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No, it's not about "valley speak" (let's see how the power of suggestion really works), it's about words for that thing. Ya know, the box with the pictures and sound. That thing that was *supposed to be the best educational invention in the last century, but quickly went downhill from there. That thing people stare at some ungodly amount of time each day, and now when they don't, they stare at its not so little and growing brother the computer. Hey yer lookin' at one right now!
We used to call it "the tube".
Dad called it "the idiot box".
Any other favorite colloquialisms for *it?
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The brain sucker {sounds better in Spanish} Chupa Sesos
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You're right, Consuelo, it does sound better in Spanish. Which word means "brain"? "Chupa" or "sesos"
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I don't remember ours being called anything but "the television(in French) and TV (in English)" - well, exept for a brief period in 1976 when we got our very first colour television and it switched to being called "the colour T.V." In the same thread vein...we used to call our record player a "pick-up" because you could close the lid and cart it around (the first boom box  ) Oddly, the term was used for all record players even those big furniture deals. Oh and the term was used by French people (we used to have a lot of Anglo terms mixed into our everyday speech) personal memory...our first pick-up naturally coincided with our very first record..."The lion sleeps tonight."
We kids played it over and over. Imagine the "Wheeeeee deeee deee deee deee wum wum away" ten or twelve times in a row. I'm surprised my mom didn't destroy the thing.
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"the idiot box".
My parents called it the "square box" (hmmm, perhaps overexposure is why I turned out square?)  and we were threatened with "you'll get square eyes" if we watched too much of it!
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Seso = brain
chupa = suck
Chupa can also mean cheat.
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Thanks, Faldage. Want to play some Scrabble in Spanish?[rubbing hands together-e]
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Telly is probably the most common here, but TV and by extension teev are also common. Televij is used for reasons unbeknownst to me. Tube has made a comeback recently, while "the box" is used mainly tongue in cheek.
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when we were kids, mum used to refer to it as the 'goggle-box'
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