Subject: Re: Norm,s new shop

From: Larry <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 1997 11:30:25 -0500

[email-masked] wrote:
> 
> Tom Ellis wrote:
> >
> > [email-masked] (Dave) wrote:
> >
> > >Has anyone Noticed how sparse Norm,s shop is since he moved to
> > >HGTV. All his fancy tools are gone. It looks as though they ran
> > >over to a local garage sale and picked up tools to do the show?
> >
> > You're seeing re-runs of the very first shows....ShopSmith, Sears RAS,
> > etc.
> >
> > -Tom Ellis
> 
> Sorry to sound dense, but what is HGTV?  Is is some sort of cable
> channel?  I still watch Norm on PBS.
HGTV is Home and Garden Television based in Knoxville, TN.  It is cable
or satellite.

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From: Roger & Jo Kempfer <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 1997 13:01:15 -0900

Scott Schreiber wrote:
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> On Thu, 06 Feb 97 11:28:22 GMT, [email-masked] (Dave) wrote:
> 
> I haven't seen the HGTV show...has he gone back to using his Shopsmith
> Mark V?

Just saw a show this week where he was using his Shopsmith with a lathe 
duplicator.
rk

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 13:30:09 UNDEFINED

In article <[email-masked]> Tim Gillespie <tgillesp@*mail.tds.net> writes:
>From: Tim Gillespie <tgillesp@*mail.tds.net>
>Subject: Re: Norm,s new shop
>Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 18:11:19 -0800

>Dave wrote:

>Yeah! I noticed. He must have changed his hair or something too, he
>looks younger. Maybe its all that weight he has lost.

Are you guys kidding?  He hasn't 'moved to HGTV'.  That's just a two-bit cable 
station that's showing some old reruns - thus, he IS younger, and DOES have 
less fancy tools.

Rich

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From: "David Outen" <[email-masked]>
Date: 10 Feb 1997 20:55:12 GMT

I'm sure they're kidding.  Not sure if you are.  I don't think HGTV is a
2-bit operation.
                                  Dave
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From: Paul Worth <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 15:49:52 -0500

[email-masked] wrote:
> Tim Gillespie writes:
So just what is the scoop on "The New Yankee Workshop"?  Are new
episodes being produced and aired?  My PBS station isn't carrying it
anymore and they've moved "This Old House" and "Woodwright's Shop".
They also appear to have dropped "Hometime" but I really won't miss
that one.  There doesn't seem to be any mention of NYWS at WGBH's 
home page but PBS's page talks about the "ninth season" as if it
were airing new shows.  Anybody here REALLY know what's going on?

--Paul Worth--
[email-masked]

P.S.  Please don't tell me I gotta buy a dish to get my Norm fix  :-)

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From: [email-masked] (Dick Durbin)
Date: 7 Feb 1997 08:04:08 -0500

Dave ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Has anyone Noticed how sparse Norm,s shop is since he moved to 
: HGTV. All his fancy tools are gone. It looks as though they ran 
: over to a local garage sale and picked up tools to do the show?
That's Norm's old shop.  The table saw , if memory serves me, was
Russell Morash's.  These are old shows. 
-- 
Dick Durbin       * "Who is out there to inspire us with a
Tallahassee, FL   * personal example of virtue and self 
                  * sacrifice in the name of a higher good?"
                                             - CALVIN

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 11:03:38 UNDEFINED

In article <[email-masked]> Paul Worth <[email-masked]> writes:
>From: Paul Worth <[email-masked]>
>Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 15:49:52 -0500

>were airing new shows.  Anybody here REALLY know what's going on?

Yes, there are still new shows being made.  Every station can show what it 
wants to; ie what it thinks will result in the most contributions.  Typically 
Norm beats Roy, since more $$ are spent on power tools.

Rich

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From: [email-masked] (George Boggs)
Date: 12 Feb 1997 22:09:21 GMT

> >> station that's showing some old reruns - thus, he IS younger, and DOES have

[...]

Two-bit cable channel? Maybe you're right. And maybe the reason they're
two-bit is because they aren't whining at me several times a year like some
Mercedes-deprived televangelist trying to pry fifty bucks out of my credit
card for a cheesy - sorry, I meant *fabulous* - coffee mug. And, lawdy
sakes, they don't send me a bunch of junk mail. I really miss that. I wish
all the stations sent out junk solicitations. I guess you get what you pay
for, eh? 

G. Boggs             
[email-masked]       Posterity -- you will never know how much it has 
                        cost my generation to preserve your freedom.  
                        I hope you will make good use of it.
                                                     John Quincy Adams

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From: [email-masked] (Tom Perigrin)
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 23:54:17 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
[email-masked] (George Boggs) wrote:
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>> Are you guys kidding  He hasn't 'moved to HGTV'. That's just a two-bit cable
> Two-bit cable channel?

Yeah...   black, white, and two shades of grey.

Tom

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 10:54:08 UNDEFINED

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (George Boggs) writes:
>From: [email-masked] (George Boggs)
>Date: 12 Feb 1997 22:09:21 GMT

>sakes, they don't send me a bunch of junk mail.

You are absolutely right about public TV stations.   I once told them I would 
send them a check every year if they would NEVER bother me again, but of 
course they don't work that way.  

But I was not implying that public TV was necessarily better than HGTV.  I 
only said HGTV was 'two-bit'.  This means they are small and 
low-budget.  If you equate that with bad, OK, but I don't, necessarily.

The point is, it doesn't take much $$ at all to start a cable station showing 
reruns.  Thus, the proliferation of such.

Rich

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From: [email-masked] (George Boggs)
Date: 13 Feb 1997 21:39:34 GMT

> course they don't work that way.  

I never thought of that. Maybe I should try it. Thanks for the tip.

> low-budget.  If you equate that with bad, OK, but I don't, necessarily.

Neither do I. I missed your meaning. I drive a two-bit truck by that 
definition. :)

[...]

G. Boggs