evilcrossbar
31 Jul 2002, 02:43 PM
Several years ago there was an Onion 'story' about a Chinese woman who had sextuplets but due to the one child policy she had to throw the rest off a mountain. (included convincing picture of middle aged chinese woman looking distressed).
Apparently the story appeared on one of those televangelist TV channels and people phoned in offering to adopt the remaining kids. :D
Originally posted by monster
Before anyone gets crazy about sme of the real stuff ESPN shows, can you remind me what the E stood for when the network began?
Yes...Entertainment. You really are an old-tyme cable dude if you remember that back then, there was another channel called "Sports Programming Network" (SPN) so they had to have another name.
One other old-tyme naming recollection: today's Arts and Entertainment ("A&E") channel was the merger of two channels: ARTS ("Alpha Repertory Television Service," the Alpha meant it was the first fine arts channel) and the Entertainment channel.
Today's Comedy Central was the merger of two comedy channels: The Comedy Channel (I think it was "channel," not "network") and HA-TV ("Humor Access Television").
No, the Weather Channell was not the merger of two meterology networks...