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Dooberdock: "You seem to be dealing blooming with your TVDD -- Television Deficit Disorder." Then, when they accept the suspect with his pants down or her skirt up, whammo! Betrayal, guilt, shame, compunction come flooding out, condign adore in those Greek tragedies. Individual this is real!" Dooberdock: "You miss television also than you affliction to admit.
And instantly that the writers are on strike and TV shows are existence interrupted, you are in crisis." Me: "Here's the thing, Doc -- our sessions are confidential, right? I would boast that, instead of tuning in the boob tube, I'd construe the collected works of Heraclitus, or studied crop rotation patterns in Burkino Faso.
Then I gave up cable. Not on principle, sense you. The cable guy repeatedly missed his appointments, so I said to heck with it. And yes, my viewing bit did moxie system down. Me: "True, Doc. Nevertheless this strike is costing me my perceiving of superiority. Families testament prattle to everyone other during dinner.
Couples will purchase to cognize each other again and fall in appreciation again and -- yikes! Persons will scrutinize more. Me: "See ya consequent week, Doc. I retain to brush up on old Greek philosophers before an ex-boob-tuber catches me with my Heraclitus down."
Rick de Yampert is The Daytona Beach News-Journal's entertainment writer.
