Sunday Stealing

May 3, 2014

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TV Meme, part two

Welcome back to Sunday Stealing which originated on WTIT: The Blog authored by Bud Weiser. Here we will steal all types of memes from every corner of the blogosphere. Our promise to you is that we will work hard to find the most interesting and intelligent memes. You may have heard of the expression, “honor amongst thieves”. In that age-old tradition, we also have our rules. First, we always credit the blog that we stole it from and we will “fess up” to the blog owner where we stole the meme. We also provide a link to the victim's post. (It's our way of saying "Thanks!") We do sometimes edit the original meme, usually to make it more relevant to our global players, to challenge our players, sometimes to select that meme's best questions, or simply to make it less repetitive from either this new meme or recently asked questions from a prior featured meme.
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From TV Tuesday a now-defunct blog. The link is broken.   TV Meme, part two

I will answer these questions because I did watch a few shows here and there, and even though I think of Television as the biggest waste of time that was ever invented.

16. Talk Shows. Do you watch daytime talk TV? If so, do you prefer the calm shows like Oprah or the wilder side like Jerry Springer?  No, I didn't watch even Oprah for long.  I did watch her show for about a month, and even liked it. Unfortunately,  every ten minutes she went to a commercial. That put her show dead in the water for me.  I used to like something around 10 am that was for women. The Talk?  Anyway, same thing.  I can not STAND commercial television.  And, from what I saw later and elsewhere, Jerry Springer was no better than a loud mouthed, abusive, yelling coward.  Who needs that?

17. Which daytime talk TV show would you like to be on? What would the topic be?  Like to be on?  None that I know of.

18. Before talk TV took over game shows ruled the airways during the day, which do you prefer? Or are you a soap opera fan?  I've never watched any of these two types of shows either.  I was too busy cooking, baking bread and cookies.  I was busy sewing things and chasing little toddlers around.  And feeding pets. lol

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19. Is there a game show (past or present) you think you would do really well on, as a contestant?  No. I was never interested in game shows, soap operas or more than a couple of talk shows.

20. Who is your favorite game show host? Who is your least favorite? NA

21. Marathons. Have you watched any TV marathons? In part? In whole? Is there a show you’d like to see run an all day marathon? On the flipside is there a show you’d avoid in marathon?  Marathons on Television?  Lord help us.

22. Out of curiosity, what’s the longest you’ve ever watched TV in one stretch?  September 11th, 2001.  Before that we watched channel 5's coverage of the earthquakes in California, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

23. On the whole do you feel most Special Reports are really that special? Or are they simply annoying? What special report has effected you most? (IE: (9/11, Reagan being shot…etc)  I have to say that it was 911.  That is the sort of coverage that television does best.  But, now we have an even more immediately effective media in YouTube, and streaming Indi coverage of events.  Indi had been so brutalized in the past, especially in the coverage in Los Angeles during the late 1990's and during the WTO protests in Seattle, as to be made invisible.  But the reporters were there.

24. What is the (pick one: stupidest, saddest, silliest, most disgusting..) thing you’ve ever seen on TV?   Coverage of the Warren Report.

25. What’s your fondest memory of something on TV?  It was during a Charger's football game when Kellen Winslow, Sr. blocked a field goal.  Totally Awesome.  I admit to watching the Chargers back in the day.

26. What’s the first show you remember watching regularly?  Bullwinkle and Rocky.

27. What shows would make up a perfect night of TV viewing for you?  Nova, Call the Midwife, and Nature.

28. You get to create one show to put on the schedule, with any stars you choose. Who and what would it be?   George Clooney and Sandra Bullock in a show about Bank Robbers.  Wait, that's probably been done.

29. Canceling or Not. What show(s) would you cancel without a moment’s hesitation? Is there a show (previously canceled or just no longer airing) that you’d bring back, original cast and all?  I don't know current shows well enough to know.  Most of what I hear about new shows is that they are crap.  And I've been watching some moldy oldies, testing whether we want to watch them at all, and most don't make the grade.  And who wants to see a now doddering leading man who used to be a considered, by some, as a REAL hunk?  

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Any takers?