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   frogapplause said, 2 months ago

   Hmm. Is a TV clicker a gadget different than a remote?

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   Fairportfan said, 2 months ago

   No, it’s amazingly similar to.

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   frogapplause said, 2 months ago

   Is the similarity really AMAZING?? I must know more. This better not turn out to be one of Bill’s Texan vocab thangs.

   For the record, I am not afraid of sounding technologically clueless.

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   Mac said, 2 months ago

   My late father-in-law (grew up in Georgia) called it “the button.”

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   Bill Hinds said, 2 months ago

   I did mean a remote, but a noisemaker clicker that you aim at the television to express your agreement or displeasure would probably be marketable.
   Click click click click…CLICK!

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   frogapplause said, 2 months ago

   Now I remember the context in which I first heard about ‘clickers’:
   http://tinyurl.com/mchkae

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   Doctor Toon said, 2 months ago

   I wanted to be a dirty old man when I grew up, still waiting to get old.

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   hymenoxis said, 2 months ago

   I’m old enough to remember the original television remotes which did produce an audible click when operated. In fact, our first remote-controlled television (our first color TV, as well) had the old mechanical tuner with an electric motor attached, so you could change channels manually or with the “clicker”; a pointless redundancy, as it turned out.

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   cholldekkgher stenst... said, 2 months ago

   And they weren’t really remote, they were still attached and noted to be and extension of the control.

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    bald 716 said, 2 months ago

    our early remotes only had on / off. channel up / down and volume up / down and sometimes did click.

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    yyyguy said, 2 months ago

    i guess this would make Jack a “career surfer.”

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    Saucy1121 said, 2 months ago

    My uncle had a very early remote for his TV. My dad figured out he could change the channel by jingling the coins in his pocket.

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    Bill Hinds said, 2 months ago

    Hey, all this clicking talk reminds me to tell you to CLICK on that rectangle up on the left that takes you to my Buzz Beamer animation. I do all the writing, drawing, animation, even Buzz’s voice. And tell your friends.

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    OldHipster said, 2 months ago

    If you’re tired of all the clicking talk, we can always talk CLACK!
    Or CLUNK!
    Or CLINK!

    Or even SMACK!

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    mrprongs said, 2 months ago

    I remember wanting a TV with a remote, but it was too expensive. And the first, earliest remotes were wired. Yup, cable connecting them to all things: Converter Boxes, VCR’s.