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I LOVE LUCY California Here We Come Hamilton Collector Plate
I LOVE LUCY California Here We Come Hamilton Collector Plate
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I LOVE LUCY Just Like Candy VITAMEATAVEGAMIN Hamilton Plate COA PERFECT
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1990 OFFICIAL I LOVE LUCY TWO OF A KIND COLLECTOR PLATE W COA + BOX
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I LOVE LUCY California Here We Come Hamilton Collector Plate PERFECT
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I LOVE LUCY MELAMINE PLATES LUCY  RICKY STICK FIGURES LOT OF FOUR NEW MINT BOX
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HAMILTON COLLECTION 1992 LUCILLE BALL I LOVE LUCY LUCY PORCELAIN PLATE 3557C NIB
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I Love Lucy California Here We Come Collector Plate Hamilton Collection
I Love Lucy California Here We Come Collector Plate Hamilton Collection
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I Love Lucy Collecter Plate by The Hamilton Collection Plate  0327F Plate Only
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I LOVE LUCY COLLECTOR PLATE
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I Love Lucy Queen of the Gypsies Collector Plate Hamilton Collection
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Vandor I Love Lucy Set of 4 European Vacation 8 Plates
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I LOVE LUCY COLLECTOR PLATE
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I Love Lucy LUCILLE BALL TRIBUTE Plate By Mike Hagel
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1990 Hamilton I LOVE LUCY Eating the Evidence Plate
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1990 Hamilton I LOVE LUCY Two of a Kind Plate
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I LOVE LUCY COLLECTOR PLATE
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1990 Hamilton I LOVE LUCYCalifornia Here We ComePlate
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LUCILLE BALL  I LOVE LUCY  GIFTED PEWTER PLATE RARE PERSONAL GIFT
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I LOVE LUCY COLLECTOR PLATE
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1990 Hamilton I LOVE LUCY The Big Squeeze Plate
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1989 I LOVE LUCY CALIFORNIA HERE WE COME COLLECTOR L E PLATE BY JIM KRITZ
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I LOVE LUCY LUCY MEETS ORSON WELLES PLATE HAMILTON COLLECT LUCY MEETS THE STARS
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I love lucy Plate
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I LOVE LUCY LUCY MEETS THE STARS PLATE HAMILTON COLLECTION LUCY MEETS HARPO MARX
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I LOVE LUCY LA AT LAST PLATE HAMILTON COLLECT LUCY MEETS THE STARS LIMITED ED
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Rancilio Espresso Machine - Rancilio Silvia Rancilio Espresso Machine - Rancilio Silvia

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Rancilio is a company with a long tradition and our production of high-quality espresso machines dates back to the twenties. After decades of growth and learning, we proudly continue to offer products that are first in their class in design and technology

Vandor 14251 I Love Lucy Plastic Travel Mug, Multicolored, 16-Ounce Vandor 14251 I Love Lucy Plastic Travel Mug, Multicolored, 16-Ounce

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Open those Golden Gates; Lucy, Ricky, Ethel and Fred are headed for California! I Love Lucy's zany road trip is commemorated with this plastic travel mug.

Greatest Hits Greatest Hits

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Bob Seger has racked up a lot of worthy tracks over the years, but it took until 1994 for a greatest hits package to appear. VoilĂ . The bad news: We're missing an awful lot of songs here. Night Moves is Seger's crit-pick album, and a great place to start if you don't have any Seger at all...

Songs About Jane Songs About Jane

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Tracks include: 1. Harder To Breathe 2:53 2. This Love 3:26 3. Shiver 2:59 4. She Will Be Loved 4:17 5. Tangled 3:18 6. The Sun 4:11 7. Must Get Out 3:59 8. Sunday Morning 4:04 9. Secret 4:55 10. Through With You 3:01 11...

Call Me Irresponsible Call Me Irresponsible

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It's no coincidence that Michael Bublé's new album starts with just his voice and some fingersnaps on "The Best Is Yet to Come," a song made famous by Frank Sinatra. The Canadian smoothie looks longingly towards early-'60s Vegas, an impression quickly reinforced when a boisterous horn section makes its grand entrance, about 20 seconds into the track...

The Long, Long Trailer [VHS] The Long, Long Trailer [VHS]

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Success in that newfangled television business prompted Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz to bring their slapstick chemistry to the big screen, courtesy of a 28-foot monster of a trailer home. The Long, Long Trailer is one of those domestic nightmare movies, in which an ordinary couple has their existence upended by a new contraption: in this case, a lemon-yellow motor home...

You're in Love, Charlie Brown You're in Love, Charlie Brown

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a vhs movie with color /running time of 26 minutes

I Love Lucy Collector's Edition (The Ricardos are Having a Baby) I Love Lucy Collector's Edition (The Ricardos are Having a Baby)

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VHS tape

LIFE takes you unexpected places Love brings you HOME Wall Saying Quote Vinyl Sticker Decal 6x24 Black LIFE takes you unexpected places Love brings you HOME Wall Saying Quote Vinyl Sticker Decal 6x24 Black

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Decorate your living space with popular wall quotes! This saying is made by Wall Decor Plus More with top-of-the-line material. Simple Application Instructions included with each order. A wall vinyl quote can be applied to any smooth or semi-smooth surface...

Dr seuss Today you are you wall art vinyl decals stickers love kids bedroom Dr seuss Today you are you wall art vinyl decals stickers love kids bedroom

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Wall sayings and designs are the latest trend in interior decorating and home decor. It is an easy and creative way to add personality and charm to Any Room! Vinyl Lettering is a creative way to transform any room into a stylish, unique space...

Technology, Love it or Live with it?

We live in an age where technological advances verge on the magical. I can flip open my cell phone and talk to anyone anywhere on the earth, (that is of course if they are awake, in my calling area and not the son who refuses to answer my calls).

I can send and receive emails at the speed of light. This means that my daughter can tattle on her husband to everyone she knows, all at the same time, and those poor Nigerian Bankers can solicit help from every shmuk who owns a PC at the push of a button.

Also I can now core and slice an apple into eight perfectly shaped wedges with one firm push. (Okay, that's actually a kitchen gadget not a technological devise, but I still think it's pretty cool.)

Other amazing advances can extend our lives and help us stay healthy. Tiny cameras assist with heart operations, medicines cure diseases we thought we'd never cure, and of course laser hair removal is a marvel in and of itself. But perhaps the biggest boon to the average American was the invention of the digital television recorder known as TiVo.

Can you envision what it would be like to go back in time and run into Benjamin Franklin the great statesman and inventor? Imagine his shock as you explained things like microwave ovens that allow people to cook nachos in a matter of minutes. Or the Mp3 player that permits its users to record more songs than they even know and watch full length movies on screens  so tiny they can't see them.

And then you could tell him about TiVo.

Granted, TiVo wouldn't make a lot of sense to him at first, being that the TV hadn't yet been invented, not to mention the TV station. And the idea of having the leisure time to sit in front of a screen for hours a day watching reality shows might also seem strange to a man who had to cut his own fire wood for warmth, carry water from a well to drink and if he over did it on the beans and bacon, trot back and forth from the outhouse all night. But Franklin was a smart guy and eventually he would get the idea.

You'd go on to explain that in the twenty-first century we never miss a TV show. Even while we are sleeping, the trusty TiVo never rests, recording hours and hours of The Simpsons, Law and Order and Cooking with Emile. In fact, thanks to TiVo, we can actually record more programming than we could ever watch ourselves.

Of course technology doesn't come without a price. We are much wider and lumpier than our counterparts in the seventeen hundreds (thanks in part to the microwave nachos),and television viewing has become so addictive that many people install a TV in every room in their house, including the bathroom. But those are relatively minor inconveniences compared to TiVo Snapback Syndrome.

Never heard of TiVo Snapback Syndrome or TSS for short? Well, let me explain.

You're curled up in front of the tube scanning through the eight hundred plus channels looking for something good to watch, when at last you find it, an old mystery starring a very young Pierce Brosnan and Twiggy. Forty-five minutes into the program, and in the middle of an especially hot kiss, it happens. A small screen appears warning you that American Idol and Sponge Bob Square-pants are scheduled to record in five minutes. You must either cancel one of the afore mentioned shows or be kicked off the movie.

What a moral dilemma. If you cancel Sponge Bob, then are you saying that the younger members of the family have less viewing rights than the adults? And if you cancel American Idol and some culture shaping event happens that night between Ryan Seacrest and one of the judges, will your spouse kill you for making them miss the event?

What about you and your rights as a TV viewer? Should you have to give up your moment of pleasure, just because someone else got into the proverbial TV show line before you? What happened to spontaneity and seizing the moment? Even old Benjamin would be stumped.

Yes, the world of the future does not come without a heavy price, and technology doesn't always make life easier. The deep sociological impact of our fast paced digital world makes….whoops. I just looked at the clock and I only have a forty minute window between the end of I Love Lucy and the start of While You Were Sleeping to catch last week's Wheel of Fortune, so I gotta run.  Happy viewing!

About the Author

Deanne Blackhurst has been freelance writing for over twenty-five years. The mother of six, she balances a full time writing career with the demands of her family. Her newest novel Sleight of Hand is currently available as an eBook. Check out her website www.deanneblackhurst.com for more information.