From: joe_f@verizon.net   
      
   Martha Bridegam  writes:   
      
   > In fairness, if you live in a noisy place, at least having the TV on   
   > allows you to drown out everyone else's noise and listen to *your*   
   > noise instead. Not a taste I share personally but some people seem   
   > to like it, and that doesn't mean they stare at the TV   
   > full-time. It's background music, like those ocean surf recordings   
   > people use to help them sleep.   
      
   I once slept, or rather occupied a bed, with a man who could not sleep   
   without the TV on.  I would rather be on heroin.   
   --   
   ---  Joe Fineman    joe_f@verizon.net   
      
   ||:  Corporations are pieces of government that got away.  :||   
      
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