Subject: Re: Robocop and Twin Peaks
From: mvb@eagle.mit.edu (Mary V. Burke)
Date: 1991-03-06, 07:30
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

#>In article <38682@netnews.upenn.edu> shiau@eniac.seas.upenn.edu 
(Cherubino) writes:
#>>And what does `I'll buy that for a buck!' mean?
#> 
#>It's a reference to a science-fiction story that takes place in the near
#>or not-so-near future.  The tag line is from some game show, and is 
usually
#>the game show host asking the audience: "Will you buy *that* for a 
buck?".
#

[somebody identifies C.M. Kornbluth's fine short story "The Marching 
Morons" ]

I believe that in the story the line is "Would you buy it for a quarter?"  
 Supposedly the program is smutty enough to make the time-traveler 
watching it blush.....

MVB
"And now I'm having a wonderful time but I'd rather be whistling in the dark, whistling in the dark"--TMBG
Disclaimer:  Homey don't play dat.