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Originally Posted by Robert Grant
Don't forget the generation gap here.
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When my daughter was about five years old, she got the mumps and had to spend a few days in bed. She wasn't allowed to have a TV in her room, but I figured since she was sick I'd be nice. I took an old portable in and she was thrilled that she was going to be allowed to watch cartoons in her room.
A few minutes later she came out of her room carrying the TV. I remember her words exactly as she handed it to me with a sad face: "This TV is broken, dad. There's no color." And she meant it... she wasn't going to watch in black and white!
Another story, more recent. We hosted a tour of cub scouts at our club's museum a few months ago and the TV exhibit was a highlight for them. (They even tried to understand the black and white issue!) A number of the kids asked really perceptive questions, but one kid cracked me up completlely when he asked me if "that thing" (the rectangular plastic RCA logo on the front of the fifties vintage set they were watching) was where you put the disc!
--Dave Sica