On Thursday, February 20, 2020 at 10:17:56 AM UTC-6, Frank wrote:   
   > On Thu, 20 Feb 2020 06:45:37 -0800, roamingdales wrote:   
   >    
   > > jimstone.is    says,    No matter how Coronavirus plays out, this is the   
   > > most relevant statement ever issued and it will remain top posted.           
   > >                                                        ...  and Jim Stone   
   > > says you don't need more than this no matter what they claim is a new   
   > > 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 "mystery" 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!!  Sheesh!!!   
   >    
   > 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.   
      
   The Terribile Truth About Star Trek's Transporters. freerepublic   
   com/focus/f-bloggers/3818015/posts                         ...  That Budrik TV   
   set probably wound up in Star Trek's transporter thingy   
                                                             
          
                                                                        
   ...     duckduckgo.com    What are the best restaurants in Mississippi?      
   ...I wouldn't know, I never go to them. There might be one or two Lithuanian   
   restaurants somewhere in Mississippi. I suppose Chicago's very own has quite a   
   few of them.    en.   
   wikipedia.org/wiki/Teevision_in_Lithuania                              
                                                                   
   ...About fifteen years ago I used to email chat back and forth with a married   
   woman in Vilnius, Lithuania. She works at a college that she graduated from.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)