Phoenix32890 wrote:I remember that in the early sixties, my girlfriend had one of the first televisions that had a remote. I thought that it was one of the most idiotic contraptions that I had ever seen. I couldn't imagine what was the big deal about going up to the TV, and turning a dial!
HA! When I was maybe 8 or something, we got a TV with a remote. It made these audible clicks when you changed the channels, and I don't think it worked the voume.
The thing was, if you turned off the TV with the remote, you had to use the remote to turn it back on.
That was the start of the oft heard phrase "Where's the REMOTE?"
If my parents were going out for the evening, and us kids were fighting, they would take the remote control with them, so we couldn't watch TV.
Now, was the f*cking brilliant or what? Now you've got 4 kids and a baby with nothing else to distract them from trying to kill each other.
each minute was an eon.....
