[Magdalen] Film puke.

[M J [Mike] Logsdon]

>>>Well, it's a different experience for sure. A shared experience of the TV episode rather than direct conversation. I've never had a rule about it one way or the other.<<<

Pop's dinner table was never intended to be silent, but it was also a place to watch one's mouth.  Luckily for me, he never had a problem with me eating in the living room so as to watch TV.
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"O perplexed discomposition, O riddling
distemper, O miserable condition of man!"
- The Rev Mr John Donne
(in a not-so-chipper moment)