'Lost'

[Ronn! Blankenship]

At 05:12 PM Thursday 3/20/2008, Julia Thompson wrote:


>On Thu, 20 Mar 2008, Dave Land wrote:
>
> > On Mar 20, 2008, at 12:52 PM, jon louis mann wrote:
> >
> >> ... did I mention that as a result of the airwaves being filled with
> >> crap like 'Lost', I haven't owned a TV for about five years?
> >> Curtis.
> >> Garbage in garbage out Maru
> >>
> >> curtis, if you haven't owned a TV for five years, i guess you must
> >> rely
> >> on other sources of information to determine that 'lost' is crap?
> >> sturgeon's law states, "90% of everything is crap", including science
> >> fiction...
> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_law
> >>
> >> i apply that law to the internet, television and just about everything
> >> (although the percentage may vary).  here's the thing, if even 1% of
> >> what is on television is worth watching, why throw out the baby with
> >> the bath water?  that's why i have tivo (and fast forward past the
> >> commercials).  what i really should do is get rid of my laptop,
> >> because
> >> i waste too much time on e-mail, blogs, discussion groups, internet
> >> hoaxes, etc...
> >
> > It is true that 90% of Brin-L Posts are crap, too.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > Self-Reverential Maru
>
>And my post here is one of the "crap" ones.  :)
>
>         Julia



Figurative crap is like literal crap:  if you try to hold it in and 
don't let it out on a regular basis, you will have bigger problems 
than if you let it out regularly . . .


American Standard Maru


. . . ronn!  :)