen radio dinners.” -Johnny Carson (John William ‘Johnny’ Carson (1925 - 2005))
“The best thing on television the other night was a meadowlark on my neighbor’s antenna.” -William D. Tammeus: as quoted in the Kansas City “Star” newspaper: as quoted in “The Reader’s Digest” (1981) magazine
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“Have you ever noticed that TV families never watch TV?” -Henny Youngman (Henry ‘Henny’ Youngman (1906 - 1998))
In 1965, BBC TV featured an interview with a professor who had just invented a device called ‘smellovision.’ This miraculous technology allowed viewers to experience directly in their own home aromas produced in the television studio. The professor offered a demonstration by cutting some onions and brewing coffee. A number of viewers called in to confirm that they distinctly experienced these scents as if they were there in the studio with him. Since no aromas were actually being transmitted, whatever these viewers thought they smelled coming out of their TV sets must be chalked up to the power of suggestion.
“People only know what they see on TV.” -Carmello Anthony
“There’s a new television series in development. When it is broadcast, people will be able to watch ‘famous celebrities’ and ‘influencers’ on their televisions, and those people will be . . . sitting on a couch watching television. So, it will be a television show about people watching television.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“I don’t watch TV. In my spare time, if I have any, I want to make music.” -Chino Moreno
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“When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about close relationships.” -Andy Warhol
Emma: What was the television watcher doing at the beach?
Lee: Channel surfing.
“After 20 years of searching, you are forced to admit that there just isn’t anything good on TV.” -Author Unknown: “The Onion,” ‘Horoscope’
“Television is the single greatest threat to communications and connections within a family. You may as well be fifty miles away from the person sitting next to you if you’re both watching television.” -Author Unknown
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“The first time I got a universal remote control, I thought to myself, ‘This changes everything.’” -Author Unknown
“The worst thing about television is that everybody you see on television is doing something better than what you’re doing. You never see anybody on TV just sliding off the front of the sofa, with potato chip crumbs all over their shirt.” -Jerry Seinfeld (Jerome Allen ‘Jerry’ Seinfeld (born 1954)) at: http://jerryseinfeld.com/
“I may have made a lot of bad decisions in life, but at least I don’t watch daytime television.” -Andy Borowitz
“Imagine what it would be like if TV were actually good. It would be the end of everything we know.” -Marvin Minsky
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“Whoever controls the media - the images - controls the culture.” -Allen Ginsberg (Irwin Allen Ginsberg (1926 - 1997))
“As long as there’s a jingle in your head, TV isn’t free.” -Jason Love
“The one function that TV news performs very well is that, when there is no news, we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.” -David Brinkley (1920 - 2003)
“When a child is watching television, he or she is not involved in play, not socializing with other individuals, and most importantly, not receiving feedback as to the actions or consequences of his or her behavior.” -David Perlmutter
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“Television is to news what bumper stickers are to philosophy.” -Richard M. Nixon (Richard Milhous Nixon (1913 - 1994))
“Television? The word is half Latin and half Greek. No good can come of it.” -C. P. Scott (Charles Prestwich Scott (1846 - 1932))
The English word television is derived from the Greek word ‘tele’ meaning ‘far’ or ‘at a distance’ and the Latin word ‘visio’ meaning ‘sight.’
“The word ‘television’ is a poor choice, not merely because ‘tele’ is Greek and ‘vision’ is Latin but also because it is a simple synonym of telescopy. One could have found a more characteristic Greek expression such as ‘teleopsy’ and derivatives from this word.” -André Blondel (1937)
“There was a show on television the other day that was so old . . . the cowboys were riding dinosaurs.” -Author Unknown
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“It’s a good thing television shows are so awful; otherwise, some of us would squander our entire lives watching television.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Television has changed the American child from an irresistible force into an immovable object.” -Laurence J. Peter (Laurence Johnston Peter (1919 - 1990)): as quoted in Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull: “The Peter Principle” (1969), page 324
“I haven’t had a TV in 10 years, and I really don’t miss it. ’Cause it’s always so much more fun to be with people than it ever was to be with a television.” -Chuck Palahniuk (Charles Michael ‘Chuck’ Palahniuk (born 1962)): as quoted in the “San Francisco Bay Guardian” (30 October 2002), newspaper
World Television Day is observed on 21 November of each year.
‘Laugh tracks’ are also known as ‘canned laughter.’ Many of the laugh tracks now used in television programs, especially sitcoms and talk shows, were recorded in the 1950’s, when people still knew how to laugh - and had something to laugh about.
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“Without television, I surely could have mastered several classical languages or learned to play the violin, right?” -Kim Brooks
Young Lady From Trent
There was a young lady from Trent
Whose TV antenna got bent -
The neighbors went crazy;
Their screens all got hazy,
For instead of receiving, she sent!
By John Etheridge
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“If you read a lot of books you are considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you’re not considered well-viewed.” -Lily Tomlin (pseudonym of Mary Jean Tomlin (born 1939))
“I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower (Dwight David ‘Ike’ Eisenhower (1890 - 1968))
“Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.” -Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980): “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” (1960)
“The average American family has no time for television; people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in the “New York Times” (1939) newspaper
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“I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can’t stop eating peanuts.” -Orson Welles (1915 - 1985): as quoted in the “New York Herald Tribune” (12 October 1956), newspaper
“Television is the triumph of machine over people.” -Fred Allen (born John Florence Sullivan (1894 - 1956))
“TV - a clever contraction derived from the words ‘Terrible Vaudeville’ . . . we call it a medium because nothing’s well done.” -Goodman Ace (born Goodman Aiskowitz (1899 - 1982)): letter to Groucho Marx: published in “The Groucho Letters”
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“I never thought television would or could be a long-term commitment.” -Jimmy Smits
“I have watched television for so many years that I am now an expert television watcher.” -Author Unknown
“We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg’s great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.” -Robert M. Hutchins
“My husband wanted one of those new big-screen TV’s for his birthday. So I just moved his chair closer to the one we have already.” -Wendy Liebman (born 1961)
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What is your favorite television show?
“TV is chewing gum for the eyes.” -Frank Lloyd Wright (born Frank Lincoln Wright (1867 - 1959))
An estimated one in every four Americans has appeared on television, though most are not shown in close-up facial images. You might be walking down the street, standing in a line, sitting down at a sports or other entertainment event, eating lunch at a sidewalk cafe, or spending a leisurely day at a park. You won’t necessarily know that a camera is trained on you or scanning the area you are in, and in most cases, they don’t need your permission legally to do so. Most likely the video of you will be put into storage as ‘stock footage’ at a television studio, to be used at a later time to illustrate a news story. For example, a news program might do a segment on obesity. Someone will be sent to search through the stock footage until something is found that shows a sidewalk full of people walking. They will then edit the video in order to emphasize the obviously overweight people, and show it while a news commentator reads aloud some health statistics. This is just another good reason to always try to be at your best when you are out in public.
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Fred: Hey, look, Helen, you’re on TV.
Helen: Fred, that’s ridiculous. I’m standing right over here - how could I possibly be on TV?
“I don’t watch television. I know better than that.” -Tom Baker
“I wish there was a knob on the TV so you could turn up the intelligence. They got one marked, ‘brightness,’ but it don’t work, does it?” -Gallagher (born 1946 as Leo Anthony Gallagher)
What kinds of things on television and in movies make you laugh?
“The human race is faced with a cruel choice: get a job or watch daytime television.” -Author Unknown
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“The story you have just heard is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.” -Author Unknown: “Dragnet” (1949 - 1957)
“People watch television to see people living the lives they could have if they did not squander their lives watching television.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Time has convinced me of one thing: television is for appearing on, not for looking at.” -Noël Coward (Noël Pierce Coward (1899 - 1973))
“Television is about watching a life instead of having one.” -Beth Mazur
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“Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn’t have in your home.” David Frost (David Paradine Frost (1939 - 2013)): as quoted in Janet Wasko: “A Companion to Television” (2005), page 9
TV announcer: “Our regularly scheduled program will not be seen tonight because we’ve discovered that not broadcasting anything did better in the ratings than the program itself!”
“Two antennas met on a roof, fell in love, and got married. The ceremony wasn’t much, but the ‘reception’ was good.” -Author Unknown
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“Not more than ten percent of the population will take up television permanently.” -Raymond Postgate (1935)
“Television won’t last because people will get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.” -Darryl F. Zanuck (Darryl Francis Zanuck (1902 - 1979)) (1946)
“Cathode-ray tubes are the most important items in a television receiver.” -John Logie Baird
“I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on, I go into another room and read a good book.” -Groucho Marx (Julius Henry ‘Groucho’ Marx (1890 - 1977)): as quoted in Leslie Halliwell: “Halliwell’s Filmgoer’s Companion” (1984)
“All television is educational television. The question is: What is it teaching?” -Nicholas Johnson (born 1934)
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“You open it with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension. A dimension of sound. A dimension of sight. A dimension of mind. You are moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You’ve just crossed over into the Twilight Zone.” -Rod Serling (Rodman Edward Serling (1924 - 1975)): one of the intros to the “Twilight Zone” show
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“Without television, I surely could have mastered several classical languages or learned to play the violin, right?” -Kim Brooks
Young Lady From Trent
There was a young lady from Trent
Whose TV antenna got bent -
The neighbors went crazy;
Their screens all got hazy,
For instead of receiving, she sent!
By John Etheridge
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read Limericks Gathered By David Hugh Beaumont.
“If you read a lot of books you are considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you’re not considered well-viewed.” -Lily Tomlin (pseudonym of Mary Jean Tomlin (born 1939))
“I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower (Dwight David ‘Ike’ Eisenhower (1890 - 1968))
“Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.” -Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980): “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” (1960)
“The average American family has no time for television; people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen.” -Author Unknown: as quoted in the “New York Times” (1939) newspaper
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“I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can’t stop eating peanuts.” -Orson Welles (1915 - 1985): as quoted in the “New York Herald Tribune” (12 October 1956), newspaper
“Television is the triumph of machine over people.” -Fred Allen (born John Florence Sullivan (1894 - 1956))
“TV - a clever contraction derived from the words ‘Terrible Vaudeville’ . . . we call it a medium because nothing’s well done.” -Goodman Ace (born Goodman Aiskowitz (1899 - 1982)): letter to Groucho Marx: published in “The Groucho Letters”
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“I never thought television would or could be a long-term commitment.” -Jimmy Smits
“I have watched television for so many years that I am now an expert television watcher.” -Author Unknown
“We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg’s great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.” -Robert M. Hutchins
“My husband wanted one of those new big-screen TV’s for his birthday. So I just moved his chair closer to the one we have already.” -Wendy Liebman (born 1961)
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read Birthdays Gathered By David Hugh Beaumont.
What is your favorite television show?
“TV is chewing gum for the eyes.” -Frank Lloyd Wright (born Frank Lincoln Wright (1867 - 1959))
An estimated one in every four Americans has appeared on television, though most are not shown in close-up facial images. You might be walking down the street, standing in a line, sitting down at a sports or other entertainment event, eating lunch at a sidewalk cafe, or spending a leisurely day at a park. You won’t necessarily know that a camera is trained on you or scanning the area you are in, and in most cases, they don’t need your permission legally to do so. Most likely the video of you will be put into storage as ‘stock footage’ at a television studio, to be used at a later time to illustrate a news story. For example, a news program might do a segment on obesity. Someone will be sent to search through the stock footage until something is found that shows a sidewalk full of people walking. They will then edit the video in order to emphasize the obviously overweight people, and show it while a news commentator reads aloud some health statistics. This is just another good reason to always try to be at your best when you are out in public.
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Fred: Hey, look, Helen, you’re on TV.
Helen: Fred, that’s ridiculous. I’m standing right over here - how could I possibly be on TV?
“I don’t watch television. I know better than that.” -Tom Baker
“I wish there was a knob on the TV so you could turn up the intelligence. They got one marked, ‘brightness,’ but it don’t work, does it?” -Gallagher (born 1946 as Leo Anthony Gallagher)
What kinds of things on television and in movies make you laugh?
“The human race is faced with a cruel choice: get a job or watch daytime television.” -Author Unknown
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read Choices And Decisions Gathered By David Hugh Beaumont.
“The story you have just heard is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.” -Author Unknown: “Dragnet” (1949 - 1957)
“People watch television to see people living the lives they could have if they did not squander their lives watching television.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Time has convinced me of one thing: television is for appearing on, not for looking at.” -Noël Coward (Noël Pierce Coward (1899 - 1973))
“Television is about watching a life instead of having one.” -Beth Mazur
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“Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn’t have in your home.” David Frost (David Paradine Frost (1939 - 2013)): as quoted in Janet Wasko: “A Companion to Television” (2005), page 9
TV announcer: “Our regularly scheduled program will not be seen tonight because we’ve discovered that not broadcasting anything did better in the ratings than the program itself!”
“Two antennas met on a roof, fell in love, and got married. The ceremony wasn’t much, but the ‘reception’ was good.” -Author Unknown
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“Not more than ten percent of the population will take up television permanently.” -Raymond Postgate (1935)
“Television won’t last because people will get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.” -Darryl F. Zanuck (Darryl Francis Zanuck (1902 - 1979)) (1946)
“Cathode-ray tubes are the most important items in a television receiver.” -John Logie Baird
“I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on, I go into another room and read a good book.” -Groucho Marx (Julius Henry ‘Groucho’ Marx (1890 - 1977)): as quoted in Leslie Halliwell: “Halliwell’s Filmgoer’s Companion” (1984)
“All television is educational television. The question is: What is it teaching?” -Nicholas Johnson (born 1934)
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“You open it with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension. A dimension of sound. A dimension of sight. A dimension of mind. You are moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You’ve just crossed over into the Twilight Zone.” -Rod Serling (Rodman Edward Serling (1924 - 1975)): one of the intros to the “Twilight Zone” show
“Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present.” -Kurt Vonnegut (Kurt Vonnegut, Junior (1922 - 2007)): “Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday” (1973), novel; author website http://www.Vonnegut.com/
“Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.” -Terry Wogan (born 1938): as quoted in the “Observer” (December 1984) of London
“Television programs: The junk that fills the time between commercials.” -Author Unknown
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“There is a lot of hype going on about high-definition television. But is it really worth it to pay more money to see the same junk in sharper detail?” -Thomas Sowell (born 1930)
“Whenever I lose my TV controller, I always find it in a remote location.” -Author Unknown
“I don't think you can read poetry while you're watching television very well.” -Edward Hirsch
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“Television is a device that permits people who haven’t anything to do to watch people who can’t do anything.” -Fred Allen (born John Florence Sullivan (1894 - 1956))
“It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.” -T. S. Eliot (Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888 - 1965)): as quoted in the “New York Post” (22 September 1963) newspaper
“While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially I consider it an impossibility, a development of which we need waste little time or dreaming.” -Lee de Forest (1873 - 1961) (1926)
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“If you are annoying to enough people, eventually they give you your own television program. I’m pretty certain that’s how it works.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Watching T.V. doesn’t have much of a payoff.” -Maxine Hong Kingston: “To Be the Poet” (2002), page 57
“I have never really acquired a taste for watching television.” -Alice Krige
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My TV’s Under The Weather
My TV came down with a chill.
As soon as I saw it was ill
I wrapped up its channels
In warm Winter flannels
And gave its antenna a pill.
By Willard R. Espy (Willard Richardson Espy (1910 - 1999))
“I used to think that television could be potentially the most powerful medium for the dissemination of knowledge that the world has ever known, it could be a very rich and rewarding thing if handled properly and that the problem was in the execution. I’ve now come, after ten years in the business, five years of which was as a television critic, to taking the very extreme view point. I think television itself is bad. The idea of television, the act of watching television, kills the imagination. It’s not like radio, with radio you had to listen, had to make things, you had to build things in your mind. Movies do that. Television is something else again. Television lays it all out there in a very prescribed way and the bare minimum of imagination on the part of the viewer is needed and I really fear for all of us.” -Harlan Ellison: interview (1979), as quoted in Robert W. Bly: “The Online Copywriter’s Handbook” (2002), page 19
Question: What is a British cow’s favorite sci-fi television program?
Answer: Dr. Moo.
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“Television is a new medium. It’s called a medium because nothing is well-done.” -Fred Allen (born John Florence Sullivan (1894 - 1956)): “The Big Show” (17 December 1950) radio program
“Reality shows are fake and are just as far from reality as people can get without being permanently institutionalized.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
The Society for the Eradication of Television (SET) no longer exists, and Couch Potatoes likewise is defunct, so some of us must organize to eradicate the beastly television hobgoblin monster thing before it turns us all into gelatinous masses with non-functioning legs and permanently bloodshot eyes. Who will go forth to slay the dragon? Will it be you? How about you? You, over there, can you do it? Hey, can somebody get us some fresh batteries for the remote?
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“The best show on TV can usually be found on the OFF channel.” -Author Unknown
“Television has proven that people will look at anything rather than each other.” -Ann Landers (pseudonym of Esther Pauline Friedman ‘Eppie’ Lederer (1918 - 2002))
“I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.” -Jack Paar (Jack Harold Paar (1918 - 2004)): as quoted in “TV Guide”
“Cable TV is now evenly divided between shows about preparing food and shows about losing weight.” -Andy Borowitz
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“Television: An electrical device which, when broken, stimulates conversation.” -Author Unknown
“The only thing television ever did for me was to give me a stiff neck.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the TV set.” -Harriet Van Horne (1920 - 1998)
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“If television shows continue the way they’re going, the public will soon be demanding longer commercials.” -Author Unknown
“I’m not necessarily anti-television, I’m just in favor of so many things that are not television. So, I leave the television watching to others.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.” -Andrew Ross
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“If you really think about it, when watching television, you have product placement all the time.” -Jay Chiat
“The best place in a house for a television? Behind the bags and boxes in a closet.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“There is an educational channel. It’s called ‘off.’” -Lily Henderson: remark made at 11 years of age
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“Late night T.V. is very educational. It teaches you that you should have gone to bed earlier.” -James Dent
What is your favorite television commercial?
Just remember, children and adults, watching television is bad for your intellect, causes muscles to atrophy, makes imaginations shrivel, and is a leading cause of suffering in relationships . . . so instead hang out on MFOL! . . . or, even better, go outside and play . . . with your human friends, your family, your animal friends, and your imagination.
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“I learned how to speak English watching television.” -Azita Ghanizada (born about 1978)
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
-Roald Dahl (1916 - 1990): “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” (1964)
“When you watch television, you never see people watching television. We love television because it brings us a world in which television does not exist.” -Barbara Ehrenreich
“I don't think I miss anything by not watching television.” -Alexandra Paul
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We are MFOL! . . . for people who know there is more to life than what is shown on television screens . . . as for example, what’s coming up next . . .
“Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.” -Terry Wogan (born 1938): as quoted in the “Observer” (December 1984) of London
“Television programs: The junk that fills the time between commercials.” -Author Unknown
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“There is a lot of hype going on about high-definition television. But is it really worth it to pay more money to see the same junk in sharper detail?” -Thomas Sowell (born 1930)
“Whenever I lose my TV controller, I always find it in a remote location.” -Author Unknown
“I don't think you can read poetry while you're watching television very well.” -Edward Hirsch
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read Poems And Poetry Gathered By David Hugh Beaumont.
“Television is a device that permits people who haven’t anything to do to watch people who can’t do anything.” -Fred Allen (born John Florence Sullivan (1894 - 1956))
“It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.” -T. S. Eliot (Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888 - 1965)): as quoted in the “New York Post” (22 September 1963) newspaper
“While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially I consider it an impossibility, a development of which we need waste little time or dreaming.” -Lee de Forest (1873 - 1961) (1926)
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read Impossible And Possible Gathered By David Hugh Beaumont.
“If you are annoying to enough people, eventually they give you your own television program. I’m pretty certain that’s how it works.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Watching T.V. doesn’t have much of a payoff.” -Maxine Hong Kingston: “To Be the Poet” (2002), page 57
“I have never really acquired a taste for watching television.” -Alice Krige
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read Habits And Routines Gathered By David Hugh Beaumont.
My TV’s Under The Weather
My TV came down with a chill.
As soon as I saw it was ill
I wrapped up its channels
In warm Winter flannels
And gave its antenna a pill.
By Willard R. Espy (Willard Richardson Espy (1910 - 1999))
“I used to think that television could be potentially the most powerful medium for the dissemination of knowledge that the world has ever known, it could be a very rich and rewarding thing if handled properly and that the problem was in the execution. I’ve now come, after ten years in the business, five years of which was as a television critic, to taking the very extreme view point. I think television itself is bad. The idea of television, the act of watching television, kills the imagination. It’s not like radio, with radio you had to listen, had to make things, you had to build things in your mind. Movies do that. Television is something else again. Television lays it all out there in a very prescribed way and the bare minimum of imagination on the part of the viewer is needed and I really fear for all of us.” -Harlan Ellison: interview (1979), as quoted in Robert W. Bly: “The Online Copywriter’s Handbook” (2002), page 19
Question: What is a British cow’s favorite sci-fi television program?
Answer: Dr. Moo.
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read Cattle Gathered By David Hugh Beaumont.
“Television is a new medium. It’s called a medium because nothing is well-done.” -Fred Allen (born John Florence Sullivan (1894 - 1956)): “The Big Show” (17 December 1950) radio program
“Reality shows are fake and are just as far from reality as people can get without being permanently institutionalized.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
The Society for the Eradication of Television (SET) no longer exists, and Couch Potatoes likewise is defunct, so some of us must organize to eradicate the beastly television hobgoblin monster thing before it turns us all into gelatinous masses with non-functioning legs and permanently bloodshot eyes. Who will go forth to slay the dragon? Will it be you? How about you? You, over there, can you do it? Hey, can somebody get us some fresh batteries for the remote?
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read Physical Fitness And Exercising Gathered By David Hugh Beaumont.
“The best show on TV can usually be found on the OFF channel.” -Author Unknown
“Television has proven that people will look at anything rather than each other.” -Ann Landers (pseudonym of Esther Pauline Friedman ‘Eppie’ Lederer (1918 - 2002))
“I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.” -Jack Paar (Jack Harold Paar (1918 - 2004)): as quoted in “TV Guide”
“Cable TV is now evenly divided between shows about preparing food and shows about losing weight.” -Andy Borowitz
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read Weight Loss And Weight Maintenance Gathered By David Hugh Beaumont.
“Television: An electrical device which, when broken, stimulates conversation.” -Author Unknown
“The only thing television ever did for me was to give me a stiff neck.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the TV set.” -Harriet Van Horne (1920 - 1998)
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read Housekeeping And Housecleaning Gathered By David Hugh Beaumont.
“If television shows continue the way they’re going, the public will soon be demanding longer commercials.” -Author Unknown
“I’m not necessarily anti-television, I’m just in favor of so many things that are not television. So, I leave the television watching to others.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.” -Andrew Ross
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read Shopping Gathered By David Hugh Beaumont.
“If you really think about it, when watching television, you have product placement all the time.” -Jay Chiat
“The best place in a house for a television? Behind the bags and boxes in a closet.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“There is an educational channel. It’s called ‘off.’” -Lily Henderson: remark made at 11 years of age
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read Wisdom And Advice Gathered By David Hugh Beaumont.
“Late night T.V. is very educational. It teaches you that you should have gone to bed earlier.” -James Dent
What is your favorite television commercial?
Just remember, children and adults, watching television is bad for your intellect, causes muscles to atrophy, makes imaginations shrivel, and is a leading cause of suffering in relationships . . . so instead hang out on MFOL! . . . or, even better, go outside and play . . . with your human friends, your family, your animal friends, and your imagination.
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read Playtime And Playing Gathered By David Hugh Beaumont.
“I learned how to speak English watching television.” -Azita Ghanizada (born about 1978)
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
-Roald Dahl (1916 - 1990): “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” (1964)
“When you watch television, you never see people watching television. We love television because it brings us a world in which television does not exist.” -Barbara Ehrenreich
“I don't think I miss anything by not watching television.” -Alexandra Paul
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read Opportunities And Possibilities Gathered By David Hugh Beaumont.
We are MFOL! . . . for people who know there is more to life than what is shown on television screens . . . as for example, what’s coming up next . . .
