You know, we can laugh at this ("VHS tapes.. time shift much?") but there is a really deep metaphysical problem that timeshifting presents to the sense-maker. It used to be that timeshift was due to geography - yours, or the event's - and a limitation of analog broadcast era.
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But we now live in an infosphere that doesn't attempt to preserve temporal coherence for anyone. Especially problematic b/c Internet has infinite perfect memory. So there is no pervasive driver to snap us into a coherent (albeit fragmented) "present".
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It was an early one. I believe, when Kramer was called "Kessler."
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AH! perfect, thank you
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It was "The Likely Lads" on UK TV in the 60s or 70s, where they were going to watch the match that evening.
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wait what... they did't have VCRs back then did they?
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It was also on an episode of Scrubs, but it would take some research to find it.
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thats DVR era though?
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Mets game. Kramer tells him the score.
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