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If you sit too close to the television...
DelphicOracle Started conversation Aug 26, 1999
My granny was a fount of unsound so-called facts if there ever was one. When I was a nipper in the 70s, she was forever warning me "Don't sit too close to the television, or you'll go up in a blue light!"
If only I had known then what I know now. Has anyone ever, so far as society knows, ever "gone up in a blue light"? Answer: I don't think so, granny. And what the flip does it mean, anyhow? Is it a synomym for "explode, giving off a light which is blue"? Or is the meaning closer to "a blue light comes down from the sky and takes you up with it" - a theory possibly presaging the UFO mania of the late 90s. Or alternatively, was it intended to be a metaphorical blue light, symbolising the influence of the Tory-controlled media on a young, impressionable brain?
An area which requires research, mayhap...
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