The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for November 22, 2020

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    Ahuehuete  almost 4 years ago

    That was my job when I was a kid.

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    Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    Too difficult to change the batteries on the remote ?

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    jmworacle  almost 4 years ago

    Those were the days my dear please pass me a can of beer…………………..

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    nosirrom  almost 4 years ago

    I too had turns as the TV remote. But I didn’t have to turn a knob. We had a push button tuner.

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    OldIndy  almost 4 years ago

    How about getting a new battery?

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    flyertom  almost 4 years ago

    Fat chance finding what button does what on today’s TVs. I can’t even turn the thing on without the remote.

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    Jeff0811  almost 4 years ago

    Nephew…Thy name is “Clicker”.

    I was about to say too as Tom above. One needs to change channels on the cable box. With a long enough coaxial cable, you can place the converter box on your lap or side table.

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    flemmingo  almost 4 years ago

    New TVs are hard to change manually. No knobs!

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    [Traveler] Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    I’m not even sure you can change channels without a remote

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    belgarathmth  almost 4 years ago

    I don’t think modern TV’s even have any controls on the TV itself. With no remote, they can’t even be turned on. So a dead or lost remote is a more serious problem than just needing to get up.

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    sbwagner  almost 4 years ago

    In college, before we got a remote cable box… When we would have a party in our apartment, if you sat on the end of the sofa near the tv, you were the remote.

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    tauyen  almost 4 years ago

    Kid’s going to get awful tired getting up to mute the sound every time a Medicare or auto insurance ad comes on

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    Michael G.  almost 4 years ago

    Yeah, sit in the dark …

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    i_am_the_jam  almost 4 years ago

    I remember my first encounter with a remote control TV (c. 1977). A relative of mine had a 12" set on top of a wardrobe, and I think that the channel turret had a servo motor, because when he pressed the channel up/down button on the remote, the channel changed, but the turret also turned backward or forward.

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    Alberta Oil Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    I don’t think my TV has a channel selector.. It’s remote or nothing.

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    raybarb44  almost 4 years ago

    Good kid. When I was a kid, we had 3 channels. Changing them wasn’t a big problem. I hope Grandpa isn’t one of those channel surfers that drive us mad. That could drive the kid to murder or to go to the store and get some new batteries……

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    Dacker  Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    Really old remotes didn’t need batteries. When you pushed a button, a hammer struck metal bars in the remote which produced a tone like a tuning fork. The TV listened for the tones.

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    ChessPirate  almost 4 years ago

    We had two antennae. If I recall correctly, the rabbit ears were for VHF channels, and the circular one was for UHF channels. Even though I was the oldest, I was the remote, antennae wrangler, and channel-getter-backer, when the old, cruddy, B&W TV needed to be whacked in just the right spot. The whacker I had “constructed” was two yardsticks tied together so I could get tough with the box without getting up… ☺

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    timinwsac Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    When I was a kid there was only three channels so there wasn’t a lot of changing to be done.

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    comixbomix  almost 4 years ago

    Can we assume that Wilberforce won’t be remotely competent?

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    CorkLock  almost 4 years ago

    My job was to shut up and go to sleep. Farmed as sharecroppers. Had no tv in our neck of the woods. No electric for miles. Hand pump water and oil lamps and outhouse. We were poor but I miss those days. Left home at 17 and spent over 20 years in military where people told me to shut up and do what I was told. Wife tells me the same. Guess I need a battery?

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    cuzinron47  almost 4 years ago

    And that remote doesn’t require batteries. The only problem is they tend to wander off.

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    Robert4170  almost 4 years ago

    I remember those days well. Five channels to pick from.

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    heathcliff2  almost 4 years ago

    One fashion for a scout to perform daily service.

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    paranormal  almost 4 years ago

    If my remote batteies died, I’d be S-O-L. My cable box doesn’t have a channel change control on it.

    Some channels put so many commercials that I some time forget what I’m watching!

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    Martin Booda  almost 4 years ago

    Just yesterday I saw the Monty Python episode “Light Entertainment War” where there was a Gunga Din-like character hooked up to a remote control that gave him a severe electric shock until he changed the channel on the telly.

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    fstop8  almost 4 years ago

    we didn’t have to change channels we only had one!!

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