And I must add:<br><br>Dr. Who<br>Mr. Bean<br>Rumpole of the Baily<br>Mystery<br>Chef!<br>Amnesty International Charity events with the Monty Python troup<br>Fawlty Towers<br>Julia Childs<br>All of the master tv chefs _started_ on PBS: Wolfgang Puck, Frugal Gourmet, The now deceased cajun "How y'all are some more" :) and the Urban Peasant and many others<br>
Plus other great stuff like This Old House (/Mansion)<br>Woodwrights Shop <br>Victory Garden<br><br>I didn't really watch PBS as a kid I do remember the Galloping Gourmet in black and white) but both of my kids have grown up watching PBS. My daughter and I would spend all Saturday morning watching the cooking shows and then race to the Dekalb Farmers Market to get supplies to try out new recipes.<br>
<br>And several million people really fell in love with painting happy little trees! Bob Ross was an inspiring painting teacher to literally millions of people.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/4/7 Jeff Lightner <<a href="mailto:jlightner@water.com">jlightner@water.com</a>>:<br>
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">PBS introduced me to Monty Python when I
was a teenager. The first Monty Python I saw was coincidentally the only
one that had a topless woman in it. Back in those days seeing a topless
woman on TV was quite shocking (and being a teenage boy) "exciting".
Having been hooked by that I then saw how funny it was as well as the Britcom,
No Honestly, which came on after it.</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">There has been quite a bit of really good
programming on PBS over the years often when there is pure schlock on
commercial TV. Even now with hundreds of channels available via
cable I will often watch and re-watch some of the PBS fare even with the
maddening "pledge drives". PBS locally introduced me to
the Carlos Museum at Emory which as an OTP denizen I hadn't been aware of
until I saw a special about something being shown there.</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">In no particular order a few of the other
things I've liked:</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">I Claudius</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Celtic Woman</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Ken Burns' Civil War</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">The Computer Chronicles</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Many of the Britcoms.</span></font></p>
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<p><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold;">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">
<a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org" target="_blank">ale-bounces@ale.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org" target="_blank">ale-bounces@ale.org</a>] <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">On Behalf Of </span></b>Ned Williams<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, April 07, 2008 2:20
PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Mike Harrison; <a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [ale]
<a href="http://www.pbs.org/designsquad" target="_blank">www.pbs.org/designsquad</a></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">hmm exciting and PBS in
the same sentence...<br>
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the most exciting thing pbs has ever done is once when Bob Ross found and extra
happy little tree<br>
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Ned<br>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Mike Harrison <<a href="mailto:meuon@geeklabs.com" target="_blank">meuon@geeklabs.com</a>> wrote:</span></font></p>
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Not 'exactly' Linux related, but I'll bet we all know people (18-19)<br>
who might qualify and be interested, and hopefully some FOSS technologies<br>
will be enabling/useful:<br>
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Design Squad is seeking candidates ages 18-19 who are passionate about<br>
engineering and are excited to spend the months of June-August in Boston<br>
(and traveling as well) tackling design challenges and competing for the<br>
$10,000 prize. Produced by WGBH-Boston for PBS, the program's goal is to<br>
get viewers excited about engineering and the design process.<br>
Apply by Friday, April 11.<br>
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