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New inventions in our lifetime........
Shuggy:
ATM: Altar To Mammon.
Hence "Hang on, I'm out of cash, I'lll just go and worship at the Altar To Mammon."
Katie77:
I looked on my coffee table in the loungeroom today, and what did I see????
Remote Controls
One for the tv, the dvd player, the pay (cable) tv, the stereo, the air conditioner, the overhead fans.......
On my set of keys, I have one for the garage roller door, and one for the central locking on the car........
We certainly have become "couch potatoes"....or are we just bone lazy now....
Am interested to know, what other remote controls people have out there....
saucycobblers:
--- Quote from: Katie77 on November 02, 2006, 07:15:54 am ---Remote Controls
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:laugh: One time when I was small i thought it would be good fun to keep turning over the channels on our B&W (yep - no colour then!!) push-button TV while my Dad was trying to watch a programme. Up and down, back and forth we went, struggling for supremacy over the goggle-box. Needless to say, I lost, and got a good hiding and sent to my room for my trouble >:(. Woulda never happened if there'd been remote controls around...
Jeff Wrangler:
Sometime probably in the late 1960s my grandparents had an early-model remote control for their television. It was actually connected to the television by a cable.
And I remember not only black-and-white television sets, I also remember black-and-white television shows (and not just reruns of I Love Lucy either--I mean prime time!).
Katie77:
Oh yes, I forgot the first tv remote control...attached with a cable to the tv....
Our boys were little at the time, so we were continually saying..."Dont trip over that cable".....
Which brings me to the first tv/video game we had.....that too, was attached to the tv with a cable from the hand controls, and the game was a simple game of tennis...we could actually move each player (denoted by a straight line), up and down to connect with the other straight line that denoted the ball.....we played for hours and hours a day......
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