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[Wilson Gray]

> Exactly. It's new technology, with language appropriate to it.

Exactly. That's why only people of a certain age will recall the days when
you could only change the "station" on a radio. People old enough will
recall when there were also no TV's to change the channels of.

On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 8:01 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:

> Exactly. It's new technology, with language appropriate to it.
>
> On Jan 31, 2018 7:33 PM, "Wilson Gray" <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Satellite radio has channels, not stations.
> >
> > There was no satellite radio in the "change-station" days.
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 2:15 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Satellite radio has channels, not stations.
> > >
> > > On Jan 31, 2018 2:08 PM, "Wilson Gray" <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > "Changed the _channel_ on the radio!"
> > > >
> > > > Remember when you used to change the _station_ on the radio?
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > -Wilson
> > > > -----
> > > > All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
> to
> > > > come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> > > > -Mark Twain
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> > -Wilson
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> > come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> > -Mark Twain
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-- 
-Wilson
-----
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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