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Category Archives: Cable Television
A Foot In The Door
Putting “a foot in the door” harks back to the days of cold call door-to-door salesmen. Salesmen would knock on residential doors or, if you were wealthy enough to have one, ring the door bell. The housewife would open the … Continue reading
Posted in Cable Television, Capitalism, Economics, Expository Writing, Mass Media, Observations, Plain English
Tagged A Foot In The Door, Advertising, Brainwashing, Business, Castle, Culture, English, English Composition, Fools, Friends, Help! I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!, Home, King Odysseus, Lassie, Life Alert, Manly Duty, Mass Media, Odysseus, Penelope, Personification, Pop Culture, Propaganda, Relationships, Sales, Status Symbols, Telemachus, Television, Truth, Women
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The Hallmark Channel
So there I was, stuck in the waiting room. (I drove a neighbor to a doctor’s appointment.) They’re putting up televisions everywhere so it seems; much to my annoyance. The Hallmark Channel was on – don’t know what program – … Continue reading
Posted in Cable Television, Going Bananas, Humor, Mass Media, Observations
Tagged "The United States of America", Acne, Cable TV, Doctors, Life, Pimples, Sex, Talk Shows, Television, The Hallmark Channel, Waiting Rooms
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