From: analogdial@mail.com   
      
   On Thu, 20 Feb 2020 06:45:37 -0800, roamingdales wrote:   
      
   +AD4 jimstone.is    says,    No matter how Coronavirus plays out, this is the   
   +AD4 most relevant statement ever issued and it will remain top posted.   
   +AD4                                                        ...  and Jim Stone   
   +AD4 says you don't need more than this no matter what they claim is a new   
   +AD4 development. And the statement was written by a Lithuanian.   
      
   My family inherited a Lithuanian TV set.  It wasn't actually made in Lithuania   
   or anything like that,  But it was a Budrik TV.  Jos. Budrik sold radios and   
   TVs on Chicago's southwest side, primarily to the Lithuanian community.  The   
   TV was actually a RCA    
   but it said Budrik on the picture tube bezel where the old RCA meatball would   
   be.  Nowhere was there any external indication that it actually was a RCA set.   
      
   It was kinda cool having a +ACI-mystery+ACI brand TV set.  The picture tube   
   shorted out while I was watching Star Trek, the one with Nomad, the renegade   
   space probe.  It was a damn shame, I remember Kirk and Spock grabbing a   
   confused Nomad and --- the    
   picture went dark+ACEAIQ  Sheesh+ACEAIQAh   
      
   I have no idea why Budrik didn't go with one of the local TV makers such as   
   Admiral or Motorola or Zenith.  Whatever.  The TV actually held up pretty   
   good, it was 10+- years old when it failed.  That's not bad for TVs back   
   then.  I wish I got a picture    
   tube for it back around 1980 when all the shops were throwing alot of those   
   old tubes in the dumpster.   
      
   Jos. Budrik's store was gone by then.  All the kids of the immigrants learned   
   to speak standard English and were buying their TV sets at Polk Brothers.  Or,   
   sometimes, Sears.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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