Loose Parts by Dave Blazek for October 12, 2011

Agreed – but it still beats having to get up and change the channel. Maybe the other stuff’s there to play with during the adverts.

I think we need a " How to Work Your Remote " course at the local school.

“How to work remotes for DUMMIES.” Need a copy myself.

It’s just like any other piece of electronic equipment in the house. If you want to know how to work it, ask your ten-year-old.

Anybody got a spare ten-year-old?

They need the numbers because these days there’s 873 channels of “nothing to watch”.

I met a guy who could program ANY remote to ANY tv … wanted him to teach me, but his wife was the jealous type. ;~)

The other buttons are on there so that you can accidentally send your TV into electronic oblivion, requiring hours of frustration while looking for and reading through the manuals, calling tech support, beating on the equipment, etc. The hidden spy cameras on the TV broadcast your frustrated ranting and raving to the repair techs at the manufacturer who then sit around and laugh at us behind our backs. You’d be a paranoid conspiracy theorist, too, if everyone was secretly talking behind YOUR back and plotting against YOU!

Run Facts: TV remotes were placed on Earth by a group of technologically advance extraterrestrials back in the Pleistocene. The extraterrestrials did not know how those mysterious buttons worked either. They hoped Earthlings would figure what the buttons did, but, alas, we haven’t yet!