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A tragic loss for the world...

Postby Wing Nut » Sun Feb 18, 2007 10:38 am

Maybe they should put new batteries in him...  ;D ;D ;D :'( :-* ;D ;D ;D

Inventor of the TV remote dies
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Re: A tragic loss for the world...

Postby Fozzer » Sun Feb 18, 2007 10:43 am

..an excellent bit of info, Kev... ;)...!

Paul...somewhere, very remote... ::)...!
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Re: A tragic loss for the world...

Postby ATI_7500 » Sun Feb 18, 2007 12:14 pm

Wish his invention would die right with him.

Too many lazy, remote tipping, fat couch potatoes on this planet.
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Re: A tragic loss for the world...

Postby justpassingthrough » Sun Feb 18, 2007 3:27 pm

Wish his invention would die right with him.

Too many lazy, remote tipping, fat couch potatoes on this planet.



Now now... inventions such as that lead to much greater discoveries and further man in the quest for peace and harmony with the enviornment

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Re: A tragic loss for the world...

Postby ATI_7500 » Sun Feb 18, 2007 4:37 pm

If only, Miltest, if only... ;D
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Re: A tragic loss for the world...

Postby Anark » Sun Feb 18, 2007 8:34 pm



Somebody should make a new one of those which doesn't look so evidenty edited.
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Re: A tragic loss for the world...

Postby Alonso » Sun Feb 18, 2007 9:01 pm



Somebody should make a new one of those which doesn't look so evidenty edited.



Really..... what about an "Edit-this!" contest?? ;D ;D

P.S: Theis' girlfriend would kill us :o
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Re: A tragic loss for the world...

Postby Bad_at_FS » Mon Feb 19, 2007 11:02 am

I've seen that remote before... now... where was that... could it be... my coffee table?  ;D
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Re: A tragic loss for the world...

Postby FSGT Gabe » Mon Feb 19, 2007 11:53 am

[quote]I've seen that remote before... now... where was that... could it be... my coffee table?
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Re: A tragic loss for the world...

Postby Fozzer » Mon Feb 19, 2007 12:53 pm


Somebody should make a new one of those which doesn't look so evidently edited.



Really..... what about an "Edit-this!" contest?? ;D ;D

P.S: Theis' girlfriend would kill us :o


My drain-like mind had already edited large parts of it as soon as I saw it.... ;)...!

LOL... ;D...!

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Re: A tragic loss for the world...

Postby justpassingthrough » Mon Feb 19, 2007 12:58 pm

I did do a quick 5 minute rotate, crop and edit of the image I found so it looked a tad better and had no background. I did not spend allot of time looking on Google for a better shot or updated version of the joke.


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Re: A tragic loss for the world...

Postby H » Mon Feb 19, 2007 10:11 pm

Wish his invention would die right with him. Too many lazy, remote tipping, fat couch potatoes on this planet.
5 minutes of searching in sofa, under furniture and final retrieval in adjacent kitchen -- at onset, television was under 10 feet away! :o
(No, it wasn't I ;D)



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Re: A tragic loss for the world...

Postby Fozzer » Tue Feb 20, 2007 4:29 am

Can anyone remember the good old days when television receivers had tuning controls, volume controls, and colour controls, etc, on the front of the set...?
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No confusing gadgets with dead batteries resulting in a blank screen and no sound, and with no other possibility of encouraging the set to burst into life... :'(...!
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..and that's assuming that you know how to operate the darned thing in the first place... :-[...!

Paul...How I love old-fashioned Dials and Switches.... 8-)...!

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Re: A tragic loss for the world...

Postby H » Tue Feb 20, 2007 9:39 pm

Can anyone remember the good old days when television receivers had tuning controls, volume controls, and colour controls, etc, on the front of the set...?
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Color controls on the front of that unit? What were they for, shades of gray?  
Perhaps you mean the sharpness/contrast controls? :-?

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Re: A tragic loss for the world...

Postby alrot » Wed Feb 21, 2007 12:42 am

:) So was Zenith who invented the control remote  ;D, I didn't knew this , But of course I remember this space command control and this old TV sets, they work with ultrasound , I remember a woman who brough me like ten times her tv set because It turned on by it self ,Turn out to be the bell of her clock on her night table  ;D when she wasn't there ,It rings ,making a high frequency sound ,and interpreted for the tv as Turn me on.....ahhh those times , no epprom , no miscon circuitary ,all the basic ,It was much easier to fix ,this old ones..
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