We were at the doctor's office yesterday, and they had food tv on.
Since we haven't had television for about four years, it's been a while
since I watched it. There was this southern sounding woman, with dark
hair (maybe speckled with grey) who was making banana dishes. It had
Rich and me in stitches, but some of the patients waiting seemed to be
rapt. She made a dish which involved sliced bread, butter, sliced
grocery ham, bananas, crumbled bacon and I don't know what else. Do
people really eat this?

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Ranee

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"Ranee Mueller" > wrote

> rapt. She made a dish which involved sliced bread, butter, sliced
> grocery ham, bananas, crumbled bacon and I don't know what else. Do
> people really eat this?

I did notice Paula Deen had a show on bananas. Looking at the
website I see Cheesy Ham and Banana Casserole, ingredients:

Butter
12 slices white bread
8 large slices deli ham
4 bananas, sliced on the bias
2 cups shredded Cheddar
2 cups crushed potato chips
6 slices cooked and crumbled bacon
4 large eggs
1 cup milk
1 cup cream
Pinch freshly grated nutmeg
Salt and freshly ground black pepper

nancy

"Ranee Mueller" > wrote in message
...
> We were at the doctor's office yesterday, and they had food tv on.
> Since we haven't had television for about four years, it's been a while
> since I watched it. There was this southern sounding woman, with dark
> hair (maybe speckled with grey) who was making banana dishes. It had
> Rich and me in stitches, but some of the patients waiting seemed to be
> rapt. She made a dish which involved sliced bread, butter, sliced
> grocery ham, bananas, crumbled bacon and I don't know what else. Do
> people really eat this?
>
The description of what was made sounds like it is from a show called
"semi-homemade," but Sandra Lee does not sound southern to me, also she is
blonde. The description of the person sounds most like Paula Deen, but I
would describe her hair more as grey speckled with a little bit of dark. I
watch food tv quite a bit, but I don't really watch either of those shows
very much.

Brian Christiansen

In article >,
"Nancy Young" > wrote:

> "Ranee Mueller" > wrote
>
> > rapt. She made a dish which involved sliced bread, butter, sliced
> > grocery ham, bananas, crumbled bacon and I don't know what else. Do
> > people really eat this?
>
> I did notice Paula Deen had a show on bananas. Looking at the
> website I see Cheesy Ham and Banana Casserole, ingredients:
>
> Butter
> 12 slices white bread
> 8 large slices deli ham
> 4 bananas, sliced on the bias
> 2 cups shredded Cheddar
> 2 cups crushed potato chips
> 6 slices cooked and crumbled bacon
> 4 large eggs
> 1 cup milk
> 1 cup cream
> Pinch freshly grated nutmeg
> Salt and freshly ground black pepper
>
> nancy
>
>

Hooboy, does that look Southern. It has several standard ingredients:
bananas, potato chips, ham, and bacon.

Cindy, former resident of North Carolina
(state motto: Thank you for smoking and eating pork)

--
C.J. Fuller

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But Paula Deen nor the twit Sandra Lee have brown hair. Paula's is
silvery white/blonde and Snadra's is bottle blonde. Are you sure this
show was on Food Tv?

Nancy provided:

> I did notice Paula Deen had a show on bananas. Looking at the
> website I see Cheesy Ham and Banana Casserole, ingredients:
>
> Butter
> 12 slices white bread
> 8 large slices deli ham
> 4 bananas, sliced on the bias
> 2 cups shredded Cheddar
> 2 cups crushed potato chips
> 6 slices cooked and crumbled bacon
> 4 large eggs
> 1 cup milk
> 1 cup cream
> Pinch freshly grated nutmeg
> Salt and freshly ground black pepper

I might like this if the cheese was left out and a green mango or cooking
papaya was used instead of the potato chips. I recently ran across another
banana recipe which I mean to try. It's in the book _Fire and Spice: Parsi
Cookery_, by Joyce Westrip. (The Parsis are descended from religious
refugees who fled from Iran to India so that they could continue to practice
Zoroastrianism.)


Baked Eggs With Spicy Bananas
"Kera Per Eeda"

"Cooking eggs with bananas may seem slightly eccentric to Western eyes, but
the combination is a rich and tasty one and is a favorite with egg-eating
vegetarians. Use large, ripe firm bananas for this dish. When slices,
sprinkle the banana with lime or lemon juice to prevent discoloring. If the
bananas are sliced too thinly, they will tend to break up."

6 ripe firm bananas
1 tablespoon lime or lemon juice

Peel and slice the bananas into rings 1/4 inch thick. Sprinkle with lime or
lemon juice and set aside.

2 tablespoons ghee or vegetable oil
3 finely sliced onions
2 cloves finely chopped garlic
2 inch finely chopped ginger
1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
2 finely chopped green chiles
3 tablespoons finely chopped coriander leaves
1 finely chopped large tomato
Salt to taste
4-6 eggs

Heat the ghee or oil in a large heavy-bottomed pan. Fry the onion, garlic
and ginger until the onion starts to change color. Stir in the turmeric,
chile, coriander, tomato and salt and stir-fry for 2 minutes. Add the slices
of banana and mix in gently. Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 350°F.

Spread the mixture evenly into a baking dish. Make depressions with the back
of a spoon and break each egg into a depression. Cover with foil and bake
for approximately 15 minutes or until the eggs are done to your liking.


Other recipes which interest me are the Parsi version of fried chicken,
sweet and sour pumpkin, eggplant fritters, prawns with coconut-flavored
rice, spinach pilau, and "hot and spicy" rice. (I'm especially interested in
pairing the hot & spicy rice with another recipe, lamb with apricots.)


Bob

In article . com>,
"itsjoannotjoann" > wrote:

> But Paula Deen nor the twit Sandra Lee have brown hair. Paula's is
> silvery white/blonde and Snadra's is bottle blonde. Are you sure this
> show was on Food Tv?

It was Paula Deen. I am post partum, I didn't remember the details
of her hair as well as the horrifying ingredients.

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In article >,
"Brian Christiansen" > wrote:

> The description of the person sounds most like Paula Deen, but I
> would describe her hair more as grey speckled with a little bit of dark.

This was she, I forgot the exact look of her hair in my terror of
what she was making.

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In article >,
"Nancy Young" > wrote:

> Butter
> 12 slices white bread
> 8 large slices deli ham
> 4 bananas, sliced on the bias
> 2 cups shredded Cheddar
> 2 cups crushed potato chips
> 6 slices cooked and crumbled bacon
> 4 large eggs
> 1 cup milk
> 1 cup cream
> Pinch freshly grated nutmeg
> Salt and freshly ground black pepper

That's it! It just kept getting worse and worse, but it made us
laugh anyway.

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Nancy Young wrote:
> "Ranee Mueller" > wrote
>
>
> I did notice Paula Deen had a show on bananas. Looking at the
> website I see Cheesy Ham and Banana Casserole, ingredients:
>
> Butter
> 12 slices white bread

The Food channel was celebrating sandwiches, according to TVGuide, and
hers was a somekindof tribute to Elvis, who loved peanut butter, banana
and bacon sandwiches. At least I think that's what I remember reading
;-)

N.

"Ranee Mueller" > wrote

> "Nancy Young" > wrote:
>
>> Butter
>> 12 slices white bread
>> 8 large slices deli ham
>> 4 bananas, sliced on the bias
>> 2 cups shredded Cheddar
>> 2 cups crushed potato chips
>> 6 slices cooked and crumbled bacon
>> 4 large eggs
>> 1 cup milk
>> 1 cup cream
>> Pinch freshly grated nutmeg
>> Salt and freshly ground black pepper
>
> That's it! It just kept getting worse and worse, but it made us
> laugh anyway.

Heh, some stuff she makes, you just have to shake your head.
These are not foods I am familiar with. Are they really southern?
I don't know. Other things she makes look very good to me.

nancy

Brian Christiansen wrote:
> "Ranee Mueller" > wrote in message
> ...
> > We were at the doctor's office yesterday, and they had food tv on.
> > Since we haven't had television for about four years, it's been a while
> > since I watched it. There was this southern sounding woman, with dark
> > hair (maybe speckled with grey) who was making banana dishes. It had
> > Rich and me in stitches, but some of the patients waiting seemed to be
> > rapt. She made a dish which involved sliced bread, butter, sliced
> > grocery ham, bananas, crumbled bacon and I don't know what else. Do
> > people really eat this?
> >
> The description of what was made sounds like it is from a show called
> "semi-homemade," but Sandra Lee does not sound southern to me, also she is
> blonde. The description of the person sounds most like Paula Deen, but I
> would describe her hair more as grey speckled with a little bit of dark. I
> watch food tv quite a bit, but I don't really watch either of those shows
> very much.
>
> Brian Christiansen


The only female with a southern accent and sort of darkish hair who
appears fairly regularly on Food TV is Cat Cora. But she's an actual
chef and that freakish banana and ham concoction doesn't sound like
something she would be making. That's clearly Casserole From Hell,
which automatically has Sandra Lee's fingerprints all over it.

Nancy Young wrote:
> "Ranee Mueller" > wrote
>
> > rapt. She made a dish which involved sliced bread, butter, sliced
> > grocery ham, bananas, crumbled bacon and I don't know what else. Do
> > people really eat this?
>
> I did notice Paula Deen had a show on bananas. Looking at the
> website I see Cheesy Ham and Banana Casserole, ingredients:
>
> Butter
> 12 slices white bread
> 8 large slices deli ham
> 4 bananas, sliced on the bias
> 2 cups shredded Cheddar
> 2 cups crushed potato chips
> 6 slices cooked and crumbled bacon
> 4 large eggs
> 1 cup milk
> 1 cup cream
> Pinch freshly grated nutmeg
> Salt and freshly ground black pepper
>
> nancy


Paula Deen actually made that? I had Sandra Lee pegged as the source of
that monstrosity. What a revolting development this is.

Christopher Helms wrote:
>
>
> The only female with a southern accent and sort of darkish hair who
> appears fairly regularly on Food TV is Cat Cora. But she's an actual
> chef and that freakish banana and ham concoction doesn't sound like
> something she would be making. That's clearly Casserole From Hell,
> which automatically has Sandra Lee's fingerprints all over it.

Naaah....this one is way too complicated for SL, and there's no Cool
Whip or powdered cheeze seasoning packets in it either. Paula has put
together a freakish concoction or two, but this one is about the worst
I've ever seen. One time I saw her make a bread pudding using cut up
Krispy Kreme donuts, sweetened condensed milk, and that syrupy canned
fruit cocktail....egads! She slyly winked as she claimed "Look! No
sugar added!". Gotta hand it to her, the old gal has a good sense of
humor!

Sandy

"Sandy" > wrote

> Naaah....this one is way too complicated for SL, and there's no Cool
> Whip or powdered cheeze seasoning packets in it either. Paula has put
> together a freakish concoction or two, but this one is about the worst
> I've ever seen. One time I saw her make a bread pudding using cut up
> Krispy Kreme donuts, sweetened condensed milk, and that syrupy canned
> fruit cocktail....egads! She slyly winked as she claimed "Look! No
> sugar added!". Gotta hand it to her, the old gal has a good sense of
> humor!

OMG!!! I couldn't think, what was that *truly* horrid thing she made
once, where she added fruit cocktail. Too funny, thanks for the reminder,
hilarious.

Once in a while she pulls something el bizarro out of her recipe file,
not to be believed.

nancy

"Nancy2" > wrote in message
oups.com...
>
> Nancy Young wrote:
>> "Ranee Mueller" > wrote
>>
>>
>> I did notice Paula Deen had a show on bananas. Looking at the
>> website I see Cheesy Ham and Banana Casserole, ingredients:
>>
>> Butter
>> 12 slices white bread
>
> The Food channel was celebrating sandwiches, according to TVGuide, and
> hers was a somekindof tribute to Elvis, who loved peanut butter, banana
> and bacon sandwiches. At least I think that's what I remember reading

That same show is on right now. Paula just mentioned Elvis and is now making
fried PB and banana sammiches dipped in sugar and cinnamon as sort of a
tribute to him.

That casserole actually looks OK. Don't know about putting bananas in there,
though...

Mary

Nancy Young wrote:

> Heh, some stuff she makes, you just have to shake your head.
> These are not foods I am familiar with. Are they really southern?
> I don't know. Other things she makes look very good to me.

Not in my lifetimes experience down south. LOL

"Goomba38" > wrote

> Nancy Young wrote:
>
>> Heh, some stuff she makes, you just have to shake your head.
>> These are not foods I am familiar with. Are they really southern?
>> I don't know. Other things she makes look very good to me.
>
> Not in my lifetimes experience down south. LOL

(laugh) With a name like Goomba, I have a feeling you don't put
cheddar cheese in your lasagna, either?

nancy

Nancy Young wrote:
> "Goomba38" > wrote
>
>> Nancy Young wrote:
>>
>>> Heh, some stuff she makes, you just have to shake your head.
>>> These are not foods I am familiar with. Are they really southern?
>>> I don't know. Other things she makes look very good to me.
>> Not in my lifetimes experience down south. LOL
>
> (laugh) With a name like Goomba, I have a feeling you don't put
> cheddar cheese in your lasagna, either?
>
<shiver> Why would ANYone?? lol

Goomba38 wrote on 28 Aug 2006 in rec.food.cooking

> <shiver> Why would ANYone?? lol
>

Cause they were outta velveeta?

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-Alan

Ranee Mueller wrote:
> We were at the doctor's office yesterday, and they had food tv on.
> Since we haven't had television for about four years, it's been a while
> since I watched it. There was this southern sounding woman, with dark
> hair (maybe speckled with grey) who was making banana dishes. It had
> Rich and me in stitches, but some of the patients waiting seemed to be
> rapt. She made a dish which involved sliced bread, butter, sliced
> grocery ham, bananas, crumbled bacon and I don't know what else. Do
> people really eat this?
>

Paula Deen. And yes, down south they do eat stuff like that.

Lobster Man wrote:
> Ranee Mueller wrote:
>> We were at the doctor's office yesterday, and they had food tv on.
>> Since we haven't had television for about four years, it's been a
>> while since I watched it. There was this southern sounding woman,
>> with dark hair (maybe speckled with grey) who was making banana
>> dishes. It had Rich and me in stitches, but some of the patients
>> waiting seemed to be rapt. She made a dish which involved sliced
>> bread, butter, sliced grocery ham, bananas, crumbled bacon and I don't
>> know what else. Do people really eat this?
>>
>
> Paula Deen. And yes, down south they do eat stuff like that.

I dunno.. haven't ever heard of anyone eating that slop myself...?

Sandy wrote:

> One time I saw her make a bread pudding using cut up
> Krispy Kreme donuts, sweetened condensed milk, and that syrupy canned
> fruit cocktail....egads! She slyly winked as she claimed "Look! No
> sugar added!". Gotta hand it to her, the old gal has a good sense of
> humor!

Bill Nicholson's Krispy Kreme Bread Pudding with Butter Rum Sauce

Recipe courtesy Paula Deen
Show: Paula's Home Cooking
Episode: Southern BBQ Two

Yield: about 12 servings

2 dozen Krispy Kreme donuts
1 (14-ounce) can sweetened condensed milk (not evaporated)
2 (4.5-ounce) cans fruit cocktail (undrained)
2 eggs, beaten
1 (9-ounce) box raisins
1 pinch salt
1 or 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
Butter Rum Sauce, recipe follows

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Cube donuts into a large bowl. Pour other ingredients on top of donuts
and let soak for a few minutes. Mix all ingredients together until
donuts have soaked up the liquid as much as possible.

Bake for about 1 hour until center has jelled. Top with Butter Rum
Sauce.

Butter Rum Sauce:

1 stick butter
1 pound box confectioners' sugar
Rum, to taste

Melt butter and slowly stir in confectioners' sugar. Add rum and heat
until bubbly. Pour over each serving of Krispy Kreme Bread Pudding.

-------

Derek Juhl

> Since we haven't had television for about four years,

I am waiting for someone to comment on this sentence... but in vain. I am
quite surprised. I am TV-less myself (I want to be) and people usually sound
surprised when they hear about that. But not in this group, it seems

/

On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 19:19:48 -0700, Lobster Man >
wrote:

>Ranee Mueller wrote:
>> We were at the doctor's office yesterday, and they had food tv on.
>> Since we haven't had television for about four years, it's been a while
>> since I watched it. There was this southern sounding woman, with dark
>> hair (maybe speckled with grey) who was making banana dishes. It had
>> Rich and me in stitches, but some of the patients waiting seemed to be
>> rapt. She made a dish which involved sliced bread, butter, sliced
>> grocery ham, bananas, crumbled bacon and I don't know what else. Do
>> people really eat this?
>>
>
>Paula Deen. And yes, down south they do eat stuff like that.

No, we don't.

I adore Paula Deen. My mom is the youngest of seven girls and Miss
Paula would fit right in as the eighth sister.

Tara

"Jke" > wrote in message
...
>
>> Since we haven't had television for about four years,
>
> I am waiting for someone to comment on this sentence... but in vain. I
> am quite surprised. I am TV-less myself (I want to be) and people
> usually sound surprised when they hear about that. But not in this
> group, it seems

I and my wife have not had a television in over ten years. When we got
married, some ten years ago, we made that decision. We used to watch a
little when we visited her family, but now we have stopped that also.

Mordechai

Jke wrote:
> > Since we haven't had television for about four years,

> I am waiting for someone to comment on this sentence... but in vain. I am
> quite surprised. I am TV-less myself (I want to be) and people usually sound
> surprised when they hear about that. But not in this group, it seems

I also don't have television in my home. I've done without it since May
2005.
I see television in hotels and sometimes at sports bar type restaurants.

In article >,
"Jke" > wrote:

>
> > Since we haven't had television for about four years,
>
> I am waiting for someone to comment on this sentence... but in vain. I am
> quite surprised. I am TV-less myself (I want to be) and people usually sound
> surprised when they hear about that. But not in this group, it seems

Some people seem to have a hard time understanding that we don't
watch television. It is inaccurate to say we don't have one. We
actually have two, though only one is set up. However, where we live,
we have zero reception, we don't even get PBS, and we only use the
television for videos/dvds. We have it behind a cabinet, and not on the
television shrine in the living room, and use it when we wish to, at our
own convenience.

Rich's assistant at work took about a year to get that we don't watch
television. He'd come to work and ask if Rich had seen such and such a
show or commercial, and each day Rich would tell him, no, we don't have
television.

Regards,
Ranee

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In article >,
"MareCat" > wrote:

> That casserole actually looks OK. Don't know about putting bananas in there,
> though...

Even without the bananas, it seemed over the top for me. How many
kinds of processed, high fat foods does anyone need in any one casserole?

Regards,
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"Mordechai Housman" > wrote:

> I and my wife have not had a television in over ten years. When we got
> married, some ten years ago, we made that decision. We used to watch a
> little when we visited her family, but now we have stopped that also.

I'd be willing to bet you are better off for it. I'm not someone who
thinks that television is evil, but there is so much garbage to sift
through, even on good channels or good programs, and I see no reason to
pay to bring it into our home. We wouldn't allow the kind of language
or behavior on television in our living room, yet we would somehow pipe
it in?

Our kids' teachers were all impressed at their attention span and
vocabulary. They all commented to us on it at the parent teacher
meetings, and we simply said that we didn't watch television, and that
seemed to explain it to them.

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In article . com>,
"KevinS" > wrote:

> I also don't have television in my home. I've done without it since May
> 2005.
> I see television in hotels and sometimes at sports bar type restaurants.

I watched a little television when I was at the hospital. My remote
was broken, and I couldn't turn it off. I had to call the nurse to get
her to hit the button on the television, since Rich was in the shower.

My mother always has the television on, partly because she lives
alone. I cannot stand it when we visit, because she has news programs
and junk tv on _all_ the time. Regardless of who (i.e. the children,
who at last visit were all under seven) is seeing the violence, sex and
hearing the foul language. Even the news isn't really safe, because of
the scary things that are covered and the violence and war shown. We
try to shelter our kids a bit, and work hard to be gatekeepers of what
they see, and have enough trouble just driving along the freeway with
its billboards and going through the check out aisles at the grocery
store, without having all that mess in my mom's home as well.

Regards,
Ranee

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On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:23:06 +0200, "Jke" >
wrote:

>
>> Since we haven't had television for about four years,
>
>I am waiting for someone to comment on this sentence... but in vain. I am
>quite surprised. I am TV-less myself (I want to be) and people usually sound
>surprised when they hear about that. But not in this group, it seems

About three years without cable. My TV is just a thing to play DVDs
on. (Princess Bride, Monty Python, old horror movies...)

serene
--
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On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 15:51:09 -0700, Ranee Mueller
> wrote:

>In article <f%2Jg.778$wI5.728@trndny04>,
> "Mordechai Housman" > wrote:
>
>> I and my wife have not had a television in over ten years. When we got
>> married, some ten years ago, we made that decision. We used to watch a
>> little when we visited her family, but now we have stopped that also.
>
> I'd be willing to bet you are better off for it. I'm not someone who
>thinks that television is evil, but there is so much garbage to sift
>through, even on good channels or good programs, and I see no reason to
>pay to bring it into our home. We wouldn't allow the kind of language
>or behavior on television in our living room, yet we would somehow pipe
>it in?

I would (and do) allow profanity in my living room -- and even SEX! --
but I agree that there's not a ton of stuff of value out there. There
is some, though, and I'm lucky enough to have caught some of it on
DVD. The West Wing, for instance, and Six Feet Under, and Nova, are
just three things that come to mind.

Serene
--
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In article >,
Serene > wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 15:51:09 -0700, Ranee Mueller
> > wrote:
>
> > I'd be willing to bet you are better off for it. I'm not someone who
> >thinks that television is evil, but there is so much garbage to sift
> >through, even on good channels or good programs, and I see no reason to
> >pay to bring it into our home. We wouldn't allow the kind of language
> >or behavior on television in our living room, yet we would somehow pipe
> >it in?
>
> I would (and do) allow profanity in my living room -- and even SEX! --
> but I agree that there's not a ton of stuff of value out there.

No to the profanity, but I suppose, technically yes to the second. I
should have been more clear: We don't invite people over to our home to
behave in front of us as they do on television.

> There
> is some, though, and I'm lucky enough to have caught some of it on
> DVD. The West Wing, for instance, and Six Feet Under, and Nova, are
> just three things that come to mind.

We have been glad to find that most shows that we were interested in
seeing could be seen on DVD, and that even PBS shows/specials could be
gotten from the library on DVD. So, we get to watch good programming if
and when we like, on our schedule rather than a broadcast schedule. It
has reduced how much we watch, though, because we find we fill our time
with other things now.

Regards,
Ranee

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"Mordechai Housman" > schreef in bericht
news:f%2Jg.778$wI5.728@trndny04...
> "Jke" > wrote in message
> ...
>>
>>> Since we haven't had television for about four years,
>>
>> I am waiting for someone to comment on this sentence... but in vain. I am
>> quite surprised. I am TV-less myself (I want to be) and people usually
>> sound surprised when they hear about that. But not in this group, it
>> seems
>
> I and my wife have not had a television in over ten years. When we got
> married, some ten years ago, we made that decision. We used to watch a
> little when we visited her family, but now we have stopped that also.

Well, I really like it that there's a club of us in RFC, then!
>
> Mordechai

Jke wrote:
>
> Well, I really like it that there's a club of us in RFC, then!
> >
> > Mordechai

I can understand not watching tv news and sitcoms and so-called reality
shows and tv dramas and soaps. I am not at all inclined, on the other
hand, to give up tv sports, hbo movies, and classic movies. -aem

Ranee Mueller wrote:

> We have been glad to find that most shows that we were interested in
> seeing could be seen on DVD, and that even PBS shows/specials could be
> gotten from the library on DVD. So, we get to watch good programming if
> and when we like, on our schedule rather than a broadcast schedule. It
> has reduced how much we watch, though, because we find we fill our time
> with other things now.

Same here, on all counts.

Serene

Ranee Mueller wrote:
> In article >,
> Serene > wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 15:51:09 -0700, Ranee Mueller
> > > wrote:
> >
> > > I'd be willing to bet you are better off for it. I'm not someone who
> > >thinks that television is evil, but there is so much garbage to sift
> > >through, even on good channels or good programs, and I see no reason to
> > >pay to bring it into our home. We wouldn't allow the kind of language
> > >or behavior on television in our living room, yet we would somehow pipe
> > >it in?
> >
> > I would (and do) allow profanity in my living room -- and even SEX! --
> > but I agree that there's not a ton of stuff of value out there.
>
> No to the profanity, but I suppose, technically yes to the second. I
> should have been more clear: We don't invite people over to our home to
> behave in front of us as they do on television.

Heh. We do, but then I've been the resident freak here (on rfc, I mean)
for a long time, and I'm used to it. :-)

(Also, many of the shows I watch have people supporting each other,
doing political activism, and smooching -- all of that is welcome in my
living room; hell, it's encouraged. :-)

serene

"Jke" > wrote in message
...
>
> "Mordechai Housman" > schreef in bericht
> news:f%2Jg.778$wI5.728@trndny04...
>> "Jke" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>>
>>>> Since we haven't had television for about four years,
>>>
>>> I am waiting for someone to comment on this sentence... but in vain.
>>> I am quite surprised. I am TV-less myself (I want to be) and people
>>> usually sound surprised when they hear about that. But not in this
>>> group, it seems
>>
>> I and my wife have not had a television in over ten years. When we
>> got married, some ten years ago, we made that decision. We used to
>> watch a little when we visited her family, but now we have stopped
>> that also.
>
> Well, I really like it that there's a club of us in RFC, then!

Well met, indeed!

"aem" > wrote in message
ups.com...
>
> Jke wrote:
>>
>> Well, I really like it that there's a club of us in RFC, then!
>
> I can understand not watching tv news and sitcoms and so-called
> reality
> shows and tv dramas and soaps. I am not at all inclined, on the other
> hand, to give up tv sports, hbo movies, and classic movies. -aem

I hear you. As Tolkien wrote, we each have something too dear to give
up.