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OFFING THE TUBE: HUNKA HUNKA FLYING SHARDS OF GLASS

Even though TV sets breed everywhere throughout the world, it's almost impossible to find a practical treatise on destroying the things. Blowing 'em up. Smashing 'em into miniscule bits of flotsam and george jetsam. Surely there are ample reasons to want to bash the tube, even if you've never seen a John Denver special.

February 2, 1983
J. KORDOSH

OFFING THE TUBE: HUNKA HUNKA FLYING SHARDS OF GLASS

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J. KORDOSH

Even though TV sets breed everywhere throughout the world, it's almost impossible to find a practical treatise on destroying the things. Blowing 'em up. Smashing 'em into miniscule bits of flotsam and george jetsam.

Surely there are ample reasons to want to bash the tube, even if you've never seen a John Denver special. After all, there's always Lynda Carter specials, episodes of The Real McCoys without Pipino, Cba/fenge Match Fishing, and a new season every fall. Not to mention video games, MTV, and all the Marcus We/bys after Kiley got married. We're talking about a mountain of frustration here, piling up year after year. Do you know how many Chicago Cubs games have been televised in the history of mankind?? Make that an Everest of frustration. Don't forget, the first successful television pickup devices were invented way back in mneteen-andtwenty-three, by the "American" (hah) inventor, Vlodimir Zworykin. No kidding, that was really his name. When another bozo, Philo Farnsworth, invented the image dissector tube a few commercial breaks later, it was all over, gang (That was really bis name, too; look it up.

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