Re: Cable TV

"Ace Lightning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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| ">parr(*>" wrote:
| > | if his cable company is anything like mine, he has to
| > | pay for some sort of basic package, which includes
| > | 500 channels of sitcoms, NASCAR races, and old movies,
| > | in order to get useful things like CNN, The Weather
| > | Channel, and PBS.
| >Weather Channel?  What do we need a weather channel for here?  We
get
| >real weather 24 hours a day, and don't need sad little tales about
| >the jet stream.  We get the shipping forecast covering South
Utsire
| >and North Foreland, Dogger and Malin.
|
| what do you mean, "real weather"?

Oh you know, like rain and sunshine and wind.

| are you talking about some
| sort of spoken forecast on shortwave radio?

Well yes, but one really should listen on long wave - 1500 metres it
used to be until someone thought that all frequencies must be
divisible by 9, so now it's 1530.  But please do not confuse it with
'The Shipping Forecast', which is a book.
For more enlightenment:
http://www.twochapstalking.com/dictarchive/000312.html

| i watch The Weather
| Channel for the radar maps, so i can see what's heading towards
| my location. yes, i can see this online, but the website only
| works about 75% of the time, and even then, the latest pictures
| are often several hours old (and nearly useless). somehow, The
| Weather Channel has access to a better feed.

I look out the window to see what's heading towards my location.  Do
they have windows in America?

| yes, i'm a weather geek, in addition to being several other
| kinds of geek.

Are you related to Ioannis?  I'm English myself.  Some people here
also have dual nationality.

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