What did you do during the C.O.D. War? When Ted Turner was launching his cable-TV empire in the '80s, he paid the bills by selling commercial space to anyone who had anything to sell. Between low-budget rasslin' matches and re-runs of Japanese monster movies, Turner's Superstation was a televised flea market. It pitched cheap steak knives, records by faux-hobo Boxcar Willie and any gizmo dreamed up by second-rate Ronco imitators. The beauty was that you could order up the junk by phoning and having it sent to your house C.O.D. - that means "cash on delivery" for all you post-Internet babies who know how to buy only with plastic. In the C.O.D. epoch, if a nifty product caught your eye, all you had to do was dial the number on the screen …show more content…
code of ethics, you had to sign your name and pay the postal employee on the spot. It didn't take long before my chronically bored friends and I said: "Hey, what if, you know, like, dude, we called up the TV people and gave another person's name and address to the operator instead of a real one? Huh-huh-huh. Wouldn't it be funny if (INSERT NAME HERE) got something that he never ordered?" That was the spark that lit the cannon that lobbed the ball into Fort Moron and signaled the start of the great C.O.D. …show more content…
Yodel on that, muskrat. Although many thought it was just a rumor of war, we heard tell of a teacher who received a musical toilet seat C.O.D. Every time the lid was closed, the cushy seat played "Endless Love" by Lionel Richie and Lady Diana Ross. Rebel insurgents must've been responsible for that one. Loose lips sink ships, as any sailor knows, and that was our undoing after one beautiful week. What good is sending the complete collection of musical misery made by British warbler and whistler Roger Whittaker if you can't mention it to your pal, "Uh, dude, after you tire of staring at your Sheena Easton poster for hours, do you find yourself, you know, whistling 'Sleepy London Town' like a pistol-whipped whippoorwill?'" Busted. Caught. Punk'd. Outed. Hand, meet cookie jar. The retaliation was swift and costly. Recordings by Slim Whitman rained on my doorstep. Who knew there were so many archive recordings by Red Sovine - the genius who gave us "Teddy Bear" and "Little Joe," the unparalleled CB radio-inspired song cycle? I had so many steak knives I could've started a circus
The past decade has witnessed fundamental changes in the information environment, which makes availability and access to information more prevalent than in the past. For this reason, we must develop and maintain the ability to influence the content and flow of information to potential adversaries, as well as foreign civilian audiences in the area of operations.
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At 12:01, with the echo of the last bell lingering in the air, the one-hundred pounds of dynamite hidden in the wagon exploded (Andrews, 2014). Shrapnel encompassed the immediate area; people were dropping everywhere. The structures nearby shook as the shock wave slammed through the exterior walls. The cloth awnings that overlooked the streets burst into flames (Bellows, 2007). Next, came a rain shower of glass that drenched the streets from the shattered windows. Nearby, World War I veterans experienced a scene of devastation very similar to that of the battlefields. They initially suspected that cause of such destruction had come from the skies (King, 2011). One witness wrote, “ It was a crash out of a blue sky, an unexpected, death dealing bolt which in a twinkling turned into a shamble the busiest corner of Americas financial center” (Gage 2002).
I smickered at the window. At first all I saw was redcoats, but then I saw it. A small sphere was flying through the air in our direction. A grenade! I wondered if we were going to die, but it blew up the redcoats instead. I didn’t know what to think. Was it help or did one of the redcoats lose control of it? I later learned it was veritably two grenades. The Continental Army was coming to save us!
Many people ask what the so called Pony Express did and what was the point ,well the Pony Express was what we now know as texting and emailing. Instead of 10
In this week’s Inside the War Room, we take a look at the two college football playoff games, discuss if Robert Nkemdiche is worth the risk of a first round draft pick, talk about whose draft stock is going up and down, and let you know who the top senior offensive guards are in the 2016 NFL Draft.
he effort on the Canadian government and civilians did lead towards the allied victory of WW2 by the control of financial. In World War 2, paying for the war and waging the war were expensive, so the king figured out ways to pay it all, by raising income tax and selling Victory Bonds. The way of selling the Victory bonds is to sell it to people and a few years later, they would get their money plus the interest back. Meanwhile, the government could use this money to pay for the war effort. The Chinese Canadians raised $4 million in the relief funds and send $5 million to support the effort in China. The total expenses that the federal government spending on the War effort were $21 786 077 519 from 1939-1950. At the end of the war, the victory
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How did Ted Turner turn a small advertising company into a multi-billion dollar company? Ted Turner is an outstanding philanthropist and an amazing person. He has many accomplishments in his life and is a great entrepreneur and he has amazing business skills. He owns many things from millions of acres of land in many states and South America to some of the best and most popular television shows. Ted Turner makes an astronomical amount of money and is also worth a lot.
The Armed Forces of the United States stand at an inflection point. Fourteen years of sustained combat forged a seasoned force capable of success across the range of military operations from military engagement to joint and multinational major combat operations. Today, this seasoned force is tasked to reset from a decade plus of counterinsurgency operations and evolve capability and capacity to defend the Nation from an increasingly complex security environment. Furthermore, this transformation must be completed in the face of a stark fiscal federal budget.
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Understanding about the operational environment is the most important thing to think about the strategy. However, the government of the U.S. misunderstood about that in Vietnam because they were lack of knowledge of Vietnam. Originally, the Vietnam War was the Proxy War for the United States. The government of Republic of Vietnamese (South Vietnamese) was weaker than Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam). Many citizens of Vietnam not only North but also South like Viet Cong supported North Vietnam. The South Vietnamese government did not have legitimacy compare to North Vietnamese government. However, the U.S. decided to support the South and finally conducted the war against North Vietnam in 1964 that means the Proxy War became their
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What I started to realize was that I can remember a time when if you wanted to keep in touch with someone you actually had to mail them a letter. My father used to tell me stories about how he used to listen to the Lone Range every week on the AM radio. But I remember watching Buck Rogers and Star Trek on a tiny little black and white TV and what it felt like when we got our first color TV set. Who knew that bugs bunny actually was still grey on a color TV or that Jerry was brown and Tom, well he still had a hard time catching that mouse no matter what color he was. Now when I watch my young children playing the Wii on the 55 inch HD plasma TV I remember my first game of Pong I played on my Radio Shack TRS-80. I also remember having to go home to make a phone call and often listen as my children are talking on my cell phone while we drive to grammas’ house. Then to top it off is that they don’t know what life was like before the internet. So I decided to it would be more interesting to take a historical walk through of some of the most significant technology and telecommunications developments that I have been so privileged to see develop in my lifetime.
The DTH industry grew quickly from its modest beginnings. As each new system was installed, the word of mouth advertising grew for the industry. Obviously the early DTH systems were very large, thus the simple act of having one installed drew the attention and interest of the neighborhood. Once non-dishowners experienced the diversity of satellite-delivered programming (new cable services were now launching at a rapid pace) coupled with the unsurpassed audio and video quality offered by a DTH system, the fever began to spread across the land.