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MiddleFingerMom

(25,163 posts) Mon Jul 8, 2013, 04:34 PM Jul 2013

How many of us ruined our eyesight by staring intently for HOURS trying to get just one clear second

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... of the forbidden treaures hidden behind the cable channel scramble?
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How many of us ruined our eyesight by staring intently for HOURS trying to get just one clear second (Original Post) MiddleFingerMom Jul 2013 OP

I didn't exactly ruin my eyesight... CaliforniaPeggy Jul 2013 #1

LOL... I watched some sporting events scrambled (the sound was in the clear). n/t PoliticAverse Jul 2013 #2

alot of kids learned about the facts of life from the scramble olddots Jul 2013 #3

If you got the "fine tuning" knob just right. . . . . . . Hoyt Jul 2013 #4

Looks like the channels we saw down in Muscle Shoals. In_The_Wind Jul 2013 #5

Only till I needed glasses! nomorenomore08 Jul 2013 #6

It was like a moving Rorschach test -- I would SWEAR that I could see... MiddleFingerMom Jul 2013 #7

I forgot those days! Baitball Blogger Jul 2013 #8

how about those motels when the company sent you on a road trip rurallib Jul 2013 #9

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,677 posts)

1. I didn't exactly ruin my eyesight...

Reply to MiddleFingerMom (Original post)

Mon Jul 8, 2013, 04:35 PM

Jul 2013

But I think I came close...

PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)

2. LOL... I watched some sporting events scrambled (the sound was in the clear). n/t

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Mon Jul 8, 2013, 04:42 PM

Jul 2013

olddots

(10,237 posts)

3. alot of kids learned about the facts of life from the scramble

Reply to MiddleFingerMom (Original post)

Mon Jul 8, 2013, 04:50 PM

Jul 2013

and that's why they're so clueless .

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

4. If you got the "fine tuning" knob just right. . . . . . .

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Mon Jul 8, 2013, 04:52 PM

Jul 2013

In_The_Wind

(72,300 posts)

5. Looks like the channels we saw down in Muscle Shoals.

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Mon Jul 8, 2013, 04:56 PM

Jul 2013

nomorenomore08

(13,324 posts)

6. Only till I needed glasses!

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Mon Jul 8, 2013, 05:54 PM

Jul 2013

MiddleFingerMom

(25,163 posts)

7. It was like a moving Rorschach test -- I would SWEAR that I could see...

Reply to MiddleFingerMom (Original post)

Mon Jul 8, 2013, 09:07 PM

Jul 2013

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... different parts of the anatomy and I'm sure it was just my (desperately overactive)
imagination. Truly wishful thinking. The longer I stared, the more I would see.
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I was producing and directing my own porno movies in my head.
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I wasn't too bad at it, neither.
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Baitball Blogger

(46,753 posts)

8. I forgot those days!

Reply to MiddleFingerMom (Original post)

Mon Jul 8, 2013, 09:24 PM

Jul 2013

Rorschach Porn!

rurallib

(62,433 posts)

9. how about those motels when the company sent you on a road trip

Reply to MiddleFingerMom (Original post)

Mon Jul 8, 2013, 09:37 PM

Jul 2013

and you couldn't possibly have "porn channel" on your credit card.
So you try to make out what those $10 a night channels were showing through the scramble

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