Bill the Splut
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01-29-2004 12:05 AM ET (US)
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M3: I'll never get cable again. Not unless they go for an "al Fresco" model, where you pay, say, $9.95 a month for the box and connection, and then pay $1-to-3 a month for each of the channels you want to see, rather than $50 a month for 120 channels with the 2 or 3 you want.
The defining moment in my "Time to get rid of cable" debate was when I surfed through the four! religious channels I never watched, then hit 3 "different" sports channels, all SHOWING THE SAME AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL GAME. Okay, it was 3AM. But isn't that the supposed point of cable? That there's always something to watch?
The reality is that there's NEVER anything to watch. Anybody else get all excited when they got Cartoon Network, then grumble when they realized that it was all Scooby fuckin' Doo?
Thanks for the recommendation, though. It sure sounds like something I'd love. But I also didn't get cable when Penn & Teller's BULLSHIT! went on the air. Much as I would've liked to...
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