when good men love bad tivos

It's just as I feared would happen. While my TiVo wasn't wearing a housecoat when I got home this evening, and had not in fact recorded Jerry Springer, it had done something just as bad: it had recorded two episodes of Maury and one of The View.

While I apparently have their TiVo, somewhere in middle America a frumpy housewife in curlers and her disheveled, stained t-shirt wearing, unemployed husband (I keep picturing Onslow from Keeping Up Appearances) are sitting in front of the TiVo in their trailer, while enjoying a couple of Budweisers, and wondering why it keeps recording Sex in the City, Will and Grace and the Biography channel special on Judy Garland.

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If your Tivo starts recording Jerry Springer, please let me know. That will mean that you have mine... ;-)

Onslow is hysterical. He's the only reason I can watch that show, otherwise I just get to worked up over whats her face.

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