[51805] in Cypherpunks
Re: SurfWatch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Spero)
Sat Mar 9 23:33:54 1996
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 20:31:36 -0800 (PST)
From: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
To: Steven Weller <stevenw@best.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <v01540b00ad67e1a770f3@[206.86.1.35]>
On Sat, 9 Mar 1996, Steven Weller wrote:
> In the mid-eighties in the UK they adopted the idea of a red triangle
> continuously displayed on the screen of movies shown on TV that were
> considered to have more than the normal share of wobbly pink bits, airborne
> blood, etc.
I seem to remember this being something Channel 4 introducted on there
own to try and deflect criticism (and probably saved the station).
Probably saved the station, and introduced a lot of people to the art of
subtitles :-)
Has anybody registered CrotchWatch as a trademark?
Simon
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i gotta say this you're acting blameless
you're making bucks like you're fucking shameless
i'm coming hard it won't be painless
coding styles of the rich and brainless
