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Top Ten Reasons Why TV is Better Than Books

August 27, 1987

 

 

10.  Book Readers miss out on K-tel record offers

 9.   Can’t drive and read at the same time

 8.   No one ever got a paper cut from Hugh Downs.

 

 7.   Books ask difficult questions but don’t give away cars or cruises for right answers.

 

 6.   Books written by pasty-skinned geeks; TV full of chesty babes

 

 5.  “Soul Train.”

 

 4.  Learning to work TV provides solid training for future astronauts.

 

3.   TV easier to spell than book

 

2.   No fun to dance in your underwear in front of a book about Jane Pauley

 

1.   Ralph Waldo Emerson. The Equalizer.

 

  

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