When you see something on TV.. Do you say you saw it

annabanana

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Thu Mar-23-06 01:03 PM
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When you see something on TV.. Do you say you saw it

on your "TV Screen"? When B*sh & Scottie say "TV Screen" are they trying to sound folksy?... or is this just a regional difference.

To me it grates, as if someone, instead of saying they'd gone to the movies, insisted on saying they'd gone to the "moving picture show".

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XNASA

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Thu Mar-23-06 01:06 PM
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1. I say that I saw it on 'such and such' show, or specify which network, etc

Edited on Thu Mar-23-06 01:14 PM by XNASA

I love it when people say they saw something 'on TV' , or read something 'in the paper'.

People need to be more specific.

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mokaye

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Thu Mar-23-06 01:10 PM
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3. I usually say I saw it on this or that show

or I might say I saw something on TV.
Bu$h tries to talk like a down to Earth kinda guy, but, of course, he can not because he is not.

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SammyWinstonJack

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Thu Mar-23-06 01:09 PM
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2. I was scratching my head over that also.

"TV screen"? I don't know anyone who says that they saw something on their "TV screen". He's a moran!

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giant_robot

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Thu Mar-23-06 01:13 PM
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5. Sounds like Mr. Burns on the Simpsons

I saw it on the TV-ola broadcast. :)

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TomInTib

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Thu Mar-23-06 01:11 PM
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4. That is sort of common in Texas

"TV Screen"
"TV Set"

Movies
"Picture Show"

But, these are relatively rural terms that one must be of a "certain age" and demographic to remember and use.

I sincerely doubt georgie or scottie was raised in that environment. I was.

Heck, to this day I refer to the refrigerator as "the icebox". You should see the reactons of my fellow citizens of Marin County when that term falls out of my hick mouth.

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annabanana

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Thu Mar-23-06 01:14 PM
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6. A ha!

Edited on Thu Mar-23-06 01:16 PM by annabanana

I thought it might be a regionalism, albeit used by a counterfiter..

But hell's bells...I use "icebox" sometimes.. (here in my urban enclave on Long Island) just because my Dad still does as he did in the UP of Michigan back in the 20's...

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TomInTib

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Thu Mar-23-06 01:24 PM
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7. We actually had an Icebox and an icehouse

I grew up poor in rural Texas.

The Ice Man would come by periodically and leave big blocks of ice for us.

God, that was hard work.

I certainly do not miss it. But I do miss those beautific times. Every day.

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