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Date Posted: 11:41:33 02/16/06 Thu
Author: tg
Subject: Re: the boob tube
In reply to: 23 's message, "the boob tube" on 11:19:33 02/16/06 Thu

I think they called it the boob tube, not because 50's television sets looked like a boob but more like a bubble.
So instead of calling it a bubble tube they called it boob tube. Pretty racy for the fifties. How about couch potatoe, maybe it means you are a big boob who watches t.v.

O.K that made no sense, I going to Wikipedia it. BRB

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[> Re: the boob tube -- tg, 11:48:17 02/16/06 Thu [1]

O.K I was right it has the same meaning as a couch potatoe.

In American and Canadian slang, a boob tube is a television set, normally with a negative or humorous connotation. This usage derives from the definition of "boob" as a foolish person and "tube" from the television's cathode ray tube.

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