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                                             POTPOURRI

                       by Richard DePersio with Citizen Journalist

FOX NEWS ALERT: This article is being investigated by Ellery Queen.*

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                                   Six Degrees of Separation

                                    by ? and the Mysterians

(Copies of emails sent to nieces and nephew in the past; prior submission to their

parents for approval or censorship).

 Are you taking anti-bullying classes? Public schools, even superior magnet schools,

indoctrinate rather than educate.

                                       The Other Side

Yes, there is another side. Bullying has been going on for thousands of years.

You uncle was bullied and he bullied. It is part of growing up. School should

prepare you for the adult world: adults bully. People tease friends and insult

enemies. Be on guard for people exploit the weaknesses of others for their own

advantage.

You were right when you said, "People should be judged as individuals." Judged

by their intelligence, personality, attractiveness and physical attributes. They

should also be judged by the company they keep: the kind of friends that they

have. They can be understood by the groups for which they are a part: gender;

race, nationality, ethnicity; religious affiliation; political party; clubs. You can

gain a full picture of a person by  how much money that they have, their

musical preferences, job, etc. All are important in formulating an opinion.

There is nothing wrong with teasing and joking. PC people are dull people. There

is nothing wrong with responding to an insult with an insult.

Your uncle's friend is Citizen 'Your Shoot-from-the-Hip/Non-PC Cripple Journalist.

 

Your uncle is proud to know 'the talking horse' Mr. Ed. Recently, your uncle sent him a

treat: oats. He had phoned and complained that he tired of just hey. I placed it in a

sealed-container, otherwise, post office wouldn't deliver it.

 

I know the banker Topper and his companions - the ghosts George and Marion for many

years. They visited me the other day and I took their picture which I am sending to you

as proof that I know them.

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                                              TELEVISION

                                                  by You

Back in the 1960s, 27 to 40 fresh episodes of a television series were made per year. The

number decreased as you moved from decade to decade. Today, a paltry 22 or 23 episodes

are made which explains why there are a lot of repeats during the year in addition to the

summer repeat season.

Back then, a 60-minutes show was 50 minutes plus commercials and promos (ads for other

shows on the same channel). Over time it has been reduced to today's 43 minutes. Have

you ever watched an old episode of one of your favorite series from the past and had a

feeling that a scene or two was missing? You're not crazy. The powers-that-be have been

known to squeeze in a 30- or 60-second commercial at your expense.

CBS created color television in 1954 but it didn't fly. RCA's version did in 1954

 Color shows are more expensive to make than black-and-white ones. Back in the

1950s, shows were owned by the sponsor or the sponsor and the studio (if the studio didn't

own a piece, it was paid for the use of its facilities were the series was made; if they owned

a piece, the executive producer worked for them) or the sponsor and the network or the

sponsor, network and studio. Fifty per cent were owned only by the sponsor.

A show took the summer off and was replaced by a summer replacement show which may

or may not return the following summer. On rare occasions, a summer show would graduate

to the regular season. Shows began going into summer repeats in 1954 and by 1960 virtually

all shows were doing so. Around 1960, people began to wonder: what will become of episodes

of old series? The concept of repeat syndication was born. Now, CBS, NBC and ABC wanted

to own a piece of all the shows that they aired. Further, they didn't like the creative control

that sponsors had over shows. And, it was becoming too expensive for sponsors to own all

or part of a series in which only their commercials aired. The networks bought out the

sponsor. What if the sponsor didn't want to sell? After the series ended, it would be replaced

by a series that was owned by the network and executive producer or the network, executive

 producer and studio. By 1970, the networks owned a piece of all the shows on their network.

The FCC decided that this was bad and that the networks could only own a piece of 15%

of their shows. It took until 1980 for them to completely comply.

Your thinking: You are A.D.D.-tripping. The more shows that were made in color, the more

color sets were sold; the more color sets that were sold, the more shows were made in color.

It was a commitment - a commitment of more money. RCA owned NBC but that didn't mean

that all shows were made in color in 1954. CBS didn't want specials or weekly series in color

because RCA would profit. ABC had no such qualms but was the third placed network. Only a

few specials, sitcoms and anthology series were in color prior to 1959; that year, Bonanza was

the first weekly drama.By 1966: NBC aired about 75% of specials in color and about 50% of

weekly series and ABC about 50% of specials and 15% of series and CBS none. By 1970,

everyone (CBS included) and everything was in color.

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                                             Spinning Wheel

                                      by Blood, Sweat and Tears

The earth orbits that sun at about the distance of 93 million miles. The sun orbits the center of

the Milky Way Galaxy which is 100,000 x 6,000,000,000,000 long. The sun is about 1/3 of the

way in from the edge. The Milky Way contains 150,000,000,000 stars and moves through space.

Let's not forget that the earth rotates. Don't you feel dizzy?

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*He was the author and the main character in the Ellery Queen series of books. Actually, it was the

 pen-name for two authors. Citizen Journalist knows Ellery Queen too.

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