Back in the day: Scrambled Porn (as of now SFW)

[suzzer99]

Does anyone else remember channel Z and channel G? WE had some early pre-HBO cable back in the late 70s in Independence MO. I learned way way too much at an early age staying up with my stepdad watching Jokes My Folks Never Told Me.

[jnalpak]

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Electric Blue sucked though

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admit it though, you hum that damn theme song occasionally!!

[TheNoodleMan]

Does anyone remember that the Playboy Channel used to have Playboy Candid Camera? The show wasn't just a knock off, it had the real guy from Candid Camera and basically every episode was a hot girl getting naked in a semi public place to get the reactions of men nearby.

[gumpzilla]

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The remote actually had a long thick cable connecting it to the cable box. The remote was where they selected which channels got descrabled. It had a rotary dial for channel selection, and on the inside was a circuit board. I saw that on the circuit board there was a solder bridge across two points on the dial. This completed the circuit between two wires only when Showtime (our only subscribed channel) was selected. So I just connected the wires permanently, and we got all the other premium channels free.

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We need more stories like this to stress the importance of science and critical thinking to the youth of today.

[mmbt0ne]

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Search that cable guide for "Nudity" but not "Brief Nudity", that's just frustration waiting to happen, and of course the holy grail "Strong Sexual Content". I'd plan my week around it.

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That is so my life at age 12 it's not even funny.


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hahaha, same here.

Also, we used to have The Box music channel on 97. However, at 10pm it would flip over to Spice Network, and you'd always get about 5 minutes before it got scrambled. I made sure to be in bed by 10 every night.

[TheNoodleMan]

My friends and I had a theory that most brief nudity was in the first 10 minutes of the movie, and we'd watch it until the nudity or the 10 minute mark. It was pretty successful, from what I recall.

[renodoc]

Ahhh. Back in the day, about the same time "Pong" came out, we had "ON TV" in the Valley. I think this was one of the first pay TV deals ever. It was a black box with a single switch that said "off" and "ON". One channel. Late at night they put on some "adult" movies. The first ones they showed were "Last Tango in Paris" and (my personal favorite at the time) "The Great Texas Dynamite Chase" Gawd that was a long time ago....

[TimM]

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The remote actually had a long thick cable connecting it to the cable box. The remote was where they selected which channels got descrabled. It had a rotary dial for channel selection, and on the inside was a circuit board. I saw that on the circuit board there was a solder bridge across two points on the dial. This completed the circuit between two wires only when Showtime (our only subscribed channel) was selected. So I just connected the wires permanently, and we got all the other premium channels free.

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We need more stories like this to stress the importance of science and critical thinking to the youth of today.

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I once had a 16 year old I worked with tell me he didn't know how to use a screwdriver. I wanted to slap the kid and his father. I was taking apart and reassembling old phones when I was 6. Little did I know I was honing skills which could later be used to get free porn.

[suzzer99]

I hear you. Every electronic Christmas toy I ever got was apart and back together by the end of the day. Usually it still worked.