A tragic loss for the world...
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 10:38 am
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Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 10:38 amRe: A tragic loss for the world...
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 10:43 am..an excellent bit of info, Kev... ...!
Paul...somewhere, very remote......!
...!Paul...somewhere, very remote...
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Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 12:14 pmWish his invention would die right with him.
Too many lazy, remote tipping, fat couch potatoes on this planet.
Too many lazy, remote tipping, fat couch potatoes on this planet.
Re: A tragic loss for the world...
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 3:27 pmWish 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
Re: A tragic loss for the world...
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 4:37 pmIf only, Miltest, if only... 
Re: A tragic loss for the world...
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 8:34 pmSomebody should make a new one of those which doesn't look so evidenty edited.
Re: A tragic loss for the world...
Posted: 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??
P.S: Theis' girlfriend would kill us
Re: A tragic loss for the world...
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 11:02 amI've seen that remote before... now... where was that... could it be... my coffee table? ;D
Re: A tragic loss for the world...
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 11:53 am[quote]I've seen that remote before... now... where was that... could it be... my coffee table?
Re: A tragic loss for the world...
Posted: 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??
P.S: Theis' girlfriend would kill us
My drain-like mind had already edited large parts of it as soon as I saw it....
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...!Paul...Mmmmm.....Lots of ideas....
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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 12:58 pmI 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.
Before
Before
Re: A tragic loss for the world...
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 10:11 pm5 minutes of searching in sofa, under furniture and final retrieval in adjacent kitchen -- at onset, television was under 10 feet away!Wish his invention would die right with him. Too many lazy, remote tipping, fat couch potatoes on this planet.
(No, it wasn't I
)8-)
Re: A tragic loss for the world...
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 4:29 amCan anyone remember the good old days when television receivers had tuning controls, volume controls, and colour controls, etc, on the front of the set...?
...Joy!....>>>
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...
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Paul...How I love old-fashioned Dials and Switches.... 8-)...!
http://www.vintagetvsets.com/
...Joy!....>>>
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...
...!.
..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-)...!
http://www.vintagetvsets.com/
Re: A tragic loss for the world...
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 9:39 pmColor controls on the front of that unit? What were they for, shades of gray?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...?
...Joy!....>>>
http://www.vintagetvsets.com/
Perhaps you mean the sharpness/contrast controls? :-?
8-)
Re: A tragic loss for the world...
Posted: 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..