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A handful of equally downtrodden fans recently formed a Facebook group to attempt push The New Big Ball up the hill of reality and back into the fake void of the boobtube — where it will promptly curl up with a jug of alcohol and die.
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But 'boobtube' is by far my favorite euphuism for it.
Gary Roszko: Gather Around the Television Children, It's Time for Dinner Gary Roszko 2012
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Reading a book is as passive as watching the boobtube, but you can talk back on the web.
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Back in 1992 when The Real World began as the first "reality television" program on the boobtube, it took America by storm.
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A certain Mr. Martin Fleischmann, an electrochemist with the California-based SRI International, was being interviewed on the boobtube concerning his discovery of cold fusion, sometimes referred to as "low energy nuclear reaction (LENR)."
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The cat fighting would be priceless boobtube fancy.
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Turn da lil' ones off books; send 'em to Toys 'R' Us, da boobtube, or da 'Net; anything but reading when it comes to getting their insatiable eyeful of da Dancin' Divas 'n' da Catwalkin' Queenies, eh?
OMGasp! Scholastic Canada Bans Lil' Bratz Judith Fitzgerald 2008
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Is society becoming that lazy that we only stare at the “boobtube” in order to learn what we need to know in becoming successful adults?
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Now the truth is that if ye won't gi 'us anything Ah'm goin' taste have tae just grab something and run, because it's gettin 'on in the day now, an' I can't last a night out in a boobtube.
High Society Elton, Ben 2002
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Ah'm in ma best practical clothes, selected specially for ma great escape: white wetlook plastic mini and pink spandex halterneck boobtube.
High Society Elton, Ben 2002
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