Erich J. Schultheis, The Man with the 15 inch Cock. wrote:

when looking in the dump I will often see a television with horizontal
line burn in and some thrift stores have tee vees that when you turn
them on all you see is a horizontal line. How come you never see a
vertical line.

if the horizontal fails, so does the high voltage, so you see nothing

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