What do you call the device you change your channels with???

[lost-in-nj]

Remote?????

Clicker?????


other???

I say clicker


:shrug: :shrug: :shrug: :shrug:

lost

[SPKrazy]

1. remote

clicker is cute :P

[Oeditpus Rex]

2. 'Ahmed'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqimo6IzLcE

[ThomCat]

10. Okay, that's really sick.

Monty Python predicted the neocon fantasy pretty accurately, didn't they?

[rug]

3. Dear.

[bicentennial_baby]

4. Remote

[ElizabethDC]

5. Remote. Sometimes "clicker."

It's funny that you ask about this because I was watching "Everybody Loves Raymond" the other day, and one of their ads during the commercial has Peter Boyle saying, "put that flipper down . . . 'Everybody Loves Raymond' will be right back!" It made me wonder how many people actually call it a flipper - I think one of my uncles does.

[Gormy Cuss]

6. The dial?

:P

[Cabcere]

7. Remote

I don't think I've ever heard "clicker" until now. :shrug: Learn something every day! :hi:

[hyphenate]

8. I wonder if it has anything to do

with how old you are--I'm of the generation that used to have to get up and change the channel manually, and I call it the "remote." If someone never had that dubious enjoyment (getting exercise switching channels), they might have a different name for it. ;)

[ElizabethDC]

15. I doubt that

I'm 21, and pretty much everybody I know calls it the remote (and I don't remember a time when remotes didn't exist).

[Cabcere]

60. Same here, on all counts.

:hi:

[seaglass]

54. Yep, I called it the Channel Changer for years, just recently

started calling it the remote. Damn, I feel ancient :-)

[Iggo]

63. I would think that the older a person is...

...the more likely he or she is to call it a clicker.

The first remote I had, way back in the ancient 1960's, made a clicking noise.

They don't do that anymore.

Either way, I call it a remote.

[sniffa]

9. moving picture box tickler

[KamaAina]

11. A dredge

oh, wait, you meant TV channels, didn't you? My bad. :-)

[SeattleGirl]

12. Clicker

And most of the time, I can't even recall THAT name, so I hold my hand up, as if I'm holding it and pushing the channel button, and say, "May I have the....."

I do the same thing with scissors. For some reason, that word seems to get stuck in the back of my mind, so I make a scissors motion when asking MrSG if he knows where they are.

:crazy:

[SPKrazy]

20. Sis, i can't believe you said that

we never had a "clicker" growing up

:P

we had you to change the channels

so I just say

where's Sis?

:rofl:

[zingaro]

37. "the commote" coined by my son when he was younger.

We use clicker and remote too, but mostly it's the commote.

[SeattleGirl]

43. Well, yeah, back in the olden days, we actually had to get our asses

up off the couch, walk across the room, and CHANGE THE CHANNEL BY HAND!!! :wow:

Maybe that's why I can't recall the name of that remote channel changer thingy.

:rofl:

[PassingFair]

56. Clicker.

I think this needs to be in poll form though....

[fizzgig]

13. that damn thing

i can't remember what it's called half the time, so i mime using it while asking myself where the hell i put it

this is what happens when you live alone

[Tikki]

14. The changer.......

As in: "Hand me the changer, please."


Tikki

[VenusRising]

16. THE POWER!!! Mwahahahahahaha!!!!!

:evilgrin:



Nah. We call it the remote. I did know someone who called it that though and thought it was funny. :rofl:


:hi:

[SPKrazy]

22. I've got the power...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=SuAm9wShiZE

change that channel


where's the

POWER

oh

the remote

I've got the power!!!!!

[VenusRising]

23. Yeah, well I'm gonna

Take the Power Back!!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=OqoumgF9DJw

(okay, this is Zodiak Ironfist(my husband)playing bass along with the song, but it's still the song.)

:hi:

:hug:

[Breeze54]

17. My kid!

:P

[RevolutionaryActs]

18. In my house it's the "flipper"

I don't know who started it, or when, but my mom, brother and I all say that. :P

[SPKrazy]

19. that figures

gotta be different :eyes:


:spray:

:hi:

:hug:

[RevolutionaryActs]

21. Ayup.

:7


:rofl:

[BlueIris]

24. The clickie.

[Mojambo]

25. My hands. n/t

[TommyO]

26. The Peanut

TiVo users will know what I'm talking about.

Other friends of mine call their remote "the Power Penis"

[gmoney]

27. Mohammad

I'm being flogged and deported next week...

[madeline_con]

29. You're funny. n/t

[madeline_con]

28. Hubby sez "channel whacker", I say clicker or remote....

depending on my mood. :shrug:

[Drum]

30. Da clicka

:)

[DarkTirade]

31. I don't have a TV anymore...

but when I did, it was a remote. Or occasionally a remote control if I felt like using its full name.

[Frank Cannon]

32. Bonker

I thought everyone called it that.

[RedCappedBandit]

33. remote. nt

[qwertyMike]

34. The remote

which is under the couch right now, or in the fridge, or............

I can't find the friggin thing

Not that it matters - TV sucks except for House, PBS, and LOST when it returns

[MrMickeysMom]

35. "the Con"

I can't believe I didn't see anyone else mention that name. It's been the con in our household, perhaps since the days of Star Trek TNG,,, :think:

[Dervill Crow]

36. Remote or 'mote.

Before cable television and our first remote, the kids changed the channels for us. It was helpful in teaching them their numbers.

[ironflange]

38. Flinker

That's what it's called. The flinker.

[KitchenWitch]

39. The clicker!

:D

[Writer]

40. El control de remoto.

O, Senor Writer, dame el control de remoto. No quiero mirar al atras de Jennifer Lopez nada mas!

[Robeson]

41. Maybe it's a cultural thing. In the South, we call franks on a bun "hot dogs"....

...in Rochester, NY, they're called "hots". Does this apply to remotes? Could be...:freak:

[lost-in-nj]

57. here in NJ

they are called Hot dogs to!!

and in NYC...
Funny how Rochester is different and only a few hours away...


and yes its probably regional/cultural


lost

[Connonym]

42. I call it my daughter ;-)

We say remote (sometimes "mo") usually but clicker sometimes. Funny the garage door remote is always called a clicker. My kids look at me gobsmacked when I tell them that we didn't have remote controls when I was a kid, that WE were my dad's remotes. He'd literally holler from the next room to have us come in and change the channel. Yeah that's lazy but the thought of it makes me grin. Surely we weren't the only kids who served as remote controls :)

[hyphenate]

67. I think that's why

I'm so myopic: I used to sit on the floor very close to the TV itself so I didn't have to go very far to change the channels. By the time the remote control was available, I was already pretty near-sighted!

[leftofthedial]

44. gimzo

yes, gimzo

[Ellen Forradalom]

45. The 'mote

Coined by my then-toddler son, now the household word for remote.

[LSdemocrat]

46. Remote

[GoddessOfGuinness]

47. Zapper

God I wish it worked on real life the way it does on the TV.

[bridgit]

48. The Clicker...

:)

[billyskank]

49. Frank

The zappa.

[Cabcere]

61. Clever!

:hi:

[TorchTheWitch]

50. the "thingie"

universally understood if you include the appropriate hand motion.

[Indi Guy]

51. I don't change channels. I only watch Fox Noise (second from left)...

[krispos42]

52. "Remote", sometimes "box"

As in "Have you seen the box for the VCR? It was in the bowl yesterday!"

Yes, my parents have a bowl for their five dozen remote controls... :eyes:

I call it remote when I'm not around them. When I am around them "box" starts coming out of my mouth for some reason... :-)

[Guava Jelly]

53. My fingers

:D

[Orsino]

55. "The dingus."

That's actually my father's term for it, and I snicker quietly to myself every time.

I just call it a remote.

[Parche]

58. The F-IN TV Channel Changer Gorn

DOH........:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :hi:


I WIN I WIN I WIN



found channel changer

[CreekDog]

59. I have TIVO, so I call it the "blooper" (nt)

[liberal hypnotist]

62. the Thing!

But, most times I have a mental block and just point. Now, when someone else is in the room other than the cat, I ask them to change the channel and act busy.

[redqueen]

64. Remote.

My dad said clicker. As a result I could never say that and bristle when others do. :)

[greendog]

65. Sledgehammer

I have found that it's the only device that properly filters defective content.

Couple of whacks and you'll never watch bad TV again.

[Solon]

66. Scepter of Power...

Also knew a woman who had a Scepter of Satisfaction, you can guess what that object was. ;)

[Alexander]

68. Sometimes remote, sometimes clicker.

My parents say remote. They're from Detroit.

I have a tendency to say clicker, probably because I'm from Connecticut. But I say both.

[applegrove]

69. Remote, clicker or wand.

[Rising Phoenix]

70. remote

love ya nj

[terrya]

71. The thing that gets lost all the time

[qnr]

72. Feet, fingers & brain. If it was mechanical, it would be "remote [control]" n/t

[BarenakedLady]

73. It's usually called

"Where the hell is the damn remote!" around here.

[Reciprocity]

74. My Precious because it has the same effect on me as the ring did on Gollum.