Word: telefiend
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Arthur T. Telefiend turns on his new set. On the small screens, reading from the top down, he sees a hockey game, a Looney Tune, a guy looking out over Marlboro Country, George C. Scott, 800 yds. of Ronzoni spaghetti, four waltzing mice, and a lecturing professor. What will he choose...
...wants the hockey game and his wife wants Scott, according to Gernsback's plan, he presses a button that centers the hockey on the big screen; meanwhile, Mrs. Telefiend puts on a set of earphones that tune in to Scott. The children have additional ear phones with which to make their own choices. Everybody is happy...
Something Missed. But now, out of the upper right-hand corner of his eye, Arthur Telefiend sees a man about to fall from a precipice in a show that his eldest son is watching. If Arthur changes channels on the large screen he will risk missing something in the hockey game, so he tears the earphones off the boy's head in an attempt to hear what is being said on the eaves of doom. The precipice man is still wobbling there when Arthur's peripheral vision picks up George C. Scott, who is walking with...
...Arthur Telefiend attacks his wife, tearing out seven pin curlers before he finally locates the earphones and hears Scott say: "I'm your friend, Marty. You must believe me, I'm your friend. Just hand me the gun, Marty." But Marty isn't about to hand over the gun right away, and meanwhile the man on the ledge has fallen but is now hanging on with one hand. Arthur grabs the earphones back from his son. He hears shallow breathing and a low groan. He is missing something. A fight has broken out in the hockey game...
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