What does UHF stand for?
ultra-high frequency. And in case you were wondering, VHF means very-high frequency.
The reason I bring this up is because I remember watching TV at a young age on the television with the rabbit ear antennas and the dial that rotated with the familiar "clicks". I remember watching cartoons on channel 2 on the weekends and movies on channel 8. Channel 13 always had the guy who painted the "happy trees" or Kunta hosting Reading Rainbow.
We didn't have cable but for some strange reason, I used to watch Double Dare and Finders Keepers after school. It may not seem strange to you but didn't those shows used to come on Nickelodeon?
It's very embarrasing to grow up without cable tv. Everybody at school's talking about who was on Def Comedy Jam last night and the latest video on MTV. I just pretended I wasn't interested in such things.
But then I got smart. I'd go to my cousins house and watch the Mickey Mouse Club and Kids Incorporated around 5pm and stay the night and catch videos and go to school with all my new ground breaking information.
But then things took a turn for the worse. Our phone got shut off. That had to be more embarrasing than no cable!
Then, when the phone finally got back on, we didn't have all the features that everyone else had. For example, there was no "clicking over" on our phone. My friend would say, "click over and call so and so" and I'd act like I didn't know how to do it.
I was so ungrateful.
One year, my mom had to get rid of me and my sisters twin beds. Someone donated beds to us but they weren't just any old beds. These were top of the line hospital beds! Yes, they were equipped with a remote for the tv and everything. The best feature was being able to lift the head and foot of the bed. But I never invited people over because I'm sure they'd assume my sister and I had some kind of terminal illness no one knew about.
And people are just too polite to ask. No, they simply keep it to themselves until you turn your back so they can talk about you.
The reason I bring this up is because I remember watching TV at a young age on the television with the rabbit ear antennas and the dial that rotated with the familiar "clicks". I remember watching cartoons on channel 2 on the weekends and movies on channel 8. Channel 13 always had the guy who painted the "happy trees" or Kunta hosting Reading Rainbow.
We didn't have cable but for some strange reason, I used to watch Double Dare and Finders Keepers after school. It may not seem strange to you but didn't those shows used to come on Nickelodeon?
It's very embarrasing to grow up without cable tv. Everybody at school's talking about who was on Def Comedy Jam last night and the latest video on MTV. I just pretended I wasn't interested in such things.
But then I got smart. I'd go to my cousins house and watch the Mickey Mouse Club and Kids Incorporated around 5pm and stay the night and catch videos and go to school with all my new ground breaking information.
But then things took a turn for the worse. Our phone got shut off. That had to be more embarrasing than no cable!
Then, when the phone finally got back on, we didn't have all the features that everyone else had. For example, there was no "clicking over" on our phone. My friend would say, "click over and call so and so" and I'd act like I didn't know how to do it.
I was so ungrateful.
One year, my mom had to get rid of me and my sisters twin beds. Someone donated beds to us but they weren't just any old beds. These were top of the line hospital beds! Yes, they were equipped with a remote for the tv and everything. The best feature was being able to lift the head and foot of the bed. But I never invited people over because I'm sure they'd assume my sister and I had some kind of terminal illness no one knew about.
And people are just too polite to ask. No, they simply keep it to themselves until you turn your back so they can talk about you.
posted by Mary at 9:21 AM
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