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....är en lång harang av den underbare krönikören Dave Barry.
Här är ett stycke ur hans reflektioner kring 70-talets tv-serier;

Lassie looked brilliant, in part because the farm family she

lived with was made up of idiots.  Remember?  One of them was always

getting pinned under the tractor, and Lassie was always rushing back to

the farmhouse to alert the other ones.  She'd whimper and tug at their

sleeves, and they'd always waste precious minutes saying things like: "Do

you think something's wrong?  Do you think she wants us to follow her?

What is it, girl?", etc., as if this had never happened before, instead

of every week.  What with all the time these people spent pinned under

the tractor, I don't see how they managed to grow any crops

whatsoever.  They probably got by on federal crop supports, which

Lassie filed the applications for.

--Dave Barry