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Offline Clive

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TV remote control inventor Eugene Polley dies at 96
« on: May 22, 2012, 19:42 »
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Re: TV remote control inventor Eugene Polley dies at 96
« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2012, 19:49 »
Guess his standby light went out.  :rip:
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Re: TV remote control inventor Eugene Polley dies at 96
« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2012, 20:31 »
 :groan:   ;D
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Re: TV remote control inventor Eugene Polley dies at 96
« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2012, 09:06 »
 :aarrgh:
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Re: TV remote control inventor Eugene Polley dies at 96
« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2012, 10:37 »
The post mortem said flat batteries  :)x
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Re: TV remote control inventor Eugene Polley dies at 96
« Reply #5 on: May 23, 2012, 12:12 »
Apparently, the family kept jabbing him for hours after he died, to see if he'd come back to life.  :)x
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Re: TV remote control inventor Eugene Polley dies at 96
« Reply #6 on: May 23, 2012, 13:19 »
And he was discovered down the back of the settee   :P
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Re: TV remote control inventor Eugene Polley dies at 96
« Reply #7 on: May 23, 2012, 16:09 »
I am quite shocked at your insensitivity.   :)x
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Re: TV remote control inventor Eugene Polley dies at 96
« Reply #8 on: May 23, 2012, 16:13 »
Where's the Mute button?  :laugh:
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Re: TV remote control inventor Eugene Polley dies at 96
« Reply #9 on: May 23, 2012, 18:33 »
Under the freeze frame Simon. 
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