what do you call your telly's remote? . . .

[Bullwinkle925]

in our house it's - "pass me the clicker, please".
yes, america is certainly dumbing down - starting here at home.
crikey!

[Breeze54]

1. MINE!

:rofl:

[Bullwinkle925]

2. awesome . . .

it's so funny here - shouts of "where's the clicker" or "pass me the clicker" are always ringing out.
of course, i never used to be this old before, either. maybe it's senility setting in.

good grief.

[MrScorpio]

3. The Marvin

Especially, when I need some of that sexual healin'

[Bullwinkle925]

7. i know i'm really old now . . .

here's what i conjured up . . .

[MrScorpio]

10. Better than the Clickin' Chicken

Don't wanna choke it

[Bullwinkle925]

13. oh my . . . . .

:blush:

[Bjornsdotter]

4. I call it

...a remote control.

Mr Bjornsdotter calls it "The Commander"

Cheers

[unsavedtrash]

5. Flipper, thingy, or remote. n/t

[FloridaJudy]

6. "Arthur"

But I really don't have one, so it doesn't matter what I call it.

[BrotherBuzz]

8. I can call it anything I want, and it still won't come to me

It's lost somewhere in the house. When it does eventually turn up, I'm going to duck tape my cell phone to it so I can call myself and locate it the next time it decides to go for a walk.

[Inchworm]

9. Klicker and Kamote

Kamote was from some kid who couldn't pronounce it right and it stuck. For some reason I don't think it was my kid... :shrug:

:hi:

[SeattleGirl]

11. I can never think of the word for it, so I just hold my hand up and

do the "clicker" motion.

[philosophie_en_rose]

12. The Remote

:)

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. 'The Remote'

My ex called it "the clicker." I'd say somethin' like, "I pressed every button on this thing 26 times and nothin' made a click. But we are getting Radio Free Iceland now."

[krispos42]

15. hand me "the remote" for the "TV"

I'm from New England, and it was always "the remote" in my extended family. "The box" was always the cable box. The word "clicker" was never used, at least in my recollection.

[enigmatic]

16. The Clicker

It's funny, but my wife always called it the same even before we met...

[Ellen Forradalom]

17. The 'mote.

What my son called it when he was very young.

[blogslut]

18. Clickey Changey

I swear. I had one of those aphasia moments and came up with that. Now that's its little name. Awww.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

19. Mr GoG's Latest Squeeze

[NMDemDist2]

20. the Comm

as in "you have the comm, I'm going to cook dinner"

or "Where's my Comm?" (yes we both have one, how sad is that??)

:rofl:

[Kutjara]

23. Wife.

She always takes control of the remote, so all requests have to go through her. I think of it as like having a voice-activated remote, rather than being whipped. My ego likes it better that way.

[qnr]

21. No TV, so no remote control. Previously, it has always been "remote" for us, except

when we're playing around, at which time it becomes "the little black box that makes the TV go up and down"

[DarkTirade]

22. I call it MY remote

which is ironic, since it's my roommate's TV. But the button panel is broken, as is the remote that came with it. So one day I got fed up and bought a 5 dollar programmable remote. :)
So my roommate may own the huge widescreen TV that his rich lawyer sister gave to him... but I own the remote. :evilgrin:

[Bullwinkle925]

26. You are the KING of your world . . .

I applaud you!

[radfringe]

24. The Force

[Skittles]

25. THE F***ING REMOTE

as in, "WHERE IS THE F***ING REMOTE?"

[MrCoffee]

27. slight variation

where's the fucking thing? (while waving hand at tv in a clicking motion)

[mzteris]

28. The - - - the - - uh - you know - the

THING.

Or if they're still being obtuse - THAT TV THING.


(Getting old sucks.)

[Left Is Write]

29. Remote.

[catmandu57]

30. The dick

Where's the damn dick?

[scarlet_owl]

31. We call it the "Zapper".

[MysticalChicken]

32. The controls

Or the remote.

But never the "remote control."

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

33. Oh, George can't click!

You name your remote, but you won't name your navigation system??

[Bullwinkle925]

38. I thought we decided upon "Prudence"?????

:shrug:


Have you booked your ticket yet??

[knowbody0]

34. "the tv guide"

I know, hopelessly lame.

[Pithlet]

35. The controller.

It started back when I was a kid and we got our first TV with a remote control. My dad was looking for the remote control and was struggling to think about what it was called and blurted out "air traffic controller!" We started calling it that as a joke, and it eventually shortened to "controller" and it stuck. I still call it that, and so do my husband and kids.

[Rhythm]

36. It's the "clicky-ticker" if i'm the one looking for it.

The couch eats it, usually...

[driver8]

37. My father-in-law calls it "the blab-off"...

We just call it "the clicker."

[MorningGlow]

39. "The button"

Yeah, even though it has many buttons. I forget how we named it that--probably something MG Jr. was able to say or understand when he was even more of a wee one than he is now.

[leeroysphitz]

41. Funny. In my house we call it "The Buttons"

"Can I see the buttons?" My dad started that years ago and it's funny that it lives on in my family...

[SharonRB]

40. My father has always called it

the schmitchik (sp).

We usually just call it the remote.