The Things I Notice While Watching TV

While watching "The Men who Built America" on the History channel, in episode 3, they show two men (JP Morgan & Westinghouse) opening letters that will reveal who won the contract to build a powerplant at Niagara Falls. One close-up of the letter being opened shows a copy of Scott type A157 (554, et al) from 1922 on the cover. The event took place in 1893. I'm such a geek :)

Brian

Thats so funny-- I was watching re run of hawaii five 0 tonight and they were searching apartment and moved stack of mail. I noticed all were exact same metered crap. Shook my head and went back to countin duplicates.

Meters - crap??

Oh the shame of it all

Chimo

Bujutsu

I saw that same thing just last night and noticed the same thing. When I pointed it out to my wife, she called me a nerd. We are geeks. That is a good show,"The Men that Built America"

I do that too.

Girlfriend and I were watching Downton Abbey -- I saw KGV stamp; she was unimpressed.

I guess I should retract the meter crap anology especially after seeing that french label that sold for 20k . Now I will likely eat crap while re checking all meters I have. Always wondered with all the box lots people come looking for values on , why none of these storage auction shows have not come across a stamp hoard in a storage unit. Would take 4 seasons to figure out what they had but would be an almost expected find.

That's because all that other stuff had to go into storage to make room for the box lots!

I noticed thatexact same thing Rileysan! haha I even paused and rewound it a bit To Make sure I WASN'T MISTAKEN! LOL

The thing I notice most about watching TV is you get about 90 seconds of show and seven minuets of commercials. Guess I'm not too much of an observer. I too have watched "The Men who Built America" and remember seeing the letter mentioned but wasn't paying any attention to the stamps. I will be looking now though. When watching the "The Men who Built America"

I'm glad I'm not alone. I don't want to turn into one of those guys who point out every little mistake in movies & TV shows, but this one was right up my alley and I couldn't resist commenting

TinMan,
I watch very little TV in real time. I have the DVR record the shows I like and then I can skip the commercials.

While watching the Notebook (with my wife) I made sure that stamps he uses to mail his 365 letters were correct for that period.

That explains how JP Morgan and Westinghouse got their money... time travel!!

David