The idiot box

Usage examples of teevee.

Inside the gaping skull, instead of brains and bones and things, was a model control room with a tiny chair, minuscule controls, teevee screens and a water cooler.

The overshot jaw and protruding teeth that filled a billion teevee screens was speaking his name.

The Gold Spacesuit, galaxy-famous on countless teevee programmes, because you are a cheap bum.

He skulked away to the big monitor in our bedroom but mum had pinched it for the teevee session I had installed.

With Bobby out of the way and mum safely entrenched in front of the teevee, I jacked my deck into the socket I had rigged from the municipal LAN line that ran in a drain housing a few hundred metres from our house.

The task that night, as had been the norm for a number of previous weeks, was to divert tiny amounts of currency away from the data flow of micropayments, fractions of euros for web page access, software updates, pay-for-view teevee, data subscriptions, mainframe processing time, or any one of the other million things you could buy and sell and sample digitally.

I passed between mum and the teevee as I pulled on my bubble jacket and made my way out.

The teevee in his room was stuck on CNN and none of us noticed when we come to visit.

Mexican, part Spanish, part Jicarilla Apache, with a touch of real Hawaiian paniolo thrown in for good measure due to his mama having won a trip out to Honolulu on some teevee quiz show back in the sixties where she discovered Mai Tais and made friends with the locals, in no particular order.

Richards said, simultaneously trying to inject sincerity into his voice and to remember all the old gangster movies he had seen on teevee as a kid.

The governor, a middle-aged, red-headed man a trifle inclined to portliness, had been seated in a huge reclining chair facing a teevee screen, but got up to shake hands.

Everyone will see me in his mind, much better than on the surface of any teevee tube.

Those of you who are now looking at teevee screens can see my imaged likeness.

Bobby was pissed off but he knew better than to try and keep mum and teevees apart for more than a matter of minutes.

Mexican, part Spanish, part Jicarilla Apache, with a touch of real Hawaiian paniolo thrown in for good measure due to his mama having won a trip out to Honolulu on some teevee quiz show back in the sixties where she discovered Mai Tais and made friends with the locals, in no particular order.