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vienna
05-22-12, 01:49 PM
http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-money-minute-20120522,0,2796250.story
Osmium Steele
05-22-12, 01:59 PM
Gush all you want about Facebook, Twitter and other recent tech innovations. I'd stack Polley and his TV remote against all of them.

After all, which would you be more willing to give up -- Facebook or your remote?


You can have my remote when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

Thanks Gene.
Jimbuna
05-22-12, 02:48 PM
He should be every mans/couch potatos friend.

RIP Eugene
Skybird
05-22-12, 02:52 PM
Satan wanted to doom man, and so he gave man the TV. But God was full of mercy, and so sent an angel and his name was Eugene.

:D
Spoon 11th
05-22-12, 03:45 PM
True couch cowboy changes the channel by shooting at the tv. Works better on older sturdier models.
u crank
05-22-12, 03:58 PM
Wow, do I ever owe this guy a big thank you!

Thanks Eugene. R.I.P.
vienna
05-22-12, 05:05 PM
True couch cowboy changes the channel by shooting at the tv. Works better on older sturdier models.


Elvis?? Is it really you? I knew you weren't really dead...

...
Herr-Berbunch
05-22-12, 05:08 PM
Maybe he's not quite dead, we just need to get closer and push really hard? :hmmm:

Thank you Mr Polley. :up:
BossMark
05-23-12, 01:52 AM
Great invention
R.I.P Eugene
kraznyi_oktjabr
05-23-12, 02:24 AM
Thank you Mr. Polley!

R.I.P
HunterICX
05-23-12, 06:12 AM
Saved us lazy ones to get up to switch the channel :salute:

RIP

HunterICX
Garion
05-23-12, 07:18 AM
R.I.P Mr. Polley!

My girls keep losing the bloody thing when they are home from Uni... It makes for very interesting and loud 'Dad Tirades' when I can't find it in the morning :D

Cheers

Garion
Penguin
05-23-12, 08:00 AM
The early remotes were dangerous though: As they worked with ultrasound, having the same model as the guy living next to you, could lead to love-thy-neighbor situations. :D


You can have my remote when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

:rotfl2:


When remotes are outlawed, only outlaws will have remotes.

Hitler and Stalin were both in favor of remote control control.
sharkbit
05-23-12, 01:08 PM
My kids look at me like I'm ready to be sent to the old folks home when I tell them we didn't have remotes and had to lay on the floor in front of the tv surfing thru all SIX channels (if you were lucky and the UHF channels would come in clear) by turning the knob.

Most of the time, our " remote" consisted of the person getting up to go to the batroom/kitchen and asking them to flip it over to channel x to see what was on and having them flip it back when they came back. :D

So, from the bottom of my heart-RIP Mr. Polley. :salute:

:)
Falkirion
05-23-12, 06:35 PM
Thank you Mr Polley for enabling me to sit on my arse in front of my TV and not get up and change the channel. :salute:
TarJak
05-23-12, 10:04 PM
Hooray for the remote. RIP Mr. Polley.
mookiemookie
05-25-12, 09:23 AM
Poor taste but funny:

http://i.imgur.com/DHSye.jpg
Sailor Steve
05-25-12, 09:24 AM
:rotfl2:

Yes to both. :rock: