The point is: Why pay 20% when you can do better paying nothing and being a couch potato?

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No, this is not a story about a couch potato turning himself into Charles Atlas in ten easy steps.

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Worried that videogames would turn him into a couch potato, the parents' stipulation was their son could only play when the treadmill was moving.

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That's why I'm pledging to run a marathon in honor of Boston -- and, since I'm kind of a couch potato, I'm going to pledge to do it by April 15, 2014, the 1-year anniversary of the tragedy.

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C. is a couch potato.

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Who knew life as a modern couch potato would be so much work?

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The clever, albeit ungainly Remote Wrangler is a unique (and admittedly unsightly) piece of headgear that turns your average couch potato into a professional wrestler wannabe, and also creates a remote control magnet all around one's face.

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Then, on Nov. 1, his couch-potato sabbatical will draw to a close, as it does every fall, and another 11-month training cycle will begin anew.

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Curiously enough, on both the streaming and downloaded video, audio was noticeably out of sync, rendering the couch potato on-the-go viewing experience a trifle annoying.

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