Re: generational markers (was "Disney's Man In Space")

From: Mike Flugennock (71v43mm0zk_at_stinkers.org)
Date: 06/04/04 

Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 08:11:23 -0400

In article <85EvdK7lwBwAFwu9@merseia.fsnet.co.uk>,
jsilverlight@spam.merseia.fsnet.co.uk.invalid wrote:

> In message <71v43mm0zk-0406040207310001@paste.sinkers.org>, Mike
> Flugennock <71v43mm0zk@stinkers.org> writes
> >
> >Now, _there's_ a marker for you; how many USAians here can remember when
> >TV stations actually _signed_off_the_air_ at 1 or 1:30am every night,
> >right after Carson, or the Perry Mason rerun, or the old B-movie?
> >
> Well, there's at least one Brit who can remember when the BBC signed off
> with "God Save The Queen". And I remember one very weird night when I
> switched on again later and found their frequency being used by what
> looked like amateur TV...

I'm sure some wise-asses out there said it was Thames, or ITN, or
something. (;^> 

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 along with their overcoats;
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 they'd send a limousine anyway!"              --the clash.
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