
My dad's favourite thing to say to me from the ages of about 3 to 17:
SIT DOWN SHUT UP WATCH THE NEWS IT'S INTERESTING.
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Tue 14 Oct 2008, 17:32,
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SIT DOWN SHUT UP WATCH THE NEWS IT'S INTERESTING.

and cartoons were only Saturday mornings.
I read the encyclopaedia brittanica in my spare time ( I kid you not, it was the single best gift I have ever been given in my life ) which my grandfather bought for me and I learned had to pay for in instalments for years beyond the time I got it.
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Tue 14 Oct 2008, 17:39,
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I read the encyclopaedia brittanica in my spare time ( I kid you not, it was the single best gift I have ever been given in my life ) which my grandfather bought for me and I learned had to pay for in instalments for years beyond the time I got it.